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isis unveiled: chapter xiv (ancient mysteries)

"The doctrines of several Greek philosophers, who had been instructed in Egypt, demonstrates their profound learning. Orpheus, who, according to Artapanus, was a disciple of Moyses (Moses), Pythagoras, Herodotus, and Plato owe their philosophy to the same temples in which the wise Solon was instructed by the priests. "Antiklides relates", says Pliny, "that the letters [...]

isis unveiled: chapter xiv (ancient mysteries)

"The proof that they were proficient in mathematical sciences, lies in the fact that those ancient mathematicians whom we honor as the fathers of geometry went to Egypt to be instructed. Says Professor Smyth, as quoted by Mr. Peebles, "the geometrical knowledge of the pyramid-builders began where Euclid's ended." Before Greece came into existence, the [...]

Grateful Day, Everyone…

"Had you not responded three years ago to this Mighty Application, these last two years the Messengers would not have been here - or any of your cities in America. They beat down by their Mighty Application alone, the first year, every obstruction of human qualities which arose before them! Had the student body not [...]

Grateful Day, Everyone…

"When you say to all human creation: "You have no power!", think what that means in the great body of students! With the Power of Light and Energy, which goes forth, saying to all human creation, all limiting and destructive qualities": "You have no power!" - then, you stop their action, as definitely from further [...]

isis unveiled: chapter xiv (ancient mysteries)

"Muratori, the modern Italian inventor who, some ten years ago, introduced his "impenetrable cuirasse", has but followed in his invention what he could make out of the ancient method which suggested to him the idea. The process of rendering such objects as card-board, felt, and other tissues, impenetrable to the cuts and thrusts of any [...]