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Isis Unveiled:
A MASTER-KEY
TO THE
Mysteries of Ancient and Modern
SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY.
H. P. BLAVATSKY,
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- Dogmatic assumptions of modem science and theology ... ix
- The Platonic philosophy affords the only middle ground ... xi
- Review of the ancient philosophical systems ... xv
- A Syriac manuscript on Simon Magus ... xxiii
- Glossary of terms used in this book ... xxiii
- The Oriental Kabala ... 1
- Ancient traditions supported by modern research ... 3
- The progress of mankind marked by cycles ... 5
- Ancient cryptic science ... 7
- Priceless value of the Vedas ... 12
- Mutilations of the Jewish sacred books in translation ... 13
- Magic always regarded as a divine science ... 25
- Achievements of its adepts and hypotheses of their modern detractors ... 25
- Man’s yearning for immortality ... 37
- The servility of society ... 39
- Prejudice and bigotry of men of science ... 40
- They are chased by psychical phenomena ... 41
- Lost arts ... 49
- The human will the master-force of forces ... 57
- Superficial generalizations of the French savants ... 60
- Mediumistic phenomena, to what attributable ... 67
- Their relation to crime ... 71
- Huxley’s derivation from the Orohitppus ... 74
- Comte, his system and disciples ... 75
- The London materialists ... 85
- Borrowed robes ... 89
- Emanation of the objective universe from the subjective ... 92
- Theory of de Gasparin ... 100
- Theory of Thury ... 100
- Theory of des Mousseaux, de Mirville ... 100
- Theory of Babinet ... 101
- Theory of Houdin ... 101
- Theory of Drs. Rayer and Jobert de Lamballe ... 102
- The twins–“unconscious cerebration” and “unconscious ventriloquism” ... 105
- Theory of Crookes ... 112
- Theory of Faraday ... 116
- Theory of Chevreul ... 116
- The Mendeleyeff commission of 1876 ... 117
- Soul blindness ... 121
- One primal force, but many correlations ... 126
- Tyndall narrowly escapes a great discovery ... 127
- The impossibility of miracle ... 128
- Nature of the primordial substance ... 133
- Interpretation of certain ancient myths ... 133
- Experiments of the fakirs ... 139
- Evolution in Hindu allegory ... 153
- The debt we owe to Paracelsus ... 163
- Mesmerism – its parentage, reception, potentiality ... 165
- “Psychometry” ... 183
- Time, space, eternity ... 184
- Transfer of energy from the visible to the invisible universe ... 186
- The Crookes experiments and Cox theory ... 195
- Attraction and repulsion universal in all the kingdoms of nature ... 206
- Psychical phenomena depend on physical surroundings ... 211
- Observations in Siam ... 214
- Music in nervous disorders ... 215
- The “world-soul” and its potentialities ... 216
- Healing by touch, and healers ... 217
- “Diakka” and Porphyry’s bad daemons ... 219
- The quenchless lamp ... 224
- Modern ignorance of vital force ... 237
- Antiquity of the theory of force-correlation ... 241
- Universality of belief in magic ... 247
- Do the planets affect human destiny? ... 253
- Very curious passage from Hermes ... 254
- The restlessness of matter ... 257
- An old prophecy fulfilled ... 260
- Sympathies between planets and plants ... 264
- Hindu knowledge of the properties of colors ... 265
- “Coincidences” the panacea of modern science ... 268
- The moon and the tides ... 273
- Epidemic mental and moral disorders ... 274
- The gods of the Pantheons only natural forces ... 280
- Proofs of the magical powers of Pythagoras ... 283
- The viewless races of ethereal space ... 284
- The “four truths” of Buddhism ... 291
- Meaning of the expression “coats of skin” ... 293
- Natural selection and its results ... 295
- The Egyptian “circle of necessity” ... 296
- Pre-Adamite races ... 299
- Descent of spirit into matter ... 302
- The triune nature of man ... 309
- The lowest creatures in the scale of being ... 310
- Elementals specifically described ... 311
- Proclus on the beings of the air ... 312
- Various names for elementals ... 313
- Swedenborgian views on soul-death ... 317
- Earth-bound human souls ... 319
