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isis unveiled: chapter chapter VI (seeds of truth)

"Hermes, who is of my ordinances ever the bearer...then taking his staff, with which he the eyelids of mortals closes at will, and the sleeper, at will reawakens." - Odyssey, Book V "I saw the Samothracian rings leap, and steel-filings boil in a brass dish; so soon as underneath it there was placed the magnet-stone; [...]

isis unveiled: chapter v (one common origin)

"The meaning of the Urdar-fountain, that Thor is afraid to make boil, and the cause of his reluctance, will only be comprehended by our physicists when the reciprocal electro-magnetic relations of the innumerable members of the planetary system, now just suspected, shall be thoroughly determined. Glimpses of the truth are given in the recent scientific [...]

isis unveiled: chapter v (one common origin)

"Rendered into plain English, how can this myth be interrupted but as showing that the Norse legend-makers were thoroughly acquainted with electricity? Thor, the euhmerization of electricity, handles his peculiar element only when protected by gloves of iron, which it its natural conductor. His belt of strength is a closed circuit, around which the isolated [...]