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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 ISBN 1-55700-135-9. This edition may be downloaded for off-line viewing without charge. Because of currentlimitations in ASCII character fonts, and for ease of searching, no diacritical marks appear in theelectronic 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 philosophy affordsthe 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 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 divinescience / Achievements of its adepts and hypotheses of their modern detractors / Man'syearning 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 / Superficialgeneralizations 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 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 certainancient 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 invisibleuniverse / 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)
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 panacea of modern science / The moon and the tides / Epidemic mental and moral disorders / Thegods 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 natureof 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 onsoul-death / Earth-bound human souls / Impure mediums and their "guides" / Psychometryan 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 ona 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 / Thepsychological domain confessedly unexplored / Despairing regrets of Berzelius / Turninga 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
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