Chapter I. Part 7 : p. 251 CHAPTER VI. "The curtains of Yesterday drop down, the curtains of To-morrow roll up; but Yesterday and Tomorrow both "are."--Sartor Resartus: "Natural Supernaturalism. "May we not then be permitted to examine the authenticity of the Bible? which since the second century has been put forth...
Chapter I. Part 6 : p. 289 CHAPTER VII. "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: The Gnostics and their Remains. "O ye Lords of Truth without fault, who are forever cycling for eternity...
Chapter Vi : p. 163 CHAPTER VI. "Hermes, who is of my ordinances ever the bearer... Then taking his staff, with which he the eyelids of mortals Closes at will, and the sleeper, at will, reawakens."--"Odyssey", Book V. "I saw the Samothracian rings Leap, and steel-filings boil in a brass dish So so...
Chapter I. Part 2 : p. 529 CHAPTER XI. "Not to commit any sin, to do good, and to purify one's mind, that is the teaching of the Awakened.... "Better than Sovereignty over the earth, better than going to heaven, better than lordship over all the worlds is the reward of the first step in holiness."--"Dhammapada"...
Chapter X : p. 336 CHAPTER X. Τεσ δε γαρ εκ τριαδος παν πνευμα πατερ εκερασ all before us is a blank, all after us chaos...
Untitled : ISIS UNVEILED BY H.P. BLAVATSKY [1877] PART ONE.--SCIENCE Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI Chapter XII Chapter XIII Chapter XIV Chapter XV PART TWO.--RELIGION Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter VI Chapter...
Chapter I. Part 4 : p. 405 CHAPTER IX. "ALL THINGS ARE GOVERNED IN THE BOSOM OF THIS TRIAD."--LYDUS: "De Mensibus, "20. "THRICE LET THE HEAVEN BE TURNED ON ITS PERPETUAL AXIS."--OVID: "Fasti "iv. "And Balaam said unto Balak, Build me here "seven" altars, and prepare me here "seven "oxen and "seven" rams."--"Numbers...
Chapter V : p. 125 CHAPTER V. "Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint." (I am the spirit which still denies.)--("Mephisto "in FAUST.) "The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it seeth Him not; neither knoweth Him."--"Gospel according to John, "xiv., 17. "Millions of spiritual creatures walk...
Chapter Xv : p. 574 CHAPTER XV. "STE.--Have we devils here? Do you put tricks upon us with savages, and men of Inde? The Tempest, "Act ii., Sc. 2. "We have now, so far forth as it is requisite for our design, considered the "Nature and Functions of the Soule; "and have plainly demonstrated that she is...
Chapter I. Part 8 : p. 212 CHAPTER V. "LEARN TO KNOW ALL, BUT KEEP THYSELF UNKNOWN."--GNOSTIC MAXIM. "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 are begotten With human sensations...
Next. Chapter Vi : p. 167 CHAPTER IV. "NOTHING BETTER THAN THOSE MYSTERIES, by which, from a rough and fierce life, we are polished to gentleness (humanity, kindness), and softened."--CICERO: "de Legibus, "ii., 14. "Descend, O Soma, with that stream with which thou lightest up the Sun.... Soma, a Life Ocean spread...
Chapter Viii : p. 253 CHAPTER VIII. "Think not my magic wonders wrought by aid Of Stygian angels summoned up from Hell; Scorned and accursed by those who have essay'd Her gloomy Divs and Afrites to compel. But by perception of the secret powers Of mineral springs, in nature's inmost cell, Of herbs in curt...
Chapter I. Part 11 : p. 1 PART TWO.--RELIGION. CHAPTER I. "Yea, the time cometh, that whomsoever killeth you, will think that he doeth God service."--"Gospel according to John, "xvi". "2. "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...
Chapter Ii : p. 39 CHAPTER II "Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence And fills up all the mighty void of sense.... "--POPE. "But why should the operations of nature be changed? There may be a deeper philosophy than we dream of--a philosophy that discovers the secrets of nature," but does not alter, by...
Chapter Xiv : p. 515 CHAPTER XIV. "The transactions of this our city of Sais, are recorded in our sacred writings during a period of 8,000 years."--PLATO:" Timaeus". "The Egyptians assert that from the reign of Heracles to that of Amasis, 17,000 years elapsed."--HERODOTUS, lib. ii., c. 43. "Can the theologi...
