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

"It is useless to object that the present Codex was written centuries after the direct apostles of John preached. So were our Gospels. When this astounding interview of Paul with the "Baptists" took place, Bardesanes had not yet appeared among them, and the sect was not considered a "heresy". Moreover, we are enabled to judge [...]

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

"Says the Codex: "John, son of the Aba-Saba-Zacharia, conceived by his mother Anasabet in her hundredth year, had baptized for forty-two years when Jesus Messias came to the Jordan to be baptized with John's baptism. But he will pervert John's doctrine, changing the baptism of the Jordan, and perverting the sayings of justice." The baptism [...]

Grateful Day, Everyone…

"When you wish to call forth any particular Quality from these Great Individualized Centers of Cosmic Action of the Light and the Sacred Fire, you have but to place your attention upon Them, giving your adoration to your "I AM Presence"; and your Call to It and to Them will start into action, by the [...]

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

"Baptism is one of the oldest rites and was practiced by all the nations in their Mysteries, as sacred ablutions. Dunlap seems to derive the name of the nazars from nazah, sprinkling; Bahak-Zivo is the genius who called the world into existence out of the "dark water", say the Nazarenes; and Richardson's Persian, Arabic, and [...]

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

"The motive of Jesus was evidently like that of Gautama-Buddha, to benefit humanity at large by producing a religious reform which should give it a religion of pure ethics; the true knowledge of God and nature having remained until then solely in the hands of the esoteric sects, and their adepts. As Jesus used oil [...]