INDEX. (continued 2)

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;