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.
NEW YORK:
J. W. BOUTON, 706 BROADWAY.
LONDON: BERNARD QUARITCH.
1878.
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J. W. BOUTON.
1877.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
PAGE
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 …