Isis Unveiled: chapter I (an axiom of hermetic philosophy)

"The solution of the great problem of eternity belongs neither to religious superstition nor to gross materialism. The harmony and mathematical equiformity of the double evolution - spiritual and physical - are elucidated only in the universal numerals of Pythagoras, who built his system entirely upon the so-called "metrical speech" of the Hindu Vedas.   [...]

Isis Unveiled: chapter I (an axiom of hermetic philosophy)

"Indeed, the ancient philosophers seem to be generally held, even by the least prejudiced of our modern critics, to have lacked that profundity and thorough knowledge in the exact sciences of which our century is so boastful.   It is even questioned whether they understood that basic scientific principle: ex nihilo nihil fit (nothing comes [...]

Isis Unveiled: chapter I (an axiom of hermetic philosophy)

"Physiology, like everything else in this world of constant evolution, is subject to the cyclic revolution. As it now seems to be hardly emerging from the shadows of the lower arc, so it may be one day proved to have been at the highest point of circumference of the circle far earlier than the days [...]

Isis Unveiled: chapter I (an axiom of hermetic philosophy)

"Any Kabalist well acquainted with the Pythagorean system of numerals and geometry can demonstrate that the metaphysical views of Plato were based upon the strictest mathematical principles.   "True mathematics", says the Magicon, "is something with which all higher sciences are connected; common mathematics is but a deceitful phantasmagoria, whose much-praised infallibility only arises from [...]