Metaphor for the inaccessibility of nature's secrets
Several terms redirect here. Not to be confused with Piercing the corporate veil.
Isis as a veiled "goddess of life" with a French translation of the Sais inscription on the pedestal, located at the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site.
The veil of Isis is a metaphor and allegorical artistic motif representing the inaccessibility of nature's secrets, personified as the goddess Isis shrouded by a veil or mantle.
The motif traces back to a statue in the ancient Egyptian city of Sais. As recounted by Greco-Roman authors, the statue of the veiled goddess bore the inscription: "I am all that has been and is and shall be; and no mortal has ever lifted my mantle."
Illustrations of Isis with her veil being lifted were popular beginning in the late 17th century, often as allegorical representations of Enlightenment progress uncovering nature's mysteries. By the end of the 18th century, the unveiling of Isis was invoked as a metaphor for the revelation of awe-inspiring truths beyond scientific discovery. The 1877 book Isis Unveiled influenced Western esotericism and Neopagan movements, promulgating the metaphor to modern magical and spiritual practices.
The veil of Isis was often combined with a related motif, portraying nature as a goddess with multiple breasts, who represents Isis, Artemis, or a combination of both.
combination of both. The first mention of the veilofIsis appears in On Isis and Osiris, a philosophical interpretation of ancient Egyptian religion by Plutarch...
esotericism. The work was originally entitled The VeilofIsis, a title which remains on the heading of each page, but had to be renamed once Blavatsky...
Isis was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingdom...
Lie that makes him free. Animals alone are given the privilege of lifting the veilofIsis; men dare not. The animal, awake, has no fictional escape from...
century Greek historian Plutarch's description of the VeilofIsis in his On Isis and Osiris. The veiled Isis is a motif which associates her with mystery...
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looks like the blue part of a gas flame, but not even the most gifted seer can penetrate that veil, also known as "THE VEILOFISIS". Samael Aun Weor stated...
According to historians of science Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, the sculpture "blends the ancient trope of the veilofIsis, interpreted as nature's...
had hoped to call it The VeilofIsis, it would be published as Isis Unveiled. While writing it, Blavatsky claimed to be aware of a second consciousness...
The VeilofIsis: An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature. , translated by Michael Chase, Cambridge, Massachusetts /London, Belknap Press of Harvard...
worldwide concert tour by American heavy metal band The Sword, in promotion of the band's 2012 fourth studio album Apocryphon. Beginning on October 29, 2012...
offered her interpretation of what she described as the origins of white supremacy culture. She was the author of The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors...
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the Britons who went to join Isis?". The Independent. 19 February 2019. Retrieved 16 December 2021. "Senior female Isis agent unmasked and traced to Seattle"...
(A Novel) (1861). The VeilofIsis or Mysteries of the Druids. The Druids. Druidism in Rustic Folklore. Druidism in the Emblems of Freemasonry. Druidism...
the Haunting Of Grange" (The New Magazine, December 1913) "Case of the VeilofIsis" (The New Magazine, January 1914) Bickers 2004. Murray 1988, p. 260...
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wearing of masks in public, which can be applied to veils that conceal the face. The issue has different names in different countries, and "the veil" or hijab...
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century BC, 19', VM Premiere: April 1, 1982, Los Angeles, California, VeilofIsis, Joan Gallegos, Cond. SSAA, picc, fl, cl, hp, cel, 2 perc An American...
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