INDEX.

Abarbanel, his explanation of the sign of the coming of the Messiah, ii. 256

Abracadabra, diabolical, evoked anew, ii. 4

Abraham, his history, ii. 217;

belongs to the universal mythology, ii. 216;

Zeruan, ib.;

Isaac, and Judah, from Brahma, Ikshwaka and Yada, ii. 488;

and his sons, the story an allegory, ii. 493

Abraiaman, or charmers of fishes and wild beasts in Ceylon, i. 606

Absolution and penance authorized in the Church of England, ii. 544

Absorbed, a state of intimate union, ii. 117

Abuses of magic denounced by the ancients, ii. 97, 99

Abydos, a pre-Menite dynasty, ii. 361

Academicians, French, i. 60;

reject theurgical magic, i. 281

Academy, French, indignant at the charge of Satanism, i. 101;

rejected mesmerism, i. 165, 171;

Committee of 1784, i. 171;

Committee of 1826, i. 173

Acari, produced by chemical experiments, i. 465

Accuser of Souls at the judgment, ii. 487

Acher (Paul) in the garden of delights, ii. 119;

“made depredations,” ib.

Actions guided by spiritual beings, i. 366

Ad, its meaning, i. 579

Adah, her sons from the Euxine to Kashmere, i. 579

Ad-Am, only-begotten, i. 579

Adam (ανθροπως), Divine essence emanating from, i. 1;

the primitive man, i. 2;

the second, i. 297;

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

of dust, i. 302;

Kadmon, androgynous, i. 297;

the first man evolved, ib.;

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

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

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

the fall, not personal transgression, but a law of dual evolution, ii. 277;

conducted from Hell, ii. 517;

same as Tamuz, Adonis, and Helios, ib.;

sends Seth on an errand to paradise, ii. 520;

Kadmon, ii. 36;

Kadmon, i. 93;

Kadmon, the first race of men his emanations, ii. 276;

Primus, the Microprosopus, ii. 452

Adamic Earth, i. 51

Adamite, the third race, produced by two races, i. 305

Adanari, the Hindu goddess, ii. 451, 453

Adar-gat, Aster’t, etc., the Magna Mater, i. 579

Adept, the first self-made, ii. 317;

of the highest order, may live indefinitely, ii. 563;

of the seventh rite, ii. 564

Adepts few, i. 17;

in Paris and elsewhere ii. 403;

“travellers,” ib.

Adhima and Heva, created by Siva, and ancestors of the present race, i. 590

A’di Buddha, the Unknown, ii. 156;

the father of the Yezidis, ii. 571

Adima and Heva, in the prophecies of Ramatsariar, i. 579

Adonai or Adamites, i. 303

Adonim, i. 301

Adonis, his rites celebrated in the grotto at Bethlehem, ii. 139

Adonis-worship, at the Jordan, ii. 181

Adrian supposed the Christians to worship Serapis, ii. 336

Æbel-Zivo, the Metatron, or Anointed spirit, ii. 154; ii. 236, 247;

the same as the Angel Gabriel, ii. 247

Æneas drives away ghosts with his sword, i. 362, 363

Æons, or genii, i. 300

Aërolites, used in the Mysteries, i. 282;

in the tower of Belos, ii. 331;

used to develop prophetic power, ib.

Æther, i. 56;

in that form the Deity pervading all, i. 129;

the primordial chaos, i. 134;

the spirit of cosmic matter, i. 156;

deified, i. 158;

source whence all things come and whither they will return, i. 189;

the fifth element, i. 342;

a medium between this world and the other, ib.;

the Breath of the Father, the Holy Ghost, ii. 50

Æthiopia, east of Babylonia, ii. 434

Æthiopians from the Indus, who settled near Egypt, probably Jews, i. 567;

originally an Indian race, ii. 437;

law of inheritance by the mother, ib.

Affinity of soul for body, i. 344;

acknowledged between the Syllabus and the Koran, ii. 82

Afrasiah, the King of Assyria, i. 575

Africa, phantoms appearing in the desert, i. 604

Afrits, i. 141;

nature-spirits, Shedim, demons, i. 313;

studying antediluvian literature, ii. 29

Agassiz, Prof. L., unfairness of, i. 63;

his argument in favor of the immortality of all orders of living beings, i. 420

Agathodaimon and Kakothodaimon, i. 133

Agathadæmon, the serpent on a pole, ii. 512

Age of paper, i. 535

Aged of the aged, ii. 244

Ages, golden, silver, copper and iron, no fiction, i. 34;

or Aions, ii. 144

Agni, the sun-god and fire-god, i. 270

Agrippa, Cornelius, i. 167, 200;

