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”, [...]

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

“” The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images”, remarks Robert Dale Owen. “Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry. We have arrived at an era in which literalism is destroying faith. ...The letter killeth.” There is not a dogma in the Church to which these words can be better applied [...]

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

“One is completely overwhelmed with astonishment upon reading Dr. Lundy's Monumental Christianity. It would be difficult to say whether an admiration for the author's erudition, or amazement at his serene and unparalleled sophistry is stronger. He has gathered a world of facts which prove that the religions, far more ancient than Christianity, of Christna, Buddha, [...]

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

"If we turn now to Christna and attentively compare the prophecies respecting him, as collected in the Ramatsariarian traditions of the Atharva, the Vedangas, and the Vedantas, with passages in the Bible and apocryphal Gospels, of which it is pretended that some presage the coming Christ, we shall find very curious facts. Following are examples: [...]

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

“At the hour of Gautama-Buddha's birth, there were 32,000 wonders performed. The clouds stopped immovable in the sky, the waters of the rivers ceased to flow; the flowers ceased unbudding; the birds remained silent and full of wonder; all nature remained suspended in her course, and was full of expectation. “There was a preternatural light [...]