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

"Mr. Gladstone went to the trouble of making a catalogue of what he terms the "flowers of speech", disseminated through these Papal discourses. Let us cull a few of the chosen terms used by this vicegerent of Him, who said that "whosoever shall say Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell-fire." They are selected from [...]

"More than ever arrogant, stubborn, and despotic, now that she has been nearly upset by modern research, not daring to interfere with the powerful champions of science, the Latin Church revenges herself upon the unpopular phenomena. A despot without a victim, is a word void of sense; a power which neglects to assert itself through [...]

"We find it rather unwise on the part of Catholic writers to pour out their vials of wrath in such sentences as these: "In a multitude of pagodas, the phallic stone, ever and always assuming, like the Grecian batylos, the brutally indecent form of the lingham...the Maha Deva." Before casting slurs on a symbol whose [...]

"Among Christians there is nothing but dissension. Their various churches represent every degree of religious belief, from the omnivorous credulity of blind faith to a condescending and high-toned deference to the Deity which thinly masks an evident conviction of their own deific wisdom. All these sects believe more or less in the immortality of the [...]

"Since the day that modern science gave what may be considered the death-blow to dogmatic theology, by assuming the ground that religion was full of mystery, and mystery is unscientific, the mental state of the educated class has presented a curious aspect. Society seems from that time to have been ever balancing itself upon one [...]

"And now, with Pilate, let us inquire, what is truth? Where is it to be searched for amid this multitude of warring sects? Each claim to be based upon divine revelation, and each to have the keys of the celestial gates. Is either in possession of this rare truth? Or, must we exclaim with the [...]

"Yea, the time cometh, that whomsoever killeth you, will think that he doeth God service." (Gospel According to John, xvi., 2). "Let him be ANATHEMA...who shall say that human Sciences ought to be pursued in such a spirit of freedom that one may be allowed to hold as true their assertions, even when opposed to [...]