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

""They undertake by scales of miles to tell the bounds, dimensions, and extent of hell; where bloated souls in smoky durance hung like a Westphalia gammon or neat's tongue, to be redeemed with masses and a song." - OLDHAM, Satires upon the Jesuits. "York - But you are more inhuman, more inexorable - O, ten [...]

"There has never been a religion in the annals of the world with such a bloody record as Christianity. All the rest, including the traditional fierce fights of the "chosen people" with their next of kin, the idolatrous tribes of Israel, pale before the murderous fanaticism of the alleged followers of Christ! Even the rapid [...]

"The fierce polemics and single-handed battles between Irenaeus and the Gnostics are too well-known to need repetition. They were carried on for over two centuries after the unscrupulous Bishop of Lyons had uttered his last religious paradox. Celsus, the Neo-Platonist, and a disciple of the school of Ammonius Saccas, had thrown the Christians into perturbation, [...]

"In the Book of Hermes, "Pimander", is enunciated in distinct and unequivocal sentences, the whole trinitarian dogma accepted by the Christians. "The light is me", says Pimander, the DIVINE THOUGHT. "I am the nous or intelligence, and I am thy god, and I am far older than the human principle which escapes from the shadow. [...]

"Among the Church dogmas which have most seriously suffered of late at the hands of the Orientalists, the last in question stands conspicuous. The reputation of each of the three personages of the anthropomorphic godhead as an original revelation to the Christians through Divine will, has been badly compromised by inquiry into its predecessors and [...]

"Babylonia happened to be situated on the way of the great stream of the earliest Hindu emigration, and the Babylonians were one of the first peoples benefited thereby. These Khaldi were the worshippers of the Moon-god, Deus Lunus, from which fact we may infer that the Akkadians - if such must be their name - [...]

"Scarcely two even the most learned Sanscrit philologists are agreed as to the true interpretation of Vedic words. Let one put forth an essay, a lecture, a treatise, a translation, a dictionary, and straightway all the others fall to quarrelling with each other and with him as to his sins of omission and commission. Professor [...]

"Following the Christian dogmas seriatim, if we concentrate our attention upon one which provoked the fiercest battles until its recognition, that of the Trinity, what do we find? We meet it, as we have shown, northeast of the Indus; and tracing it to Asia Minor and Europe, recognize it among every people who had anything [...]

"Plutarch thinks the feast of the booths to be the Bacchic rites, not the Eleusinian. Thus, “Bacchus was directly called upon", he says. The Sabazian worship was Sabbatic; the names Evius, or Hevius, and Luaios are identical with Hivite and Levite. The French name Louis is the Hebrew Levi; Iacchus again is Iao or Jehovah; [...]

"Verily the "Christs" of the pre-Christian ages were many. But they died unknown to the world, and disappeared as silently and as mysteriously from the sight of man as Moses from the top of Pisgah, the mountain of Nebo, (oracular wisdom), after he had laid his hands upon Joshua, who thus became "full of the [...]