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

“Truly, the grand omnific Royal Arch word, “long lost but now found”, has fulfilled its prophetic promise. The password of that degree is no more “I AM THAT I AM”. It is now simply, “I was but am no more!” That we may not be accused of vain boasting, we shall give the keys to [...]

“The Egyptian hierophant was given a square head-dress, which he had to wear always, and a square without which, he could never go abroad. The perfect Tau formed of the perpendicular (descending male ray or spirit), a horizontal line (or matter, female ray), and the mundane circle was an attribute of Isis, and it is [...]

“The building of the Temple of Solomon is the symbolical representation of the gradual acquirement of the secret wisdom, or magic; the erection and development of the spiritual from the earthly; the manifestation of the power and splendor of the spirit in the physical world, through the wisdom and genius of the builder. The latter, [...]

““NEW YORK PRESS CLUB, January 11, 1877. (continued)… “It seems strange now, that the belief in a personal God is becoming extinct, and that even the theologian has transformed his deity into an indescribable nondescript, that there are those who stand in the way of the general acceptation of the sublime pantheism of the primeval [...]

‘“NEW YORK PRESS CLUB, January 11, 1877. (continued)… “These bogus constitutions, written by Anderson, were compiled about then, and in order to palm off his miserable rubbish yclept history, on the Craft, he had the audacity to state that nearly all the documents relating to Masonry in England had been destroyed by the 1717 reformers. [...]

“Like Christianity, Freemasonry is a corpse from which the spirit long ago fled. In this connection, place may well be given to a letter from Mr. Charles Sotheran, Corresponding Secretary of the New York Liberal Club, which was received by us on the day after the date it bears. Mr. Sotheran is known as a [...]

“Jesus is accused by his enemies of having wrought miracles and shown by his own apostles to have expelled demons by the power of the INEFFABLE NAME. The former firmly believed that he had stolen it in the Sanctuary. “And he cast the spirits with his word...and healed all that were sick” (Matthew 8:16). When [...]

“A Mason has to declare his belief in a personal God, Jehovah, and in the Encampment degrees also in Christ, before he can be accepted in the Lodge, while the Johanite Templars believed in the unknown and invisible Principle, whence proceeded the Creative Powers misnamed gods, and held to the Nazarene version of Ben-Panther being [...]

“In 1743, the Kadosh degree was invented at Lyons (so writes Thory, at least), and “it represents the revenge of the Templars.” And here we find Findel saying that “the Order of Knights Templars had been abolished in 1311, and to that epoch they were obliged to have recourse when, after the banishment of several [...]

“The Knights of St. John of Jerusalem”, writes Commander Gourdin, “sometimes called the Knights Hospitaliers, and the Knights of Malta, were not Freemasons. On the contrary, they seem to have been inimical to Freemasonry, for in 1740, the Grand Master of the Order of Malta caused the Bull of Pope Clement XII., to be published [...]