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“Isis Unveiled,” a work purporting to treat on Oriental literature, magic
and religion, has just been published by J. W. Bouton, of this city. The
typographical execution—everything coming within the province of the printer
and publisher—is complete. The work itself, occupying a field so new to many
readers, will be judged according to the interest taken by them in the topics
which it discusses. Sciolists will hurry to discard it with some scornful
remark, in the hope that their admirers will accept their judgment without
further investigation. But “Isis” cannot be dismissed thus unceremoniously.
There are too many investigators who do not receive opinions thus submissively.
These will welcome the new publication as a most valuable contribution to
philosophical literature. Even those who hesitate to accept the bold
conclusions of the author will yet gladly receive the book as affording a vast
amount of information in regard to topics about which there exists a vivid
curiosity but little accurate conception. So thoroughly have the storehouses of
ancient and mediæval learning been ransacked, that few subjects of much
interest appear to have been left unnoticed. The genesis of the human race, the
emigration of peoples, the submerged continents, the relationship between the
myths and worships of the peoples of the Old and New World, Buddhistic,
Braminic, philosophical and theological ideas, as they once were believed, and
their influence upon modern thought and dogma, have all received the fullest
attention. This was necessary in order to render the work, which it professes
to be, “a master key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and
theology.” In accordance with this purpose Mme. Blavatsky has divided her
treatise into two parts, one devoted to science and one to religion. She
handles with little ceremony the claims and assumptions of modern ''savants'',
however imposing their pretensions, when they are adverse to her views. She
believes that ancient philosophers, Oriental not less than Grecians and
Egyptians, have been conversant with much of the science that is now regarded
as modern discovery; also that pundits, lamas, and other sages in the heart of
Asia and India are still in possession of knowledge transcending that of
occidental scientists of latter centuries as much as the erudition of the
professor exceeds the attainments of the pupils of his class.


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In taking such ground she is far from being pretentious. There is no doubt of
her abundant assurance; but she speaks from the card. She has been a traveler
in the principal countries of the East; spending her childhood in Armenia, the
Caucasus, Persia and Turkestan, and many years of adult life among the Hindoos,
Singalese, Thibetans and Egyptians. All the time she was eagerly acquiring
knowledge. She had no scruple to learn from lamas or fakirs; and wherever it
was practicable she entered the secret lodges and associations of the East,
passing through the ordeals of initiation. Of course she has not ventured to
reveal what had been disclosed in the crypt; but when it has become already
known she makes abundant quotations, which contain the gist of the matter.
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