Theory of de Gasparin - 100 / of Thury - 100 / of des Mousseaux, de Mirville - 100 / of Babinet - 101 / of Houdin - 101 / of MM. Huxley's derivation from the Orohippus - 74 / Comte, his system and disciples - 75 / The London materialists - 85 / Borrowed robes - 89 / Emanation of the objective universe from the subjective - 92 CHAPTER 4: THEORIES RESPECTING PSYCHIC PHENOMENA (pages 100 - 125) The servility of society - 39 / Prejudice and bigotry of men of science - 40 / They are chased by psychical phenomena - 41 / Lost arts - 49 / The human will the master-force of forces - 57 / Superficial generalizations of the French savants - 60 / Mediumistic phenomena, to what attributable - 67 / Their relation to crime - 71 CHAPTER 3: BLIND LEADERS OF THE BLIND (pages 74 - 99) The Oriental Kabala - 1 / Ancient traditions supported by modern research - 3 / The progress of mankind marked by cycles - 5 / Ancient cryptic science - 7 / Priceless value of the Vedas - 12 / Mutilations of the Jewish sacred books in translation - 13 / Magic always regarded as a divine science - 25 / Achievements of its adepts and hypotheses of their modern detractors - 25 / Man's yearning for immortality - 37 CHAPTER 2: PHENOMENA AND FORCES (pages 39 - 73) CHAPTER 1: OLD THINGS WITH NEW NAMES (pages 1 - 38)
Volume First: THE "INFALLIBILITY" OF MODERN SCIENCE. The Index has been considerably enlarged, and an Appendix added, containing a Bibliographical Index of works and authors quoted and two articles by HPB on the writing of Isis Unveiled: "Theories about Reincarnation and Spirits" (1886) and "My Books" (1891).ĭogmatic assumptions of modern science and theology - ix / The Platonic philosophy affords the only middle ground - xi / Review of the ancient philosophical systems - xv / A Syriac manuscript on Simon Magus - xxiii / Glossary of terms used in this book - xxiii The present edition is a faithful reprinting of Isis Unveiled as originally published in New York in 1877. For ease of searching, no diacritical marks appear in the electronic version of the text.
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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.
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