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I have no intentions of stopping this blog at this point in time, Senator Watergate. You can all go away and ignore me; but I do not think this will happen. It will swing up and down, like the stock market in reverse, you know, up and down but with a lot more down than up, but always there and always, if I allow it, very fucking annoying.





The viewers as said before, are 90% MILITUFORCE SPIES, and why not if you think about it in any serious fucking mode; and the other 10% are just basic people that mean me no good at all whatsoever, mostly family and friends of them, other than for three peeps who I know for sure are there, and my 'internet-friend', something that I am learning to come to understand, you know, they are not your friend, but they are there on the internet. At my age, this makes about as much sense as falling madly in love with a continual overflowing toilet running shit water all throughout your home and all over your nice white shag rugs.





I JUST TOOK A MAJOR FREEZE HACK AND MAJOR BLACK HAT CRACKER COMPUTER ATTACK. SOME JERK OFF MOTHER FUCKING CUNT EATER VIOLATED ME AND MY CIVIL RIGHTS TO USE THIS MACHINE THAT I BOUGHT AND PAID FOR, ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI, STATE POLICE OF FLORIDA, LOCAL PEEDEE, ACLU, ETC. THIS HAPPENED AT A FEW MINUTES BEFORE SIX WHILE TRYING TO FINISH THE LAST PARAGRAPH, AND WAS STILL INTERNET LINKED TO THE BLOGGER DOT COM WEBSITE, WHERE I PASTED IN MY UPDATED BLOG DEATH STATS BIO.







THIS IS WHAT YOU CAN GET, ALSO, BY USING THE INTERNET IN ANY WAY AT ALL. LAST NIGHT I WAS RESEARCHING BLOG PROMOTING, A VERY COMPLEX PROCESS, AND DON'T LET ANYONE TELL YOU DIFFERENTLY. IF YOU HAVE A MILLION DOLLARS AND SOME PEOPLE THAT YOU CAN TRUST ABSOLUTELY AND IMPLICITLY, THEN FINE, YOU CAN PROMOTE ANYTHING, AND THE INTERNET HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. IT IS JUST ANOTHER TOOL, AND WITHOUT MONEY, AND WITH ENEMIES, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO EVER BE ABLE TO GET ANYWHERE WITH ANYTHING, AND FORGIVE ME FOR CALLING THAT STATE OF MY EXISTENCE, TOTAL FUCKING ENDLESS HELL.





WHEN I WROTE THAT 90% OF MY BLOG VIEWERS ARE JUST MILITUFORCE SPIES, THIS IS WHEN THE SYSTEM BEGAN TO FUCK UP AND WITHI SECONDS, I HAD TO FORCEFULLY SHUT DOWN AND REBOOT AND GO THROUGH ALL THE BULLSHIT, AGAIN, PAM BONDI. I DO NOT THINK IT IS FAIR THAT YOU SAY YOU ARE MY ATTORNEY GENERAL, AND SEEM TO BE AGAINST ME AND NOT CARE ABOUT LITTPLE PEOPLE KLIKE ME. SENIORS ARE TOTALLY SCREWED IN THIS EVIL ROTTEN COUNTTRY, THAT MUCH I DO KNOW, MA'AM, AND THIS SENIOR IN EMMEREFFING PARTICULAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Mizz Bondi, I don't trust my ex business partner as far as I could throw him and a ton of fecal matter. He means me no good and probably has wormed his way in with cousins of my family, maybe even of my daughter's part of the family, who can know. Ever since he got angry because his little ego can't handle the tiniest little bit of constructive criticism, when I said just reversing all of the shit that he would tell me through the years that I was associated with him back in Jersey, would make someone practically an overnight prophet. Everything he ever said was either wrong, or never ever came to pass. The man lives inside of a dream and believes that the Patsy Cline old days country music style is going to return, JUST BECAUSE HE WANTS IT TO I SUPPOSE, and the world doesn't mother fuckiGN work by what PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP wants, Pam; and then he tells me that I act 14 years old. What a quintessential mother fucking hypocrite. Maybe he is destroying my blog, who can ever know a dam thing for sure, Mizz AG of Florida, oh and congrats are in order, ma'am.







I AM SHOUTING OUT TO THE FUCKING FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION. YOU ARE DIALECT IN YOUR DUTIES AS ENFORCERS OF THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR KNOWING WHAT THESE MONSTER MOTHER FUCKERS ARE PUTTING ME THROUGH, AND DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO STOP IT, THIS IS TRULY MISFEASANCE AND MALFEASANCE, BY EVERY DEFINITION OF THESE WORDS. AGENT STEVE CARUSO OF AUSTIN, TEXAS, YOU KNOW THAT DAWN KING AND I RENTED YOUR HOME AT 831 THGIRTEENTH STREET IN HAMMONTON, NEW JERSEY, RIGHT AFTER LEAVING THE FIRST HOME WHERE I LIVED WITH THIS MONSTER FUCKIGN FAMILY, OWNED BY LOCAL TOWN JUDGE, THE HONORABLE FRANK RASSO. HE KNOWS ME, TALK TO THEM, HE IS LISTED IN THE HAMMONTON, NEW JERSEY PHONEBOOK FOR CRISSAKE, YO YO YO YO YO YO!







