Annie Besant Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“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.”

“Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which intelligence could clothe itself.”

“Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.”

“Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.”

“There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.”

“India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.”

“The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.”

“That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.”

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

“Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.”