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

“What the actual Baptists, el-Mogtasila, or Nazareans, do believe is fully set forth in other places, for they are the very Nazarenes of whom we have spoken so much, and from whose Codex we have quoted. Persecuted and threatened with annihilation, they took refuge in the Nestorian body, and so allowed themselves to be arbitrarily [...]

"One by one the tide of time engulfed the sects of the early centuries, until of the whole number only one survived in its primitive integrity. That one still exists, still teaches the doctrine of its founder, still exemplifies its faith in works of power. The quicksands which swallowed up every other outgrowth of the [...]

“Of the tenets of the Druzes, nothing authentic has ever come to light; the popular belief amongst their neighbors is, that they adore an idol in the form of a calf.” (KING, The Gnostics and Their Remains) “O ye Lords of Truth without fault, who are forever cycling for eternity…save me from the annihilation of [...]

“Dreary and sad were the ways, and blood-covered the tortuous paths by which the world of the Christians was driven to embrace the Irenaean and Eusebian Christianity. And yet, unless we accept the views of the ancient Pagans, what claim has our generation to having solved any of the mysteries of the “kingdom of heaven”? [...]

“We now see that “four mysteries” of the Buddhist doctrine have been as little understood and appreciated as the “wisdom” hinted at by Paul, and spoken “among them that are perfect”, (initiated), the “mystery wisdom” which “none of the Archons of this world knew.” The fourth degree to the Buddhist Dhyâna, the fruit of Samâdhi, [...]

“Plato, (in Laws 10), defines soul as “the motion that is able to move itself.” “Soul is the most ancient of all things, and the commencement of motion.” “Soul was generated prior to body, and body is posterior and secondary, as being, according to nature, ruled over by the ruling soul.” “The soul which administers [...]

“The daemonium of Socrates was this νους, mind, spirit, or understanding of the divine in it. “The νους of Socrates”, says Plutarch, “was pure and mixed itself with the body no more than necessity required. Every soul hath some portion of νους, reason, a man cannot be a man without it; but as much of [...]

“The Platonic School is even more distinct in enunciating all this. The real selfhood was at the basis of all. Socrates therefore taught that he had a daimonion, a spiritual something which put him on the road to wisdom. He himself knew nothing, but this put him in the way to learn all. Plato followed [...]

“In the writings of Paul, the entity of man is divided into a trine – flesh, psychical existence or soul, and the overshadowing and at the same time interior entity of SPIRIT. His phraseology is very definite, when he teaches the anastasis, or the continuation of life of those who have died. He maintains that [...]

“The proof that the transmigration of the soul does not relate to man’s condition on this earth after death, is found in the Sohar, notwithstanding the many incorrect renderings of its translators. “All souls which have alienated themselves in heaven from the Holy One – blessed be His Name – have thrown themselves into an [...]