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

"At Byblos, the neophytes as well as the hierophants were, after participating in the Mysteries, obliged to fast and remain in solitude for some time. There was strict fasting and preparation before as well as after the Bacchic, Adonian, and Eleusinian orgies; and Herodotus hints, with fear and veneration about the LAKE of Bacchus, in [...]

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

"To assure ourselves that Jesus was a true Nazarene - albeit with ideas of a new reform - we must not search for the proof in the translated Gospels, but in such original versions as are accessible. Tischendorf, in his translation from the Greek of Luke iv, 34, has it "Iesou Nazarene"; and in the [...]

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 [...]