isis unveiled: chapter xv (knowledge is power)

"The Champollions were the first in Europe to take the student of archeology by the hand, and, leading him on into the silent crypts of the past, prove that civilization did not begin with our generations; for "though the origins of ancient Egypt are unknown, she is found to have been at the most distant [...]

isis unveiled: chapter xv (knowledge is power)

"After having devoted their whole lives to the study of the records of the old Egyptian wisdom, both Champollion-Figeac and Champollion, Junior, publicly declared, notwithstanding many biased judgments hazarded by certain hasty and unwise critics, that the Books of Hermes "truly contain a mass of Egyptian traditions which are constantly corroborated by the most authentic [...]

Grateful Day, Everyone…

"We have observed  that the Messenger, in every Class in the beginning of it, urges the "I AM" Students everywhere, before they retire at night, to call to the "Presence" to charge their feeling world, their physical bodies with the Intelligence, the Energy, and the Powers of the "Presence"; then do it again on arising [...]

isis unveiled: chapter xv (knowledge is power)

""Truth alone", says Pimander, "is eternal and immutable; truth is the first of blessings; but truth is not and cannot be on earth; it is possible that God sometimes gifts a few men together with the faculty of comprehending divine things with that of rightly understanding truth; but nothing is true on earth, for everything [...]

isis unveiled: chapter xv (knowledge is power)

"Recapitulating the evidence contained in this work, if we begin with the archaic and unknown ages of the Hermetic Pimander, and come down to 1876, we find that one universal belief in magic has run through all these centuries. We have presented the ideas of Trismegistus in his dialogue with Asclepius; and without mentioning the [...]