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

"That expression, "Ye are gods", which, to our biblical students, is a mere abstraction, has for the kabalists a vital significance. Each immortal spirit that sheds its radiance upon a human being is a god - the Microcosmos of the Macrocosmos, part and parcel of the Unknown God, the First Cause of which it is [...]

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

"In the very first remark made by Jesus about John the Baptist, we find him stating that he is "Elias, which was for to come." This assertion, if it is not a later interpolation for the sake of having prophecy fulfilled, means again that Jesus was a kabalist, unless indeed we have to adopt the [...]