Author: win r

"In the oldest documents now in our possession - the Vedas and the older laws of Manu - we find many magical rites practiced and permitted by the Brahmans. Tibet, Japan and China teach in the present age that which was taught by the oldest Chaldeans.   The clergy of these respective countries, prove moreover [...]

"Maimonides, the great Jewish theologian and historian, who at one time was almost deified by his countrymen and afterward treated as a heretic, remarks, that the more absurd and void of sense the Talmud seems the more sublime is the secret meaning.   This learned man has successfully demonstrated that the Chaldean Magic, the science [...]

"So far our modern positivists have been anticipated by thousands of ages, in their cautious philosophy. What the Hermetic adepts claim to demonstrate is, that simple common sense precludes the possibility that the universe is the result of mere chance.   Such an idea appears to him more absurd than to think that the problems [...]

"Our modern science acknowledges a Supreme Power, an Invisible Principle, but denies a Supreme Being, or Personal God. Logically, the difference between the two might be questioned; for in this case the Power and the Being are identical.   Human reason can hardly imagine to itself an intelligent Supreme Power without associating it with the [...]

"As well as those who lived in the days of the Psammetics, our present-day philosophers "lift the Veil of Isis" - for Isis is but the symbol of nature. But, they see only her physical forms. The soul within escapes their view; and the Divine Mother has no answer for them.   There are anatomists, [...]