Jonathan Widell’s Reviews > Isis Unveiled > Status Update

The book is getting a lot (!) better towards the end once the author lets go of her sneering attacks against science and organized religion of her day and focuses on what she perceives to be the core of religion, notably Christianity (though she still sneers at "our Christian priests and ministers"). Many of the things she says about hell fire etc. have been adopted even in mainstream Christianity iof our day.

Getting halfway through this book of exorbitant length and cannot help wondering how hard it would it have been to make it shorter.

Getting halfway through this book of exorbitant length and cannot help wondering how hard it would it have been to make it shorter.

Where is she going with this? Not that I don't know where she is going but I don't know why she belabors the point. The book just seems a collection of obscure sayings from more or less reputable sources that Blavatsky uses to discredit institutionalized religion and hard-nosed scientists of her day, many of whom I have never even heard about but who seemed to be threatening to her. Have YOU heard about John Tyndall?

Where is she going with this? Not that I don't know where she is going but I don't know why she belabors the point. The book just seems a collection of obscure sayings from more or less reputable sources that Blavatsky uses to discredit institutionalized religion and hard-nosed scientists of her day, many of whom I have never even heard about but seemed to be threatening to her. Have YOU heard about John Tyndall?

there is a lot of stuff here, much of it has to do with the amazing discoveries of electricity and mesmerism but I remember one thing: Blavatsky says Paracelsus was not a drunkard as jealous people have claimed