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

"Human nature is like universal nature in its abhorrence of a vacuum. It feels an intuitional yearning for a Supreme Power. Without a God, the cosmos would seem to it but like a soulless corpse.   Being forbidden to search for Him where alone His traces would be found, man filled the aching void with [...]

""There is a personal God, and there is a personal Devil!" thunders the Christian preacher. "Let him be anathema who dares say nay!" "There is no personal God, except the gray matter in our brain", contemptuously replies the materialist. "And there is no Devil. Let him be considered thrice an idiot who say aye."   [...]

"How well Hargrave Jennings expresses himself when speaking of Pyramids, and how true are his words when he asks:   "Is it at all reasonable to conclude, at a period when knowledge was at the highest, and when the human powers were, in comparison with ours at the present time, prodigious, that all these indomitable, [...]

"The world is always ungrateful to its great men. Florence has built a statue to Galileo, but hardly even mentions Pythagoras. The former had a ready guide in the treatises of Copernicus, who had been obliged to contend against the universally established Ptolemaic system. But neither Galileo nor modern astronomy discovered the emplacement of the [...]

"The division of the history of mankind into Golden, Silver, Copper and Iron Ages, is not a fiction. We see the same thing in the literature of peoples. An age of great inspiration and unconscious productiveness is invariably followed by an age of criticism and consciousness. The one affords material for the analyzing and critical [...]

"As our planet revolves once a year around the sun and at the same time turns once in every twenty-four hours upon its own axis, thus traversing minor circles within a larger one, so is the work of the smaller cyclic periods accomplished and recommenced, within the Great Saros.   The revolution of the physical [...]

"This method of calculating by the neroses, without allowing any consideration for the secrecy in which the ancient philosophers, who were exclusively of the sacerdotal order, held their knowledge, gave rise to the greatest errors.   It led the Jews, as well as some of the Christian Platonists, to maintain that the world would be [...]

"Calculating by the secret period of the Great Neros and the Hindu Kalpas, some kabalists, mathematicians and archeologists who knew naught of the secret computations made the above number of 21,000 years to be 24,000 years, for the length of the great year, as it was to the renewal only of our globe that they [...]

"These ciphers are not fanciful, but founded upon actual astronomical calculations, as has been demonstrated by S. Davis.  Many a scientist, Higgins among others, notwithstanding their researches, has been utterly perplexed as to which of these was the secret cycle.   Bunsen has demonstrated that the Egyptian priests, who made the cyclic notations, kept them [...]

"The Neroses, the Vrihaspati, or the periods called yugas or kalpas, are life problems to solve. The Satya-yug and Buddhistic cycles of chronology would make a mathematician stand aghast at the array of ciphers. The Maha-kalpa embraces an untold number of periods far back in the antediluvian ages. Their system comprises a kalpa or grand [...]