his remarks on the marvellous power of the human soul, i. 280

Ahab and his sons encouraged by the prophets, ii. 525

Ahaz, his family deposed, ii. 440

Ahijah the prophet instigates Jeroboam to revolt against Solomon, ii. 439

Ahriman, his contest with Ormazd, ii. 237;

to be purified in the fiery lake, ii. 238

Aij-Taïon, the Supreme God of the Yakuts of Siberia, ii. 568

Ain-Soph, ii. 210

Ajunta, Buddhistic caverns of, i. 349

Akâsa, or life-principle, i. 113;

known to Hindu magicians, ib.;

same as Archæus, i. 125;

a designation of astral and celestial lights combined, forming the anima mundi, and constituting the soul and spirit of man, i. 139;

the will, i. 144

Ak-Ad or Akkad, meaning suggested, i. 579

Akkadians, introduced the worship of Bel or Baal, i. 263;

progenitors and Aryan instructors of the Chaldeans, i. 576;

never a Turanian tribe, ib.;

a tribe of Hindus, ib.;

from Armenia, perhaps from Ceylon, i. 578;

invented by Lenormant, ii. 423

Akiba in the garden of delights, ii. 119

Aksakof, i. 41, 46;

protests against the decision of Prof. Mendeleyeff and commission adverse to mediumism, i. 118

Alba petra, or white stone of initiation, ii. 351

Alberico and not Amerigo, the name of Vespucius or Vespuzio, i. 591

Albertus Magnus, ii. 20

Albigenses, descendants of the Gnostics, ii. 502

Albumazar on the identity of the myths, ii. 489

Alchemical principles, i. 191

Alchemists, i. 66, 205

Alchemy, universally studied, i. 502;

old as tradition, i. 503;

books destroyed by Diocletian, the Roman Emperor, ib.

Alchemy and magic prevalent among the clergy, ii. 57

Aleim or Eloim, gods or powers, also priests, i. 575

Alexander of Macedonia, his expedition into India doubtful, ii. 429

Alexandrian library, the most precious rolls preserved, ii. 27;

learned Copts do not believe it destroyed, ii. 28;

obtained from the Asiatics, ib.;

school, derived the soul from the ether or world-soul, i. 316.

Algebra, i. 536

Alkahest, i. 50;

the universal solvent clear water, i. 133;

overlooked by the French Academy, i. 165;

explained by Van Helmont and Paracelsus, i. 191

Allegory, becomes sacred history, ii. 406;

reserved for the inner sanctuary, ii. 493

Alligators do not disturb fakirs, i. 383

Allopathists in medicine enemies to psychology, i. 88;

oppose everything till stamped as regular, ib.;

oppose discoveries, ib.

All things formed after the model, i. 302

“Almighty, the Nebulous,” i. 129

Al-om-jah, an Egyptian hierophant, ii. 364

Alsatians believe Paracelsus to be only sleeping in his grave, ii. 500

Amasis, King of Egypt, sends a linen garment to Lindus, i. 536

Amazons, their circle-dance in Palestine, ii. 45

Amberley, Viscount, regards Jesus as an iconoclastic idealist, ii. 562;

looks down upon the social plane indicated by the great Sopher, ib.

Amenthes, or Amenti, has no blazing hell, ii. 11

Americ, or great mountain, the name of a range in Central America visited by Columbus, i. 592

America, Central, lost cities, i. 239;

not named from Vespucius, i. 591;

name found in Nicaragua, i. 592;

first applied to the continent in 1522, ib.;

Markland, ib.;

note of A. Wilder, ib.;

the conservatory of spiritual sensitives, ii. 19

American lodges know nothing of esoteric Masonry, ii. 376;

templarism, its three degrees, ii. 383

Americans to join the Catholic Church, ii. 379

Amita or Buddha, his realm, i. 601

Ammonius Sakkas, i. 443;

dated his philosophy from Hermes, ii. 342

Amrita, the supreme soul, i. 265

Amulet, a soldier made proof by one against bullets, i. 378

Amulets and relics, spells and phylacteries, ii. 352

Amun, i. 262

An, spirits of, ii. 387

Anæsthesia, its discovery by Wells, i. 539;

the improvements by Morton, Simpson, and Colton, i. 540;

understood by the Egyptians and Brahmans, ib.

