isis unveiled: chapter v (one common origin)

"But there are myths which speak for themselves. In this class we may include the double-sexed first creators, of every cosmogony. The Greek Zeus-Zen (aether), and Chthonia (the chaotic earth) and Metis (the water), his wives; Osiris and Isis-Latona - the former god representing also ether - the first emanation of the Supreme Deity, Amun, [...]

isis unveiled: chapter v (one common origin)

"It is more than fortunate that, while the works of some men of science - who have justly won their great reputations - will flatly contradict our hypotheses, the researches and labors of others not less eminent seem to fully confirm our views. In the recent work of Mr. Alfred R. Wallace, The Geographical Distribution [...]

isis unveiled: chapter v (one common origin)

"Now, if we have indisputable proof that man has existed so long as this, there must have been wonderful modifications of his physical system, corresponding with the changes of climate and atmosphere. Does not this seem to show by analogy that, tracing backward, there may have been other modifications, which fitted the most remote progenitors [...]