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

"In his lecture on the Action of Natural Selection on Man, Mr. Alfred R. Wallace concludes his demonstrations as to the development of human races under that law of selection by saying that, if his conclusions are just: "It must inevitably follow that the higher - the more intellectual and moral - must displace the [...]

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

"Whether or not the men or science are willing to concede the correctness of the Hermetic theory of the physical evolution of man from higher and more spiritual natures, they themselves show us how the race has progressed from the lowest observed point to its present development. And, as all nature seems to be made [...]

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

"Such are the glimpses which anthropology affords us of men, either arrived at the bottom of a cycle or starting in a new one. Let us see how far they are corroborated by clairvoyant psychometry. Professor Denton submitted a fragment of fossilized bone to his wife's examination, without giving Mrs. Denton any hint as to [...]

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

"Mr. Alfred R. Wallace argues with sound logic, that the development of man has been more marked in his mental organization than in his external form. Man, he conceives to differ from the animal, by being able to undergo great changes of conditions and of his entire environment, without very marked alterations in bodily form [...]