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

"At all events, there are facts which prove that certain astronomical calculations were as correct with the Chaldeans in the days of Julius Caesar as they are now.   When the calendar was reformed by the Conqueror, the civil year was found to correspond so little with the seasons, that summer had merged into the [...]

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

"In one of the earliest Nivids, Rishi Kutsa, a Hindu sage of the remotest antiquity, explains the allegory of the first laws given to the celestial bodies. For doing " what she ought not to do", Anahit (Anaitis or Nana, the Persian Venus), representing the earth in the legend, is sentenced to turn round the [...]

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

"If the Pythagorean metempsychosis should be thoroughly explained and compared with the modern theory of evolution, it would be found to supply every "missing link" in the chain of the latter. But who of our scientists would consent to lose his precious time over the vagaries of the ancients.   Notwithstanding proofs to the contrary, [...]