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. George's Dragon, which figures so promiscuously in the grandest cathedrals of the Christians, is not a whit handsomer than the Kings of Snakes, the Buddhist Nammadanam-naraya, the great Dragon. If the planetary Demon Rawho, is believed, in the popular superstition of the Cingalese, to endeavor to destroy the moon by swallowing it; and if [...]

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

“That of all the various nations of antiquity, there never was one which believed in a personal devil more than liberal Christians in the nineteenth century, seems hardly credible, and yet such is the sorrowful fact. Neither the Egyptians, whom Porphyry terms “the most learned nation of the world”, nor Greece, its faithful copyist, were [...]