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BY
corresponding secretary of the theosophical society
1877 First Edition,
Updated and Corrected.
Credits for electronic edition goes to Universal Theosophy
THE AUTHOR
Dedicates these Volumes
to the
THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
which was founded at New York, a.d. 1875.
To Study the Subjects on which they Treat.
Volume I
Before the veil
–––––––
Volume First.
THE “INFALLIBILITY” OF MODERN SCIENCE
–––––––
CHAPTER I
Old things with new names
CHAPTER II
Phenomena and forces
CHAPTER III
Blind leaders of the blind
CHAPTER IV
Theories respecting psychic phenomena
CHAPTER V
The aether, or “astral light”
CHAPTER VI
Psycho-physical phenomena
CHAPTER VII
The elements, elementals and elementaries
CHAPTER VIII
Some mysteries of nature
CHAPTER IX
Cyclic phenomena
CHAPTER X
The inner and outer man
CHAPTER XI
Psychological and physical marvels
CHAPTER XII
The “impassable chasm”
CHAPTER XIII
Realities and illusion
CHAPTER XIV
Egyptian wisdom
CHAPTER XV
India the cradle of the race
Volume II
–––––––
Volume Second
THE “INFALLIBILITY” OF RELIGION
–––––––
CHAPTER I
The church: where is it?
CHAPTER II
Christian crimes and heathen virtues
CHAPTER III
Divisions amongst the early Christians
CHAPTER IV
Oriental cosmogonies and Bible records
CHAPTER V
Mysteries of the Kabala
CHAPTER VI
Esoteric doctrines of Buddhism parodied in Christianity
CHAPTER VII
Earlier Christian heresies and secret societies
CHAPTER VIII
Jesuitry and Masonry
CHAPTER IX
The Vedas and the Bible
CHAPTER X
The Devil-myth
CHAPTER XI
Comparative results of buddhism and christianity
CHAPTER XII
Conclusions and illustrations
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+ | <center><big>{{Style S-Small capitals|Volume I}}</big></center> | ||
+ | : {{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.1_ch.Preface|Preface]]}} {{IU-p-toc|1|v}} | ||
+ | |||
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU v.1 ch.Before the Veil|Before the veil]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : Dogmatic assumptions of modem science and theology {{IU-p-toc|1|ix}} | ||
+ | : The Platonic philosophy affords the only middle ground {{IU-p-toc|1|xi}} | ||
+ | : Review of the ancient philosophical systems {{IU-p-toc|1|xv}} | ||
+ | : A Syriac manuscript on Simon Magus {{IU-p-toc|1|xxiii}} | ||
+ | : Glossary of terms used in this book {{IU-p-toc|1|xxiii}} | ||
+ | |||
+ | <center>–––––––</center> | ||
+ | <center>'''Volume First.'''</center> | ||
+ | <center>THE “INFALLIBILITY” OF MODERN SCIENCE</center> | ||
+ | <center>–––––––</center> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <center>CHAPTER I</center> | ||
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.1_ch.1|Old things with new names]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : The Oriental Kabala {{IU-p-toc|1|1}} | ||
+ | : Ancient traditions supported by modern research {{IU-p-toc|1|3}} | ||
+ | : The progress of mankind marked by cycles {{IU-p-toc|1|5}} | ||
+ | : Ancient cryptic science {{IU-p-toc|1|7}} | ||
+ | : Priceless value of the Vedas {{IU-p-toc|1|12}} | ||
+ | : Mutilations of the Jewish sacred books in translation {{IU-p-toc|1|13}} | ||
+ | : Magic always regarded as a divine science {{IU-p-toc|1|25}} | ||
