isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)

“Numerous are the Buddhists and Lamaic saints who have been renowned for the unsurpassed sanctity of their lives and their “miracles”. So Tissu, the Emperor's spiritual teacher, who consecrated Kublan-Khan, the Nadir Shah, was known far and wide as much for the extreme holiness of his life as for the many wonders he wrought. But [...]

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

“Having repeated the plagiarized story, Diego de Couto, who seems to yield up with reluctance his curious notion that Gautama was Joshua, says: “To this name (Budao) the Gentiles throughout all India have dedicated great and superb pagodas. With reference to this story, we have been diligent in inquiring if the ancient Gentiles of those [...]

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

“As to the Jewish Scriptures, only such men as the Jesuit de Carriere, a convenient representative of the majority of the Catholic clergy, can still command their followers to accept only the chronology established by the Holy Ghost. It is on the authority of the latter that we learn that Jacob went, with a family [...]