- Impure mediums and their “guides” ... 325
- Psychometry an aid to scientific research ... 333
- Père Félix arraigns the scientists ... 338
- The “Unknowable” ... 340
- Danger of evocations by tyros ... 342
- Lares and Lemures ... 345
- Secrets of Hindu temples ... 350
- Reincarnation ... 351
- Witchcraft and witches ... 353
- The sacred Soma trance ... 357
- Vulnerability of certain “shadows” ... 363
- Experiment of Clearchus on a sleeping boy ... 365
- The author witnesses a trial of magic in India ... 369
- Case of the Cévennois ... 371
- Invulnerability attainable by man ... 379
- Projecting the force of the will ... 380
- Insensibility to snake-poison ... 381
- Charming serpents by music ... 383
- Teratological phenomena discussed ... 385
- The psychological domain confessedly unexplored ... 407
- Despairing regrets of Berzelius ... 411
- Turning a river into blood a vegetable phenomenon ... 413
- Confessions of ignorance by men of science ... 417
- The Pantheon of nihilism ... 421
- Triple composition of fire ... 423
- Instinct and reason defined ... 425
- Philosophy of the Hindu Jainas ... 429
- Deliberate misrepresentation of Lemprière ... 431
- Man’s astral soul not immortal ... 432
- The reincarnation of Buddha ... 437
- Magical sun and moon pictures of Thibet ... 441
- Vampirism–its phenomena explained ... 449
- Bengalese jugglery ... 457
- The rationale of talismans ... 462
- Unexplained mysteries ... 466
- Magical experiment in Bengal ... 467
- Chibh Chondor’s surprising feats ... 471
- The Indian tape-climbing trick an illusion ... 473
- Resuscitation of buried fakirs ... 477
- Limits of suspended animation ... 481
- Mediumship totally antagonistic to adeptship ... 487
- What are “materialized spirits”? ... 493
- The Shudâla-Mâdan ... 495
- Philosophy of levitation ... 497
- The elixir and alkahest ... 503
- Origin of the Egyptians ... 515
- Their mighty engineering works ... 517
- The ancient land of the Pharaohs ... 521
- Antiquity of the Nilotic monuments ... 529
- Arts of war and peace ... 531
- Mexican myths and ruins ... 545
- Resemblances to the Egyptian ... 551
- Moses a priest of Osiris ... 555
- The lessons taught by the ruins of Siam ... 563
- The Egyptian Tau at Palenque ... 573
- Acquisition of the “secret doctrine” ... 575
- Two relics owned by a Pâli scholar ... 577
- Jealous exclusiveness of the Hindus ... 581
- Lydia Maria Child on Phallic symbolism ... 583
- The age of the Vedas and Manu ... 587
- Traditions of pre-diluvian races ... 589
- Atlantis and its peoples ... 593
- Peruvian relics ... 597
- The Gobi desert and its secrets ... 599
- Thibetan and Chinese legends ... 600
- The magician aids, not impedes, nature ... 617
- Philosophy, religion, arts and sciences bequeathed by Mother India to posterity ... 618
- Church statistics ... 1
- Catholic “miracles” and spiritualistic “phenomena” ... 4
- Christian and Pagan belief compared ... 10
- Magic and sorcery practiced by Christian clergy ... 20
- Comparative theology a new science ... 25
- Eastern traditions as to Alexandrian Library ... 27
- Roman pontiffs imitators of the Hindu Brahmâtma ... 30
- Christian dogmas derived from heathen philosophy ... 33
- Doctrine of the Trinity of Pagan origin ... 45
- Disputes between Gnostics and Church Fathers ... 51
- Bloody records of Christianity ... 53
- Sorceries of Catherine of Medici ... 55
- Occult arts practiced by the clergy ... 59
- Witch-burning and auto-da-fé of little children ... 62
- Lying Catholic saints ... 74
- Pretensions of missionaries in India and China ... 79
- Sacrilegious tricks of Catholic clergy ... 82
- Paul a kabalist ... 91
- Peter not the founder of Roman church ... 91
- Strict lives of Pagan hierophants ... 98
- High character of ancient “mysteries” ... 101
- Jacolliot’s account of Hindu fakirs ... 103
- Christian symbolism derived from Phallic worship ... 109
- Hindu doctrine of the Pitṛis ... 114
- Brahmanic spirit-communion ... 115
- Dangers of untrained mediumship ... 117
- Resemblance between early Christianity and Buddhism ... 123
- Peter never in Rome ... 124
- Meaning of “Nazar” and “Nazarene” ... 129