+ | : Achievements of its adepts and hypotheses of their modern detractors {{IU-p-toc|1|25}} | ||
+ | : Man’s yearning for immortality {{IU-p-toc|1|37}} | ||
+ | |||
+ | <center>CHAPTER II</center> | ||
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.1_ch.2|Phenomena and forces]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : The servility of society {{IU-p-toc|1|39}} | ||
+ | : Prejudice and bigotry of men of science {{IU-p-toc|1|40}} | ||
+ | : They are chased by psychical phenomena {{IU-p-toc|1|41}} | ||
+ | : Lost arts {{IU-p-toc|1|49}} | ||
+ | : The human will the master-force of forces {{IU-p-toc|1|57}} | ||
+ | : Superficial generalizations of the French savants {{IU-p-toc|1|60}} | ||
+ | : Mediumistic phenomena, to what attributable {{IU-p-toc|1|67}} | ||
+ | : Their relation to crime {{IU-p-toc|1|71}} | ||
+ | |||
+ | <center>CHAPTER III</center> | ||
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.1_ch.3|Blind leaders of the blind]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : Huxley’s derivation from the Orohitppus {{IU-p-toc|1|74}} | ||
+ | : Comte, his system and disciples {{IU-p-toc|1|75}} | ||
+ | : The London materialists {{IU-p-toc|1|85}} | ||
+ | : Borrowed robes {{IU-p-toc|1|89}} | ||
+ | : Emanation of the objective universe from the subjective {{IU-p-toc|1|92}} | ||
+ | |||
+ | <center>CHAPTER IV</center> | ||
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.1_ch.4|Theories respecting psychic phenomena]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : Theory of de Gasparin {{IU-p-toc|1|100}} | ||
+ | : Theory of Thury {{IU-p-toc|1|100}} | ||
+ | : Theory of des Mousseaux, de Mirville {{IU-p-toc|1|100}} | ||
+ | : Theory of Babinet {{IU-p-toc|1|101}} | ||
+ | : Theory of Houdin {{IU-p-toc|1|101}} | ||
+ | : Theory of Drs. Rayer and Jobert de Lamballe {{IU-p-toc|1|102}} | ||
+ | : The twins–“unconscious cerebration” and “unconscious ventriloquism” {{IU-p-toc|1|105}} | ||
+ | : Theory of Crookes {{IU-p-toc|1|112}} | ||
+ | : Theory of Faraday {{IU-p-toc|1|116}} | ||
+ | : Theory of Chevreul {{IU-p-toc|1|116}} | ||
+ | : The Mendeleyeff commission of 1876 {{IU-p-toc|1|117}} | ||
+ | : Soul blindness {{IU-p-toc|1|121}} | ||
+ | |||
+ | <center>CHAPTER V</center> | ||
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.1_ch.5|The aether, or “astral light”]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : One primal force, but many correlations {{IU-p-toc|1|126}} | ||
+ | : Tyndall narrowly escapes a great discovery {{IU-p-toc|1|127}} | ||
+ | : The impossibility of miracle {{IU-p-toc|1|128}} | ||
+ | : Nature of the primordial substance {{IU-p-toc|1|133}} | ||
+ | : Interpretation of certain ancient myths {{IU-p-toc|1|133}} | ||
+ | : Experiments of the fakirs {{IU-p-toc|1|139}} | ||
+ | : Evolution in Hindu allegory {{IU-p-toc|1|153}} | ||
+ | |||
+ | <center>CHAPTER VI</center> | ||
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.1_ch.6|Psycho-physical phenomena]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : The debt we owe to Paracelsus {{IU-p-toc|1|163}} | ||
+ | : Mesmerism – its parentage, reception, potentiality {{IU-p-toc|1|165}} | ||
+ | : “Psychometry” {{IU-p-toc|1|183}} | ||
+ | : Time, space, eternity {{IU-p-toc|1|184}} | ||
