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

“Upon those who, in the remains of antiquity, see evidence that modern times can lay small claim to originality, it is common to charge a disposition to exaggerate and distort facts. But the candid reader will scarcely aver that the above is an example in point. There were evolutionists before the day when the mythical [...]

“No more than the true religion of Judaic philosophy can be judged by the absurdities of the exoteric Bible, have we any right to form an opinion of Brahmanism and Buddhism by their nonsensical and sometimes disgusting popular forms. If we only search for the true essence of the philosophy of both Manu and the [...]

“The first races of men were spiritual, and their protoplastic bodies were not composed of the gross and material substances of which we see them composed now-a-day. The first men were created with all the faculties of the Deity, and powers far transcending those of the angelic host; for they were the direct emanations of [...]

“With the Buddhist the last incarnation is the fifth. When Maitree-Buddha comes, then our present world will be destroyed; and a new and better one will replace it. The four arms of every Hindu Deity are the emblems of the four preceding manifestations of our earth from its invisible state, while its head typifies the [...]

“If we now examine the ten mythical avatars of Vishnu, we find them recorded in the following progression: 1. Matsya-Avatar – as a fish. It will be his tenth and last avatar, at the end of the Kali-Yug. 2. Kurm-Avatar – as a tortoise. 3. Varaha – as a boar. 4. Nara-Sing – as a [...]

“When the cycle of creation is run down, the energy of the manifested word is weakening. He alone, the Unconceivable, is unchangeable, (ever latent), but the Creative Force, though also eternal, as it has been in the former from “no beginning”, yet must be subject to periodical cycles of activity and rest; as it had [...]

“In the first book of Manu, we read: “Know that the sum of 1,000 divine ages, composes the totality of one day of Brahma; and that one night is equal to that day.” One thousand divine ages is equal to 4,320,000,000 human years, in the Brahmanical calculations. “At the expiration of each night, Brahma, who [...]

THE CHALDEAN DOCTRINE – The Space Around The Upper Triangle: “When the active period had arrived, En-Soph sent forth from within his own eternal essence, Sephira, the active Power, called the Primordial Point, and the Crown, Keter. It is only through her that the “Unbounded Wisdom” could give a concrete form to his abstract Thought. [...]

THE HINDU DOCTRINE – The Space Around The Upper Triangle: “When the “Night of Brahma” was ended, and the time came for the Self-Existent to manifest Itself by revelation, it made its glory visible by sending forth from its Essence an active Power, which, female at first, subsequently becomes androgyne. It is Aditi, the “Infinite”, [...]

“In Chapter VIII, we will attempt to show the esoteric meaning of genesis, and its complete agreement with the ideas of other nations. The six days of creation will be found to have meaning little suspected by the multitude of commentators, who have exercised their abilities to the full extent in attempting to reconcile them [...]