- Baptism a derived right ... 134
- Is Zoroaster a generic name? ... 141
- Pythagorean teachings of Jesus ... 147
- The Apocalypse kabalistic ... 147
- Jesus considered an adept by some Pagan philosophers and early Christians ... 150
- Doctrine of permutation ... 152
- The meaning of God-Incarnate ... 153
- Dogmas of the Gnostics ... 155
- Ideas of Marcion, the “heresiarch” ... 159
- Precepts of Manu ... 163
- Jehovah identical with Bacchus ... 165
- Discrepancies in the Pentateuch ... 167
- Indian, Chaldean and Ophite systems compared ... 170
- Who were the first Christians? ... 178
- Christos and Sophia-Akhamôth ... 183
- Secret doctrine taught by Jesus ... 191
- Jesus never claimed to be God ... 193
- New Testament narratives and Hindu legends ... 199
- Antiquity of the “Logos” and “Christ” ... 205
- Comparative Virgin-worship ... 209
- Ain-Soph and the Sephîrôth ... 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 systems contrasted with Hindu myths ... 225
- Kabalism in the book of Ezekiel ... 232
- Story of the resurrection of Jairus’ daughter found in the history of Kṛishṇa ... 241
- Untrustworthy teachings of the early Fathers ... 248
- Their persecuting spirit ... 249
- Decisions of Nicæan Council, how arrived at ... 251
- Murder of Hypatia ... 252
- Origin of the fish-symbol of Vishṇu ... 256
- Kabalistic doctrine of the Cosmogony ... 264
- Diagrams of Hindu and Chaldeo-Jewish systems ... 265
- Ten mythical Avatâras of Vishṇu ... 274
- Trinity of man taught by Paul ... 281
- Socrates and Plato on soul and spirit ... 283
- True Buddhism, what it is ... 288
- Nazareans, Ophites, and modern Druzes ... 291
- Etymology of IAŌ ... 298
- “Hermetic Brothers” of Egypt ... 307
- True meaning of Nirvâṇa ... 319
- The Jaina sect ... 321
- Christians and Chrêstians ... 323
- The Gnostics and their detractors ... 325
- Buddha, Jesus, and Apollonius of Tyana ... 341
- The Zohar and Rabbi Shimon ... 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 those of Pagan moralists ... 364
- Trinity of man in Egyptian Book of the Dead ... 367
- Freemasonry no longer esoteric ... 372
- Persecution of Templars by the Church ... 381
- Secret Masonic ciphers ... 395
- Jehovah not the “Ineffable Name” ... 398
- 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 Genesis and “Days” of Brahmâ ... 422
- Fall of man and the Deluge in the Hindu books ... 425
- Antiquity of the Mahâbhârata ... 429
- Were the ancient Egyptians of the Âryan race? ... 434
- Samuel, David, and Solomon mythical personages ... 439
- Symbolism of Noah’s Ark ... 447
- The Patriarchs identical with zodiacal signs ... 459
- All Bible legends belong to universal history ... 469
- 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 Book of Job and the Book of the Dead ... 493
- The Hindu devil a metaphysical abstraction ... 501
- Satan and the Prince of Hell in the Gospel of Nicodemus ... 515
- The age of philosophy produced no atheists ... 530
- The legends of three Saviors ... 537
- Christian doctrine of the Atonement illogical ... 542
- Cause of the failure of missionaries to convert Buddhists and Brahmanists ... 553
- Neither Buddha nor Jesus left written records ... 559
- The grandest mysteries of religion in the Bhagavad-Gîtâ ... 562
- The meaning of regeneration explained in the Śatapatha-Brâhmaṇa ... 565
- The sacrifice of blood interpreted ... 566
- Demoralization of British India by Christian missionaries ... 573
- The Bible less authenticated than any other sacred book ... 577
- Knowledge of chemistry and physics displayed by Indian jugglers ... 583
- 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 ... 595
- Interview of an English ambassador with a reincarnated Buddha ... 598
- Flight of a lama’s astral body related by Abbé Huc ... 604
- Schools of magic in Buddhist lamaseries ... 609
- The unknown race of Hindu Tôḍas ... 613
- Will-power of fakirs and yogis ... 617
- Taming of wild beasts by fakirs ... 622
- Evocation of a living spirit by a Shaman, witnessed by the writer ... 626
- Sorcery by the breath of a Jesuit Father ... 633
- Why the study of magic is almost impracticable in Europe ... 635
- Conclusion ... 635