“” The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images”, remarks Robert Dale Owen. “Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry. We have arrived at an era in which literalism is destroying faith. ...The letter killeth.” There is not a dogma in the Church to which these words can be better applied [...]
Category: Isis Unveiled, Volume II: H. P. Blavatsky (1877)
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“Despite the notable similarity of the direct teachings of Gautama and Jesus, we yet find their respective followers starting from two diametrically opposite points. The Buddhist divine, following literally the ethical doctrine of his master, remains thus true to the legacy of Gautama, while the Christian minister distorting the precepts recorded by the four Gospels [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“As to the Jewish Scriptures, only such men as the Jesuit de Carriere, a convenient representative of the majority of the Catholic clergy, can still command their followers to accept only the chronology established by the Holy Ghost. It is on the authority of the latter that we learn that Jacob went, with a family [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“One is completely overwhelmed with astonishment upon reading Dr. Lundy's Monumental Christianity. It would be difficult to say whether an admiration for the author's erudition, or amazement at his serene and unparalleled sophistry is stronger. He has gathered a world of facts which prove that the religions, far more ancient than Christianity, of Christna, Buddha, [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
"If we turn now to Christna and attentively compare the prophecies respecting him, as collected in the Ramatsariarian traditions of the Atharva, the Vedangas, and the Vedantas, with passages in the Bible and apocryphal Gospels, of which it is pretended that some presage the coming Christ, we shall find very curious facts. Following are examples: [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“Turning again from the historical to the mythical narratives, invented alike about Christna, Buddha, and Christ, we find the following: Setting a model for the Christian avatar and the archangel Gabriel to follow, the luminous San-tusita (Bodhisat) appeared to Maha-maya 'like a cloud in the moonlight, coming from the north, and in his hand holding [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“Notwithstanding the impossibility for Christian missionaries to understand clearly the spirit of a religion wholly based on that doctrine of emanation, which is so inimical to their own theology, the reasoning powers of some simple Buddhistical preachers are so high, that we see a scholar like Gutzlaff, utterly silenced and put to great straits by [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“At the hour of Gautama-Buddha's birth, there were 32,000 wonders performed. The clouds stopped immovable in the sky, the waters of the rivers ceased to flow; the flowers ceased unbudding; the birds remained silent and full of wonder; all nature remained suspended in her course, and was full of expectation. “There was a preternatural light [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“The “soul” under trial is brought before Osiris, the “Lord of Truth”, who sits decorated with the Egyptian cross, emblem of eternal life, and holding in his right hand the Vannus or the flagellum of justice. The spirit begins, in the “Hall of the Two Truths”, an earnest appeal, and enumerates its good deeds, supported [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“O Divine Justice, how blasphemed has been thy name! Unfortunately for all such speculations, belief in the propitiatory efficacy of blood can be traced to the oldest rites. Hardly a nation remained ignorant of it. Every people offered animal and even human sacrifices to the gods, in the hope of averting thereby public calamity, by [...]
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 