Isis unveiled, Volume 1 (of 2), Science

The work now submitted to public judgment is the fruit of a somewhat intimate acquaintance with Eastern adepts and study of their science. It is offered to such as are willing t...

“We commenced research where modern conjecture closes its faithless wings. And with us, these were the common elements of science which the sages of to-day disdain as wild chime...

“But why should the operations of nature be changed? There may be a deeper philosophy than we dream of—a philosophy that discovers the secrets of nature, _but does not alter, by...

“Qui, donc, t’a donné la mission d’annoncer au peuple que la Divinité n’existe pas—quel avantage trouves tu à persuader à l’homme qu’une force aveugle préside à ses destinées et...

“I choose the nobler part of Emerson, when, after various disenchantments, he exclaimed, ‘I covet Truth.’ The gladness of true heroism visits the heart of him who is really comp...

The chaos of the ancients; the Zoroastrian sacred fire, or the _Antusbyrum_ of the Parsees; the Hermes-fire; the Elmes-fire of the ancient Germans; the lightning of Cybelè; the...

“I saw the Samothracian rings Leap, and steel-filings boil in a brass dish So soon as underneath it there was placed The magnet-stone; and with wild terror seemed The iron to fl...

“Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on...

“Think not my magic wonders wrought by aid Of Stygian angels summoned up from Hell; Scorned and accursed by those who have essay’d Her gloomy Divs and Afrites to compel. But by...

“Belief in the supernatural is a fact natural, primitive, universal, and constant in the life and history of the human race. Unbelief in the supernatural begets materialism; mat...

“The more powerful souls perceive truth through themselves, and are of a more inventive nature. Such souls are saved through their own strength, according to the oracle.”—PROCLU...

“La verité que je defends est empreinte sur tous les monuments du passé. Pour comprendre l’histoire, il faut etudier les symboles anciens, les signes sacrés du sacerdoce, et l’a...

says that the most powerful microscope is unable to show us the slightest difference between the ovarian cell of a mammifer and a man; and, respecting the first or last movement...

“You never hear the really philosophical defenders of the doctrine of uniformity speaking of _impossibilities_ in nature. They never say what they are constantly charged with sa...

“All that we profess to do is this: to find out the secrets of the human frame, to know why the parts ossify and the blood stagnates, and to apply continual preventatives to the...

“Can the theologian derive no light from the pure, primeval faith that glimmers from Egyptian hieroglyphics, to illustrate the immortality of the soul? Will not the historian de...

“We have now, so far forth as it is requisite for our design, considered the _Nature and Functions of the Soule_; and have plainly demonstrated that she is a substance distinct...

Abraham, his history, ii. 217; belongs to the universal mythology, ii. 216; _Zeruan_, _ib._; Isaac, and Judah, from Brahma, Ikshwaka and Yada, ii. 488; and his sons, the story a...

conducted from Hell, ii. 517; same as Tamuz, Adonis, and Helios, _ib._; sends Seth on an errand to paradise, ii. 520; Kadmon, ii. 36; Kadmon, i. 93; Kadmon, the first race of me...

Æther, i. 56; in that form the Deity pervading all, i. 129; the primordial chaos, i. 134; the spirit of cosmic matter, i. 156; deified, i. 158; source whence all things come and...

Akkadians, introduced the worship of Bel or Baal, i. 263; progenitors and Aryan instructors of the Chaldeans, i. 576; never a Turanian tribe, _ib._; a tribe of Hindus, _ib._; fr...

borrowed doctrines from Pythagoras, i. 319, 320; believed in a past eternity of human existence, i. 428; doctrine of two-fold soul, i. 429; taught the Buddhistic doctrine, i. 43...

Astral atmosphere, i. 314; body or doppelganger, i. 360; of the ape, i. 327; fire, represented by the serpent, i. 137; fluid can be compressed about the body, to protect it from...

Bible, antedated by Vedas, i. 91; its allegories repeated in Talapoin and Ceylonese traditions and manuscripts, i. 577; used as a weapon against the people who furnished it, ii....

eagerness of spirits for it, i. 344; its circulation understood by the Egyptians, i. 544; liquefied at Naples and Nargercoil, in India, i. 613; its emanations serve spirits with...

Body, the sepulchre of the soul, ii. 112; how long it may be kept alive, ii. 563; of Moses, a symbol for Palestine, ii. 482; may be obsessed by spirits during the temporary abse...

Brahman-Yoggins, i. 307; story of descent from giants, i. 122; theories of the sun and moon, i. 264; their powers of prediction and clairvoyance, i. 446; possess secrets of anæs...

