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

"We will consider farther in what light was regarded the Divine revelation of the Jewish Bible by the Gnostics, who yet believed in Christ in their own way, a far better and less blasphemous one than the Roman Catholic. The Fathers have forced on the believers in Christ a Bible, the laws prescribed in which [...]

"There is a tradition in the Greek Church which has never found favor at the Vatican. The former traces its origin to one of the Gnostic leaders - Basilides, perhaps, who lived under Trajan and Adrian, at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century. With regard to this particular tradition, [...]

"We must once more turn to that greatest of all the Patristic frauds; the one which has undeniably helped the Roman Catholic Church to its unmerited supremacy, viz., the barefaced assertion, in the teeth of historical evidence, that Peter suffered martyrdom at Rome. It is but too natural that the Latin clergy should cling to [...]

"We can assert, with entire plausibility, that there is not one of all these sects - Kabalism, Judaism, and our present Christianity included - but sprung from the two main branches of that one mother-trunk, the once universal religion, which antedated the Vedaic ages - we speak of that prehistoric Buddhism, which merged later into [...]

"KING - Let us from point to point this story know." All's Well That Ends Well - Act 5, Scene 3. "He is the One, self-proceeding; and from Him all things proceed. And in them He Himself exerts His activity; no mortal BEHOLDS HIM, but He beholds all!" (Orphic Hymn). "And Athens, O Athena, is [...]

“True philosophy and divine truth are convertible terms. A religion which dreads the light cannot be a religion based on either truth or philosophy - hence, it must be false. The ancient Mysteries were mysteries to the profane only, whom the hierophant never sought nor would accept as proselytes; to the initiates the Mysteries became [...]

"We eagerly applaud such commentators as Godfrey Higgins, Inman, Payne Knight, King, Dunlap, and Dr. Newton, however much they disagree with our own mystical views, for their diligence is constantly being rewarded by fresh discoveries of the Pagan paternity of Christian symbols. But otherwise, all these learned works are useless. Their researches only cover half [...]

"The Talmud gives the story of the four Tanaim, who are made, in allegorical terms, to enter into the garden of delights, i.e., to be initiated into the occult and final science. "According to the teaching of our holy masters the names of the four who entered the garden of delight, are - Ben Asai, [...]

"A medium of olden times, like the modern "medium" was subject to be entranced at the will and pleasure of the "power" which controlled him; therefore, he could not well have been entrusted with the awful secrets of the final initiation, "never to be revealed under the penalty of death." The old sage, in unguarded [...]

"The hierophants and some Brahmans are accused of having administered to their epoptai, strong drinks or anaesthetics to produce visions which shall be taken by the latter as realities. They did and do use sacred beverages which, like the Soma-drink, possess the faculty of freeing the astral form from the bonds of matter; but in [...]