Anahit, the earth, i. 11

Anathems, a custom original with Christians, ii. 334

Anaxagoras, belief concerning spiritual prototypes, i. 158

Anaximenes held the doctrine of evolution or development, i. 238

Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite a Jesuitical product, ii. 390

Ancient Philosophies, based on the doctrine of God the universal mind diffused throughout nature, i. 289;

books written symbolically, i. 19;

of the ancient, i. 302;

Code of Manu, not in our possession, i. 585, 586;

landmarks of Masonry departed from, ii. 380;

mysteries hidden only from the profane, ii. 121;

religions, the wisdom or doctrine, their basis, ii. 99;

identical as to their secret meaning, ii. 410;

derived from one primitive worship, ii. 412;

word, note of Emanuel Swedenborg, ii. 470;

in Buddhistic Tartary, ii. 471

Ancients, monotheistical before Moses, i. 23;

knew certain sciences better than modern savants, i. 25;

regarded the physical sun as only an emblem, i. 270;

practiced psychometry, i. 331;

their religion that of the future, i. 613

Anderson, author of the Constitutions of 1723 and 1738, a Masonic impostor, ii. 389;

Steve, his spiritual advisers anxious for his speedy execution lest he should fall from grace, ii. 543

Angelo, Michel, his remarkable gem, i. 240

Angkor, figures purely archaic, i. 567

Anglican Church adopting again the Roman usages, ii. 544

Anima, i. 37

Anima Mundi, or world-soul, i. 56, 258;

same as Nirvana, i. 291;

feminine with the Gnostics and Nazarenes, i. 300;

bi-sexual, i. 301;

same as the astral light, ib.;

an igneous, ethereal nature, i. 316, 317;

the human soul born upon leaving, i. 345

Animals, perhaps immortal, argument of Agassiz, i. 420, 427;

argument from natural instinct, i. 426, 427;

shut up in the ark, ii. 447

Animation, suspended, i. 483;

voluntarily, ib.;

in cataleptic clairvoyance, i. 489

Anna, St., going in quest of her daughter Mary, ii. 491;

the origin of the name, ib.

Annas and Caiaphas confess Jesus to be the Son of God, ii. 522

Annihilation, the meaning of the Buddhist doctrine, i. 290;

of the soul, i. 319

Annoia, ii. 282, 286

Anthesteria, the baptism and passage through the gate, ii. 245, 246

Anthropomorphic devil the bottom card, ii. 479

Anti-Christ, a fable invented as a precaution, ii. 535

Antichristianism, seeking to overthrow Christianity by science, i. 337

Anti-Masonic Convention denying the validity of an oath, ii. 373-375

Antipathy, its beginning, i. 309

Antitypes of men to be born, i. 310

Antiquity of human race, over 250,000 years, i. 3;

of necromancy and spiritualism, remote, i. 205;

lost natural philosophy, i. 235;

of optical instruments, gunpowder, the steam-engine, astronomical science, i. 240, 241;

of the flood, i. 241;

opinion of Aristotle, i. 428

Ape, astral body, i. 327;

a degenerated man, ii. 278

Apis, the bull, secret book concerning his age, i. 406

Apocryphal Gospels first received and then discarded, ii. 518

Apollo made the prince of demons and lord of the under-world, ii. 488

Apollonius of Tyana, his journey an allegory, i. 19;

regard for stones, i. 265;

cast out devils, i. 356;

his power to witness the present and the future, i. 486;

beheld an empusa or ghûl, i. 604;

testimony of Justin Martyr respecting his powers, ii. 97;

not a “spirit-medium,” ii. 118;

his mistake, ii. 341;

his conjurations when wrapped in a woolen mantle, ii. 344;

visited Kashmere, ii. 434;

the faculty of his soul to quit the body, ii. 597;

vanished from sight and renewal elsewhere, ib.

Apollyon, his various characters, ii. 511

Apophis, or Apap, the dragon, infests the soul, ii. 368

Apostles, Acts of, rejected, ii. 182;

Creed a forgery, ii. 514

Apostles of Buddhism, ii. 608

Apparitions of spirits of animals, i. 326

Appleton’s New American Cyclopædia misstates the date of the laws of Manu, i. 587

Apuleius’ doctrine concerning birth and death of the soul, ii. 345;

on the beatific vision, ii. 145;

accused of black magic, ii. 149

Aquinas, Thomas, destroys the brazen oracular head of Albertus Magnus, ii. 56

Arabic manuscripts, 80,000 burned at Granada, i. 511

Aralez, Armenian gods who revivify men, ii. 564

Arcane powers in Man, ii. 112;

knowledge and sorcery, ii. 583

Archæus, i. 14;

same as Chaos, fire, sidereal or astral light, psychic or ektenic force, Akasa, etc., i. 125;

the principle of life, i. 400

Archæologists, their attacks on each other, ii. 471, 472

Archetypal man a spheroid, ii. 469

Architecture of the Egyptian temples, i. 517

Architectural remains in different countries, their remarkable identity of parts, i. 572

Archons of this world, ii. 89, 90

Archytas, instructor of Plato, constructed a wooden dove, i. 543;

invented the screw and crane, ib.