+ | : Transfer of energy from the visible to the invisible universe {{IU-p-toc|1|186}} | ||
+ | : The Crookes experiments and Cox theory {{IU-p-toc|1|195}} | ||
+ | |||
+ | <center>CHAPTER VII</center> | ||
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.1_ch.7|The elements, elementals and elementaries]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : Attraction and repulsion universal in all the kingdoms of nature {{IU-p-toc|1|206}} | ||
+ | : Psychical phenomena depend on physical surroundings {{IU-p-toc|1|211}} | ||
+ | : Observations in Siam {{IU-p-toc|1|214}} | ||
+ | : Music in nervous disorders {{IU-p-toc|1|215}} | ||
+ | : The “world-soul” and its potentialities {{IU-p-toc|1|216}} | ||
+ | : Healing by touch, and healers {{IU-p-toc|1|217}} | ||
+ | : “Diakka” and Porphyry’s bad daemons {{IU-p-toc|1|219}} | ||
+ | : The quenchless lamp {{IU-p-toc|1|224}} | ||
+ | : Modern ignorance of vital force {{IU-p-toc|1|237}} | ||
+ | : Antiquity of the theory of force-correlation {{IU-p-toc|1|241}} | ||
+ | : Universality of belief in magic {{IU-p-toc|1|247}} | ||
− | The | + | <center>CHAPTER VIII</center> |
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.1_ch.8|Some mysteries of nature]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : Do the planets affect human destiny? {{IU-p-toc|1|253}} | ||
+ | : Very curious passage from Hermes {{IU-p-toc|1|254}} | ||
+ | : The restlessness of matter {{IU-p-toc|1|257}} | ||
+ | : An old prophecy fulfilled {{IU-p-toc|1|260}} | ||
+ | : Sympathies between planets and plants {{IU-p-toc|1|264}} | ||
+ | : Hindu knowledge of the properties of colors {{IU-p-toc|1|265}} | ||
+ | : “Coincidences” the panacea of modern science {{IU-p-toc|1|268}} | ||
+ | : The moon and the tides {{IU-p-toc|1|273}} | ||
+ | : Epidemic mental and moral disorders {{IU-p-toc|1|274}} | ||
+ | : The gods of the Pantheons only natural forces {{IU-p-toc|1|280}} | ||
+ | : Proofs of the magical powers of Pythagoras {{IU-p-toc|1|283}} | ||
+ | : The viewless races of ethereal space {{IU-p-toc|1|284}} | ||
+ | : The “four truths” of Buddhism {{IU-p-toc|1|291}} | ||
− | + | <center>CHAPTER IX</center> | |
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.1_ch.9|Cyclic phenomena]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : Meaning of the expression “coats of skin” {{IU-p-toc|1|293}} | ||
+ | : Natural selection and its results {{IU-p-toc|1|295}} | ||
+ | : The Egyptian “circle of necessity” {{IU-p-toc|1|296}} | ||
+ | : Pre-Adamite races {{IU-p-toc|1|299}} | ||
+ | : Descent of spirit into matter {{IU-p-toc|1|302}} | ||
+ | : The triune nature of man {{IU-p-toc|1|309}} | ||
+ | : The lowest creatures in the scale of being {{IU-p-toc|1|310}} | ||
+ | : Elementals specifically described {{IU-p-toc|1|311}} | ||
+ | : Proclus on the beings of the air {{IU-p-toc|1|312}} | ||
+ | : Various names for elementals {{IU-p-toc|1|313}} | ||
+ | : Swedenborgian views on soul-death {{IU-p-toc|1|317}} | ||
+ | : Earth-bound human souls {{IU-p-toc|1|319}} | ||
+ | : Impure mediums and their “guides” {{IU-p-toc|1|325}} | ||
+ | : Psychometry an aid to scientific research {{IU-p-toc|1|333}} | ||
− | + | <center>CHAPTER X</center> | |
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.1_ch.10|The inner and outer man]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : Père Félix arraigns the scientists {{IU-p-toc|1|338}} | ||
