isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)

“Job hearkens to the words of wisdom, and then the “Lord” answers Job “out of the whirlwind of nature”, God's first visible manifestation: “Stand still, O Job, stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God; for by them alone thou canst know God. 'Behold, God is great, and we know him not', Him who [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)

“The Book of Job is a complete representation of ancient initiation, and the trials which generally precede this grandest of all ceremonies. The neophyte perceives himself deprived of everything he valued and afflicted with foul disease. His wife appeals to him to adore God and die; there was no more hope for him. Three friends [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)

"But we ought, perhaps, to explain the ancient use of allegory and symbology. The truth in the former was left to be deduced; the symbol expressed some abstract quality of the Deity, which the laity could easily apprehend. Its higher sense terminated there; and it was employed by the multitude thenceforth as an image to [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)

“From the remotest antiquity the serpent was held by every people in the greatest veneration, as the embodiment of Divine Wisdom and the symbol of spirit, and we know from Sanchoniathon that it was Hermes or Thoth who was the first to regard the serpent as “the most spirit-like of all the reptiles”; and the [...]