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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. I....
Preface
THE work now submitted to public judgment is the fruit of a somewhat intimate acquaintance with Eastern adepts and study of their science. It is offered to such as are willing to accept truth wherever it may be found, and to defend it, even looking popular...
Before The Veil
Page ix Joan. -- Advance our waving colors on the walls! -- King Henry VI. Act IV. "My life has been devoted to the study of man, his destiny and his happiness." -- J. R. BUCHANAN, M.D., Outlines of Lectures on Anthropology. IT is nineteen centuries since, as we...
Table Of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS ____________ PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v BEFORE THE VEIL Dogmatic assumptions of modern science and theology . . ....
Old Things With New Names – Chapter 1
Page 1 THE VEIL OF ISIS PART ONE. – SCIENCE "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...
Phenomena And Forces – Chapter 2
Page 39 "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...
Blind Leaders Of The Blind – Chapter 3
Page 73 "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...
Theories Respecting Psychic Phenomena – Chapter 4
Page 99 "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:...
The Ether, Or “Astral Light” – Chapter 5
Page 125 "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...
Psycho-Physical Phenomena – Chapter 6
Page 163 "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...
The Elements, Elementals, And Elementaries – Chapter 7
Page 205 "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...
Some Mysteries Of Nature – Chapter 8
Page 253 "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...
Cyclic Phenomena – Chapter 9
Page 293 "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...
The Inner And Outer Man – Chapter 10
Page 336 [[Tes de gar ek triados pan pneuma pater ekerase.]] -- TAY.: Lyd. de Mens., 20. "The more powerful souls perceive truth through themselves, and are of a more inventive nature. Such souls are saved through their own strength, according to the oracle." --...
Psychological And Physical Marvels – Chapter 11
Page 378 "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...
The “Impassable Chasm.” – Chapter 12
Page 417 "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. ....
Realities And Illusion – Chapter 13
Page 461 "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...
Egyptian Wisdom – Chapter 14
Page 515 "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....
India The Cradle Of The Race – Chapter 15
Page 574 "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...
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Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor by Malcolm C. Duncan [1866] Start Reading This book presents details of Masonic initiation rituals, along with grips, passwords and regalia. Written in the 19th century, Duncan's Ritual, as it is known, has been republished...
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DUNCAN'S Masonic Ritual and Monitor OR GUIDE TO THE THREE SYMBOLIC DEGREES OF THE ANCIENT YORK RITE AND TO THE DEGREES OF MARK MASTER, PAST MASTER, MOST EXCELLENT MASTER, AND THE ROYAL ARCH BY MALCOLM C. DUNCAN EXPLAINED AND INTERPRETED BY COPIOUS NOTES AND NUMEROUS...
Preface
p. 3 THE objects which Freemasonry was founded to subserve are honorable and laudable; nor is it intended in the following pages to disparage the institution or to undervalue its usefulness. It has, at various times and in several countries, incurred the ill-will of...
Entered Apprentice, or First Degree | Chapter 1
p. 6 p. 7 Seven Freemasons, viz., six Entered Apprentices and one Master Mason, acting under a charter or dispensation from some Grand Lodge, is the requisite number to constitute a Lodge of Masons, and to initiate a candidate to the First Degree of Masonry. They...
Fellow Craft, or Second Degree | Chapter 2
p. 58 I SHALL omit the ceremonies incident to opening a Lodge of Fellow Crafts, as they are very similar to those employed in opening the First Degree, and will be explained hereafter more COMPASSES PLACED IN A LODGE OF FELLOW CRAFT MASONS, ''ONE POINT ELEVATED ABOVE...
Master Mason, or Third Degree | Chapter 3
p. 87 THE ceremony of opening and conducting the business of a Lodge of Master Masons is nearly the same as in the Entered Apprentice and Fellow Crafts' Degrees, already explained. All the business of a "Blue Lodge" (a Lodge of three Degrees) is done in the Lodge...
Mark Master, or Fourth Degree | Chapter 4
p. 150 THE Degree of Mark Master, which is the Fourth in the Masonic series, is, historically considered, of the utmost importance, since we are informed that, by its influence, each operative Mason, at the building of King Solomon's Temple, was known and...
Past Master, or Fifth Degree | Chapter 5
p. 184 THIS degree in Masonry was instituted to try the qualifications of a Master Mason before becoming Master of a Lodge, and no Mason can constitutionally preside over a Lodge of Master Masons unless he has been admitted to this Degree. A Mason usually takes this...
Most Excellent Master, or Sixth Degree | Chapter 6
p. 200 No Mason can receive the Degree of Most Excellent Master until after he has become a Past Master, and presided in a Lodge, or, in other words, been inducted into the Oriental Chair of King Solomon. When the Temple of Jerusalem was finished,1 those who had...
Royal Arch, or Seventh Degree | Chapter 7
p. 217 THE Royal Arch Degree seems not to have been known to what are called modern Masons as late as about 1750. That portion of the old Freemasons who met at the famous Apple-Tree Tavern, in 1717, and formed the society upon somewhat new principles, that is, so far...
Extracts from “A Dictionary of Symbolical Masonry, including the Royal Arch Degree,” by the Rev. G. Oliver, D. D | Chapter 8
p. 266 ACHILLES.--Perhaps some worthy people may stare when we point out Achilles as a Freemason. What! we hear them ex-claim, is it possible that that fierce and ferocious man-slayer, nay, man-eater at heart, for he exhibited a strong propensity to cannibalism in...