+ | : The “Unknowable” {{IU-p-toc|1|340}} | ||
+ | : Danger of evocations by tyros {{IU-p-toc|1|342}} | ||
+ | : Lares and Lemures {{IU-p-toc|1|345}} | ||
+ | : Secrets of Hindu temples {{IU-p-toc|1|350}} | ||
+ | : Reincarnation {{IU-p-toc|1|351}} | ||
+ | : Witchcraft and witches {{IU-p-toc|1|353}} | ||
+ | : The sacred Soma trance {{IU-p-toc|1|357}} | ||
+ | : Vulnerability of certain “shadows” {{IU-p-toc|1|363}} | ||
+ | : Experiment of Clearchus on a sleeping boy {{IU-p-toc|1|365}} | ||
+ | : The author witnesses a trial of magic in India {{IU-p-toc|1|369}} | ||
+ | : Case of the Cévennois {{IU-p-toc|1|371}} | ||
− | {{IU- | + | <center>CHAPTER XI</center> |
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.1_ch.11|Psychological and physical marvels]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : Invulnerability attainable by man {{IU-p-toc|1|379}} | ||
+ | : Projecting the force of the will {{IU-p-toc|1|380}} | ||
+ | : Insensibility to snake-poison {{IU-p-toc|1|381}} | ||
+ | : Charming serpents by music {{IU-p-toc|1|383}} | ||
+ | : Teratological phenomena discussed {{IU-p-toc|1|385}} | ||
+ | : The psychological domain confessedly unexplored {{IU-p-toc|1|407}} | ||
+ | : Despairing regrets of Berzelius {{IU-p-toc|1|411}} | ||
+ | : Turning a river into blood a vegetable phenomenon {{IU-p-toc|1|413}} | ||
− | {{Style | + | <center>CHAPTER XII</center> |
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.1_ch.12|The “impassable chasm”]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : Confessions of ignorance by men of science {{IU-p-toc|1|417}} | ||
+ | : The Pantheon of nihilism {{IU-p-toc|1|421}} | ||
+ | : Triple composition of fire {{IU-p-toc|1|423}} | ||
+ | : Instinct and reason defined {{IU-p-toc|1|425}} | ||
+ | : Philosophy of the Hindu Jainas {{IU-p-toc|1|429}} | ||
+ | : Deliberate misrepresentation of Lemprière {{IU-p-toc|1|431}} | ||
+ | : Man’s astral soul not immortal {{IU-p-toc|1|432}} | ||
+ | : The reincarnation of Buddha {{IU-p-toc|1|437}} | ||
+ | : Magical sun and moon pictures of Thibet {{IU-p-toc|1|441}} | ||
+ | : Vampirism–its phenomena explained {{IU-p-toc|1|449}} | ||
+ | : Bengalese jugglery {{IU-p-toc|1|457}} | ||
− | + | <center>CHAPTER XIII</center> | |
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.1_ch.13|Realities and illusion]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : The rationale of talismans {{IU-p-toc|1|462}} | ||
+ | : Unexplained mysteries {{IU-p-toc|1|466}} | ||
+ | : Magical experiment in Bengal {{IU-p-toc|1|467}} | ||
+ | : Chibh Chondor’s surprising feats {{IU-p-toc|1|471}} | ||
+ | : The Indian tape-climbing trick an illusion {{IU-p-toc|1|473}} | ||
+ | : Resuscitation of buried fakirs {{IU-p-toc|1|477}} | ||
+ | : Limits of suspended animation {{IU-p-toc|1|481}} | ||
+ | : Mediumship totally antagonistic to adeptship {{IU-p-toc|1|487}} | ||
+ | : What are “materialized spirits”? {{IU-p-toc|1|493}} | ||
+ | : The Shudâla-Mâdan {{IU-p-toc|1|495}} | ||
+ | : Philosophy of levitation {{IU-p-toc|1|497}} | ||
+ | : The elixir and alkahest {{IU-p-toc|1|503}} | ||
− | + | <center>CHAPTER XIV</center> | |
