isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iv (gnostic ophites)

"Christian theology, getting the doctrine of the archangels and angels directly from the Oriental Kabala, of which the Mosaic Bible is but an allegorical screen, ought at least to remember the hierarchy invented by the former for these personified emanations. The hosts of the Cherubim and Seraphim, with which we generally see the Catholic Madonnas [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iv (gnostic ophites)

"From the day when the founder of Christianity uttered the warning, that he who shall say to his brother, "Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell-fire", all who have passed as its leaders, beginning with the ragged fishermen of Galilee, and ending with the jeweled pontiffs, have seemed to vie with each other in [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iv (gnostic ophites)

"Considering that Deuteronomy tells us that the "Lord" Himself buried Moses in a valley of Moab, (xxxiv., 6), "and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day", this biblical lapsus inguae of Jude gives a strong coloring to the assertions of some of the Gnostics. They claimed but what was secretly taught by the [...]