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

“True to the exclamation of David, paraphrased in King James' Version as “all the gods of the nations are idols”, i.e., devils, Bacchus or the “first-born” or the Orphic theogony, the Monogenes, or “only-begotten” of Father Zeus and Kore, was transformed, with the rest of the ancient myths, into a devil. By such a degradation, [...]

Grateful Day, Everyone…

“Sometimes Individuals have thought in the Magazine, there were contradictions of that which is in the books. It is not so! Dear Ones, the books give the Fundamental Law of Life! In the Magazine, different angles of that Law are touched upon; and if there seems to be a contradiction, remember, it is only referring [...]

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

"The duality, if not the plurality of the gods of Israel may be inferred from the very fact of such bitter denunciations. Their prophets never approved of sacrificial worship. Samuel denied that the Lord had any delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, (1 Samuel, xv., 22). Jeremiah asserted, unequivocally, that the Lord, Yava Sabaoth Elohe [...]

Grateful Day, Everyone…

“You have heard Us say mankind in the past has used only one of the Trinity of Action; sometimes Power, sometimes Divine Love, sometimes Wisdom; but just one in itself is not sufficient in the world today. Divine Love is not sufficient, because It lacks the Discrimination, which is within Wisdom; and on the other [...]

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

“The Fathers of the early centuries committed an inextricable mistake in destroying fragile images and mortal Pagans, in preference to the monuments of Egyptian antiquity. These have become the more precious to archaeology and modern science since it is found they prove that King Menes and his architects flourished between four and five thousand years [...]

Grateful Day, Everyone…

“I say to you as students, you have been affected here quite the same as other places in the United States; by vicious false gossip concerning the Reality of this Work and concerning the Messengers; but if you listen to it, you are the ones who are deprived. Because some vicious Individuals spreads false gossip, [...]

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

“Chapter xiii., begins with the narrative given by the two resuscitated ghosts of Charinus and Lenthius, the sons of that Simeon who, in the Gospel according to Luke 2:25-32, takes the infant Jesus in his arms and blesses God, saying: “Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace... for mine eyes have seen thy [...]