“Let it not be imagined that we bring this reproach to any who revere Jesus as God. Whatever the faith, if the worshipper be but sincere, it should be respected in his presence. If we do not accept Jesus as God, we revere him as a man. Such a feeling honors him more than if [...]
Tag: Isis Unveiled
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)
“Not to commit any sin, to do good, and to purify one's mind, that is the teaching of the Awakened... “Better than Sovereignty over the earth, better than going to heaven, better than lordship over all the worlds is the reward of the first step in holiness.” (Dhammapada, verses 178-183) “Creator, where are these tribunals, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
"The Israelites have been proved to have worshipped Baal, the Syrian Bacchus, offered incense to the Sabazian or Aesculapian serpent, and performed the Dionysian Mysteries. And how could it be otherwise if Typhon was called Typhon Set, and Seth, the son of Adam, is identical with Satan or Sat-an; and Seth was worshipped by the [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“To show furthermore that the “ghosts” had been all the time under the strictest “test conditions”, as the modern spiritualists would express it, the author of the Gospel adds: “But what they had wrote was found perfectly to agree, the one not containing one letter more or less than the other.” This news spread in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“In the Codex of the Nazarenes it is Tobo who is “the liberator of the soul of Adam”, to bear it from Orcus (Hades) to the place of LIFE. Tobo is Tob-Adonijah, one of the twelve disciples (Levites) sent by Jehosaphat to preach to the cities of Judah the Book of the Law (2 Chronicles [...]
isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter x (the devil)
“At the beginning of chapter xvi., Satan and the “Prince of Hell” are described as peacefully conversing together. All of a sudden, both are startled by “a voice as of thunder” and the rushing of winds, which bids them to lift up their gates for “the King of Glory shall come in.” Whereupon the Prince [...]
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 