Arctic regions visited by the Phœnicians, i. 545

Argha, or ark, ii. 444

Arhat, i. 291;

reaches Nirvana while on earth, ii. 320

Arhats, free from evil desire, i. 346

Aristotle on the human soul and the world-soul, i. 251;

three natural principles, i. 310;

on gas from the earth, i. 200;

on form, i. 312;

on the nous and psuche, i. 316;

on the filth element, i. 317;

believed in the nous and psuche, the reasoning and the animal soul, i. 317;

borrowed doctrines from Pythagoras, i. 319, 320;

believed in a past eternity of human existence, i. 428;

doctrine of two-fold soul, i. 429;

taught the Buddhistic doctrine, i. 430;

believed light to be itself an energy, i. 510;

contradicted by the Neo-Platonists, i. 430;

taught that the earth was the centre of the universe, i. 408;

obnoxious to Christian theology, ii. 34;

upon Jon or יהוה, ii. 302

Ark, what it represents, ii. 444

Armenian tradition of giving life to a slain warrior, ii. 564

Armor, Prof., theory of malformations, i. 392

Arnobius, believed the soul corporeal, i. 317

Artesian well, used in China, i. 517

Articles of faith of the ancient wisdom-religions, ii. 116

Artificial lakes in ancient temples in Egypt, Asia, and America, i. 572

Artificially fecundated woman, i. 77, 81

Arts in the archaic ages, i. 405, 406

Artufas, the temples of nagualism, i. 557

Aryan, Median, Persian, and Hindu, also the Gothic and Slavic peoples, i. 576;

nations, had no devil, ii. 10;

carried bronze manufacture into Europe, i. 539;

united, 3,000 B.C., ii. 433;

in the valley of the upper Indus, ib.;

did not borrow from the Semites, ii. 426

Asbestos, i. 229;

thread and oil made from it, i. 504

Asclepiadotus, reproduces chemically the exhalations of the sacred oracle-grotto, i. 531

Asdt, אשדת (Deut. xxxiii. 2), signifies emanations, but mistranslated, ii. 34

Asgârtha, temple in India, ii. 31

Ash-trees, third race of men created from, i. 558

Ashmole, Elias, the Rosicrucian, the first operative Mason of note, ii. 349

Asia, middle belt, perhaps once a sea-bed, i. 590, 592

Asideans, or Khasdims, the same as Pharsi or Pharisees, ii. 441

Asmodeus, or Æshma-deva, ii. 482

Asmonean priest-kings promulgated the Old Testament in opposition to the Apocrypha, ii. 135;

first Pharisees, and then Sadducees, ib.

Asoka and Augustine, ii. 32;

his missionaries, ii. 42;

the Buddhist, sent missionaries to other countries, ii. 491

Ass, the form of Typhon, ii. 484;

its Coptic name, AO, a phonetic of Iao, ib.;

head found in the temple, ii. 523

Assyria, the land of Nimrod, or Bacchus, i. 568

Assyrians basso-relievos at Nagkon-Wat, i. 566;

sphinxes, ii. 451;

tablets, the flood, ii. 422

Assyrians, their archaic empire, ii. 486

Astral atmosphere, i. 314;

body or doppelganger, i. 360;

of the ape, i. 327;

fire, represented by the serpent, i. 137;

fluid can be compressed about the body, to protect it from violence, i. 378, 380;

a bolt of it can be directed with fatal force, i. 380;

form oozing out of the body, i. 179;

bound to the corpse and infesting the living, i. 432;

light, i. 56, 156, 247;

the Ob or Python, i. 158;

currents, i. 247;

same as the anima mundi, i. 301;

dual and bi-sexual, ib.;

Soul or Spirit, i. 12;

divided by H. More into the aërial and ætherial vehicles, i. 206;

said to linger about the body 3,000 years, i. 226;

doctrine of Epicurus, i. 250;

the perisprit, composed of matter, i. 289;

not immortal, i. 432;

virgin, i. 126

Astrograph, i. 385

Astrologers, Chaldean, i. 205

Astrology, i. 259

Astronomus, the title of the highest initiate, ii. 365

Astronomical calculations of Chaldeans and Egyptians, i. 21;

of Chaldeans and Aztecs, i. 11, 241;

of Chinese, i. 241

Aswatha, the Hindu tree of life, i. 152, 153

Athanor, the, the Archimedean lever, i. 506

Atheism, not a Buddhistical doctrine, i. 292

Atharva-Veda, great value, ii. 414, 415

Athbach, ii. 299

Atheists, none among heathen populations, ii. 240;