THEIR MOTHER FUCKIGN CUNT EATING STOCK MARKET HAS TO BE THROUGH THE ROOF. YOU KNOW RIGHT BEFORE THIS SHIT ALL STARTED ON MONDAY AFTERNOON WITH THE SKY DEATH SIEGE ASSAULT ON ME AT THE VIRGINIA AVENUE SHOPPING MALL OF FORT PIERCE, FLORIDA, USA; MY FATHER'S BURBON WING ROULETTE SYSTEM TOOK A FAILURE. IT DIDN'T CRASH YET, BUT IT IS GOING TO. EVEN THIS MIGHTRY MOTHER FUCKIGN MONSTER ASS SYSTEM CANNOT ANDLE ENDLESS DEATH PERSECUTION BY THIS TOTALLY TWISTED FUCKIGN EVIL EMPIRE AMERICA, NOT THE USA THAT I GREW UP IN AND LOVED, THIS IS AN ENTIRELY NEW AGE, DEADLY SICKENDED, AND BEYOND TOTALLY PERVERTED, DEMONIC, RUTHLESS, POWERMONGER EMPIRE. IT MAKES THE GREAT EMPIRE OF ROME, IN ALL OF ITS SO CALLED WICKED BARBARISM AND RUTHLESSNESS; PALE IN CUNT SNIFFING COMPARISON; I PROMISE YOU. I WAS THERE. I WAS THE SILVERSMITH THAT THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT, AND YOU CAN BELIEVE THIS OR NOT, MISTER MOTHER FUCKING RIPLEY, AND ALL THE REST OF YOU DAM ASS JOKERS OUT HERE. THAT IS THE FREEDOM OF PERSONAL CHOICE, AND I WOULDN'T 'FUCKIGN' HAVE IT ANY OTHER COCK LICKING 'FUCKIGN' WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!








YES THE SYSTEM IS NOT ABLE, NOR WAS WHAT I DID IN 1986 ABLE; TO BEAT BOTH THE GAME OF ROULETTE, AS WELL AS THE 'NEGAMEGGING' EFFECT ON ME; THAT THIS MONSTER MOTHER FUCKING WOMO-MILITUFORCE-TAWF, HAS THRUST UPON ME, EVER SINCE AUGUST 15, 1986. BEFORE THAT DATE, GREAT SYSTEMS APPLIED TO THIS GAME BY ME, WOULD CONSISTENTLY FUCKING CUNT WIN, BUT SINCE THIS MOTHER 'FUCKIGN' MONSTER SATANIC DATE; A LINE IN THE MOTHER 'FUCKIGN' SAND WAS DRAWN FOREVER; AND THERE IS NO CUNT HUFFING WAY BACK TO WHERE I USED TO LIVE. NOW, I RESIDE IN ETERNAL MOTHER 'FUCKIGN' HELL; AND FOR THIS INFORMATION TO BE SEEN BACK IN 1987, OR HEARD ON A CASSTTE TAPE AT LEAST; HERE IS THE MUSIC PROJECT IN THE UNTITED STATES COPYRIGHT OFFICE, THAT YOU NEED TO ACCESS. GO THERE AND TELL THE EXAMINERS YOU WANT TO HEAR IT, AS I KNEW FROM A MILLION BILLION MOTHER 'FUCKIGN' YEARS AGO, THAT ALL OF THIS SHIT WAS ALL GOING TO 'FUCKIGN' GO DOWN, AND THAT I WAS TOTALLY 100% POWERLESS TO ONE TINY THING ABOUT, IT OR STOP IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOUNDS LIKE YOUR IDEA OF HELL THERE, MISTER JORDY ERTERPRISE-TREK, OR MINE; OR ONE OF OURS, MY GOOD FRIEND? MY BEST TO NIKKI SARJENKA COX. WOW DID SHE BECOME A HOTTY CUBED!





OH CHRIST, LET ME OUT OF THIS PRISON, DIANA!


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Have you ever ever wondered where the dam shadows dwell by day, all the things you think you know and the thoughts you cannot say? But those greedy Stone Harbor, New Jersey fishermen, here's what they will say. “I've been working hard out in the sun all day. God, those stinky freaking fish.

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I KNEW WHEN THEY WERE POURING IT ON TODAY, THAT I WAS GETTNG HAMMERED BY A BULL ON MOTHER FUCKING WALL STREET, JUST LIKE OVER THE FUCKING CUNT WEEKEND, GOOD FOLKS. I HAVE GONE THROUGH THIS MISERABLE ICPE-APE-PARALLEL-EVENT NIGHTMARE FUCKING CRAP SINCE AUGUST 15, 1986; SO I THINK I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT AFTER ALL THIS MOTHER FUCKING TIME AND HELLISH PERSECUTION!!!!





























I HAVE TOTALLY COME TO LEARN, THAT GOD IS THE DEVIL. THIS WAS A VERY HARD THING FOR ME TO MOTHER FUCKIGN FACE, PEOPLE, BUT I FACED IT, AND NONE OF YOU HAVE THE FUCKIGN BALLS TO FACE IT. MY BLOGS PROVE THESE WORDS OUT, BUT ONLY IF YOU OPEN UP YOUR MOTHER 'FUCKIGN' MINDS. INSTEAD; BE LITTLE CRYBABIES LIKE ****-********, AND JUST GO AWAY. THAT'S FINE AND COOL AND DANDY, WITH THIS FOREVER 'FUCKIGN' 14 YEAR OLD BOY, WAITING ENDLESSLY AT HIS SEASHORE BEACH SAND FORT; FOR THE FUCKING CUNT LAPPING TIDE TO COME IN, AND WRECK IT; THE WAY HIS LIFE WAS TOTALLY 'FUCKIGN' WRECKED, BY THESE TOTAL MOTHER 'FUCKIGN' JACK OFF COCK SUCKERS; CUBED, AND SQUARED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!











HAY GAWKY GAUKAUK, YO, WHY DID MY ROTTEN NABES PERSECUTE ME TO DEATH ALL OF YESTERDAY, THE FOURTH DAY OF FUCKING NOVEMBER, AND ELECTION DAY????????????



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HAY GAWKY GAUKAUK, YO, WHAT WAS THE REASON THAT I FELL UNDER A NIGHTMARE HORRIBLE AIR SIEGE ON NOVEMBER 13, MONDAY, WHILE OUT ON MY ERRANDS, AFTER LEAVING THE PUBLIX GROCERY FUCKING STORE?????????????????????



