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INDEX.

Abarbanel, his explanation of the sign of the coming of the Messiah, ii. 256
Abracadabra, diabolical, evoked anew, ii. 4
Abraham, his history, ii. 217;
belongs to the universal mythology, ii. 216;
Zeruan, ib.;
Isaac, and Judah, from Brahma, Ikshwaka and Yada, ii. 488;
and his sons, the story an allegory, ii. 493
Abraiaman, or charmers of fishes and wild beasts in Ceylon, i. 606
Absolution and penance authorized in the Church of England, ii. 544
Absorbed, a state of intimate union, ii. 117
Abuses of magic denounced by the ancients, ii. 97, 99
Abydos, a pre-Menite dynasty, ii. 361
Academicians, French, i. 60;
reject theurgical magic, i. 281
Academy, French, indignant at the charge of Satanism, i. 101;
rejected mesmerism, i. 165, 171;
Committee of 1784, i. 171;
Committee of 1826, i. 173
Acari, produced by chemical experiments, i. 465
Accuser of Souls at the judgment, ii. 487
Acher (Paul) in the garden of delights, ii. 119;
“made depredations,” ib.
Actions guided by spiritual beings, i. 366
Ad, its meaning, i. 579
Adah, her sons from the Euxine to Kashmere, i. 579
Ad-Am, only-begotten, i. 579
Adam (ανθροπως), Divine essence emanating from, i. 1;

the primitive man, i. 2;

the second, i. 297;

the same as the “gods,” or Elohim, i. 299;

of dust, i. 302;

Kadmon, androgynous, i. 297;

the first man evolved, ib.;

same as the Logos, Prometheus, Pimander, Hermes, and Herakles, i. 298;

of Eden, eat without initiation of the Tree of Knowledge or secret doctrine, i. 575;

invested with the chitun, or coat of skin, ib.;

the fall, not personal transgression, but a law of dual evolution, ii. 277;
conducted from Hell, ii. 517;
same as Tamuz, Adonis, and Helios, ib.;
sends Seth on an errand to paradise, ii. 520;
Kadmon, ii. 36;
Kadmon, i. 93;
Kadmon, the first race of men his emanations, ii. 276;
Primus, the Microprosopus, ii. 452
Adamic Earth, i. 51
Adamite, the third race, produced by two races, i. 305
Adanari, the Hindu goddess, ii. 451, 453
Adar-gat, Aster’t, etc., the Magna Mater, i. 579
Adept, the first self-made, ii. 317;
of the highest order, may live indefinitely, ii. 563;
of the seventh rite, ii. 564
Adepts few, i. 17;
in Paris and elsewhere ii. 403;
“travellers,” ib.
Adhima and Heva, created by Siva, and ancestors of the present race, i. 590
A’di Buddha, the Unknown, ii. 156;
the father of the Yezidis, ii. 571
Adima and Heva, in the prophecies of Ramatsariar, i. 579
Adonai or Adamites, i. 303
Adonim, i. 301
Adonis, his rites celebrated in the grotto at Bethlehem, ii. 139
Adonis-worship, at the Jordan, ii. 181
Adrian supposed the Christians to worship Serapis, ii. 336
Æbel-Zivo, the Metatron, or Anointed spirit, ii. 154; ii. 236, 247;
the same as the Angel Gabriel, ii. 247
Æneas drives away ghosts with his sword, i. 362, 363
Æons, or genii, i. 300
Aërolites, used in the Mysteries, i. 282;
in the tower of Belos, ii. 331;
used to develop prophetic power, ib.
Æther, i. 56;
in that form the Deity pervading all, i. 129;
the primordial chaos, i. 134;
the spirit of cosmic matter, i. 156;
deified, i. 158;
source whence all things come and whither they will return, i. 189;
the fifth element, i. 342;
a medium between this world and the other, ib.;
the Breath of the Father, the Holy Ghost, ii. 50
Æthiopia, east of Babylonia, ii. 434
Æthiopians from the Indus, who settled near Egypt, probably Jews, i. 567;
originally an Indian race, ii. 437;
law of inheritance by the mother, ib.
Affinity of soul for body, i. 344;
acknowledged between the Syllabus and the Koran, ii. 82
Afrasiah, the King of Assyria, i. 575
Africa, phantoms appearing in the desert, i. 604
Afrits, i. 141;
nature-spirits, Shedim, demons, i. 313;
studying antediluvian literature, ii. 29
Agassiz, Prof. L., unfairness of, i. 63;
his argument in favor of the immortality of all orders of living beings, i. 420
Agathodaimon and Kakothodaimon, i. 133
Agathadæmon, the serpent on a pole, ii. 512
Age of paper, i. 535
Aged of the aged, ii. 244
Ages, golden, silver, copper and iron, no fiction, i. 34;
or Aions, ii. 144
Agni, the sun-god and fire-god, i. 270
Agrippa, Cornelius, i. 167, 200;
his remarks on the marvellous power of the human soul, i. 280
Ahab and his sons encouraged by the prophets, ii. 525
Ahaz, his family deposed, ii. 440
Ahijah the prophet instigates Jeroboam to revolt against Solomon, ii. 439
Ahriman, his contest with Ormazd, ii. 237;
to be purified in the fiery lake, ii. 238
Aij-Taïon, the Supreme God of the Yakuts of Siberia, ii. 568
Ain-Soph, ii. 210
Ajunta, Buddhistic caverns of, i. 349
Akâsa, or life-principle, i. 113;
known to Hindu magicians, ib.;
same as Archæus, i. 125;
a designation of astral and celestial lights combined, forming the anima mundi, and constituting the soul and spirit of man, i. 139;
the will, i. 144
Ak-Ad or Akkad, meaning suggested, i. 579
Akkadians, introduced the worship of Bel or Baal, i. 263;
progenitors and Aryan instructors of the Chaldeans, i. 576;
never a Turanian tribe, ib.;
a tribe of Hindus, ib.;
from Armenia, perhaps from Ceylon, i. 578;
invented by Lenormant, ii. 423
Akiba in the garden of delights, ii. 119
Aksakof, i. 41, 46;
protests against the decision of Prof. Mendeleyeff and commission adverse to mediumism, i. 118
Alba petra, or white stone of initiation, ii. 351
Alberico and not Amerigo, the name of Vespucius or Vespuzio, i. 591
Albertus Magnus, ii. 20
Albigenses, descendants of the Gnostics, ii. 502
Albumazar on the identity of the myths, ii. 489
Alchemical principles, i. 191
Alchemists, i. 66, 205
Alchemy, universally studied, i. 502;
old as tradition, i. 503;
books destroyed by Diocletian, the Roman Emperor, ib.
Alchemy and magic prevalent among the clergy, ii. 57
Aleim or Eloim, gods or powers, also priests, i. 575
Alexander of Macedonia, his expedition into India doubtful, ii. 429
Alexandrian library, the most precious rolls preserved, ii. 27;
learned Copts do not believe it destroyed, ii. 28;
obtained from the Asiatics, ib.;
school, derived the soul from the ether or world-soul, i. 316.
Algebra, i. 536
Alkahest, i. 50;
the universal solvent clear water, i. 133;
overlooked by the French Academy, i. 165;
explained by Van Helmont and Paracelsus, i. 191
Allegory, becomes sacred history, ii. 406;
reserved for the inner sanctuary, ii. 493
Alligators do not disturb fakirs, i. 383
Allopathists in medicine enemies to psychology, i. 88;
oppose everything till stamped as regular, ib.;
oppose discoveries, ib.
All things formed after the model, i. 302
“Almighty, the Nebulous,” i. 129
Al-om-jah, an Egyptian hierophant, ii. 364
Alsatians believe Paracelsus to be only sleeping in his grave, ii. 500
Amasis, King of Egypt, sends a linen garment to Lindus, i. 536
Amazons, their circle-dance in Palestine, ii. 45
Amberley, Viscount, regards Jesus as an iconoclastic idealist, ii. 562;
looks down upon the social plane indicated by the great Sopher, ib.
Amenthes, or Amenti, has no blazing hell, ii. 11
Americ, or great mountain, the name of a range in Central America visited by Columbus, i. 592
America, Central, lost cities, i. 239;
not named from Vespucius, i. 591;
name found in Nicaragua, i. 592;
first applied to the continent in 1522, ib.;
Markland, ib.;
note of A. Wilder, ib.;
the conservatory of spiritual sensitives, ii. 19
American lodges know nothing of esoteric Masonry, ii. 376;
templarism, its three degrees, ii. 383
Americans to join the Catholic Church, ii. 379
Amita or Buddha, his realm, i. 601
Ammonius Sakkas, i. 443;
dated his philosophy from Hermes, ii. 342
Amrita, the supreme soul, i. 265
Amulet, a soldier made proof by one against bullets, i. 378
Amulets and relics, spells and phylacteries, ii. 352
Amun, i. 262
An, spirits of, ii. 387
Anæsthesia, its discovery by Wells, i. 539;
the improvements by Morton, Simpson, and Colton, i. 540;
understood by the Egyptians and Brahmans, ib.
Anahit, the earth, i. 11
Anathems, a custom original with Christians, ii. 334
Anaxagoras, belief concerning spiritual prototypes, i. 158
Anaximenes held the doctrine of evolution or development, i. 238
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite a Jesuitical product, ii. 390
Ancient Philosophies, based on the doctrine of God the universal mind diffused throughout nature, i. 289;
books written symbolically, i. 19;
of the ancient, i. 302;
Code of Manu, not in our possession, i. 585, 586;
landmarks of Masonry departed from, ii. 380;
mysteries hidden only from the profane, ii. 121;
religions, the wisdom or doctrine, their basis, ii. 99;
identical as to their secret meaning, ii. 410;
derived from one primitive worship, ii. 412;
word, note of Emanuel Swedenborg, ii. 470;
in Buddhistic Tartary, ii. 471
Ancients, monotheistical before Moses, i. 23;
knew certain sciences better than modern savants, i. 25;
regarded the physical sun as only an emblem, i. 270;
practiced psychometry, i. 331;
their religion that of the future, i. 613
Anderson, author of the Constitutions of 1723 and 1738, a Masonic impostor, ii. 389;
Steve, his spiritual advisers anxious for his speedy execution lest he should fall from grace, ii. 543
Angelo, Michel, his remarkable gem, i. 240
Angkor, figures purely archaic, i. 567
Anglican Church adopting again the Roman usages, ii. 544
Anima, i. 37
Anima Mundi, or world-soul, i. 56, 258;
same as Nirvana, i. 291;
feminine with the Gnostics and Nazarenes, i. 300;
bi-sexual, i. 301;
same as the astral light, ib.;
an igneous, ethereal nature, i. 316, 317;
the human soul born upon leaving, i. 345
Animals, perhaps immortal, argument of Agassiz, i. 420, 427;
argument from natural instinct, i. 426, 427;
shut up in the ark, ii. 447
Animation, suspended, i. 483;
voluntarily, ib.;
in cataleptic clairvoyance, i. 489
Anna, St., going in quest of her daughter Mary, ii. 491;
the origin of the name, ib.
Annas and Caiaphas confess Jesus to be the Son of God, ii. 522
Annihilation, the meaning of the Buddhist doctrine, i. 290;
of the soul, i. 319
Annoia, ii. 282, 286
Anthesteria, the baptism and passage through the gate, ii. 245, 246
Anthropomorphic devil the bottom card, ii. 479
Anti-Christ, a fable invented as a precaution, ii. 535
Antichristianism, seeking to overthrow Christianity by science, i. 337
Anti-Masonic Convention denying the validity of an oath, ii. 373-375
Antipathy, its beginning, i. 309
Antitypes of men to be born, i. 310
Antiquity of human race, over 250,000 years, i. 3;
of necromancy and spiritualism, remote, i. 205;
lost natural philosophy, i. 235;
of optical instruments, gunpowder, the steam-engine, astronomical science, i. 240, 241;
of the flood, i. 241;
opinion of Aristotle, i. 428
Ape, astral body, i. 327;
a degenerated man, ii. 278
Apis, the bull, secret book concerning his age, i. 406
Apocryphal Gospels first received and then discarded, ii. 518
Apollo made the prince of demons and lord of the under-world, ii. 488
Apollonius of Tyana, his journey an allegory, i. 19;
regard for stones, i. 265;
cast out devils, i. 356;
his power to witness the present and the future, i. 486;
beheld an empusa or ghûl, i. 604;
testimony of Justin Martyr respecting his powers, ii. 97;
not a “spirit-medium,” ii. 118;
his mistake, ii. 341;
his conjurations when wrapped in a woolen mantle, ii. 344;
visited Kashmere, ii. 434;
the faculty of his soul to quit the body, ii. 597;
vanished from sight and renewal elsewhere, ib.
Apollyon, his various characters, ii. 511
Apophis, or Apap, the dragon, infests the soul, ii. 368
Apostles, Acts of, rejected, ii. 182;
Creed a forgery, ii. 514
Apostles of Buddhism, ii. 608
Apparitions of spirits of animals, i. 326
Appleton’s New American Cyclopædia misstates the date of the laws of Manu, i. 587
Apuleius’ doctrine concerning birth and death of the soul, ii. 345;
on the beatific vision, ii. 145;
accused of black magic, ii. 149
Aquinas, Thomas, destroys the brazen oracular head of Albertus Magnus, ii. 56
Arabic manuscripts, 80,000 burned at Granada, i. 511
Aralez, Armenian gods who revivify men, ii. 564
Arcane powers in Man, ii. 112;
knowledge and sorcery, ii. 583
Archæus, i. 14;
same as Chaos, fire, sidereal or astral light, psychic or ektenic force, Akasa, etc., i. 125;
the principle of life, i. 400
Archæologists, their attacks on each other, ii. 471, 472
Archetypal man a spheroid, ii. 469
Architecture of the Egyptian temples, i. 517
Architectural remains in different countries, their remarkable identity of parts, i. 572
Archons of this world, ii. 89, 90
Archytas, instructor of Plato, constructed a wooden dove, i. 543;
invented the screw and crane, ib.
Arctic regions visited by the Phœnicians, i. 545
Argha, or ark, ii. 444
Arhat, i. 291;
reaches Nirvana while on earth, ii. 320
Arhats, free from evil desire, i. 346
Aristotle on the human soul and the world-soul, i. 251;
three natural principles, i. 310;
on gas from the earth, i. 200;
on form, i. 312;
on the nous and psuche, i. 316;
on the filth element, i. 317;
believed in the nous and psuche, the reasoning and the animal soul, i. 317;
borrowed doctrines from Pythagoras, i. 319, 320;
believed in a past eternity of human existence, i. 428;
doctrine of two-fold soul, i. 429;
taught the Buddhistic doctrine, i. 430;
believed light to be itself an energy, i. 510;
contradicted by the Neo-Platonists, i. 430;
taught that the earth was the centre of the universe, i. 408;
obnoxious to Christian theology, ii. 34;
upon Jon or יהוה, ii. 302
Ark, what it represents, ii. 444
Armenian tradition of giving life to a slain warrior, ii. 564
Armor, Prof., theory of malformations, i. 392
Arnobius, believed the soul corporeal, i. 317
Artesian well, used in China, i. 517
Articles of faith of the ancient wisdom-religions, ii. 116
Artificial lakes in ancient temples in Egypt, Asia, and America, i. 572
Artificially fecundated woman, i. 77, 81
Arts in the archaic ages, i. 405, 406
Artufas, the temples of nagualism, i. 557
Aryan, Median, Persian, and Hindu, also the Gothic and Slavic peoples, i. 576;
nations, had no devil, ii. 10;
carried bronze manufacture into Europe, i. 539;
united, 3,000 B.C., ii. 433;
in the valley of the upper Indus, ib.;
did not borrow from the Semites, ii. 426
Asbestos, i. 229;
thread and oil made from it, i. 504
Asclepiadotus, reproduces chemically the exhalations of the sacred oracle-grotto, i. 531
Asdt, אשדת (Deut. xxxiii. 2), signifies emanations, but mistranslated, ii. 34
Asgârtha, temple in India, ii. 31
Ash-trees, third race of men created from, i. 558
Ashmole, Elias, the Rosicrucian, the first operative Mason of note, ii. 349
Asia, middle belt, perhaps once a sea-bed, i. 590, 592
Asideans, or Khasdims, the same as Pharsi or Pharisees, ii. 441
Asmodeus, or Æshma-deva, ii. 482
Asmonean priest-kings promulgated the Old Testament in opposition to the Apocrypha, ii. 135;
first Pharisees, and then Sadducees, ib.
Asoka and Augustine, ii. 32;
his missionaries, ii. 42;
the Buddhist, sent missionaries to other countries, ii. 491
Ass, the form of Typhon, ii. 484;
its Coptic name, AO, a phonetic of Iao, ib.;
head found in the temple, ii. 523
Assyria, the land of Nimrod, or Bacchus, i. 568
Assyrians basso-relievos at Nagkon-Wat, i. 566;
sphinxes, ii. 451;
tablets, the flood, ii. 422
Assyrians, their archaic empire, ii. 486
Astral atmosphere, i. 314;
body or doppelganger, i. 360;
of the ape, i. 327;
fire, represented by the serpent, i. 137;
fluid can be compressed about the body, to protect it from violence, i. 378, 380;
a bolt of it can be directed with fatal force, i. 380;
form oozing out of the body, i. 179;
bound to the corpse and infesting the living, i. 432;
light, i. 56, 156, 247;
the Ob or Python, i. 158;
currents, i. 247;
same as the anima mundi, i. 301;
dual and bi-sexual, ib.;
Soul or Spirit, i. 12;
divided by H. More into the aërial and ætherial vehicles, i. 206;
said to linger about the body 3,000 years, i. 226;
doctrine of Epicurus, i. 250;
the perisprit, composed of matter, i. 289;
not immortal, i. 432;
virgin, i. 126
Astrograph, i. 385
Astrologers, Chaldean, i. 205
Astrology, i. 259
Astronomus, the title of the highest initiate, ii. 365
Astronomical calculations of Chaldeans and Egyptians, i. 21;
of Chaldeans and Aztecs, i. 11, 241;
of Chinese, i. 241
Aswatha, the Hindu tree of life, i. 152, 153
Athanor, the, the Archimedean lever, i. 506
Atheism, not a Buddhistical doctrine, i. 292
Atharva-Veda, great value, ii. 414, 415
Athbach, ii. 299
Atheists, none among heathen populations, ii. 240;
none in days of old, ii. 530
Athos, Mount, story of the manuscripts, ii. 52
Athothi, king of Egypt, writes a book on anatomy, i. 406
Athtor, or Mother Night, i. 91
Atlantis, the legend believed, i. 557
Atlantic ocean, once intersected by islands and a continent, i. 557, 558;
mentioned in the Secret Book, i. 590;
perhaps the actual name of the great Southern continent in the Indian Ocean, i. 591;
name not Greek, ib.;
probable etymology of the name, ib.;
two orders of inhabitants, i. 592, 593;
their fall, and the submersion of the island, i. 593
Atma, i. 346
Atman, the spiritual self, recognized as God, ii. 566
Atmospheric electricity embodied in demi-gods, i. 261
Atoms, doctrine taught by Demokritus, i. 249
Atonement, origin of the doctrine, ii. 41;
error of Prof. Draper, ib.;
mysteries of initiation, ii. 42
Attraction, the great mystery, i. 338
Audhumla, the cow or female principle, i. 147
Augoeides, or part of the divine spirit, i. 12, 306, 315;
cannot be communed with by a hierophant with a touch of mortal passion, i. 358;
self-shining vision of the future self, ii. 115;
the âtman or self, ii. 317
Augsburgian Jesuits desirous to change the Sabean emblems, ii. 450
Augustine, his accession to Christianity placed theology and science at everlasting enmity, ii. 88;
his directions about the ladies’ toilet, ii. 331;
scouted the sphericity of the earth, ii. 477;
affirmed a predestinated state of happiness and predetermined reprobation, ii. 546
A U M, meaning of the sacred letters, ii. 31;
the holy primitive syllable, ii. 39;
and Tum, ii. 387
Aur, i. 158
Aura Placida, deified into two martyrs, ii. 248
Aureole, from Babylonia, ii. 95
Auricular confession in the Anglican church, ii. 544
Aurora borealis, conjectures concerning it of scientists, i. 417
Aurumgahad, i. 349;
Buddhistic mementos, i. 349
Austin Friars, or Augustinians, outdone in magic by the Jesuits, i. 445
Avany, the Virgin, by whom the first Buddha was incarnated, ii. 322
Avatar, i. 291;
the earliest, ii. 427
Avatars and emanations, ii. 155, 156;
of Vishnu, ii. 274;
they symbolize evolution of races, ii. 275
Avicenna, on chickens with hawks’ heads, i. 385
Azaz-El, or Siva, ii. 302, 303
Azoth, or creative principle, symbol, i. 462;
blunder of de Mirville, ib.
Aztecs, of Mexico, their calendar, i. 11;
resembled the ancient Egyptians, i. 560
Baal, prophets danced the circle-dance of the Amazons, ii. 45;
Tsephon, god of the crypt, ii. 487;
how his hierophants procured apparitions, ii. 567
Babies speaking good French, i. 371
Babinet on table-turning, i. 60, 101, 104;
declares levitation impossible and is refuted, i. 105;
his story of a fire-globe resembling a cat, i. 107
Babylon, built by those who escaped the deluge, i. 31;
after three conquerors, i. 534;
the great mother, or Magna Mater, ii. 501
Babylonia, the seat of Sanscrit literature, ii. 428
Babylonian priests, asserted their observations to have extended back 470,000 years, i. 533;
system defined, ii. 170
Bacchic fan, held by Osiris, ii. 494
Bacchus, a saint of the Roman calendar, i. 160;
worship among the Jews, ii. 128;
“the son of God,” ii. 492;
myth, contains the history of the gods, ii. 527;
the Prophet-God, ii. 527, 528;
a saint in the calendar, ii. 528;
or Dionysus, his Indian origin, ii. 560
Bacon, Roger, miracles, i. 69;
predicted the use of steam and other modern inventions, i. 413
Badagas, a people of Hindustan who revere and maintain the Todas, ii. 613-615
Bad demons, i. 343
Bael-tur, sacred to Siva, i. 469
Baggage from the Pagan mysteries, ii. 334
Bahak-Zivo, i. 298;
ordered to create, i. 299;
the creator, ii. 134
Bahira, the Nestorian monk, ii. 54
Balahala, the fifth degree, ii. 365
Balam Acan, a Toltecan king, i. 553
Ban, on spiritualistic writings, ii. 8
Banyan, the tree of knowledge and life, ii. 293
Baphomet, the alleged god of the Templars, ii. 302
Baptism of blood, the slaughter of a hierophant or an animal, ii. 42;
a general practice, ii. 134
Baptismal font in Egyptian pyramids, i. 519
Baptist preachers’ meeting in New York, ii. 473, 474;
a warm doctrine, ib.
Baptista Porta, i. 66
Baptists, ii. 291
Bardesanian system, ii. 224
Barjota, Curé de, his magical powers, ii. 60;
saves the Pope’s life, ib.
Barlaam and Josaphat, a ridiculous romance, ii. 580
Barrachias-Hassan-Oglu, i. 43
Barri (Italy), a statue of the Madonna with crinoline, ii. 9
Bart, his testimony in regard to Herakles, ii. 515
Basic matter of gold, i. 50
Basileus, the archon taking charge of the Eleusinians, ii. 90
Basilidean system, the exposition of Irenæus, ii. 157
Basilides, description of Clement, ii. 123;
derived his doctrines from the Gospel according to Matthew, ii. 155;
his doctrines set forth by Tertullian, ii. 189
Bastian, Dr., his conception of the temple of Angkor or Nagkon-Wat, i. 567, 568
Batria, the wife of Pharaoh, teacher of Moses, i. 25
Battle of life, ii. 112
Baubo, in the Mysteries, what she directed, ii. 112
Bayle, his testimony on spurious relics, ii. 72
Beads and rosaries, of Buddhistic origin, ii. 95.
Beatific vision or epopteia, testimony of Paul and Apuleius, ii. 146
Beaujeu, Count, his Masonic imposture, ii. 381
Beaumont, Elie de, on terrestrial circulation, i. 503
Beausobre, on the Rasit or Principle, ii. 36
Beel-Zebub (more properly Beel-Zebul, the Baal of the Temple) the same as Apollo, the Oracle-God, ii. 481;
nicknamed Beel-Zebub, a god of flies, ii. 486
Beer made in ancient Egypt, i. 543
Bel, a personification of the Hindu Siva, i. 263;
and the dragon, i. 550;
Baal, the Devil, i. 552
Belial, a Diakka, ii. 482
Believers in magic, mesmerism and spiritualism, 800,000,000, i. 512
Bellarmin, Cardinal, his vision about the bottomless pit, ii. 8
Bells before the shrine of Jupiter-Ammon, ii. 95;
in Jewish and Buddhistic rites, ib.
Belus, the first Assyrian king, deified, i. 552
Ben Asai, in the garden of delights, ii. 119;
Zoma, in the garden of delights, ii. 119
Benedict, St., and his black raven, ii. 78
Bengal, magical seance, i. 467
Bengalese conjurers and jugglers, i. 457;
planting trees, etc., which grew at once, ib.
Bethlehem, grotto of, temple of Adonis, ii. 139
Beverages to produce visions, ii. 117
Bhagaved-gita, opinion of du Perron, ii. 562;
reverenced by the Brahmans, ib.;
contains the greatest mysteries of the Brahmanic religion, ii. 563;
reverenced alike by Brahmanists and Buddhists, ib.
Bhagavant, the same as Parabrahma, i. 91;
endued Brahma with creative power, i. 90;
not a creator, i. 347;
enters the world-egg, ib.
Bhagaved, i. 148
Bhangulpore, Round Tower, ii. 5
Bhutavan, the Spirit of Evil, created to destroy the incarnation of the sin of Brahma, i. 265
Bible, antedated by Vedas, i. 91;
its allegories repeated in Talapoin and Ceylonese traditions and manuscripts, i. 577;
used as a weapon against the people who furnished it, ii. 96;
an allegorical screen of the Kabala, ii. 210;
the great light of modern Masonry, ii. 389;
four or five times written over, ii. 470;
when made up, ii. 471;
a secret volume, ib.;
Patriarchs only zodiacal signs, ii. 459
Bilocation, i. 361
Binlang-stone, ii. 234
Biographers of the Devil, ii. 15
Birds, sung a mass for St. Francis, ii. 77
Birs-Nimrud, the temple of seven stages, i. 261
Birth of the human soul, i. 345
Birth-marks, i. 384
Bisexual, the first man, i. 559
Bishops of the fourth century illiterate, ii. 251
Black-faced Christ in India, ii. 532
Black gods worshipped by the Yakuts, ii. 568, 569
Blackguardism of Father Weninger, ii. 379
Black magic practised at the Vatican, ii. 6;
sorcery and witchcraft, an abuse, ii. 118;
mirror, i. 596;
reveals to the Inca queen her husband’s death, ib.;
virgins in French cathedrals, figures of Isis, ii. 95
“Bleeding Head” of a murdered child employed as an oracle, ii. 56;
image, ii. 17
Blessed Virgin gives a demoniac a sound thrashing, ii. 76
Blind Force plus intelligence, i. 199;
psychic force, ib.
Blood, the baptism, ii. 42;
of Jesus Christ, a phial of it presented to Henry III. of England, ii. 71;
eagerness of spirits for it, i. 344;
its circulation understood by the Egyptians, i. 544;
liquefied at Naples and Nargercoil, in India, i. 613;
its emanations serve spirits with material for their apparitions, ii. 567;
the universal Proteus and arcanum of life, ib.;
-demons, i. 353;
-evocation by the Yakuts, Bulgarians and Moldavians, ii. 569, 570
Bloody legislation of Protestant countries against witchcraft, ii. 503;
rites in Hayti, ii. 572
Blue, held in aversion as the symbol of evil, ii. 446;
ray, i. 137, 264;
-violet, the seventh ray, most responsive of all, i. 514
Body, the sepulchre of the soul, ii. 112;
how long it may be kept alive, ii. 563;
of Moses, a symbol for Palestine, ii. 482;
may be obsessed by spirits during the temporary absence of the soul, ii. 589
Boismont, de, Brierre, on hallucinations, i. 144
Boodhasp, the founder of Sabism or baptism, ii. 290, 291
Book of the Dead, Egyptian, i. 517, 518;
quoted in the Gospel according to Matthew, ii. 548;
older than Menes, ii. 361;
of Jasher, i. 549;
of Jasher, the Old Testament condensed, ii. 399;
of Numbers, Chaldean, i. 32
Books lost and destroyed, i. 24;
of Hermes, i. 33;
of Hermes, attested by the Champollions, i. 625
Births, feast of, supposed to be Bacchic, ii. 44, 45
Bosheth, Israelites consecrated, ii. 130
Both-al, Batylos, and Beth-el, i. 550
Bourbourg, Brasseur de, publishes Popol Vuh, i. 2
Boussingault on table-turning, i. 60
Bozrah, the convent there the place where the seed of Islam was sown, ii. 54
Brachmans in Greece, ii. 321
Brahm, i. 291
Brahma, a secondary deity, like Jehovah, the demiurgos, i. 91;
evolved himself, and then brought nature from himself, i. 93;
creates Lomus, i. 133;
produces spiritual beings, then daints or giants, and, finally, the castes of men, i. 148;
the name of the universal germ, ii. 261;
night of, ii. 272, 273, 421;
manifested as twelve attributes or gods, i. 348;
day and night, ii. 421
Brahma-Prajapati committed the first sin, i. 265;
his repentance and the hottest tear, ib.
Brahm-âtma, or chief of the initiates, had the two crossed keys, ii. 31
Brahman, his astounding declaration to Jacolliot, ii. 585
Brahmanas, ii. 409, 410;
the key to the Rig-Veda, ii. 415
Brahmanical religion, stated in the doctrine of God as the Universal mind diffused through all things, i. 289
Brahmanism, pre-Vedic, identical with Buddhism, ii. 142;
Buddhism its primitive source, ii. 169
Brahman gods, Siva, Surya, and the Aswins denounced in the Avesta, ii. 482, 483
Brahman-Yoggins, i. 307;
story of descent from giants, i. 122;
theories of the sun and moon, i. 264;
their powers of prediction and clairvoyance, i. 446;
possess secrets of anæsthesia, i. 540;
widows burned without hurting them, ib.;
know that the rite of widow-burning was never prescribed, i. 541;
their religion exclusive, and not to be disseminated, i. 581;
dispossessed the Jaina natives of India, ii. 323;
in Babylonia, ii. 428;
and Buddhists, their extraordinary probity, ii. 474;
how it has deteriorated by Christian association, ib.
Brain, substance changed by thought and sensation, i. 249, 250;
silvery spark in, i. 329
Brazen serpent, the caduceus of Mercury or Asklepios, i. 556;
symbol of Esculapius or Iao, ii. 481;
worshipped by the Israelites, ib.;
broken by Hezekiah, ii. 440
Bread-and-mutton protoplasms, i. 421
Bread and wine, a sacrifice of great antiquity, ii. 43, 44, 513
Breath, immortal, infusing life, i. 302
Brighou, the pragâpati and his patriarchal descendants, ii. 427
Bronze age, i. 534
Bronze introduced into Europe 6,000 years ago by Aryan immigrants, i. 539
Brothers of the Shadow, i. 319
Broussard on magnetism and medicine, ii. 610
Bruno, why slaughtered, i. 93;
Prof. Draper misrepresents him, i. 94;
held Jesus to be a magician, ib.;
accusation against him, i. 95;
his reply, i. 96;
declared this world a star, ib.;
acknowledged an universal Providence, ib.;
doubted the Trinity, i. 97;
a Pythagorean, i. 98
Brutal force adored by Christendom, ii. 334
Buchanan, Prof. J. R., criticises Agassiz, i. 63;
his bridge from physical impression to consciousness, i. 87;
theory of psychometry, i. 182;
on tendency of gestures to follow the phrenological organs, i. 500
Buddha, the formless Brahm, i. 291;
the monad, ib., 550;
incarnation, ib.;
his lama representative, i. 437, 438;
appearing of his shadow to Hiouen-Thsang, i. 600;
never deified by his followers, ii. 240;
a social rather than a religious reformer, ii. 339;
tempted and victorious, ii. 513;
never wrote, ii. 559;
his lessons to his disciples, ib.;
taught the new birth, ii. 566;
breaks with the old mysteries, ib.;
or Sommona-Cadom, the Siamese Saviour, ii. 576;
changed by the Vatican into St. Josaphat, ii. 579;
“just as if he had been a Christian,” ii. 581
Buddha-Siddârtha, i. 34;
-Gautama, i. 92;
lived 2,540 years ago, ii. 537;
teaches how to escape reincarnation, i. 346
Buddhism based on the doctrine of God, the universal Mind diffused through all things, i. 289;
prehistoric, the once universal religion, ii. 123;
preached by Jesus, ii. 123;
its ethics, ii. 124;
identical with pre-Vedic Brahmanism, ii. 142;
the primitive source of Brahmanism, ii. 169;
its groundwork the kabalistic doctrine, i. 271;
its doctrine based on works, ii. 288;
esoteric doctrines, ii. 319;
the religion of the earlier Vedas, ii. 436;
degenerated into Lamaism, ii. 582
Buddhist patriarch of Nangasaki, ii. 79;
system, how mastered, i. 289;
monks in Syria and Babylon, ii. 290;
went so far as Ireland, ib.;
theories of sun and moon, i. 264;
respect for the sapphire-stone, ib.