none in days of old, ii. 530

Athos, Mount, story of the manuscripts, ii. 52

Athothi, king of Egypt, writes a book on anatomy, i. 406

Athtor, or Mother Night, i. 91

Atlantis, the legend believed, i. 557

Atlantic ocean, once intersected by islands and a continent, i. 557, 558;

mentioned in the Secret Book, i. 590;

perhaps the actual name of the great Southern continent in the Indian Ocean, i. 591;

name not Greek, ib.;

probable etymology of the name, ib.;

two orders of inhabitants, i. 592, 593;

their fall, and the submersion of the island, i. 593

Atma, i. 346

Atman, the spiritual self, recognized as God, ii. 566

Atmospheric electricity embodied in demi-gods, i. 261

Atoms, doctrine taught by Demokritus, i. 249

Atonement, origin of the doctrine, ii. 41;

error of Prof. Draper, ib.;

mysteries of initiation, ii. 42

Attraction, the great mystery, i. 338

Audhumla, the cow or female principle, i. 147

Augoeides, or part of the divine spirit, i. 12, 306, 315;

cannot be communed with by a hierophant with a touch of mortal passion, i. 358;

self-shining vision of the future self, ii. 115;

the âtman or self, ii. 317

Augsburgian Jesuits desirous to change the Sabean emblems, ii. 450

Augustine, his accession to Christianity placed theology and science at everlasting enmity, ii. 88;

his directions about the ladies’ toilet, ii. 331;

scouted the sphericity of the earth, ii. 477;

affirmed a predestinated state of happiness and predetermined reprobation, ii. 546

A U M, meaning of the sacred letters, ii. 31;

the holy primitive syllable, ii. 39;

and Tum, ii. 387

Aur, i. 158

Aura Placida, deified into two martyrs, ii. 248

Aureole, from Babylonia, ii. 95

Auricular confession in the Anglican church, ii. 544

Aurora borealis, conjectures concerning it of scientists, i. 417

Aurumgahad, i. 349;

Buddhistic mementos, i. 349

Austin Friars, or Augustinians, outdone in magic by the Jesuits, i. 445

Avany, the Virgin, by whom the first Buddha was incarnated, ii. 322

Avatar, i. 291;

the earliest, ii. 427

Avatars and emanations, ii. 155, 156;

of Vishnu, ii. 274;

they symbolize evolution of races, ii. 275

Avicenna, on chickens with hawks’ heads, i. 385

Azaz-El, or Siva, ii. 302, 303

Azoth, or creative principle, symbol, i. 462;

blunder of de Mirville, ib.

Aztecs, of Mexico, their calendar, i. 11;

resembled the ancient Egyptians, i. 560

Baal, prophets danced the circle-dance of the Amazons, ii. 45;

Tsephon, god of the crypt, ii. 487;

how his hierophants procured apparitions, ii. 567

Babies speaking good French, i. 371

Babinet on table-turning, i. 60, 101, 104;

declares levitation impossible and is refuted, i. 105;

his story of a fire-globe resembling a cat, i. 107

Babylon, built by those who escaped the deluge, i. 31;

after three conquerors, i. 534;

the great mother, or Magna Mater, ii. 501

Babylonia, the seat of Sanscrit literature, ii. 428

Babylonian priests, asserted their observations to have extended back 470,000 years, i. 533;

system defined, ii. 170

Bacchic fan, held by Osiris, ii. 494

Bacchus, a saint of the Roman calendar, i. 160;

worship among the Jews, ii. 128;

“the son of God,” ii. 492;

myth, contains the history of the gods, ii. 527;

the Prophet-God, ii. 527, 528;

a saint in the calendar, ii. 528;

or Dionysus, his Indian origin, ii. 560

Bacon, Roger, miracles, i. 69;

predicted the use of steam and other modern inventions, i. 413

Badagas, a people of Hindustan who revere and maintain the Todas, ii. 613-615

Bad demons, i. 343

Bael-tur, sacred to Siva, i. 469

Baggage from the Pagan mysteries, ii. 334

Bahak-Zivo, i. 298;

ordered to create, i. 299;

the creator, ii. 134

Bahira, the Nestorian monk, ii. 54

Balahala, the fifth degree, ii. 365

Balam Acan, a Toltecan king, i. 553

Ban, on spiritualistic writings, ii. 8

Banyan, the tree of knowledge and life, ii. 293

Baphomet, the alleged god of the Templars, ii. 302

Baptism of blood, the slaughter of a hierophant or an animal, ii. 42;

a general practice, ii. 134

Baptismal font in Egyptian pyramids, i. 519

Baptist preachers’ meeting in New York, ii. 473, 474;

a warm doctrine, ib.

