"Plotinus, as is well known, was a clairvoyant-seer during his whole and daily life; and yet, he had been united to his God but six times during the sixty-six years of his existence, as he himself confessed to Porphyry.” “Ammonius Sakkas, the “God-taught”, asserts that the only power which is directly opposed to soothsaying and looking [...]
Category: Isis Unveiled, Volume II: H. P. Blavatsky (1877)
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
“To sum up all in a few words, MAGIC is spiritual WISDOM; nature, the material ally, pupil and servant of the magician. One common vital principle pervades all things, and this is controllable by the perfected human will. The adept can stimulate the movements of the natural forces in plants and animals in a preternatural [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
“Let us recapitulate very briefly: 1st. There is no miracle. Everything that happens is the result of law, eternal, immutable, ever active. Apparent miracle is but the operation of forces antagonistic to what Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.R.S., a man of great learning but little knowledge, calls “the well-ascertained laws of nature.” Like many of [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
“My vast and noble capital. My Daitu, my splendidly adorned; and thou, my cool and delicious summer-seat, my Shangtu-Keibung.________________________ Alas, for my illustrious name as the Sovereign of the World! Alas, for my Daitu, seat of sanctity, glorious work of the immortal Kublai! All, all is rent from me!” (Colonel Yule, in Marco Polo) “As [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“Jacolliot must indeed have been stupefied by wonders, for he says: “We have seen things such as one does not describe for fear of making his readers doubt his intelligence... but still we have seen them. And truly one comprehends how, in presence of such facts, the ancient world believed... in possessions of the Devil [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“To judge alone by its jugglers, India must certainly be better acquainted with alchemy, chemistry, and physics than any European academy. The psychological wonders produced by some fakirs of Southern Hindustan, and by the shaberons and hobilhans of Tibet and Mongolia, alike prove our case. The science of psychology has there, reached an acme of [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“To those who believe that there is an intelligent Deity above who takes a certain concern in the welfare of our miserable little world, this contretemps must in itself seem a pretty good proof that Buddhism should have the best of Christianity. Perhaps, who knows, Pope Clement fell sick, so as to save the Buddhists [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“Having repeated the plagiarized story, Diego de Couto, who seems to yield up with reluctance his curious notion that Gautama was Joshua, says: “To this name (Budao) the Gentiles throughout all India have dedicated great and superb pagodas. With reference to this story, we have been diligent in inquiring if the ancient Gentiles of those [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“In the general spoliation of Buddhism to make up the new Christian religion, it was not to be expected that so peerless a character as Gautama-Buddha would be left unappropriated. It was but natural that after taking his legendary history to fill out the blanks left in the fictitious story of Jesus, after using what [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
"A Buddhist missionary, even in free-thinking America, would daily risk being mobbed, but this does not at all prevent missionaries from abusing the religion of the Brahmans, Lamas, and Bonzes, publicly to their teeth; and the latter are not always at liberty to answer them. This is termed diffusing the beneficent light of Christianity and [...]
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 