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isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter ix (misinterpreted myths)

“Fairy tales do not exclusively belong to nurseries; all mankind – except those few who in all ages have comprehended their hidden meaning and tried to open the eyes of the superstitious – have listened to such tales in one shape or the other and, after transforming them into sacred symbols, called the product RELIGION! [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter ix (misinterpreted myths)

“All things are governed in the bosom of this triad.” (LYDUS: De Mensibus, 20) “Thrice let the heaven be turned on its perpetual axis.” (OVID: Fasti, iv.) “And Balaam said unto Balak, build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven oxen and seven rams.” (Numbers xxiii., 1 and 2) “In seven days, all [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter viii (masonic orders)

“Of forty-seven tombs of the kings, near Gornore, recorded by the Egyptian priests on their sacred registers, only seventeen were known to the public, according to Diodorus Siculus, who visited the place about sixty years B.C. Notwithstanding this historical evidence, we assert that the whole number exist to this day, and the royal tomb discovered [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter viii (masonic orders)

“The greatest mistake of the age was to attempt a comparison of the relative merits of all the ancient religions, and scoff at the doctrines of the Kabala and other superstitions. But truth is stranger than fiction; and this world-old adage finds its application in the case in hand. The “wisdom” of the archaic ages [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter viii (masonic orders)

“As with the Gentile nations, the symbols of the Israelites were ever bearing, directly or indirectly, upon sun-worship. The exoteric Jehovah of the Bible is a dual god, like all the other gods; and the fact that David – who is entirely ignorant of Moses – praises his “Lord”, and assures him that the “Lord [...]