Celsus, his accusations of the Christians, ii. 51; not being refuted, his books burned, ii. 51, 52; a copy probably existing at a monastery on Mount Athos, ii. 52; his opinion o...

Comte, Auguste, i. 76; catechism of religion of positivism, i. 78; his feminine mystery, i. 81; his doctrines repudiated by Huxley, i. 82; his philosophy belonging to David Hume...

Des Mousseaux, his reply to Calmeil and Figuier in regard to Convulsionaries, i. 375, 376; on miracles, magic, etc., i. 614, 615; Chevalier, his crusade against the devil, ii. 1...

Druzes of Mount Lebanon, ii. 306; their 80,000 warriors, ii. 308; never became Christians, ii. 309; their doctrines, ii. 309, 310; believe in “two souls,” ii. 315; their tricks...

Enoch, sacred delta of, i. 20; Masonic legend, i. 571; builds a subterranean structure with nine chambers, _ib._; communicates secrets to Methuselah, _ib._; the type of the dual...

called an atheist, i. 307; his answer to King Prasenagit on miracles, i. 599, 600; a disciple of a Jaina guru, ii. 322; his legends wrought into the evangelists, ii. 491, 492; h...

Genesis, Book of, a reminiscence of the Babylonish captivity, i. 576; first three chapters transcribed from other cosmogonies, the fourth and fifth from the secret _Book of Numb...

Hermes, the counterpart of the serpent, ii. 508; his prediction to Prometheus, ii. 514, 515; Trismegistus, 20,000 books written before Menes, i. 406; his _Smaragdine Tablet_ or...

Hezekiah, the Redeemer and Messiah, ii. 440, 441; the rod or scion from the stem of Jesse, ii. 441; a prince from Bethlehem establishes a sacred college and a new religion, term...

Iamblichus, i. 33; raised ten cubits from the ground, i. 115; forbids endeavors to procure phenomena, i. 219; explanation of Pythagoras, i. 248, 284; on manifestations of demons...

Jesuits, a secret society, now control the Roman Church, ii. 352; their magic, ii. 353; their secret constitution, ii. 354; Mackenzie’s description, ii. 355; their profession of...

proclaims himself the Son of God and humanity, _ib._; represented by a great serpent, ii. 490; an Essene and Nazarene, ii. 131; used oil and drank wine, _ib._; of the church, th...

Jupiter and four moons discovered in Assyria, i. 261; his mythological adventures, astronomical phenomena, i. 267, 268; or Zeus originally the cosmic force, i. 262; also the dem...

Knights Kadosch, cipher, ii. 395; hieroglyph, ii. 396; Rose Croix, cipher, ii. 395; Templars, i. 30; Templars, the modern, have no secrets dangerous to the Church, ii. 381; Temp...

Kounboum, mystery of, i. 289; the Sacred Tree of Thibet, i. 302; the wonderful Tree of Thibet with letters and symbols on its leaves, i. 440; Sanscrit characters on the leaves a...

its basis, the occult or spiritual principle, i. 244; testimony of Du Potet, i. 279; theurgical, i. 281; a sacerdotal science, i. 262; exemplified in eastern countries of Asia,...

exhibitions of Tartary and Thibet, testimony of Col. Yule, i. 600; moon of Thibet, i. 441; evocation a part of the sacerdotal office, ii. 118; evocations must be pronounced in a...

More, Henry, i. 54, 74; his belief in Pythagorean doctrines, i. 204, 205; adversary of Eugenius Philalethes, i. 308; demonstration of witchcraft, i. 353; theory of birth-marks,...

divine visions beheld in them, ii. 118; of the Christians, ii. 119; Jesuit, not revealed to all priests, ii. 350; Mithraïc, twelve tortures, ii. 351; taught to the Babylonians,...

Pitris, the lunar ancestors of men, ii. 106, 117; their worship fast becoming the worship of the spiritual portion of mankind, ii. 639; the doctrine of their existence revealed...

copies Djeminy and Vyasa, i. 621; complains of unbelief, ii. 16; his faculty of production, _ib._; confessed that he derived his teachings from ancient and sacred doctrines, ii....

Positivists, i. 73; their religion without a God, i. 76; design to uproot Spiritualism, _ib._; preach Polygamy, i. 78; the climax of their system, i. 80; neglect no means to ove...

Pregnant woman, highly impressible and receptive, i. 394; odic emanation and its influence on fœtus, i. 395; under the influence of the ether or astral light, _ib._; might influ...

