Pages from Isis Unveiled

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Blavatsky Speaks Series · 101 pages

A hundred and one pages selected from Isis Unveiled and arranged with a contents list of their own, which makes this the practical way into a book its own author called the worst arranged of everything she wrote. The epigraph sets the register: the imperial monuments of long-crumbled dynasties standing like mute, forgotten sentinels on the threshold of an unseen world, disclosing their riddles to none but the legatees of those who entrusted them.

The first part is built around Aether, described as the fiery waters and as divine substance expanding from within outward — the Garment of God woven from its own essence. Aether is the Celestial Virgin, the spiritual mother of every existing form, from whose bosom, vivified by the Divine Spirit, matter and life and force are called into existence. Around that sit the propositions the selection exists to establish: that there is nothing new except what is forgotten; that miracles are perfectly natural acts always in accordance with natural law; that it was the country and the stone that were named after the Magi rather than the reverse; and the identification of Kurios with Mercury and of Mercury with the Sun, from whom Thoth-Hermes received his wisdom.

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