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

"Since we began to write this part of our book, an announcement has been made in a number of papers of the supposed discovery of a new force by Mr. Edison, the electrician, of Newark, New Jersey, which force seems to have little in common with electricity, or galvanism, except the principle of conductivity.   [...]

"Sir E. Bulwer-Lytton, in his Coming Race, describes it as the VRIL, used by the subterranean populations, and allowed his readers to take it for a fiction. "These people", he says, "consider that in the vril they had arrived at the unity in natural energetic agencies"; and proceeds to show that Faraday intimated them "under [...]

"Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint." (I am the spirit which still denies.) - (Mephisto in FAUST.)   "The spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it seeth Him not; neither knoweth Him." - Gospel according to John, xiv., 17.   "Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we [...]

"Thus the time has come when the scientists have lost all right to be addressed with the Miltonian verse, "O thou who, for the testimony of truth, hast borne universal reproach!"   Sad degeneration, and one that recalls the exclamation of that "doctor of physic" mentioned one hundred and eighty years ago by Dr. Henry [...]

"It is too late now to kick against an evidence which manifests itself as in the full glare of noon. Liberal, as well as Christian papers, and the organs of the most advanced scientific authorities, begin to protest unanimously against the dogmatism and narrow prejudices of sciolism.   The Christian World, a religious paper, adds [...]

"In the Edda is given the description to Gangler by Har, one of the three informants (Har, Jafuhar, and Tredi) of the first man, called Bur, "the father of Bor, who took for wife Besla, a daughter of the giant Bolthara, of the race of the primitive giants."   The full and interesting narrative may [...]

"It is in these ridiculously expressed fables that science will have to look for her "missing links." Otherwise, whence such strange "coincidences" in the respective histories of nations and peoples so widely thrown apart?   Whence that identity of primitive conceptions which, fables and legends though they are termed now, contain in them nevertheless the [...]

"It is not for the first time in the history of the world, that the invisible world has to contend against the materialistic skepticism of soul-blind Sadducees. Plato deplores such an unbelief, and refers to this pernicious tendency more than once in his works.   From Kapila, the Hindu philosopher, who many centuries before Christ [...]

"Here we have a representative materialist, and a representative Catholic prelate, enunciating an identical view of the sufficiency of human testimony to prove facts that it suits the prejudices of each to believe.   After this, what need for either the student of occultism, or even the spiritualist, to hunt about for endorsements of the [...]

"Let the reader observe the sentence we have italicized. This makes it clear that the Catholic Church, despite her infallibility and her liberal postage convention with the Kingdom of Heaven, is content to accept even the validity of divine miracles upon human testimony.   Now when we turn to the report of Mr. Huxley's recent [...]