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The human body is constantly undergoing a process of decay and of reconstruction. First builded into the astral form in the womb of the mother, it is built up continually by the insetting of fresh materials. With every moment tiny molecules are passing away from it; with every moment tiny molecules are streaming into it.

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Mother, Passing Away, Molecules

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Mabel Collins, George Robert Stow Mead (1892). “Theosophical Review”

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Nothing but an imperious intellectual and moral necessity can drive into doubt a religious mind, for it is as though an earthquake shook the foundations of the soul, and the very being quivers and sways under the shock.

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Religious, Earthquakes, Soul

Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

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Literature, Language, Institutions

Annie Besant (1915). “How India Wrought for Freedom: The Story of the National Congress Told from Official Records”

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What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.

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Grace, Mind, Body

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Once a person has taken their life, in the inner realms, the suicide will repeat automatically the feelings of despair and fear which preceded his self murder, and go through the act and the death struggle time after time with ghastly persistence... They remain conscious - often entangled in the final scene of the earth life for a very long time, unaware that they have lost the physical body.

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Suicide, Struggle, Taken

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There is no birthright in the white skin that it shall say that wherever it goes, to any nation, amongst any people, there the people of the country shall give way before it, and those to whom the land belongs shall bow down and become its servants.

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Country, White Privilege, Land

Annie Besant (1913). “Wake Up, India: A Plea for Social Reform”

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When we realise our oneness with our RULER, then the matter shall have no longer power over us, and we shall see it as the unreality it is.

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God, Oneness, Matter

Annie Besant (1904). “A Study in Consciousness: A Contribution to the Science of Psychology”

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After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.

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Use, World, Body

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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter, according to the needs of the more or less unfolded consciousness connected with it. In the educated it is active and well-defined; in the undeveloped it is cloudy and inchoate.

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People, Different, Needs

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Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.

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Heart, Men, Mind

Annie Besant (1913). “Essays and Addresses”

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Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

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God, Self, Religion

Annie Besant (2014). “The Origins of Theosophy (Routledge Revivals): Annie Besant - The Atheist Years”, p.282, Routledge

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In the light of reincarnation life changes its aspect, for it becomes the school of the eternal Man within us, who seeks therein his development, the Man that was and is and shall be, for whom the hour will never strike.

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Life Changing, School, Men

Annie Besant (2016). “Reincarnation”, p.18, BookRix

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What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose life he shares. As an inevitable corollary to this supreme truth comes the fact of the brotherhood of man.

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Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Essence

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Annie Wood Besant, Charles Webster Leadbeater (1925). “To Members of the Theosophical Society: Being a Selection of Instructive Articles and Teachings”

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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.

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Karma, Vices, Wheels

Annie Besant (2016). “Karma”, p.65, BookRix

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No circumstances can ever make or mar the unfolding of the spiritual life. Spirituality does not depend upon the environment; it depends upon one's attitude towards life.

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Spiritual, Attitude, Doe

Annie Besant (2014). “The Spiritual Life”, p.1, Quest Books

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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty intelligence, but also of the most unevolved mentality; in one place there is a highly developed and complex civilisation, in another a crude and simple polity.

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Simple, Men, Evolution

Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.744, Jazzybee Verlag

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As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

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Memories, Brain, Perception

Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.217, Jazzybee Verlag

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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to be blasphemed - blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.

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Errors, Law, Old Testament

Annie Besant (2014). “The Christian Creed: Or, What it is Blasphemy to Deny”, p.56, The Floating Press

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'Nature is conquered by obedience' - and her resistless energies are at our bidding, as soon as we, by knowledge, work with them and not against them. We can choose out of her boundless stores the forces that serve our purpose in momentum, in direction, and so on, and their very invariability becomes the guarantee of our success.

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Karma, Energy, Bidding

Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.959, Jazzybee Verlag

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The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism.

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Alive, Body, Units

Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.340, Jazzybee Verlag

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Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining.

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Yoga, Drifting, Applied Science

Annie Besant (2016). “The Nature and Practice of Yoga”, p.13, BookRix

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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories of a very flimsy type, and also a work of a much more ambitious character, 'The Lives of the Black Letter Saints.'

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Writing, Character, Two

Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about ‘God’ and therefore I do not believe in Him or in it; what you tell me about your God is self‐contradictory, and therefore incredible. I do not deny ‘God,’ which is an unknown tongue to me; I do deny your God, who is an impossibility. I am without God.

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Atheist, Believe, Self

Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by philosophy. It must satisfy the reason, and it must show the unity underlying the endless diversity of the facts that science observes.

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Philosophy, Diversity, Unity

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In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and therefore the fact that what injures one injures all. To do evil i.e., to throw poison into the life-blood of humanity, is a crime against the unity.

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Teaching, Expression, Blood

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Born: October 1, 1847
Died: September 20, 1933
Occupation: Member of the London School Board
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