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

"The deeper the research of the modern explorer, the more often he comes face to face with the discoveries of the ancients. Does Elie de Beaumont, the great French geologist, venture a hint upon the terrestrial circulation, in relation to some elements in the earth's crust, he finds himself anticipated by the old philosophers. Do [...]

"The forgoing, added to the wonderful confessions of science and what we have just quoted from the Unseen Universe, throw an additional lustre on the wisdom of the long departed ages. In one of the preceding chapters we have alluded to a quotation from Cory's translation of Ancient Fragments, in which it appears that one [...]

"So far back as 1856, a man considered a savant in his days - Dr. Jobard of Paris - had certainly the same ideas as the authors of the Unseen Universe, on ether, when he startled the press and the world of science by the following declaration: "I hold a discovery which frightens me. There [...]

"Taking the ground that "the visible universe must certainly, in transformable energy, and probably in matter, come to an end", and "the principle of continuity...still demanding a continuance of the universe..." the authors of this remarkable work find themselves forced to believe "that there is something beyond that which is visible...and that the visible system [...]

"Notwithstanding the confessions of stupendous ignorance in some things, made by the scientists themselves, they still deny the existence of that mysterious spiritual force, lying beyond the grasp of the ordinary physical laws. They still hope to be able to apply to living beings the same laws which they have found to answer in reference [...]

"In our opinion, if psychometry is one of the grandest proofs of the indestructibility of matter, retaining eternally the impressions of the outward world, the possession of that faculty by our inner sight is still a greater one in favor of the immortality of man's individual spirit. Capable of discerning events which took place hundreds [...]

"If scientists, proceeding from a strictly scientific point of view, such as the possibility of energy being transferred into the invisible universe - and on the principle of continuity, indulge in such speculations, why should occultists and spiritualists be refused the same privilege? Ganglionic impressions on the surface of polished metal, are registered and may [...]

"Of late, some of our learned men have given a particular attention to a subject hitherto branded with the mark of "superstition". They begin speculating on hypothetical and invisible worlds. The authors of the Unseen Universe were the first to boldly take the lead, and already they find a follower in Professor Fiske, whose speculations [...]

"Says Professor E. Hitchcock, when speaking of the influences of light upon bodies, and the formation of pictures upon them by means of it: "It seems, then, that this photographic influence pervades all nature: nor can we say where it stops. We do not know but it may imprint upon the world around us our [...]

"While man is free to act as he pleases, the manner in which he will act was foreknown from all time; not on the ground of fatalism or destiny, but simply on the principle of universal, unchangeable harmony; and, as it may be foreknown that, when a musical note is struck, its vibration will not, [...]