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

"Philosophers of quite different schools may be often found to use a multitude of different expressions, some dark and metaphorical - all figurative, and yet treating of the same subject. Like the thousand divergent rays of a globe of fire, every ray leads, nevertheless, to the central point, so every mystic philosopher, whether he be [...]

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

"The everlasting conflict between the world-religions - Christianity, Judaism, Brahmanism, Paganism, Buddhism, proceeds from this one source: Truth is known but to the few; the rest, unwilling to withdraw the veil from their own hearts, imagine it blinding the eyes of their neighbor. The god of every exoteric religion, including Christianity, notwithstanding its pretensions to [...]