“In the Codex of the Nazarenes it is Tobo who is “the liberator of the soul of Adam”, to bear it from Orcus (Hades) to the place of LIFE. Tobo is Tob-Adonijah, one of the twelve disciples (Levites) sent by Jehosaphat to preach to the cities of Judah the Book of the Law (2 Chronicles [...]
Category: Isis Unveiled, Volume II: H. P. Blavatsky (1877)
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“At the beginning of chapter xvi., Satan and the “Prince of Hell” are described as peacefully conversing together. All of a sudden, both are startled by “a voice as of thunder” and the rushing of winds, which bids them to lift up their gates for “the King of Glory shall come in.” Whereupon the Prince [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“Hercules, called Alexicacos, for he brought round the wicked and converted them to virtue; Soter, or Saviour, also called Neulos Eumelos, the Good Shepherd; Astrochiton, the star-clothed, and the Lord of Fire. “He sought not to subject nations by force but by divine wisdom and persuasion”, says Lucian. “Herakles spread cultivation and a mild religion, [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“In the Old Testament, Jehovah exhibits all the attributes of old Saturn, notwithstanding his metamorphoses from Adoni into Eloi, and God of Gods, Lord of Lords. Jesus is tempted on the mountain by the Devil, who promises to him kingdoms and glory, if he will only fall down and worship him (Matthew4:8, 9). Buddha is [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“The great dissimilarity which exists between the various conceptions of the Devil is really often ludicrous. While bigots will invariably endow him with horns, tail, and every conceivable repulsive feature, even including an offensive human smell, Milton, Byron, Goethe, Lermontoff, and a host of French novelists have sung his praise in flowing verse and thrilling [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“And now that we have shown this identity between Michael and Satan, and the Saviours and Dragons of other people, what can be more clear than that all these philosophical fables originated in India, that universal hot bed of metaphysical mysticism? “The world”, says Ramatsariar, in his comments upon the Vedas, “commenced with a contest [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“St. George's Dragon, which figures so promiscuously in the grandest cathedrals of the Christians, is not a whit handsomer than the Kings of Snakes, the Buddhist Nammadanam-naraya, the great Dragon. If the planetary Demon Rawho, is believed, in the popular superstition of the Cingalese, to endeavor to destroy the moon by swallowing it; and if [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“St. John is known to have traveled in Asia, a country governed by Magi and imbued with Zoroastrian ideas, and in those days full of Buddhist missionaries. Had he never visited those places and come in contact with Buddhists, it is doubtful whether the Revelation would have been written. Besides his ideas of the dragon, [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“That of all the various nations of antiquity, there never was one which believed in a personal devil more than liberal Christians in the nineteenth century, seems hardly credible, and yet such is the sorrowful fact. Neither the Egyptians, whom Porphyry terms “the most learned nation of the world”, nor Greece, its faithful copyist, were [...]
isis unveiled. vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“The Sibylline Books at that period seem to have been regarded with extraordinary favor. One can easily perceive that they were inspired from the same source as those of the Gentile nations. Here is a leaf from Gallaeus: “New Light has arisen: Coming from Heaven, it assumed a mortal form. … Virgin, receive God in [...]
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 