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isis unveiled: chapter xiv (ancient mysteries)

"From time immemorial, the Brahmans have had in their possession secrets quite as valuable. The widow, bent on the self-sacrifice of concremation, called Sahamaranya, has no dread of suffering the least pain, for the fiercest flames will consume her, without one pang of agony being experienced by her. The holy plants which crown her brow, [...]

Grateful Day, Everyone…

"In the Service which has been rendered in Previous Classes in preparation for This, a few have determined not to give obedience! They have made it impossible for Us to give them the Blessing, but that cannot be helped. It is the choice of the individual. But you, today, who are understanding sufficiently, to know [...]

isis unveiled: chapter xiv (ancient mysteries)

"Who but well remembers the excitement produced some twenty-five years ago by the discovery of anesthesia? The nitrous oxide gas, sulphuric and chloric ether, chloroform, "laughing gas", besides various other combinations of these, were welcomed as so many heavenly blessings to the suffering portion of humanity. Poor Dr. Horace Wells, of Hartford, in 1844, was [...]