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

“This testimony from an unwilling witness shows again the identity between the ancient religions as to their secret doctrine. The Gayatri metre, for example, consists of thrice eight syllables, and is considered the most sacred of metres. It is the metre of Agni, the fire-god, and becomes at times the emblem of Brahma himself, the [...]

“Nowhere is the mystical value of human language and its effects on human action so perfectly understood as in India, nor any better explained than by the authors of the oldest Brahmanas. Ancient as their epoch is now found to be, they only try to express, in a more concrete form, the abstract metaphysical speculations [...]

“Fairy tales do not exclusively belong to nurseries; all mankind – except those few who in all ages have comprehended their hidden meaning and tried to open the eyes of the superstitious – have listened to such tales in one shape or the other and, after transforming them into sacred symbols, called the product RELIGION! [...]

“All things are governed in the bosom of this triad.” (LYDUS: De Mensibus, 20) “Thrice let the heaven be turned on its perpetual axis.” (OVID: Fasti, iv.) “And Balaam said unto Balak, build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.” (Numbers xxiii., 1 and 2) “In seven days, all [...]

“Of forty-seven tombs of the kings, near Gornore, recorded by the Egyptian priests on their sacred registers, only seventeen were known to the public, according to Diodorus Siculus, who visited the place about sixty years B.C. Notwithstanding this historical evidence, we assert that the whole number exist to this day, and the royal tomb discovered [...]

“The greatest mistake of the age was to attempt a comparison of the relative merits of all the ancient religions, and scoff at the doctrines of the Kabala and other superstitions. But truth is stranger than fiction; and this world-old adage finds its application in the case in hand. The “wisdom” of the archaic ages [...]

“As with the Gentile nations, the symbols of the Israelites were ever bearing, directly or indirectly, upon sun-worship. The exoteric Jehovah of the Bible is a dual god, like all the other gods; and the fact that David – who is entirely ignorant of Moses – praises his “Lord”, and assures him that the “Lord [...]

“It was the secrecy of the early kabalists, who were anxious to screen the real Mystery name of the “Eternal” from profanation, and later the prudence which the mediaeval alchemists and occultists were compelled to adopt to save their lives, that caused the inextricable confusion of divine names. This is what led the people to [...]

“The Book of Jasher, a work – as we are told by a very learned Hebrew divine, of New York – composed in Spain in the twelfth century as a “popular tale”, and that had not “the sanction of the Rabbinical College of Venice”, is full of kabalistical, alchemical, and magical allegories. Admitting so much, [...]

“We must now give some proofs of what we have stated, and demonstrate that the word Jehovah, if Masonry adheres to it, will ever remain as a substitute, never be identical with the lost mirific name. This is so well known to the kabalists that in their careful etymology of the , they show it [...]