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

“The Jesuits reckon it among the greatest achievements of their Order that Loyola supported, by a special memorial to the Pope, a petition for the reorganization of that abominable and abhorred instrument of wholesale butchery – the infamous tribunal of the Inquisition. This order of Jesuits is now all-powerful in Rome. They have been reinstalled [...]

“The Jesuits have done more moral harm in this world than all the fiendish armies of the mythical Satan. Whatever extravagance may seem to be involved in this remark, will disappear when our readers in America, who know little about them, are made acquainted with their principles (principia) and rules as they appear in various [...]

“The origin of the Roman Catholic amulets and “relics” blessed by the Pope, is the same as that of the “Ephesian Spell”, or magical characters engraved either on a stone or drawn on a piece of parchment; the Jewish amulets with verses out of the Law, and called phylacteria, and the Mahometan charms with verses [...]

“The real practical magic contained in the Sohar and other kabalistic works, is only of use to those who read within. The Christian apostles – at least, those who are said to have produced “miracles” at will – had to be acquainted with the science. It ill-behooves a Christian to look with horror or derision [...]

“In Die Kabbala, by Franck, the author, following its “esoteric ravings”, as he expresses it, gives us in addition to the translations, his commentaries. Speaking of his predecessors, he says that Simeon Ben-Iochai mentions repeatedly what the “companions” have taught in the older works. And the author cites one “Ieba, the old, and Hamnuna, the [...]

“This Masonic commandment, “mouth to ear, and the word at low breath”, is an inheritance from the Tanaim and the old Pagan Mysteries. Its modern use must certainly be due to the indiscretion of some renegade kabalist, though the “word” itself is but a “substitute” for the “lost word”, and is a comparatively modern invention, [...]

“Christian and Catholic sons may accuse their fathers of the crime of heresy...although they may know that their parents will be burnt with fire and put to death for it. And not only may they refuse them food, if they attempt to turn them from the Catholic faith, but they may also justly kill them.” [...]

“When we read the true story of Buddha and Buddhism, by Muller, and the enthusiastic opinions of both expressed by Barthelemy St. Hilaire, and Laboulaye; and when, finally, a Popish missionary, an eyewitness, and one who least of all can be accused of partiality to the Buddhists – the Abbe Huc, we mean – finds [...]

“We cannot too often repeat that it is only through the doctrines of the more ancient philosophies that the religion preached by Jesus may be understood. It is through Pythagoras, Confucius, and Plato, that we can comprehend the idea which underlies the term “Father” in the New Testament. Plato’s ideal of the Deity, whom he [...]

“Laboulaye, the learned and skeptical French savant, does not believe a word of the miraculous portion of Buddha’s life; nevertheless, he has the candor to speak of Gautama as being only second to Christ in the great purity of his ethics and personal morality. For both of these opinions he is respectfully rebuked by des [...]