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

"Few are the men who, like Dr. Priestly, have the courage to write, "We find nothing like divinity ascribed to Christ before Justin Martyr, (A.D. 141), who, from being a philosopher, became a Christian." Mahomet appeared nearly six hundred years after the presumed deicide. The Graeco-Roman world was still convulsed with religious dissensions, withstanding all [...]

"Having thus traced the similarity of views respecting the Logos, Metatron, and Mediator, as found in the Kabala and the Codex of the Christian Nazarenes and Gnostics, the reader is prepared to appreciate the audacity of the Patristic scheme to reduce a purely metaphysical figure into concrete form, and make it appear as if the [...]

“Do we take up the Avesta - we find there the dual system so prevalent in the Christian scheme. The struggle between Ahriman, Darkness, and Ormazd, Light, has been going on in the world continually since the beginning of time. When the worst arrives and Ahriman will seem to have conquered the world and corrupted [...]

“The identity of Saturn with Siva is corroborated still more when we consider the emblem of the latter, the damara, which is an hour-glass, to show the progress of time, represented by this god in his capacity of a destroyer. The bull Nardi, the vehan of Siva and the most sacred emblem of this god, [...]

“But to return to Meru. The whole is surrounded by the Maha Samut, or the great sea - the astral light and ether of the kabalists and scientists; and within the central circle appears "the likeness of a man." He is the Achadoth of the Nazarenes, the twofold unity, or the androgyne man; the heavenly [...]

"It is in the Buddhistic representations of Mount Meru, called by the Burmese Myé-nmo, and the Siamese Sineru, that we find one of the originals of the Adam Kadmon, Seir-Anpin, the "heavenly man", and of all the Aeons, Sephiroth, Powers, Dominions, Thrones, Virtues, and Dignities of the Kabala. Between two pillars, which are connected by [...]

"Already, we find Ezekiel addressed by the likeness of the glory of the Lord, "As Son of man". This peculiar title is used repeatedly throughout the whole book of this prophet, which is as kabalistic as the "roll of a book" which the "Glory" causes him to eat. It is written within and without; and [...]

"Laying aside the theological disputes of Christianity which try to blend together the Jewish Creator of the first chapter of Genesis with the "Father" of the New Testament, Jesus states repeatedly of his Father that "He is in secret." Surely, he would not have so termed the ever-present "Lord God" of the Mosaic Books, who [...]

"In the Revelation of Joannes Theologos it is said: "I turned and saw in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man...his head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire...and his feet like unto fine brass, as [...]

"The Supreme Lord of splendor and of light, luminous and refulgent, before which no other existed, is called Corona, (the crown); Lord Ferho, the unrevealed life which existed in the former from eternity; and Jordan - the spirit, the living water of grace. He is the one through whom alone we can be saved; and [...]