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isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iii (religious sects)

"Had posterity been enabled to have several such representations executed during the first century when the figure, dress, and everyday habits of the Reformer were still fresh in the memory of his contemporaries, perhaps the Christian world would be more Christ-like; the dozens of contradictory, groundless, and utterly meaningless speculations about the "Son of Man" [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iii (religious sects)

"The accusations against Jesus of practicing the magic of Egypt were numerous, and at one time universal, in the towns where he was known. The Pharisees, as claimed in the Bible, had been the first to fling it in his face, although Rabbi Wise considers Jesus himself a Pharisee. The Talmud certainly points to James [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iii (religious sects)

"In common with Pythagoras and other hierophant reformers, Jesus divided his teachings into exoteric and esoteric. Following faithfully the Pythagoreo-Essenean ways, he never sat at a meal without saying "grace". The priest prays before his meal", says Josephus, describing the Essenes. Jesus also divided his followers into "neophytes", "brethren", and the "perfect", if we may [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iii (religious sects)

"Professor A. Wilder, the editor of Taylor’s Eleusinian Mysteries, observes "a like disposition on the part of Jesus and Paul to classify their doctrines as esoteric and exoteric, the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God 'for the apostles', and 'parables' for the multitude. 'We speak wisdom', says Paul, 'among them that are perfect’, (or initiated)." [...]