Buddhistic element in Gnosticism and missionaries in Greece, ii. 321;
theology, four schools, ii. 533
Bull the emblem of life everywhere, ii. 235, 236;
against the comet, ii. 509;
and syllabus burned by the Bohemians, ii. 560
Bull’s eye in the target of Christianity, ii. 476
Bullets successfully resisted by talismans, i. 378
Bulwer-Lytton, his description of the vril, or primal force, i. 64, 125;
elementary beings, i. 285, 289;
the Vril-ya, or coming race, i. 296
Bunsen, testimony concerning the Origines of Egypt, i. 529;
description of the Pyramid of Cheops, i. 518;
account of the Egyptian skill in quarrying, ib.;
on the word PTR, ii. 93;
his opinion respecting Zoroaster and the Baktrian emigration, ii. 432;
his opinion of Khamism, ii. 435;
on the exodus of the Israelites, ii. 558
Bur, the offspring of Audhumla, i. 147
Burning men to avoid shedding their blood, i. 64;
scientists about as ready as clergy, i. 85
Buried cities in Hindustan, i. 350
Butlerof, Prof. A., on the facts of spiritualism, ii. 3
Cabeirians, i. 23
Cable-tow, the Brahmanical cord, ii. 393
Cadière, Mlle., her seduction by a Jesuit priest, ii. 633, 634
Cagliostro, an Hermetic philosopher, persecuted by the Church of Rome, i. 200;
said to have made gold and diamonds, i. 509
Cain, ancestor of the Hivites, or Serpents, ii. 446;
and Siva, ii. 448;
or Kenu, the eldest, ii. 464
Calmeil imputes theomania of the Calvinists to hysteria and epilepsy, i. 371;
his explanation of their extraordinary power of resistance to blows, i. 375
Calmet, Dom, on vampires, i. 452
Calvin affirmed election, original sin, and reprobation, ii. 547
Carnac, the serpent’s mount, i. 554
Campanile Column, of St. Mark’s, in Venice, its original, ii. 5
Canals of Egypt, i. 516, 517
Canonical books, enforced eliminations, ii. 143;
selected by sortilege, ii. 251
Capuchins, their Christmas observances, ii. 365
Carpenter, W. B., lecture on Egypt, i. 440
Carthage more civilized than Rome, i. 520;
built long before the taking of Troy, ib.;
not built by Dido, ib.
Cataclysms, periodical, i. 31
Catalepsy and vampirism, i. 449, 450
Catherine of Medicis employed a sorcerer, ii. 55;
her resort to the charm of “the bleeding head,” ii. 56
Catholic ritual of pagan origin, ii. 85;
miracle in Poland means revolution, ii. 17;
must be Ultramontane and Jesuit, ii. 356;
missionaries becoming Talapoins, ii. 531
Catholicism more fetish-worshipping than Hinduism, ii. 80
Catholics persecute other Christians, ii. 81
Causes, Platonic division, i. 393
Cave-men of Les Eyzies, i. 295
Cave-temples of Ajunta, Buddhistic, i. 349;
of India, claimed by the Jainas, ii. 323
Caves of Mithras, ii. 491
Celestial Virgin pursued by the Dragon, a mystery and representation in the constellations, ii. 490
Celsus, his accusations of the Christians, ii. 51;
not being refuted, his books burned, ii. 51, 52;
a copy probably existing at a monastery on Mount Athos, ii. 52;
his opinion of Jesus, ii. 530
Celebrated vase of the Genoa Cathedral, its material not known, i. 537, 538
Celt, probably a hybrid of the Aryan and Iberians of Europe, i. 576
Cement, ancient, i. 239
Cenchrea, Paul shorn and Lucius initiated there, ii. 90
Centenarians, Parr, Jenkins, and others, ii. 564
Central America, her peoples to be traced to the Phœnicians and Mosaic Israelites, i. 555;
Asia, the face of the country changed, ii. 426;
Invisible, i. 302
Cerebral electricity, its dependence upon the statical, i. 322
Ceremony of withdrawing the soul, ii. 603
Ceres or Demeter, the female or passive productive principle, ii. 560
Cerinthus, his doctrines described by Irenæus, ii. 176
Cevennes, prophets of, i. 221;
the Convulsionaires, miraculous occurrences, i. 370;
statement by Figuier, i. 370, 371
Chair of St. Fiacre and its prolificating virtue, ii. 332
Chaldean Arba and Christian Four, ii. 171;
oracles, i. 535;
denounce augury, ib.
Chaldeans, their correct astronomical calculations, i. 11;
their magic, i. 66;
their theory of magic, i. 459;
their origin, ii. 46;
Hebrew Sanscrit, ib.
Champollion declares the Egyptians monotheists, i. 24;
his description of Karnak, i. 523;
synopsis of his discoveries, i. 530
Chandragupta, his exploits, ii. 607, 608
Chaos, the Female Principle, i. 61;
Archæus, Akasa, i. 125;
the Soul of the World, i. 129;
and ether, the first two, i. 341
Charlatan only will ever use mercury as a medicine, ii. 621
Charms, the Dharani, their extraordinary powers, i. 471
Charmed life, i. 379
Charmers, their power over beasts and reptiles, i. 381
Charybdis, the maëlstrom, i. 545
Chemi, or Chem, the ancient name of Egypt, i. 541
Chemical vapors taking forms, i. 127
Chemicals keep away disagreeable physical phenomena, i. 356, 357
Chemist and magician compared, i. 464
Chemistry, ancient proficiency, i. 50;
revolution, i. 163;
Egypt its cradle, i. 541;
called alchemy, i. 542
Cheops, his engraved ring, i. 240;
pyramid of, its measure and weight, i. 518;
Prof. Smyth’s descriptions, i. 520
Cherub, one of his nails preserved as a relic, ii. 71;
of Jeheskiel, ii. 451
Cherubs, the vehans of deity, ii. 231
Chess played in Egypt and India 5,000 years ago, i. 544
Chevalier Ramsay, the Jesuit inventor of the Scottish Rite, ii. 390
Chicago murderers converted in prison, ii. 543
Child, Mrs. Lydia M., remarks on Hindu emblems, i. 583; ii. 445
Child-burning by the Jesuits, ii. 65
Child-medium, Sanscrit written in her presence, i. 368;
Kate Fox’s son, i. 439
Children, born malformed, wounded, and parts cut away, i. 386;
may kill their parents, ii. 363;
sacrificed to Moloch-Hercules, at Tophet, in the valley of Hinnom, ii. 11
China, the glass, i. 537;
metal work, i. 538
Chinese believe in the art of overcoming mortality, i. 214;
ancient emperor puts two astronomers to death, i. 241
Chitonuth our, chitons or coats of skin, a priestly garb, i. 575;
Adam and his wife invested by יהוה אלהים, Java Aleim, ib.

Chrestians before Christians, ii. 323
Chrestos, worshipped many centuries before Christ, ii. 324;
Christians and Jews alike united, ii. 558
Christ a reïncarnationist, ii. 145;
destroyed Jehovah-worship, ii. 527;
a modified Christna, ii. 532;
a personage rather than a person, ii. 576
Christian spiritualists, i. 54;
denominations, peculiarity of their deity, ii. 2, 354, 485, 581;
spent on their buildings, ii. 2;
the spiritualists in them, ii. 2;
hatred of spiritualism, ii. 4;
symbols, presence of phallism, ii. 5;
Church, with the rites and priestly robes of heathenism, ii. 96;
doctrines classified, ii. 145;
doctrines, their origin in Middle Asia, ii. 338;
Gnostics, ii. 324;
appeared just as the Essenes disappeared, ib.;
Sabbath, its date, ii. 419;
theology, its origin, ii. 525
Christianity, early, based on the doctrine of God, the universal mind diffused through all things, i. 285;
description of Max Müller, ii. 10;
pure heathenism, ii. 80;
primitive, had secret pass-words and rites, ii. 204;
doctrines taken from Brahmanism and Buddhism, the ceremonials and pageantry from Lamaism, ii. 211;
its true spirit found only in Buddhism, ii. 240;
made little change from Roman paganism, ii. 334;
its doctrines plagiarized, ii. 346;
and a personal God repudiated by Freemasons at Lausanne, ii. 377;
bull’s eye in its target, ii. 476;
theological, the Devil its patron genius, ii. 478;
its symbols anticipated by the older religions, ii. 557;
Paul the real founder, ii. 574;
stripped of every feature to make it acceptable to the Siamese, ii. 579
Christians, few understand Jewish theology, i. 17;
divided into three unequal parties, ii. 3;
why they quarrelled with the Pagans, ii. 51;
accepted the worship of the God of the gardens, ib.;
Old, called Nazarenes, ii. 151;
only seven to twelve in each church, ii. 175;
Pauline and Petrine controversy, ib.;
of St. John, or Mendæans, ii. 289, 290;
do not believe in Christ, ii. 290;
accused of child-murder at their “perfect passover,” ii. 333;
originally composed of secret societies, ii. 335;
anciently kept no Sabbaths, ii. 419;
claim the discovery of the Devil, ii. 477;
praiseworthy, modified Buddhists, ii. 540;
Russian and Bulgarian, cursed by the Pope, ii. 560
Christism, before Christ, ii. 32
Christmas festivals of Capuchins, ii. 365
Christna, orthography of the name, i. 586;
crushing the head of the serpent, ii. 446;
and his mother with the aureole, ii. 95;
raises the daughter of Angashuna to life, ii. 241;
the good shepherd, crushes the serpent Kalinaga, is crucified, ii. 447;
Sakya-muni, and Jesus, three men exalted to deity, ii. 536;
lived 6,877 years ago (1877), ii. 537;
his dying words to the hunter, ii. 545, 546;
his eulogy of works rather than contemplations, ii. 563
Christos or Crestos, ii. 142;
his entering into the man Jesus at the Jordan, ii. 186;
the Angel Gabriel, ii. 193;
from the Sanskrit kris or sacred, ii. 158;
an aggregation of the emanations, etc., ii. 159
Christs of the pre-Christian ages, ii. 43
Church and priest, benefits if they were to pass away, ii. 586
Church of Rome in 1876, excommunicating and cursing, ii. 6;
her powerless fury against the Bulgarians and Servians, ii. 7;
pre-eminent in murderous propensity, i. 27;
has mightier enemies than “heretics” and “infidels,” ii. 30;
believes in magic, ii. 76;
its maxim to deceive and lie to promote its ends, ii. 303
Churches, their phallic symbols, ii. 5;
ancient, only seven to twelve in each, ii. 175.
Cicero, on divine exhalations from the earth, i. 200;
concerning the gods, i. 280
Cipher of the S. P. R. C., the Knight Rosy Cross of Heredom, and of the Knights Kadosh, ii. 395;
Royal Arch, ii. 396
Circle, perfect, decussated, ii. 469;
of necessity, i. 296;
of necessity, when completed, i. 346;
of necessity, the sacred mysteries at Thebes, i. 553;
of stones, i. 572
Circle-dance or chorus of the Amazons, performed by King David and others, ii. 45;
of the Amazons around a priapic image, a common usage and sanctioned by a Catholic priest, ii. 331, 332;
taught to initiates in the sixth degree, ii. 365
Circulation, terrestrial, i. 503;
of the blood, understood by the Egyptians, i. 544
City, the mysterious, story of, i. 547
Civilization, ancient, i. 239;
of the east preceded that of the west, i. 539
Clairvoyance, cataleptic, the subject practically dead, i. 484
Clearchus gives five cases of larvæ or vampires, i. 364;
story of the boy whose soul was led away from the body and returned again, i. 365, 366
Clear vision obstructed by physical memory, ii. 591
Clemens Alexandrinus, believed in metempsychosis, i. 12;
denounces the Mysteries, ii. 100
Cleonymus returned after dying, i. 364
Cleopatra sent news by a wire, i. 127
Clergy, Greek, Roman and Protestant, discountenance spiritual phenomena, i. 26;
Roman and Protestant burned and hanged mediums, ib.;
Protestant, their hatred of spiritualism, ii. 4;
their cast-off garb worn by men of science, ii. 8;
attired in the cast-off garb of the heathen priesthood, ib.
Clerkship of the Templars, ii. 385
Clermont system, the Scottish Rite, ii. 381
Clinton, De Witt, Grand Master of the first Grand Encampment General, ii. 383
Clocks and dials in ancient periods, i. 536
Coats of skin, i. 2, 149;
explained, i. 293;
worn by the priests of Hercules, i. 575;
Adam and his wife so invested, ib.;
Chitonuth our, ii. 458
Code of Justinian copied from Manu, i. 586
Codex Nazaræus prohibits the worship of Adonai the Sun-god, ii. 131;
denounces Jesus, ii. 132
Coffin, from Egypt, dated by astronomical delineations, i. 520, 521
Colenso, Bishop, exiled the Old Testament, ii. 4
Colleges for teaching prophecy and occult sciences, i. 482
Collouca-Batta, account of the migrations of Manu-Vina from India to Egypt, i. 627
Collyridians asserted Mary to be virgin-born, ii. 110;
transferred their worship from Astoreth to Mary, ii. 444
Colob, a planet on which the Mormon chief god lives, ii. 2
Colored masonry not acknowledged, ii. 391
Colquhoun, J. C., on the doctrine of a personal devil, ii. 477
Commission, Russian, to investigate spiritual phenomena, i. 117
Communication, subjective, with spirits, ii. 115
Communication, supposed, with the dead, with angels, devils, and gods, i. 323
Communion with God, a pagan sentiment, ii. 470
Companions, or Kabalists, ii. 470
Compensation, the law never swerves, ii. 545
Comte, Auguste, i. 76;
catechism of religion of positivism, i. 78;
his feminine mystery, i. 81;
his doctrines repudiated by Huxley, i. 82;
his philosophy belonging to David Hume, ib.;
the ventriloquist, on spiritual phenomena, i. 101
Comtists, or positivists, despised and hated, ii. 3
Conflict between the world-religions, i. 307
Conical monuments imputed to Hermes Trismegistus, i. 551
Conjurers, i. 73
Consciousness a quality of the soul, i. 199
Constitutions, secret, of the Jesuits, ii. 354
Continent, Atlantian, i. 591;
Lemuria, i. 592;
Great Equinoctial, i. 594;
in the Pacific, i. 594;
inhabited by the Rutas, ib.
“Control,” i. 360
Convulsionaries cured by marriage, i. 375
Convulsionary, extraordinary resistance to external injury, i. 373
Corcoran, Catherine, malformed child, i. 392
Cordanus, power of leaving his body to go on errands, i. 477
Corinthian bride, resuscitated by Apollonius of Tyana, i. 481
Correspondences, Swedenborg’s doctrine that of Pythagoras and Kabalists, i. 306
Corson, Prof., on science and its contests with religion, i. 403
Cory, exceptions to his view of Plato and Pythagoras, i. 288
Cosmo, St., traffic by the Italian clergy in his phallic ex-votos, ii. 5
Cosmogonical doctrines based on one formula, i. 341
Counterfeit relics palmed off on Prince Radzivil, ii. 72;
they work miracles, ib.
Counterfeits in thaumaturgy are proofs of an original, ii. 567
Covercapal, the serpent-god, converted, ii. 509
Cox, Sergeant, proposition concerning the physical phenomena of spiritualism, i. 195;
his denial, i. 201
Creation, doctrine of Hermetists and Rosicrucians, i. 258;
cycle of, ii. 272, 273;
Plato’s discourse, ii. 469;
of mankind, Hindu legend, i. 148;
Norse legend, i. 146, 151;
of men from the tree tzite and women from the reed sibac, i. 558
Creative Principle, proclaimed at Lausanne by the supreme councils of Freemasonry, ii. 377;
denounced by Gen. Pike, ib.
Creator, not the Highest God, i. 309;
the father of matter and the bad, ib.
Credo, as amended by Robert Taylor, ii. 522
Creed, suggested for Protestant and Catholic bodies, ii. 473
Crime of every kind sanctioned by Jesuit doctrine, ii. 353;
by ecclesiastics in the United States, ii. 573
Crimean war, i. 260
Crook, Episcopal, adopted from the Etrurian augurs, ii. 94
Crookes, Prof., begins to investigate spiritual phenomena, i. 44;
on psychic force, i. 45;
theories, i. 47;
remarks on Prof. Thury, i. 112;
his experiment with the planchette, i. 199;
acknowledges the evidence of spiritual phenomena overwhelming, i. 202;
weighing light, i. 281
Cross, philosophical, i. 508;
or Tau, an ancient symbol, ii. 393;
Egyptian, found at Palenque, i. 572;
a sign of recognition, long before the Christian era, ii. 87;
found on the walls of the Serapeum, ii. 253, 254;
used in the Mysteries, ib.;
of the Zodiac, ii. 452;
revered by every nation, ii. 453;
the geometrical basis of religious symbolism, ib.;
acknowledged by the Jews, ii. 454
Crosse, Andrew, producing living insects by chemical action, i. 465
Crowe, Catherine, on stigmata or birth marks, i. 396
Crusade of des Mousseaux and de Mirville against the arch-enemy, ii. 15
Cryptographs of the Sovereign Princes Rose Croix, ii. 394
Crypts of Thebes and Memphis, i. 553;
mysteries of the circle of necessity, ib.
Cults derived from one primitive religion, ii. 412
Cup, consecrated in the Bacchic mysteries, ii. 513
Cures effected at the Egyptian temples, i. 531, 532
Curse inheres in matter, i. 433;
allegorical, of the earth, ii. 420
Cursing, a Christian, and not a pagan practice, ii. 334;
prohibited because it will return, ii. 608
Cusco, its temples and hieroglyphics, i. 597;
tunnel to Lima and Bolivia, ib.
Cycle, at the bottom, i. 247;
doctrine demonstrated, i. 348;
the Unavoidable, the Mysteries, i. 553
Cycles of human existence, i. 5, 6, 247, 293;
of the universe, ii. 420
Cyclopeans were Phœnicians, i. 567;
were shepherds in Libya, miners and builders, and forged bolts for Zeus, ib.;
same as Anakim, ib.
Cyclopes, or Cuclo-pos, the Rajpoot race, ii. 438
Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, anthropomorphized Isis as Mary, ii. 41;
his murder of Hypatia, ii. 53;
the assassin of Hypatia sold church vessels, etc., ii. 253
Czechs of Bohemia burn the Bull and Syllabus, ii. 560
Dactyls, Phrygian, i. 23
Daguerre declared by a physician to be insane because he declared his discovery, ii. 619
Daimonion of Socrates the cause of his death, ii. 117
Daimonia, i. 276
Daityas, i. 313
Damiano, St., traffic in Isernia, in his limbs and ex-voto, ii. 5
Dam-Sâdhna, a practice of fakirs like the rabbinic method of “entering paradise,” ii. 590
Danger, the greatest to be feared, ii. 122
Daniel a Babylonian Rabbi, astrologer, and magus, ii. 236
Dardanus received the Kabeiri gods as a dowry, i. 570;
carried their worship to Samothrace and Troy, ib.
Darius Hystaspes, teacher of the Mazdean religion, ii. 140;
put down the magian rites, ii. 142;
restored the worship of Ormazd, ii. 220;
added the Brahman to the Magian doctrine, ii. 306;
the institutor of magism, ii. 502;
established a Persian colony in Judea, ii. 441
Dark races of Hindustan worshipped Bala-Mahadeva, ii. 434
Darkness and the bad, how produced, i. 302
Darwin, his theory, i. 14
Darwinian line of descent, i. 154;
theory, in book of Genesis, i. 303
Daughters of Shiloh, their dance, ii. 45
David, King, exorcised the evil spirit of God, i. 215;
how he reinforced his failing vigor, i. 217;
danced the circle-dance of the Amazons, ii. 45;
knew nothing of Moses, ib.;
performing a phallic dance before the ark, ii. 79;
brought the name Jehovah to Palestine, ii. 297;
established the Sadducean priesthood, ib.;
ascends out of hell, ii. 517;
the Israelitish King Arthur, ii. 439;
establishes a new religion in Palestine, ib.
Davis, A. J., on Diakka, i. 218
Day and night of Brahma, ii. 421
Daytha, the Hindu Nimrod, ii. 425
Dead, their ashes assuming their likeness, ii. 663
Death, when it actually occurs, i. 482;
when resuscitation is possible, i. 485;
planetary, i. 254;
no certain signs, i. 479;
exposition, i. 480;
language of Pimander, i. 624, 625;
the penalty for divulging secrets of initiation, ii. 99;
the Gates, ii. 364;
the second, ii. 368
Death-symbol at the orgies, ii. 138
Decameron, Boccaccio’s, prudery beside the Golden Legend, ii. 79
Decimal notation unknown to Pythagoras, ii. 300;
known to the Pythagoreans, ib.
Degeneracy of Christians, ii. 575
Degrees, the three, ii. 364
Deicide, never charged on the Jews by Jesus, ii. 193
Deity, from deva, and devil from daeva, the same etymology, ii. 512;
represented by three circles in one, ii. 212
Delegatus, ii. 154
Deluge, i. 30;
Hindu story, ii. 425
Demeter, the Kabeirian, her picture represented with the electrified head, i. 234;
or Ceres, the intellectual soul, ii. 112
Demigod philosophers, ii. 536
Demigods and atmospheric electricity, i. 261
Demiurgic Mind, i. 55
Demiurgos, or architect of the world, Brahma, i. 191;
Jehovah, ib.
Democritus, i. 61;
on death, i. 365;
on the soul, i. 401;
a student of the Magi, i. 512;
his belief concerning magic, ib.
Demon and Martin Luther, ii. 73;
of Socrates, ii. 283, 284;
same as the nous, ib.
Demons, the doctrine of Buddha, i. 448;
in the Western Sahara, fascinate travellers, i. 604;
sometimes speak the truth, ii. 71;
opinion of Proclus, i. 312
Demoniac, sulphurous flames, ii. 75;
one receives a sound thrashing from the Blessed Virgin, ii. 76
Demonologia, i. 89
Demon-worship and saint-worship substantially the same, ii. 29
Dendera, the temple, the female figures, i. 524
De Negre, Grand Hierophant of the Rite of Memphis, ii. 380
Denon, his description of the ruins of Karnak, i. 524
Dentists in ancient Egypt, i. 545
Denton, Prof., examples of psychometrical power, i. 183;
illustrates archæology by psychometry, i. 295
Dervish, their initiation, ii. 317
Desatir, or book of Shet, on light, ii. 113
Descartes believed in occult medicine, i. 71;
his system of physics, i. 206
Descendants, resemblance to ancestors, i. 385
Descent into hell, ii. 177;
to subdue the rebellious archangel, i. 299;
how explained by Kabalists, ib.;
of spirit to matter, i. 285
Designations of the virgin-mothers, Hindu, Egyptian, and Catholic, ii. 209
Des Mousseaux, his reply to Calmeil and Figuier in regard to Convulsionaries, i. 375, 376;
on miracles, magic, etc., i. 614, 615;
Chevalier, his crusade against the devil, ii. 15;
proves magic and spiritualism to be twin-sciences, ib.
Despres made the diamond, i. 509
Destiny, an influence that each man weaves round himself, ii. 593;
how guided, ib.
Devas and Asuras, their battles, i. 12
Devs, i. 141;
nature-spirits, called also shedim, demons, and afrites, i. 313
Devil, memoir of, i. 102;
the chief pillar of faith, i. 103;
not an entity, but an errant force, i. 138;
and deity, words of the same etymology, ii. 512;
the Shadow of God, i. 560;
the anthropomorphic, a creation of man, i. 561;
Aryan nations had none, ii. 10;
called by des Mousseaux the Serpent of Genesis, ii. 15;
a whole community possessed, ii. 16;
pesters St. Dominic as a flea and as a monkey, ii. 78;
Christians claim the discovery, ii. 477;
the patron genius of theological Christianity, ii. 477;
to deny him equivalent to denying the Saviour, ii. 478;
what he is, ii. 480;
an essential antagonistic force, ib.;
the key found in the book of Job, ii. 493;
the fundamental stone of Christianity, ii. 501;
origin of the English notions, ib.;
the European, ii. 502;
with horns and hoof, only known in Popish Encyclicals, ii. 503;
his various delineations by authors, ii. 511
Devils, 15,000 in a man, ii. 75;
the Fathers made them from the pagan gods, ii. 502
Devil-worshippers of Travancore, i. 135;
falsely-termed, their practice, i. 446, 447
Dew from heaven, i. 307
Dewel, a demon of Ceylon, i. 448
Dharana, or catalepsy, ii. 590, 591
Dharm-Asoka, the great propagandist of Buddhism, ii. 607
Dhyâna or perfection, ii. 287
Diabolical manifestations, frowned at by the Roman Church, ii. 4
Diagram of the Nazarenes, ii. 295
Diakka, discovered by A. J. Davis, i. 218;
what Porphyry said, i. 219
Dialogue of David and the devils, ii. 75
Diamond, made by Desprez, i. 509
Dido, Elissa, or Astarte, the virgin of the sea, ii. 446
Dirghatamas’ hymns, ii. 411
Di Franciscis, Don Pasquale, “professor of flunkeyism in things spiritual,” ii. 7;
pious collection of papal fishwoman’s talk, ib.
Dii minores, or twelve gods, ii. 451
Diktamnos, i. 264
Diobolos (son of Zeus) changed to Diabolos, an accuser, ii. 485
Dionysus, his worship superseded by the rites of Mithras, ii. 491;
or Bacchus, his Hindu origin, ii. 560
Diploteratology or production of monsters, i. 390
Disbelievers in magic cannot share the faith of the church, ii. 71
Diocletian burned libraries of books upon the secret arts, i. 405
Dionysius Areopagita and the Kabala, i. 26
Dionè pursued by Typhon to the Euphrates, ii. 490
Disciples of John, ii. 289, 290;
do not believe in Christ, ii. 290
Dissimilarities between Buddhism and Christianity, ii. 540, 541
“Distractions” of adversaries of spiritualism, i. 116
Divination by the lot, ii. 20, 21;
prohibited by the Council of Varres, i. 21;
devoid of sin, ii. 353
Divine book, i. 406;
magic, i. 26
Djin reading magic rolls, ii. 29
Docetæ or illusionists, believed in the Maya, ii. 157
Documents sure to reappear, ii. 26
Dodechædron, the geometrical figure of the universe, i. 342
Domes, the reproductions of the lithos, ii. 5
Dominic and the devils, ii. 73, 75;
receives a rosary from the Virgin Mary, ii. 74;
most hated by devils, ii. 75;
and the devil flea and monkey, ii. 78
Dominicans, none in hell, ii. 75
Dodona, priestesses, prophesied by means of the oak, ii. 592
Doppelganger, or astral body, i. 360
Double cross of Chaldea, ii. 453;
existence, i. 179, 180;
life of the adept, ii. 564;
perverted into the offering of human sacrifices, ii. 565
Double-sexed creators, i. 156
Dove, represented Noah, worshipped, ii. 448
Dowager mother alone the mediatrix, ii. 9;
owes the present Pope for the finest gem in her coronet, ib.
Dracontia, or temples to the dragon, i. 554
Dragon and the sun, the basis of heliolatrous religion, i. 550;
sons of, the hierophants, i. 553;
cured of a sore eye by Simeon Stylites, and adored God, ii. 77;
Apophis, his influence on the soul, ii. 368;
Horus piercing his head, ii. 446;
pursues Thuesis and her son, ii. 490;
glided over the cradle of Mary, ii. 505;
of Ceylon, Rawho, ii. 509
Dragons, oriental in character, i. 448
Drama of Job explained, ii. 494, 495
Draper, Prof., on pagan belief concerning the human spirit, i. 429;
asserts that Aristotle taught the Buddhistic doctrine, i. 430;
probably meant to misrepresent the Neo-platonic philosophers, i. 431;
defines the “age of faith” and “age of decrepitude,” i. 582;
on Olympus restored by Constantine, ii. 49;
on the conflict instituted by Augustine between religion and science, ii. 88
Dream produced by the inner ego of a Shaman at the author’s request, ii. 628
Dress of the Christian clergy like that of ancient pagans, ii. 94
Druidical structures like other ancient works, i. 572
Druids denominated themselves snakes, i. 554
Drummer of Tedworth, i. 363
Druzes of Mount Lebanon, ii. 306;
their 80,000 warriors, ii. 308;
never became Christians, ii. 309;
their doctrines, ii. 309, 310;
believe in “two souls,” ii. 315;
their tricks with strangers, ib.;
correct and garbled versions of their commandments, ii. 311
Duad or second, i. 212;
ether and chaos the first, i. 343
Dual evolution represented in Adam, ii. 277;
taught by Plato and others, ii. 279
Dudim, or mandragora, i. 465
Dunbar, George, endeavor to derive the Sanscrit from the Greek language, i. 443
Duomo of Milan, its original, ii. 5
Du Potet, Baron, Grand Master of Mesmerism, i. 166;
views of sorcery, epidemics, antipathies, magic, i. 279, 333
Dupuis mistook ancient symbolism, i. 24
Durga, the active virtue, or Shekinah, ii. 276
Dust of the earth to become the constituent of living soul, ii. 420
Dynasties, two in India, ii. 437
Dwellers of the threshold, i. 285
Early Christian Church invented the doctrine of Second Advent to shut off periodical incarnations, ii. 535;
Christianity itself a heresy, ii. 123;
its history imparted to the first Knight Templars, ii. 382
Earth, queen of the Serpents, i. 10;
the goddess Anahit or Venus, i. 11;
magical exhalations, i. 199, 200;
a magnet, i. 282
Earths germinate, i. 389
East, the land of knowledge, i. 89;
its civilization preceded that of the West, i. 539
Eastern Æthiopians an Aryan stock, ii. 435;
magic, its adepts uniformly in good health, ii. 595;
requires no “conditions” like mediums, ib.
Ebers Papyrus in the Astor library, i. 3;
quoted, i. 23;
its curious contents, i. 529
Ebionites, ii. 127;
the first Christians, ii. 180;
the relatives of Jesus, ii. 181;
used only the Gospel according to Matthew, ii. 182;
the Nazarenes their instructors, ii. 190;
condemned as heretics, ii. 307
Ecbatana, her seven walls and other wonders, i. 534
Echo in the desert of Gobi, i. 606
Ecclesia non novit sanguinem, ii. 58
Eclectic Platonists adopt the inductive method, ii. 34;
school, its dispersion desired by Christians, ii. 52;
its groundwork, ii. 342, 343
Ecstasy, power of conversing with Deity, i. 121;
doctrine of Paracelsus and Van Helmont, i. 170;
defined by Plotinus, i. 486
Ectenic force, i. 55;
same as psychic force, i. 113;
same as the Akasa, ib.
