"Within the Temple of Isis" is one part occult metaphor (in the long tradition of such works within spiritual philosophy) mixed with one part occult short story and one part late 19th century Easternization. Interesting as a fictional story, it is additionally of note for its apparently Theosophy-and-Rosicrucianism tinged metaphoric content. Speaking of polarization, purification, and the rites of old, this text is one of the greater treatises ever written on most of its attendant subjects, delivered in a form which even the least occult might find of value as entertainment alone.