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Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
A MASTER-KEY
TO THE
Mysteries of Ancient and Modern
SCIENCE AND THEOLOGY.
BY
H. P. BLAVATSKY, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.
“Cecy est un livre de bonne Foy.”—Montaigne.
Vol. II.—THEOLOGY.
FOURTH EDITION.
NEW YORK: J. W. BOUTON, 706 BROADWAY. LONDON: BERNARD QUARITCH. 1878.
Copyright, by J. W. BOUTON. 1877.
Trow’s Printing and Bookbinding Co., PRINTERS AND BOOKBINDERS, 205-213 East 12th St., NEW YORK.
PAGE
Preface
iv
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson and Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
Volume Second.
THE “INFALLIBILITY” OF RELIGION.
CHAPTER I.
THE CHURCH: WHERE IS IT?
Church statistics
Catholic “miracles” and spiritualistic “phenomena”
Christian and Pagan beliefs compared
10
Magic and sorcery practised by Christian clergy
20
Comparative theology a new science
25
Eastern traditions as to Alexandrian Library
27
Roman pontiffs imitators of the Hindu Brahm-âtma
30
Christian dogmas derived from heathen philosophy
33
Doctrine of the Trinity of Pagan origin
45
Disputes between Gnostics and Church Fathers
51