Eden, the allegory of the Book of Genesis, i. 575
Edison, of Newark, N. J., supposed discovery of a new force, i. 126
Egg, spiritual or mundane, i. 56;
evolved by Emepht, the supreme, i. 146;
Isle of Chemmis produced from it, i. 147;
Bhagavant enters and emerges as Brahma, i. 346;
and bird, which appeared first?, i. 426, 428
Egkosmioi, i. 312
Ego, the sentient soul, inseparable from the brain, ii. 590
Egypt, resort of philosophers, i. 25;
priests could communicate from temple to temple, i. 127;
doctrine of evolution taught, i. 154;
the perpetual lamp discovered there, i. 226;
taught the secret to Moses, i. 228;
Pythagoras twenty-two years in the temple, i. 284;
Hermetic brothers, ii. 307;
secret biography of its gods, i. 406;
books before Menes, ib.;
did not learn her wisdom from her Semitic neighbors, i. 515;
akin with India, ib.;
probably colonized by the Eastern Ethiopians, ib.;
20,000 years’ antiquity, i. 519;
the birthplace of chemistry, i. 541;
dentists and oculists, i. 545;
no doctor allowed to practice more than one specialty, ib.;
trial by jury, ib.;
received her laws from pre-Vedic India, i. 589;
colonized from India in the dynasty of Soma-Vanga, i. 627
Egyptian temples, architecture of, i. 517;
monuments defeat the efforts of the fathers, ii. 520;
saints reappearing as a serpent, ii. 490
Egyptians, civilized before the first dynasties, i. 6;
astronomical calculations, i. 21;
were monotheists, i. 23;
knowledge of engineering, i. 516;
changed the course of the Nile, ib.;
their astronomical erudition, i. 520;
their high civilization disputed, i. 521;
arts of war, i. 531;
gods in the Grecian pantheon, i. 543;
made beer, manufactured glass and imitated gems, i. ib.;
the best music-teachers, i. 544;
understood the circulation of the blood, ib.;
their sacred books older than the Genesis, ii. 431;
ancient Indians, ii. 434;
the Caucasian race, ii. 436
Eight powers of the soul, ii. 593
Eight hundred million believers in magic, mesmerism, and spiritualism, i. 512
Eight-pointed star or double cross, ii. 453
El, i. 13;
the sun-god, same as Seth, Saturn, Seth, Siva, ii. 524
Elcazar, Rabbi, expelled demons, ii. 350
Electric waves, i. 278
Electrical photography, i. 395
Electricity, personated by Thor in Norse legends, i. 160, 161;
two kinds, i. 188, 322;
occult properties anciently understood, i. 234;
represented at Samothrace by the Kabeirian Demeter, ib.;
denoted by the Dioskuri, i. 235;
the fire on the altar, i. 283;
blind and intelligent, i. 322;
cerebral, ib.;
developed from magnetic currents, i. 395;
used anciently to supply fire to the altars, i. 526
Electro-magnetism, i. 103;
employed by Paracelsus, i. 164
Elion, or Elon, the highest god, i. 554
Eliphas Levi, on resuscitation of the dead, i. 485
Elixir of life regarded as absurd, i. 501;
possible, i. 502;
curious accounts, i. 503
Elizabeth, Queen, Jesuitic attempt to murder her, ii. 373
Elemental demon driven away with a sword, i. 364;
spirits, i. 67, 311;
inhabit the universal ether, i. 284;
psychic embryos, i. 311;
live in the ether, ib.;
power to assume tangible bodies, ib.
Elementary spirits, i. 67;
three classes, i. 310;
called demons by Proclus, i. 312;
terrestrial spirits, i. 319;
four classes, ib.;
peril of evoking them, i. 342;
afraid of sharp weapons, i. 362
Elephanta, the Mahody, ii. 5
Eleusinian Mysteries, ii. 44
Elihu, the hierophant of Job, ii. 497
Elisha anointed Jehu that he might unite the Israelites, ii. 525
Ellenborough, Lady, her talisman, ii. 255, 256
Elohim inhabiting an island in the ancient inland sea of Middle Asia, i. 589, 590, 599
Eloim, gods or powers, priests; also Aleim, i. 575
Emanation of souls from divinity, doctrine of, i. 13
Emanations, doctrine of, ii. 34
Embalming in Thibet, ii. 603
Emanuel, not Christ, but the son of Isaiah, ii. 166;
the son of the Alma, in whose days Syria and Israel were overcome, ii. 440
Embryo, stamped with a resemblance by the imagination of the mother, i. 385;
its nucleus, i. 389
Emepht, the supreme, first principle, i. 146;
emanation from him of the creative God, ii. 41
Emigration from India to the West, ii. 428
Eminent men called gods, i. 24, 280
Emmerich, Catherine, the Tyrolese ecstatic, i. 398
Empedocles believed in two souls, i. 317;
restored a woman to life, i. 480;
arrested a water-spout, ii. 597
Empusa or ghûl, beheld by Apollonius of Tyana, i. 604
Enmity, everlasting, between theology and science, ii. 88
Ennemoser on seership, etc., in India, i. 460
Enoch, sacred delta of, i. 20;
Masonic legend, i. 571;
builds a subterranean structure with nine chambers, ib.;
communicates secrets to Methuselah, ib.;
the type of the dual man, spiritual and terrestrial, ii. 453;
and Elias ascending from hell, ii. 517
Enoch-Verihe, i. 560
En-Soph, i. 16, 67, 270, 272;
means No-Thing, quo ad non, the same as nirvana, i. 292;
the first principle, i. 347;
within its first emanation, ii. 37
Enthusiastic energy, ii. 591
Ephesus a focus of the universal secret doctrines, ii. 155
Epicurus disbelieved in God, i. 317;
believed the soul constituted of the roundest, finest atoms, ib.;
testimony concerning the gods, i. 436
Epidemic in moral and physical affairs, i. 274, 276, 277;
of assassination, i. 277;
of possession in Germany, i. 374
Epimenides, i. 364;
power to make his soul leave his body and return, ii. 597
Epiphanius, a Gnostic renegade, who betrayed his associates as state’s evidence, ii. 249;
belied the Gnostics, ii. 330
Episcopalian crook adopted from the augurs of Etruria, ii. 94
Epopt, master-builder, adept, ii. 91
Epoptæ, knew nothing of the last and dreaded rite, ii. 563
Epopteia, revelation and clairvoyance, the last stage in initiation, ii. 90
Erring spirits, their re-incarnation, i. 357
Eslinger, Elizabeth, the apparition, i. 68
Esoteric catechism, i. 19;
doctrines never committed to writing, i. 271;
Masonry not known in American lodges, ii. 376
Essaoua or sorcerers, i. 488
Essenes, hermetic fraternities, i. 16;
had greater and minor mysteries, ii. 42;
had the same customs as the Apostles, ii. 196;
believed in pre-existence, ii. 280;
declared by Eusebius to have been the first Christians, ii. 323;
older than the Christians, ib.;
never employed oaths, ii. 373;
probably Buddhists, ii. 491
Eternal torments of hell, why pagans are condemned to them, ii. 8;
letter of Virgin Mary on the subject, ib.;
damnation, the only doctrine invented originally by Christians, ii. 334;
meaning of the word, ii. 12
Eternity, the duad or second, i. 212;
no Hebrew word to express the idea, ii. 12
Ether, the universal, i. 128, 156, 284;
properties, i. 181;
directed by an intelligence, i. 199;
disturbed by planetary aspects, i. 275;
influenced by Divine thought, i. 310;
the universal world-soul, i. 316, 341;
universal, the womb of the universe, i. 389;
universal, the repository of the spiritual images of all forms and thoughts, i. 395;
the Orphean doctrine denounced by the early Christians, ii. 35
Ethereal body, i. 281
Ethiopians, eastern, the builders, colonists of Egypt, i. 515
Etruscans understood electricity and employed it in worship, i. 527;
invented lightning-rods, ib.
Eucharist, common to many ancient nations, ii. 43
Eurinus returned after dying, i. 365
European science, without the knowledge of the secrets of herbs of dreams, ii. 589
Europeans cannot see certain colors, i. 211
Eusebius, Bishop of Cæsarea, perverted chronology, i. 288;
convicted of mendacity, ii. 327
Evapto, or initiation, same as epopteia, ii. 90, 91
Eve, the name and its affinity with the Tetragrammaton, ii. 299;
her story told kabalistically, ii. 223-225
Every nation has believed in a God, ii. 121
Evil possessed space as the intelligences retired, i. 342;
essential to the evolving of the good, ii. 480;
eye, i. 380;
Pope Pio Nono said to have the gift, ib.;
magic, i. 26
Evocation, of souls, objected to, i. 321;
of the dead, i. 492;
the “souls of the blessed” do not come, i. 493;
blood used for the purpose, ib.
Evocations, magical, pronounced in a particular dialect, ii. 46;
a formula, ib.
Evolution, taught by science, the secret doctrine and the Bible, i. 152;
theory found in India and Assyria, i. 154;
held by Anaximenes and accepted by the Chaldeans, i. 238;
taught by Hermes, i. 257;
doctrine of Robert Fludd, i. 258;
ancient belief, i. 285, 295;
doctrine of A. R. Wallace, i. 294;
operation defined, i. 329, 330;
spiritual and physical, i. 352;
theory does not solve the ultimate mystery, i. 419;
of man out of primordial spirit-matter, i. 429;
Darwin begins his theory at the wrong end, ib.;
as taught by the Bhagavat and Manu, ii. 260;
by Sanchoniathon and Darwin, ii. 261;
of our own planet, ii. 420;
for six days, and one of repose, ii. 422;
of the universe, ii. 467;
of man from the highest to lowest, ii. 424
Exorcising a girl in Catalonia, ii. 68
Exorcism, ii. 66;
new ritual, ii. 69
Exorcist-priest, ii. 66
Exoteric religion, its God an idol or fiction, i. 307
Exposures, pretended, of impostors, i. 75
Extinction at death, those who believe it will commit, in consequence, any sin they choose, ii. 566
Ex votos, Phallic, traffic by the Roman clergy, ii. 5
Ezekiel’s wheel, a wheel of the Adonai, ii. 451;
explained, ii. 455;
exoteric, ii. 461;
esoteric, ii. 462
Ezra compiled the Pentateuch, i. 578
Fables, allegorical science and anthropology, i. 122;
allegorized the gods and natural phenomena, i. 261
Fairfield, Francis Gerry, his testimony in regard to the phantom-hand, ii. 594, 595
Faith, the Devil the chief pillar, i. 103;
its power to heal disease, i. 216;
phenomena of, i. 323;
its great power, ii. 597;
of the Church, disbelievers in magic cannot share, ii. 76;
omni-perceptive, inside of human credulity, ii. 120
Faithful daughters of the church, ii. 54
Fakir buried six weeks and resuscitated, i. 477;
and his guru, ii. 105
Fakirs not harmed by alligators, i. 383;
use the force known as Akasa, i. 113;
raised from the ground, i. 115, 224
Fall of Adam, not a personal transgression, but an evolution, ii. 277
Fallen angels, hurled by Siva into Onderah, ii. 11
Familiar spirit, those having one, refused initiation, ii. 118
Famines follow missionaries, ii. 531
Faraday, i. 11;
his medium-catcher, i. 63
Fascination, i. 380, 381;
at a precipice, i. 501
Fatalism rejected by ancients, ii. 593
Fate, defined by Henry More, i. 206
“Father” of Jesus, the hierophant of the mysteries, ii. 561
Fathers, selected narratives for their saints, from the poets and pagan legends, ii. 78
Fauste asserts that the evangeliums or gospels were not written by Jesus or the apostles, but by unknown persons, ii. 38
Fav-Atma, or sentient soul, ii. 590
Favre, Jules, counsel for Madam Roger, i. 166
Feast of the dead in Moldavia and Bulgaria, ii. 569, 570
Felix, preacher of Notre Dame, on mystery and science, i. 337
Felt, George H., i. 22
Female trinity, ii. 444
Ferho, the greatest, i. 300;
first cause, i. 301;
believed in by Jesus and John, ii. 290
Fessler’s rite, a Jesuitical production, ii. 390
Fetahil, i. 298;
called to aid in creation, i. 299;
the newest man and creator, i. 300;
the “newest man,” ii. 175
Fiery serpents (Numbers, xxi.), a name given to the Levites, i. 555;
or seraphs, the Levites, or serpent-tribe, ii. 481;
the allegory explained, ii. 129
Fifteen thousand devils in a man, ii. 75
Fifth degree, ii. 365;
element, i. 317;
stage of initiation the most awful and sublime, ii. 101
Fifty millions slaughtered by Christians since Jesus said, “Love your enemies,” ii. 479
Fifty-five thousand Protestant clergymen in the United States, ii. 1
Final absorption, i. 12
Finger of the Holy Ghost preserved as a relic, ii. 71
Fiords of Norway described in the Odyssey, i. 549
Fire, living, i. 129;
on the altar, electric, i. 283;
its triple potency, i. 423;
from heaven, always employed by the ancients in the temples, i. 526;
preserved by the magi, i. 528;
and brimstone, the lake, ii. 12
Fire-proof mediums, i. 445, 446
Fūkara-Yogis, ii. 164
First Air, or anima mundi, ii. 227;
adept, ii. 317;
begotten, constructed the world, i. 342;
cause, denied by Vyasa and Kapila, ii. 261;
Christians, the Elianites, ii. 180;
the disciples of Paul, ii. 178;
cycle, i. 301;
gods, a hierarchy of higher powers, ii. 451;
light, i. 302;
man created bi-sexual, i. 559;
races of men spiritual, ii. 276;
direct emanations of the Tikkun or Adam Kadmon, ib.;
sin, committed by Brahma-Pragâpati and his daughter Ushas, i. 265;
the spirit of evil created to destroy its incarnation, ib.;
trinity, i. 341.
Fish displaying magnetic affinity, i. 210
Fish-charming in Ceylon, i. 606
Fisher (Dr. G.) on deploteratology, i. 390
Fishwife, talk of papal discourses, ii. 7
Fiske, Prof. J., i. 42;
disputes the doctrine of cycles and the high civilization of the Egyptians, i. 521;
declares the theories of profound science in ancient Egypt and the East utterly destroyed, i. 525
Five thousand Roman Catholic clergy in the United States, ii. 1
Flammarion the astronomer, his avowal, i. 195;
Camille, his curious revelation, ii. 450
Flight of the alone to the Alone, ii. 413
Flood, 10,000 years B.C., i. 241;
as described in the Assyrian tablets, ii. 422;
Hindu legend, ii. 428;
the old serpent, ii. 447
Florentine scientist witnessing a re-incarnation of a Dalai-Lama, i. 437
“Flowers of Speech,” Mr. Gladstone’s catalogue, ii. 7
Fludd, Robert (de Fluctibus), on magnetism, i. 71;
on minerals as rudimentary of plants, etc., i. 258;
chief of the “philosophers by fire,” i. 309;
on the essence of gold, i. 511
Flute-player of Vaucanson, i. 543
Fœtal life, little known about it, i. 386
Fœtus, its sensitive surface like a collodionized plate, i. 385;
its signature, ib.;
extinguished, i. 402
Foraisse, M., his story respecting Masonry, ii. 381
Forbidden ground, i. 418
Force, magnetic, body nourished by, i. 169;
produced by will, i. 285;
the supreme artist and providence, ii. 40
Force-correlation, i. 235;
taught in prehistoric time, i. 241, 242;
the A B C of Occultism, i. 243
Fore-heaven, ii. 534
Fall of man an allegory, and so regarded, ii. 541
Forever, meaning of the word, ii. 12
Forgery the basis of the Church, ii. 329
Former life, i. 347
Forms, images impressed on the ether, i. 395
Formula of an evocation, ii. 46
Formulas, secret, i. 66;
for inextinguishable fire, i. 229
Four ages or yugs, ii. 275;
ages of the Bible like those of the nations, ii. 443;
gospels, their doctrines found elsewhere, ii. 337;
kingdoms in nature, i. 329;
men not begotten by the gods, nor born of women, i. 558;
the gods afraid of them, and give them wives, i. 558;
races of men, i. 559;
Tanaïm, etc., entered the garden, ii. 119;
“Truths,” i. 290, 291
Fournié, Dr., declares that no physiology of the nervous system exists, i. 407;
remarkable declaration concerning the human ovule, i. 397
Fourth degree, ii. 365;
race, parents of men “whose daughters were fair,” i. 559
Fourfold emanations, ii. 272
Francis, St., preached to the birds, ii. 77;
preached to a wolf till he repented, ib.
Francke, A., remarks on the transmutations of Christianity, ii. 38;
the Sephiroth and Providence, ii. 40
Free and Accepted Masons, and the Masonic impostor, Anderson, ii. 389
Free-Masonry, its origin in London, ii. 349;
proclaims a creative principle as Great Architect, ii. 377
French Revolution, what it achieved for freedom, ii. 22
Fretheim, Abbé, his faculty of conversing by power of will, i. 476
Friar Pietro presents a demon to Dr. Torralva, ii. 60
Fundamental doctrine identical in all the ancient religions, ii. 99
Funeral ritual of the Egyptians, ii. 367
Future life, better to believe in it, ii. 566;
self, beheld at the moment of initiation, ii. 115;
man, primitive shape, i. 388, 389;
religion of, i. 76;
woman of, artificially fecundated, i. 77;
also offered to the incubi, i. 78
Gabriel, the same as Christos, ii. 193
Gaffarillus, on the form of a burned plant remaining in the ashes, i. 475, 476
Galileo, i. 35;
anticipated, i. 159, 238
Gallæus, quotation from, ii. 504
Gan-Duniyas, an Assyrian name of Babylonia, i. 575
Gan-Eden, or garden of Eden, also Ganduniyas, a name of Babylonia, i. 575
Ganesor, the elephant-headed god found in Central America, i. 572, 573
Ganges, the paradisiacal river, ii. 30
Gap between Christianity and Judaism, ii. 526
Garden of delight (Eden), the mysterious science, ii. 119;
of Eden, allegory, i. 575;
name of Babylonia, ib.;
explanation as a sacerdotal college, ib.
Garibaldi, his testimony concerning priests, ii. 347;
a Mason, ii. 391
Garlic, story by Hippocrates, i. 20
Gasparin, Count Agenor de, i. 99;
makes no differences between magnetic phenomena and will-force, i. 109;
his labors, ii. 15
Gate of the House of Life, and of Dionysus, ii. 245, 246
Gates of Death, in the hall of initiation, ii. 364
Gautama-Buddha, his birth announced to Maya his mother by a vision, i. 92;
called an atheist, i. 307;
his answer to King Prasenagit on miracles, i. 599, 600;
a disciple of a Jaina guru, ii. 322;
his legends wrought into the evangelists, ii. 491, 492;
his history copied into The Golden Legend, ii. 579;
his esoteric doctrines, ii. 319;
first opened the sanctuary to the pariah, ib.
Gayatri, its metre, ii. 410
Gegen Chutuktu, late patriarch of Mongolia, an incarnation of Buddha, ii. 617
Gehenna, a valley near Jerusalem, where the Israelites immolated their children, ii. 11;
of the universe, or eighth sphere or planet, i. 328;
repentance possible, i. 352
Gemantria, ii. 298
Gemma, Cornelius, account of a child born wounded, i. 386
Genealogy of the gods, astronomical, i. 267
Generations, fall into, i. 315
Genesis, Book of, a reminiscence of the Babylonish captivity, i. 576;
first three chapters transcribed from other cosmogonies, the fourth and fifth from the secret Book of Numbers, the Kabala, i. 579;
the introductory chapters do not treat of creation, ii. 421;
the book later than the invention of the sign Libra, ii. 457
Genghis Khan, his tomb and promised reappearance, i. 598
Genii, or Æons, lord of, i. 300
Genius, the divine spirit, i. 277
Genoa cathedral, the celebrated vase, i. 537, 538
Geographers in pre-Mosaic days, i. 406
Geometers of the Alexandrian Museum, i. 7
Germany depopulated by the thirty years’ war, ii. 503;
priestesses, how they hypnotized themselves, ii. 592
Ghosts, unlike materialized spirits, i. 69; i. 345
Ghouls, i. 319;
or ghûls, in the deserts, i. 604;
and vampires, ii. 564
Giants, i. 31;
progenitors of Brahmans, i. 122;
remains of a prehistorical race, i. 303, 304
Gibbon, his praise of the Gnostics, ii. 249
Gilbert on magnetism, i. 497
Giles, Rev. Chauncey, on spiritual death, i. 317
Ginnungagap, the cup of illusion, i. 147;
the boundless abyss of the mundane pit, i. 160
Girard, Father, his employment of sorcery and revolting crimes, ii. 633
Gladstone, Hon. W. E., “Speeches of Pius IX.,” ii. 4;
catalogue of “flowers of speech” in papal discourses, ii. 7
Glass that would not break, i. 50;
malleable, i. 239;
in Pompeii, China, and Genoa, i. 537
Glass-blowing in Egypt, i. 543
Gliddon, George R., description of the moving of an obelisk, i. 519;
eloquent testimony to Egyptian civilization, i. 521, 522
Glycerine, a compound of three hydroxyl groups, i. 505, 506
Gnosis, the Kabala, or secret knowledge, still existing, ii. 38
Gnostic, wrote Gospel according to John, i. 2;
serpent with the seven vowels, ii. 489
Gnosticism, oriental, i. 271;
Buddhistic elements, ii. 321
Gnostics, ii. 41;
believed in metempsychosis, i. 12;
early Christians and followers of the Essenes, i. 26;
originated many Christian doctrines, ii. 41, 42;
their greatest heresies, ii. 155, 156;
praised by Gibbon, ii. 259;
their doctrines falsified by the Christian Fathers, ii. 326;
their view of the Jewish God, ii. 526
Gobi desert, the seat of empire, i. 598;
jealousy of foreign intrusion, i. 599;
testimony of Marco Polo, ib.;
believed to be inhabited by malignant beings, i. 603
Goblins, elementary, i. 68
God, personal, denied by modern scientists, i. 16;
an intelligent, omnipotent, individual will, i. 58;
his existence denied by Comte and the Positivists, i. 76;
to be sought in nature, and not outside, i. 93;
belief of Henry More, the English Platonist, i. 205, 206;
Kircher’s doctrine of the one magnet, i. 208;
the monad, i. 212;
doctrines of Voltaire and Volney, i. 268;
the central sun, i. 270;
the universal mind, the original doctrine, i. 289;
is no-thing, not a concrete or visible being like objects, i. 292;
belief of the Stoics, i. 317;
of the several Christian denominations, ii. 2;
the Father, ii. 50;
of the gardens, his rites adopted by the Fathers, ii. 51;
each immortal spirit, ii. 153;
“manifest in the flesh,” a forged text, ii. 178;
his actions subject to necessity, ii. 251;
Masonic testimony, ii. 377;
the Father, the beguiling serpent, ii. 492;
prepares hell for priers into his mysteries, ii. 524;
every man’s, bounded by his own conceptions, ii. 567
God-man, the first man, i. 297
God’s comedy and our tragedy, ii. 534
Godfrey Higgins in error about Roman Catholic esoterism, ii. 121
Gods, eminent men so called, i. 24, 280;
inferior to deities, i. 287;
supercelestial and intercosmic, i. 312;
pagan, Christian archangels, i. 316;
kind and beneficent demons, i. 332;
their names kept secret, i. 581;
not incarnations of the Supreme Being, ii. 153
Gogard, the Hellenic tree of life, i. 297
Gold, basic matter of, i. 50;
its manufacture asserted, i. 503;
testimony of Francesco Picos, i. 504;
assertion of Dr. Peisse, i. 508, 509;
made by Theodore Tiffereau, i. 509;
the deposit of light, i. 511
Golden Legend, a conservatory of pious lies, ii. 74;
choice excerpts, ii. 76-79;
beats the Decameron, ii. 79;
a parodized or plagiarized history of Buddha, ii. 579
Good demons appear, i. 333;
spirits hardly ever appear, i. 344;
enough Morgan, ii. 372;
Shepherd, a Gnostic symbol, ii. 149
Goodale, Miss Annie, death, i. 479
Goodness must be alternated by its opposite, ii. 480
Gorillas mentioned by Hanno, i. 412
Gospel according to Peter, ii. 181;
fourth, full of Gnostic expressions, ii. 205;
fourth, blends Christianity with the Gnosis and Kabala, ii. 211
Gospels, their authors and compilers not known, ii. 37, 38
Gossein, fakir, contest with a sorcerer, i. 368
Græco-Russian church never under the Roman Catholics, i. 27
Grand council of the emperors, a Jesuitical production, ii. 390;
secours, i. 374;
cycle, Orpheus, i. 294;
its character, i. 296;
cycle completed, i. 303
Grandville, Dr., on mummy-bandaging, i. 539
Gravitation, none in the Newtonian sense, i. 271
Gray brain-matter the god, i. 36
Great Dragon, crushed under the foot of the Virgin of the Sea, ii. 446;
Vasaki, casting out a flood of poison which the earth swallows, ii. 490;
equinoctial continent, i. 594;
Masonic revolution of 1717, ii. 389;
secret of evocation, ii. 114;
snake, worshipped by the pueblo-chiefs of Mexico, i. 557;
spirit of the Indian, the manifested Brahma, i. 560;
synagogue revised the Pentateuch, i. 578;
universal soul, absorption into it does not involve loss of individuality, ii. 116;
year, i. 30
Greatest scientists inanimate corpses, i. 318
Greece derived its art from Egypt, i. 521
Gregory VII., pope, a magician, ii. 56, 57;
of Tours, exposition of sortilege, ii. 20
Gross, T., denounces those opposed to investigation, ii. 96
Grote assimilates the Pythagoreans to the Jesuits, ii. 529
Gunpowder, anciently used by the Chinese, i. 241
Guru-astara, a spiritual teacher, ii. 141
Gymnosophists of India, i. 90;
knew the Akâsa, i. 113
Half-death, i. 452
Half-gods, i. 323;
or mukti, men regenerate on earth, ii. 566
Hierophant, transfer of his life to a candidate, ii. 563
Hakem, the wise one of the Druzes, ii. 310
Haideck, Countess, a Mason, ii. 391
Hall of spirits, ii. 365
Hamites preferred to settle near rivers and oceans, ii. 458
Hamsa, the Messiah of the Druzes, ii. 308;
the precursor, ii. 310
Hanno, mention of gorillas, i. 412
Hanuma, or Hanuman the sacred monkey, the progenitor of the Europeans, i. 563;
resembles the Egyptian cynocephalus, i. 564;
endowed with speech, ii. 274
Hare, Prof., i. 38;
views of Comte’s positive philosophy, i. 79;
mistreated by Harvard professors, i. 176, 177;
declared non compos mentis, i. 233;
bullied by Prof. Henry, i. 245
Harmony and justice analagous, i. 330
Hasty burial deprecated, i. 453
Haug, Dr., asserts the affinity of the Zoroastrian, Jewish, and Christian religions, ii. 486
Haunted house, i. 69
Hayes, Moses Michael, introduced Royal Arch Masonry into this country, ii. 393
Hayti, a centre of secret societies, where infants are immolated, ii. 572
Healing art in the temples always magical, ii. 502
Heathen processions and priapic emblems at Easter in France, ii. 332;
priesthood, their cast-off garb worn by Christian clergy, ii. 8
Heavenly Man, Tikkun, Protogonos, ii. 276
Hebrew manuscripts of the Bible the oldest, ii. 430;
burned by the Inquisition, ib.
Hebron, or Kirjath-Arba, city of the four Kabeiri, ii. 171;
Smaragdine tablet of Hermes found, i. 507
Heliocentric system known by Hindus 2,000 B.C., i. 9;
denied alike by scholars and the clergy, i. 84;
known by the priests of Egypt, i. 532
Hel, or Hela, neither a state nor place of punishment, ii. 11;
cold and cheerless, ib.
Hell, a German goddess, ii. 11;
not a place of punishment in Scandinavian mythology, ib.;
nowhere so set forth in Egyptian or Hindu mythology, nor in the Jewish Scriptures, ib.;
the Archimedean lever of Christian theology, ib.;
said to be located in the sun, ii. 12;
denied by Origen, ii. 13;
hypothesis of Mr. Swinden, ib.;
Augustine’s theory of miracles, ib.;
eternal torments of, all pagans condemned to, ii. 8;
Virgin Mary testifying to it with her own signature, ib.;
the damned, ii. 25;
priests there, but no monks, ib.;
no Dominicans, ib.;
a hallucination, ii. 507;
never means eternal torment, ii. 507;
the translation in the Bible a forgery, ii. 506;
its prince quarrelling with Satan, ii. 515
Hellenic figures at Nagkon-Wat, i. 568
Hell-torments, their perpetuity denied by Origen, ii. 13
Helps, artificial, to clairvoyance, ii. 592
Heptaktis, the seven-rayed god, ii. 417
Herakleitus on fighting with anger, i. 248;
the Ephesian, his philosophical doctrine of fire and flux, i. 422;
the spirit of fire, i. 423
Herakles, the Grecian Hercules, the Logos, i. 298;
disseminated a mild religion, ii. 515;
the only-begotten, ii. 515;
the saviour, ib.;
ascending from the nether house of Pluto, ii. 517;
slew the sacrificers of men, ii. 565
Herbs of dreams and enchantments, ii. 589
Her-cules, the Sanscrit form of Mel-Kartha, i. 567
Hercules, the magnet named from him, i. 130;
not the same as the Grecian Herakles, ib.;
creator and father, i. 131;
killed by the devil, i. 132;
and Thor, i. 261;
the first-begotten, Bel, Baal, and Siva, ii. 492;
the Titan, restores Jupiter or Zeus to his throne, i. 299;
descends to Hades, ib.;
Invictus, his initiation into the Eleusynia and descent into hell, ii. 516
Herder places the cradle of mankind in India, ii. 30
Heredom Rosy Cross, ii. 394
Heresies, early Christianity among them, ii. 123;
secret sects of the Christians, ii. 289;
one still in existence, ii. 290
Hermas, the pastor of, a book quoting from the Sohar, ii. 243, 244
Hermes, the counterpart of the serpent, ii. 508;
his prediction to Prometheus, ii. 514, 515;
Trismegistus, 20,000 books written before Menes, i. 406;
his Smaragdine Tablet or manual of alchemy, i. 507;
reputed author of serpent-worship and heliolatry, i. 551;
an evocation of angels and demons to preside at Mysteries, i. 613;
and Hostanes believed in one God, ii. 88
Hermetic books on medicine, i. 3;
their antiquity, i. 37;
Brothers of Egypt, ii. 307;
doctrine accounts most reasonably for the formation of the world, i. 341;
fraternities, i. 16;
gold, i. 511;
philosophers, i. 1
Hermetists’ doctrine of creation, i. 258;
why they wrote incomprehensibly, i. 627
Hermodorus or Hermotimus, i. 364, 476
Hero invented a steam-engine, i. 241
Herodotus mentioned a night of six months, i. 412;
testimony concerning the pyramids, i. 518, 519;
description of the labyrinth, i. 522
Hezekiah, the Redeemer and Messiah, ii. 440, 441;
the rod or scion from the stem of Jesse, ii. 441;
a prince from Bethlehem establishes a sacred college and a new
religion, terminating Baal and serpent-worship, ii. 440;
succeeded on the extinction of the family of Ahaz, ii. 166
Hiarchus and Hiram, i. 19
Hieroglyph of Knights Kadosh, ii. 391
Hieroglyphics on the stones of the Temple of Dendera, i. 524
Hierophant offered his own life, ii. 42;
did not allow candidates to see or hear him personally, ii. 93
Hierophants, Egyptian, i. 90
Higgins, Godfrey, i. 33;
rebuke of skeptics who accept the Bible stories, i. 284;
had not the key to the esoteric doctrine, i. 347;
on the Rasit, ii. 35
High Hierophant transferring his life, ii. 564
Highest pyrotechny, i. 306
Hildebrand, the seventh Pope Gregory, a magician, ii. 557
Hindu demigods, ii. 103;
wonderful appearance seen by Jacolliot, ib.;
gods, masks without actors, ii. 261, 262;
populations in Greece, ii. 428;
rites belong to a religion older than the present one, ii. 535
Hindus, more susceptible to magnetism, ii. 610;
and Iranians, battles, i. 12;
ancient, their philosophy and science, i. 618-620;
their great probity, ii. 474;
corrupted by European associations, ib.
Hindustan, once called Æthiopia, ii. 434;
dark races worshipped Maha Deva, ib.
Hiouen-Thsang, his description of the magicians of Peshawer, i. 599;
his vision of the shade of Buddha, i. 600
Hippocrates, his views like of Herakleitos, i. 423;
identical with those of the Rosicrucians, ib.;
his doctrine of man’s inner sense, i. 425;
praise of instinct, i. 434
Hiram, i. 19
Hiram Abiff, i. 29
Hitchcock, E. A., exposition of alchemy, i. 308;
Prof., on psychometric photography, i. 184
Hivim, or Hivites, descendants of the Serpent, i. 554;
Ophites, or serpent-tribe, Cain their ancestor, ii. 446;
of Palestine a serpent-tribe, ii. 481
Hobbs, Abigail, confederated with the devil, i. 361
Holy Ghost, the Æther, the breath of God, ii. 50;
a bit of his finger kept as a relic, ii. 71.
Holy kiss, and toilet directions of Augustine, ii. 331;
limbs of Sts. Cosmo and Damiano, phallic symbols, ii. 5;
syllable, supreme mystery, ii. 114;
thief ascends out of hell, ii. 517
Homer, the Iliad probably plagiarized, ii. 436
Homunculi of Paracelsus, i. 465
Hononer, the Persian Logos, or living manifested word, i. 560
Horse with fingers, i. 411, 412
Horse-shoe magnet applied to the phantom-hand, ii. 594
Horus piercing the head of the serpent, ii. 446
Hospitals anciently established near temples, ii. 98
Houdin Robert, i. 73, 100;
testimony in regard to table-rapping and levitation, i. 358, 359;
suspected of magic, i. 379
House of David deposed by the Israelites, ii. 439
Howitt William, explanation of exorcism, ii. 66
Huc, Abbé, his testimony concerning the infant Dalai-Lama, i. 438;
his book placed on the Index Expurgatorius, ib.;
his account of the marvellous tree, i. 440;
the picture of the moon, i. 441;
punishment for his candor, ii. 345, 346;
his testimony of the Lamaic doctrines, ii. 582;
his story of the children compelled to swallow mercury, ii. 604.