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DAWN KING, DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGES, SARAH SAID ON TENNESSEE AVENUE, 'HERO' SONG, MAXFIELD, DICK WOLF, ROY CAREY, FRACTURE, BLUEBOOK, CASSETTE, HYPNOSIS, PAM BONDI----------------------------------------











EVERY MOTHER 'FUCKIGN' TIME A SYSTEM GOES SOUTH, THAT WAS WORKING SUPER WELL, UNTIL THE EVENTUAL NEGGEMAGGING DONE TO ME BY THIS BEYOND EVIL ROTTEN MOTHER 'FUCKIGN' WOMO-MILITUFORCE; THE MARKETS GAIN THOUSANDS OF POINTS. IT HAS ONE WAY NOW TO GO, UP AND UP AND UP AND UP AND UP TO 30,000 POINTS IN A COUPLE OF YEARS, AND BY END OF DECADE, TO 50,000 POINTS, AS I TOLD YOU ALL, ALL CUNT SNIFFING FUCKING ALONG. AND I WAS RIGHT. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!! FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION CHAIRMAN ROBERT MCDOWELL, AND MY OLD 1972 SCHOOL BUDDY, I JUST PICKED UP A (`~HACK), YO YO YO YO YO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Except for that, the machine is working great, so thank you and thank you Mizz Bondi, for anything that you can do for me, along with the Florida STATE TROOPERS, THANK YOU & THANK YOU!!!!!!











THIS WAS HOW DIRT BAG CROOK CHEATER, AND DISTANT COUSIN, DONALD JOHN TRUMP, AND HIS FUCKING CASTLE CASINO, NOW CALLED THE TRUMP MARINA, IF IT IS STILL THERE; CHEATRED ME, AND STOPPED ME, FROM BEING ABLE TO FINALLY BREAK AWAY FROM MY FAMILY CURSE, AFTER 'FUCKIGN' 2000 FUCKING YEARS; BACK IN 1986!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HOPE YOU ARE PROUD OF YURSELF, YOU BIG HEREO. GET MY DAUGHTERS FUCKING CD AND LISTEN TO HER LOVELY VOICE TELLING YOU SO; YOU LARD ASS SICK MOTHER FUCKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



















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ISIS UNVEILED:


A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology


By H. P. Blavatsky




Blavatsky's first major work on theosophy, examining religion and science in the light of Western and Oriental ancient wisdom and occult and spiritualistic phenomena.

Theosophical University Press Online Edition (print version also available). Electronic version ISBN 1-55700-135-9. This edition may be downloaded for off-line viewing without charge. Because of current limitations in ASCII character fonts, and for ease of searching, no diacritical marks appear in the electronic version of the text.



CONTENTS


DETAILED CONTENTS, VOLUME 1 and VOLUME 2

VOLUME 1



PREFACE (pages v - viii)

BEFORE THE VEIL (pages ix - xlv)

Dogmatic assumptions of modern science and theology / The Platonic philosophy affords the only middle ground / Review of the ancient philosophical systems / A Syriac manuscript on Simon Magus / Glossary of terms used in this book

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Volume First: THE "INFALLIBILITY" OF MODERN SCIENCE.


CHAPTER 1: OLD THINGS WITH NEW NAMES (pages 1 - 38)

The Oriental Kabala / Ancient traditions supported by modern research / The progress of mankind marked by cycles / Ancient cryptic science / Priceless value of the Vedas / Mutilations of the Jewish sacred books in translation / Magic always regarded as a divine science / Achievements of its adepts and hypotheses of their modern detractors / Man's yearning for immortality

CHAPTER 2: PHENOMENA AND FORCES (pages 39 - 73)

The servility of society / Prejudice and bigotry of men of science / They are chased by psychical phenomena / Lost arts / The human will the master-force of forces / Superficial generalizations of the French savants / Mediumistic phenomena, to what attributable / Their relation to crime

CHAPTER 3: BLIND LEADERS OF THE BLIND (pages 74 - 99)

Huxley's derivation from the Orohippus / Comte, his system and disciples / The London materialists / Borrowed robes / Emanation of the objective universe from the subjective

CHAPTER 4: THEORIES RESPECTING PSYCHIC PHENOMENA (pages 100 - 125)

Theory of de Gasparin / [[Theory]] of Thury / [[Theory]] of des Mousseaux, de Mirville / [[Theory]] of Babinet / [[Theory]] of Houdin / [[Theory]] of MM. Royer and Jobart de Lamballe / The twins — "unconscious cerebration" and "unconscious ventriloquism" / Theory of Crookes / [[Theory]] of Faraday / [[Theory]] of Chevreuil / The Mendeleyeff commission of 1876 / Soul blindness

CHAPTER 5: THE ETHER, OR "ASTRAL LIGHT" (pages 126 - 162)

One primal force, but many correlations / Tyndall narrowly escapes a great discovery / The impossibility of miracle / Nature of the primordial substance / Interpretation of certain ancient myths / Experiments of the fakirs / Evolution in Hindu allegory

CHAPTER 6: PSYCHO-PHYSICAL PHENOMENA (pages 163 - 205)

The debt we owe to Paracelsus / Mesmerism — its parentage, reception, potentiality / "Psychometry" / Time, space, eternity / Transfer of energy from the visible to the invisible universe / The Crookes experiments and Cox theory

CHAPTER 7: THE ELEMENTS, ELEMENTALS, AND ELEMENTARIES (pages 206 - 252)

Attraction and repulsion universal in all the kingdoms of nature / Psychical phenomena depend on physical surroundings / Observations in Siam / Music in nervous disorders / The "world-soul" and its potentialities / Healing by touch, and healers / "Diakka" and Porphyry's bad demons / The quenchless lamp / Modern ignorance of vital force / Antiquity of the theory of force-correlation / Universality of belief in magic

CHAPTER 8: SOME MYSTERIES OF NATURE (pages 253 - 292)

Do the planets affect human destiny? / Very curious passage from Hermes / The restlessness of matter / Prophecy of Nostradamus fulfilled / Sympathies between planets and plants / Hindu knowledge of the properties of colors / "Coincidences" the panacea of modern science / The moon and the tides / Epidemic mental and moral disorders / The gods of the Pantheons only natural forces / Proofs of the magical powers of Pythagoras / The viewless races of ethereal space / The "four truths" of Buddhism

CHAPTER 9: CYCLIC PHENOMENA (pages 293 - 337)

