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.
“Cecy est un livre de bonne Foy.”--MONTAIGNE.
VOL. II.--THEOLOGY.
FOURTH EDITION.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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PREFACE iv Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson and Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
Volume Second.
THE “INFALLIBILITY” OF RELIGION.
CHAPTER I.
THE CHURCH: WHERE IS IT?
Church statistics 1 Catholic “miracles” and spiritualistic “phenomena” 4 Christian and Pagan beliefs compared 10 Magic and sorcery practised by Christian clergy 20 Comparative theology a new science 25 Eastern traditions as to Alexandrian Library 27 Roman pontiffs imitators of the Hindu Brahm-âtma 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
CHAPTER II.
CHRISTIAN CRIMES AND HEATHEN VIRTUES.
Sorceries of Catherine of Medicis 55 Occult arts practised by the clergy 59 Witch-burnings 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 Pitris 114 Brahminic spirit-communion 115 Dangers of untrained mediumship 117