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Isis Unveiled

Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna. Informative interchange electro-magnetism. Extracts from Madame H. P. Blavatsky s book, "Isis Unveiled". . . About Paracelsus. Parachemy 5, no. 4 (Fall 1977) 492-. [Pg.293]

Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna. Isis unveiled a master key to the mysteries of ancient modern science and theology. Pasadena (CA) Theosophical Univ P, 1972. 2 vols (628, 721p.)... [Pg.499]

In the early years of Theosophy during Blavatsky s lifetime, the modem science that most occupied the movement was, without doubt, the theory of evolution rather than Victorian discoveries in physics and chemistry.4 While Blavatksy in Isis Unveiled and Secret Doctrine grappled in a limited way with modem physics and chemistry, she engaged much more fully with the work of alchemists, especially that of Paracelsus. Her defense of alchemical transmutation was based not upon contemporary science—though she asked of transmutation, Is the idea so absurd as to be totally unworthy of consideration in this age of chemical discovery (Isis 1 503)—but rather upon the exalted reputation of medieval and early modem scientists and alchemists who claimed to have witnessed transmutation (1 503-504). Moreover, the major events that launched modem particle physics—the discoveries of X-rays, the electron, radiation, radium, and radioactive decay—all occurred after Blavatsky died in 1891. [Pg.70]

Blavatsky s main polemical purpose in Isis Unveiled was to undermine the materialist nature of Darwinian evolution and to build a spiritual system based upon an evolutionary theory revamped to include the life force and spiritual goals. She defined the terms of her argument by articulating an emana-tionist perspective against an orthodox evolutionist interpretation ... [Pg.84]

Across her work from Isis Unveiled through The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky posited a scheme of spiritual evolution not only of mankind but also of the inanimate world and the animal and vegetable kingdoms, all of which are pervaded by a life force. She chose a Tibetan word, Fohat, to name this life... [Pg.84]

Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna. 1877. Isis Unveiled A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology. Vol. 1, Science. Reprint, New York ... [Pg.236]

Included among these was Helena Blavatsky s book, Isis Unveiled, and her Theosophist cult. Theosophy was the Satanic bible of the mystic secret societies, including Germany s "Thule" group, which produced most of Hitler s SS. (10)... [Pg.182]

Isis Unveiled a Master-Key to the tsysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology,... [Pg.295]


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