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.1_ch.14|Egyptian wisdom]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : Origin of the Egyptians {{IU-p-toc|1|515}} | ||
+ | : Their mighty engineering works {{IU-p-toc|1|517}} | ||
+ | : The ancient land of the Pharaohs {{IU-p-toc|1|521}} | ||
+ | : Antiquity of the Nilotic monuments {{IU-p-toc|1|529}} | ||
+ | : Arts of war and peace {{IU-p-toc|1|531}} | ||
+ | : Mexican myths and ruins {{IU-p-toc|1|545}} | ||
+ | : Resemblances to the Egyptian {{IU-p-toc|1|551}} | ||
+ | : Moses a priest of Osiris {{IU-p-toc|1|555}} | ||
+ | : The lessons taught by the ruins of Siam {{IU-p-toc|1|563}} | ||
+ | : The Egyptian Tau at Palenque {{IU-p-toc|1|573}} | ||
− | {{IU- | + | <center>CHAPTER XV</center> |
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.1_ch.15|India the cradle of the race]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : Acquisition of the “secret doctrine” {{IU-p-toc|1|575}} | ||
+ | : Two relics owned by a Pâli scholar {{IU-p-toc|1|577}} | ||
+ | : Jealous exclusiveness of the Hindus {{IU-p-toc|1|581}} | ||
+ | : Lydia Maria Child on Phallic symbolism {{IU-p-toc|1|583}} | ||
+ | : The age of the Vedas and Manu {{IU-p-toc|1|587}} | ||
+ | : Traditions of pre-diluvian races {{IU-p-toc|1|589}} | ||
+ | : Atlantis and its peoples {{IU-p-toc|1|593}} | ||
+ | : Peruvian relics {{IU-p-toc|1|597}} | ||
+ | : The Gobi desert and its secrets {{IU-p-toc|1|599}} | ||
+ | : Thibetan and Chinese legends {{IU-p-toc|1|600}} | ||
+ | : The magician aids, not impedes, nature {{IU-p-toc|1|617}} | ||
+ | : Philosophy, religion, arts and sciences bequeathed by Mother India to posterity {{IU-p-toc|1|618}} | ||
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− | + | <center><big>{{Style S-Small capitals|Volume II}}</big></center> | |
− | + | : {{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.2_ch.Preface|Preface]]}} {{IU-p-toc|2|iii}} | |
+ | :: Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson and Baroness Burdett-Coutts | ||
− | + | <center>–––––––</center> | |
+ | <center>'''Volume Second'''</center> | ||
+ | <center>THE “INFALLIBILITY” OF RELIGION</center> | ||
+ | <center>–––––––</center> | ||
− | {{ | + | <center>CHAPTER I</center> |
− | {{ | + | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.2_ch.1|The church: where is it?]]}}</center> |
+ | : Church statistics {{IU-p-toc|2|1}} | ||
+ | : Catholic “miracles” and spiritualistic “phenomena” {{IU-p-toc|2|4}} | ||
+ | : Christian and Pagan belief compared {{IU-p-toc|2|10}} | ||
+ | : Magic and sorcery practiced by Christian clergy {{IU-p-toc|2|20}} | ||
+ | : Comparative theology a new science {{IU-p-toc|2|25}} | ||
+ | : Eastern traditions as to Alexandrian Library {{IU-p-toc|2|27}} | ||
+ | : Roman pontiffs imitators of the Hindu Brahmâtma {{IU-p-toc|2|30}} | ||
+ | : Christian dogmas derived from heathen philosophy {{IU-p-toc|2|33}} | ||
+ | : Doctrine of the Trinity of Pagan origin {{IU-p-toc|2|45}} | ||
+ | : Disputes between Gnostics and Church Fathers {{IU-p-toc|2|51}} | ||
+ | : Bloody records of Christianity {{IU-p-toc|2|53}} | ||
− | {{ | + | <center>CHAPTER II</center> |
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.2_ch.2|Christian crimes and heathen virtues]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : Sorceries of Catherine of Medici {{IU-p-toc|2|55}} | ||
