“The rest of the story we will quote from a copy of notes written on this subject by Mr. K – –, the same evening, and given to us, in case it should not reach its place of destination, or the writer fails to see anything more. “After a minute or two of hesitation”, writes [...]
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isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
“About four days' journey from Islamabad, at an insignificant mud village, whose only redeeming feature was its magnificent lake, we stopped for a few days’ rest. Our companions had temporarily separated from us, and the village was to be our place of meeting. It was there that we were apprised by our Shaman that a [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
“A singular account of the personal interview of an English ambassador in 1783, with a reincarnated Buddha - barely mentioned in volume 1, an infant of eighteen months old at that time, is given in the Asiatic Journal from the narrative of an eyewitness himself, Mr. Turner, the author of the Embassy to Tibet. The [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
“As Baboo Peary Chand Mittra says, in a letter to the President of the National Association of Spiritualists, Mr. Alexander Calder, “a spirit is an essence or power, and has no form. …The very idea of form implies ‘materialism’. The spirits [astral souls, we should say] ... can assume forms for time, but form is [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
“The same principle involved in the unconscious extrusion of a phantom limb by the cataleptic medium, applies to the projection of his entire “double” or astral body. This may be withdrawn by the will of the medium’s own inner self, without his retaining in his physical brain any recollection of such an intent - that [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
"Some of these nobler Vedantic precepts on the soul and man’s mystic powers, have recently been contributed to an English periodical by a Hindu scholar. “The Sankhya”, he writes, “inculcates that the soul (i.e., astral body) has the following powers: shrinking into a minute bulk to which everything is pervious; enlarging to a gigantic body; [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
"Plotinus, as is well known, was a clairvoyant-seer during his whole and daily life; and yet, he had been united to his God but six times during the sixty-six years of his existence, as he himself confessed to Porphyry.” “Ammonius Sakkas, the “God-taught”, asserts that the only power which is directly opposed to soothsaying and looking [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
“To sum up all in a few words, MAGIC is spiritual WISDOM; nature, the material ally, pupil and servant of the magician. One common vital principle pervades all things, and this is controllable by the perfected human will. The adept can stimulate the movements of the natural forces in plants and animals in a preternatural [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xii (gazing upon the unveiled truth)
“Let us recapitulate very briefly: 1st. There is no miracle. Everything that happens is the result of law, eternal, immutable, ever active. Apparent miracle is but the operation of forces antagonistic to what Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.R.S., a man of great learning but little knowledge, calls “the well-ascertained laws of nature.” Like many of [...]
isis unveiled, volume 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“Jacolliot must indeed have been stupefied by wonders, for he says: “We have seen things such as one does not describe for fear of making his readers doubt his intelligence... but still we have seen them. And truly one comprehends how, in presence of such facts, the ancient world believed... in possessions of the Devil [...]
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 