Category: Isis Unveiled, Volume II: H. P. Blavatsky (1877)

““Get thee behind me, SATAN". Jesus to Peter, Matthew xvi., 23. “Such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff, as puts me from my faith. I tell you what, he held me, last night, at least nine hours, in reckoning up the several devils' names.” (King Henry IV., Part I., Act iii.) “La force terrible et juste [...]

“Hence, we reject this pretended monotheistic Scripture, made up just when the priests of Jerusalem found their political profit in violently breaking off all connection with the Gentiles. It is at this moment only that we find them persecuting kabalists, and banning the “old wisdom” of both Pagans and Jews. The real Hebrew Bible was [...]

“All the legends of the creation, the fall of man and the resultant deluge, belong to universal history, and are no more the property of the Israelites than that of any other nation. What specially belongs to them, kabalists excepted, are the disfigured details of every tradition. The Genesis of Enoch is by far anterior [...]

“O companions, companions, man as emanation was both man and woman, as well on the side of the FATHER as on the side of the MOTHER. And this is the sense of the words, “and Elohim spoke, Let there be Light, and it was Light! ...And this is the 'two-fold man'!” A spiritual woman was [...]

“In the Nuctemeron, the evolution of the universe and its successive periods of formation, together with the gradual development of the human races, are illustrated as fully as possible in the twelve “hours” into which the allegory is divided. Each “hour” typifies the evolution of a new man, and in its turn is divided into [...]

“Kain, presiding over the Taurus (Bull) of the Zodiac, is also very suggestive. Taurus belongs to the earthy trigon, and in connection with this sign it will not be amiss to remind the student of an allegory from the Persian Avesta. The story goes that Ormazd produced a being – source and type of all [...]

“ Our science shows that the globe has passed through five distinct geological phases, each characterized by a different stratum, and these are in reverse order, beginning with the last: 1, The Quaternary period, in which man appears as a certainty; 2, The Tertiary period, in which he may have appeared; 3, Secondary period, that [...]

“All are the scales of universal harmony; justice and equilibrium are placed at the central point of the Zodiac. The grand circle of the heavens, so well discoursed upon by Plato, in his Timaeus, symbolizes the unknown as a unity; and the smaller circles which form the cross, by their division on the plane of [...]

“In chapters 4 and 5 of Genesis, we find the so-called generations of Cain and Seth. Let us glance at them in the order in which they stand: The above are the ten biblical patriarchs, identical with Hindu Pragapatis (Pradjapatis), and the Sephiroth of the Kabala. We say ten patriarchs, not twenty, for the Kenite [...]

“As there is more than one meaning attached to the stories of the creation and deluge, we say, therefore, that the biblical account cannot be comprehended apart from the Babylonian story of the same; while neither will be thoroughly clear without the Brahmanical esoteric interpretation of the deluge, as found in the Mahabharata and the [...]