C.W. Leadbeater > Quotes

“You are what you share.”
― Charles Leadbeater, We-Think : Mass Innovation, Not Mass Production

“It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.”
― C.W. Leadbeater

“Many of the big changes of the next 25 years will come from unknowns working in their bedrooms and garages...”
― Charles Leadbeater

“The goal of politics in the twenty-first century should be to create societies which maximize knowledge, the well-spring of economic growth and democratic self-governance. Markets and communities, companies and social institutions should be devoted to that larger goal. Finance and social capital should be harnessed to the goal of advancing and spreading knowledge. That will make us better off, put us more in charge of our lives and make us better able to look after ourselves.”
― Charles Leadbeater

“others find themselves with increasing frequency seeing and hearing something to which those around them are blind and deaf; others again—and perhaps this is the commonest experience of all—begin to recollect with greater and greater clearness that which they have seen or heard on that other plane during sleep.”
― C.W. Leadbeater, The Astral Plane: Its Scenery, Inhabitants & Phenomena

“Then it will all slip away again, and you will return to the light of common day - and darkness indeed will it appear by comparison! But go on working at your contemplation, and presently that glorious moment will come again and yet again; and each time it will stay with you longer, till there comes a period when that higher life is yours always, no longer a flash or a glimpse of paradise, but a steady glow, a new and never-ceasing marvel every day of your existence. Then for you day and night will be one continuous consciousness, one beautiful life of happy work for the helping of others; yet this, which seems so indescribable and so unsurpassable, is only the beginning of the entrance into the heritage in store for you and for every child of man. Look about you with that new and higher sight, and you will see and grasp many things which until now you have never even suspected - unless, indeed you have previously familiarized yourself with the investigations of your predecessors along this path.”
― Charles W. Leadbeater, How Clairvoyance is Developed: Theosophical Classics

“For the unfortunate entity on that level it is indeed true that "all the earth is full of darkness and cruel habitations," but it is darkness which radiates from within himself and causes his existence to be passed in a perpetual night of evil and horror—a very real hell, though, like all other hells, entirely of man's own creation.”
― Charles W. Leadbeater, The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena

“Yet a moment's consideration will show that such vision approximates much more closely to true perception than does physical sight. Looked at on the astral plane, for example, the sides of a glass cube would all appear equal, as they really are, while on the physical plane we see the further side in perspective—that is, it appears smaller than the nearer side, which is, of course, a mere illusion. It is this characteristic of astral vision which has led to its sometimes being spoken of as sight in the fourth dimension”
― Charles W. Leadbeater, The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena

“El estudiante de ocultismo (estudio y conocimiento del lado oculto de la naturaleza), aprende que cada hombre es, en su esencia, divino, una verdadera chispa de la hogera de Dios, evolucionando por grados hacia un futuro de gloria y esplendor, que culmine en la unión con Dios.”
― Charles Webster Leadbeater, Historia Secreta de la masoneria

“en el templo del saber, cuando sea capaz de entrar en él, el discípulo encontrará siempre a su Maestro”.”
― Charles W. Leadbeater, CLARIVIDENCIA: El Poder de Ver Lo que se Halla Oculto

“Names do not matter, for we are dealing with realities now. But it must be to you the highest, that which will evoke in you the greatest feeling of reverence, love and devotion that you are capable of experiencing. In place of your previous meditation, call up the most vivid mental image that you can make of this ideal, and, letting your most intense feeling go out towards this highest One, try with all the strength of your nature to raise yourself towards Him, to become one with Him, to be in and of that glory and beauty. If you will do that, if you will thus steadily continue to raise your consciousness, there will come a time when you will suddenly find that you are one with that ideal as you never were before, when you realize and understand Him as you never did before, for a new and wonderful light has somehow dawned for you, and all the world is changed, for now for the first time you know what”
― Charles W. Leadbeater, How Clairvoyance is Developed: Theosophical Classics

“I am not suggesting that every one in ancient Egypt was altruistic, any more than are all the people in modern England. But I do say that the country was permeated with joy and fearlessness so far as its religious ideas were concerned, and that every one who by any stretch of courtesy could be described as a religious man was occupied not with thoughts of his personal salvation, but with the desire to be a useful agent of the divine Power.”
― C.W. Leadbeater, The Hidden Life in Freemasonry

“In Co-Masonry the term “lore” is employed as describing all these scriptures, since in the use of them we are in pursuit of wisdom. The term “law” is used in many other Lodges, but even then it is explained in the ritual that the object of the Volume of the Sacred Law is to illumine our minds.”
― C.W. Leadbeater, The Hidden Life in Freemasonry

“for the only way to succeed is to decline to admit the possibility of failure.”
― C.W. Leadbeater, How Clairvoyance is Developed: Theosophical Classics