She developed this in in Isis Unveiled ( 1877 ) and The Secret Doctrine ( 1888 ), her major works and exposition of her Theosophy.

first book, Isis Unveiled.

Rejecting Christianity and developing an interest in western esotericism, he read several books on Theosophy by Madame Blavatsky, namely Isis Unveiled, and wanting to explore the topic further, he also read the works of prominent occultists Cornelius Agrippa and Eliphas Levi.

His first encounter with non-Christian thought was with Madame Helena Blavatsky's Isis Unveiled, upon reading which, he later said, he realised that he had never been a Christian.

Blavatsky described the phenomenon of levitation or " Æthrobacy " in her 1877 book Isis Unveiled.

She set about writing several books, including Isis Unveiled ( 1877 ) in which she introduced the terms Left-Hand Path and Right-Hand Path, firmly stating that she herself followed the RHP, and that followers of the LHP were practitioners of Black Magic who were a threat to society.

In Isis Unveiled, published eleven years before The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky gave an account of why " white men " were " almost incapable of magic ":

Contaminated by centuries of dogmatic superstition, by an ineradicable -- though quite unwarranted -- sense of superiority over those whom the English term so contemptuously ' niggers ,' the white European would hardly submit himself to the practical tuition of either Kopt, Brahman, or Lama " ( Isis Unveiled, Vol.

* Blavatsky, H. P .: Isis Unveiled.

* Isis Unveiled, a book by theosophist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Isis Unveiled is divided into two volumes.

Blavatsky writes in the preface that Isis Unveiled is " a plea for the recognition of the Hermetic philosophy, the anciently universal Wisdom-Religion, as the only possible key to the Absolute in science and theology.

In doing so, Isis Unveiled reflected many contemporary controversies such as Darwin's theories on evolution and its impact on religion, and engaged in a discussion that appealed to intelligent individuals interested in religion but alienated from conventional Western forms.

Indeed, Isis Unveiled makes use of a large number of sources popular among occultist at the time.

* Isis Unveiled Net

* Online version of Isis Unveiled

Jacolliot also expounds his belief in a lost Pacific continent, and was quoted on this by Helena Blavatsky in Isis Unveiled in support of her own Lemuria.

*" The Anacalypsis of Godfrey Higgins — Precursor of Isis Unveiled and The Secret Doctrine " ( Theosophical History: Volume 1, Issue 3 ; 1983 )

In a similar vein, the 1861 book " The Veil Of Isis or Mysteries of the Druids " by William Winwood Reade implies that it refers to Ovades who were tasked by druids to perform sacrifices.

They included the Eleusinian Mysteries, Mithraism, the Cult of Isis, and the Cult of Sol Invictus.

* The Veil of Isis or Mysteries of the Druids ( 1861 )

Isis (, original Egyptian pronunciation more likely Aset ) is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world.

The introduction of Christianity and Muslim beliefs followed as well, and by the sixth century AD only a few vestiges of Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs remained, although the cult of Isis had spread to the ends of the Roman Empire.

With his ( i. e., Osiris ') wife, Isis, and their son ( at this point in history ) Horus ( in the form of Harpocrates ), Serapis won an important place in the Greek world, reaching Ancient Rome, with Anubis being identified as Cerberus.

The Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs were believed ( throughout ancient Egyptian history ) to be incarnations of the god Horus, derived by being the son of the sun deity, Hathor ( or later, Isis ), or the sky deity, Nut.

Isis is said in Ancient Egyptian mythology to have taken the form of a kite in various situations in order to ressurect the dead.

Based upon the Thelemite concept that mankind had entered a new period known as the Aeon of Horus, Lucifer Rising was full of occult symbolism, starring Miriam Gibril as the Ancient Egyptian goddess Isis and Donald Cammell as her consort Osiris, as well as Marianne Faithfull as the Biblical figure of Lilith and Leslie Huggins as Lucifer himself.

* Isis ( ship ), a grain ship of Ancient Rome, described by Lucian

Ancient literature and inscriptions from the site attest to the presence of cults of Aphrodite, Isis, Asklepios, Poseidon, Dionysos, and Pan.

The show ran from 1974 to 1977 on CBS ; from 1975 to 1977 it was known as The Shazam !/ Isis Hour, and included The Secrets of Isis, about an Ancient Egyptian superheroine resurrected in the body of a schoolteacher, as the second half of the hour.

The name means " pine cone " in Italian, and the symbol for the rione is the colossal bronze pine cone, the Pigna, which decorated a fountain in Ancient Rome next to a vast Temple of Isis.

* Wong, H. C. " China's Opposition to Western Science during Late Ming and Early Ch ' ing ," Isis ( Volume 54, Number 1, 1963 ): 29 – 49.

... We build our monuments in the name of scientific truth, they built theirs in the name of religious truth ; we use our Big Science to add to our country's prestige, they used their churches for their cities ' prestige ; we build to placate what ex-President Eisenhower suggested could become a dominant scientific caste, they built to please the priests of Isis and Osiris.

Cohen was the first American to receive a Ph. D. in history of science, was a Harvard undergraduate (' 37 ) and then a Ph. D. student and protégé of George Sarton who was the founder of Isis and the History of Science Society.

He went on to succeed Sarton as editor of Isis ( 1952-1958 ) and, later, president of the Society ( 1961-1962 ); he was also a president of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science.

* 1992 " Animadversions on the Origins of Western Science ," Isis 83, 4 ( December ): 596-607.

The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, The Journal of the History of Ideas, Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society, French Historical Studies, and others.

* Jessica Wang, " Science, Security, and the Cold War: The Case of E. U. Condon ," Isis, vol.

** review: Brian Vickers, Isis, The History of Science Society, University of Chicago Press ( 1990 ).

Isis was established in Wondelgem in Ghent ( Belgium ) in 1912 by George Sarton and is the official publication of the History of Science Society.

The History of Science Society ( HSS ) is the primary professional society for the academic study of the history of science. It was founded in 1924 by George Sarton and Lawrence Joseph Henderson, primarily to support the publication of Isis, a journal of the history of science Sarton had started in 1912.