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

“Jacolliot must indeed have been stupefied by wonders, for he says: “We have seen things such as one does not describe for fear of making his readers doubt his intelligence... but still we have seen them. And truly one comprehends how, in presence of such facts, the ancient world believed... in possessions of the Devil [...]

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

“To those who believe that there is an intelligent Deity above who takes a certain concern in the welfare of our miserable little world, this contretemps must in itself seem a pretty good proof that Buddhism should have the best of Christianity. Perhaps, who knows, Pope Clement fell sick, so as to save the Buddhists [...]

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

“In the general spoliation of Buddhism to make up the new Christian religion, it was not to be expected that so peerless a character as Gautama-Buddha would be left unappropriated. It was but natural that after taking his legendary history to fill out the blanks left in the fictitious story of Jesus, after using what [...]

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

"A Buddhist missionary, even in free-thinking America, would daily risk being mobbed, but this does not at all prevent missionaries from abusing the religion of the Brahmans, Lamas, and Bonzes, publicly to their teeth; and the latter are not always at liberty to answer them. This is termed diffusing the beneficent light of Christianity and [...]

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

“” We would not be supposed to entertain the opinion”, says Dr. Wilder, “that modern Christianity is in any degree identical with the religion preached by Paul. It lacks his breadth of view, his earnestness, his keen spiritual perception. Bearing the impress of the nations by which it is professed, it exhibits as many forms [...]