Prophets of Baal danced the circle-dance of the Amazons, ii. 45; dominated in Israel, and priests in Judah, ii. 439; of Israel never approved of sacrificial worship, ii. 525; le...

Psychic embryos, i. 311; force, i. 45-67; same as ectenic force, i. 113; same as the Akasa, _ib._; known to the ancient philosophers, i. 131; propositions of Sergeant Cox, i. 19...

Religion without a God, i. 76; of the future, _ib._; of the ancients the religion of the future, i. 613; private or national property, not to be shared with foreigners, i. 581;...

Religious customs of the Mexicans and Peruvians like those of the Phœnicians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, i. 551; instinct productive of immorality, i. 83; liberty considered as...

Satan, his existence first made a dogma by Christians, ii. 13; declared fundamental, ii. 14; Ilda-Baoth, so called, ii. 186; identical with Jehovah, ii. 451; the mainstay of sac...

Seven, a sacred Hindu number, ii. 407; among the Chaldeans, ii. 408; potentiality of the number, ii. 417; steps, the descent, i. 353; degrees, old English Templar Rite, ii. 377;...

Shaman, prophesying, ii. 624, 625; prediction of the Crimean war, ii. 625; extraordinary scene with the talismanic stone, ii. 626, 628; “dragged out of his skin,” ii. 628; pries...

hurls fallen angels into Onderah, ii. 11; his paradise, ii. 234; hurls the devils into the bottomless pit, ii. 238; Sabazios and Sabaoth the same divinity, ii. 487; the same as...

the builder of temples, ii. 439; revolts against him, _ib._; his temple never visited by the prophets, ii. 525; and his temple only allegorical, ii. 391; temple, the brazen colu...

Sorcery, i. 279; misapplied arcane knowledge, ii. 581; few facts better established, i. 366; with blood, ii. 567, 568; practised at the Vatican, ii. 620; approved by Augustine,...

its feminine, ii. 281; a part of it mortal, ii. 283; the doctrine of Pythagoras, ii. 283; Plato’s definition, ii. 285, 286; its paralysis during life, ii. 368; not knit to flesh...

Swedenborg personated by a Diakka, i. 219; on speech of spirits, i. 220; _Heavenly Arcana_, i. 306; a natural-born magician, but not an adept, _ib._; made Thomas Vaughan his mod...

Talapoins, of Siam, power over wild beasts, i. 213; have incombustible cloth, i. 231; have the _Kabala_, _Bible_, and other allegories in their manuscripts, i. 577; Jesuits disg...

Templars, the founding of the ancient order, ii. 381, 382; did not believe in Christ, ii. 382; succeeded by the Jesuits, ii. 383; the pseudo-order invented to obviate the imputa...

Temple of the Holy Molecule, i. 413; had possession of Eastern mysteries, ii. 380; of the perpetual fire, ii. 632; at Jerusalem, not so ancient as was pretended, ii. 389; of Sol...

Third emanation produces the universe of physical matter, and, finally, “Darkness and the Bad,” i. 302; race of men in Hesiod, i. 558; in Popul-Vuh, _ib._; race of men, the Neph...

Three degrees of the pleroma, i. 302; tricks exhibited, i. 73; degrees of communication with spirits, ii. 115; emanations, i. 302; kabalistic forces, _ib._; Gods, or archial pri...

Saviours, ii. 536; legends concerning them, ii. 537-539; enumeration of their followers, ii. 539; births of man, ii. 568; three hundred million Buddhists seeking Nirvana, ii. 53...

Trinity, the first, i. 341; of Egyptians, i. 160; three Sephiroth or emanations, ii. 36; the doctrine revealed to Sesostris, ii. 51; the word first found in the Gospel of Nicode...

Universal soul, or mind, i. 56; the doctrine underlying all philosophies, Buddhism, Brahmanism, and Christianity, i. 289; relation to the reasoning and the animal soul, i. 316;...

notes in regard to America, the Atlantic continent, Lemuria, and the deserts of Africa and Asia, i. 592; on skeptics, and respect for earnest convictions, i. 437; on Paul and Pl...

Woman, of the future, i. 77; fecundated artificially, i. 77, 81; must cease to be the female of the men, i. 78; ridding her of every maternal function, _ib._; applying a latent...

Yogis of India, ii. 346; their extraordinary powers, ii. 565; regarded as demi-gods, ii. 612; a peculiar medicine used by them composed of sulphur and juice of a plant, ii. 621;...