Meaning of the expression "coats of skin" / Natural selection and its results / The Egyptian "circle of necessity" / Pre-Adamite races / Descent of spirit into matter / The triune nature of man / The lowest creatures in the scale of being / Elementals specifically described / Proclus on the beings of the air / Various names for elementals / Swedenborgian views on soul-death / Earth-bound human souls / Impure mediums and their "guides" / Psychometry an aid to scientific research

CHAPTER 10: THE INNER AND OUTER MAN (pages 338 - 378)

Pere Felix arraigns the scientists / The "Unknowable" / Danger of evocations by tyros / Lares and Lemures / Secrets of Hindu temples / Reincarnation / Witchcraft and witches/ The sacred soma trance / Vulnerability of certain "shadows" / Experiment of Clearchus on a sleeping boy / The author witnesses a trial of magic in India / Case of the Cevennois

CHAPTER 11: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL MARVELS (pages 379 - 416)

Invulnerability attainable by man / Projecting the force of the will / Insensibility to snake-poison / Charming serpents by music / Teratological phenomena discussed / The psychological domain confessedly unexplored / Despairing regrets of Berzelius / Turning a river into blood a vegetable phenomenon

CHAPTER 12: THE "IMPASSABLE CHASM" (pages 417 - 461)

Confessions of ignorance by men of science / The Pantheon of nihilism / Triple composition of fire / Instinct and reason defined / Philosophy of the Hindu Jains/ Deliberate misrepresentations of Lempriere / Man's astral soul not immortal / The reincarnation of Buddha / Magical sun and moon pictures of Thibet / Vampirism — its phenomena explained / Bengalese jugglery

CHAPTER 13: REALITIES AND ILLUSION (pages 462 - 514)

The rationale of talismans / Unexplained mysteries / Magical experiment in Bengal / Chibh Chondor's surprising feats / The Indian tape-climbing trick an illusion / Resuscitation of buried fakirs / Limits of suspended animation / Mediumship totally antagonistic to adeptship / What are "materialized spirits"? / The Shudala Madan / Philosophy of levitation / The elixir and alkahest

CHAPTER 14: EGYPTIAN WISDOM (pages 515 - 574)

Origin of the Egyptians / Their mighty engineering works / The ancient land of the Pharaohs / Antiquity of the Nilotic monuments / Arts of war and peace / Mexican myths and ruins / Resemblances to the Egyptian / Moses a priest of Osiris / The lessons taught by the ruins of Siam / The Egyptian Tau at Palenque

CHAPTER 15: INDIA THE CRADLE OF THE RACE (575 - 628)

Acquisition of the "secret doctrine" / Two relics owned by a Pali scholar / Jealous exclusiveness of the Hindus / Lydia Maria Child on Phallic symbolism / The age of the Vedas and Manu / Traditions of pre-diluvian races / Atlantis and its peoples / Peruvian relics / The Gobi desert and its secrets / Thibetan and Chinese legends / The magician aids, not impedes, nature / Philosophy, religion, arts and sciences bequeathed by Mother India to posterity

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VOLUME 2


TITLE PAGE

PREFACE (iii - iv)

Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson and Baroness Burdett-Coutts.

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Volume Second: THE "INFALLIBILITY" OF MODERN RELIGION.


CHAPTER 1: THE CHURCH: WHERE IS IT? (1-54)

Church statistics / Catholic "miracles" and spiritualistic "phenomena" / Christian and Pagan beliefs compared / Magic and sorcery practiced by Christian clergy / Comparative theology a new science / Eastern traditions as to Alexandrian Library / Roman pontiffs imitators of the Hindu Brahm-atma / Christian dogmas derived from heathen philosophy / Doctrine of the Trinity of Pagan origin / Disputes between Gnostics and Church Fathers / Bloody records of Christianity

CHAPTER 2: CHRISTIAN CRIMES AND HEATHEN VIRTUES. (55-122)

Sorceries of Catherine of Medicis / Occult arts practiced by the clergy / Witch-burnings and auto-da-fe of little children / Lying Catholic saints / Pretensions of missionaries in India and China / Sacrilegious tricks of Catholic clergy / Paul a kabalist / Peter not the founder of Roman church / Strict lives of Pagan hierophants / High character of ancient "mysteries" / Jacolliot's account of Hindu fakirs / Christian symbolism derived from Phallic worship / Hindu doctrine of the Pitris / Brahminic spirit-communion / Dangers of untrained mediumship /

CHAPTER 3: DIVISIONS AMONGST THE EARLY CHRISTIANS. (123-166)

Resemblance between early Christianity and Buddhism / Peter never in Rome / Meanings of "Nazar" and "Nazarene" / Baptism a derived right / Is Zoroaster a generic name? / Pythagorean teachings of Jesus / The Apocalypse kabalistic / Jesus considered an adept by some Pagan philosophers and early Christians / Doctrine of permutation / The meaning of God-Incarnate / Dogmas of the Gnostics / Ideas of Marcion, the "heresiarch" / Precepts of Manu / Jehovah identical with Bacchus

CHAPTER 4: ORIENTAL COSMOGONIES AND BIBLE RECORDS. (167-211)

Discrepancies in the Pentateuch / Indian, Chaldean and Ophite systems compared / Who were the first Christians? / Christos and Sophia-Achamoth / Secret doctrine taught by Jesus / Jesus never claimed to be God / New Testament narratives and Hindu legends / Antiquity of the "Logos" and "Christ" / Comparative Virgin-worship

CHAPTER 5: MYSTERIES OF THE KABALA. (212-250)

En-Soph and the Sephiroth / The primitive wisdom-religion / The book of Genesis a compilation of Old World legends / The Trinity of the Kabala / Gnostic and Nazarene systems contrasted with Hindu myths / Kabalism in the book of Ezekiel / Story of the resurrection of Jairus's daughter found in the history of Christna / Untrustworthy teachings of the early Fathers / Their persecuting spirit

CHAPTER 6: ESOTERIC DOCTRINES OF BUDDHISM PARODIED IN CHRISTIANITY. (251-290)

