“The recent experiments with the telephone in America, to which allusion was made in Chapter 5, of our first volume, but which have been greatly perfected since those pages went to press, prove that the human voice and the sounds of instrumental music may be conveyed along a telegraphic wire to a great distance. The [...]
Category: Isis Unveiled, Volume II: H. P. Blavatsky (1877)
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
"In the convent of Great Kouren, and in one situated upon the Holy Mountain (Bhoute Oula) there are said to be several such sepulchres, which have been respected by all the conquering hordes that have swept through those countries. Abbe Huc heard that such exist, but did not see one, strangers of all kinds being [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
"In Japan and Siam there are two orders of priests, of which one is public and deal with the people, the other strictly private. The latter are never seen; there existence is known but to very few natives, never to foreigners. There powers are never displayed in public, nor ever at all except on rare [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
“The rest of the story we will quote from a copy of notes written on this subject by Mr. K – –, the same evening, and given to us, in case it should not reach its place of destination, or the writer fails to see anything more. “After a minute or two of hesitation”, writes [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
“About four days' journey from Islamabad, at an insignificant mud village, whose only redeeming feature was its magnificent lake, we stopped for a few days’ rest. Our companions had temporarily separated from us, and the village was to be our place of meeting. It was there that we were apprised by our Shaman that a [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
“A singular account of the personal interview of an English ambassador in 1783, with a reincarnated Buddha - barely mentioned in volume 1, an infant of eighteen months old at that time, is given in the Asiatic Journal from the narrative of an eyewitness himself, Mr. Turner, the author of the Embassy to Tibet. The [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
“As Baboo Peary Chand Mittra says, in a letter to the President of the National Association of Spiritualists, Mr. Alexander Calder, “a spirit is an essence or power, and has no form. …The very idea of form implies ‘materialism’. The spirits [astral souls, we should say] ... can assume forms for time, but form is [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
“The same principle involved in the unconscious extrusion of a phantom limb by the cataleptic medium, applies to the projection of his entire “double” or astral body. This may be withdrawn by the will of the medium’s own inner self, without his retaining in his physical brain any recollection of such an intent - that [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
“The greatest philosophers of antiquity found it neither unreasonable nor strange that “souls should come to souls, and impart to them conceptions of future things, occasionally by letters, or by a mere touch, or by a glance reveal to them past events or announce future ones”, as Ammonius tells us. Moreover, Lamprias and others held [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
"Some of these nobler Vedantic precepts on the soul and man’s mystic powers, have recently been contributed to an English periodical by a Hindu scholar. “The Sankhya”, he writes, “inculcates that the soul (i.e., astral body) has the following powers: shrinking into a minute bulk to which everything is pervious; enlarging to a gigantic body; [...]
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 