isis unveiled: chapter xv (knowledge is power)

""From time immemorial", says Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, "an emblem has been worshipped in Hindustan as the type of creation, or the origin of life. It is the most common symbol of Siva, Bala or Maha-Deva, and is universally connected with his worship. Siva was not merely the reproducer of human forms; he represented the [...]

isis unveiled: chapter xv (knowledge is power)

"We do not feel in the least astonished that a materialist, and even an orthodox Christian, is unable to read either the old Brahmanical works or their progeny, the Kabala, the Codex of Bardesanes, or the Jewish Scripture without disgust at their immodesty and apparent lack of what the uninitiated reader is pleased to call [...]