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

“Seers, righteous men, who had attained to the highest science of the inner man and the knowledge of truth, have, like Marcus Antoninus, received instructions “from the god’s”, in sleep and otherwise. Helped by the purer spirits, those that dwell in “regions of eternal bliss”, they have watched the process and warned mankind repeatedly. Skepticism [...]

“In the Egyptian notions, as in those of all other faiths founded on philosophy, man was not merely, as with the Christians, a union of soul and body; he was a trinity when spirit was added to it. Besides, that doctrine made him consist of kha – body; khaba – astral form or shadow; ka [...]

“We have read the rules of these holy initiates of the Christian Society of Jesus. Compare them with those enforced upon the Pagan postulant, and Christian (!) morality with that inculcated in those mysteries of the Pagans upon which all the thunders of an avenging Deity are invoked by the Church. Had the latter no [...]

“Now suppose we again turn the medal and see what principles were inculcated by Pagan Egyptian moralists before the world was blessed with these modern improvements in ethics. In Egypt every city of importance was separated from its burial place by a sacred lake. The same ceremony of judgment which the Book of the Dead describes [...]

“The doctrine of man’s triune nature is as clearly defined in the Hermetic books as it is in Plato’s system, or again in that of the Buddhist and Brahmanical philosophies. And this is one of the most important as well as least understood, of the doctrines of Hermetic science. The Egyptian Mysteries, so imperfectly known [...]

“The prophecy of Hermes is less equivocal than either of the alleged prophecies of Isaiah, which have furnished a pretext for saying that the gods of all the nations were demons. Only facts are stronger, sometimes, than the strongest faith. All that the Jews learned, they had from older nations than themselves. The Chaldean Magi [...]

“History has yet perhaps to learn that the octogenarian Pope, intoxicated with the fumes of his newly enforced infallibility, was but the faithful echo of the Jesuits. “An old man is raised trembling upon the pavois of the Vatican”; says Michelet, “every thing becomes absorbed and confined in him. …For fifteen centuries Christendom had submitted [...]

“The popular feeling in Venice, 1606, when the Jesuits were driven out from that city, expressed itself most forcibly. Great crowds had accompanied the exiles to the seashore, and the farewell cry which resounded after them over the waves, was, “Ande in malora!” (Get away! And woe be to you.) “That cry was echoed throughout [...]

“Rabbi Jehoshua Ben Chananea, who died about A.D. 72, openly declared that he had performed “miracles” by means of the Book of Sephir Jezireh, and challenged every skeptic. Franck, quoting from the Babylonian Talmud, names two other thaumaturgists, Rabbis Chanina and Oshoi. Simon Magus was doubtless a pupil of the Tanaim of Samaria, the reputation which [...]

“We must abstain at present from proceeding further. So disgustingly licentious, hypocritical, and demoralizing are nearly all these precepts, that it was found impossible to put many of them in print, except in the Latin Language. We will return to some of the more decent as we proceed, for the sake of comparison. But what [...]