Quote#God & Faith
Thus, what with several generations of most active Church Fathers…
Quote byHelena Blavatsky · 1831–1891
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Key to Theosophy (1889).
English (original)
Thus, what with several generations of most active Church Fathers ever working at the destruction of old documents and the preparation of new passages to be interpolated in those which happened to survive, there remains of the Gnostics -- the legitimate offspring of the Archaic Wisdom-religion -- but a few unrecognizable shreds.
— Helena Blavatsky
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