"For the lover of metaphor, science may be likened to a twinkling star shining with resplendent brightness through rifts in a bank of densely-black clouds. If her votaries cannot define that mysterious attraction which draws into concrete masses the material particles which form the smallest pebble on the ocean-beach, how can they define the limits [...]
Category: Isis Unveiled: H. P. Blavatsky (1877)
isis unveiled: chapter X (outside the walls…)
""But, what is this attraction? who has seen attraction? who has met attraction? who has touched attraction? How do these mute bodies, intelligent, insensible, exercise upon each other unconsciously this reciprocity of action and reaction which holds them in a common equilibrium and unanimous harmony? Is this force which draws sun to sun, and atom [...]
isis unveiled: chapter X (outside the walls…)
""And why do they prophesy the overthrow of Christianity by science? Listen:...we must perish by science because we teach mysteries, and because the Christian mysteries are in radical antagonism with modern science....Mystery is the negation of common sense; science repels it; science condemns it; she has spoken - Anathema! Ah! you are right; if Christian [...]
isis unveiled: chapter X (outside the walls…)
"The following are a few fragments from a series of sermons by Felix, of Notre Dame, entitled Mystery and Science. They are worthy to be translated for and quoted in a work which is undertaken in precisely the same spirit as that exhibited by the preacher. For once the Church silenced for a time the [...]
isis unveiled: chapter X (outside the walls…)
"It is sometimes as interesting as instructive to follow the two great rivals, science and theology, in their frequent skirmishes. Not all of the sons of the Church are as unsuccessful in their attempts at advocacy as the poor Abbe Moigno, of Paris. This respectable, and no doubt well-meaning divine, in his fruitless attempt to [...]
isis unveiled: chapter X (outside the walls…)
"ΤΕΣ δε γαρ εκ τριαδος παν πνευμα πατερ εκερασε. - TAY.: Lyd. de Mens., 20. "The more powerful souls perceive truth through themselves, and are of a more inventive nature. Such souls are saved through their own strength, according to the oracle." - PROCLUS in I Alc. "Since the soul perpetually runs and passes through [...]
isis unveiled: chapter IX (as above, so below…)
"With a bigotry which one might search for in vain outside the church in whose interest he writes, des Mousseaux quotes the above language, as proof positive that this devoted savant, and all who share his belief, have given themselves over to the dominion of the Evil One! Self-complacency is the most serious obstacle to [...]
isis unveiled: chapter IX (as above, so below…)
"Some twenty years since, Baron Du Potet, disgusted with the indifference of the scientists, who persisted in seeing in the greatest psychological phenomena only the result of clever trickery, gave vent to his indignation in the following terms: "Here am I, on my way, I may truly say, to the land of marvels! I am [...]
isis unveiled: chapter IX (as above, so below…)
"Speaking of the elementary, Porphyry says: "These invisible beings have been receiving from men honors as god...a universal belief makes them capable of becoming very malevolent: it proves that their wrath is kindled against those who neglect to offer them a legitimate worship." Homer describes them in the following terms: "Our gods appear to us [...]
isis unveiled: chapter IX (as above, so below…)
"Herodotus tells us that in the eighth of the towers of Belus, in Babylon, used by the sacerdotal astrologers, there was an uppermost room, a sanctuary, where the prophesying priestesses slept to receive communications from the god. Beside the couch stood a table of gold, upon which were laid various stones, which Manetho informs were [...]
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 