Writings related to Egypt and the Egyptian Mysteries.
Full title: IAMBLICHUS ON THE MYSTERIES OF THE EGYPTIANS, CHALDEANS, AND ASSYRIANS TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK, BY THOMAS TAYLOR ————… Read More »Iamblichus on The Mysteries of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Assyrians
“Who is the God to whom we shall offer worship? He whose shadow is Immortality!”—Rig Veda. “The Egyptians are the… Read More »Traces of India in Ancient Egypt
Introductory We must study religions from within, not from without. If we ourselves genuinely believe in spiritual life and spiritual… Read More »The Religion of Ancient Egypt
In several quarters there has been of late a persistent attempt to push the sale of this book, particularly among… Read More »[Review:] The Light of Egypt
I. Egypt the Realm of the Gods. “Spirits or gods that used to share this earth with man as with… Read More »Egypt and the Egyptian Dynasties
Editor’s Notes by H.P.B. on an article by A. Banon One of the articles of the May number of Macmillan’s… Read More »Professor Huxley and Isis Unveiled
Note by H.P.B. on an article by Dr. Fortin, President of the Theosophical Society of Paris, called “Société Scientifique des… Read More »[Relation of Hermetic Philosophy to the Esoteric Teachings]
Latin Text Verum sine mendacio, certum et verissimum: quod est inferius, est sicut id quod est superius, et quod est… Read More »Tabula Smaragdina (The Emerald Tablet)
Tradition declares that on the dead body of Hermes, at Hebron, was found by an Isarim, an initiate, the tablet… Read More »Tabula Smaragdina (The Emerald Tablet)
“Salutations to thee, O Osiris, thou the greatest of the six gods issued from the Goddess Noo; thou the great… Read More »Osiris, Isis, Horus, and Set
When broke the dawn of that civilization in Egypt whose wondrous perfection is suggested by the fragments supplied to us… Read More »Civilization and Religion of Egypt
Every cosmogony purports to deal with the origin of the universe, its manifestation marking the beginning of time. Before the… Read More »The Gods of Egypt
The sincere and unprejudiced student of comparative religions comes at last to see that without the help of symbology no… Read More »Egyptian Symbolism and Animal Worship
Fragments of the Ancient Wisdom Religion have come down to us from the remotest past, through many channels, and in… Read More »The Hermetic Philosophy
Had nothing remained to us of the Book of the Dead but the Judgment Scene, it alone furnishes abundant evidence… Read More »Egyptian “Immortality”
That a tablet, now called the Smaragdine, was found there is no doubt. Its discovery is attributed by tradition to… Read More »Hermes Trismegistus
Full Title: The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus In 17 Books Translated formerly out of the Arabic into Greek,… Read More »The Divine Pymander
Verily there was some truth in the old saying, “The Wisdom of the Egyptians.” . . . — H. P.… Read More »Egyptian Teachings in the Light of Theosophy
The ancient Egyptian civilizations is still strange to us after many decades of research into its features and history. It… Read More »The Riddle of Ancient Egypt
The resurgence of life during the vernal equinox has been celebrated by all peoples who have inherited from remotest antiquity… Read More »The Two Faces of Egypt
The ancient Egyptians believed that the numerous gods of their pantheon were emanations from the First Cause of all life… Read More »The Radiant Thread of Egyptian Myth
The ancient Egyptians conceived man and kosmos to be dual: firstly, the High God or Divine Mind arose out of… Read More »Light from Ancient Egypt
The idea that man has an immortal spiritual nature, or at least an ethereal body which survives death, has been… Read More »The Papyrus of Ani—Initiation and the After-Life