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

“Like Wierus, the famous demonographer of the sixteenth century (who in his Pseudomonarchia Daemonum describes and enumerates a regular infernal court, which has its dignitaries, princes, dukes, nobles, and officers), the Yezidis have a whole pantheon of devils, and use the Jakshas, aerial spirits, to convey their prayers and respects to Satan their master, and [...]

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

“The blood-evocation is also practiced, although with a different purpose, in several parts of Bulgaria and Moldavia, especially in districts in the vicinity of Mussulmans. The fearful oppression and slavery to which these unfortunate Christians have been subjected for centuries, has rendered them a thousandfold more impressible, and at the same time more superstitious, than [...]

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)

“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)

“Despite the notable similarity of the direct teachings of Gautama and Jesus, we yet find their respective followers starting from two diametrically opposite points. The Buddhist divine, following literally the ethical doctrine of his master, remains thus true to the legacy of Gautama, while the Christian minister distorting the precepts recorded by the four Gospels [...]