isis unveiled: chapter chapter VII (thou great first cause)

"Taking no account of exaggerations, and putting aside as mere unsupported negation the affirmation by modern science of the impossibility of such lamps, we would ask whether, in case these extinguishable fires are found to have really existed in the ages of "miracles", the lamps burning at Christian shrines and those of Jupiter, Minerva, and [...]

Blessed Evening, Loves 😊

I Pray All Is Well With Everyone...And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion...For Yourselves And Others; And Regardless Of Circumstances Or Appearances...Never Stop Loving One Another, Never Stop Working For The Betterment Of Yourselves And Others...Under The Intelligent Direction Of Your "I AM Presence"; To Make This World A Better [...]

isis unveiled: chapter chapter VII (thou great first cause)

"T. Livius, Burattinus, and Michael Schatta, in their letters to Kircher, affirm that they found many lamps in the subterranean caves of old Memphis. Pausanias speaks of the golden lamp in the temple of Minerva at Athens, which he says was the workmanship of Callimachus, and burnt a whole year. Plutarch affirms that he saw [...]

isis unveiled: chapter chapter VII (thou great first cause)

"Among the many well-known personages who firmly believed and strenuously asserted that such sepulchral lamps burned for several hundreds of years, and would have continued to burn maybe forever, had they not been extinguished, or the vessels broken by some accident, we may reckon the following names: Clemens Alexandrinus, Hermolaus Barbarus, Appian, Burattinus, Citesius, Coelius, [...]