Isis Unveiled: chapter II (A Deeper Philosophy)

"We have a ready and palpable proof of such possibilities. A foreign correspondent of the Theosophical Society, a well-known medical practitioner, and one who has studied the occult sciences for upward of thirty years, has succeeded in obtaining what he terms the "true oil of gold", i.e., the primal element. Chemists and physicists have seen [...]

Isis Unveiled: chapter II (A Deeper Philosophy)

"There seems to be very little absurdity to believe in a "universal ens that resolves all bodies into their ens genitale." Van Helmont calls it "the highest and most successful of all salts; which having obtained the supreme degree of simplicity, purity, subtlety, enjoys alone the faculty of remaining unchanged and unimpaired by the subjects [...]

Isis Unveiled: chapter II (A Deeper Philosophy)

"The ancients were always distinguished - especially the Chaldean astrologers and Magians - for their ardent love and pursuit of knowledge in every branch of science. They tried to penetrate the secrets of nature in the same way as our modern naturalists, and by the only method by which this object can be obtained, namely: [...]