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)

“One is completely overwhelmed with astonishment upon reading Dr. Lundy's Monumental Christianity. It would be difficult to say whether an admiration for the author's erudition, or amazement at his serene and unparalleled sophistry is stronger. He has gathered a world of facts which prove that the religions, far more ancient than Christianity, of Christna, Buddha, [...]

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

“The present volumes have been written to small purpose if they have not shown, 1, that Jesus, the Christ-God, is a myth concocted two centuries after the real Hebrew Jesus died; 2, that, therefore, he never had any authority to give Peter, or anyone else, plenary power; 3, that even if he had given such [...]