Baptista Porta, i. 66

Baptists, ii. 291

Bardesanian system, ii. 224

Barjota, Curé de, his magical powers, ii. 60;

saves the Pope’s life, ib.

Barlaam and Josaphat, a ridiculous romance, ii. 580

Barrachias-Hassan-Oglu, i. 43

Barri (Italy), a statue of the Madonna with crinoline, ii. 9

Bart, his testimony in regard to Herakles, ii. 515

Basic matter of gold, i. 50

Basileus, the archon taking charge of the Eleusinians, ii. 90

Basilidean system, the exposition of Irenæus, ii. 157

Basilides, description of Clement, ii. 123;

derived his doctrines from the Gospel according to Matthew, ii. 155;

his doctrines set forth by Tertullian, ii. 189

Bastian, Dr., his conception of the temple of Angkor or Nagkon-Wat, i. 567, 568

Batria, the wife of Pharaoh, teacher of Moses, i. 25

Battle of life, ii. 112

Baubo, in the Mysteries, what she directed, ii. 112

Bayle, his testimony on spurious relics, ii. 72

Beads and rosaries, of Buddhistic origin, ii. 95.

Beatific vision or epopteia, testimony of Paul and Apuleius, ii. 146

Beaujeu, Count, his Masonic imposture, ii. 381

Beaumont, Elie de, on terrestrial circulation, i. 503

Beausobre, on the Rasit or Principle, ii. 36

Beel-Zebub (more properly Beel-Zebul, the Baal of the Temple) the same as Apollo, the Oracle-God, ii. 481;

nicknamed Beel-Zebub, a god of flies, ii. 486

Beer made in ancient Egypt, i. 543

Bel, a personification of the Hindu Siva, i. 263;

and the dragon, i. 550;

Baal, the Devil, i. 552

Belial, a Diakka, ii. 482

Believers in magic, mesmerism and spiritualism, 800,000,000, i. 512

Bellarmin, Cardinal, his vision about the bottomless pit, ii. 8

Bells before the shrine of Jupiter-Ammon, ii. 95;

in Jewish and Buddhistic rites, ib.

Belus, the first Assyrian king, deified, i. 552

Ben Asai, in the garden of delights, ii. 119;

Zoma, in the garden of delights, ii. 119

Benedict, St., and his black raven, ii. 78

Bengal, magical seance, i. 467

Bengalese conjurers and jugglers, i. 457;

planting trees, etc., which grew at once, ib.

Bethlehem, grotto of, temple of Adonis, ii. 139

Beverages to produce visions, ii. 117

Bhagaved-gita, opinion of du Perron, ii. 562;

reverenced by the Brahmans, ib.;

contains the greatest mysteries of the Brahmanic religion, ii. 563;

reverenced alike by Brahmanists and Buddhists, ib.

Bhagavant, the same as Parabrahma, i. 91;

endued Brahma with creative power, i. 90;

not a creator, i. 347;

enters the world-egg, ib.

Bhagaved, i. 148

Bhangulpore, Round Tower, ii. 5

Bhutavan, the Spirit of Evil, created to destroy the incarnation of the sin of Brahma, i. 265

Bible, antedated by Vedas, i. 91;

its allegories repeated in Talapoin and Ceylonese traditions and manuscripts, i. 577;

used as a weapon against the people who furnished it, ii. 96;

an allegorical screen of the Kabala, ii. 210;

the great light of modern Masonry, ii. 389;

four or five times written over, ii. 470;

when made up, ii. 471;

a secret volume, ib.;

Patriarchs only zodiacal signs, ii. 459

Bilocation, i. 361

Binlang-stone, ii. 234

Biographers of the Devil, ii. 15

Birds, sung a mass for St. Francis, ii. 77

Birs-Nimrud, the temple of seven stages, i. 261

Birth of the human soul, i. 345

Birth-marks, i. 384

Bisexual, the first man, i. 559

Bishops of the fourth century illiterate, ii. 251

Black-faced Christ in India, ii. 532

Black gods worshipped by the Yakuts, ii. 568, 569

Blackguardism of Father Weninger, ii. 379

Black magic practised at the Vatican, ii. 6;

sorcery and witchcraft, an abuse, ii. 118;

mirror, i. 596;

reveals to the Inca queen her husband’s death, ib.;

virgins in French cathedrals, figures of Isis, ii. 95

“Bleeding Head” of a murdered child employed as an oracle, ii. 56;

image, ii. 17

Blessed Virgin gives a demoniac a sound thrashing, ii. 76

Blind Force plus intelligence, i. 199;

psychic force, ib.

