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• HPB-IU v.2 ch.2
  In that famous work of Bodin, on sorcery,{{Footnote mark|*|fn1005}} a frightful story is told about Catherine of Medicis. The a {{Footnote return|*|fn1005}} “La Demonomanie, ou traite des Sorciers.” Paris, 1587
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• HPB-IU v.1 ch.7
  ...ract, and dilate itself, and can also penetrate, move, and alter matter,”{{Footnote mark|*|fn342}} which is the third emanation. He firmly believed in appariti ..., and stupid infidelity, are to be believed, let any one judge,” he adds.{{Footnote mark|†|fn343}}
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• HPB-IU v.1 ch.9
  ...erses the zodiacal circle representing the lesser and the greater cycles.{{Footnote mark|*|fn485}} Remember the Hermetic axiom:—“As above, so below; as in {{Footnote return|*|fn485}} Orpheus is said to have ascribed to the grand cycle 120,00
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• HPB-IU v.1 ch.15
  ...proceeded from the same pen. They are evidently allegories and parables;{{Footnote mark|*|fn856}} for the two narratives of the creation and peopling of our e ...ates and its many branches, from Asia and Armenia to the Erythraian Sea.”{{Footnote mark|†|fn857}} In the Chaldean {{Style S-Italic|Book of Numbers,}} its lo
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• HPB-IU v.1 ch.5
  ..., or Ra; the Grecian {{Style S-Italic|Zeus Cataibates}} (the descending);{{Footnote mark|*|fn229}} the pentecostal fire-tongues; the burning bush of Moses; the ...-Lytton, in his {{Style S-Italic|Coming Race,}} describes it as the vril,{{Footnote mark|†|fn230}} used by the subterranean populations, and allowed his read
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• HPB-IU v.1 ch.11
  ...istance, he accomplished in less than five minutes what he had promised.”{{Footnote mark|*|fn611}}}} ...he family of Saint Paul, braved, like the Marses, the bites of serpents.”{{Footnote mark|‡|fn613}}
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• HPB-IU v.1 ch.4
  ...d, mocked, they nevertheless are facts, and {{Style S-Italic|do}} exist.”{{Footnote mark|†|fn183}} {{Footnote return|*|fn182}} “Des Tables,” vol. i, p. 213.
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• HPB-IU v.1 ch.Before the Veil
  ...and present astronomers but clever calculators of unverifiable problems.{{Footnote mark|*|fn4}} ...ept {{Style S-Italic|unreservedly}} the views of no man, living or dead”?{{Footnote mark|†|fn5}} Such, at all events, will be our motto, and we mean that pri
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• HPB-IU v.1 ch.12
  ...not to be found among the clergy, but within the pale of science itself.”{{Footnote mark|*|fn663}} If there had been the slightest doubt of the applicability o {{Footnote return|*|fn663}} “On the Scientific Use of the Imagination.”
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• Blavatsky H.P. - Transactions of the Blavatsky Lodge of The Theosophical Society
  ...ifer, Vol. VI, April, 1890, and actually give this magazine reference in a footnote, it would seem that these “Notes” were worked over and edited either af ...periodicity is immutable, and, being so, that it must act equally at both ends, why cannot the phrase be used?
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• Zirkoff B. - HPBs Scrapbooks
  ...rticle H.P.B. added in pen and ink: 1874; and she also wrote the following footnote under column 3:]}} ...n the 4th and 5th paragraphs of the text, made by H.P.B., and to which her footnote may refer.]}}
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• HPB-SD(ed.1) v.2 p.1 st.11 sl.43
  ...“ an incongruity ” (see his ''Vishnu Purâna'', vol. II., p. 108, footnote), and speculates that “ the patriarchial genealogies are older than ...lands arise in the middle belt ''(equatorial lands), ''while those at the ends are subject to pralayas by submersion ”''}}
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• Blavatsky H.P. - The Kabalah and the Kabalists at the Close of the Nineteenth Century
  ...ducated, and it expands in the cultured into that love for knowledge which ends in leading them to the summits of science, and fills the Academies and the {{HPB-CW-comment|[In the above footnote, H. P. B. quotes from Christian D. Ginsburg’s The Kabbalah: Its Doctrines
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• Blavatsky H.P. - Transcendental Physics
  ...tring an endless band, which he had cut from a bladder. He then sealed the ends of his cord as in the previous experiment, and as before, held the seal on ...of the table as only the beginning of a further succession of phenomena. [Footnote by Zöllner.]</ref> since during the space of a minute which now elapsed no
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• Blavatsky H.P. - A Personal Explanation
  ...have ventured to imply that she must be an impostor, aiming at commonplace ends — money, or social position. The absurdity of this contention is made evi ...e no doubt except to idiots or evil-intentioned persons who have their own ends to serve. But with these there is no need to waste time.
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• Blavatsky H.P. - The Five-Pointed Star
  ...ent|[Should read: “the lower point,” as corrected by H. P B. herself. Vide footnote on page 315 of the present Volume.—Compiler.]}}</ref> of its black triang ...of that figure (a tracing produced with far more efficacy with the finger ends than with ink, chalk or pencil), helped by a strong desire to alleviate pai
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• HPB-SD(ed.1) v.3 ch.Paper 3
  ...eginning of every new human Race, and at the junctions or close of the two ends of the small and great cycles—in time, as man became more animalized, wer .... . It begins by becoming virtually dead, during the life of the body; and ends by dying completely—that is, by being ''annihilated as a complete immorta
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• Blavatsky H.P. - Footnote to “Theosophy during the First Phase of Modern Philosophy”
  | item title = Footnote to “Theosophy during the First Phase of Modern Philosophy” {{Style P-Title|FOOTNOTE TO “THEOSOPHY DURING THE FIRST PHASE OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY”}}
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• Blavatsky H.P. - Theosophy and Spiritism
  ...he architectural monuments of ancient Egypt and of Baalbec at his fingers’ ends, and for whom the aqueducts of archaic Peru have few secrets, knows far les
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• Blavatsky H.P. - Notes on Abbé Roca’s “Esotericism of Christian Dogma” (translation)
  ...the right; finally, it is resumed at the left hand of the topmost row, and ends at the extreme right. This is the correct order of the events described, if ...arch 1883, pp. 143-145; re-published in Vol. IV, of the present Series); a footnote embodied in the 2nd installment of her essay, “The Esoteric Character of
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