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

"If the reader will recall what is said by the learned authors of the Unseen Universe, as to the positive effect produced upon the universal ether by so small a cause as the evolution of thought in a single human brain, how reasonable will it not appear that the terrific impulses imparted to this common [...]

"The prevalence of such revolutionary ideas in science, embolden us to ask the representatives of science whether they can explain why the tides follow the moon in her circling motion? The fact is, they cannot demonstrate even so familiar a phenomenon as this, one that has no mystery for even the neophytes in alchemy and [...]

"Thus he shows that it is not at all to the sun that we are indebted for light and heat; that light is a creation sui generis, which spring into existence at the instant when the Deity willed, and uttered the fiat: "Let there be light"; and that it is this independent material agent which [...]

"The laws of Manu are the doctrines of Plato, Philo, Zoroaster, Pythagoras, and of the Kabala. The esotericism of every religion may be solved by the latter. The kabalistic doctrine of the allegorical Father and Son, or Πατερ and Λογος is identical with the groundwork of Buddhism. Moses could not reveal to the multitude the [...]

"HE the Point; the centre (which is everywhere) of the circle (which is nowhere), the ethereal, spiritual fire, the soul and spirit of the all-pervading, mysterious ether; the despair and puzzle of the materialist, who will some day find that that which causes the numberless cosmic forces to manifest themselves in eternal correlation is but [...]

"And I looked, and behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it", says Ezekiel (i., 4, 22, etc.), "...and the likeness of a throne...and as the appearance of a man above upon it...and I saw as it were the appearance of [...]

"In Genesis, the "Lord" first creates light, and three days and three nights are alleged to pass away before He creates the sun, the moon, and the stars. This gross blunder against exact science has created much merriment among materialist. And they certainly would be warranted in laughing, if their doctrine that our light and [...]

"How the ancients regarded the heavenly bodies is very hard to determine, for one unacquainted with the esoteric explanation of their doctrines. While philology and comparative theology have begun the arduous work of analysis, they have as yet arrived at meagre results. The allegorical form of speech has often led our commentators so far astray, [...]

"In Mr. Proctor's book, astronomers seem especially doomed by Providence to encounter all kinds of curious "coincidences", for he gives us many cases out of the "multitude", and even of the "thousands of facts [sic]." To this list we may add the army of Egyptologists and archeologists who of late have been the chosen pets [...]

"The sun in Aries, Jupiter, is shown in astrology as a masculine, diurnal, cardinal, equinoctial, easterly sign, hot and dry, and answers perfectly to the character attributed to the fickle "Father of the gods." When angry Zeus-Akrios snatches from his fiery belt the thunderbolts which he hurls forth from heaven, he rends the clouds and [...]