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

"If we accept Darwin's theory of the development of species, we find that his starting-point is placed in front of an open door. We are at liberty with him, to either remain within, or cross the threshold, beyond which lies the limitless and the incomprehensible, or rather the Unutterable.   If our mortal language is [...]

"The fundamental geometrical figure of the Kabala - that figure which tradition and the esoteric doctrines tell us was given by the Deity itself to Moses on Mt. Sanai - contains in its grandiose, because simple combination, the key to the universal problem.   This figure contains in itself all the others. For those who [...]

"For lack of comprehension of this great philosophical principle, the methods of modern science, however exact, must end in nullity. In no one branch can it demonstrate the origin and ultimate of things. Instead of tracing the effect from its primal source, its progress is the reverse. Its higher types, as it teaches, are all [...]

"These philosophers held, with the Hindus, that God had infused into matter a portion of his own Divine Spirit, which animates and moves every particle. They taught that men have two souls, of separate and quite different natures:   the one perishable - the Astral Soul, or the inner, fluidic body - the other incorruptible [...]

"It is to the priceless and accurate translations of the Vedic Books, and to the personal researches of Dr. Haug, that we are indebted for the corroboration of the claims of the hermetic philosophers. That the period of Zarathustra Spitama (Zoraster) was of untold antiquity, can be easily proved.   The Brahmanas, to which Haug [...]

"At all events, there are facts which prove that certain astronomical calculations were as correct with the Chaldeans in the days of Julius Caesar as they are now.   When the calendar was reformed by the Conqueror, the civil year was found to correspond so little with the seasons, that summer had merged into the [...]

"In one of the earliest Nivids, Rishi Kutsa, a Hindu sage of the remotest antiquity, explains the allegory of the first laws given to the celestial bodies. For doing " what she ought not to do", Anahit (Anaitis or Nana, the Persian Venus), representing the earth in the legend, is sentenced to turn round the [...]

"The description of the earth in the shape of a round and bald head, which was soft at first, became hard only from being breathed upon by the god Vayu, the lord of the air, forcibly suggests the idea that the authors of the sacred Vedic books knew the earth to be round or spherical; [...]

"If the Pythagorean metempsychosis should be thoroughly explained and compared with the modern theory of evolution, it would be found to supply every "missing link" in the chain of the latter. But who of our scientists would consent to lose his precious time over the vagaries of the ancients.   Notwithstanding proofs to the contrary, [...]

"The solution of the great problem of eternity belongs neither to religious superstition nor to gross materialism. The harmony and mathematical equiformity of the double evolution - spiritual and physical - are elucidated only in the universal numerals of Pythagoras, who built his system entirely upon the so-called "metrical speech" of the Hindu Vedas.   [...]