isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter xi (fishers of men and their doctrines)

“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? [...]

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)

“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)

“Despite the notable similarity of the direct teachings of Gautama and Jesus, we yet find their respective followers starting from two diametrically opposite points. The Buddhist divine, following literally the ethical doctrine of his master, remains thus true to the legacy of Gautama, while the Christian minister distorting the precepts recorded by the four Gospels [...]

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, [...]