isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter ii (sorcery)

"The book of Dr. W. G. Soldan, of Stuttgart, has become as famous in Germany, as Bodin's book on Demonomania in France. It is the most complete German treatise on witchcraft of the sixteenth century. One interested to learn the secret machinery underlying these thousands of legal murders, perpetrated by a clergy who pretended to [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter ii (sorcery)

"The authentic documents pertaining to the great trial of the Marechale d'Ancre, during the regency of Marie de Medicis, disclose that the unfortunate woman perished through the fault of the priests with whom, like a true Italian, she surrounded herself. She was accused by the people of Paris of sorcery, because it had been asserted [...]

Grateful Day, Everyone…

"Oh, My Dear Ones, how firm you must be against human suggestions. Oh, the atmosphere is charged with them. Human suggestions will remain as long as mankind remain in imperfection. Do you not see that? Do you not see how you cannot stop human suggestions until mankind individually arise into the Power and Purity of [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter ii (sorcery)

""Ecclesia non novit Sanguinem!", meekly repeated the scarlet-robed cardinals. And to avoid the spilling of blood which horrified them, they instituted the Holy Inquisition. If, as the occultists maintain, and science half confirms, our most trifling acts and thoughts are indelibly impressed upon the eternal mirror of the astral ether, there must be somewhere, in [...]