isis unveiled: chapter chapter VII (thou great first cause)

"Diodorus, of Sicily, Herodotus, and Sanchoniathon, the Phoenician - the oldest of historians - tell us that these Mysteries originated in the night of time, centuries and probably thousands of years prior to the historical period. One of the best proofs of it we find in a most remarkable picture, in Raoul-Rochette's Monuments d' Antiquite [...]

isis unveiled: chapter chapter VII (thou great first cause)

"Professor Carpenter vaunts the advanced philosophy of the present day which "ignores no fact however strange that can be attested by valid evidence"; and yet he would be the first to reject the claims of the ancients to philosophical and scientific knowledge, although based upon evidence quite "as valid" as that which supports the pretensions [...]

isis unveiled: chapter chapter VII (thou great first cause)

"Unfortunately, human skepticism is a stronghold capable of defying any amount of testimony. And to begin with Mr. Huxley, our men of science accept of but so much as suits them, and no more. "Oh shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds - men only disagree Of creatures rational...." How can we [...]

isis unveiled: chapter chapter VII (thou great first cause)

"So much for the opinions of the English scientists. The Americans have not done much better. In 1857, a committee of Harvard University warned the public against investigating this subject, which "corrupts the morals and degrades the intellect." They called it, furthermore, "a contaminating influence, which surely tends to lessen the truth of man and [...]