Chapter Xiii : p. 461 CHAPTER XIII. "ALCHYMIST. Thou always speakest riddles. Tell me if thou art that fountain of which Bernard Lord Trevigan writ? "MERCURY. I am not that fountain, but I am the water. The fountain compasseth me about."--SANDIVOGIUS, New Light of Alchymy. "All that we profess to do is this;...
Chapter Xii : p. 417 CHAPTER XII. "YOU NEVER HEAR THE REALLY PHILOSOPHICAL DEFENDERS OF THE DOCTRINE OF UNIFORMITY SPEAKING OF "IMPOSSIBILITIES "IN NATURE. THEY NEVER SAY WHAT THEY ARE CONSTANTLY CHARGED WITH SAYING, THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE BUILDER OF THE UNIVERSE TO ALTER HIS WORK.... NO THEORY UPSETS...
Chapter Iv : p. 99 CHAPTER IV. "I choose the nobler part of Emerson, when, after various disenchantments, he exclaimed, 'I covet Truth.' The gladness of true heroism visits the heart of him who is really competent to say this."--TYNDALL. "A testimony is sufficient when it rests on: 1st. A great number of very...
Chapter Vii : p. 205 CHAPTER VII. "Thou great First Cause, least understood."--POPE. "Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'Tis...
Chapter Iii : p. 73 CHAPTER III. "The mirror of the soul cannot reflect both earth and heaven; and the one vanishes from its surface, as the other is glassed upon its deep." ZANONI. "Qui, donc, t'a donne la mission d'annoncer au peuple que la Divinite n'existe pas--quel avantage trouves tu a persuader a l'homme...
Chapter I. Part 10 : p. 55 CHAPTER II. "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 tongue, To be redeemed with masses and a song."--OLDHAM: "Satires upon" the Jesuits. "York".--But you are more...
Chapter Ix : p. 293 CHAPTER IX. "THOU CAN'ST NOT CALL THAT MADNESS OF WHICH THOU ART PROVED TO KNOW NOTHING."--TERTULLIAN: Apology. "This is not a matter of to-day, Or yesterday, but hath been from all times; And none hath told us whence it came or how!"--SOPHOCLES. "BELIEF IN THE SUPERNATURAL IS A FACT NATURAL...
Chapter I : p. 1 THE VEIL OF ISIS. PART ONE.--SCIENCE. CHAPTER I. "Ego sum qui sum."--An axiom of Hermetic Philosophy. "We commenced research where modern conjecture closes its faithless wings. And with us, those were the common elements of science which the sages of to-day disdain as wild chimeras, or despair...
Chapter I. Part 1 : p. 587 CHAPTER XII. "My vast and noble capital, my Daitu, my splendidly-adorned; And thou, my cool and delicious summer-seat, my Shangtu-Keibung. ........... Alas, for my illustrious name as the Sovereign of the World! Alas, for my Daitu, seat of sanctity, glorious work of the immortal Kublai! All...
Chapter I. Part 5 : p. 348 CHAPTER VIII. "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.... And not only may they refuse them food, "if they attempt to turn them from the Catholic faith, "BUT THEY...
Chapter Xi : p. 378 CHAPTER XI. "STRANGE CONDITION OF THE HUMAN MIND, WHICH SEEMS TO REQUIRE THAT IT SHOULD LONG EXERCISE ITSELF IN ERROR, before it dare approach the TRUTH."--MAGENDIE. "LA VERITE QUE JE DEFENDS EST EMPREINTE SUR TOUS LES MONUMENTS DU PASSE POUR COMPRENDRE L'HISTOIRE, IL FAUT ETUDIER LES...
Chapter I. Part 9 : p. 123 CHAPTER III. "KING.--Let us from point to point this story know."--"All's Well That Ends Well.--"Act v., Scene 3. "He is the One, self-proceeding; and from Him all things proceed. And in them He Himself exerts His activity; no mortal BEHOLDS HIM, but HE beholds all!"--Orphic Hymn. "...
Chapter I. Part 3 : p. 473 CHAPTER X. "GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN" (Jesus to Peter).--"Matt. "xvi. 23. "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 Henry IV"., Part i., Act iii. "LA FORCE...
