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

"If we now stop to consider another of the fundamental dogmas of Christianity, the doctrine of atonement, we may trace it as easily back to heathendom. This cornerstone of a Church which had believed herself built on a firm rock for long centuries, is now excavated by science and proved to come from the Gnostics. [...]

"Truly the fate of many a future generation hung on a gossamer thread, in the days of the third and fourth centuries. Had not the Emperor sent in 389 to Alexandria a rescript - which was forced from him by the Christians - for the destruction of every idol, our own century would never have [...]

“This very trinitarian idea, as well as the so bitterly denounced doctrine of emanations, whence their remotest origin? The answer is easy, and every poof is now at hand. In the sublime and profoundest of all philosophies, that of the universal “Wisdom-Religion”, the first traces of which, historical research now finds in the old pre-Vedic [...]

"Who, of those who ever studied the ancient philosophies, who understand intuitionally the grandeur of their conceptions, the boundless sublimity of their views of the Unknown Deity, can hesitate for a moment to give the preference to their doctrines over the incomprehensible dogmatic and contradictory theology, of the hundreds of Christian sects? Who that ever [...]

""Everyone knows", wrote the great Manichean of the third century, Fauste, "that the Evangeliums were written neither by Jesus Christ, nor his apostles, but long after their time by some unknown persons, who, judging well that they would hardly be believed when telling of things, they had not seen themselves, headed their narratives with the [...]

"How then avoid perceiving at once, that had not the Christians purposely disfigured in their interpretation and translation the Mosaic Genesis to fit their own views, their religion, with its present dogmas, would have been impossible? The word Rasit, once taught in its new sense of the Principle and not the Beginning, and the anathematized [...]

"Origen, Clemens Alexandrinus, Chalcidius, Methodius, and Maimonides, on the authority of the Targum of Jerusalem, the orthodox and greatest authority of the Jews, held that the first two words in the book of Genesis - B-Rasit, mean Wisdom, or the Principle. And that the idea of these words meaning "in the beginning", was never shared [...]

"So far then the heathen philosophy had helped them in the building of the principal dogma. But when the theurgist of the third Neo-platonic school, deprived of their ancient Mysteries, strove to blend the doctrines of Plato with those of Aristotle, and by combining the two philosophies added to their theosophy the primeval doctrines of [...]

"Who the enemies of the "Lord" were, according to the Christians, is not difficult to surmise; the few inside the Augustinian fold were His new children and favorites, who had supplanted in His affections the sons of Israel, His "chosen people". The rest of mankind were His natural foes. The teeming multitudes of heathendom were [...]

""Finally, to crown this able system", says Jacolliot, "there existed a word still more superior to the mysterious monosyllable - A U M, and which rendered him who came into the possession of its key, nearly the equal of Brahma himself. The Brahm-atma alone possesses this key and transmitted it in a sealed casket to [...]