Hufeland, Dr., theory of magnetic sympathy, i. 207
Human body once half ethereal, i. 1;
made as a prison of earlier races, i. 2;
credulity contains inside of it an omni-perceptive faith, ii. 120;
embryo, evolved, i. 302, 303;
fœtus, transient forms like those of fœtal animals, i. 388;
process of development, i. 389;
race, many before Adam, i. 2;
imprisoned in bodies, i. 2;
antiquity more than 250,000 years, i. 3;
authorities differ in regard to original barbarism, i. 4;
sacrifices, an ancient practice, ii. 547;
abolished in Egypt, Africa, and Greece, ii. 568;
offered to the Virgin Mary as heretics, ib.;
soul an immortal god, i. 345;
is born and dies like man, ib.;
spirit, sees all things as in the present, i. 185
Humanity, happy day for it, ii. 586.
Humboldt, Alexander von, suspected intercourse between Mexicans and Hindus, i. 548
Humboldt, Alexander, on presumptuous skepticism, i. 223
Hume, David, exalted by Prof. Huxley, i. 421;
the real founder of the positive philosophy, i. 82;
testimony in the miracles at the tomb of Abbé Paris, i. 373
Hunt, Prof. Sterry, on solutions, i. 192
Huss, John, his memory sacred in Bohemia, ii. 560
Huxley, physical basis of life, i. 15;
classes spiritualism outside of philosophical inquiry, i. 15;
repudiates positive philosophy as Catholicism minus Christianity, i. 82;
defines what constitutes proof, i. 121;
confesses ignorance of matter, i. 408;
his theory formulated, i. 419
Hyk-sos, or shepherds of Egypt, the ancestors of the earlier Israelites, ii. 487
Hymns by Dirghatamas, ii. 411
Hyneman, Leopold, testimony on Masonry becoming sectarian, ii. 380
Hypatia, her atrocious murder by order of St. Cyril, ii. 53;
letter of Synesius, ib.;
why Cyril caused her to be murdered, ii. 253
Hystaspes, Gushtasp, Vistaspa, ii. 141;
visited Kashmere, ii. 434
Hysteria imputed to the prophets of the Cevennes, i. 371
I was, but am no more, ii. 393
I. H. S., in hoc signum, ii. 527
Iachus, an Egyptian physician, i. 406
Iaho, variety of etymologies, ii. 301;
statement of Aristotle, ii. 302
Iamblichus, i. 33;
raised ten cubits from the ground, i. 115;
forbids endeavors to procure phenomena, i. 219;
explanation of Pythagoras, i. 248, 284;
on manifestations of demons, etc., i. 333;
the founder of theurgy, his practice, i. 489;
his explanation of the objects of the Mysteries, ii. 101
Iao, the male essence of the Phœnicians, i. 61
Yava, יהוה, the secret name of the mystery-god, ii. 165
Idæic finger, i. 23
Identity of all ancient religions and secret fraternities between the ancient faiths, ii. 100
Idiots, reborn, i. 351
Iessaens, ii. 190
Ievo, not the same as Iao, ii. 296
Iezedians, came from Basrah, ii. 197
Ignition of stars, i. 254
Ilda-Baoth, the son of Chaos, ii. 183;
his sons, ib.;
creates man, ii. 184;
punishes him for transgression, ii. 185;
his abode in the planet Saturn, ii. 236;
transformed into the Devil, ii. 501
Illuminati and their purposes, ii. 391
Illusion (Maya), the veil of the arcana, i. 271
Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin, an element of old phallic religion, ii. 5;
why promulgated, ii. 110
Imagination, the plastic power of the soul, i. 396;
not identical with fancy, ib.;
a memory of preceding states, ib.;
its power upon physical condition, i. 385;
its influence on fœtal life doubted by Magendie, i. 390
Immodesty of the Vedas exceeded by that of the Bible, ii. 88
Immoral principles of the Jesuits, ii. 355
Immorality, sexual, said to be produced by religious instinct, i. 83
Ilus or Hyle, the slime or earth-matter, i. 146
Immortal, Chinese, Siamese, etc., believe some know the art of becoming, i. 214;
theory of Maxwell, i. 216;
breath, i. 302;
portion of immortal matter, ii. 262
Immortality of the soul, the doctrine as old as the twelfth Egyptian dynasty, ii. 361;
of the spirit, Moksha and Nirvana, ii. 116;
of all, a false idea, i. 316;
to be won, ib.
Imparting the secret to the successor, ii. 671
Impostor-demons, seven, ii. 234
Incarnation explained, ii. 152, 153;
prophetic star, ii. 454;
exhibited before the author, ii. 599-602
Incarnations, the five of the Buddhists, ii. 275;
known in all the old world-religions, ii. 503;
of the deity, periodical, ii. 535
Incas, the lost treasures, i. 596;
the story of the last queen, ib.;
their tomb, i. 597;
the tunnel, i. 598
Incendiarism, epidemic, i. 276
India, magic in, i. 89;
gymnosophists, i. 80;
of the archaic period, i. 589;
included Persia, Thibet, Mongolia, and Great Tartary, ib.;
the alma mater of the world-religions, ii. 30;
said to be the cradle of the human race, ib.;
derived her rites from some foreign source, ii. 535;
Southern, the law of inheritance, ii. 437
Indian dynasties, solar and lunar, ii. 437, 438
Indicator, Prof. Faraday, i. 63
Individual life in the future to be won, i. 316;
existence, how sustained, i. 318, 319;
existence of the spirit a Hindu doctrine, ii. 534
Individualization depends on the spirit, i. 315
Indranee and her son painted with the aureole, ii. 95
Induction, not the usual mode of great discoveries, i. 513
Ineffable name employed by Jesus, ii. 387
Infant, temporarily animated by the spirit of a lama, ii. 601, 602
Infant-girl burned as a witch, ii. 65
Infant-prophet in France, i. 438
Infants, dying, prematurely born a second time, i. 351;
unborn, how influenced, i. 395;
eaten at the sacrifices in Hayti, ii. 572
Initiation, the practice in every ancient religion, ii. 99;
represented the experience of the soul after death, ii. 494;
of a Druze, ii. 313
Injunction of secresy, ii. 40
Inman, Dr. Thos., defines greatest curse of a nation, ii. 121, 122;
on Christian heathenism, ii. 80, 81;
declares the Atheism imputed to Buddha Sakya not supported, ii. 533;
comparison of Christians and Buddhists, ii. 540
Inner Man, can withdraw from the body, ii. 588
Inner Sense, doctrine of Hippocrates, i. 424, 425;
of Iamblichus, i. 435
Innocent III., bull against magic, ii. 69
Innocents of Bethlehem, their massacre, a myth copied from India, ii. 199
Inquisition, the slaughter-house of the church, destroyed by Napoleon I., ii. 22;
its atrocious cruelty, ii. 55;
its bloodshed and human sacrifices unparalleled in paganism, ii. 5, 6;
why invented, ii. 58;
its origin in Paradise, ii. 59;
burned Hebrew Bibles, ii. 430
Inquisitors of our days, the scientists, i. 99
Insanity from spiritualism in the United States, ii. 7;
the obsession by spirits, ii. 589
Inscription on the coffin of Queen Mentuhept, i. 92
Instinct, i. 425;
its miracles, i. 433
Integral whole, ii. 116
Intelligence of the electric bolt, i. 188;
ether directed, i. 199
Intelligent electricity, i. 322
Intercosmic gods, i. 312
Interior Man, doctrine of Socrates and Plato, ii. 283
Interview with a young lama re-incarnated Buddha, ii. 598
Intuition the guide of the seer, i. 433;
a rudiment in every one, i. 434;
doctrine of Iamblichus, i. 435
Investigation denounced as a criminal labor, ii. 96
Invisible Sun, i. 302
Invocation of ancestors by Moldavian Christians, ii. 570
Invulnerability, can be imparted, i. 379
Iran and Turan, their wars conflicts between Persians and Assyrians or Aturians, i. 576
Irenæus, makes Christ fifty years old, ii. 305;
on the trine in man, ii. 285;
and the Gnostics, their contests, ii. 51;
believed the soul corporeal, i. 317;
attempted to establish a new doctrine on the basis of Plato, i. 289;
found guilty of falsehood, ii. 327
Irenæus Philaletha, explanation of the peculiar style of Hermetic writers, i. 628
Ireland visited by Buddhist missionaries, ii. 290, 291
Iron in the sun, i. 513;
found in the Pyramid of Cheops, i. 542.
Isaiah the prophet, his vision of seraphs, i. 358;
terminated the direct line of David, ii. 440;
celebrates the new chief, Hezekiah, ib.
Isarim or Essenean initiates, ii. 42;
found the Smaragdine Tablet at Hebron, i. 507
Isernia, worship of the limbs of Saints Cosmo and Damiano, and traffic in phallic ex-votos, ii. 5
Ishmonia, the petrified city, traditions of books and magic literature, ii. 29
Isis, the name of a medicine, i. 532;
the Virgin Mother of Egypt, ii. 10;
queen of Heaven, ii. 50;
immaculate, her titles applied to the Virgin Mary, ii. 95;
anthropomorphised into Mary, ii. 41;
the “woman clothed with the sun,” ii. 489
Isitwa, the divine power, ii. 593
Islam, the minarets, ii. 5
Islamism, the outgrowth of the Nestorian controversy, ii. 54
Island of Middle Asia, inhabited by Elohim, i. 589;
empire of the Pacific Ocean, i. 592
Israel, what the name means, ii. 401;
the enumeration of 12 tribes supposed to be purely mythical, i. 568
Israelites, intermarried perpetually with the other nations of Palestine, i. 568;
why their language was Semitic, ib.;
their symbols relate to sun-worship, ii. 401;
the plebeian were Canaanites and Phœnicians, ii. 134;
worshipped Baal or Bacchus and the Serpent, ii. 523;
their prophets disapproved of sacrificial worship, ii. 525;
offered human sacrifices, ii. 524;
their prophetesses, ib.
Israelitish Tabernacle, elegant workmanship, i. 536
Istar, Astoreth, the same as Venus, Queen of Heaven, ii. 444
Isvara, a psychological condition, ii. 591
“Itself” met by the disembodied soul at the gates of Paradise, ii. 635
Iurbo Adonai, ii. 185, 189
Ixtlilxochitl, author of the Popul-Vuh, i. 548
Jacob, extraordinary fecundity of his family, ii. 558;
the Zouave, i. 165, 217, 218
Jacob’s pillar a lingham, ii. 445
Jacolliot, Louis, i. 139;
criticises orientalists, i. 583;
testimony in regard to theopœia, i. 616, 617;
branded as a humbug, ii. 47;
denounces the theory of Turanians and Semitism, ii. 48;
on vulgar magic in India, ii. 70;
description of Brahmanic initiations, ii. 103;
sees a living spectre, ii. 104, 105;
on Hindu metaphysics, ii. 262;
disbelieves in the chastity of Buddhistic monks, ii. 321;
knew no secrets, ii. 584
Jadūgar or sorcerers in India, ii. 69
Jaga-nath, ii. 297
Jah-Buh-Sun, ii. 348
Jaina sect claims Buddhism, ii. 321;
owners of the cave-temples, ii. 323
Jains, taught the existence of two ethereal bodies, i. 429
Jairus, resuscitation of his daughter by Jesus, i. 481
James the Just, never called Jesus the Son of God, ii. 202
Japanese, their probity, ii. 573
Jasher, Book of, ii. 399
Java Aleim, יהוה אלהים (Lord-God), head of the priest-caste of Eden or
Babylonia, i. 575;
invests man with the coat of skin, ib.;
of the Sacerdotal College, ii. 293
Javanese, island empire, i. 592
Jehovah, his castle of fire, i. 270;
a cruel anthropomorphic deity, i. 307;
not the sacred name at all, ii. 398;
only a Masoretic invention, ib.;
feminine, ii. 399;
resembled Siva, ii. 524
Jehovah-Nissi or Iao-Nisi, the same as Osiris or Bacchus the Dio-Nysos or Jove of Nysa, ii. 165, 526
Jehovah-worship and Christianity abandoned by Freemasons at Lausanne, ii. 377
Jeroboam made the lawful king of the Israelites, ii. 439
Jerome, St., mentions Jews of Lydda and Tiberias as mystic teachers, i. 26;
procured the Gospel of Matthew from the Nazarenes, ii. 181;
his perverted text of Job, ii. 496
Jerusalem, the temple not so ancient as pretended, ii. 389
Jesuit cryptography, ii. 397
Jesuits, a secret society, now control the Roman Church, ii. 352;
their magic, ii. 353;
their secret constitution, ii. 354;
Mackenzie’s description, ii. 355;
their profession of faith, ii. 358;
their expulsion from Venice, ib.;
declare Christianity not evidently true, ii. 358, 359;
sanction the murder of parents, ii. 363;
disguised as Talapoins, i. 371;
contest of magic with the Augustinians, i. 445;
two, desiring to change Sabean for Christian names, ii. 450;
adopt the institute and habit of Siamese Talapoins, ii. 577;
set aside Christian doctrines, ii. 578
Jesus, of Renan, Strauss and Viscount Amberley, ii. 562;
Talmudic story, ii. 201;
discovered and revealed the occult theology, ii. 202;
or Nebo, inspired by Mercury, ii. 132;
and Christna, united to their Chrestos, ii. 558;
his life a copy of Christna, his character of Buddha, ii. 339;
preached Buddhism, ii. 123;
believed in Ferho or Fo, ii. 290;
did not give any name to the Father, ib.;
his true history imparted to the Templars, ii. 382;
regarded as a brother, ib.;
an avatar like Melchizedek, becomes a son of God by baptism, ii. 566;
son of Panther, a high pontiff of the universal secret doctrines, ii. 386;
proclaims himself the Son of God and humanity, ib.;
represented by a great serpent, ii. 490;
an Essene and Nazarene, ii. 131;
used oil and drank wine, ib.;
of the church, the ideal of Irenæus, ii. 33;
classified his teachings, ii. 145, 147;
said to have been a Pharisee, ii. 148;
said to have been a magician, ib.;
the materialized divine spirit, ii. 576;
deified because of his dramatic death, ii. 339;
why he died, ii. 545;
always called a man, ii. 239;
forgave his enemies, ii. 8;
the heirs of Peter curse theirs, ii. 9;
cast out devils by purifying the atmosphere, i. 356;
taught the Logia, or secret doctrines, ii. 191;
transmitted magnetic or theurgical powers, i. 130;
healed by word of command, i. 217;
his followers innovators, ii. 132;
endeavored to give the arcane truth to the many, ii. 561;
made little impression upon his own century, ii. 335;
familiar with the Koinoboi, ii. 336;
who rejected him as the Son of God, ii. 455;
said to have been hanged and stoned, ii. 255;
never pronounced the name of Jehovah, ii. 163;
his doctrines like those of Manu, ii. 164;
and Buddha never wrote, ii. 559;
unwilling to die, hence, no self-sacrificing Savior, ii. 545
Jewish colonists of Palestine imbued with Magdean notions, ii. 481;
people regard the Mosaic books as an allegory, i. 554, 555;
theology not understood by Christians, i. 17
Jews excluded from Masonic lodges, ii. 390;
their doubtful origin, ii. 438;
worshipped Baal or Hercules, ii. 524;
brought the Persian dualism to Palestine, ii. 500, 501;
named Ormazd and Ahriman, Satan, ii. 501;
an Indian sect, the Kaloni, i. 567;
probably came from Afghanistan or India, ib.;
similar or identical with the Phœnicians, i. 566
Job, book of, Satan or Typhon appears, ii. 483;
the allegory explained in the Book of the Dead, ii. 493;
a representation of initiation, ii. 494;
will give the key to the whole matter of the Devil, ii. 493;
his trials and vindication, ii. 485;
seeing God, ii. 485, 486;
the neophyte, hears God in the whirlwind, ii. 498;
vindicated by his Redeemer or champion, ii. 499, 500
Jobard, on two kinds of electricity, i. 188
John, Gospel written by a Gnostic, i. 2;
travelled in Asia Minor and learned of the Mithraic rites, ii. 507;
the Baptist, his disciples Essenean dissenters, ii. 130;
disciples of, same as Nazareans or Mendæans, do not believe in Christ, ii. 290
Jonah, the prophet, the allegory explained, ii. 258
Jones, Sir William, on the laws of Manu, i. 585;
rules for constructing a purana, ii. 492
Josaphat, St., a transmogrified Buddha, ii. 579
Judaism, Gnosticism, Christianity, and Masonry erected on the same cosmical myths, i. 405
Joseph, studied in Egypt, i. 25;
became an Egyptian, i. 566
Josephus, interpolated, ii. 196;
his passage concerning Jesus, ii. 328
Joshua, fugitives, i. 545
Jowett, translator of Plato, exceptions to his criticism, i. 288
Judæans, whether they were ever in Palestine before Cyrus, a problem, i. 568
Judæi, the designation of the Jews, an Indian term, ii. 441
Judea, its primitive history a distortion of Indian fable, ii. 471
Judgment of the Dead, ii. 364
Juggernaut, his procession imitated by missionaries in Ceylon, ii. 113
Jugglers of India and Egypt, i. 73;
walking from tree-top to tree-top, i. 495
Julian, the emperor, a son of God or Mithra by initiation, ii. 566
Juno, her temple covered with pointed blades of swords, i. 527;
her abandoning of Veii for Rome, i. 614
Jupiter and four moons discovered in Assyria, i. 261;
his mythological adventures, astronomical phenomena, i. 267, 268;
or Zeus originally the cosmic force, i. 262;
also the demiurg, ib.;
the chief deity of the Orphic hymn, i. 263
Jury-trial, introduced by the Egyptians, i. 545
Justice and harmony analogous, i. 330
Justin Martyr, criticised for his heretical opinion about Socrates, ii. 8;
his testimony concerning the talismans of Apollonius of Tyana, ii. 97;
on the non-observance of the Sabbath by Christians, ii. 419
Justinian, code of, copied from the code of Manu, i. 586
K——, a positivist and skeptic, his experiences in Thibet, ii. 599-602
Kabala, its fundamental geometrical figure the key to the problem, i. 14;
Chaldean, not known, i. 17;
included in the Arcane doctrines, i. 205;
same as the laws of Manu, i. 271;
solves esoteric doctrines of every religion, i. 271;
never written, ib.;
concerning Shedim, i. 313;
its system of Sephiroth and emanations, ii. 213;
repeated in Talapoin manuscripts, i. 577;
Oriental, or secret Book of Numbers, i. 579
Kabalists, Chaldean, claim science above 70,000 years old, i. 1;
explanation of the allegory of descent into hell, i. 299
Kabeiri, Assyrian divinities, i. 569;
differently named and numbered in different places, ib.;
reproduced in their Samothracian postures on the walls of Nagkon-Wat, ib.;
had similar names east as west, ib.;
worshipped at Hebron, the city of Beni-Anak or anakim, ib.;
number hardly known, ii. 478;
their names, ii. 170
Kabeirian gods represented at Nagkon-Wat, i. 565, 566
Kadeshim, or Galli, in the Hebrew sanctuaries, ii. 45
Kadeshuth, or Nautch-girls in India, ii. 45
Kadosh degree invented at Lyons, ii. 384
Kalani, an Indian sect, progenitors of the Jews, i. 567
Kalavatti, raised from the dead by Christna, ii. 241
Kalmucks, described earlier human races than the present, i. 2
Kalpas, i. 31
Kali, the “fall of man,” ii. 275
Kali-Yug, the designation of the present third yug or age of mankind, i. 587;
began 4,500 years ago, ib.
Kaliadovki, or Christian mysteries, ii. 119
Kangalins, or witches in India, ii. 69
Kanhari caves at Salsette, the abode of St. Josaphat, ii. 580, 581
Kanni, or bad virgins, ii. 447
Kansa of Madura, commands the murder of Christna and the massacre of the infants, ii. 199
Kapila, a skeptic, i. 121; i. 307;
denied a First Cause, ii. 261
Karabtanos, i. 300
Karnak, the representative of Thebes, its archeological remains, i. 523;
lakes and mountains in its sanctuary, i. 524
Kasbeck, the mountain where Prometheus was punished, i. 298
Katie King, i. 48, 54;
soulless, i. 67
Kavindisami the fakir, causes a seed to grow miraculously, i. 139
Kebar-Zivo, i. 300
Kepler believed the stars to be intelligences, i. 207, 208, 253
Kerrenhappuch, a mystic name, ii. 496
Kerner, Dr., witnessing case of Elizabeth Eslinger, i. 68;
account of the encounter of the Cossack and Frenchman, i. 398
Keto or Cetus, the same as Dagon or Poseidon, ii. 258
Key to the Buddhist system, i. 289;
to the mysteries lost by the Roman Catholic Church, ii. 121;
G. Higgins mistaken, ib.
Keys of St. Peter, where they originated, ii. 31;
cross and fishes, eastern symbols, ii. 255;
to Masonic ciphers, ii. 394
Keystone, absent at Nagkon-Wat, Santa Cruz del Quichè, Ocosingo, and the Cyclopean structures of Greece and Italy, i. 571;
has an esoteric meaning, ib.
Khaldi, worshippers of the moon-god, ii. 48
Khamism, an ancient deposit from Western Asia, ii. 435
Khansa, remarkable juggling trick, i. 473
Kidder, Bishop, remarkable testimony concerning the religion a wise man would choose, ii. 240
King, John, i. 75
Kings and statesmen, Jesuit method for assassinating, ii. 373
Kircher, Father, taught universal magnetism, i. 208
Kiyun or Kivan, the same as Siva, i. 570
Klikoucha, i. 28
Klippoth, i. 141
Kneph, his snake-emblem, i. 133;
producing the mundane egg, ii. 226
Knights Kadosch, cipher, ii. 395;
hieroglyph, ii. 396;
Rose Croix, cipher, ii. 395;
Templars, i. 30;
Templars, the modern, have no secrets dangerous to the Church, ii. 381;
Templars, French Order, ii. 384, 385;
the assassination of a Prince, ii. 385
Knowledge, tree of, the pippala, ii. 412;
arcane, when sorcery and when wisdom, ii. 58
Koheleth, the summary, ii. 476
Koinobi or communists of Egypt, ii. 305
Kol-Arbas, the Tetrad or group of four mistaken for a Gnostic leader, ii. 248
Korè-Persephonè, Zeus the Dragon, and their son, ii. 505
Kosmos, regarded as God or comprehending God, i. 154
Kounboum, mystery of, i. 289;
the Sacred Tree of Thibet, i. 302;
the wonderful Tree of Thibet with letters and symbols on its leaves, i. 440;
Sanscrit characters on the leaves and bark, ii. 46
Kristophores, or the fourth degree, ii. 365
Kronos, i. 132
Krupte (crypt) the abode of a teleiotes, ii. 93
Kublai-Khan, ii. 608;
why he failed to adopt Christianity, ii. 581, 582;
reverences Christ, Mahomet, Moses, and Buddha all together, ii. 582;
his testimony concerning Christians, ii. 583
Kuklopes or Cyclopeans, shepherds, miners, builders, metal-workers, and Anakim, i. 567
Kuklos Anangkes, or Circle of Necessity, i. 553
Kukushan, a medicinal plant of extraordinary virtue, ii. 608
Kumil-Mâdan, the undine, an elemental spirit, i. 496
Kurds, affirmed to be Indo-European, ii. 629;
are Mahometans, magicians, Yezids, and fire-worshippers, ii. 630;
scene with a sorcerer, ii. 631
Kutchi of Lha-Ssa, magically apprised by a Shaman of the author’s helpless condition in the desert, ii. 628
Kutti-Satan, a Tamil spirit, i. 567
Labyrinth, the great, description by Herodotus, i. 522
Lactantius on calling up souls, i. 167;
declared the heliocentric system a heretical doctrine, i. 526;
rejected the doctrine of the antipodes, ii. 477
Læstrygonians of the Odyssey cannibal races of Norway, i. 549
Laghana-Sastra, a secret sect in India, ii. 315;
their sacred groves, ii. 316
Lake, mysteries of, ii. 138;
of fire and brimstone, ii. 12;
the devil cast in it, with the beast and false prophet, ib.;
place of purification of the wicked, ii. 238
Lakes and mountains in the Sanctuary of Karnak, i. 524
Lakshmi or Lakmi, the Damatri Venus or Great Mother, ii. 259, 598
Lama infant, or reincarnated Buddha, interview with him, ii. 598
Lamaic saints at a cave-temple, ii. 599;
exorcism, ii. 626
Lamaism, the purest Buddhism, ii. 608
Lamas, Thibetan, use the force known as Akâsa, i. 113
Lamps, ever-burning, one in the tomb of Cicero’s daughter, i. 224, 228;
in crypts of India, Thibet, and Japan, i. 225;
in Travancore, ib.;
in Egypt, i. 226;
at Athens, Carthage, Edessa, Antioch, i. 227;
in the Appian Way and the Mosaic Tabernacle, i. 128;
mode of preparing, i. 229
Lamp-wicks of stone, i. 231;
of asbestos, i. 231
Land-measuring, known by the Egyptians, i. 531
Lao-tsi, or Laotsen, his figure produced by magic, i. 600
Lares, i. 345
Larmenius, charter forged, ii. 385
Larva, the soul, i. 344, 345
Larvæ, shadows of men that have once lived, i. 310;
their reincarnation, i. 357
Last rite, not known by the highest epoptæ, ii. 563
Latin Church, nearly upset by modern research, ii. 6;
despoiled the kabalists and theurgists, ii. 85;
preserves the old pagan worship, even to the dress of the clergy, ii. 92
Lausanne, declaration of the Supreme Masonic Councils, ii. 377;
denounced by Gen. Pike, ib.
Leaping of the prophets of Baal, ii. 45
Leaves, impressions made on, i. 368, 369
Le Comte, Prof., comparison of living and dead organism, i. 466;
on vital force, i. 313
Lempriere accuses Pythagoras and Porphyry, i. 431
Lemure, i. 345
Lemuria, the last continent of the Indian Ocean, perhaps the same as Atlantis, i. 591, 592;
the Indian legend, i. 594
Lens found at Nineveh, i. 239
Lentulus, his forged letter, ii. 151
Leopard-skin, a sacred appendage of the mysteries, i. 568;
found sculptured in basso-relievo in Central America, i. 569;
employed by the Brahmans, ib.
Lesser mysteries, their meaning and object, ii. 111
Lesser and greater mysteries, accused of indecency, ii. 100
Letter of Father Raulica on magic, ii. 70;
of Mary Virgin to the Bishop and Church of Messina, ii. 83;
from a Druze brother to the author, ii. 313
Letters, ii. 83;
invented in Egypt, i. 532
Levi, a caste rather than a tribe, i. 568
Levi, Eliphas, exposition of the means to acquire magical power, i. 137;
his remark on the ancient Christian malignity, ii. 250
Leviathan, the occult science, ii. 499
Law of compensation never swerves, ii. 545
Levitation discussed, i. 491, 492, 494-498;
under magnetic conditions practicable, ii. 589
Levitations, i. 100, 225;
declared impossible, i. 105;
of Iamblichus, i. 115;
occasioned by the attraction of the perisprit or astral soul, i. 197;
disapproved by Iamblichus, i. 219
Levites, or serpent-tribe, the seraphs or fiery serpents, ii. 481
Lewis, Sir G. C., opinion adverse to the culture of the ancients, i. 525
Liberalia, or St. Patrick’s day, a festival of the Church, ii. 528
Libyan shepherds, Cyclopeans, i. 567
Lichen, produced, i. 302
Life, a phenomenon of matter, i. 115
Life-principle, speculations, i. 466
Life-transfer, ii. 564
Light, chemical relations, i. 136;
undulatory theory much doubted, i. 137;
mystical, the Divine Intelligence, i. 258;
same as electricity, ib.;
both matter and a force, i. 281;
sympathy its offspring, i. 309;
an energy, not an emanation, the view of Aristotle, i. 510;
sublimated gold, i. 511
Lightning, conjured down by Prometheus, i. 526;
fate of Tullius, i. 527
Lightning-photographs, i. 394, 395
Lightning-rods on ancient temples, i. 527, 528;
used in India, i. 528
Lilith, Adam’s “first wife,” ii. 445
Linen of ancient Egypt, i. 536;
fire-proof, i. 230
Linga, same as the pillars of the patriarchs, ii. 235
Lingham, or emblem of Maha Deva, ii. 5;
and Yoni in churches, ii. 5
Lithos or phallus, reproduced in steeples, turrets, and domes, ii. 5
Littré on positive philosophy, i. 78
Living acari by chemical experiments, i. 465;
fire, i. 301
Local gods, ii. 451
Lodestone, its power to affect a whole audience, i. 265
Logia, or secret doctrines taught by Jesus, ii. 191
Logoi, all fail and are punished, i. 298
Logos, i. 131;
in every mythos, i. 162
Λόγος Αληθής, True Doctrine of Celsus, story of the book at a convent, ii. 52
Long-face, the Supreme God, ii. 247
Long hair, worn by John the Baptist and Jesus, and denounced by Paul, ii. 140
Lord of the Genii, i. 300
Losing one’s soul possible, i. 317
Lost word, where to be sought, i. 580;
and its substitute, Mac Benac, ii. 349
Lotus, the sacred flower of Egyptians and Hindus, i. 91;
superseded by the lilies, i. 92
Loubère, M. de la, on Buddha and the Buddhists, ii. 576-579
Lourdes, shrine of, materializations of Virgin Mary, i. 119;
the madonna, her miracles, i. 614, ii. 6;
the moving of the statue, i. 618
Love, its magnetism the originator of created things, i. 210
Lucifer, i. 299
Luke, the evangelist, reputed an Essene, ii. 144
Lunar dynasties in India, the Chandra Vensa, ii. 438
Lundy, Rev. Dr., what he has proved, ii. 557
Luther and the demon, ii. 73;
the worst man in Europe, ii. 200;
his denunciation of the Catholics, ii. 208;
intolerant, and Calvin bloodthirsty, ii. 503
Lycanthropes, over 600 put to death in the Jura by sentence of a judge, ii. 626
Lutherans burned as sorcerers, ii. 61
Luxor, unfading colors, i. 239;
brotherhood of, ii. 308
Macaulay, his criticism of scientists and philosophers, i. 424
Mac Benac, ii. 349
Machagistia, the magic taught in Persia and Babylonia, i. 251;
the testimony of Plato, ii. 306
Mackenzie, his description of the Jesuits, ii. 355
Macrocosm, i. 62
Macroprosopos or macrocosm, i. 580
Madonna of Barri, with crinoline, ii. 9;
of Rio de Janeiro, décolletée, with blonde hair and chignon, ii. 10
Madras famine made worse by Catholic taxation, ii. 532
Maëlstrom, the Charybdis of the Odyssey, i. 545.
Magendie, remedy for consumption, i. 89;
absents himself from experiments instituted by the French Academy in 1826, i. 175, 176;
acknowledges that little is known of fœtal life, i. 386;
opinion of malformation, i. 388, 390;
asserts influence of imagination on the fœtus, i. 394
Magi established magic, i. 25;
taught the birth and decadence of worlds, i. 255;
Pythagoras, their associate, i. 284;
objected to the evocation of souls, i. 321;
three schools, ii. 361;
Chaldean, the masters of the Jews, ib.;
two schools, ii. 128, 306
Magic, based on natural science, i. 17;
once universally taught, i. 18, 247;
a divine science, i. 25;
originally established by Magi, and not by priests, ib.;
very ancient, ib.;
Moses and Joseph proficients, ib.;
two kinds, divine and evil, i. 26;
neglected by Masons, i. 30;
spiritualism, its modern form, i. 42;
profound knowledge of simples and minerals, i. 66;
likely to be rediscovered by scientists, i. 67;
esoteric in India, i. 90;
practised by Gymnosophists, i. 90;
the divina sapientia, i. 94;
Salverte’s Philosophy of Magic, i. 115;
mesmerism an important branch, i. 129;
theory of Eliphas Levi, i. 137;
modern forms, i. 138;
doctrine of Paracelsus, Agrippa, and Philalethes, i. 167;
included in the arcane doctrine of Wisdom, i. 205;
the power never possessed by those addicted to vicious indulgences, i. 218;
its basis, the occult or spiritual principle, i. 244;
testimony of Du Potet, i. 279;
theurgical, i. 281;
a sacerdotal science, i. 262;
exemplified in eastern countries of Asia, i. 320;
adepts understand the akasa or astral fluid, i. 378;
synonymous with religion and science, i. 459;
belief of Demokritus; 800,000,000 believers in, i. 512;
Votan of Ancient America, i. 545;
cultivated by Aztecs and ancient Egyptians, i. 560;
studied by the people of Pashai or Peshawer, i. 599;
seance described by Hon. J. L. O’Sullivan, i. 608-611;
the church believes in it, ii. 76;
used to select the canonical books of Holy Scripture, ii. 251;
denounced, ii. 502;
the science of man and nature, and its applications in practice, ii. 583;
its principles, ii. 587-590;
its cornerstone, ii. 589;
black, practised at the Vatican, ii. 6;
taught in the lamaseries, ii. 609;
magnetism its alphabet, ii. 610
Magic arcanum, i. 506;
crystal, i. 467;
lamp of Hermes, ii. 417
Magical anæsthetics of the Brahmans, used in the burning of widows, i. 540;
exhibitions of Tartary and Thibet, testimony of Col. Yule, i. 600;
moon of Thibet, i. 441;
evocation a part of the sacerdotal office, ii. 118;
evocations must be pronounced in a particular dialect, ii. 46
Magician, how different from a witch, i. 366;
difference from a medium, i. 367;
can summon and dismiss spirits at will, ib.
