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isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)

“A man can have no god that is not bounded by his own human conceptions. The wider the sweep of his spiritual vision, the mightier will be his deity. But where can we find a better demonstration of Him than in man himself; in the spiritual and divine powers lying dormant in every human being? [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)

“” Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God”, (John 3:3). Jesus tells Nicodemus, “That which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is born of the spirit, is spirit.” This illusion, so unintelligible in itself, is explained in the Satapa-Brahmana. [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)

“Faith alone, unaccompanied by “works”, is reduced to naught in the Bhagavad-Gita. As to the Atharva-Veda, it was and is preserved in such secrecy by the Brahmans, that it is a matter of doubt whether the Orientalists have a complete copy of it. One who has read what Abbe Dubois says may well doubt the [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)

“Neither Renan nor Strauss, nor the modern Viscount Amberley, seem to have had the remotest suspicion of the real meaning of many of the parables of Jesus, or even of the character of the great Galilean philosopher. Renan, as we have seen, presented him to us as a Gallicized Rabbi, “le plus charmant de tous”, [...]