“In the seventeenth century Satan made a sortie in New England, New Jersey, New York, and several of the Southern colonies of North America, and Cotton Mather gives us the principal chronicles of his manifestation. A few years later he visited the Parsonage of Mora, in Sweden, and Life in Dalecarlia was diversified with the [...]
Category: Isis Unveiled, Volume II: H. P. Blavatsky (1877)
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“We ought, perhaps, to make a brief notice of the European Devil. He is the genius who deals in sorcery, witchcraft, and other mischief. The Fathers taking the idea from the Jewish Pharisees, made devils of the Pagan gods, Mithras, Serapis, and the others. The Roman Catholic Church followed by denouncing the former worship as [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“It will be perceived from these extended illustrations that the Satan of the Old Testament, the Diabolos or Devil of the Gospels and Apostolic Epistles, were but the antagonistic principle in matter, necessarily incident to it, and not wicked in the moral sense of the term. The Jews, coming from the Persian country, brought with [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“This grandiose poem of Job was well understood by the kabalists. While many of the mediaeval Hermetists were profoundly religious men, they were, in their innermost hearts, like kabalists of every age, the deadliest enemies of the clergy. How true the words of Paracelsus when worried by fierce persecution and slander, misunderstood by friends and [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“Job hearkens to the words of wisdom, and then the “Lord” answers Job “out of the whirlwind of nature”, God's first visible manifestation: “Stand still, O Job, stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God; for by them alone thou canst know God. 'Behold, God is great, and we know him not', Him who [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“There is a total absence of allusion to any of the patriarchs; and so evidently is it the work of an Initiate, that one of the three daughters of Job is even called by a decidedly “Pagan” mythological name. The name of Kerenhappuch is rendered in various ways by the many translators. The Vulgate has [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“The Book of Job is a complete representation of ancient initiation, and the trials which generally precede this grandest of all ceremonies. The neophyte perceives himself deprived of everything he valued and afflicted with foul disease. His wife appeals to him to adore God and die; there was no more hope for him. Three friends [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
"But we ought, perhaps, to explain the ancient use of allegory and symbology. The truth in the former was left to be deduced; the symbol expressed some abstract quality of the Deity, which the laity could easily apprehend. Its higher sense terminated there; and it was employed by the multitude thenceforth as an image to [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“At the time that the high-priest Hilkiah is said to have found the Book of the Law, the Hindu Puranas (Scriptures) were known to the Assyrians. These last had for many centuries held dominion from the Hellespont to the Indus, and probably crowded the Aryans out of Bactriana into the Punjab. The Book of the [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“Albertus Magnus, himself an alchemist and student of occult science, as well as a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, in his enthusiasm for astrology, declared that the zodiacal sign of the celestial virgin rises above the horizon on the twenty-fifth of December, at the moment assigned by the Church for the birth of the [...]
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 