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

“The seventh chapter of Genesis is but another version of the first. Thus, while the latter reads: “…and darkness was upon the face of the deep; And the spirit (of God) moved upon the face of the waters”, in chapter seventh, it is said: “…and the waters prevailed…and the ark went (with Noah – the [...]

“The cosmogonical speculations of the first six chapters of Genesis are shown in the races of “sons of Gods”, “giants”, etc., of chapter vi. Properly speaking, the story of the formation of our earth, or “creation”, as it is very improperly called, begins with the rescue of Noah from the deluge. The Chaldeo-Babylonian tablets recently [...]

“As well as man, and every other living thing upon it, our planet has had its spiritual and physical evolution. From an impalpable ideal thought under the creative Will of Him of whom we know nothing, and but dimly conceive in imagination, this globe became fluidic and semi-spiritual, then condensed itself more and more, until [...]

“The ascetic observance of the Christian Sabbath By Protestants is pure religious tyranny, and does more harm, we fear, than good. It really dates only from the enactment (in 1678) of the 29th of Charles II., which prohibited any “tradesman, artificer, workman, laborer, or other person”, to “do or exercise any worldly labor, etc., etc., [...]

“The Pythagoreans called the number seven the vehicle of life, as it contained body and soul. They explained it by saying, that the human body consisted of four principal elements, and that the soul is triple, comprising reason, passion, and desire. The ineffable WORD was considered the Seventh and highest of all, for there are [...]

“We read the sound advice to students of the Rig-Veda hymns, to collect, collate, sift, and reject. “Let him study the commentaries, the Sutras, the Brahmanas, and even later works, in order to exhaust all the sources from which information can be derived. He [the scholar] must not despise the traditions of the Brahmans, even [...]

“We can never admit that the three other Vedas are less worthy of their name than the Rig-hymns, or that the Talmud and the Kabala are so inferior to the Bible. The very name of the Vedas (the literal meaning of which is knowledge or wisdom) shows them to belong to the literature of those [...]

“It is, to say the least, illogical to admit that there is a hidden thought in the literary work of a race perhaps ethnologically different from our own; and then, because it is utterly unintelligible to us whose spiritual development during the several thousand intervening years has bifurcated into quite a contrary direction - deny [...]

“Professor Max Muller, whose every word is accepted by his school as philological gospel, is undoubtedly right in one sense when in determining the nature of the Hindu gods, he calls them “masks without an actor…names without being, not beings without names.” For he but proves thereby the monotheism of the ancient Vedic religion. But [...]

“Turn wherever we will, from the prophets to the Apocalypse, and we will see the biblical writers constantly using the numbers three, four, seven, and twelve. And yet we have known some partisans of the Bible who maintained that the Vedas were copied from the Mosaic books! The Vedas, which are written in Sanscrit, a language [...]