Isis Unveiled: chapter III (The mirror of the soul)

"While the miracles recorded in the Bible have become accepted facts with the Christians, to disbelieve which is regarded as infidelity, the narratives of wonders and prodigies found in the Atharva-Veda, either provoke their contempt or are viewed as evidences of diabolism.   And yet, in more than one respect, and notwithstanding the unwillingness of [...]

Isis Unveiled: chapter III (The mirror of the soul)

"Numerous are the volumes preserved in Hindu convents, in which are recorded the proofs of their learning. To attempt to say whether these Gymnosophists were the real founders of magic in India, or whether they only practiced what had passed to them as an inheritance from the earliest Rishis - the seven primeval sages - [...]

Isis Unveiled: chapter III (The mirror of the soul)

"It is admitted on all hands that from time immemorial the distant East was the land of knowledge. Not even in Egypt were botany and mineralogy so extensively studied as by the savants of archaic Middle Asia.   Sprengel, unjust and prejudiced as he shows himself in everything else, confesses this much in his Histoire [...]