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

"Fetahil, who is the reflection of his father, Lord Abatur, the third life - as the elder Sophia is also the third emanation - is the "newest-man". Perceiving his fruitless attempts to create a perfect material world, the "Spiritus" calls to one of her progeny, the Karabtanos - Ilda-Baoth - who is without sense or [...]

"In the Ophite system, Sophia, the Androgyne Wisdom, is also the female spirit, or the Hindi female Nari, (Narayana), moving on the face of the waters - chaos, or future matter. She vivifies it from afar, but not touching the abyss of darkness. She is unable to do so, for Wisdom is purely intellectual, and [...]

"Delivering a sermon on the "Month of Mary", we find the Reverend Dr. Preston, of New York City, expressing the Christian idea of the female principle of the trinity better and more clearly than we could, and substantially in the spirit of an ancient "heathen" philosopher. He says that the "plan of the redemption made [...]

"Though he is termed the "Primitive Man", Ennoia, who is like the Egyptian Pymander, the "Power of the Thought Divine", the first intelligible manifestation of the Divine Spirit in material form, he is like the "Only-Begotten" Son of the "Unknown Father", of all other nations. He is the emblem of the first appearance of the [...]

"The Gnostic Ophites taught the doctrine of Emanations, so hateful to the defenders of the unity in the trinity, and vice versa. The Unknown Deity with them had no name; but his first female emanation was called Bythos or Depth. It answered to the Shekinah of the kabalists, the "Veil" which conceals the "Wisdom" in [...]

"If, leaving for the present the prominent founders of Christian sects, we now turn to that of the Ophites, which assumed a definite form about the time of Marcion and the Basilideans, we may find in it the reason for the heresies of all others. Like all other Gnostics, they rejected the Mosaic Bible entirely. [...]

"Nothing better than those MYSTERIES, by which, from a rough and fierce life, we are polished to gentleness, (humanity, kindness), and softened." (CICERO: de Legibus, ii., 14) "Descend, O Soma, with that stream with which thou lightest up the sun. Soma, a Life Ocean spread through All, thou fillest creative the Sun with beams." (Rig-Veda, [...]

"Would Christians still maintain the identity of the "Father" of Jesus and Jehovah, if evidence sufficiently clear could be adduced that the "Lord God" was no other than the Pagan Bacchus, Dionysos? Well, this identity of the Jehovah at Mount Sanai with the god Bacchus is hardly disputable. The name יהךה is Yava or Iao, [...]

"The language of Jesus is unequivocal; it implies not only rebellion but defiance of the Mosaic "Lord God". "Ye have heard", he tells us, "That it hath been said, an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, that ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on [...]

"If we are to believe Hilgenford, one of the greatest German biblical critics, then "From the critical standing-point one must...consider the statements of the Father's of the Church only as expressions of their subjective view, which itself requires proof." We can do no better nor make a more correct statement of facts concerning Marcion than [...]