Decisions of Nicean Council, how arrived at / Murder of Hypatia / Origin of the fish-symbol of Vishnu / Kabalistic doctrine of the Cosmogony / Diagrams of Hindu and Chaldeo-Jewish systems / Ten mythical Avatars of Vishnu / Trinity of man taught by Paul / Socrates and Plato on soul and spirit / True Buddhism, what it is

CHAPTER 7: EARLY CHRISTIAN HERESIES AND SECRET SOCIETIES. (291-347)

Nazareans, Ophites, and modern Druzes / Etymology of IAO / "Hermetic Brothers" of Egypt / True meaning of Nirvana / The Jayna sect / Christians and Chrestians / The Gnostics and their detractors / Buddha, Jesus, and Apollonius of Tyana

CHAPTER 8: JESUITRY AND MASONRY. (348-404)

The Sohar and Rabbi Simeon / The Order of Jesuits and its relation to some of the Masonic orders / Crimes permitted to its members / Principles of Jesuitry compared with those of Pagan moralists / Trinity of man in Egyptian Book of the Dead / Freemasonry no longer esoteric / Persecution of Templars by the Church / Secret Masonic ciphers / Jehovah not the "Ineffable Name"

CHAPTER 9: THE VEDAS AND THE BIBLE. (405-476)

Nearly every myth based on some great truth / Whence the Christian Sabbath / Antiquity of the Vedas / Pythagorean doctrine of the potentialities of numbers / "Days" of Genesis and "Days" of Brahma / Fall of man and the Deluge in the Hindu books / Antiquity of the Mahabharata / Were the ancient Egyptians of the Aryan race? / Samuel, David, and Solomon mythical personages / Symbolism of Noah's Ark / The Patriarchs identical with zodiacal signs / All Bible legends belong to universal history

CHAPTER 10: THE DEVIL-MYTH. (477-529)

The devil officially recognized by the Church / Satan the mainstay of sacerdotalism / Identity of Satan with the Egyptian Typhon / His relation to serpent-worship / The Book of Job and the Book of the Dead / The Hindu devil a metaphysical abstraction / Satan and the Prince of Hell in the Gospel of Nicodemus

CHAPTER 11: COMPARATIVE RESULTS OF BUDDHISM AND CHRISTIANITY. (530-586)

The age of philosophy produced no atheists / The legends of three Saviours / Christian doctrine of the Atonement illogical / Cause of the failure of missionaries to convert Buddhists and Brahmanists / Neither Buddha nor Jesus left written records / The grandest mysteries of religion in the Bagaved-gita / The meaning of regeneration explained in the Satapa-Brahmana / The sacrifice of blood interpreted / Demoralization of British India by Christian missionaries / The Bible less authenticated than any other sacred book / Knowledge of chemistry and physics displayed by Indian jugglers

CHAPTER 12: CONCLUSIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. (587-640)

Recapitulation of fundamental propositions / Seership of the soul and of the spirit / The phenomenon of the so-called spirit-hand / Difference between mediums and adepts / Interview of an English ambassador with a reincarnated Buddha / Flight of a lama's astral body related by Abbe Huc / Schools of magic in Buddhist lamaseries / The unknown race of Hindu Todas / Will-power of fakirs and yogis / Taming of wild beasts by fakirs / Evocation of a living spirit by a Shaman, witnessed by the writer / Sorcery by the breath of a Jesuit Father / Why the study of magic is almost impracticable in Europe / Conclusion

APPENDICES


"My Books," by H. P. Blavatsky

"How Isis Unveiled Was Written" by Alexander Wilder, M. D.





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Isis Unveiled by H. P. Blavatsky

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Appendix 3


How "Isis Unveiled" Was Written.*


By Alexander Wilder, M. D.


From The Word, May 1908 (7:2)

*The authorship of "Isis Unveiled" has sometimes been questioned. Some persons have claimed it for themselves. The one individual best able to bear witness, from among all who had personal knowledge of the authorship, is Alexander Wilder, physician and scholar, the most able of the Platonists. To-day, at 85 years, he has the buoyancy of youth, the mental virility of manhood, and all with his Platonic "enthusiasm." — H. W. P.

One morning in the autumn of 1876, I saw in the New York "Tribune" the mention of a work in process of publication styled "Art-Magic," which would treat of recondite subjects. Having from earlier years been interested in such matters, I wrote to the address there given and received a reply from Mrs. Hardinge-Britton. Besides answering my inquiry, she told me of the forming of a Theosophical Society, then taking place. But I did not pursue this clue. I had become disgusted with individual pretensions to superior powers, and unusual names have for me no attraction. Some weeks later, however, learning that the book had been printed, I called upon Mrs. Britton and received a copy. She stated that the author did not give his name, and that he would not require the payment which I was to make, paying a compliment to my intellectual qualifications as something unusual in this field. The book was very interesting to me, and contained many valuable nuggets in relation to arcane matters. Unfortunately, there was no index, and the omission of an index takes away half the usefulness of a book to a student. There was no allusion in the book to the Theosophical Society, and I had no curiosity to know about the organization.

At that time I had been editing several publications for Mr. J. W. Bouton, a bookseller in New York, and was lecturing and contributing papers for one or two periodicals. Other engagements and associations had been laid aside. I had barely heard of Madame Blavatsky, but in no connection with anything relating to Theosophy, or other subject that I knew anything about. She had been described as having introduced herself to an acquaintance as a "rushing Russian," and her manner had attracted attention. Nothing more was elicited at that time.

On a pleasant afternoon, in early autumn, some months later, I was alone in the house. The bell was rung, and I answered at the door. Colonel Henry S. Olcott was there with an errand to myself. I did not recognize him, as I had never had any occasion to make his acquaintance, but he having had some governmental business with one of my employers several years before, had known me ever since. He had never suspected, however, that I took any interest whatever in unusual subjects; so completely successful had I been in keeping myself unknown even to those who from daily association imagined that they knew me very thoroughly. A long service in journalism, familiar relations with public men, and active participation in political matters, seemed to have shut out from notice an ardent passion for mystic speculation, and the transcendental philosophy. I think that Colonel Olcott had himself been taken somewhat by surprise.

