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Revision as of 05:02, 11 March 2024


Isis Unveiled:

A MASTER-KEY
TO THE
Mysteries of Ancient and Modern
SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY.


BY
H. P. BLAVATSKY,
corresponding secretary of the theosophical society
1877 First Edition,
Updated and Corrected.
Credits for electronic first verbatim 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.


TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Volume I
Preface
... v
Before the veil
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
–––––––
Volume First.
THE “INFALLIBILITY” OF MODERN SCIENCE
–––––––
CHAPTER I
Old things with new names
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
CHAPTER II
Phenomena and forces
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
CHAPTER III
Blind leaders of the blind
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
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