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

"If, leaving for the present the prominent founders of Christian sects, we now turn to that of the Ophites, which assumed a definite form about the time of Marcion and the Basilideans, we may find in it the reason for the heresies of all others. Like all other Gnostics, they rejected the Mosaic Bible entirely. [...]

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

"Nothing better than those MYSTERIES, by which, from a rough and fierce life, we are polished to gentleness, (humanity, kindness), and softened." (CICERO: de Legibus, ii., 14) "Descend, O Soma, with that stream with which thou lightest up the sun. Soma, a Life Ocean spread through All, thou fillest creative the Sun with beams." (Rig-Veda, [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iii (religious sects)

"Would Christians still maintain the identity of the "Father" of Jesus and Jehovah, if evidence sufficiently clear could be adduced that the "Lord God" was no other than the Pagan Bacchus, Dionysos? Well, this identity of the Jehovah at Mount Sanai with the god Bacchus is hardly disputable. The name יהךה is Yava or Iao, [...]