“A man can have no god that is not bounded by his own human conceptions. The wider the sweep of his spiritual vision, the mightier will be his deity. But where can we find a better demonstration of Him than in man himself; in the spiritual and divine powers lying dormant in every human being? [...]
Tag: Isis Unveiled
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“” Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God”, (John 3:3). Jesus tells Nicodemus, “That which is born of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is born of the spirit, is spirit.” This illusion, so unintelligible in itself, is explained in the Satapa-Brahmana. [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“Faith alone, unaccompanied by “works”, is reduced to naught in the Bhagavad-Gita. As to the Atharva-Veda, it was and is preserved in such secrecy by the Brahmans, that it is a matter of doubt whether the Orientalists have a complete copy of it. One who has read what Abbe Dubois says may well doubt the [...]
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)
“As to the Jewish Scriptures, only such men as the Jesuit de Carriere, a convenient representative of the majority of the Catholic clergy, can still command their followers to accept only the chronology established by the Holy Ghost. It is on the authority of the latter that we learn that Jacob went, with a family [...]
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)
"If we turn now to Christna and attentively compare the prophecies respecting him, as collected in the Ramatsariarian traditions of the Atharva, the Vedangas, and the Vedantas, with passages in the Bible and apocryphal Gospels, of which it is pretended that some presage the coming Christ, we shall find very curious facts. Following are examples: [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“The “soul” under trial is brought before Osiris, the “Lord of Truth”, who sits decorated with the Egyptian cross, emblem of eternal life, and holding in his right hand the Vannus or the flagellum of justice. The spirit begins, in the “Hall of the Two Truths”, an earnest appeal, and enumerates its good deeds, supported [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“O Divine Justice, how blasphemed has been thy name! Unfortunately for all such speculations, belief in the propitiatory efficacy of blood can be traced to the oldest rites. Hardly a nation remained ignorant of it. Every people offered animal and even human sacrifices to the gods, in the hope of averting thereby public calamity, by [...]
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 