Magism flourished at the Ur of the Kasdeans, i. 549
Magnale magnum, i. 170, 213
Magus, Magh, Mahaji, i. 129
Magnes, i. 64;
rediscovered by Mesmer, i. 71;
the living fire or spirit of light, i. 129
Magret, rediscovered by Paracelsus, i. 71;
the stone, i. 129;
its concealed power, i. 168;
Kircher’s doctrine of one magnet in the universe, i. 208;
the same as the spiritual Sun, or God, i. 209;
the poles signified in the Mysteries by the Dioskuri, i. 235;
the sun, i. 271
Magnetic currents develop into electricity, i. 395
Magnetization, two kinds, i. 178;
of minerals by animal magnetism, i. 209;
of a table or person, i. 322
Magnetism, i. 129;
animal, denied by modern science and then accepted, i. 130;
the magic power of man, i. 170;
taught by Des Cartes, i. 206;
by Naudé, Hufeland, Wirdig, and Kepler, i. 207;
and by Porta and Father Kircher, i. 209;
of love, the originator of every created thing, i. 210;
taught in the Mysteries, i. 234;
poles represented by the Dioskuri, i. 235;
the universal law, i. 244;
the alphabet of magic, ii. 610;
being true, medicine absurd, ib.
Mahâbhârata, antedated the age of Cyrus the great, ii. 428
Maha Deva or Siva, his lingham or emblem in pagodas, ii. 5;
worshipped by the dark races of Hindustan, ii. 434
Mahady of Elephanta, ii. 5
Mahat, or Prakriti, the external sense-life, ii. 565
Mahomet, his testimony concerning Jews, ii. 480
Mahometan, confession of Faith on the Chair of Peter, ii. 25
Mahometanism, the outgrowth of Christian cruelty, ii. 53, 54;
making more proselytes than Christians, ii. 239
Maimonides, i. 17
Malagrida, burned for sorcery in 1761, ii. 58
Malays, their island empire, i. 592
Males suckling their young, i. 412
Malformations, opinion of Magendie, i. 388;
theory of Prof. Armor, i. 392
Malum in se, no such principle, ii. 480
Man, once communed with unseen universes, i. 2;
belief of the Kalmucks, ib.;
“as immortal as God,” i. 13;
how influenced, i. 39;
composed of like elements as the stars, i. 168;
magnetism his magic power, i. 170;
different electric condition of persons and sexes, i. 171;
possessed of three spirits, i. 212;
a little world inside the great, ib.;
Van Helmont’s theory, i. 213;
Plato’s theory, i. 276, 297;
androgynous, i. 497;
created in the sixth millenium, i. 342;
possesses arcane powers, ii. 113;
how he should do, ii. 122;
the fall an evolution, ii. 277;
his spirit, if not his soul, preëxistent, ii. 280;
the object of the alchemic, Hermetic, and mystic explorations, i. 308;
the philosopher’s stone and trinity in unity, i. 309;
a microcosm, i. 323;
never steps outside of universal life, ii. 343;
the six principles, ii. 367;
first appears as a stone, i. 389;
has power to shape matter, i. 394, 395;
ante-natal maternal impressions of this character, i. 395;
seven days on the pillar, ii. 447;
the story of the fall regarded as an allegory, ii. 546;
has a natural, a spiritual, and final birth, ii. 565;
triune, body, soul, and immortal spirit, ii. 588;
how he becomes an immortal entity, ib.
Man-tree, i. 297
Mandrakes or Mandragora, a magical plant, i. 465
Manes, i. 37, 345;
his fate, ii. 208
Manifestations, subjective and objective, i. 68;
mediumistic, in Asia, i. 320
Mano, ii. 228, 229, 300
Mantheon, a title of Zoroaster, ii. 409
Mantic frenzy produced by exhalations from the earth, i. 531
Manu, laws the same as the doctrines of the sages and Kabala, i. 271;
doctrine of the universe, ib.;
laws of, opinion of Sir William Jones, i. 585;
the basis of the code of Justinian, i. 581;
their age, i. 586-588;
widow-burning not mentioned in them, i. 588;
on life, evolution, and transformations, i. 620, 621;
predicts the advent of the Divine One, ii. 50;
knew nothing of deluge, ii. 427, 428
Manus, six, progenitors of six races of men, i. 590
Manu-Vina or Menes, colonizes Egypt from India, i. 627
Manwantara, i. 32
Marathos or Martu, ancient city and name of Phœnicia, means The West, i. 579
Marathon, neighing of horses and shouts of men heard 400 years after the battle, i. 70
Marcion distinguished between Judaism and Christianity, ii. 162;
his doctrines, ii. 103;
accepted Paul and denied the other apostles, ii. 168;
the great hæresiarch, his influence, ii. 159, 160;
brutally assailed by Tertullian and Epiphanius, ib.
Marco Polo, on veins of salamander or asbestos, i. 504;
asserts that in Kashmere images are made to speak, i. 505;
brought movable types and blocks for printing, from China, i. 513;
describes Buddha as living like a Christian, ii. 581;
on the nature-spirits of the deserts, i. 603;
would not retract his “falsehoods,” ib.;
declaration in regard to hearing spirits talk in the desert, i. 604
Marcosians, their sacrament, ii. 513
Marechale d’Ancre, her trial for sorcery, ii. 60
Mariana, Jesuit, explains the best way to kill a king, ii. 372, 373
Markland, a possible root of name America, i. 592
Marriage cured the convulsionaries, i. 375
Marrying the father’s wife, ii. 240
Marses in Italy, power over serpents, i. 381
Martu or Marathos, the west, i. 579
Mary, virgin, materializing at Lourdes, i. 119;
writes a letter from heaven declaring the pagans condemned to eternal torments, ii. 8;
the anthropomorphized Isis, ii. 41;
writes letters, ii. 82, 83;
text of one, ii. 87;
without her consent, no redemption, ii. 172, 173;
overshadowed by Ilda-Baoth and not by Æbel Zivo or Gabriel, ii. 247;
like Dido, the Virgin of the Sea, ii. 446;
is visited by the Agathodaimon serpent, ii. 505
Mason, Osgood, on deity and nature, i. 426
Masonic ciphers, the keys, ii. 394;
fraternity, its unworthy members, ii. 376;
honors offered by M. de Nègre, a grand hierophant, refused, ii. 380;
institute, brought into disrepute by the Jesuits, ii. 385;
pagan in origin, ib.;
Templars, a creation of the Jesuits, ii. 381
Masonry, neglect of magic and spiritualism, i. 30;
once a true secret organization, ii. 349;
who should be excluded, ii. 376;
esoteric, not known in American lodges, ib.;
the time to remodel it has come, ii. 377;
no secrets left unpublished, ib.;
whether Christian or pagan, ib.;
departing from its original aims, ii. 380;
European and American, the Bible its great light, ii. 389
Masons, accusations against them half guess-work, ii. 372;
reject a personal God, ii. 375;
and the impostor Anderson, ii. 389
Masorets changed the immodest words in the Bible, ii. 430
Master-builder, epopt, adept, the Apostle Paul, ii. 91
Master’s word, communicated only at low breath, ii. 99
Mas’udi, on the ghûls in the desert, i. 604
Materialization, what spirits practice it, i. 319;
personal, i. 321
Materializations recorded in the Bible, i. 493
“Materialized spirits,” i. 67;
witnessed by the author, i. 69;
Virgin Mary to be expected at the Vatican, ii. 82;
often comes and lights a taper at Arras, ib.
Mathematical error held by the Gnostics, ii. 194
Mathematicians, ancient, went to Egypt to be instructed, i. 531
Mathematics, Pythagorean and Platonic, i. 106
Matsya, the earliest avatar, ii. 427
Matter, how produced, i. 140;
proclaimed by modern physicists sole and autocratic sovereign of the universe, i. 235;
its indestructibility, i. 243;
origin, i. 258;
the serpent that tempted man, i. 297;
not created by Divine thought, i. 310;
indestructible and eternal, i. 328;
fructified by the Divine idea or imagination, i. 396;
the remote effect of emanative energy, ii. 35
Matthew, gospel of, a secret book written in Hebrew, ii. 181, 182;
quotes the Egyptian Book of the Dead, ii. 548
Matwanlin, on voices in the deserts, i. 604
Maudsley, Prof., repudiates Comte, ii. 3;
rejects the positive philosophy, i. 82
Mauritania Tingitana, its columns, i. 545
Mauritius, his nauscopite, i. 240
Max Müller, scouts the idea of original human brutality, i. 4;
on the meaning of Veda, i. 354;
on Sanscrit literature, i. 442;
on the four ancestors, i. 559;
on Brahmanical literature, i. 580;
on the mutations of Christianity, ii. 10;
on the science of religion, ii. 26;
his retort upon Prof. Whitney, ii. 47;
assertion on the Hindu gods, ii. 413;
on the Vedas, ii. 414;
his understanding of Nirvana, ii. 432
Maxwell, his offer to cure diseases abandoned as incurable, i. 215;
his theory of the world-soul or life-spirit, i. 215, 216
Maya, or illusion, i. 289
Mayas of Yucatan, their mysterious city, i. 547
Mecassipa, an enchanter, i. 355
Medallions from the ashes of the dead, ii. 603
Mediatorship, how exercised, i. 487, 488
Medici family patrons of the black art, ii. 55
Medicine, classed by Bacon as a conjectural science, i. 405;
modern, what it has gained and lost, i. 20;
occult, suggested by Descartes, i. 214
Medium, a conductor, i. 201;
difference from a magician, i. 367;
a passive, the adept an active instrument, ii. 588;
needs a foreign intelligence, ii. 592
Medium-catcher of Prof. Faraday, i. 63
Medium-healers, charged with vampirism, i. 490, 491
Mediums, their visions more trustworthy than those of Catholic priests, ii. 73;
burned, hanged, and otherwise murdered, i. 26, 353;
in Russia, i. 27;
generally utter commonplace ideas, i. 221;
their astral limbs, ii. 595;
are usually diseased, ib.;
the Mosaic law contemplated killing them, i. 356;
passive, i. 488;
unregulated ones persecuted, i. 489;
how cured, i. 490;
generally disordered while the ancient thaumaturgists were not, ib.
Mediumistic diathesis, i. 117;
phenomena in Asia, i. 320
Mediumship, physical and spiritual, i. 367;
its phases seldom altered, ib.;
depends upon a peculiar organization, i. 367;
psychographic, i. 368;
its conditions and circumstances, i. 487;
in holy men, mediatorship, ib.;
in these days an undesirable gift, i. 488;
natural, ii. 118;
the opposite of adeptship, ii. 588
Megasthenes traces the Jews to the Kalani of India, i. 567
Melampus, his magical cures, i. 531
Melanephoris, the third degree, ii. 364
Mementos of a long bygone civilization, i. 349
Memory, views of Ammonius Sakkas, ii. 591;
of God, i. 178
Men produced by the giant Ymir, and also by the cow Audhumla, i. 148;
denoted by the tree of life, Yggdrasill, Zampun, Aswatha, i. 151-4;
existed at a period extremely remote, i. 155;
of the Stone Age described by Mrs. Denton, i. 295;
revivified without souls, ii. 564;
races differ in their spiritual gifts, ii. 588;
soulless, ii. 369;
of science wear the cast-off garb of priests dyed to escape detection, ii. 8
Mendeleyeff, Prof., declares spiritualism a mixture of superstition, delusion, and fraud, i. 117;
protest by Butleroff, Aksakoff, and others, i. 118
Menes, turned the course of the Nile, i. 516
Menon, the inventor of letters, i. 532
Mensabulism, i. 322
Mental photography, i. 322
Mentuhept, Queen, inscription on her monument, ii. 92
Mercaba, ii. 348;
must be first known, ii. 349;
a hidden doctrine, ib.
Mercurius vitæ of Paracelsus, ii. 620
Mercury, water of, symbol of the soul, i. 309;
or quicksilver, never used by Yogi or alchemist, only by charlatans, and not by Paracelsus, ii. 620, 621;
never restored a man to health, ib.
Meridian, known when the first pyramid was built, i. 536
Meru or Meruah, sound, etc., i. 592;
and its gods, ii. 233, 234
Mesmer, rediscovered animal magnetism, i. 165;
his 27 propositions, i. 172;
condemned by the French Committee of 1784
Mesmerism, i. 23;
a rediscovery of what Paracelsus taught, i. 72;
repudiated by positivists, i. 82;
used successfully by physicians, ib.;
an important branch of magic, i. 129, 131;
condemned in France in 1784, i. 171;
prize offered for thesis by the Prussian Government, i. 173;
taught by Descartes, i. 206
Message delivered at Kounboum, ii. 604
Messages, writing by spirits, i. 367
Messiah, comes in the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, in the sign Pisces, ii. 256;
the fifth emanation, ii. 259
Metallic springs found in ancient war-chariots, i. 530
Metalline, a compound overcoming friction, i. 502
Metallurgy among the Egyptians and Semitic races, i. 538
Metals not simple bodies, i. 509
Metatron, or angel of the Lord, transformed into Jesus the son of Mary, ii. 33;
seventy names, ii. 245
Metempsychosis, i. 8;
believed by all philosophers, early fathers and Gnostics, i. 12;
doctrine of Plato, i. 276, 277;
an allegory, not to be literally understood, and relating to experiences of the soul, i. 289, 550;
of Buddha, i. 291;
dreaded by Hindus, i. 348;
the separation of the thumos and ridding the nous of the phren, ii. 286
Methuselah helps Enoch construct nine chambers underground in the land of Canaan, i. 571;
receives from him certain secret learning, ib.
Metis, the same as Sophia of the Gnostics, and Sephira, ii. 163
Mexican serpent-gods, i. 572
Mexicans, ancient, i. 313;
their theory of lunar eclipses similar to the Hindu, i. 548
Mexico, serpent-worship, i. 46, 551-558
Michael, the unknown angel, ii. 488;
a phial of his sweat preserved as a relic, ii. 71;
the archangel, the same as Ophiomorphos, ii. 206;
and the Devil, their dispute, ii. 482;
the Dragon-slayer, ii. 488
Michelet, testimony in regard to the Jesuits, ii. 358, 359
Microcosm, i. 212
Microcosmos, i. 28
Microprosopos (little face), the microcosm, i. 580;
the Adam primos, ii. 452
Microscope, its brothers in the Books of Moses, i. 240
Middle Asia, botany and mineralogy, i. 89;
ever-burning lamps, i. 227
Midgard snake, i. 151
Midianites regarded as wise men, ii. 449
Milk of the Celestial Virgin, i. 64
Milton, John, regarded Paradise Lost as a book of fiction, ii. 501
Mimer, the deep well of wisdom, i. 151
Minarets of Islam, ii. 5
Minerals, magnetized by man, i. 209;
the basis of evolution of vegetable organisms, ib.;
their occult properties, ii. 589
Miracles, those of the Bible surpassed by those of the Vedas, i. 90;
so-called, genuine, from Moses to Cagliostro, i. 128;
none in nature, ii. 587;
at the tomb of Abbé Paris, i. 372;
among the Convulsionaires, ib.;
none in Protestant countries, ii. 17;
in spite of the Church, ii. 22, 23
Miraculous Conception, a legend of Buddhism, ii. 504;
fire at the Holy Sepulchre, ii. 404
Mirville, De, i. 99;
refutes Babinet’s denial of levitation, i. 105;
the nebulous Almighty, i. 129
Mithra, a triple god, ii. 41
Mithraic Mysteries, ii. 351;
initiation of Julian the Emperor, ii. 566
Mixture to out-stench devils, ii. 67
Mnizurin, i. 321
Mochtana or Mokomna, the Druze apostle, ii. 308
Morals, the Buddhistic code, ii. 608
Model of the Universe, i. 302
Modern philosophers, see only the physical form of Isis, i. 16;
devil, a heritage from Cybelè, ii. 501;
Savants know less than ancients, i. 15;
science denies a Supreme Being or Personal God, i. 16;
teaches the power of human thought to affect the matter of another universe, i. 310;
scientists hate new truths, i. 409;
spiritualism, i. 40;
the modern form of magic, i. 42
Mœris, the artificial lake constructed in Egypt, i. 516
Moisasure, the Hindu Lucifer, i. 299
Moksha and the Nirvana, ii. 116;
the second spiritual birth, ii. 566
Moldenwaher, his documents concerning the prosecution of the Knights-Templar, bought up by Free-masons, ii. 383
Moloch-Hercules, children immolated to him in the valley of the Gehenna, ii. 11
Moloch-God of the inquisition, ii. 65
Moloch-like divinity of Roman church, i. 27
Monad, i. 212;
Buddha, i. 291
Monas, ii. 347
Mongolians, ought to have been called Scyths, i. 576
Monkey of God, now exorcised with holy water, ii. 96
Monkeys exhibiting human intellect, i. 326;
fabled to be progenitors of western people, i. 563;
in Egyptian temples, i. 564;
in all Buddhistic temples, ib.
Monkish impostors expelled from convents in Southern Mongolia, ii. 609
Monks, their fury for exorcising and roasting the convulsionaires of the Cevennes, i. 370, 372;
none in hell, ii. 75
Monoliths, for Egyptian monuments, i. 518;
how transported, ib.
Monogenes, or only-begotten, a name of Proserpina, ii. 284
Montesquieu, on two witnesses, i. 87
Montezuma, his effigy worshipped in Mexico, i. 557
Montgeron, writes a book on Jansenist miracles, i. 373
Monuments, religious, the expression of the same thoughts, i. 561;
planned and built under supervision of priests, ib.;
alike in Asia and America, ib.
Moody, the revivalist, would see his son’s eyes dug out, ii. 250;
and Sankey, confounded by a Roman bishop with spiritualists, ii. 7
Moon, the same as Diana, Diktynna, Artemis, Juno, etc., i. 267;
her worship in Crete, ib.;
influence on women, ib.;
legends of her phases, i. 265, 266;
influence on tides, persons, and vegetation, i. 273;
in middle nature, and green the middle color, i. 514
Moon-god, Deus Lunus, worshipped by the Khaldi, ii. 48
Moon-kings, or lunar dynasty, reigned at Pruyag and Allahabad, ii. 48
Moor, his explanation of the Wittoba, ii. 557, 558
Moore, Rev. Dunlop, assertion of the age of the institutes of Manu, i. 585
Moors, bearded, figures at the great temple of Angkor, or Nagkon-Wat, i. 565, 567
Mora in Sweden, young children burned alive as witches, ii. 503
More, Henry, i. 54, 74;
his belief in Pythagorean doctrines, i. 204, 205;
adversary of Eugenius Philalethes, i. 308;
demonstration of witchcraft, i. 353;
theory of birth-marks, i. 384, 385
Morgan, “good enough till after the election,” ii. 372
Moigno, Abbé, his wretched success in writing down Huxley, Tyndall, and Raymond, i. 336
Mormons, polytheists, ii. 2
Mortal soul, i. 276, 326
Mosaic books, regarded by well-educated Jews allegory, i. 554, 555;
religion a sun-and-serpent worship, ii. 129
Moses, the pupil of the mother of Pharaoh’s daughter, i. 25;
communicated secrets to the seventy elders, i. 26;
his code required two witnesses, i. 87;
placed a perpetual lamp in the tabernacle, i. 228;
described Jehovah the anthropomorphic deity as being the highest God, i. 307;
could not obtain his other name, i. 309;
philosophized or spoke in allegory, i. 436;
said to have had knowledge of electricity, i. 528;
chief of the Sodales or priest-colleges, i. 555;
a hierophant of Heliopolis and priest of Osiris, ib.;
initiated, ib.;
became an Egyptian and a priest, i. 556;
denounced the spirit of Ob, not Od, i. 594;
disputes over his body, its allegorical interpretation, ii. 482;
an initiate, ii. 129;
and the Israelites, their story typical, ii. 493;
versed in occult sciences, ii. 59;
the law not more than two or three centuries older than Christianity, ii. 526
Moslem arms blessed by the Pope, ii. 560
Mother and child, a very ancient sign and myth, ii. 491;
-trunk, the universal religion, ii. 123;
of God the most ancient, ii. 49, 50;
the Heaven itself, ii. 50;
lodge, the great, ii. 315
Mountain of light, its appearance to Hiouen-Thsang, i. 600
Mouse-mark, produced by alarm, i. 391
Mousseaux, Des, i. 99;
declares the devil the chief pillar of faith, i. 103
Movable printing types, in China before our Era, i. 513;
used in the earliest periods of lamaism in Thibet, ib.
Moyst natures or elementary spirits, i. 342, 343
Mukti, or half-gods, ii. 566
Müller, Albrecht, testimony in regard to ancient skill, i. 539
Mummy, bandaging, i. 20;
a symbol, i. 297;
a finger-ring at the London Exhibition of 1851, i. 531
Mummy-bandaging, i. 539;
1000 yards long ib.
Mundane tree, i. 297
Mundane cross of heaven, ii. 454;
egg or universal womb, ii. 214;
snake creeps out of the primordial ilus, i. 298
Muratori, his felt cuirasse, copied from the ancients, i. 530
Murder, an obstacle to ancient, but not to Jesuit initiation, ii. 363
Murderous language of Jerome and Tertullian, ii. 250
Music, power over diseases, i. 215;
effect on persons, i. 275;
its influence on reptiles, i. 382;
employed in Egyptian temples for healing of nervous disorders, i. 544
Musical instruments in Egypt, i. 544;
sand, i. 605;
tones influence vegetation, i. 514
Mutton-protoplasm, i. 251
Mysteries, i. 15;
little known, i. 24;
of the Israelites, i. 26;
theurgic, i. 130;
Samothracian, i. 132;
occult properties of magnetism and electricity taught, i. 234;
representation of Demeter with the electrified head, ib.;
the Dioskuri, i. 234-243;
Pythagoras initiated, i. 284;
their gradation, ii. 101;
ennobling in their character, ib.;
of the ancients identical with the Hindu and Buddhist initiations, ii. 113, 114;
divine visions beheld in them, ii. 118;
of the Christians, ii. 119;
Jesuit, not revealed to all priests, ii. 350;
Mithraïc, twelve tortures, ii. 351;
taught to the Babylonians, ii. 457
Mysterious city of the Mayas of Yucatan, i. 547;
science existed apart from “mediumship,” ii. 118
Mystery of the celestial Virgin pursued by the Dragon, ii. 490;
and science, Mr. Felix’s book, i. 337
Mystery-God of the Ineffable Name, ii. 289
Mystic doctrines not properly understood, i. 429;
legends of the Middle Ages, ii. 38
Mystical words of power in old religions, ii. 99;
properties in plants, ii. 589
Myths, fables, when misunderstood, and truths as once understood, ii. 431
Nabatheans in Lebanon, ii. 197
Nagal, the chief sorcerer of the Mexicans, i. 556
Nagas, or kingly snakes, i. 448;
or serpent-tribes of Kashmere, teachers of Apollonius, ii. 434;
or serpent-worshippers of Kashmere converted to the Buddhistic faith, ii. 608
Nagkon-Wat, i. 239;
description of Frank Vincent, i. 561-563;
pictures represent scenes from the Ramayava, i. 573;
100,000 separate figures, ib.;
ascribed to the lost tribes of Israel, i. 565;
suggested to have been built for Buddhaghosa, ib.;
contains representations of Oannes or Dagon, the Kabeiri, the monkey or Vulcan, Egyptian and Assyrian figures, ib.
Nagualism and voodoo-worship, i. 556, 557;
secret worships, i. 557; ii. 572;
perpetuated by Catholic persecution, ii. 573
Nails of a cherub preserved as relics, ii. 71
Name, Ineffable, not possessed by Masons, ii. 387
Nandi, the Vehan of Siva, ii. 235
Nara, the mundane egg or universal womb, ii. 214
Narayana, mover of the waters, Brahma, i. 91
Nation, its greatest curse, ii. 121
National Quarterly, on modern scientists, i. 240, 249
Natural magic, no relation to sleight of hand, i. 128;
“mediumship,” ii. 118
Nature, four kingdoms, i. 329;
a materialization of spirit, i. 428;
triune, the visible or objective, the vital or subjective principle and the eternal spirit, ii. 587;
the servant of the magician, ii. 590;
reveals all arts, i. 424, 425
Nature-spirits or shedim, i. 313;
or elementary, i. 349
Naudé, a defender of occult magnetism and theosophy, i. 207
Naus-copite, an optical instrument, i. 240
Navel and less comely parts of Jesus for relics, ii. 71;
symbolized by the ark, ii. 444
Nazarene system explained, ii. 227-229;
diagram, ii. 295
Nazarenes, had a gospel inscribed to Peter, ii. 127;
an anti-Bacchus caste, ii. 129;
existed before Christ, ii. 139, 181;
some as Galileans, ii. 139;
their belief of a divine overshadowing, ii. 154
Nazaret or Zoroaster, ii. 140
Nazars, Joseph, Samuel, Samson, Zoroaster, and Zorobabel, ii. 128;
wore their hair long, but cut it off at initiation, ii. 90;
Jesus belonged to them, ib.
Nazireates, inimical to the Israelites, ii. 131
Nebelheim, the matrix of the earth, i. 147
Nebular theory, the ancient docrine, i. 238
Necessity, circle of, i. 226, 296;
men its toy, i. 276;
circle of, when completed, i. 346
Necho, King of Egypt, wrote on astronomy, i. 406;
canal of, i. 517;
II., sent a fleet to circumnavigate Africa, i. 542
Necklace, imprinted by lightning on two ladies, i. 398
Necromancy, a science of remote antiquity, i. 205
ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ nekrokedeia, i. 228
Neoconis, the second degree, ii. 364
Neo-Platonic Eclectic School, ii. 32
Neo-Platonists, i. 262;
their time of greatest glory, ii. 41;
their doctrines and practices copied, ii. 84;
not “spirit mediums,” ii. 118;
when they were doomed, ii. 252
Nero, his ring, i. 240;
dared not seek initiation, ii. 363
Neros I., i. 31;
the Great, i. 33
Nervous disorders, i. 117;
disorders a specialty in ancient Egypt, i. 529;
disorders treated with music in Egyptian temples, i. 544;
exhaustion at spiritual circles, i. 343
Neurological telegraphy proposed, i. 324
Never-embodied men, i. 301
Neville, Francis, twice resuscitated, i. 479
New birth and accompanying slaughter, ii. 42;
taught by Buddha and Jesus, ii. 566
New Jersey, negroes burned at the stake for witchcraft, ii. 18
New Testament, passages compared with sentences from the philosophers, ii. 338
Newton Bishop, on the transformation of paganism into popery, ii. 29;
Dr. the American healer, i. 165, 217, 218;
Isaac, believer in magnetism, i. 177
Niccolini, his exposure of the profligacy of monks, ii. 365, 366
Nicodemus, Gospel taken from the pagan authors, ii. 518
Nicolaitans adhered to marriage, ii. 329
Nicolas, a man of honest report, ii. 333
Night of Brahma, ii. 272, 273
Nimbus and Tonsure solar emblems, ii. 94
Nimrod, or spotted, a name of Bacchus, the wearer of the spotted skin, i. 568
Nimroud, convex lens found, i. 240
Nin or Imus of the Tzendales the same as Ninus, i. 551;
received homage in the form of a serpent, i. 522
Nineveh, 47 miles in circumference, i. 241
Nirvana, i. 241, 290;
the world of cause, i. 346;
not nihilism nor extinction, i. 430;
complete purification from matter, ii. 117;
subjective but not objective existence, ii. 286;
a personal immortality in spirit, but not in soul, ii. 320;
or Moksha, the second spiritual birth, ii. 566;
the ocean to which all religions tend, ii. 639
Nirvritti or rest, i. 243
No devil, no Christ, ii. 492
Noah, or Nuah, same as Swayambhuva, ii. 448;
the universal mother, ii. 444
Nonnus, his legend of Korè and her son, ii. 504
Norns, or Parcæ, watering the roots of the tree Yggdrasill, i. 151
Norse kingdom of the dead, ii. 11;
contained no blazing hell, ib.
Nous, i. 55, 131;
consecrated to Mary, Isis, and Nari, ii. 210;
or rational soul, everyman endowed, ii. 279;
the spirit or reasoning soul, doctrine of Aristotle, i. 317;
the first-born, or Christ, ii. 157
No-Zeruan, the ancient of days, ii. 142
Nout, the Egyptian name of the Divine Spirit, ii. 282;
same as Nous, ib.
Nuah (Hea) king of the humid principle, ii. 429
Nubia, its rock-temples, i. 542
Nucleus of the embryo, i. 389
Numa, King of Rome, Books of, i. 527;
understood electricity, ib.;
opposed the use of images in worship, ib.
Numbers, Hermetic Book, on cosmic changes, i. 254;
book of secret, the great Kabala, i. 579
Numerals of Pythagoras, hieroglyphical symbols, i. 35;
the basis of all systems of mysticism, ii. 407
Nun, an Egyptian designation, ii. 95
Nysa, Nyssa, always found where Bacchus was worshipped, ii. 165;
same as Sinai, ib.
Oak, sacred, i. 297, 298
Oannes, i. 133;
the man fish, i. 349;
the same as Vishnu, ii. 257;
name signifies a spirit, ib.
Oath taken by initiates, i. 409
Ob, the astral light, i. 158
Obeah women in Guiana charm snakes, i. 383
Obelisks of Egypt, i. 518;
mode of transporting them, i. 519;
imputed to Hermes Trismegistus, i. 551
Object of this book, ii. 98, 99
Obscene relics at Embrum, ii. 332
Obscene bas-reliefs on the doors of St. Peter’s Cathedral, ib.
Obscene statue of Christ and its miracles, ib.
Obscenity of heathen rites, ii. 76
Obsession and possession, i. 487, 488; ii. 16;
all confined to Roman Catholic countries, ii. 17
Obsessions, irresistible, i. 276
Occult properties in minerals, ii. 589;
powers by inheritance, ii. 635, 636
Occultism, physical, i. 19
Oculists in ancient Egypt, i. 545
Od, an agent described by Baron Reichenbach, i. 146;
astral currents vivified, i. 158;
emanations identical with flames from magnets, etc., i. 169
Odic Force, i. 67
Odin, i. 19;
breathing in man and woman, the ash and the alder, the breath of life, i. 151;
Alfadir, ib.
Oersted, on laws of nature, i. 506, 507
Oetinger, experiment on ashes of plants, i. 476
O’Grady, Wm. L. D., his letter denouncing the influence of missionaries in India, ii. 475;
on Hindu demoralization under British rule, ii. 574;
his account of a Christian saturnalia in India, ii. 532
Okhal or hierophant of the Druzes, ii. 309
Okhals or spiritualists of Syria, ii. 292
Old book, one original copy only in existence, i. 1;
gods of the heathen, the same as the ancient patriarchs, ii. 450;
man and his son, remarkable resuscitation, i. 484;
Testament, exiled by Colenso and recalled, ii. 4;
Testament, no real history in it, ii. 441;
universes evolved before the present, ii. 421
Olympic gods, their biographies relate to physics and chemistry, i. 261;
women climbing perpendicular walls, i. 374
Onderah, the Hindu abyss of darkness, only an intermediate state, ii. 11
One only good, ii. 238;
in three, i. 258
Only-begotten sons, ii. 191
Operative masons, ii. 392
Ophiomorphos and Ophis Christos, ii. 449
Ophion called also Dominus, ii. 512
Ophiozenes in Cyprus, power over venomous reptiles, i. 381
Ophis, the same as Chnuphis or Kneph, ii. 187;
or the agathodaimon, ii. 293, 295
Ophism and heliolatry imputed to Hermes, i. 55i
Ophite Gnostics rejected the Old Testament, ii. 147;
Theogony correctly given, ii. 187;
worship transmuted into Christian symbolism, ii. 505;
or serpent-worshipping Christians, their scheme, ii. 292;
seven planetary genii, ii. 296;
rejected the Mosaic writings, ii. 168;
taught the doctrine of emanations, ii. 169;
and Nazarenes compared, ii. 174;
denounced by Peter and Jude, ii. 205;
accused of licentiousness, ii. 325
Optical instruments of ancient times, i. 240
Oracle of the bleeding head consulted by Queen Catherine of Medicis, ii. 56
Oracles obtained during the sacred sleep, i. 357
Oracular head, made by Pope Sylvester II., ii. 56;
by Albertus Magnus destroyed by Thomas Aquinas, ib.
