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Astrology is a science as infallible as astronomy itself, with the condition, however, that its interpreters must be equally infallible; and it is this condition, sine qua non, so very difficult of realization, that has always proved a stumbling block to both.
Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology (1877)
Both of the Mimansas, treating of the most abstruse questions, explain Karma as merit, or the efficacy of works; Isvara-Parasada, as grace; and Sradha, as faith. p. 591
Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology (1877)
At his death, the Arhat is never reincarnated; he invariably attains Nirvana— a word, by the bye, falsely interpreted by the Christian scholars and skeptical commentators. Nirvana is the world of cause in which all deceptive effects or delusions of our senses disappear. p. 346
Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology (1877)
Astrology is to exact astronomy what psychology is to exact physiology. In astrology and psychology one has to step beyond the visible world of matter, and enter into the domain of transcendent spirit. It is the old struggle between the Platonic and Aristotelean schools, and it is not in our century of Sadducean skepticism that the former will prevail over the latter.
Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology (1877)