Isis Unveiled

…1877 her first major work, Isis Unveiled, was published. In this book she criticized the science and religion of her day and asserted that mystical experience and doctrine were the means to attain true spiritual insight and authority. Although Isis Unveiled attracted attention, the society dwindled. In 1879 Blavatsky and…

In her book Isis Unveiled, Blavatsky interprets the “one thing” of the Emerald Tablet as “the universal, magical agent, the astral light.”

Blavatsky also wrote the two-volume Isis Unveiled (1877), The Secret Doctrine, also in two volumes (1888), and other works that are recognized as classic expositions of theosophical doctrine.