Unveiled Isis, a universal key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology—the two-volume book on esoteric philosophy by Elena Petrovna Blavatsky. Work on the book continued from 1875 to 1877.
The book discusses the religious aspects of the philosophical works of Plato, Plotinus, Pythagoras, Paracelsus, Giordano Bruno, and others, as well as classic religious texts of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, and others, with the aim of “recognizing Hermetic philosophy” as the only key to the “Absolute in science and theology.”
The range of topics touched upon by the writer in her book is extremely broad. This includes theories regarding psychic phenomena, the secrets of nature, the possibilities of Indian magicians, early Christian sects. It also covers the negative role of the church as a bureaucratic organization in human history, Eastern cosmogonies, and Bible texts, the mysteries of the Kabbalah, esoteric doctrines of Buddhism, which are parodied in Christianity, heresies of early Christians and secret societies, Jesuitism and Freemasonry, the Vedas and the Bible, the myth of the devil.
The book consists of two volumes: the first is concentrated mainly on science, while the second is on theology.