Blood, the baptism, ii. 42;

of Jesus Christ, a phial of it presented to Henry III. of England, ii. 71;

eagerness of spirits for it, i. 344;

its circulation understood by the Egyptians, i. 544;

liquefied at Naples and Nargercoil, in India, i. 613;

its emanations serve spirits with material for their apparitions, ii. 567;

the universal Proteus and arcanum of life, ib.;

-demons, i. 353;

-evocation by the Yakuts, Bulgarians and Moldavians, ii. 569, 570

Bloody legislation of Protestant countries against witchcraft, ii. 503;

rites in Hayti, ii. 572

Blue, held in aversion as the symbol of evil, ii. 446;

ray, i. 137, 264;

-violet, the seventh ray, most responsive of all, i. 514

Body, the sepulchre of the soul, ii. 112;

how long it may be kept alive, ii. 563;

of Moses, a symbol for Palestine, ii. 482;

may be obsessed by spirits during the temporary absence of the soul, ii. 589

Boismont, de, Brierre, on hallucinations, i. 144

Boodhasp, the founder of Sabism or baptism, ii. 290, 291

Book of the Dead, Egyptian, i. 517, 518;

quoted in the Gospel according to Matthew, ii. 548;

older than Menes, ii. 361;

of Jasher, i. 549;

of Jasher, the Old Testament condensed, ii. 399;

of Numbers, Chaldean, i. 32

Books lost and destroyed, i. 24;

of Hermes, i. 33;

of Hermes, attested by the Champollions, i. 625

Births, feast of, supposed to be Bacchic, ii. 44, 45

Bosheth, Israelites consecrated, ii. 130

Both-al, Batylos, and Beth-el, i. 550

Bourbourg, Brasseur de, publishes Popol Vuh, i. 2

Boussingault on table-turning, i. 60

Bozrah, the convent there the place where the seed of Islam was sown, ii. 54

Brachmans in Greece, ii. 321

Brahm, i. 291

Brahma, a secondary deity, like Jehovah, the demiurgos, i. 91;

evolved himself, and then brought nature from himself, i. 93;

creates Lomus, i. 133;

produces spiritual beings, then daints or giants, and, finally, the castes of men, i. 148;

the name of the universal germ, ii. 261;

night of, ii. 272, 273, 421;

manifested as twelve attributes or gods, i. 348;

day and night, ii. 421

Brahma-Prajapati committed the first sin, i. 265;

his repentance and the hottest tear, ib.

Brahm-âtma, or chief of the initiates, had the two crossed keys, ii. 31

Brahman, his astounding declaration to Jacolliot, ii. 585

Brahmanas, ii. 409, 410;

the key to the Rig-Veda, ii. 415

Brahmanical religion, stated in the doctrine of God as the Universal mind diffused through all things, i. 289

Brahmanism, pre-Vedic, identical with Buddhism, ii. 142;

Buddhism its primitive source, ii. 169

Brahman gods, Siva, Surya, and the Aswins denounced in the Avesta, ii. 482, 483

Brahman-Yoggins, i. 307;

story of descent from giants, i. 122;

theories of the sun and moon, i. 264;

their powers of prediction and clairvoyance, i. 446;

possess secrets of anæsthesia, i. 540;

widows burned without hurting them, ib.;

know that the rite of widow-burning was never prescribed, i. 541;

their religion exclusive, and not to be disseminated, i. 581;

dispossessed the Jaina natives of India, ii. 323;

in Babylonia, ii. 428;

and Buddhists, their extraordinary probity, ii. 474;

how it has deteriorated by Christian association, ib.

Brain, substance changed by thought and sensation, i. 249, 250;

silvery spark in, i. 329

Brazen serpent, the caduceus of Mercury or Asklepios, i. 556;

symbol of Esculapius or Iao, ii. 481;

worshipped by the Israelites, ib.;

broken by Hezekiah, ii. 440

Bread-and-mutton protoplasms, i. 421

Bread and wine, a sacrifice of great antiquity, ii. 43, 44, 513

Breath, immortal, infusing life, i. 302

Brighou, the pragâpati and his patriarchal descendants, ii. 427

Bronze age, i. 534

Bronze introduced into Europe 6,000 years ago by Aryan immigrants, i. 539

Brothers of the Shadow, i. 319

Broussard on magnetism and medicine, ii. 610

Bruno, why slaughtered, i. 93;

