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

“If the alleged founder of the Christian religion is now, after the lapse of nineteen centuries, preached – more or less unsuccessfully however – in every corner of the globe, we are at liberty to think that the doctrines attributed to him would astonish and dismay him more than anyone else. A system of deliberate [...]

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

“Alas, alas! How little has the divine seed, scattered broadcast by the hand of the meek Judean philosopher, thrived or brought forth fruit. He, who himself had shunned hypocrisy, warned against public prayer, showing such contempt for any useless exhibition of the same, could he but cast his sorrowful glance on the earth, from the [...]

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

“How little the philosophy of the old secret doctrine was understood, is illustrated in the atrocious persecutions of the Templars by the Church, and in the accusation of their worshipping the Devil under the shape of the goat – Baphomet! Without going into the old Masonic mysteries, there is not a Mason – of those [...]