isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter vii (defending the secret science)

““It is the missionaries in China and India, who first started this falsehood about Niepang, or Niepana (Nirvana)”, says Wong-Chin-Fu. Who can deny the truth of this accusation after reading the works of the Abbe Dubois, for instance? A missionary who passes forty years of his life in India, and then writes that the “Buddhists [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter vii (defending the secret science)

“It is not true that Gautama never taught anything concerning a future life, or that he denied the immortality of the soul. Ask any intelligent Buddhist his ideas on Nirvana, and he will unquestionably express himself, as the well-known Wong-Chin-Fu, the Chinese orator, now traveling in this country, did in a recent conversation with us [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter vii (defending the secret science)

“We cannot attain the “Kingdom of Heaven”, unless we unite ourselves indissolubly with our Rex Lucis, the Lord of Splendor and of Light, our Immortal God. We must first conquer immortality and ‘ take the Kingdom of Heaven by violence”, offered to our material selves. “The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter vii (defending the secret science)

"It will not be found without interest to see what Mr. John Yarker, Jr., has to say on some modern secret societies among the Orientals. "The nearest resemblance to the Brahmanical Mysteries, is probably found in the very ancient 'Paths' of the Dervishes, which are usually governed by twelve officers, the oldest ‘Court’ superintending the [...]