isis unveiled: chapter IV (a testimony)

"It is in these ridiculously expressed fables that science will have to look for her "missing links." Otherwise, whence such strange "coincidences" in the respective histories of nations and peoples so widely thrown apart?   Whence that identity of primitive conceptions which, fables and legends though they are termed now, contain in them nevertheless the [...]

isis unveiled: chapter IV (a testimony)

"It is not for the first time in the history of the world, that the invisible world has to contend against the materialistic skepticism of soul-blind Sadducees. Plato deplores such an unbelief, and refers to this pernicious tendency more than once in his works.   From Kapila, the Hindu philosopher, who many centuries before Christ [...]