Author: win r

"No modern or even mediaeval law could be more severe than that of the hierophant. True, he had more discrimination, charity, and justice, than the Christian clergy; for while banishing the "unconscious" sorcerer, the person troubled with a demon, from within the sacred precincts of the adyta, the priests, instead of mercilessly burning him, took [...]

"The Christian thaumaturgist once having broken all association with the Mysteries of the temples and with "these schools so renowned for magic", described by St. Hilarion, could certainly expect but little to rival the Pagan wonder-workers. No apostle, with the exception perhaps of healing by mesmeric power, has ever equaled Apollonius of Tyana; and the [...]

"On no subject within the wide range of human knowledge, has the world been more blinded or deceived with such persistent misrepresentation, as on that of antiquity. Its hoary past and its religious faiths have been misrepresented and trampled under the feet of its successors. Its hierophants and prophets, mystae and epoptae, of the once [...]

"Before the shrine of Jupiter Ammon were suspended tinkling bells, from the sound of whose chiming the priests gathered the auguries; "A golden bell and a pomegranate...round about the hem of the robe", was the result with the Mosaic Jews. But in the Buddhistic system, during the religious services, the gods of the Deva Loka [...]