+ | : Occult arts practiced by the clergy {{IU-p-toc|2|59}} | ||
+ | : Witch-burning and auto-da-fé of little children {{IU-p-toc|2|62}} | ||
+ | : Lying Catholic saints {{IU-p-toc|2|74}} | ||
+ | : Pretensions of missionaries in India and China {{IU-p-toc|2|79}} | ||
+ | : Sacrilegious tricks of Catholic clergy {{IU-p-toc|2|82}} | ||
+ | : Paul a kabalist {{IU-p-toc|2|91}} | ||
+ | : Peter not the founder of Roman church {{IU-p-toc|2|91}} | ||
+ | : Strict lives of Pagan hierophants {{IU-p-toc|2|98}} | ||
+ | : High character of ancient “mysteries” {{IU-p-toc|2|101}} | ||
+ | : Jacolliot’s account of Hindu fakirs {{IU-p-toc|2|103}} | ||
+ | : Christian symbolism derived from Phallic worship {{IU-p-toc|2|109}} | ||
+ | : Hindu doctrine of the Pitṛis {{IU-p-toc|2|114}} | ||
+ | : Brahmanic spirit-communion {{IU-p-toc|2|115}} | ||
+ | : Dangers of untrained mediumship {{IU-p-toc|2|117}} | ||
− | {{ | + | <center>CHAPTER III</center> |
− | {{ | + | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.2_ch.3|Divisions amongst the early Christians]]}}</center> |
+ | : Resemblance between early Christianity and Buddhism {{IU-p-toc|2|123}} | ||
+ | : Peter never in Rome {{IU-p-toc|2|124}} | ||
+ | : Meaning of “Nazar” and “Nazarene” {{IU-p-toc|2|129}} | ||
+ | : Baptism a derived right {{IU-p-toc|2|134}} | ||
+ | : Is Zoroaster a generic name? {{IU-p-toc|2|141}} | ||
+ | : Pythagorean teachings of Jesus {{IU-p-toc|2|147}} | ||
+ | : The Apocalypse kabalistic {{IU-p-toc|2|147}} | ||
+ | : Jesus considered an adept by some Pagan philosophers and early Christians {{IU-p-toc|2|150}} | ||
+ | : Doctrine of permutation {{IU-p-toc|2|152}} | ||
+ | : The meaning of God-Incarnate {{IU-p-toc|2|153}} | ||
+ | : Dogmas of the Gnostics {{IU-p-toc|2|155}} | ||
+ | : Ideas of Marcion, the “heresiarch” {{IU-p-toc|2|159}} | ||
+ | : Precepts of Manu {{IU-p-toc|2|163}} | ||
+ | : Jehovah identical with Bacchus {{IU-p-toc|2|165}} | ||
− | {{IU- | + | <center>CHAPTER IV</center> |
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.2_ch.4|Oriental cosmogonies and Bible records]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : Discrepancies in the Pentateuch {{IU-p-toc|2|167}} | ||
+ | : Indian, Chaldean and Ophite systems compared {{IU-p-toc|2|170}} | ||
+ | : Who were the first Christians? {{IU-p-toc|2|178}} | ||
+ | : Christos and Sophia-Akhamôth {{IU-p-toc|2|183}} | ||
+ | : Secret doctrine taught by Jesus {{IU-p-toc|2|191}} | ||
+ | : Jesus never claimed to be God {{IU-p-toc|2|193}} | ||
+ | : New Testament narratives and Hindu legends {{IU-p-toc|2|199}} | ||
+ | : Antiquity of the “Logos” and “Christ” {{IU-p-toc|2|205}} | ||
+ | : Comparative Virgin-worship {{IU-p-toc|2|209}} | ||
− | The | + | <center>CHAPTER V</center> |
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.2_ch.5|Mysteries of the Kabala]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : Ain-Soph and the Sephîrôth {{IU-p-toc|2|212}} | ||
+ | : The primitive wisdom-religion {{IU-p-toc|2|216}} | ||
+ | : The book of Genesis a compilation of Old World legends {{IU-p-toc|2|217}} | ||
+ | : The Trinity of the Kabala {{IU-p-toc|2|222}} | ||
+ | : Gnostic and Nazarene systems contrasted with Hindu myths {{IU-p-toc|2|225}} | ||
