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.
SIXTH EDITION.
NEW YORK:
J. W. BOUTON, 8 WEST 28TH STREET.
LONDON: BERNARD QUARITCH.
1891.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson and Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
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 27
Eastern traditions as to Alexandrian Library 30
Roman pontiffs imitators of the Hindu Brahm-âtma 50
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 Medici. 55
Occult arts practised by the clergy 59
Witch-burnings and auto-da-fé of little children 62
Laying 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
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