isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter i (the church)

"Verily the "Christs" of the pre-Christian ages were many. But they died unknown to the world, and disappeared as silently and as mysteriously from the sight of man as Moses from the top of Pisgah, the mountain of Nebo, (oracular wisdom), after he had laid his hands upon Joshua, who thus became "full of the [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter i (the church)

"If we now stop to consider another of the fundamental dogmas of Christianity, the doctrine of atonement, we may trace it as easily back to heathendom. This cornerstone of a Church which had believed herself built on a firm rock for long centuries, is now excavated by science and proved to come from the Gnostics. [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter i (the church)

“This very trinitarian idea, as well as the so bitterly denounced doctrine of emanations, whence their remotest origin? The answer is easy, and every poof is now at hand. In the sublime and profoundest of all philosophies, that of the universal “Wisdom-Religion”, the first traces of which, historical research now finds in the old pre-Vedic [...]