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

“And now that we have shown this identity between Michael and Satan, and the Saviours and Dragons of other people, what can be more clear than that all these philosophical fables originated in India, that universal hot bed of metaphysical mysticism? “The world”, says Ramatsariar, in his comments upon the Vedas, “commenced with a contest [...]

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

“St. John is known to have traveled in Asia, a country governed by Magi and imbued with Zoroastrian ideas, and in those days full of Buddhist missionaries. Had he never visited those places and come in contact with Buddhists, it is doubtful whether the Revelation would have been written. Besides his ideas of the dragon, [...]

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

“It will be perceived from these extended illustrations that the Satan of the Old Testament, the Diabolos or Devil of the Gospels and Apostolic Epistles, were but the antagonistic principle in matter, necessarily incident to it, and not wicked in the moral sense of the term. The Jews, coming from the Persian country, brought with [...]