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

"How then avoid perceiving at once, that had not the Christians purposely disfigured in their interpretation and translation the Mosaic Genesis to fit their own views, their religion, with its present dogmas, would have been impossible? The word Rasit, once taught in its new sense of the Principle and not the Beginning, and the anathematized [...]

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

"Origen, Clemens Alexandrinus, Chalcidius, Methodius, and Maimonides, on the authority of the Targum of Jerusalem, the orthodox and greatest authority of the Jews, held that the first two words in the book of Genesis - B-Rasit, mean Wisdom, or the Principle. And that the idea of these words meaning "in the beginning", was never shared [...]

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

"So far then the heathen philosophy had helped them in the building of the principal dogma. But when the theurgist of the third Neo-platonic school, deprived of their ancient Mysteries, strove to blend the doctrines of Plato with those of Aristotle, and by combining the two philosophies added to their theosophy the primeval doctrines of [...]