+ | : Kabalism in the book of Ezekiel {{IU-p-toc|2|232}} | ||
+ | : Story of the resurrection of Jairus’ daughter found in the history of Kṛishṇa {{IU-p-toc|2|241}} | ||
+ | : Untrustworthy teachings of the early Fathers {{IU-p-toc|2|248}} | ||
+ | : Their persecuting spirit {{IU-p-toc|2|249}} | ||
− | + | <center>CHAPTER VI</center> | |
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.2_ch.6|Esoteric doctrines of Buddhism parodied in Christianity]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : Decisions of Nicæan Council, how arrived at {{IU-p-toc|2|251}} | ||
+ | : Murder of Hypatia {{IU-p-toc|2|252}} | ||
+ | : Origin of the fish-symbol of Vishṇu {{IU-p-toc|2|256}} | ||
+ | : Kabalistic doctrine of the Cosmogony {{IU-p-toc|2|264}} | ||
+ | : Diagrams of Hindu and Chaldeo-Jewish systems {{IU-p-toc|2|265}} | ||
+ | : Ten mythical Avatâras of Vishṇu {{IU-p-toc|2|274}} | ||
+ | : Trinity of man taught by Paul {{IU-p-toc|2|281}} | ||
+ | : Socrates and Plato on soul and spirit {{IU-p-toc|2|283}} | ||
+ | : True Buddhism, what it is {{IU-p-toc|2|288}} | ||
− | + | <center>CHAPTER VII</center> | |
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.2_ch.7|Earlier Christian heresies and secret societies]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : Nazareans, Ophites, and modern Druzes {{IU-p-toc|2|291}} | ||
+ | : Etymology of IAŌ {{IU-p-toc|2|298}} | ||
+ | : “Hermetic Brothers” of Egypt {{IU-p-toc|2|307}} | ||
+ | : True meaning of Nirvâṇa {{IU-p-toc|2|319}} | ||
+ | : The Jaina sect {{IU-p-toc|2|321}} | ||
+ | : Christians and Chrêstians {{IU-p-toc|2|323}} | ||
+ | : The Gnostics and their detractors {{IU-p-toc|2|325}} | ||
+ | : Buddha, Jesus, and Apollonius of Tyana {{IU-p-toc|2|341}} | ||
− | + | <center>CHAPTER VIII</center> | |
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.2_ch.8|Jesuitry and Masonry]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : The Zohar and Rabbi Shimon {{IU-p-toc|2|348}} | ||
+ | : The Order of Jesuits and its relation to some of the Masonic orders {{IU-p-toc|2|352}} | ||
+ | : Crimes permitted to its members {{IU-p-toc|2|355}} | ||
+ | : Principles of Jesuitry compared with those of Pagan moralists {{IU-p-toc|2|364}} | ||
+ | : Trinity of man in Egyptian Book of the Dead {{IU-p-toc|2|367}} | ||
+ | : Freemasonry no longer esoteric {{IU-p-toc|2|372}} | ||
+ | : Persecution of Templars by the Church {{IU-p-toc|2|381}} | ||
+ | : Secret Masonic ciphers {{IU-p-toc|2|395}} | ||
+ | : Jehovah not the “Ineffable Name” {{IU-p-toc|2|398}} | ||
− | The | + | <center>CHAPTER IX</center> |
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.2_ch.9|The Vedas and the Bible]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : Nearly every myth based on some great truth {{IU-p-toc|2|405}} | ||
+ | : Whence the Christian Sabbath {{IU-p-toc|2|406}} | ||
+ | : Antiquity of the Vedas {{IU-p-toc|2|410}} | ||
+ | : Pythagorean doctrine of the potentialities of numbers {{IU-p-toc|2|417}} | ||
+ | : “Days” of Genesis and “Days” of Brahmâ {{IU-p-toc|2|422}} | ||
+ | : Fall of man and the Deluge in the Hindu books {{IU-p-toc|2|425}} | ||
+ | : Antiquity of the Mahâbhârata {{IU-p-toc|2|429}} | ||
+ | : Were the ancient Egyptians of the Âryan race? {{IU-p-toc|2|434}} | ||
+ | : Samuel, David, and Solomon mythical personages {{IU-p-toc|2|439}} | ||