He had been referred to me by Mr. Bouton. Madam Blavatsky had compiled a work upon occult and philosophic subjects, and Mr. Bouton had been asked in relation to undertaking its publication. Why it had been referred to me I could never well understand. Mr. Bouton had taken passage for England a few days before, and I had visited him several times, even going over from Newark to bid him farewell the morning that he left. Yet he had not said a word to me about the manuscript. Did he really expect me to read it, or was he merely endeavoring to shirk having anything to do with it without actually refusing outright? I am now inclined to the opinion that he referred Colonel Olcott to me to evade saying "No." At the time, however, I supposed that, although the mode of proceeding was not that of a man of business, Mr. Bouton really meant that I should examine the work, and I agreed to undertake the task.

It was truly a ponderous document and displayed research in a very extended field, requiring diligence, familiarity with the various topics, as well as a purpose to be fair to the writer. Regarding myself as morally obligated to act for the advantage of Mr. Bouton, I showed no favor beyond what I believed justice to demand. I regarded it a duty to be severe. In my report to him, I stated that the manuscript was the product of great research, and that so far as related to current thinking, there was a revolution in it, but I added that I deemed it too long for remunerative publishing.

Mr. Bouton, however, presently agreed to publish the work. I never learned the terms, but subsequent occurrences led me to presume that they were not carefully considered. He procured the copyright in his own name, which enabled him to control the price, and he refused every proposition afterward to transfer the ownership to the author, or to cheapen the cost. He placed the manuscript again in my hands, with instructions to shorten it as much as it would bear. This was a discretionary power that was far from agreeable. It can hardly be fair that a person acting solely in behalf of the publisher should have such authority over the work of an author. Nevertheless, I undertook the task. While abridging the work, I endeavored in every instance to preserve the thought of the author in plain language, removing only such terms and matter as might be regarded as superfluous, and not necessary to the main purpose. In this way, enough was taken out to fill a volume of respectable dimensions. In doing all this, I consulted only what I supposed to be Mr. Bouton's advantage, and believed that he so regarded it, as I had only his instructions. But it proved to be only a "labor of love."

Colonel Olcott was very desirous that I should become acquainted with Madam Blavatsky. He appeared to hold her in high regard closely approaching to veneration, and to consider the opportunity to know her a rare favor for any one. I was hardly able to share his enthusiasm. Having a natural diffidence about making new acquaintances, and acting as a critic upon her manuscript, I hesitated for a long time. Finally, however, these considerations were passed over and I accompanied him to their establishment in Forty-seventh Street.

It was a "flat," that unhomelike fashion of abode that now extends over populous cities, superseding the household and family relationship wherever it prevails. The building where they lived had been "transmogrified" for such purposes, and they occupied a suite of apartments on an upper floor. The household in this case comprised several individuals, with separate employments. They generally met at meal-time, together with such guests from elsewhere as might happen to be making a visit.

The dining room was furnished in simple style with no affectation of anything unusual or extraordinary. Perhaps, I ought to add that later in the year following, this condition was quite considerably modified. The autumn of 1879 was characterized, as I have never since observed it, by the richness of color in the foliage. Numerous parties visited the woods around to gather the tinted leaves for ornamental purposes. One of the inmates of the flat, a foreigner who was in rapport with the Theosophical fraternity, had in this way, procured a large quantity and set herself to use them to decorate the dining room. She made several emblematic figures, the double triangle being the principal one of these. Then she followed with an Oriental landscape extending the length of the apartment. There were to be seen the figures of an elephant, a monkey, and other creatures, and a man standing as if contemplating the scene. This decoration remained through the winter till the household had broken up. I then brought it away to Newark and set it up in a hall. Here it remained several years. It was there when Mr. G. R. S. Mead visited me. I sent it afterward to Miss Caroline Hancock at Sacramento, and she in turn presented it to the Theosophical Society at San Francisco. Doubtless it has long since met the fate of wornout furniture. But it had notoriety in its earlier days, from the admiration of visitors for its ingenuity and oddness of conception, and descriptions of it were published in several newspapers.

The study in which Madam Blavatsky lived and worked was arranged after a quaint and very primitive manner. It was a large front room, and being on the side next the street, was well lighted. In the midst of this was her "den," a spot fenced off on three sides by temporary partitions, writing desk and shelves for books. She had it as convenient as it was unique. She had but to reach out an arm to get a book, paper or other article that she might desire, that was within the enclosure. The place could not accord with a vivid sense of beauty, except after the ancient Greek conception that beauty is fitness for its purpose, everything certainly being convenient and handy. In this place Madam Blavatsky reigned supreme, gave her orders, issued her judgments, conducted her correspondence, received her visitors and produced the manuscript of her book.

She did not resemble in manner or figure what I had been led to expect. She was tall, but not strapping; her countenance bore the marks and exhibited the characteristics of one who had seen much, thought much, traveled much, and experienced much. Her figure reminded me of the description which Hippokrates has given to the Scyths, the race from which she probably descended. Her dress I do not feel competent to describe, and in fact never noticed so as to be able to remember. I am a man and seldom observant of a woman's attire. My attention is given to the individual, and unless the clothing should be strikingly different from the current style, I would be unable to speak of it intelligently or intelligibly. All that I have to say is that she was completely dressed. Her appearance was certainly impressive, but in no respect was she coarse, awkward, or ill-bred. On the other hand she exhibited culture, familiarity with the manners of the most courtly society and genuine courtesy itself. She expressed her opinions with boldness and decision, but not obtrusively. It was easy to perceive that she had not been kept within the circumscribed limitations of a common female education; she knew a vast variety of topics and could discourse freely upon them.

In several particulars, I presume that I never fairly or fully understood her. Perhaps this may have extended further than I am willing to admit. I have heard tell of her profession of superhuman powers and of extraordinary occurrences that would be termed miraculous. I, too, believe, like Hamlet, that there are more things in heaven and earth than our wise men of this age are willing to believe. But Madam Blavatsky never made any such claim to me. We always discoursed of topics which were familiar to both, as individuals on a common plane. Colonel Olcott often spoke to me as one who enjoyed a grand opportunity, but she herself made no affectation of superiority. Nor did I ever see or know of any such thing occurring with anyone else.

