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

"The fact alone, that a now notorious London juggler refused to accept a challenge for £1,000 offered him by Mr. Algernon Joy, to produce such manifestations as are usually obtained through mediums, unless he was left unbound and free from the hands of a committee, negatives his expose of the occult phenomena.   Clever as [...]

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

"The mirror of the soul cannot reflect both earth and heaven; and the one vanishes from its surface, as the other is glassed upon its deep." ZANONI.   "Qui, donc, t'a donne la mission d'annoncer au peuple que la Divinite n'existe pas - quel avantage trouves tu a persuader a l'homme qu'une force aveugle preside [...]

Isis Unveiled: chapter II (A Deeper Philosophy)

"Christopher Columbus discovered America, and Americus Vespucius reaped the glory and usurped his dues. Theophrastus Paracelsus rediscovered the occult properties of the magnet - "the bone of Horus" which, twelve centuries before his time, had played such an important part in the theurgic mysteries - and he very naturally became the founder of the school [...]