+ | : Symbolism of Noah’s Ark {{IU-p-toc|2|447}} | ||
+ | : The Patriarchs identical with zodiacal signs {{IU-p-toc|2|459}} | ||
+ | : All Bible legends belong to universal history {{IU-p-toc|2|469}} | ||
− | The | + | <center>CHAPTER X</center> |
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.2_ch.10|The Devil-myth]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : The devil officially recognized by the Church {{IU-p-toc|2|477}} | ||
+ | : Satan the mainstay of sacerdotalism {{IU-p-toc|2|480}} | ||
+ | : Identity of Satan with the Egyptian Typhon {{IU-p-toc|2|483}} | ||
+ | : His relation to serpent-worship {{IU-p-toc|2|489}} | ||
+ | : The Book of Job and the Book of the Dead {{IU-p-toc|2|493}} | ||
+ | : The Hindu devil a metaphysical abstraction {{IU-p-toc|2|501}} | ||
+ | : Satan and the Prince of Hell in the Gospel of Nicodemus {{IU-p-toc|2|515}} | ||
− | + | <center>CHAPTER XI</center> | |
+ | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.2_ch.11|Comparative results of buddhism and christianity]]}}</center> | ||
+ | : The age of philosophy produced no atheists {{IU-p-toc|2|530}} | ||
+ | : The legends of three Saviors {{IU-p-toc|2|537}} | ||
+ | : Christian doctrine of the Atonement illogical {{IU-p-toc|2|542}} | ||
+ | : Cause of the failure of missionaries to convert Buddhists and Brahmanists {{IU-p-toc|2|553}} | ||
+ | : Neither Buddha nor Jesus left written records {{IU-p-toc|2|559}} | ||
+ | : The grandest mysteries of religion in the Bhagavad-Gîtâ {{IU-p-toc|2|562}} | ||
+ | : The meaning of regeneration explained in the Śatapatha-Brâhmaṇa {{IU-p-toc|2|565}} | ||
+ | : The sacrifice of blood interpreted {{IU-p-toc|2|566}} | ||
+ | : Demoralization of British India by Christian missionaries {{IU-p-toc|2|573}} | ||
+ | : The Bible less authenticated than any other sacred book {{IU-p-toc|2|577}} | ||
+ | : Knowledge of chemistry and physics displayed by Indian jugglers {{IU-p-toc|2|583}} | ||
− | {{Style | + | <center>CHAPTER XII</center> |
− | + | <center>{{Style S-Small capitals|[[HPB-IU_v.2_ch.12|Conclusions and illustrations]]}}</center> | |
+ | : Recapitulation of fundamental propositions {{IU-p-toc|2|587}} | ||
+ | : Seership of the soul and of the spirit {{IU-p-toc|2|590}} | ||
+ | : The phenomenon of the so-called spirit-hand {{IU-p-toc|2|594}} | ||
+ | : Difference between mediums and adepts {{IU-p-toc|2|595}} | ||
+ | : Interview of an English ambassador with a reincarnated Buddha {{IU-p-toc|2|598}} | ||
+ | : Flight of a lama’s astral body related by Abbé Huc {{IU-p-toc|2|604}} | ||
+ | : Schools of magic in Buddhist lamaseries {{IU-p-toc|2|609}} | ||
+ | : The unknown race of Hindu Tôḍas {{IU-p-toc|2|613}} | ||
+ | : Will-power of fakirs and yogis {{IU-p-toc|2|617}} | ||
+ | : Taming of wild beasts by fakirs {{IU-p-toc|2|622}} | ||
+ | : Evocation of a living spirit by a Shaman, witnessed by the writer {{IU-p-toc|2|626}} | ||
+ | : Sorcery by the breath of a Jesuit Father {{IU-p-toc|2|633}} | ||
+ | : Why the study of magic is almost impracticable in Europe {{IU-p-toc|2|}635} | ||
+ | : Conclusion {{IU-p-toc|2|635}} | ||
+ | </div> |
Latest revision as of 10:34, 20 April 2024
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 {{IU-p-toc|2|}635}
- Conclusion ... 635