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

“After a time of rest, say the Buddhists, when a new world becomes self-informed, the astral souls of animals, and of all beings, excepts such as have reached the highest Nirvana; will return on earth again to end their cycles of transformations, and become men in their turn. This stupendous conception, the ancients synthesized for [...]

“The Hindu kabalistic derivation of the books of Ezekiel and Revelation are shown in nothing more plainly than in this description of the four beasts, which typify the four elementary kingdoms – earth, air, fire, and water. As is well known, they are the Assyrian sphinxes, but these figures are also carved on the walls [...]

“The Midianites were known as the wise men, or sons of snakes, as well as Canaanites and Hamites; and such was the renown of the Midianites, that we find Moses, the prophet, led on and inspired by “the Lord”, humbling himself before Hobab, the son of Raguel, the Midianite, and beseeching him to remain with [...]

“In Thebes, or Theba, which means ark – TH-ABA being synonymous with Kartha or Tyre, Astu, or Athens and Urbs or Rome, and meaning also the city – are found the same foliations as described on the pillars of the temple of Solomon. The bicolored leaf of the olive, the three-lobed figleaf, and the lanceolate-shaped [...]

“How strangely elastic, how adaptable to any and everything this mystical philosophy proved after the Christian era! When were ever facts, irrefutable, irrefragable, and beyond denial, less potential for the reestablishment of truth than in our century of casuistry and Christian cunning? Is Christna proved to have been known as the “Good Shepherd”, ages before [...]

“The water of the flood when standing in the allegory for the symbolic “sea”, Tamti, typifies the turbulent chaos, or matter, called “the great dragon”. According to the Gnostic and Rosicrucian madaeival doctrine, the creation of woman was not originally intended. She is the offspring of man’s own impure fancy, and, as the Hermetist say, [...]

“The Ark, in which are preserved the germs of all living things necessary to repeople the earth, represents the survival of life, and the supremacy of spirit over matter, through the conflict of the opposing powers of nature. In the Astro-Theosophic chart of the Western Rite, the Ark corresponds with the navel, and is placed [...]

“The “ages” of the Hindus differ but little from those of the Greeks, Romans, and even the Jews. We include the Mosaic computation advisedly, and with intent to prove our position. The chronology which separates Moses from the creation of the world by only four generations seems ridiculous, merely because the Christian clergy would enforce [...]

“There is no real history in the Old Testament, and the little historical information one can glean is only found in the indiscreet revelations of the prophets. The book, as a whole, must have been written at various times, or rather invented as an authorization of some subsequent worship, the origin of which may be [...]

“Hezekiah was not the lineal, but the titular son of Ahaz. Isaiah, the prophet, belonged to the royal family, and Hezekiah was reputed his son-in-law. Ahaz refused to ally himself with the prophet and his party, saying: “I will not tempt (depend on) the Lord”, (Isaiah 7:12). The prophet had declared: “If you will not [...]