She professed, however, to have communicated with personages whom she called "the Brothers," and intimated that this, at times, was by the agency, or some means analogous to what is termed "telepathy." It is not necessary to show or insist that this mode of communication has been known and even carried on from antiquity. The Khabar is well known in the Orient. I have supposed that an important condition for ability to hold such intercourse was abstinence from artificial stimulation such as comes from the use of flesh as food, alcoholic drink and other narcotic substances. I do not attach any specific immorality to these things, but I have conjectured that such abstemiousness was essential in order to give the mental powers full play, and to the noetic faculty free course without impediment or contamination from lower influence. But Madam Blavatsky displayed no such asceticism. Her table was well furnished, but without profusion, and after a manner not differing from that of other housekeepers. Besides, she indulged freely in the smoking of cigarettes, which she made as she had occasion. I never saw any evidence that these things disturbed, or in any way interfered with her mental acuteness or activity.

At my first visit, her reception was courteous and even friendly. She seemed to become acquainted at once. She spoke of the abridgements which I had made of her manuscript, extolling what I had done far beyond what it deserved. "What had been taken out was 'flapdoodle,' " she declared. My judgment, certainly, had not been so severe as that. I had not looked for defects, or found them, but only to ascertain how the manuscript might be "boiled down," without affecting the general purpose. In other cases, it has been my rule to scrutinize unprinted manuscript in quest of faults, but to look when it has been printed, to find out its meaning and merits. In this instance, however, I had aimed only to shorten without marring the work. It should be stated, however, as a fact in the publication of this work, that Madam Blavatsky continued to add matter, after Mr. Bouton began the undertaking, and I think that much of the second volume was then written. I have no recollection of much of it except in proof sheets at a later period.

It was no easy matter to give the publication a fitting title. I do not remember that my services were asked in this matter, and certainly they would not have been worth the asking. It is a department in which I am particularly weak. Nor do I think the name unexceptionable which was adopted.

Mr. Bouton is entitled to that distinction. He was a skilful caterer in the bookselling world to which he belonged, but he had business ability rather than a sense of fitness. He once published the treatise of R. Payne Knight on Ancient Art and added pictures relating solely to Hindu mythology, entirely foreign to the subject. This work of Madam Blavatsky is largely based upon the hypothesis of a prehistoric period of the Aryan people in India, and in such a period the veil or the unveiling of Isis can hardly be said to constitute any part. On the contrary, it is a dramatic representation peculiar to the religion and wisdom of Egypt and perhaps is allied to the Syrian Hyksos enormities. Certainly the problems of Egyptian lore are to be considered with other pens than those with which " Isis Unveiled " was written.

After the work had been printed and placed on sale, there was discussion in regard to the actual authorship. Many were unwilling to acknowledge that Madam Blavatsky could be sufficiently well informed or intellectually capable of such a production. True that women like Frances Burney had composed romances of high merit. Miss Farley had conducted successfully the " Lowell Offering." Mary Somerville had written on Physical Science, and Harriet Martineau on Political Economy.

A clergyman in New York, a member of the Russian Greek Church, I have been told, affirmed that I was the actual author. That report, however, can hardly have gone far. It would be refuted after the manner that the late Henry Ward Beecher put a stop to a similar one. He tells us that when Uncle Tom's Cabin was published there were many who insisted that he, and not Mrs. Stowe was the author. "Then," says Mr. Beecher, "I wrote Norwood," which entirely disposed of the matter. So, too, nobody familiar with my style of writing would ever impute to me the authorship of Isis Unveiled.

I would hesitate, likewise, to be considered in any noteworthy sense as an editor of the work. It is true that after Mr. Bouton had agreed to become the publisher, I was asked to read the proof sheets and make sure that the Hebrew words and terms belonging to other languages were correctly given by the printer, but I added nothing, and do not remember that I ventured to control anything that was contributed to the work. Without her knowledge and approval, such action would have been reprehensible.

While she was engaged in the work, she had many books relating to the various topics, evidently for consultation. There were Jacolliot's work on India, Bunsen's Egypt, Ennemoser's History of Magic and others. I had myself written papers upon a variety of subjects for the Phrenological Journal and other periodicals, and she had procured many of them. We often discussed the topics, and their various characteristics, for she was a superior conversationalist and at home on every matter about which we discoursed. She spoke the English language with the fluency of one perfectly familiar with it, and who thought in it. It was the same to me as though talking with any man of my acquaintance. She was ready to take the idea as it was expressed, and uttered her own thoughts clearly, concisely and often forcibly. Some of the words which she employed had characteristics which indicated their source. Any thing which she did not approve or hold in respect she promptly disposed of as "flapdoodle." I have never heard or encountered the term elsewhere. Not even the acts or projects of Colonel Olcott escaped such scathing, and in fact he not unfrequently came under her scorching criticism. He writhed under it, but, except for making some brief expression at the time, he did not appear to cherish resentment.

In regard to the genuineness of her authorship, a story was once told me, which has been imagined by some to have a direct relation to the matter. I suppose this to be the occasion of several letters addressed to me upon the subject. My informant was the late Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson of Boston. Mrs. Thompson was a woman of wealth, abounding with benevolent purposes, but eager for novelties that were more or less visionary, shifting from one pursuit to another, and accessible to flattery. For example, she gave the money which enabled a medical college to hold several lecture terms, and then let the enterprise die out; she paid for building a chapel for the sessions of the Summer School of Philosophy at Concord, and then tired of the enterprise; she aided Dr. Newbrough with money to print his new bible Oahspe, and employed the artist, Mr. Frank Carpenter, to paint the picture of President Lincoln and his cabinet, which she presented to Congress. The wealth which her husband had bequeathed to her became a bait for all manner of parasites to seek her, and flattery artfully bestowed was often like the magical words: "Open, sesame," sure to find the way to her purse. But she quickly dropped one for another.

For a little time she was attracted to Madam Blavatsky. This was somewhat to be wondered at, for it is hard to conceive that Madam Blavatsky flattered anybody. She did not hesitate to tell Henry Ward Beecher when he was at the height of his popularity, that he was not an honest public teacher.

