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

"If Nunez de la Vega was so anxious to establish an affiliation between the Mexicans and the biblical sun, and serpent worshippers, why did he not show another and a better similarity between them without tracing in the Ninevites and the Tzendales the hoof and horn of the Christian Devil? And to begin with, he [...]

"Without stopping to discuss whether Hermes was the "Prince of post-diluvian magic", as des Mousseaux calls him, or the antediluvian, which is much more likely, one thing is certain: The authenticity, reliability, and usefulness of the Books of Hermes - or rather of what remains of the thirty-six works attributed to the Egyptian magician - [...]

"In recognizing in the gods of Stonehenge the divinities of Delphos and Babylon, one need feel little surprised. Bel and the Dragon, Apollo and Python, Osiris and Typhon, are all one under many names, and have traveled far and wide. The Both-al of Ireland points directly to its first parent, the Batylos of the Greeks [...]

"If the consecutive attempts at the creation of man described in the Quiche Cosmogony suggests no comparison with Apocrypha, with the Jewish sacred books, and the kabalistic theories of creation, it is indeed strange. Even the Book of Jasher, condemned as a gross forgery of the twelfth century, may furnish more than one clew to [...]

"Far be from us the ridiculous pretension of criticizing a scientist so worthy of admiration for his learning as Max Muller. But we cannot help saying that even among the fantastic nonsense of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, anything would be worthy of attention, if it should help toward the evolving of some historical truth. Homer's [...]

"Even the erudite and sober Max Muller is somehow unable to get rid of coincidences. To him they come in the shape of the most unexpected discoveries. These Mexicans, for instance, whose obscure origin, according to the laws of probability, has no connection with the Aryans of India, nevertheless, like the Hindus, represent an eclipse [...]

"The story of this mysterious city was told to Stephens by a Spanish Padre, in 1838-9. The Priest swore to him that he had seen it with his own eyes, and gave Stephens the following details, which the traveler firmly believed to be true. "The Padre of the little village near the ruins of Santa [...]

"Apart from the fact that this mysterious city has been seen from a great distance by daring travelers, there is no intrinsic improbability of its existence, for who can tell what became of the primitive people who fled before the rapacious brigands of Cortez and Pizarro? Dr. Tschuddi, in his work on Peru, tells us [...]

"The writer in the National Quarterly Review, previously quoted, says that the Phoenicians were the earliest navigators of the world, founded most of the colonies of the Mediterranean, and voyaged to whatever other regions were inhabited. They visited the Arctic regions, whence they brought accounts of eternal days without a night, which Homer has preserved [...]

"On the walls of the palace of Amenoph II., at Thebes, the king is represented as playing chess with the queen. This monarch reigned long before the Trojan war. In India the game is known to have been played at least 5,000 years ago. As to their knowledge in medicine, now that one of the [...]