Orcus, i. 298, 299
Oriental philosophy, fundamental propositions, ii. 587
Orientals, their senses more acute, i. 211;
ascribe a human figure to the soul, i. 214;
believe certain persons have made gold and lived for ages, ib.
Orientalists have shown similarities between religions, ii. 49
Origen, believed in metempsychosis, i. 12;
an Alexandrian Platonist, i. 25;
secret doctrines of Moses, i. 26;
believed the spirit preëxistent from eternity, i. 316;
deemed the soul corporeal, i. 317;
denied the perpetuity of hell-torments, ii. 13;
taught that devils would be pardoned, ib.;
believed that the damned would receive pardon and bliss, ii. 238;
on the threefold partition of man, ii. 285
Ormazd, his worship restored, ii. 220;
his creations, ii. 221
Orobio exposes the inquisition, ii. 59
Orohippus, i. 411
Orpheus, alleged to be a disciple of Moses, i. 532;
on the virtues of the lodestone, i. 265
Orphic Mysteries not the popular Bacchic rites, ii. 129
Osiris, i. 93, 202;
brought up at Nysa and called Dionnysos, ii. 165;
his slaying denoted the period when his worship was under the ban of the Hyk-sos government, ii. 487;
and Typhon, E. Pococke’s theory, ii. 435, 436
O’Sullivan, Hon. John L., description of a semi-magical seance, i. 608
Oulam does not mean infinite duration, ii. 12
Ovule ceases to be an integral part of the body of the mother, i. 401
Ovum, impregnated, its evolutionary history, i. 389
Oxus-tribes or bull-worshippers dominate Western Asia, ii. 439
Owen, Robert D., on worship of words, ii. 560
Pagan idols, their destruction commanded by the Roman emperor, ii. 40;
worship, the Latin church preserves its symbols, rites, architecture and clerical dress, ii. 92
Paganism, true meaning of the word, ii. 179;
ancient wisdom replete with deity, ii. 639;
converted and applied to popery, ii. 29
Pagans condemned to the eternal torments of hell, ii. 8;
Virgin Mary writing this to a saint, ib.
Palenque, keystone not found, i. 571;
the Tau and astronomical cross, i. 572
Pali, their manuscripts translated, i. 578;
have similar traditions as the Babylonians, ib.;
shepherds, who emigrated west, ib.
Pallium, or stole, a feminine sign, ii. 94;
that of Augustine bedecked with Buddhistic crosses, ii. 94
Panther, Grecian, contained Egyptian gods, i. 543;
panther, the sinful father of Jesus, ii. 386
Papacy, scientific, danger of, i. 403;
“and civil power,” Mr. Thompson’s book denounced, ii. 378
Papal tiara, the coiffure of the Assyrian gods, ii. 94;
discourses, catalogue of foul epithets on those who oppose the pope, ii. 7
Paper, time-proof, i. 529
Papyrus, as old as Menes and the first dynasty, i. 530;
art of its preparation, ib.
Parables or double-meanings in the discourses of Jesus, ii. 145
Parabrahma the Eternal, Bhaghavant, i. 91
Paracelsus, i. 20, 50;
his learning, i. 52;
discovered hydrogen, i. 52, 169;
his doctrine of faith and will, i. 57, 170;
rediscovery of the magnet, i. 71, 164, 167;
persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church, i. 100;
his homunculi, i. 133, 465;
teacher of animal-magnetism and electro-magnetism, i. 164;
theory of a concealed power of the magnet, i. 168;
sidereal force, ib.;
theory of dreams, i. 170;
on the alkahest, i. 191;
method of transposing letters in his terms, ib.;
taught that three spirits actuate man, i. 212;
removed disease by contact of healthy persons, i. 217;
his preparation of mercury, ii. 620;
and chorœa, and was persecuted for it as a magician, ii. 565;
received the true initiation, ii. 349;
his assertion that magic was taught in the Bible, ii. 500;
Alsatians believe him not dead, ib.
Paradigm of the universe, i. 212
Paradise Lost, the drama of Milton, ii. 501, 502;
the unformulated belief of the English, ib.
Paradoxes, five, of adversaries of Spiritualism, i. 116
Paralysis of the soul during life, ii. 368
Parerga, i. 59
Pariahs, or Tchandales, the parents of the Jews, ii. 438
Paris carrying off Helen, and Ravana carrying off Sita, i. 566;
Abbé, the Jansenist, miracles at his tomb for 20 years, i. 372
Parker, Father, accuses the Protestants of the purpose to destroy the Bible, ii. 200
Parodi, Maria Teresa, case of malformed child, i. 392
Parrot-headed squabs, i. 395, 396
Parsis deny any vicarious sacrifice, ii. 547
Pashai (Peshawer) or Udayna, classic land of sorcery, i. 599;
testimony of Hiouen-Thsang, ib.
Pastaphoris, the first degree, ii. 364
Patriarchs, great gods, and pradjapatis represented signs of the Zodiac, ii. 450
Paul, supposed to have been personified and assailed by Peter under the name of Simon Magus, ii. 89;
and Plato, quoted, ii. 89, 90;
the real founder of Christianity, ii. 574;
a wise master-builder, or adept, ii. 90, 91;
why persecuted by Peter, James, and John, ii. 91;
supposed to be polluted by the Gnosis, ib.;
the apostle, used language pertaining to initiations, ii. 90;
was initiated, ib.;
confessed himself a Nazarene, ii. 137;
on the beatific vision, ii. 146;
his epistles alone acknowledged by Marcion, ii. 162;
differs from Peter, ii. 180;
is adopted by the Reformers, ib.;
his reference to occult powers, ii. 206;
only worthy apostle of Jesus, ii. 241;
taught that man was a trine, ii. 281;
regarded Christianity and Judaism as entirely distinct, ii. 525;
the apostle, his descendants said to possess the power of braving serpents, i. 381;
asserted the story of Moses and Abraham to be allegories, ii. 493
Pausanias on shadowy soldiers at Marathon, i. 70;
warned not to unveil the holy rites, i. 130
Perry Chand Mittra, his views on psychology of the Aryas, ii. 593
Pedactyl equus, i. 411
Peisse, Dr., on alchemy and making gold, i. 508, 509
Penalties of mutilation, ii. 99, 100
Pencil writing answers to questions, in Tartary, i. 600
Pentacle, Pythagorean, ii. 451, 452
Pentagram, can determine the countenance of unborn infants, i. 395
Pentateuch, constituted after the model of a purana, ii. 492;
not written by Moses, ii. 167;
compiled by Ezra and revised, i. 578;
revised by the Jews, ii. 526
Pepper, Prof., his apparatus to produce spiritual appearances, i. 359
Perfect circle decussated by the letter X, ii. 469
Perfect Passover of orthodox Christians, ii. 333
Periktione, mother of Plato, her miraculous conception, ii. 325
Perispirit, i. 197;
the astral soul, i. 289
Permutation, doctrine of, ii. 152
Perpetual motion, denied by science, i. 501;
illustrated by the universe and the atomic theory, i. 502;
proved by the telescope and microscope, ib.
Persiphone or Proserpina, the same as Ceres or Demeter, ii. 505
Persepolis, wonders, i. 534;
the inscriptions older than any in Sanscrit, ii. 436
Persia, her wonders, i. 534
Persian Mirror, a robber detected by its use and punished, ii. 631
Persian colonists dominated in Judea, the Canaanites being the proletaries, ii. 441
Personal devil not believed in by the ancients, ii. 483
Personality not to be applied to spiritual essence, i. 315
Persons cut to pieces and put again together good as new, i. 473, 474
Peru, net-work of subterranean passages, i. 595, 598;
treasures of the Incas, i. 596
Peruvians, still preserve their ancient traditions and sacerdotal caste, i. 546;
magical ceremonies, ib.
Peter, פתר, name taken from the Mysteries, ii. 29
PTR, its symbol an opened eye, ii. 92, 93;
the interpreter, ii. 392;
had nothing to do with the foundation of the Latin Church, ii. 91;
his name Petra or Kiffa, ib.;
the whole story of his apostleship at Rome a play on the name denoting the Hierophant or interpreter of the mysteries, ii. 91, 92;
the pulpit of, declared to be the teachings of the spirit of God, ii. 8;
had two chairs, ii. 23, 25;
was never at Rome, ii. 24;
his life at Babylon, ii. 127;
was a Nazarene, ib.;
denounced Paul without naming him, ii. 179
Peter-ref-su, a mystery-word on a coffin, ii. 92;
Bunsen’s comments, ii. 92, 93
Peter the Great, stopped spurious miracles, ii. 17
Petra, the rock-temple of the Church, ii. 30
Petra, or rock, the logos, ii. 246
Petroma, the two tablets of stone, ii. 91
Phœdrus, i. 2
Phallic symbols in churches, ii. 5;
stone, batylos, or lingham, denounced by des Mousseaux, ib.
Phallism, heathen, in Christian symbols, ii. 5;
in the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, and the fetish-worship of Isernia, ib.
Phanes, the revealed god, i. 146
Phantasmal duplicate, i. 360
Phantasy, ii. 591
Phantom-hand, false as well as true, ii. 594;
statement of Dr. Fairfield, ii. 595;
what it really is, ib.
Phantoms, the manifestations of bad demons, i. 333
Phases of modern Christianity, ii. 575
Pharisees, believed in transmigration of souls, i. 347
Phenomena, spiritual, discountenanced by the clergy, i. 26;
divine visions of Pius, IX., i. 27;
the Klikouchy and the Yourodevoy, i. 28;
absurd position assumed by scientists, i. 40;
Aksakof, i. 41;
Fisk, Crookes, and Wallace, i. 42;
the Dialectical Society, i. 44;
theories of Prof. Crookes, i. 47;
existed long before spiritualism, i. 53;
Prof. Faraday’s tests, i. 63;
materialization, i. 67;
a haunted house, i. 69;
physical displays seldom caused by disembodied spirits, i. 73;
opposition of the positivists, i. 75;
hostility of allopathists, i. 88;
laid at the door of Satan, i. 99;
testimony of de Gasparin, i. 101;
hostility of medical writers, i. 102;
Mr. Weekman the first investigator in America, i. 106;
reality acknowledged by Prof. Thury, i. 110;
his theory, i. 113;
E. Salverte, i. 115;
De Mirville’s five distractions or paradoxes, i. 116;
condemned by Commission of the Imperial University of St Petersburgh, i. 117;
how produced, i. 199;
evidence adduced by Prof. Crookes overwhelming, i. 202;
given by an exterior intelligence, i. 203;
deceptions, i. 217-222;
Iamblichus forbids endeavors to procure them, i. 219
Pherecydes, taught that æther was heaven, i. 157
Philalethes, Eugenius (Thomas Vaughan), i. 51, 167;
not an adept, i. 306;
model of Swedenborg, ib.;
anticipated modern doctrine of the earth’s beginning, i. 255
Phillips, Wendell, i. 211, 240
Philo Judæus, on spirits in the air, i. 2;
praise of magic, i. 25;
contradicted himself on purpose, ii. 39;
was the father of new platonism, ii. 144
Philonæa, visited her lover after death, i. 365
Philosophers, believed in metempsychosis, also that men have two souls, i. 12;
their consignment to hell desired, ii. 250
Philosopher’s stone, sought by a king of Siam, i. 571
Philosophy, Oriental, its fundamental propositions, ii. 587
Phœnicians, circumnavigated the globe, i. 239;
the earliest navigators, i. 545;
their achievements, ib.;
an Ethiopian race, i. 566, 567;
traced by Herodotus to the Persian Gulf, i. 567;
Phoinikes, or Ph’anakes, i. 569;
the same as the Hyk-sos or shepherds of Egypt, ib.;
more or less identified with the Israelites, ib.
Photographing in colors by will-power, i. 463
Photography, electrical, i. 395
Phtha, the active or male creative principle, i. 186
Physical body may be levitated, ii. 589
Physically spiritualized, the coming human race to be, i. 296
Physician declares Daguerre to be insane, ii. 619
Physicians wash their hands on leaving a patient, ii. 611;
problems, i. 277
Physicists divinify matter and overlook life, i. 235
Pia Metak, king of Siam, becomes able to walk in the air, ii. 618
Picture of a slain soldier, extraordinary phenomena, ii. 17
Pictures hidden from view, Prof. Draper’s description, i. 186
Picus, Francisco, testimony in regard to transmutation, i. 504
Pierart, explanation of catalepsy and vampirism, i. 449
Pigmies in Africa, i. 412
Pike, Gen. Albert, declaration against the creative principle proclaimed at Lausanne, ii. 377
Pilate convokes an assembly of Jews, ii. 522
Pillars set up by the patriarchs, identical with the lingam of Siva, ii. 235
Pimander, i. 93;
the same as the Logos Prometheus, etc., i. 298;
the nous, word, or Divine Light, ii. 50
Pippala, the sacred tree of knowledge, ii. 412
Pitar, its form seen at the moment of initiation, ii. 114
Pitris, the lunar ancestors of men, ii. 106, 117;
their worship fast becoming the worship of the spiritual portion of mankind, ii. 639;
the doctrine of their existence revealed to initiates, ii. 114;
a sect in India, ii. 308
Pious assassins of the early church, ii. 304
Pius IX, excommunicates Czar Nicholas as a schismatic i. 27;
has divine visions, or rather epileptic fits, ib.;
evil eye, i. 381;
pretends to be superior to St. Ambrose and the prophet Nathan, ii. 14;
is the faithful echo of the Jesuits, ii. 359
Planchette, writing by, i. 199
Planet, i. 301
Plants are magnets, i. 281, 282
Plant-growing trick, i. 139, 141, 142
Plants, attracted by the sun, i. 209;
sympathies and antipathies, ib.;
sympathy with human beings, i. 246;
possess mystical properties, ii. 589
Plato, not often read understandingly, i. 8;
echoed the teachings of Pythagoras, i. 9;
doctrine of the soul, will, or nous, i. 14, 55;
his symbology misunderstood, i. 37;
suggestion for physical improvement of the human race, i. 77;
doctrine of wisdom, i. 131;
on trance prophets, i. 201;
asserted to be ignorant of anatomy, i. 236;
his method, i. 237;
Prof. Jewett’s acknowledgment, ib.;
on origin of the sun, i. 258;
taught correlation of forces, i. 261;
his doctrines the same as those of Manu, i. 271;
declares man the toy of necessity, i. 276;
doctrine of genius, i. 277;
theory of metempsychosis, i. 277;
attraction, i. 281;
his speculations on creation and cosmogony, to be taken allegorically, i. 287;
veneration for the mysteries, ib.;
would not admit poets into his commonwealth, i. 288;
dismisses Homer for his apparent antagonism to monotheism, ib.;
accused of absurdities, etc., i. 307;
derived the soul from the world-soul, i. 316;
shows the deity geometrizing, i. 318;
on the future of the dead, i. 328;
learned secret science in Egypt, i. 406;
versed in the knowledge of the heliocentric system, i. 408, 409;
his “noble lie” concerning Atlantis, i. 413;
on human races, i. 428;
his esoteric doctrines the same as the Buddhistic, i. 430;
on prayer, i. 434;
on God geometrizing, i. 506;
on spiritual numerals, i. 514;
the Atlantis a possible cover of a story made arcane at initiation, i. 591;
copies Djeminy and Vyasa, i. 621;
complains of unbelief, ii. 16;
his faculty of production, ib.;
confessed that he derived his teachings from ancient and sacred doctrines, ii. 39;
on divine mysteries, ii. 113;
not a “spirit-medium,” ii. 118;
and other philosophers taught dual evolution, ii. 279;
on the trine of man, ii. 282;
definition of the soul, ii. 285;
his testimony concerning the Machagistia, ii. 306;
discourse concerning the creation, ii. 469;
taught that there was in matter a blind force, ii. 483;
on exaltation of the soul above sense, ii. 591
Platonic philosophy adopted into the church, ii. 33
Platonism introduced into Christianity, ii. 325
Platonists, their books burned, i. 405
Pleroma, three degrees, i. 302
Pleasanton on the Blue Ray, i. 137, 264;
denies gravitation, and the existence of centripetal and centrifugal forces, i. 271;
his theory of light, i. 272
Pliny mentions phantoms on the deserts of Africa, i. 604
Plotinus, on the descent of the soul into generated existence, ii. 112;
six times united to his god, ii. 115; i. 292;
on human knowledge, i. 434;
on prayer, ib.;
on ecstasy, i. 486;
impulse in the soul to return to its centre, ib.;
on public worship of the gods, i. 489;
a clairvoyant, seer, and more, ii. 591
Plutarch on the oracular vapors, i. 200;
on the nature of men, ii. 283;
on the dæmon of Socrates, ii. 284
Pococke, E., his theory of Osiris and Typhon, ii. 435, 436
Poland, what a Catholic miracle in that country means, ii. 18
Polykritus returned after dying, i. 364
Polygamy openly preached by certain Positivists, i. 78
Pompei, the room full of glass, i. 537
Pope seized the scepter of the Pagan pontiff, ii. 30;
now sympathising with the Turks against Christians, ii. 81;
Calvin and Luther, their doctrine one, ii. 479, 480;
his fulminations against science, ii. 559, 560;
Calixtus III. issues a bull against Halley’s Comet, ii. 509
Popes known as magicians, ii. 56
Popol-Vuh, a manuscript of Quiché, i. 2;
leaves the antiquarian in the dark, i. 548
Porphyry, upon Diakka, bad demons of sorcery, i. 219;
twice united with God, i. 292;
upon the passion of spirits for putrid substances and fresh blood, i. 344;
on freshly-spilt blood in evocation, i. 493
Porta, Baptista, theory of magic, world-soul, astral light, i. 208
Poruthû-Madân, the wrestling demon, aiding in levitation, taming animals, etc., i. 496
Positivism of Littré found in Vyasa, 10,400 B.C., i. 621
Positivists, i. 73;
their religion without a God, i. 76;
design to uproot Spiritualism, ib.;
preach Polygamy, i. 78;
the climax of their system, i. 80;
neglect no means to overthrow Spiritualism, i. 83;
despised and hated, ii. 3
Possession, epidemic in Germany, i. 375
Poudot, the shoemaker, his house beset by an elemental demon, i. 364
Power of leaving the body temporarily, i. 476, 477;
power to disappear, and to be seen in other forms, ii. 583
Powers in nature, as recognized by exact science, and by kabalists, i. 466
Pradjapatis, the ancestors of mankind, ten in number, ii. 427
Prakamya, the power to change old age to youth, ii. 583
Pralayas or dissolutions, two, ii. 424
Prakriti, or Mahat, the external life, ii. 565
Pranayama, ii. 590
Prapti, the faculty of divination, healing and predicting, ii. 593
Pratyahara, ii. 590
Pravritti or active existence, i. 243
Prayer and its sequences, i. 434
Prayers, kept secret from strangers, i. 581
Pre-Adamite, man described, i. 295;
earth, i. 505
Prediction of the Russo-Turkish war, i. 260
Preëminence of woman, ii. 299
Preëxistence, apparent, i. 179
Preëxistent, the spirit of man, i. 316, 317; ii. 280;
law of form, i. 420
Pregnant woman, highly impressible and receptive, i. 394;
odic emanation and its influence on fœtus, i. 395;
under the influence of the ether or astral light, ib.;
might influence the features of children by pentagram, ib.
Prehistoric races, i. 545
Premature burial, i. 456
Presbytere de Cideville, phenomenon of thunder and images of fantastic animals as predicted by a sorcerer, i. 106
Preston, Rev. Dr., his doctrine of a Mother in the plan of redemption, ii. 172
Preterhuman beings, their alliance indicated in every ancient religion, ii. 299
Pre-Vedic religion of India, ii. 39
Priest, Assyrian, always bore the name of his god, i. 554
Priest-ridden nations always fall, ii. 121, 122
Priestesses of Germany, how they prophesied, ii. 592
Priestley, Dr. Joseph, discovered oxygen, i. 250;
anticipated the present-day philosophers, ib.;
on the godhood of Jesus, ii. 239
Priests, their cast-off garb worn by men of science, ii. 8
Priest-sorcerers, ii. 57
Primal element obtained, i. 51;
like clear water, ib.
Primitive Christianity, with grip, pass-words and degrees of initiation, ii. 204;
Christians, a community of secret societies, ii. 335;
triads, ii. 454
Primordial substance, i. 133
Prince of Hohenlohe a medium, i. 28;
of Hell sides with the strongest, and treats Satan very badly, ii. 517
Principe Createur identical with the Principe Generateur and not Christian, ii. 377
Principes, i. 300
Probation of Jesus, ii. 484, 485;
the Devil or Diabolos no malignant principle, ii. 485
Proclus, on magic and emanation, i. 243;
theory of the gods or planetary spirits, i. 311, 312;
his remarkable statements of marvels acted by dead persons, i. 364;
on second dying and the luminous form, i. 432;
his idea of divine power, i. 489;
the mystic pass-word, ib.;
his explanation of the gradation of the Mysteries, ii. 101;
upon apparitions beheld in the Mysteries, ii. 113
Proctor, R. A., i. 245;
accuses the ancients of ignorance, i. 253
Profanation to eat blood, ii. 567
Projecting of the astral or spiritual body, ii. 619, 620
Prometheus, the Logos or Adam Kadmon, i. 298;
revealed the art of bringing down lightning, i. 526;
prediction of Hermes, ii. 514, 515
Prophecies from Hindu books, ii. 556;
antedate Christianity, ii. 557
Prophecy determined in two ways, i. 200;
gift imparted by infection, i. 217;
a power possessed by the soul both in and apart from the body, ii. 594
Prophetic star of the incarnation, ii. 454
Prophets of Baal danced the circle-dance of the Amazons, ii. 45;
dominated in Israel, and priests in Judah, ii. 439;
of Israel never approved of sacrificial worship, ii. 525;
led a party against the priests, ib.
Protection from vampires, etc., i. 460
Protest against ethnological distinction from the progeny of Noah, ii. 434
Protestant world still under the imputation of magical commerce with Satan, ii. 503
Protestantism has no rights, i. 27
Protestants in the United States, ii. 1;
their bloody statutes against witchcraft, ii. 503
Protevangelium, a parody of the Nicene creed, ii. 473
Protogonos, i. 341
Proto-hippus, i. 411
Protoplasm, i. 223;
taught by Seneca, etc., i. 249;
doctrine of the Swâbhâvikas, or Hindu pantheists, i. 250
Prunnikos, mother of Ilda-Baoth, the God of the Jews, ii. 187
Psyche, the animal soul, i. 317
Psychic embryos, i. 311;
force, i. 45-67;
same as ectenic force, i. 113;
same as the Akasa, ib.;
known to the ancient philosophers, i. 131;
propositions of Sergeant Cox, i. 195;
a blind force, i. 199
Psychode force, i. 55, 113
Psychography, or writing of messages by spirits, i. 367
Psychological epidemics, ii. 625;
powers of certain nuns in Thibet, ii. 609
Psychology, heretofore almost unknown, i. 407;
the basis of physiology anciently, but now based by scholars upon physiology, i. 424
Psychomatics of occultism, i. 344
Psychometry, i. 182;
Prof. Denton and wife, i. 183; i. 330;
practised by the ancients, i. 331
Psychophobia, i. 46
Psylli in Africa, serpent-charmers, i. 381
Pueblos of Mexico still worship the sun, moon, stars, and fire, i. 557
Pulpit of Peter the teaching of the Spirit of God, ii. 8
Punch-and-Judy boxes or Christian mysteries, ii. 119
Punjaub, population hybridized with Asiatic Æthiopians, i. 567
Purana, rules for writing one, ii. 492;
the model of the Pentateuch, ib.
Purple, Tyrian, i. 239
Pûttâm, or imps, i. 447
Pyramids, their architecture and symbolism, i. 236;
of Egypt, i. 518;
their purpose, i. 519;
the baptismal font, ib.;
the supposed manufacture of the material, ib.;
built on the former sea-shore, i. 520
Pyrrho, how to be interpreted, ii. 530
Pythagoras, his philosophy derived from the Brahmans, i. 9;
taught the heliocentric system, i. 35, 532;
believed in an infinity of worlds, i. 96;
Bruno his disciple, i. 96, 98;
taught God as the Universal Mind, i. 131;
his esoteric system included in the arcane doctrines of wisdom, i. 205;
Galileo a student, i. 238;
his maxim widely scattered, “Do not stir the fire with a sword,” i. 247;
dual signification of his precepts, i. 248;
his trinity, i. 262;
regard for precious stones and their mystical virtues, i. 265;
his doctrine the same as the laws of Manu, i. 271;
alleged influence on birds and animals, i. 283;
testimony of Thomas Taylor, i. 284;
initiated in the Mysteries of Byblos, Tyre, Syria, Egypt and Babylon, ib.;
did not teach literal transmigration of the soul, i. 289;
taught the Buddhistic doctrines, i. 289-291;
held for a clever impostor, i. 307;
derived the soul from the world-soul, i. 316;
mathematical doctrine of the universe, i. 318;
taught the same as Buddha, i. 347;
explains imagination as memory, i. 396;
copied by Euclid, Archimedes, and Ptolemy, i. 512;
learned music in Egypt and taught it in Italy, i. 544;
placed the sphere of purification in the sun, ii. 12;
subdued wild animals, ii. 77;
persuaded a bull not to eat beans, ii. 78;
was not a “spirit-medium,” ii. 118;
his system of numerals, ii. 300;
probably did not understand decimal notation, ib.
Pythagorean pentacle, ii. 451, 452
Pythagorists were probably Buddhists, ii. 491
Pytho, or Ob, i. 355
Pythoness, her powers of seership, ii. 590
Quack, a false name imposed on Paracelsus, ii. 621
Queen of Heaven indebted to Pius IX., ii. 9;
the Virgin Mary, Isis, Ishtar, Astarté, Queen Dido, Anna, Anaitis, etc., ii. 96, 446-450
Quetzo-Cohuatl, the serpent-god of Mexican legends, i. 546;
wonders wrought by him, ii. 558;
his wand, ib.
Quiché cosmogony, i. 549
Quicksilver and sulphur, a magical preparation to give long life, ii. 620
Quotation from Psalms credited by Matthew to Isaiah, ii. 172
Rabbinical chronology, none before the twelfth century, ii. 443
Races, human, many died out before Adam, i. 2;
pre-Adamite, i. 305;
of men differ in gifts, ii. 588
Radzivil, Prince, detects the impostures of monks, ii. 72
Rahat, or perfect man, ii. 287, 288
Railroads in Upper Egypt, i. 528
Ram, or Aries, the symbol of creative power, i. 262
Ramayana the source and origin of Homer’s inspiration, ii. 278
Ramsay, Count, his story of the Templars, ii. 384
Raspberry-mark produced by longing, i. 391
Rasit, its meaning suppressed, ii. 34;
wisdom, ii. 35
Rational soul, every man endowed, ii. 279
Raulica, Father Ventura de, letter on magic, ii. 70
Ravan and Rama, ii. 436
Raven and St. Benedict, ii. 78
Rawho, the demon of Ceylon, ii. 509
Rawlinson, Sir H. C., brings home an engraved stone, i. 240;
declares that the Akkadians came from Armenia, i. 263;
conjectures respecting the Aryans, ii. 433
Rawson, Prof. A. L., a member of the Druze Brotherhood of Lebanon, ii. 312;
account of his initiation, ii. 313
Rays of the Star of Bethlehem preserved as a relic, ii. 71
Razors, superior article in Africa, i. 538
Realm of Amita, legend of, i. 601
Reason, what it is, i. 425;
developed at the expense of instinct, i. 433;
and instinct, their source, i. 432
Reber, G., shows that there was no apostolic church at Rome, ii. 124
Rebold, Dr., statement concerning the ancient colleges of Egypt, i. 520
Reciprocal influences, i. 314
Red dragon, the Assyrian military symbol, borrowed by Persia, Byzantium, and Rome, ii. 484
Redeemer not promised in the book of Genesis, but by Manu, ii. 50
Red-haired man, repugnance to stepping over his shadow, ii. 610;
the magnetism dreaded, ii. 611
Reformation had Paul for leader, ii. 180
Reformers as bloodthirsty as Catholics, ii. 503
Regazzoni, remarkable experiments, i. 142;
the mesmerist, feats, i. 283
Regenerated heathendom in the Christian ranks, ii. 80
Regeneration or spiritual birth taught in India, ii. 565
Regulation wardrobe of the Madonna, ii. 9
Reichenbach, described the Od force, i. 146;
prepared the way to understand Paracelsus, i. 167;
on odic force of pregnant women, i. 394
Reincarnation, its cause, i. 346;
its possibility, and impossibility, i. 351
Religion without a God, i. 76;
of the future, ib.;
of the ancients the religion of the future, i. 613;
private or national property, not to be shared with foreigners, i. 581;
taught in the oldest Mysteries, i. 567;
which dreads the light must be false, ii. 121;
of Gautama, propagandism, ii. 608
Religions, ancient, based on indestructibility of matter and force, i. 243;
anciently sabaistic, i. 261;
derived from one source and tend to one end, ii. 639;
Papacy and scientific, i. 403
Religious customs of the Mexicans and Peruvians like those of the Phœnicians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, i. 551;
instinct productive of immorality, i. 83;
liberty considered as intolerance, ii. 503;
reform pure at the beginning, ii. 333;
myths have an historical foundation, ii. 431;
teachers, ii. 1
Renan, E., described Jesus as a Gallicized rabbi, ii. 562
Repentance possible even in Hades or Gehenna, i. 352
Repercussion, i. 360
Rephaim, i. 133
Resistance, extraordinary, to blows, sharp instruments, etc., i. 375, 376
Resuscitated Buddha, a babe speaking with man’s voice, i. 437
Resuscitations, i. 478, 479, 480;
after actual death, impossible, i. 481
Report of French Parliament upon the Jesuits, ii. 353
Resplendent one, ii. 113;
the Augoeides, or self-shining vision, ii. 115
Retribution on the Roman Catholic Church, ii. 121
Reuchlin, John, a Kabalist, ii. 20
Revelation, or Apocalypse, its author a Kabalist, ii. 91;
his hatred of the Mysteries made him the enemy of Paul, ib.
Revenge of Ilda-Baoth for the transgression of his command, ii. 185
Rib of the Word made flesh preserved as a relic, ii. 71
Rig-Veda, hymns written before Zoroaster, ii. 433
Rio Janeiro, her Madonna with bare limbs, blond hair and chignon, ii. 9;
her Christ in dandy evening dress, ii. 10
Rishi Kutsa, i. 11
Rishis, or sages, i. 90
Rite of Swedenborg, a Jesuitical production, ii. 390
Rites and ceremonial dress of Christian clergy like that of Babylonians, etc., ii. 94
Ritual of exorcism, ii. 69;
funeral, of the Egyptians, ii. 367
Rituals, Kabalistic and Catholic compared, ii. 85, 86
Rochester Cathedral, its originals, ii. 5;
rappings, i. 36
Rock-temples of Ipsambul, i. 542;
works of Phœnician cities, i. 570;
similar in Egypt and America, i. 571
Rod of Moses, the crux ansata, ii. 455
Roger Bacon, i. 64
Roma, Cambodian traditions, i. 566
Roman Catholic Clergy murdered mediums, i. 26;
Church burned sorcerers that were not priests, ii. 58;
Church has deprived herself of the key to her own religious mysteries, ii. 121;
Church regards dissent, heresy, and witchcraft identical, ii. 503;
considers religious liberty as intolerance, ib.