It might be questioned whether Mrs. Thompson herself was quite sincere. I remember meeting her one day at dinner at the flat. A statement which I made was imputed by Colonel Olcott to the "Astral light."

Some days later, I saw Mrs. Thompson at her own premises, and she asked me my opinion in a manner that impressed me that she was hardly straightforward in her relations with the Theosophical household.

A year or so afterward, they had left New York for India. Mrs. Thompson had become an inmate of the family of Dr. Newbrough on West 34th Street. He was endeavoring to push the "new Bible" into circulation. I called there one day by invitation, and learning that she had rooms in the house, paid her my respects. In our conversation, Madam Blavatsky was mentioned, and Mrs. Thompson spoke of her in these terms:

"If Madam Blavatsky should come in at that door I should kiss her affectionately. At the same time I believe her to be a perfect humbug."'

She then related the following story: Baron de Palm, a German gentleman, who spent some time in this country, had died in Roosevelt Hospital. He had devoted much attention to arcane subjects, and had written upon them. He was intimate with the party on 47th Street, and made them recipients of his property, but with the assurance that his body should be cremated. There was a woman in the household who seems to have become unfriendly and ready to talk at random. She told Mrs. Thompson that after the death of the Baron she was with Madam Blavatsky while examining the contents of his trunks. One of these, the woman said, was full of manuscripts. Madam Blavatsky looked at a few of the pages, and then hastily closed the trunk, making an effort to divert attention in another direction.

Mrs. Thompson apparently believed that this manuscript was the material of the work Isis Unveiled. Certainly she endeavored to give me that impression. But I am not apt at taking hints, and do not like others to suppose that I imply what I do not explicitly say. The giving of hints is hardly an honorable practice; it is an evasion, and often simply the affectation of knowing something beyond which is directly communicated. I never made use of this story, and repeated it only to Dr. R. B. Westbrook, of Philadelphia, and to Colonel Olcott when I next met him in New York.

Several individuals have written letters, as though I knew something that would discredit the sincerity of Madam Blavatsky and the genuineness of the originality of Isis Unveiled. My reply was that she had always dealt justly with me, and I had no disposition to speak unkindly of her. I mean always to avoid being sycophantic or credulous, but I will not recompense fair treatment by evil or unfriendly speaking.

It will readily be perceived that there was really no evidence sufficient to warrant the imputing of the authorship of Isis Unveiled to Baron de Palm. I do not know whether, being of foreign birth, he could write fluently in the English language. It is not known that the manuscript in the trunk was written for publication, or was in any proper book form. Indeed, I have never been informed whether he contemplated such a work, or even that he had sufficient capacity. All this would require to be taken for granted, before it would be permissible to presume any imposture in the authorship.

The manuscript which I handled I am very sure was in the handwriting of Madam Blavatsky herself. Anybody who was familiar with her, would, upon reading the first volume of Isis Unveiled, not have any difficulty in recognizing her as the author. Nor was the manuscript, voluminous as it was, sufficiently extensive to include a large trunk full of written paper. Besides, a full third, or even more, of what was published, was written by Madam Blavatsky after Mr. Bouton had set about putting the work in type. She was by no means expert in preparing her material. She patched and changed, making a very large bill for "alterations." Indeed, she never actually finished the work, the publisher declared to me, till he told her that she must stop.

It had been desired of me that I should read the proofsheets. It was not my province to dictate or even suggest what should be included in the work, and I do not remember taking exception but once. She had described certain medical treatment, with apparent approval, in which mercury was a factor. To this drug I entertain a lifelong antipathy. I have seen individuals "railroaded" out of life by its use as medicine, and others crippled hopelessly. My protestations may have induced her to qualify her eulogy.

She always treated me with courtesy. When her work was most urgent, or she had been wearied with visitors, she commanded the woman at the door to turn off all callers. That prohibition was repeatedly spoken to me, but as she heard my voice, she would call out to admit me. This occurred when the call was not a matter of business. She was ready in conversation, and was at home on any topic, however abstruse. Few persons in any walk of life are as well supplied with material for discourse. Even Colonel Olcott, who was by no means inferior or commonplace, was not her equal except in his own profession.

Believing that the main body of the work would not be sufficiently attractive to purchasers, I urged her to include in it accounts of the marvellous things which she had observed in India. But this she invariably declined to do, saying that it was not permitted by "the Brothers." That was a tribunal that I could not question; my wisdom in the matter was that of the market-place. But she was always ready to hear what I had to say, whether in relation to her work, or to philosophic questions, or to subjects of everyday life. When the printer had placed everything in type, I was employed to prepare the index. Others must judge whether this was done with fidelity. As the author paid for this, and the publisher refrained from advancing a cent for all that I had done in the matter, though careful to make sure of all the proceeds from the sales, it is but just to render the acknowledgement where it is due.

The work was finally completed, and Isis Unveiled was duly issued. The household began at once to make arrangements for leaving New York. Madam Blavatsky visited the Bureau of Naturalization and there became a citizen of the United States. This astonished me, partly because I knew her to be contemplating to leave the country permanently, and partly because she had freely criticized our ways of doing and our politics. She explained that the American nation had the best government. There were probably matters of law involved that I did not know about. Colonel Olcott was a skillful lawyer, and had been employed by the administration at Washington to ferret out alleged violations of law, he knew what would be necessary abroad for a safeguard. As the party after their arrival in India became objects of suspicion as possible spies of the Russian Government, it is not unlikely that the precaution was wise.

Madam Blavatsky wrote to me several times after their arrival at Bombay. She told of many matters of interest to a student in comparative religions, such as I am, and her letters were entertaining as well as instructive. But as time passed, new duties took the place of old recollections. Such events occurred as the break with Dayananda, the leader of the Arya Samaj, an alliance unnatural for Americans of Protestant antecedents, who do not like any one to exercise dominion over their religious beliefs. The Theosophist, however, came regularly to me and was preserved from its first number. This enabled me to keep track of the party, and their doings — till the closing of their present earthly career.

















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