Isis unveiled, Volume 2 (of 2), Theology

Church statistics 1 Catholic “miracles” and spiritualistic “phenomena” 4 Christian and Pagan beliefs compared 10 Magic and sorcery practised by Christian clergy 20 Comparative t...

Sorceries of Catherine of Medicis 55 Occult arts practised by the clergy 59 Witch-burnings and auto-da-fé of little children 62 Lying Catholic saints 74 Pretensions of missionar...

Resemblance between early Christianity and Buddhism 123 Peter never in Rome 124 Meanings of “Nazar” and “Nazarene” 129 Baptism a derived right 134 Is Zoroaster a generic name? 1...

Discrepancies in the Pentateuch 167 Indian, Chaldean and Ophite systems compared 170 Who were the first Christians? 178 Christos and Sophia-Achamoth 183 Secret doctrine taught b...

En-Soph and the Sephiroth 212 The primitive wisdom-religion 216 The book of Genesis a compilation of Old World legends 217 The Trinity of the Kabala 222 Gnostic and Nazarene sys...

Decisions of Nicean Council, how arrived at 251 Murder of Hypatia 252 Origin of the fish-symbol of Vishnu 256 Kabalistic doctrine of the Cosmogony 264 Diagrams of Hindu and Chal...

Nazareans, Ophites, and modern Druzes 291 Etymology of IAO 298 “Hermetic Brothers” of Egypt 307 True meaning of Nirvana 319 The Jaïna sect 321 Christians and Chrestians 323 The...

The _Sohar_ and Rabbi Simeon 348 The Order of Jesuits and its relation to some of the Masonic orders 352 Crimes permitted to its members 355 Principles of Jesuitry compared with...

Nearly every myth based on some great truth 405 Whence the Christian Sabbath 406 Antiquity of the Vedas 410 Pythagorean doctrine of the potentialities of numbers 417 “Days” of _...

The devil officially recognized by the Church 477 Satan the mainstay of sacerdotalism 480 Identity of Satan with the Egyptian Typhon 483 His relation to serpent-worship 489 The...

The age of philosophy produced no atheists 530 The legends of three Saviours 537 Christian doctrine of the Atonement illogical 542 Cause of the failure of missionaries to conver...

Recapitulation of fundamental propositions 587 Seership of the soul and of the spirit 590 The phenomenon of the so-called spirit-hand 594 Difference between mediums and adepts 5...

“Let him be ANATHEMA ... who shall say that human Sciences ought to be pursued in such a spirit of freedom that one may be allowed to hold as true their assertions even when opp...

“They undertake by scales of miles to tell The bounds, dimensions, and extent of hell; * * * * * Where bloated souls in smoky durance hung Like a Westphalia gammon or neat’s ton...

“And Athens, O Athena, is thy own! Great Goddess hear! and on my darkened mind Pour thy pure light in measure unconfined; That sacred light, O all-proceeding Queen, Which beams...

knows him to be a _nazar_. Does not this clearly hint, that even the older nazars were not really Hebrew religionists, but rather a class of Chaldean theurgists? Besides, as the...

“... the beautiful Virgin ascends, with long hair, and she holds two ears in her hand, and sits on a seat and feeds a BOY as yet little, and suckles him and gives him food.”--AV...

“There is one God supreme over all gods, diviner than mortals, Whose form is not like unto man’s, and as unlike his nature; But vain mortals imagine that gods _like themselves a...

“May we not then be permitted to examine the authenticity of the Bible? which since the second century has been put forth as the criterion of scientific truth? To maintain itsel...

material than the preceding As we have shown, neither one. In the _Kabala_ all the Svâbhâvikas, Buddhist were called sparks. Finally, philosophers--nor the our present grossly B...

“Of the tenets of the Druzes, nothing authentic has ever come to light; the popular belief amongst their neighbors is, that they adore an idol in the form of a calf.”--KING: _Th...

“Christian and Catholic sons may accuse their fathers of the crime of heresy ... although they may know that their parents will be burnt with fire and put to death for it.... An...

“In _seven_ days all creatures who have offended me shall be destroyed by a deluge, but thou shalt be secured in a vessel miraculously formed; take, therefore ... and with _seve...

“creation,” as it is very improperly called, begins with the rescue of Noah from the deluge. The Chaldeo-Babylonian tablets recently translated by George Smith leave no doubt of...

monarch, was born of royal parents, but concealed by his mother, who placed him on the Euphrates in an ark of rushes, coated with bitumen, like that in which the mother of Moses...

“Such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff As puts me from my faith. I tell you what-- He held me, last night, at least nine hours In reckoning up the several devils’ names.”-- _King...

ghosts of Charinus and Lenthius, the sons of that Simeon who, in the _Gospel according to Luke_ (ii. 25-32), takes the infant Jesus in his arms and blesses God, saying: “Lord, n...

Creator, where are these tribunals, where do these courts proceed, where do these courts assemble, where do the tribunals meet to which the man of the embodied world gives an ac...

“My vast and noble capital, my Daïtu, my splendidly-adorned; And thou, my cool and delicious summer-seat, my Shangtu-Keibung. * * * * * Alas, for my illustrious name as the Sove...

that two of them, the brothers N----, were very politely brought back to the frontier before they had walked sixteen miles into the weird land of Eastern Bod; and Mr. K----, an...

In his able article “Bacchus, the Prophet-God,” Professor A. Wilder remarks that “Tacitus was misled into thinking that the Jews worshipped an ass, the symbol of Typhon or Seth,...

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;...

Behn’s Dram. Works, 15 Bible of Humanity, 3 Blake, Swinburne’s Essay, 23 Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 21 Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, 3 Boccaccio, Decameron, illustrated, 1...