The message of Isis Unveiled is predominantly ethical, but, unlike either the precepts of contemporary religion or the moral speculations of Western philosophers, an endeavor is made in this book to correlate ethical ideas with super-physical laws of nature; to show, in short, that religion can have a basis in scientific law and fact. Starting with the interests of her age-both popular and learned-the phenomena of Spiritualism, the conflict of Science and Religion, and the researches of students of symbology and mysticism-Madame Blavatsky examined these several aspects of human experience in the light of the Theosophical teachings, drawing them together for study and review in the single perspective of a philosophy of soul. Her method, in this sense, was inductive and scientific, for Isis Unveiled rejects no fact, whether of past history or contemporary development, but it is deductive in the crucial process of relating the data of man’s moral and psychic life, individual and collective, under general laws which serve, in the Theosophic scheme, as integrating principles.
Much of Isis Unveiled is devoted to a critique of historical and theological Christianity. The closing paragraphs of the Preface to the second volume say:
An analysis of religious beliefs in general, this volume is in
particular directed against theological Christianity, the chief opponent
of free thought. It contains not one word against the pure teachings
of Jesus, but unsparingly denounces their debasement into pernicious
ecclesiastical systems that are ruinous to man’s faith in his immortality
and his God, and subversive of all moral restraint.
We cast our gauntlet at the dogmatic theologians who would
enslave both history and science; and especially at the Vatican,
whose despotic pretensions have become hateful to the greater
portion of enlightened Christendom. The clergy apart, none but the
logician, the investigator, the dauntless explorer should meddle
with books like this. Such delvers after truth have the courage of
their opinions.
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