Roman Catholics in the United States, ii. 1;
frown at the spiritual phenomena as diabolical, ii. 4;
pontiffs arrogate dominion over Greek and Protestant Christians, i. 27
Rome, Church of, put Bruno to death for his doctrines, i. 93;
regards the spiritual phenomena as genuine, i. 100;
Church of, cursing spiritualists, ii. 6;
excommunicating the Bulgarians, Servians, Russians, and Italian liberals, ii. 7
Rosaries of Buddhistic origin, ii. 95
Roscoe, Professor, on iron in the sun, i. 513
Rose, impression of one on Mme. von N., i. 398
Rosicrucians, persecuted and burned, i. 64;
their doctrine of creation, i. 258;
still a mystery, ii. 380;
unknown to its cruelest enemy, the Church, ib.;
the aim to support Catholicism, ii. 394;
their doctrine of fire, i. 423
Rosie Cross, brothers live only in name, i. 29;
mysterious body, i. 64;
burned without mercy by the Church, ib.
Round Tower of Bhangulpore, ii. 5
Rousseau, the savant, encounter with a toad, i. 399
Royal Arch word, ii. 293;
cipher, ii. 396
Ruc, from New Zealand, i. 603
Rufus of Thessalonica returned to life after dying, i. 365
Rules imposed upon neophytes, ii. 365
Russia, no church-miracles, ii. 17
Russian conquest of Turkey predicted, i. 260
S. P. R. C., the cipher, ii. 395
Sabazian worship Sabbatic, ii. 45
Sabbath, adopted by the Jews from other peoples, ii. 417;
Christian, its origin, ii. 419
Sabbatical institution not mentioned in Job, ii. 494
Sabeanism, treated of in Job, ii. 494
Sacerdotal caste in every ancient religion, ii. 99;
office, magical evocation, ii. 118
Sacred sleep, i. 357;
produced by draughts of soma-juice, ib.;
lake, ii. 364;
writings of India have a deeper meaning, ii. 430;
books of the Jews destroyed, 158 B.C., ii. 470;
tree of Kounboum renews its budding in the time of Son-Ka-po, ii. 609
Sacrifice of the hierophant or victim, ii. 42;
of blood, ii. 566
Sacrificial worship never approved by the Israelitish prophets, ii. 525
Sacrilege to seek to understand a mystery, ii. 249
Sahara, perhaps once a sea-bed, i. 592
St. Paul’s Cathedral, its double lithoi, ii. 5;
Medard, the fanatics, i. 375;
John, Knights of, not Masons, ii. 383;
persecuted by the Inquisition, ib.
Saints rescued from hell, ii. 517;
Buddhistic and Lamaistic, their great sanctity, ii. 608;
never washing themselves, ii. 511
Sakti, the active energy of the gods, ii. 276;
employed as a vehan, ib.
Sakti-trimurti, or female trinity, ii. 444
Salamander or asbestos, i. 504
Salem, Mass., obsessions occurring there, i. 71;
witchcraft, the obeah woman, i. 361;
witchcraft, ii. 18
Salsette, the Kanhari caves, the abode of St. Josaphat, ii. 580, 581
Salt regarded as the universal menstruum and one of the chief formative principles, i. 147
Salverte, his philosophy of magic, i. 115;
imputes deception to Iamblichus and others, ib.;
his account of a soldier protected by an amulet, i. 378;
on mechanics and invention in ancient times, i. 516;
on the use of electricity, etc., by Numa and Tullus, kings of Rome, i. 527
Samâddi, an exalted spiritual condition, ii. 590
Samael or Satan, the simoon or wind of the desert, ii. 483
Samaritans recognized only the books of Moses and Joshua, ii. 470
Samothrace, a mystery enacted there once every seven years, i. 302;
worship of the Kabeiri brought thither by Dardanus, i. 570
Samothracian Mysteries and new life, i. 132;
magnetism and electricity, i. 234
Samson, the Hebrew Herakles, a mythical character, ii. 439;
represented by the Somona of Ceylon, i. 577
Samuel the prophet, a mythical hero, the doppel of Samson, ii. 439;
the Hebrew Ganesa, ib.;
his school, i. 26
San Marco at Venice, the original of the Campanila column, ii. 5
Sanchoniathon, on chaos and creation, i. 342
Sanctity of the chair of Peter, its source, ii. 25
Sankhya, the eight faculties of the soul, ii. 592, 593
Sanctuary of the pagodas never entered by a European [except Mr. Ellis—see Higgins’s Apocalypsis—very doubtful], ii. 623
Sannyâsi, a saint of the second degree, ii. 98
Sanscrit, endeavor to show its derivation from the Greek, i. 443;
inscriptions, none older than Chandragupta, ii. 436;
the vernacular of the Akkadians, ii. 46;
appears on the leaves of the magical Koumboum, ib.;
books written in presence of a child-medium, i. 368;
impressions by a fakir or juggler on leaves, i. 368, 369;
manuscripts translated into every Asiatic language, i. 578;
language derived from the Rutas, i. 594
Sapphire, sacred to the moon, i. 264;
possesses a magical power and produces somnambulic phenomena, ib.;
Hindu legend of its first production, i. 265
Sar or Saros, i. 30
Sara-isvati, wife of Brahma, goddess of sacred knowledge, ii. 409
Sarcophagus, porphyry, in the pyramids, i. 519
Sargent, Epes, on spiritual deceptions, i. 220;
his arraignment of Tyndall for coquetting with different beliefs, i. 419
Sargon, the original of the story of Moses, ii. 442
Sarpa Rajni, the queen of the serpents, ii. 489
Sarles, Rev. John W., advocates the damnation of adult heathen, ii. 474
Satan, his existence first made a dogma by Christians, ii. 13;
declared fundamental, ii. 14;
Ilda-Baoth, so called, ii. 186;
identical with Jehovah, ii. 451;
the mainstay of sacerdotism, ii. 480;
to be contemplated from their planes, ii. 481;
personified as a devil by the Asideans, ii. 481;
same as Ahriman or Anramanyas, ib.;
the name applied to a serpent in the Hebrew Scriptures, ii. 481;
the same as Seth, god of the Hittites, ib.;
of the book of Job, ii. 483;
counsels with the Lord, ii. 485;
a son of God, ii. 492;
makes a sortie into New England and other colonies, ii. 503;
the Biblical term for public accuser, ii. 494;
the same as Typhon, ib.;
cast forth by the prince of hell, ii. 515, 516;
is made subject to Beelzebub, prince of hell, ii. 517;
and Beelzebub hold a conversation about Jesus, ii. 520, 521
Satanism defined by Father Ventura de Raulica, ii. 14
Sati, a burned widow, i. 541
Sattras, imitations of the course of the sun, i. 11
Saturation of the medium, i. 499, 500
Saturn, Chaldean discovery of his rings, i. 260, 263;
the father of Zeus, i. 263;
the same as Bel, Baal, and Siva, ib.;
his image, ii. 235;
or Kronos, offers his only-begotten son to Ouranos and circumcises himself and family, i. 578;
the myth original in the Maha-Bharata, ib.
Saturnalia of monks at Christmas, ii. 366
Saul, evil spirit exorcised, i. 215
Saviour, would be lost if we lose our demons, ii. 476
Scandinavian tradition of trolls, ii. 624
Scepter of the Boddhisgat seen floating in the air, ii. 610
Scheme of the Ophites, ii. 292
Schlieman, the Hellenist, finds evidence of cycles of development, i. 6;
at Mycenæ, i. 598
Schmidt, I. J., statement in regard to the steppes of Turan and desert of Gobi, i. 603
Scholars, ancient, believed in arcane doctrines, i. 205
Scholastic science knows neither beginning nor end, i. 336
Schools of magic in the Lamaseries, ii. 609
Schopenhauer, i. 55, 59;
on nature as illusion, ii. 158
Science, formerly arcane and taught in the sanctuary, i. 7;
its progress, i. 40;
spiritualism, i. 83;
“has no belief,” i. 278;
knows no beginning or end, i. 336;
called anti-christianism, i. 337;
mystery fatal to it, i. 338;
its parent source, the unknown, i. 339;
its dilemma, i. 340;
will never distinguish the difference between human and animal ovules, i. 397;
invading the domain of religion, i. 403;
surrounded by a large hypothetical domain, i. 404;
her domain within the limit of the changes of matter, i. 421;
gross conception of fire, i. 423;
its dogmas concerning perpetual motion, elixir of life, transmutation of metals and universal solvent, i. 501;
stages of its growth, i. 533;
its three necessary elements, ii. 637;
spiritism does not prevent them, ib.;
modern, fails to satisfy the aspirations of the race; makes the future a void and bereaves man of life, ii. 639
Scientific knowledge confined to the temples, i. 25;
Association, or American Association for the Advancement of Science, on spiritualism and roosters crowing in the night, i. 245, 246;
attainments of ancient Hindu savants, i. 618, 620
Scientists bound in duty to investigate, i. 5;
afraid of spiritual phenomena, i. 41;
treatment of Prof. Crookes, i. 44;
likely to rediscover magic, i. 67;
not to be credited for the increase of knowledge, i. 84;
denied Buffon, Franklin, the steam-engine, railroad, etc., i. 85;
surpassed the clergy in hostility to discovery, ib.;
as much given to persecution, ib.;
know little certain, i. 224;
entrapping of Slade the medium, ib.;
put forth no new doctrines, i. 248, 249;
anticipated by Liebig and Priestly, i. 250;
many of them inanimate corpses, i. 317;
their ultima thule, i. 340;
curious conjectures concerning the aurora, i. 417;
their incapacity to understand the spiritual side, i. 418
Scin-lecca, or double, ii. 104;
makes the principal manifestations, ii. 517
Scintilla, the Divine, produces a monad, i. 302;
of Abraham taken from Michael, ii. 452;
Isaac from Gabriel, and Jacob from Uriel, ii. 452
Scottish rite, its headquarters at a Jesuit college, ii. 381
Screw, invented by Archytas, the instructor of Plato, i. 543
Scyths, probably the same as Mongolians, i. 576
Sea, ancient inland sea north of the Himalayas, i. 589
Seal, Solomon’s of Hindu origin, i. 135
Seance in Bengal, i. 467
Second Emanation condenses matter and diffuses life, i. 302;
Adam created unisexual, i. 559;
spiritual birth, ii. 566;
advent, a fable invented for a precaution, ii. 535;
death, ii. 368;
sight, i. 211
Secret formulæ, i. 66;
sacerdotal castes in every ancient religion, ii. 99;
doctrine, its martyrs, i. 574;
of Moses, ii. 525;
volume, the real Hebrew Bible, ii. 471;
sects of the Christians, ii. 289;
are still in existence, ii. 290;
God of the Kabala, ii. 230;
of secrets, ii. 568
Secrets for prolonging life, ii. 563
Sectarian beliefs to disappear, i. 613
Sects existing before Christ, ii. 144
Sedecla, the Obeah woman of En-Dor, i. 494
Seer, receives impressions directly from his spirit, ii. 591
Seers or epoptæ, not spirit-mediums, ii. 118
Seer-adept, knows how to suspend the action of the brain, ii. 591
Seership natural with some people, ii. 588;
two kinds, of the soul and the spirit, ii. 590;
an elevation of the soul, ii. 591
Self of man, inner triune, ii. 114;
the future, ii. 115
Self-consciousness, attained on earth, i. 368
Self-printed records on the sacred tree, i. 302
Seir-Anpin, the Christos, ii. 230;
the third god, ii. 247
Semitic, the least spiritual branch of the human family, ii. 434;
its germs found in Khamism, ii. 435
Semi-monastics, ii. 608
Sensitive flame obeying a man’s order, ii. 607
Separation, temporary, of the spirit from the body, ii. 588
Sephira, i. 160;
the Divine Intelligence and mother of the Sephiroth, i. 258;
the same as Metis and Sophia, i. 263;
the first emanation, i. 270;
or Sacred Aged (Maha Lakshmi), ii. 421
Sephiroth, i. 258;
concealed wisdom, their father, ib.;
or emanations, ii. 36;
ten, three classes in one unit, ii. 40;
the same as the ten Pradjapatis, ii. 215;
same as the ten patriarchs, ib.
Sepulchres in Thibet, extraordinary arrangement of bodies and decorations, ii. 604
Seraph, his snout preserved as a relic, ii. 71
Serapis, a name of Surya, ii. 438;
an accepted type of Christ, ii. 336;
his picture adopted by the Christians, ib.;
represented by a serpent, ii. 490;
usurped the worship of Osiris, ii. 491;
the seven vowels chanted as a hymn in his honor, i. 514
Serpent of Genesis, des Mousseaux’s name for the devil, i. 15;
matter, i. 297;
dwelling in the branches of the tree of life, i. 298;
symbol of wisdom and immortality, i. 553;
of the book of Genesis, Ash-mogh or Asmodeus, ii. 188;
persuades man to eat of the tree of knowledge, ii. 185;
Christna crushing his head, ii. 446;
the divine symbol east and west, ii. 484;
most spirit-like of all reptiles, and hence a favorite symbol, ii. 489;
how it became the emblem of eternity and of the world, ii. 489;
universally venerated, ii. 489;
a symbol of Serapis and Jesus, ii. 490;
and Eve, ii. 512
Serpent-charmers, cannot fascinate human beings, ii. 612;
their powers, ii. 628
Serpent-charming, i. 381, 382, 470
Serpent-monsters, i. 393
Serpent-god, sons of, the hierophants, i. 553
Serpent-gods, Mexican, 13 in number, i. 572
Serpent-trail round the unformed earth, ii. 489
Serpent-worship, its origin not known, ii. 489
Serpent-worshippers of Kashmere become Buddhists, ii. 608
Serpent’s catacombs in Egypt, i. 553;
mysteries of the unavoidable cycle or centre of necessity, ib.
Serpents, the earth their queen, i. 10;
Kneph, Agathodaimon, Kakodaimon, i. 133, 157;
Eliphas Levi’s, symbol of astral fire, i. 137;
queen of, ii. 489;
used as plaything at Hindu festivals, ii. 622
Servius, on the ancient practice of employing celestial fire at the altars, i. 526
Sesostris, instructed by the oracle in the Trinity, ii. 51
Seth, the reputed son of Adam, the same as Hermes, Thoth, and Sat-an, i. 554;
the same as Typhon, ii. 482
Seth, his interview with Michael at the gate of Paradise, ii. 520;
worshipped by the Hittites, ii. 523;
same as El, ii. 524
Sethicnites, disbelieved that Jesus was God, ii. 176
Seven, a sacred Hindu number, ii. 407;
among the Chaldeans, ii. 408;
potentiality of the number, ii. 417;
steps, the descent, i. 353;
degrees, old English Templar Rite, ii. 377;
vowels chanted as a hymn, i. 514;
caverns, i. 552;
spirits, i. 300, 301;
spirits of the Apocalypse, i. 461;
impostor demons, ii. 296;
Æons, ib.;
rishis, ib.
Seven-headed, serpent, ii. 489
Seventh degree, ii. 365;
ray and seven vowel, i. 514;
rite, the life transfer, ii. 564
Severus, Alexander, pillaged Egyptian temples for books, i. 406
Sexual element in Christianity, ii. 80;
emblems and worship, ii. 445
Shaberon, summoning a lama by spirit-message, ii. 604;
his wonderful summons to rescue the author from peril in Mongolia, ii. 628
Shaberons, or Khubilhans, reincarnations of Buddha, ii. 609
Shad-belly coat first worn by Babylonian priests, ii. 458
Shadow, repugnance to stepping across it, ii. 610;
magnetic exhalation, ii. 611
Shakers, spiritual phenomena, ii. 18
Shaman, prophesying, ii. 624, 625;
prediction of the Crimean war, ii. 625;
extraordinary scene with the talismanic stone, ii. 626, 628;
“dragged out of his skin,” ii. 628;
priests bound to perform their “true rites” but once a year, at the solstice, ii. 624
Shamanism or spirit-worship, the oldest religion of Mongolia, an offshoot of primitive theurgy, ii. 615
Shamans occasionally enjoy divine powers, i. 3, 211;
of Siberia, degenerate scions of ancient Shamanism, ii. 616;
sometimes only mediums, sometimes magicians, ii. 625;
power over psychical epidemics, ii. 626;
each one has a talisman, ib.
Shampooing or tschamping, a magical manipulation, i. 445
Shark-charmers or Kadal-katti, i. 606;
paid by the British government, i. 607
Shebang, the Sabbath, ii., 418
Shedim, nature-spirits, or Afrites, i. 313
Shekinah, the veil of the most ancient, ii. 223
Shem, Ham and Japhet, the old gods Samas, Kham and Iapetos, ii. 487
Shemites, Assyrians, i. 576;
probably a hybrid of Hamite and Aryan, ib.
Shien-Sien, a blissful state, power of those obtaining it to transport themselves everywhere, ii. 618, 620
Shiloh, daughters, their dance, ii. 45
Shimeon and Patar, ii. 93
Shoëpffer, Prof., teaches that the earth does not revolve, i. 621
Shoel ob, or consulter with familiar spirits, i. 355
Shudâla-Mâdan, the ghoul or graveyard fiend, i. 495
Shu-King, i. 11
Shûla-Mâdan, the furnace-demon, i. 496;
helps the juggler with raising trees, ib.
Shu-tukt, a collegiate monastery, having in it over 30,000 monks, ii. 609
Siam, a king in 1670 who sought for the philosopher’s stone, i. 571
Siamese, the power of monks, i. 213, 214;
study of the philosopher’s stone, i. 214;
believe that some know how to render themselves immortal, ib.
Sidereal force taught by Paracelsus, i. 168
Signature of the fœtus, i. 385
Silver, its aura, the quicksilver of the yogis or alchemists, ii. 620, 621
Silver and green associated in hermetic symbolism, i. 513
Silvery spark in the brain, i. 329
Simeon, the existence of such a tribe denied, i. 368;
ben Iochai, compiler of the Zohar, ii. 548;
rabbi, author of the Zohar, i. 301, 302;
his sons arise and relate what they saw in hell, ii. 519;
his prototype in India, ib.
Simon ben Iochai, i. 263;
Stylites, lived 36 years atop of a pillar, ii. 77;
cured a dragon of a sore eye, ib.
Simon Magus, a personification of the apostle Paul, ii. 89;
powers attributed to him, i. 471;
his journey through the air, ii. 357;
and Peter, ii. 190, 191
Simoun, or the wind of the desert, called Diabolos, ii. 483
Simulacrum of a Roumanian lady conducted by a Shaman to the tent of the author, ii. 627, 628
Sin the necessary cause of the greatest good, ii. 479
Sinai, Mount, metals smelted there, i. 542;
story of Moses and the brass seraph, ib.
Singing sands, i. 605
Sins, the five which divide the offender from his associates, ii. 608
Siphra Dzeniouta, i. 1
Sister’s son inheriting a crown, ii. 437
Sistra at the Israelitish festival, ii. 45
Siva, the fire-god, same as Bel and Saturn or Kronos, i. 263;
vigil-night, i. 446;
represented as sacrificing a rhinoceros instead of his son, i. 577, 578;
identical with Baal, Moloch, Saturn and Abraham, i. 578;
created Adhima and Heva, ancestors of the present race of mankind, i. 590;
hurls fallen angels into Onderah, ii. 11;
his paradise, ii. 234;
hurls the devils into the bottomless pit, ii. 238;
Sabazios and Sabaoth the same divinity, ii. 487;
the same as the western chief gods, ii. 524;
most intellectual of the gods, ib.
Six principles of man, ii. 367;
days of evolution and one of repose, ii. 422;
sacred syllables, “aum mani padma houm,” ii. 606;
races of men mentioned in laws of Manu, i. 590;
thousand years the term of creation, i. 342;
thousand infant skulls found in a fish-pond by a convent in Rome, ii. 58
Sixteenth incarnation of Buddha at Urga, ii. 617
Sixth degree, ii. 365
Sixty thousand (60,428) paid religious teachers in the United States, ii. 1
Skepticism a malady, i. 115
Skill displayed in embalming in Thibet, ii. 603, 604
Skulls of infants found at nunneries, ii. 58, 210
Slade, the medium, pretended exposure by Prof. Lankester, i. 118, 224
Slavonian Christians now assailed by the Catholics, ii. 81
Slavonians, the mystic word, ii. 42
Smaragdine, tablet of Hermes, found at Hebron, i. 507
Smith, George, his reading of the Assyrian tablets, ii. 422;
his reading of the story of Sargon, ii. 442
Snake-symbol of Phanes, the mundane serpent and mundane year, i. 146, 151, 157
Smyth, Prof. Piazzi, on the corn-bin, i. 519;
mathematical description of the great pyramid, i. 520
Snake-skin considered magnetic, ii. 507
Snake’s Hole, the subterranean passage terminating at the root of the heavens, i. 553
Snakes kept in Moslem mosques, ii. 490;
reared with children in India, ib.
Snout of a seraph preserved as a relic, ii. 71
Society not certain but that all ends in annihilation, ii. 3
“Society,” British, in India, its supercilious contempt for the Hindus and marvels in Hindustan, ii. 613
Socrates, his demoniac or divine faculty and its service, i. 131;
his demon, ii. 283;
same as the nous or spirit, ii. 284;
opinion of Justin Martyr about his future fate criticised, ii. 8;
a medium, and therefore not initiated, ii. 117;
why put to death as an atheist, ii. 118
Sod, an arcanum of Mystery, i. 301, 555;
the Mysteries of Baal, Adonis and Bacchus, ib.;
the secret of Simeon and Levi, ib.;
great, of the Kadeshim, ii. 131
Sodales, or priest-colleges, Moses their chief, 555
Sodalian oath, i. 409
Sodom and Gomorrah, suffering eternal fire, ii. 12
Sohar, its compilation, ii. 348;
its theories like the Hindu, ii. 276
Solar trinity, red, blue and yellow, ii. 417;
dynasty in India, the Surga Vansa, ii. 437
Solemn ceremony of the Druzes, ii. 312
Solidarities of Greece and Rome, ii. 389
Solitary Copts, students of ancient lore, ii. 306
Solomon, or Sol-Om-On, ii. 389; i. 19;
obtained secret learning, i. 135;
seal of Hindu origin, ib.;
ships to Ophir or India, i. 136;
his seven abominations, ii. 67;
learned from Votan the particulars of the products of the occident, i. 546;
the builder of temples, ii. 439;
revolts against him, ib.;
his temple never visited by the prophets, ii. 525;
and his temple only allegorical, ii. 391;
temple, the brazen columns and bowls to aid in entheastic power, ii. 542
Soma, juice of, produces trance, i. 357
Somona, the Singalese Samson, i. 577
“Son of Man,” ii. 232
Son of God at one with man, ii. 635
Sons of the Serpent-God, i. 553
Son-Ka-po, the Shaberon, or avatar and great reformer, immaculately conceived, and translated without dying into heaven, ii. 609
Sophia or wisdom, ii. 41;
the Holy Ghost as a female principle, i. 130;
the Gnostic principle of wisdom, the same as Sephira and Metis, i. 263
Sorcerer in Africa, impervious to bullets, i. 379
Sorcerers, burned when not priests, ii. 58
Sorcery, i. 279;
misapplied arcane knowledge, ii. 581;
few facts better established, i. 366;
with blood, ii. 567, 568;
practised at the Vatican, ii. 620;
approved by Augustine, ii. 20;
employed for crime, ii. 633
Sortes Sanctorum, ii. 20, 21
Sortie of Satan into New England, ii. 503
Sortilegium or sorcery, practised by clergy and monks, ii. 6;
Gregory of Tours, ii. 20
Sosigenes, reformed the calendar for Cæsar, i. 11
Sosiosh, the tenth avatar and fifth Buddha, ii. 236;
a permutation of Vishnu, ii. 237
Sotheran, Charles, letter on Freemasonry, ii. 388
Soul, displays power when the body is asleep, i. 199;
the two named by Plato, i. 276;
marvellous power, i. 280;
passage through the seven planetary chambers, i. 297;
spirit wholly distinct, i. 315;
dissolves into ether, ib.;
possible loss of its distinct being, i. 316, 317;
the garment of the spirit, i. 309;
exists as preexisting matter, i. 317;
doctrine of the Greek and Roman philosophers, i. 429;
of Aristotle, Homer, the Jains and Brahmans, ib.;
the camera in which facts are fixed, i. 486;
escaping temporarily from the body, ii. 105;
may dwell in paradise while the body lives in this world, i. 602;
punished by union with the body, ii. 112;
the Vedic doctrine, ii. 263;
universal, when it sleeps, ii. 274;
its transmigration does not relate to man’s condition after death, ii. 280;
its feminine, ii. 281;
a part of it mortal, ii. 283;
the doctrine of Pythagoras, ii. 283;
Plato’s definition, ii. 285, 286;
its paralysis during life, ii. 368;
not knit to flesh, ii. 565;
sentient, the Ego, inseparable from the brain, ii. 590;
raised above inferior good, ii. 591;
power to liberate itself and behold things subjectively, ii. 591;
its eight faculties, ii. 592;
its teachings authoritative, ii. 593;
possesses a power of prescience even when in the body, ii. 594;
disembodied, meets itself at the gate of Paradise, ii. 635;
of the world the archeal universal, “mind,” Sophia the Holy Ghost as a female principle, i. 130;
doctrine of Baptista Porta, i. 208;
external, i. 276;
higher mortal, ib.;
the great universal, union with it does not involve loss of individuality, ii. 116
Soul-blind like color-blind, i. 387
Soul-electricity, i. 322
Soul-deaths, ii. 369
Soulless men yet living, ii. 369
Souls, or immortal gods emanate from the triad, i. 348;
come to souls and impart to them information, ii. 594
Source of the religious faiths of mankind, ii. 639;
double, of every religion, ib.
South Carolina, statutes in force in 1865, imposing the death-penalty for witchcraft, ii. 18
Sparks or old worlds that perished, ii. 421
Speaking images, i. 505
Specialties in medical practice in Egypt, i. 545
Speculative Masons, ii. 392
Spectre of a herdsman in Bavaria, i. 451
Spectroscope, confirmed doctrines of Paracelsus, i. 168, 169
Spell of the evil eye, ii. 633
Spheres, music of, i. 275
Spinoza, his philosophy, i. 93;
furnishes a key to the unwritten secret, i. 308
Spirit, its origin, i. 258;
not existing, but immortal, i. 291;
or spiritus, the soul or anima mundi, the mother, i. 299, 300;
progeny of, i. 301;
human, an emanation of the eternal spirit, i. 305;
never entered wholly into the body, i. 306;
is masculine, ii. 281;
of man preëxistent, ii. 280;
distinct from soul, i. 315;
individualization depends upon it, ib.;
becomes an angel, i. 316;
its preëxistence believed, ib.;
alone immortal, ii. 362;
leaving an old for a young body, ii. 563;
by its vision all things can be known, ii. 588;
may abandon the body for specific periods, ii. 589;
the sole original unity, ii. 607;
the interpreter of God to man, ii. 635;
its Protean powers little known by spiritualists, ii. 638
Spirit-ancestor, a serpent, 45, 46
Spirit-form, i. 197
Spirit-voices not articulate, i. 68;
audible, i. 220
Spirit-intercourse, 446,000,000 believers, i. 117
Spirit-flowers produced by a Bikshuni, ii. 609
Spiritists of France attacked by the Roman church, ii. 6
Spirits that control mediums, generally human, i. 67;
cannot “materialize,” ib.;
not attracted by every body alike, i. 69;
produce few of the “physical phenomena,” i. 73;
the seven, i. 300, 301;
not possessed of the same attractions, i. 344;
or ghosts, hurt by weapons, i. 363;
heard talking in the desert of Lop, and elsewhere, i. 604;
three categories of communication, ii. 115;
may take possession of bodies in the absence of the soul, ii. 589;
bad, compelled Garma-Khian to appear and render an account, ii. 616;
city of, ib.
Spiritual phenomena among the Shakers, ii. 18;
discountenanced by the clergy, i. 26;
chase the scientists, i. 41;
Iamblichus forbids the endeavor to procure them, i. 219;
sun, i. 29, 32;
the magnet of Kircher, i. 208, 209;
Gama, Ormazd, the soul of things, God, i. 270;
invisible and in the centre of space, i. 302;
the supreme deity, ii. 13;
death, its cause, i. 318;
eyes, i. 145;
sight, scientists without it, i. 318;
photography, i. 486
Spiritual entity, in man, an ancient doctrine, ii. 593;
transferred, ii. 563;
limbs, can be made visible, ii. 596;
world in proximity to us, ii. 593;
state, as unfolded in the Sankhya, a philosophy, ii. 593;
numerals, i. 514;
crisis of the Shaman, ii. 625;
or magical powers exist in every man, ii. 635;
circles are constructed on no principle, ii. 638;
Self the sole and Supreme God, ii. 566
Spiritualism, drifting, i. 53;
efforts of Positivists to uproot, i. 76, 83;
pretends only to be a science, i. 83;
pronounced a delusion in Russia, i. 118;
universally diffused from remote antiquity, i. 205;
why it must continue to vegetate, ii. 636;
is iconoclastic, not constructed, ii. 637;
not scientific, ii. 637, 638;
exoteric, too much directed to personal matters, ib.;
esoteric, very rare, ib.
Spiritualists, the majority remain in the religious denominations, ii. 2;
take no active part in the formation of a system of philosophy, ii. 637;
start with a fallacy, ii. 638
Splendor, mighty Lord of, i. 301
Spurious passage in the First Epistle of John, ii. 177
Square hat of the Hierophant, ii. 392
Squirrel materialized, i. 329
Sri-Iantara, or Solomon’s seal, ii. 265
Stainton, Moses, his criticisms of popular spiritualism, ii. 638
Stan-gyour, a work on magic, i. 580
Stanhope, Lady Esther, faints at a Yezidi orgy, ii. 572
Star of Bethlehem, rays carried home by a monk as relics, ii. 71
Starry heaven, worship proposed under Christian names, ii. 450
Stars, ignition, i. 254;
influence on fates of men, i. 259;
and man have direct affinity, i. 168, 169
Statues, restorative of health, i. 283;
possible to animate them, i. 485;
endowed with reason, i. 613
Steam-engine, invented by Hero of Alexandria, i. 241
Stedingers, accused and exterminated, ii. 331
Steel, rusts in India and Egypt, i. 211;
superior article in India, i. 538;
in Egypt, ib.
Steeples, turrets, and domes, phallic symbols, ii. 5
Stephens, believes the key to American hieroglyphs will yet be obtained, i. 546;
story of the unknown city of the Mayas, i. 547
Stewart, Prof. Balfour, his tribute to Herakleitus, i. 422;
warning to scientists, i. 424;
denies perpetual light, i. 510
Stigmata, or birth-marks, i. 384;
produced by sorcery of a Jesuit priest, ii. 633
Stone of Memphis, its potency to prevent pain, i. 540;
two tables, masculine and feminine, ii. 5;
a Shaman’s talisman, “spoke” saving the author’s life, ii. 626
Stonehenge, its gods recognized as the divinities of Delphos and Babylon, i. 550;
remarkable statement of Dr. Stukely, i. 572;
Hamitic in plan, ib.
Stoics, belief concerning God, i. 317
Stones, their secret virtues, i. 265
Strangers, never admitted into a caste, nor to religion, i. 581
Stukely, Dr., remarks concerning Stonehenge, i. 572
Subjective mediums, i. 311;
communication with human god-like spirits, ii. 115
Subsidy paid by the East India Company to maintain worship at the pagodas, ii. 624
Subterranean passages in Peru, i. 595, 597
Subtile influence emanated from every man’s body, ii. 610
Suetonius knew nothing of Christians, ii. 535, 536
Suez Canal, i. 516, 517;
that of Necho, i. 517
Sufis, their idea of one universal creed, ii. 306
Suicide and insanity caused by Elementaries, ii. 7
Suicides and murderers, i. 344
Sulanuth, i. 325
Sulphur, the secret fire or spirit of the alchemists, i. 309;
and quicksilver, a preparation to promote longevity, ii. 620, 621
Summary of Koheleth, ii. 476
Sun, an emblem of the sun-god, i. 270;
only a magnet or reflector, i. 271;
has no more heat in it than the moon, ib.;
represented under the image of a dragon, i. 552;
made the location of hell, ii. 12;
view of Pythagoras, ib.;
increases the magnetic exhalations, ii. 611;
and serpent-worship, the religion of the Phœnicians and Mosaic Israelites, i. 555
Sun-worship once contemplated by Catholics, ii. 450
Sun-worshippers always regarded the sun as an emblem of the spiritual sun, i. 270
Sunrise and sunset as taught by the Shastras, i. 10
Supersentient soul, ii. 590
“Superstitions” in regard to drowned persons, ii. 611
Supreme Being denied by modern science, i. 16;
by the positivists, i. 71;
never rejected by Buddhistical philosophy, i. 292;
Essence, ii. 213, 214;
the Swayambhuva and En-Soph, ii. 218;
mystery of the holy syllable, ii. 114
Surgery of Yogis and Talapoins, ii. 621
Surnden, Rev. T., on locality of hell, ii. 12
Sutrantika, the sect having secret Buddhistic religion, ii. 607
Suttee, or burning of widows, not practised when the Code of Manu was compiled, i. 588
Swâbhâvikas, Hindu pantheists, the teachers of protoplasm, i. 250;
their views of Essence, ii. 262
Swayambhuva, the unrevealed Deity, ii. 39;
the unity of three trinities, making with himself two prajapatis, ii. 39, 40;
the Supreme Essence the same as En-Soph, ii. 214
Swearing forbidden by Jesus, ii. 273
Sweat of St. Michael, a phial of it preserved, ii. 71
Swedenborg personated by a Diakka, i. 219;
on speech of spirits, i. 220;
Heavenly Arcana, i. 306;
a natural-born magician, but not an adept, ib.;
made Thomas Vaughan his model, ib.;
doctrine of correspondences, or hermetic symbolism, ib.;
believed in possibility of losing individual existence, i. 317;
miraculous cures by his father, i. 464;
indicates the lost word, i. 580;
rite of, a Jesuitical product, ii. 390
Swedenborgians believe in possible obliteration of the human personality, i. 317;
believe that the soul may abandon the body for specific periods, ii. 319
Swedish system of Freemasonry, ii. 381
Syllabus and Koran, a great affinity acknowledged, ii. 82
Sylvester II., Pope, a sorcerer, ii. 56;
his “oracular head,” ii. 56
Symbol, its use, ii. 93
Symbols, i. 21;
Christian, and phallism, ii. 5
Sympathy, mysterious, between plants and human beings, i. 246;
the offspring of light, i. 309
Synagogue, “deposited its inheritance in the hands of Christ,” ii. 477;
has not expired, ib.
