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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 andOriental ancient wisdom and occult and spiritualistic phenomena.Theosophical University Press Online Edition (print version also available). Electronic version ISBN1-55700-135-9. 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 inthe electronic version of the text.

CONTENTS

DETAILED CONTENTS,VOLUME 1andVOLUME 2

VOLUME 1

TITLE PAGE PREFACE(pages v - viii)BEFORE THE VEIL(pages ix - xlv)Dogmatic assumptions of modern science and theology / The Platonic philosophyaffords the only middle ground / Review of the ancient philosophical systems / A Syriacmanuscript on Simon Magus / Glossary of terms used in this book ---------------------

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 progressof mankind marked by cycles / Ancient cryptic science / Priceless value of the Vedas /

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Mutilations of the Jewish sacred books in translation / Magic always regarded as adivine 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 bypsychical phenomena / Lost arts / The human will the master-force of forces / Superficial generalizations of the French

savants

/ Mediumistic phenomena, to whatattributable / 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 Londonmaterialists / 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 deLamballe / 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 theinvisible 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 phenomenadepend on physical surroundings / Observations in Siam / Music in nervous disorders / The "world-soul" and its potentialities / Healing by touch, and healers / "Diakka" andPorphyry'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)

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Do the planets affect human destiny? / Very curious passage from Hermes / Therestlessness of matter / Prophecy of Nostradamus fulfilled / Sympathies between planetsand plants / Hindu knowledge of the properties of colors / "Coincidences" the panaceaof 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 / TheEgyptian "circle of necessity" / Pre-Adamite races / Descent of spirit into matter / Thetriune nature of man / The lowest creatures in the scale of being / Elementalsspecifically described / Proclus on the beings of the air / Various names for elementals / Swedenborgian views on soul-death / Earth-bound human souls / Impure mediums andtheir "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 Clearchuson a sleeping boy / The author witnesses a trial of magic in India / Case of theCevennois

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

Invulnerability attainable by man / Projecting the force of the will / Insensibility tosnake-poison / Charming serpents by music / Teratological phenomena discussed / Thepsychological 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 / Triplecomposition of fire / Instinct and reason defined / Philosophy of the Hindu Jains/ Deliberate misrepresentations of Lempriere / Man's astral soul not immortal / Thereincarnation of Buddha / Magical sun and moon pictures of Thibet / Vampirism -- itsphenomena 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

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