“” We would not be supposed to entertain the opinion”, says Dr. Wilder, “that modern Christianity is in any degree identical with the religion preached by Paul. It lacks his breadth of view, his earnestness, his keen spiritual perception. Bearing the impress of the nations by which it is professed, it exhibits as many forms [...]
Category: Isis Unveiled, Volume II: H. P. Blavatsky (1877)
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“What Christianity is doing for British India, we need go to no inimical sources to inquire. Captain O'Grady, the British ex-official, says: “The British government is doing a shameful thing in turning the natives of India from a sober race to a nation of drunkards. And for pure greed. Drinking is forbidden by the religion [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“Like Wierus, the famous demonographer of the sixteenth century (who in his Pseudomonarchia Daemonum describes and enumerates a regular infernal court, which has its dignitaries, princes, dukes, nobles, and officers), the Yezidis have a whole pantheon of devils, and use the Jakshas, aerial spirits, to convey their prayers and respects to Satan their master, and [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“That there are fearful secrets in nature may well be believed when, as we have seen in the case of the Russian Znachar, the sorcerer cannot die until he has passed the word to another, and the hierophants of White Magic rarely do. It seems as if the dread power of the “Word” could only [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“The blood-evocation is also practiced, although with a different purpose, in several parts of Bulgaria and Moldavia, especially in districts in the vicinity of Mussulmans. The fearful oppression and slavery to which these unfortunate Christians have been subjected for centuries, has rendered them a thousandfold more impressible, and at the same time more superstitious, than [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“In the days of antiquity, the sorceresses of Thessaly added sometimes to the blood of a black lamb, that of an infant, and by this means evoked the shadows. The priests were taught the art of calling up the spirits of the dead, as well as those of the elements, but their mode was certainly [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“A man can have no god that is not bounded by his own human conceptions. The wider the sweep of his spiritual vision, the mightier will be his deity. But where can we find a better demonstration of Him than in man himself; in the spiritual and divine powers lying dormant in every human being? [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“” Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God”, (John 3:3). Jesus tells Nicodemus, “That which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is born of the spirit, is spirit.” This illusion, so unintelligible in itself, is explained in the Satapa-Brahmana. [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“Faith alone, unaccompanied by “works”, is reduced to naught in the Bhagavad-Gita. As to the Atharva-Veda, it was and is preserved in such secrecy by the Brahmans, that it is a matter of doubt whether the Orientalists have a complete copy of it. One who has read what Abbe Dubois says may well doubt the [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“Neither Renan nor Strauss, nor the modern Viscount Amberley, seem to have had the remotest suspicion of the real meaning of many of the parables of Jesus, or even of the character of the great Galilean philosopher. Renan, as we have seen, presented him to us as a Gallicized Rabbi, “le plus charmant de tous”, [...]
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 