Category: Isis Unveiled: H. P. Blavatsky (1877)

“The greatest of the meipo – said to be the object of the ambition of every Buddhist devotee – was, and yet is, the faculty of walking in the air. The famous King of Siam, Pia Metak, the Chinese, was noted for his devotion and learning. But he attained this “supernatural gift only after having [...]

“Kapila, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Plato, Basilides, Marcian, Ammonius, and Plotinus, founded schools and sowed the germs of many a noble thought, and disappearing, left behind them the refulgence of demi-gods. But the three personalities of Christna, Gautama, and Jesus, appeared like true gods, each in his epoch, and bequeathed to humanity three religions built on the [...]

“Most assuredly, no one could expect to find, in a work open to the public, the final mysteries of that which was preserved for countless ages as the grandest secret of the sanctuary. But, without divulging the key to the profane, or being taxed with undue indiscretion, we may be allowed to lift a corner [...]

“We have shown elsewhere that the symbol of the cross or Egyptian Tau, T, was by many ages earlier than the period assigned to Abraham, the alleged forefather of the Israelites, for otherwise Moses could not have learned it of the priests. And that the Tau was held as sacred by the Jews as by [...]

"This is precisely the substratum of the Pagan thought, which, among other meanings, emblematized by the rites of the resurrection of Osiris, Adonis, Bacchus, and other slaughtered sun-gods, the resurrection of all nature in spring, the germination of seeds that have been dead and sleeping during winter, and so were allegorically said to be kept [...]

""As a rule, the Brahmans", says Jacolliot, "rarely go beyond the class of grihesta, (priests of the vulgar castes), and purahita, (exorcisers, divines, prophets, and evocators of spirits). And yet, we shall see...once that we have touched the question and study of manifestations and phenomena, that these initiates of the first degree, (the lowest), attribute [...]

"The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan a dogma of the Church. And once that she had established it, she had to struggle for over 1,700 years for the repression of a mysterious force, which it was her policy to make appear of diabolical origin. Unfortunately, in manifesting itself, this force [...]

"And now we will bid farewell to thaumatophobia and its advocates and consider thaumatomania under its multifarious aspects. In volume II., we intend to review the "miracles" of Paganism and weigh the evidence in their favor in the same scales with Christian theology. There is a conflict not merely impending but already begun between science [...]

"The Champollions were the first in Europe to take the student of archeology by the hand, and, leading him on into the silent crypts of the past, prove that civilization did not begin with our generations; for "though the origins of ancient Egypt are unknown, she is found to have been at the most distant [...]