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

"The doctrine of the Moksha and the Nirvana, as understood by the school of Max Muller, can never bear confronting with numerous texts that can be found, if required, as a final refutation. There are sculptures in many pagodas which contradict, point-blank, the imputation. Ask a Brahman to explain Moksha, address yourself to an educated [...]

"Subjective communication with the human, god-like spirits of those who have preceded us to the silent land of bliss, is in India divided into three categories. Under the spiritual training of a guru or sannyasi, the vatou, (disciple or neophyte), begins to feel them. Were he not under the immediate guidance of an adept, he [...]

"The doctrine of planetary and terrestrial Pitris was revealed entirely in ancient India, as well as now, only at the last moment of initiation, and to the adepts of superior degrees. Many are the fakirs, who, though pure, and honest, and self-devoted, have yet never seen the astral form of a purely human pitar, (an [...]

"To disbelieve that there exist in man certain arcane powers, which, by psychological study he can develop in himself to the highest degree, become a hierophant and then impart to others under the same conditions of earthly discipline, is to cast an imputation of falsehood and lunacy upon a number of the best, purest, and [...]

"If Demeter was considered the intellectual soul, or rather the Astral soul, half emanation from the spirit and half tainted with matter through a succession of spiritual evolutions - we may readily understand what is meant by the Matron Baubo, the Enchantress, who before she succeeds in reconciling the soul - Demeter, to its new [...]

"If during the Aporreta or preliminary arcanes, there were some practices which might have shocked the pudicity of a Christian convert - though we doubt the sincerity of such statements - their mystical symbolism was all sufficient to relieve the performance of any charge of licentiousness. Even the episode of the Matron Baubo - whose [...]

"To think for one moment that any of the popes, cardinals, or other high dignitaries "were not aware" from the first to the last of the external meanings of their symbols, is to do injustice to their great learning and their spirit of Machiaveliism. It is to forget that the emissaries of Rome will never [...]

"Taylor devoted his whole useful life to the search after such old manuscripts as would enable him to have his own speculations concerning several obscure rites in the Mysteries corroborated by writers who had been initiated themselves. It is with full confidence in the assertions of various classical writers that we say that ridiculous, perhaps [...]

"Bearing in mind that the Christian fathers have always claimed for themselves and their saints the name of "friends of God", and knowing that they borrowed this expression, with many others, from the technology of the Pagan temples, it is but natural to expect them to show an evil temper whenever alluding to these rites. [...]

"A ghost or human phantom would be termed by a fakir, palit, or chutna, as that of a female human spirit pichhalpai, not pitris. True, pitara means, (plural), fathers, ancestors; and pitra-i is a kinsman; but these words are used in quite a different sense from that of the Pitris invoked in the mantras. To [...]