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

"We are told, in behalf of science, that she accepts no other mode of investigation than observation and experiment. Agreed; and have we not the records of say three thousand years of observation of facts going to prove the occult powers of man? As to experiment, what better opportunity could have been asked than the [...]

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

"The ancients made the wick of their perpetual lamps from another stone also, which they called Lapis Carystius. The inhabitants of the city of Carystos seemed to have made no secret of it, as Matthaeus Raderus says in his work that they "kemb'd, spun, and wove this downy stone into mantles, table-linen, and the like, [...]

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

"Dr. Grew, in his description of the curiosities in Gresham College (seventeenth century), believes the art, as well as the use of such linen, altogether lost, but it appears that it was not quite so, for we find the Museum Septalius boasting of the possession of thread, ropes, paper, and net-work done of this material [...]