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

"Starting as a pure and perfect spiritual being, the Adam of the second chapter of Genesis, not satisfied with the position allotted to him by the Demiurgus (who is the eldest first-begotten, the Adam-Kadmon), Adam the second, the "man of dust", strives in his pride to become Creator in his turn. Evolved out of the [...]

"It will be observed that this philosophy of cycles, which was allegorized by the Egyptian Hierophants in the "circle of necessity", explains at the same time the allegory of the "Fall of man". According to the Arabian descriptions, each of the seven chambers of the Pyramids - those grandest of all cosmic symbols - was [...]

"In his lecture on the Action of Natural Selection on Man, Mr. Alfred R. Wallace concludes his demonstrations as to the development of human races under that law of selection by saying that, if his conclusions are just: "It must inevitably follow that the higher - the more intellectual and moral - must displace the [...]

"Whether or not the men or science are willing to concede the correctness of the Hermetic theory of the physical evolution of man from higher and more spiritual natures, they themselves show us how the race has progressed from the lowest observed point to its present development. And, as all nature seems to be made [...]

"Such are the glimpses which anthropology affords us of men, either arrived at the bottom of a cycle or starting in a new one. Let us see how far they are corroborated by clairvoyant psychometry. Professor Denton submitted a fragment of fossilized bone to his wife's examination, without giving Mrs. Denton any hint as to [...]

"Mr. Alfred R. Wallace argues with sound logic, that the development of man has been more marked in his mental organization than in his external form. Man, he conceives to differ from the animal, by being able to undergo great changes of conditions and of his entire environment, without very marked alterations in bodily form [...]

"The "coats of skin", mentioned in the third chapter of Genesis as given to Adam and Eve, are explained by certain ancient philosophers to mean the fleshy bodies with which, in the progress of the cycles, the progenitors of the race became clothed. They maintained that the god-like physical form became grosser and grosser, until [...]

"Thou can'st not call that madness of which thou art proved to know nothing." - TERTULLIAN: Apology. "This is not a matter of to-day, or yesterday, but hath been from all times; And none hath told us whence it came or how!" - SOPHOCLES. "Belief in the supernatural is a fact natural, primitive, universal, and [...]

"To accuse Buddhistical philosophy of rejecting a Supreme Being - God, and the soul's immortality, of atheism, in short, on the ground that according to their doctrines, Nirvana means annihilation, and Svabhavat is NOT a person, but nothing, is simply absurd. The En (or Ayin) of the Jewish En-Soph, also means nihil or nothing, that [...]

"Even the so-called fabulous narratives of certain Buddhistical books, when stripped of their allegorical meaning, are found to be the secret doctrines taught by Pythagoras. In the Pali Books called the Jutakas, are given the 550 incarnations or metempsychoses of Buddha. They narrate how he has appeared in every form of animal life, and animated [...]