isis unveiled: chapter x (outside the walls…)

"Even remains of architectural relics of the earliest races have been sadly neglected by antiquarians, until now. The caverns of Ajunta, which are but 200 miles from Bombay, in the Chandor range, and the ruins of the ancient city of Aurungabad, whose crumbling palaces and curious tombs have lain in desolate solitude for many centuries, [...]

isis unveiled: chapter x (outside the walls…)

"An Eastern artist has attempted to give pictorial expression to the kabalistic doctrine of the cycles. The picture covers a whole inner wall of a subterranean temple in the neighborhood of a great Buddhistic pagoda, and strikingly suggestive. Let us attempt to convey some idea of the design, as we recall it. Imagine a given [...]