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

“In the notes taken by a traveler – whose episode with the monks on Mount Athos we have mentioned elsewhere – we find that, during his early life, Jesus had frequent intercourse with the Essenes belonging to the Pythagorean school and known as the Koinobi. We believe it rather hazardous on the part of Renan [...]

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

“How little Jesus had impressed his personality upon his own century, is calculated to astound the inquirer. Renan shows that Philo, who died toward the year 50, and who was born many years earlier than Jesus, living all the while in Palestine while the “glad tidings” were being preached all over the country, according to [...]

Grateful Day, Everyone…

“Today you are entering into an opportunity which will not only bring you Happiness and Freedom; but will enable you to render a Service Transcendent beyond even your fondest expectations now. And I say to you, Beloved Ones, never was mankind so favored. You today, have every opportunity which the Heart can desire, as It [...]

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

“Deep researches would show”, says Renan, “that nearly everything in Christianity is mere baggage brought from the Pagan Mysteries. The primitive Christian worship is nothing but a mystery. The whole interior police of the Church, the degrees of initiation, the command of silence, and a crowd of phrases in the ecclesiastical language, have no other [...]

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

“There never was a great religious reform that was not pure at the beginning. The first followers of Buddha, as well as the disciples of Jesus, were all men of the highest morality. The aversion felt by the reformers of all ages to vice under any shape, is proved in the cases of Sakya-muni, Pythagoras, [...]