isis unveiled: chapter IX (as above, so below…)

"With a bigotry which one might search for in vain outside the church in whose interest he writes, des Mousseaux quotes the above language, as proof positive that this devoted savant, and all who share his belief, have given themselves over to the dominion of the Evil One! Self-complacency is the most serious obstacle to [...]

isis unveiled: chapter IX (as above, so below…)

"Some twenty years since, Baron Du Potet, disgusted with the indifference of the scientists, who persisted in seeing in the greatest psychological phenomena only the result of clever trickery, gave vent to his indignation in the following terms: "Here am I, on my way, I may truly say, to the land of marvels! I am [...]

isis unveiled: chapter IX (as above, so below…)

"Speaking of the elementary, Porphyry says: "These invisible beings have been receiving from men honors as god...a universal belief makes them capable of becoming very malevolent: it proves that their wrath is kindled against those who neglect to offer them a legitimate worship." Homer describes them in the following terms: "Our gods appear to us [...]

isis unveiled: chapter IX (as above, so below…)

"Herodotus tells us that in the eighth of the towers of Belus, in Babylon, used by the sacerdotal astrologers, there was an uppermost room, a sanctuary, where the prophesying priestesses slept to receive communications from the god. Beside the couch stood a table of gold, upon which were laid various stones, which Manetho informs were [...]