Synesius, belief in metempsychosis, i. 12;
his quotation from the book of stone at Memphis, i. 257;
believed the spirit preëxisted from eternity as a distinct being, i. 316;
bishop of Cyrene, his letter to Hypatia, ii. 53;
adhered to the Platonic doctrines, ii. 198
Systems, Indian, Chaldean and Ophite compared, ii. 170
Tabernacles or ingatherings, feast of, ii. 44;
regarded as Bacchic rites, ib.
Table, no demons enclosed, i. 322
Table-turning, i. 99, 105
Tainting of Souls, i. 321
Talapoins, of Siam, power over wild beasts, i. 213;
have incombustible cloth, i. 231;
have the Kabala, Bible, and other allegories in their manuscripts, i. 577;
Jesuits disguised as, ii. 371;
their secrets of medicine, ii. 621
Tale of the Two Brothers of Central America, i. 550
Talisman, i. 462; ii. 636
Talismans of Apollonius, testimony of Justin Martyr, ii. 97
Talmage, Rev. Dr., description of Martha, ii. 102
Talmud, i. 17
Tamil-Hindus worship Kutti-Satan, perhaps Seth or Satan, i. 567
Tamti, the same as Belita, ii. 444;
the sea, ii. 445
Tanaim, the four who entered the garden, ii. 119;
the Kabalistic, ii. 470
Tarchon, an Etruscan priest and his bryony-hedge, i. 527
Tartar robber detected by a Koordian sorcerer, ii. 631
Tartary, magic, i. 599;
spiritualism, i. 600;
planchette-writing, ib.;
happy and heathen, ii. 240
Tau and astronomical cross of Egypt found at the palace of Palenque, i. 572;
the handled cross, a symbol of Eternal life, ii. 254;
the signet or name of God, ib.;
the hierophantic investiture, ii. 365
Taylor, Thomas, his testimony concerning Pythagoras, i. 284;
is unceremonious with the Mosaic God, i. 288
Taylor, Robert, his amended Credo, ii. 522
Tcharaka, a Hindu physician of 5,000 years ago, i. 560
Tcherno-Bog, or Bogy, the ancient deity of the Russians, ii. 572
Teaching of the soul, the highest method of knowledge, ii. 595
Tear of Brahma, the hottest, becoming a sapphire, i. 265
Telegraphy, neurological, i. 324
Telephone, i. 126;
some such mode of communication possessed by the Egyptian priests, i. 127
Telescope in the light-house of Alexandria, i. 528
Templar rite, old English, of seven degrees, ii. 377
Templarism is Jesuitism, ii. 390
Templars, the founding of the ancient order, ii. 381, 382;
did not believe in Christ, ii. 382;
succeeded by the Jesuits, ii. 383;
the pseudo-order invented to obviate the imputation of Jesuitism, ii. 384
Temple of the Holy Molecule, i. 413;
had possession of Eastern mysteries, ii. 380;
of the perpetual fire, ii. 632;
at Jerusalem, not so ancient as was pretended, ii. 389;
of Solomon, not esteemed by any Hebrew prophet, ii. 525
Temples, anciently the repositories of science, i. 25
Ten, the Pythagorean, ii. 171;
virtues of initiation, ii. 98
Teraphim, Kabeiri-gods, i. 570;
identical with Seraphim, ib.;
serpent-images, ib.;
received by Dardanus as a dowry and carried to Samothrace and Troy, ib.
Teratology, named by Geoffroi St. Hilaire, i. 390
Terrestrial elementary spirits, i. 319;
circulation, i. 503;
immortality, ii. 620
Tertullian, i. 46;
on devils, i. 159;
believed the soul corporeal, i. 317;
desires to see all philosophers in the Gehenna-fire, ii. 250;
his intolerance, ii. 329
Tetractys, i. 9;
the One, the Chaos, wisdom and reason, ii. 36; i. 507
Tetragram, i. 506, 507
Thales, believed water the primordial substance, i. 134, 189;
said to have discovered the electric properties of amber, i. 234;
his belief concerning water and the Divine Mind, ii. 458
Thaumaturgist, his power of becoming invisible, or appearing in two or more forms, ii. 588
Thaumaturgists, use the force known as Akasa, i. 113;
declared by Salverte to be knaves, i. 115
Thebes, or Th-aba, ii. 448;
ancient, i. 523;
its prodigious ruins, i. 523, 524;
the Twelve Tortures, ii. 364
Themura, ii. 298
Theocletus, Grand Pontiff of the Order of the Temple, initiated the original Knight Templars, ii. 382
Theology, comparative, and two-edged weapon, ii. 531;
Christian, subversive rather than promotive of spirituality and good morals, ii. 634
Theologies, ancient, all agree, ii. 39
Theon of Smyrna, his explanation of the five grades in the Mysteries, ii. 101
Theomania of the Cevennois imputed to hysteria and epilepsy, i. 371
Theophrastus, legatee of Aristotle, i. 320
Theopœa, the art of endowing figures with life, i. 615, 616;
testimony of Jacolliot, i. 616, 617
Theosophists, their confederations in Germany, ii. 20
Theosophy, disfigured by theology, i. 13
Therapeutæ, a branch of the Essenes, ii. 144
Therapeutists probably Buddhists, ii. 491
Thermuthis, the name of Pharaoh’s daughter and of the sacred asp, i. 556
Thespesius, apparently dead for three days, i. 484
Thessalian sorceresses evoked shadows with blood, ii. 568
Theurgic Mystery, ii. 563-575
Theurgists, i. 205-219;
knew occult properties of magnetism and electricity, i. 234;
not “spirit-mediums,” ii. 118;
persecuted by the Christians, ii. 34
Theurgy, its phenomena produced by magnetic powers, i. 23;
the devil at its head, i. 161
Thevetat, the “Dragon” of the Atlantis, i. 593;
his seduction of the people, ib.
Thing, the one, of the Smaragdine Tablet, i. 507, 508;
named by Hermetic philosophy, i. 508
Third emanation produces the universe of physical matter, and, finally, “Darkness and the Bad,” i. 302;
race of men in Hesiod, i. 558;
in Popul-Vuh, ib.;
race of men, the Nephilim, i. 559
Thirteen Mexican Serpent-Gods, i. 572
This book, its object, ii. 98, 99
Thomas, St., in Malabar, ii. 534;
Aquinas, ii. 20;
Taylor, an expositor of Plato’s meaning, ii. 108, 109
Thomson, Sir William, declares science bound to face every problem, i. 223
Thompson, Hon. R. W., denounced by a Catholic priest, ii. 378
Thor, his electric hammer, i. 160
Thought affects the matter of another universe, i. 310
Thought-communication effected by a Shaman with his stone, ii. 627
Thoughts guided by spiritual being, i. 366;
human, projected upon the universal ether, i. 395; ii. 636
Thrætaona, the Persian Michael, contending with Zohak, ii. 486
Three degrees of the pleroma, i. 302;
tricks exhibited, i. 73;
degrees of communication with spirits, ii. 115;
emanations, i. 302;
kabalistic forces, ib.;
Gods, or archial principles, First Cause, Logos, and World-soul, ii. 33;
Saviours, ii. 536;
legends concerning them, ii. 537-539;
enumeration of their followers, ii. 539;
births of man, ii. 568;
three hundred million Buddhists seeking Nirvana, ii. 533;
mothers, i. 257
Three-sided prism of man’s nature, ii. 634
Throwing spells by aid of the wind, ii. 632
Thrum-stone, i. 231
Thummim, i. 536, 537
Θυμος, thumos, the astral soul, i. 429
Thury, Prof., on levitation, cited by de Gasparin, i. 99, 109;
his theory of spiritual phenomena, i. 110;
imputes them to the action of wills not human, i. 112;
psychode and ectenic force, i. 113
Tiara, papal, the coiffure of the Assyrian gods, ii. 94
Tickets to Heaven, ii. 243
Tiffereau, Theodore, assertion that he had made gold, i. 509
Tiger mesmerized, i. 467
Tigress, bereft of her cubs, mesmerized by a fakir, ii. 623
Tikkun, the first born, the Heavenly Man, ii. 276
Tillemont, declares all illustrious pagans condemned to the eternal torments of hell, ii. 8
Timæus, cannot be understood except by an initiate, ii. 39
Time and space no obstacles to the inner man, ii. 588
Tir-thankara, the preceptor of Gautama, ii. 322
Tissu, the spiritual teacher of Kublai-Khan, his great holiness, ii. 608;
reforms religion, ii. 609
To Ον, of Plato, ii. 38
Tobo, liberator of the soul of Adam, ii. 517
Todas, a strange people discovered in Southern Hindustan fifty years ago, ii. 613;
revered and maintained by the Badagas, ii. 614;
an order and not a race, ib.
Tolticas, said to be descended from the house of Israel, i. 552
Tooth, Navel and less comely relics of Jesus, ii. 71
Tophet, a place in the valley of Gehenna, where a fire was kept and children immolated, ii. 11;
not a place of endless woe, ii. 502
Torquemeda, Tomas de, his prodigious cruelty, ii. 59;
burned Hebrew Bibles, ii. 430
Torralva and his demon Zequiel, ii. 60
Torturing people by means of Simulacra, ii. 55
Toulouse, the Bishop of, his falsehoods about Protestants and Spiritualists of America, ii. 7
Townshend, Colonel, remarkable power of suspending animation, i. 483
Traditions, ancient, belong to India, ii. 259
Tragedy of Human Life, its plot ever the same, ii. 640
Trance-life, i. 181
Transformation of the ancient ideas, ii. 491
Transmigration, dreaded by the Hindu, i. 346;
of the soul, does not relate to man’s condition after death, ii. 280
Transmural Vision, i. 145
Transmutation of metal, the actual fact asserted, i. 503, 504;
Dr. Wilder’s opinion, i. 505;
salt, sulpher, and mercury thrice combined in azoth, ib.
Transubstantiation, an arcane utterance perverted, ii. 560
Travancore, perpetual lamp, i. 225
Tree, Yggdrasill, i. 133, 151;
Zampun, i. 152;
Aswatha, ib.;
symbol of universal life, ib.;
the pyramid, i. 154;
Gogard, i. 297;
serpent dwells in its branches, i. 298;
the microcosmic and macrocosmic, i. 297;
tziti, the third race of men, i. 558;
of knowledge, ii. 184;
or pippala, ii. 412
Triad, the Intelligible, i. 212;
from the duad, i. 348
Triads, or trinities, Babylonian, Phœnician and Hindu, ii. 48;
Persian and Egyptian, ii. 49
Tribes of Israel, what evidence before Ezra, i. 508;
no tribe of Simeon, ib.
Trigonocephali, their bite kills like a flash of lighting, ii. 622
Trimurti, i. 92;
their habitation, ii. 234
Trinities, three, in one unity, making ten Sephiroth or Prajâpatis, ii. 39, 40;
Hindu, Egyptian and Christian, ii. 227
Trinity, the first, i. 341;
of Egyptians, i. 160;
three Sephiroth or emanations, ii. 36;
the doctrine revealed to Sesostris, ii. 51;
the word first found in the Gospel of Nicodemus, ii. 522;
listening for the answer of Mary, ii. 173;
kabalistic, ii. 222;
of workers in the cosmogony, ii. 420;
of nature the lock of magic, ii. 635
Triple Trimurti, ii. 39
Trithemius, ii. 20
Trizna or feast of the dead in Moldavia, ii. 569, 570
Trojan war a counterpart of that of the Ramâyana, i. 566
Troy, worship of the Kabeiri brought by Dardanus, i. 570
True Adamic Earth, i. 51;
doctrine Λόγος Αληθής of Celsus, a copy still in existence, ii. 52;
faith the embodiment of divine charity, ii. 640
Truth, religions but vari-colored fragments of its beam, ii. 639
Tschuddi, Dr., his story of the train of llama, and treasure, i. 546
Tullia, daughter of Cicero, lamp found burning in her tomb, i. 224
Tullus Hostilius, King of Rome, struck by lightning, i. 527
Tum, devotees of, ii. 387
Tunnel from Cusco to Lima and Bolivia, i. 597;
entrance, ib.;
dangers of its exploration, i. 598
Turkey, wars with Russia and final conquest, i. 261
Turanian, should have been applied to the Assyrians, i. 576;
evidently applied to the nomadic Caucasian, progenitor of the Hamite or Æthiopian, ib.
Turner, his account of an interview with a young lama or reincarnated Buddha, ii. 598
Turrets, the reproduction of the lithos, ii. 5
Tutelar genius who hardened the heart of Pharaoh, etc., ii. 639
Twelve houses, the fable, i. 267;
tables, a compilation, i. 588;
labors of Hercules depicted on the chair of Peter, ii. 25;
disciples sent by Jehosaphat to preach, ii. 517;
great gods, ii. 448;
minor gods, Dii minores, ii. 451;
tortures, ii. 351;
of Theban initiation, ii. 364;
thousand years employed in creation, i. 342
Twenty-nine witch-burnings, ii. 62
Two souls taught by the philosophers, i. 12, 317;
idols of monotheistic Christianity, ii. 9;
primeval principles, i. 341;
principles, the Jews brought the doctrine from Persia, ii. 500, 501;
diagrams explained, ii. 266, 271;
“old ones,” ii. 350;
brothers of the Bible, the good and evil principles, ii. 489;
religions in each old faith, ii. 607
Two-headed serpents, i. 393
Tycho-Brahe, vision of the star, i. 441, 442
Tyndall confesses science powerless, i. 14;
views of consciousness, i. 86;
displays forms as of living plants and animals in an experimental tube, i. 127;
his avoidance to investigate spiritual phenomena, i. 176;
his Belfast Address, i. 314;
his judgment of cowards, i. 418;
declares spiritualism a degrading belief, ib.;
confesses that the evolution hypothesis does not solve the last mystery, i. 419;
his experiments on sound, ii. 606;
his definition of science, ii. 637
Typhon once worshipped in Egypt, and then changed to an evil demon, ii. 487;
Plutarch’s explanation, ii. 483;
father of Ierosolumos and Ioudaios, ii. 484;
separated from his androgyne, ii. 524
Tyrian worship introduced into Israel by Ahab, ii. 525
Tyrrhenian cosmogony, i. 342
Udayna or Pashai (Peshawer) the classic land of sorcery, i. 599;
statement of Hiouen-Thsang, ib.
Ultramontanes accused in France of siding with the Mahometans, ii. 82
Ulysses frightens phantoms with his sword, i. 362
Umbilical cord ruptured and healed, i. 386
Umbilicus, represented by the ark, ii. 444
Umbra, or shade, i. 37
Unavoidable cycle, Mysteries, i. 553
Unconscious cerebration, i. 55, 232;
ventriloquism, i. 101
Urdar, the fountain of life, i. 151, 162
Underworld, i. 37
Undines, i. 67
Union to the Deity, ii. 591
Unity of three trinities, ii. 39;
the Sephiroth or prajapatis, ib.
Universal soul, or mind, i. 56;
the doctrine underlying all philosophies, Buddhism, Brahmanism, and Christianity, i. 289;
relation to the reasoning and the animal soul, i. 316;
solvent, i. 50, 137, 189
Universals to particulars, i. 288
Universe, or Kosmos, the body of the invisible sun, i. 302;
doubt, i. 324;
how came it, i. 341;
the concrete image of the ideal abstraction, i. 342;
existed from eternity, ib.;
passes through four ages, ii. 421;
a musical instrument, i. 514
Unknown presence, when witnessed, ii. 164;
the future self of man, ii. 165
Unregulated mediums punished, i. 489
Unrevealed God, i. 160
Unseen Universe, or all things there recorded, ii. 588;
spiritual universe, its existence demonstrated, ii. 15
Untrained mediumship illustrated by Socrates and his daimonion, ii. 117
Untenable dogmas of science, i. 501
Upasakes and Upasakis, Buddhistic semi-monastics, ii. 608
Uper-Ouranoi, i. 312
Vach, or sacred speech, ii. 409
Vaivaswata, the Hindu Noah, ii. 425
Valachian lady, her simulacrum brought to the author in her tent in Mongolia, ii. 627, 628
Vampirism, a terrible case in Russia, i. 454
Vampire-governor, and his widow, i. 454, 455
Vampires, i. 319;
shedim, etc., i. 449;
magnetic, i. 462;
ghouls and, wandering about, ii. 564
Van Helmont, i. 50, 57;
on magnetism and will, i. 170;
on transmutation of earth into water, i. 190;
testimony of Deleuze, i. 194;
a Pythagorean, i. 205;
theory of man, i. 213;
remarkable account of a child born headless immediately after an execution, i. 386;
on the power of woman’s imagination, i. 399;
testimony of Dr. Fournier, i. 400;
ridiculed for his directions for production of animals, i. 414
Vari-colored fragments of the beam of Divine Truth, ii. 639
Vasitva, power of mesmerizing, also of restraining the passions, i. 393
Vasaki, the great dragon, ii. 490
Vast inland sea of middle Asia, and its island, i. 589
Vatican, black magic practised there, ii. 6;
secret libraries, ii. 16, 19;
clergy, how an access, ii. 18
Vatou, or candidate, for initiation, ii. 98;
sensitive to spiritual influences, ii. 118
Vaughan, Thomas, anecdote of his attempted sale of gold, i. 504
Vedas, antedate the Bible, i. 91;
contain no such immodesty as the Bible, ii. 80;
older than the flood, ii. 427
Vedic words, the controversies of Sanscrit scholars, ii. 47;
peoples not all Aryans, ii. 413
Vedic Pitris, their worship fast becoming the worship of the spiritual portion of mankind, ii. 639
Vegetation, influence of the moon, i. 273;
influenced by musical tones, i. 514
Vehicle of life, ii. 418
Venerable “Mah,” ii. 388
Ventriloquists or pythiæ, i. 355
Ventura de Raulica, his letter asserting the existence of Satan as a fundamental dogma of the Church, ii. 14
Vesica Piscis, a Zodiacal sign, ii. 255
Vicarious atonement, a ridiculous idea, i. 316
Vicarious atonement, ii. 542;
obliterates no wrong, ii. 545;
not known by Peter, ii. 546
Vigil-night of Siva, i. 446
Vincent, Frank, his description of the ruins of Nagkon-Wat, i. 562, 565
Vine, the symbol of blood and life, ii. 244;
Jesus, ii. 561;
his “Father” not God, but the hierophant, ib.
Viracocha, the Peruvian deity, ii. 259
Viradji, the Son of God, his origin, ii. 111
Virgin, celestial, milk of, i. 64;
of the sea, crushes the dragon under her feet, ii. 446;
of the Zodiac, rises above the horizon, Dec. 25th, ii. 490;
Blessed, thrashing a demoniac, ii. 76;
Mary, declaring all pagans condemned to eternal torments, over her own signature, ii. 8;
succeeded to the titles, symbols and rites of Isis, ii. 95;
on the crescent moon, like pagan goddesses, ii. 96;
queen of heaven, ii. ib.;
mother without a husband, positivist, i. 81;
of the Avatar, Son-Ka-po, ii. 589
Virgin-mothers, Hindu, Egyptian, and Catholic, their epithets, ii. 209
Vishnu, takes the form of a fish, ii. 257;
same as Oannes, ib.;
the Adam Kadmon of the kabalists, ii. 259;
his ten avatars, ii. 274;
symbolize evolution, ii. 275;
the expression of the whole universe, ii. 277
Vishnu-flower, ii. 467
Visible universe from Brahma-Prajapati, i. 348
Visions witnessed by initiates, ii. 113;
produced by sorcery, ii. 633
Visit to the Ladakh in Thibet, ii. 598
Visiting and leaving the body at home, ii. 604, 605
Vistaspa, a king of Bactriana, ii. 141
Visvamitra, his escape in the ark, ii. 257;
Egypt colonized in his reign, i. 627
Vital force, speculations of men of science, i. 466
Viti, Sancti, Chorœa, or St. Vitus’ Dance, ii. 625
Voices of spirits and goblins heard in the desert, i. 604
Volatile salts obnoxious to devils, i. 356
Volney, mistook ancient worship, i. 24;
his doctrine of God, i. 268
Voltaire, on the being of God, i. 268
Voluntary withdrawal of the spirit from the body, ii. 588
Votan, his admission to the snake’s hole as a son of the snakes, i. 553;
supposed by de Bourbourg to be descended from Ham and Canaan, i. 554;
the hero of the Mexicans, i. 545;
probably identical with Quetzel-coatl, ib.;
intercourse with King Solomon, ib.;
the navigating serpent, ib.
Voodo orgy in Cuba, ii. 573
Vourdalak or vampires of Servia, i. 451, ii. 368
Vowels, the seven, chanted as a hymn to Serapis, i. 514
Vridda Manava, or laws of Manu, i. 585
Vril, Bulwer-Lytton’s designation of the one primal force, i. 64, 125
Vril-ya, the coming race, i. 296
Vulcan, Phta, or Hephaistos, represented at Nakyon-Wat, i. 565, 566
Vulgar magic in India, ii. 20
Vyasa, a positivist, i. 621;
denied a First Cause, ii. 261
Vyse, Col., found a piece of iron in the pyramid of Cheops, i. 542
Wagner, Prof. Nicholas, on heat and psychical force, i. 497;
on mediumistic phenomena, i. 499
Walking above the ground, i. 472;
the faculty sought by devotees, and attained by a King of Siam, ii. 618
Wallace, A. R., on cycles, i. 155;
belief in spiritualism and mesmerism, i. 177;
theory of human development, i. 294
War of Michael and the dragon, an old myth, ii. 486
Warrior, slain and resuscitated, but without a soul, ii. 564
War-chariots, ancient, lighter than modern artillery-wagons, i. 530;
had metallic springs, ib.
Water, of Phtha, i. 64;
the first principle of things, i. 133;
an universal solvent, i. 133, 189;
of mercury, the soul or psychical substance, i. 309;
the first-created element, ii. 458
Waters turned to blood, i. 413, 415
Washing of images, ii. 138
Wave-theory of light not accepted by Prof. Cooke, i. 137
Weapons, dæmons afraid of, i. 362
Weekman, reputed the first investigator of spirit-phenomena in America, i. 105
Weeks of seven days used in the East, ii. 418
Weird cries of the Gobi, i. 604
Weninger, Father F. X., a Jesuit priest, his denunciation of Secretary Thompson, ii. 378, 379
Wesermann, power to influence the dreams of others, and to appear double, i. 477
White-skinned people not often able to acquire magical powers, ii. 635
White stone of initiation, ii. 351
Whitney, Prof. W. D., his criticism of Max Müller, ii. 47;
denunciation of Jacolliot, ib.;
his translation of a Vedic hymn, ii. 534
Widow-burning, or suttee, practised 2,500 years, but not when the Code of Manu was compiled, i. 588;
sustained by the Brahmans from a forged verse of the Rig-Veda, i. 589
Widows burned without pain by the Brahmans, i. 540
Wild beasts will not attack Buddhistic nuns, ii. 609
Wilder, A., on possibility of transmutation, i. 505;
suggestion of another classification of the Assyrians and Mongols, i. 575;
notes in regard to America, the Atlantic continent, Lemuria, and the deserts of Africa and Asia, i. 592;
on skeptics, and respect for earnest convictions, i. 437;
on Paul and Plato, ii. 90;
on the designation Peter and the pretension of the Pope to be his successor, ii. 92;
opinion of Zeruana, Turan, and Zohak, ii. 142;
description of Paul, ii. 574-6
Wilkinson, Sir Gardner, his testimony in regard to ancient Egyptian civilization, i. 526;
J. J. G., declares truth temperamental, i. 234
Will, i. 56-61;
its potency in a state of ecstasy, i. 170;
produces force, i. 285;
an emanation of deity, ib.;
power of, ii. 21;
enables one to wound or injure another, i. 360, 361;
generates force, and force generates matter, ii. 320
Will-force of the Yogis, ii. 565
Will-power, killing birds by it, i. 380;
photographing by, i. 463;
the most powerful of magnets, i. 472;
its exercise the highest form of prayer, ii. 592
Wine first sacred in the Bacchic Mysteries, ii. 514
Winged men of the Phædrus, i. 2
Wirdig taught that nature is ensouled, i. 207
Wisdom, the arcane doctrine of the ancients, i. 205, 436;
or the principle, ii. 35;
the chief, ii. 36;
first emanation of the En-Soph, ii. 37;
origin, ii. 218;
the ethnic parent of every religion, ii. 639, 640
Wisdom-doctrine underlay every ancient religion, ii. 99
Wisdom-religion, to be found in the pre-Vedic religion of India, ii. 39;
its articles of faith, ii. 116;
explained in Code of Manu, ib.;
the parent cult, ii. 216
Wise women, ii. 525
Witch, a knowing woman, i. 354;
or kangalin, lawful for a Hindu to kill her, ii. 612
Witch-burnings in Germany, ii. 61;
twenty-nine, ii. 62, 63
Witchcraft, execution in Salem, and other American provinces, ii. 18;
laws in force in South Carolina in 1865, ib.;
an offence among the ancients, ii. 98;
those guilty of it not initiates, ii. 117, 118
Witches, pretended, dozens of thousands burned, i. 353;
of the middle ages, the votaries of the former religion, ii. 502
Witches’ Sabbath, the orgies of Bacchus, ii. 528
Withdrawal of the inner from the outer man, ii. 583
Withdrawing of the inner from the outer, i. 476
Wittoba, the crucified image of Christna anterior to Christianity, ii. 557
Wizard, a wise man, i. 354
Wolf, converted by St. Francis, ii. 77
Wolsey, Cardinal, accused of sorcery, ii. 57
Woman, of the future, i. 77;
fecundated artificially, i. 77, 81;
must cease to be the female of the men, i. 78;
ridding her of every maternal function, ib.;
applying a latent force, ib.;
offered to the encubi, ib.;
impossible, i. 81;
evolved out of men, i. 297;
highly impressible when pregnant, i. 394;
exudes akasa as an odic emanation, i. 395;
how this is projected into the astral light or ether, and repercussing, impresses itself upon the fœtus, ib.;
evolved out of the lusts of matter, i. 433;
clothed with the sun, the goddess Isis, ii. 489
Women, magnetically influenced by the moon, i. 264
Women-colleges, to superintend worship, ii. 524, 525
Wong-Ching-Fu, his explanation of Nepang or Nirvana, ii. 319, 320
Wonder-working fakirs seldom to be seen, ii. 612, 613
Word, magical, i. 445;
ineffable, and performance of miracles, ii. 370;
lost by the Christians, ib.;
where to be sought, ii. 371, ii. 418;
“long lost but now found,” ii. 393
World, how called into existence, i. 341;
how all will go well with it, ii. 122;
soul of, i. 129, 208, 215, 342;
religions, startled by utterances of scientists, i. 248, 249
World-religions, conflict between, i. 307;
identical at their starting-point, ii. 215;
the devil their founder, ii. 479
World-mountains, allegorical expressions of cosmogony, i. 157
World-soul, the source of all souls, and ether, i. 316
World-tree of knowledge, i. 574
Worlds, an incalculable number before the present one, ii. 424
Worship of the sun and serpent by Phœnicians and Mosaic Israelites, i. 555;
of words, denounced, ii. 560;
of the spiritual portion of mankind, ii. 639
Wounds, mortal, self-inflicted and healed, i. 224
Wreaths of green leaves for oracles, ii. 612
Wren, Sir Christopher, simply the Master of the London operative masons, ii. 390
Wright, Thomas, on sorcery and magic, i. 356
Writings under the ban, ii. 8
X, decussation of the perfect circle, ii. 469
X., Dr. extraordinary scenes at a seance, i. 608-611
Xenophanes, his satire on the representations of God, ii. 242
Ximenes, cardinal, burned 80,000 Arabic manuscripts, i. 511
Xisuthrus or Hasisadra, sailed with the ark to Armenia, ii. 217;
translated to the gods, ii. 424;
Oannes and Vishnu in the first avatar, ii. 457
Yaho, an old Shemitic mystic name of the Supreme Being, ii. 297
Yadus migrating from India to Egypt, i. 444
Yang-kie and Mahu, dwellers in both worlds, i. 601, 602
Yakuts and their worship, ii. 568
Yarker, John jr., account of the dervishes, ii. 316;
his testimony in regard to Free-masonry, ii. 376
Year of blood, 1876, i. 439
Yezidis, or devil-worshippers genuine sorcerers, ii. 571;
their worship, ii. 572
Yggdrasill, i. 133;
universe springing up beneath its branches, i. 151
Ymir, the Norse giant, i. 147;
generates a race of depraved men, i. 148;
is slain by the sons of Bur, i. 150
Yogas or cycles, i. 293
Yogis of India, ii. 346;
their extraordinary powers, ii. 565;
regarded as demi-gods, ii. 612;
a peculiar medicine used by them composed of sulphur and juice of a plant, ii. 621;
their longevity, ii. 620;
their medicinal preparation of sulphur and quicksilver, ii. 620
Yörmungand, the midgard or earth-serpent, i. 151
Yourodevoy, i. 28
Youth, the means of regaining, ii. 618
Yowahous, ii. 313
Yugas, i. 31
Yule, Colonel, on movable type, i. 515;
on spiritualism in Tartary, i. 600;
testimony in regard to spiritual flowers drawn by a medium in Bond street, London, i. 601
Zacharias, saw an apparition in the temple, ass-formed, ii. 523
Zadokites, or Sadducees, made a priest-caste by David, ii. 297
Zampun, the Thibetan tree of life, i. 152
Zamzummim, the Cyclopeans, i. 567
Zarathustra-Spitoma, his untold antiquity, i. 12
Zarevna Militrissa and the serpent, i. 550
Zeller, criticism of the Fathers in regard to Plato, i. 288
Zequiel, a demon presented to Torralva, ii. 60
Zeno taught two eternal qualities in nature, i. 12
Zeru-Ishtar, a Chaldean or Magian high-priest, ii. 129
Zeruan, Saturn or Abraham, the legend of the Titans, ii. 217
Zeus, the æther, i. 187, 188
Zeus-Dionysus, i. 262
Zmeij Gorenetch, the dragon, i. 550
Znachar, the Russian sorcerer, ii. 571
Zodiac, its symbolism, ii. 456;
its origin, 16,984 years ago, ib.
Zohak and Gemshid, their struggle that of the Persians and Assyrians, i. 576;
and Feridun, the legend explained, ii. 486;
or Azhi-Dahaka, the serpent of the Avesta, ii. 486;
a personification of Assyria, ib.
Zonarus traces knowledge from Chaldea to Egypt, thence to the Greeks, i. 543
Zoömagnetism, or animal magnetism, i. 206;
can magnetize minerals, ib.
Zoroaster, Zarathustra, Zuruastara, Zuryaster, a spiritual teacher, ii. 141;
a reformer of Chaldean Magic, i. 191;
when he lived, ii. 141;
Baron Bunsen’s opinion, ii. 432
Zoroastrian religion, its affinity with Judaism and Christianity, ii. 486
Zoroastrianism, no schism, ii. 142
Zoroastrians, migrated from India, ii. 143
Zoro-Babel or prince of Babylon, ii. 441
Zuinglius, the first reformer, his cosmopolitan doctrine of the Holy Ghost, i. 132