""Thus, in regard to the Holy Spirit in a third person, I have not been able to comprehend, as ought to be believed, but, according to the Pythagoric manner, in conformity to the manner shown by Solomon, I have understood it as the soul of the universe, or adjoined to the universe according to the [...]
Category: Isis Unveiled: H. P. Blavatsky (1877)
Isis Unveiled: chapter III (The mirror of the soul)
""Thus I understand being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in being, and there is no being without essence, just as nothing is beautiful without beauty being present; thus nothing can be free from the divine presence, and thus by way of reason, and not by way of substantial [...]
Isis Unveiled: chapter III (The mirror of the soul)
"To this, the accused philosopher answered by the following profession of faith, which is that of every disciple of the ancient masters: "I hold, in brief, to an infinite universe, that is, an effect of infinite divine power, because I esteemed it a thing unworthy of divine goodness and power, that being able to [...]
Isis Unveiled: chapter III (The mirror of the soul)
"Perfidious as they are, the above words plainly indicate the belief of Bruno in the Pythagorean metempsychosis, which, misunderstood as it is, still shows a belief in the survival of man in one shape or another. Further, the accuser says: "He has shown indications of wishing to make himself the author of a new [...]
Isis Unveiled: chapter III (The mirror of the soul)
"The charges in the denunciation of Mocenigo, his accuser, are expressed in the following terms: "I, Zuane Mocenigo, son of the most illustrious Ser Marcantonio, denounce to your very reverend fathership, by constraint of my conscience and by order of my confessor, that I have heard say by Giordano Bruno, several times when he [...]
Isis Unveiled: chapter III (The mirror of the soul)
"But Professor Draper seems to have a very superficial knowledge of the true belief of the philosophers. We can leave Spinoza out of the question, and even allow him to remain in the eyes of his critics an utter atheist and materialist; for the cautious reserve which he placed upon himself in his writings makes [...]
Isis Unveiled: chapter III (The mirror of the soul)
"The modern commentators affirm that Bruno, "unsustained by the hope of another and better world, still surrendered his life rather than his convictions"; thereby allowing it to be inferred that Giordano Bruno had no belief in the continued existence of man after death. Professor Draper asserts most positively that Bruno did not believe in the [...]
Isis Unveiled: chapter III (The mirror of the soul)
"Bruno's and Spinoza's doctrines are nearly identical, though the words of the latter are more veiled, and far more cautiously chosen than those to be found in the theories of the author of the Causa Principio et Uno, or the Infinito Universo e Mondi. Both Bruno, who confesses that the source of his information [...]
Isis Unveiled: chapter III (The mirror of the soul)
"The lotus is the product of fire (heat) and water, hence the dual symbol of spirit and matter. The God Brahma is the second person of the Trinity, as are Jehovah (Adam-Kadmon) and Osiris, or rather Pimander, or the Power of the Thought Divine, of Hermes; for it is Pimander who represents the root of [...]
Isis Unveiled: chapter III (The mirror of the soul)
"These facts all go to show the identical parentage of this idea in the three religious systems, Hindu, Egyptian and Judaico-Christian. Wherever the mystic water-lily (lotus) is employed, it signifies the emanation of the objective from the concealed, or subjective - the eternal thought of the ever-invisible Deity passing from the abstract into the concrete [...]