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Isis Unveiled: chapter I (an axiom of hermetic philosophy)

"Dupuis, also, after devoting many years of study to the problem, mistook the symbolic circle, and attributed their religion solely to astronomy. Eberhart (Berliner Monatschrift) and many other German writers of the last and present centuries, dispose of magic most unceremoniously, and think it due to the Platonic mythos of the Timaeus.   But how, [...]

Isis Unveiled: chapter I (an axiom of hermetic philosophy)

"Despite their apparent Polytheism, the ancients - those of the educated class at all events - were entirely monotheistical; and this, too, ages upon ages before the days of Moses.   In the Ebers Papyrus this fact is shown conclusively in the following words, translated from the first four lines of Plate I:    "I came [...]

Isis Unveiled: chapter I (an axiom of hermetic philosophy)

"Bart goes deeper than Schweigger into the significations of the old myths, and studies the subject from both its spiritual and physical aspects. He treats at length of the Phrygian Dactyls, those "magicians and exorcists of sickness", and the Cabeirian Theurgists.   He says: "While we treat of the close union of the Dactyls and [...]

Isis Unveiled: chapter I (an axiom of hermetic philosophy)

"Schweigger proves that symbols of all the mythologies have a scientific foundation and substance. It is only through recent discoveries of the physical electro-magnetical powers of nature that such experts in Mesmerism as Ennemoser, Schweigger and Bart, in Germany, Baron Du Potet and Regazzoni, in France and Italy, were enabled to trace with almost faultless [...]