Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology
by Helena P. Blavatsky
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Isis Unveiled is a master key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology. With the help of this book you will be able to make sense of how so many of the world's peaceful and beautiful religions have been changed by those in charge of said religions. H. P. Blavatsky's knowledge of religious minutia is immense and her assertions will challenge the way you look at the world. She slices through one religious agenda after another in search of truth. No religion is safe and no show more beliefs go unchallenged. Now you can have both volumes of this esoteric masterpiece in one binding. show lessTags
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A cofounder in 1875 of the Theosophical Society and its principal catalyst and intellectual force, Helena Blavatsky has had perhaps a greater influence than any other single person on modern occultism and alternative spirituality. Born Helena de Hahn of an aristocratic Russian family, she married Nikofor Blavatsky in 1848 but soon left him to show more travel widely. While the details of her wandering years are not entirely clear, it is evident that she augmented natural psychic and spiritualist interests with much esoteric lore. In 1874 Blavatsky came to New York, where she met Henry Steel Olcott, who became the first president of the Theosophical Society upon its establishment in the following year as a vehicle for the study of arcane wisdom and the promotion of human brotherhood. In 1877 Blavatsky published her first book Isis Unveiled. In 1878-79, she and Olcott moved to India, where the new movement met with both success and controversy. Returning to Europe, she settled in London in 1887, where her major work The Secret Doctrine was published in 1888. Combining shamanistic, Hindu, Buddhist, Neoplatonist, and Cabalistic lore to reconstruct what she considered to be the primordial human wisdom, Blavatsky forcefully engaged its concepts with those of the science and religion of her day. >p> A woman of independent and colorful character, Blavatsky evoked strong responses, both positive and negative, and left a permanent legacy whose influence on modern cultural movements in both India and the West is increasingly recognized. Blavatsky died in 1891. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology
- Original publication date
- 1877
- Dedication
- 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.
- First words
- There exists somewhere in this wide world an old Book -- so very old that our modern antiquarians might ponder over its page an indefinite time, and still not quite agree as to the nature of the fabric upon which it is writte... (show all)n. [Volume I]
In the United States of America, sixty thousand (60,428) men are paid salaries to tech the Science of od and His relations to His creatures. [Volume II] - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The few elevated minds who interrogate nature instead of prescribing laws for her guidance; who do not limit her possibilities by the imperfections of their own powers; and who only disbelieve cause they do not know we would remind of that apothegm of Narada, the ancient Hindu philosopher:
"Never utter these words: ' I do not know this -- therefore it is false.'"
"One must study to know, know to understand, understand to judge.'" [Volume I]
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Our fervent wish has been to show true souls how they may lift aside the curtain, and, in the brightness of that Night made Day, look with undazzled gaze upon the UNVEILED TRUTH. [Volume II]
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