Source books · Theosophy and its descendants
Isis Unveiled
How this book fits
- Traditions
- Theosophy and its descendants
- Role in the tradition
- Primary source Written from inside the tradition: scripture, revelation, a grimoire, a manifesto or a practical treatise.
- Public attention
- Major Wikipedia has an article about it in 14 languages.
Read it
- Read at sacred-texts.com ↗ sacred-texts.com checked against the Internet Archive's copy of May 13, 2026, because the site refuses scripts · archived copy
- Volume 1 ↗ gutenberg.org checked September 11, 2026
- Volume 2 ↗ gutenberg.org checked September 11, 2026
From Wikipedia
Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology, published in 1877, is a book of esoteric philosophy and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's first major self-published major work text and a key doctrine in her self-founded Theosophical movement.
From the Wikipedia article Isis Unveiled, revision 1350421283, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q2141477: “key text in the Theosophical movement”.
In this study
In the chronology, in Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's account.
A sprawling attack on materialism and dogmatic Christianity, coupled with a defence of occult and ancient wisdom traditions.