the goal of life or science and revelation: chapter xxiii (exit from the old to the new)

PART III: β€œThe prophet said, β€œLord, thou wilt ordain peace for us, for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.” While this in itself is true, yet there is another side to it, the purpose being, as noted, to make man in β€œThe Image and the Likeness” of God and to give him [...]

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

β€œIn the days of antiquity, the sorceresses of Thessaly added sometimes to the blood of a black lamb, that of an infant, and by this means evoked the shadows. The priests were taught the art of calling up the spirits of the dead, as well as those of the elements, but their mode was certainly [...]

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

β€œβ€ 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, β€œThat 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. [...]