Time & Perspective Quote by H. P. Blavatsky

Blavatsky flips a familiar proverb into a kind of metaphysical mic drop. We all accept the romance of premonition - the idea that the future “casts its shadows before” - because it flatters our sense that the world is legible if we’re sensitive enough. Her counter-move is brisk: if you grant that logic, you have to grant its reverse. The past, too, has a physics. It “cannot fall” without leaving an “impress.” The sentence is built like a trapdoor: agree with the first clause and you’re already halfway to endorsing her worldview.

The intent isn’t just to praise memory or history. It’s to argue for unseen causality: forces, patterns, karmic residues. Blavatsky’s Theosophical project depended on making the invisible feel like common sense. Notice the legalistic phrasing - “are said to,” “cannot” - as if she’s cross-examining a skeptical reader. She’s not offering a poetic reflection; she’s tightening the screws on what counts as reasonable.

Subtext: the modern obsession with empiricism is provincial. If respectable people indulge omens and “signs” about what’s next, why scoff at spiritual aftereffects, ancestral influence, or psychic traces? In late-19th-century culture, spiritualism, occult societies, and scientific positivism were in noisy competition. Blavatsky writes from that friction, using rhetorical symmetry to smuggle esoteric claims through the front door of everyday logic: the future haunts the present, yes - but so does the past, and you don’t get to call only one of those hauntings superstition.