Prof. Draper misrepresents him, i. 94;

held Jesus to be a magician, ib.;

accusation against him, i. 95;

his reply, i. 96;

declared this world a star, ib.;

acknowledged an universal Providence, ib.;

doubted the Trinity, i. 97;

a Pythagorean, i. 98

Brutal force adored by Christendom, ii. 334

Buchanan, Prof. J. R., criticises Agassiz, i. 63;

his bridge from physical impression to consciousness, i. 87;

theory of psychometry, i. 182;

on tendency of gestures to follow the phrenological organs, i. 500

Buddha, the formless Brahm, i. 291;

the monad, ib., 550;

incarnation, ib.;

his lama representative, i. 437, 438;

appearing of his shadow to Hiouen-Thsang, i. 600;

never deified by his followers, ii. 240;

a social rather than a religious reformer, ii. 339;

tempted and victorious, ii. 513;

never wrote, ii. 559;

his lessons to his disciples, ib.;

taught the new birth, ii. 566;

breaks with the old mysteries, ib.;

or Sommona-Cadom, the Siamese Saviour, ii. 576;

changed by the Vatican into St. Josaphat, ii. 579;

“just as if he had been a Christian,” ii. 581

Buddha-Siddârtha, i. 34;

-Gautama, i. 92;

lived 2,540 years ago, ii. 537;

teaches how to escape reincarnation, i. 346

Buddhism based on the doctrine of God, the universal Mind diffused through all things, i. 289;

prehistoric, the once universal religion, ii. 123;

preached by Jesus, ii. 123;

its ethics, ii. 124;

identical with pre-Vedic Brahmanism, ii. 142;

the primitive source of Brahmanism, ii. 169;

its groundwork the kabalistic doctrine, i. 271;

its doctrine based on works, ii. 288;

esoteric doctrines, ii. 319;

the religion of the earlier Vedas, ii. 436;

degenerated into Lamaism, ii. 582

Buddhist patriarch of Nangasaki, ii. 79;

system, how mastered, i. 289;

monks in Syria and Babylon, ii. 290;

went so far as Ireland, ib.;

theories of sun and moon, i. 264;

respect for the sapphire-stone, ib.

Buddhistic element in Gnosticism and missionaries in Greece, ii. 321;

theology, four schools, ii. 533

Bull the emblem of life everywhere, ii. 235, 236;

against the comet, ii. 509;

and syllabus burned by the Bohemians, ii. 560

Bull’s eye in the target of Christianity, ii. 476

Bullets successfully resisted by talismans, i. 378

Bulwer-Lytton, his description of the vril, or primal force, i. 64, 125;

elementary beings, i. 285, 289;

the Vril-ya, or coming race, i. 296

Bunsen, testimony concerning the Origines of Egypt, i. 529;

description of the Pyramid of Cheops, i. 518;

account of the Egyptian skill in quarrying, ib.;

on the word PTR, ii. 93;

his opinion respecting Zoroaster and the Baktrian emigration, ii. 432;

his opinion of Khamism, ii. 435;

on the exodus of the Israelites, ii. 558

Bur, the offspring of Audhumla, i. 147

Burning men to avoid shedding their blood, i. 64;

scientists about as ready as clergy, i. 85

Buried cities in Hindustan, i. 350

Butlerof, Prof. A., on the facts of spiritualism, ii. 3

Cabeirians, i. 23

Cable-tow, the Brahmanical cord, ii. 393

Cadière, Mlle., her seduction by a Jesuit priest, ii. 633, 634

Cagliostro, an Hermetic philosopher, persecuted by the Church of Rome, i. 200;

said to have made gold and diamonds, i. 509

Cain, ancestor of the Hivites, or Serpents, ii. 446;

and Siva, ii. 448;

or Kenu, the eldest, ii. 464

Calmeil imputes theomania of the Calvinists to hysteria and epilepsy, i. 371;

his explanation of their extraordinary power of resistance to blows, i. 375

Calmet, Dom, on vampires, i. 452

Calvin affirmed election, original sin, and reprobation, ii. 547

Carnac, the serpent’s mount, i. 554

Campanile Column, of St. Mark’s, in Venice, its original, ii. 5

Canals of Egypt, i. 516, 517

Canonical books, enforced eliminations, ii. 143;

selected by sortilege, ii. 251

Capuchins, their Christmas observances, ii. 365

Carpenter, W. B., lecture on Egypt, i. 440

Carthage more civilized than Rome, i. 520;

built long before the taking of Troy, ib.;

not built by Dido, ib.

Cataclysms, periodical, i. 31

Catalepsy and vampirism, i. 449, 450

Catherine of Medicis employed a sorcerer, ii. 55;

her resort to the charm of “the bleeding head,” ii. 56

Catholic ritual of pagan origin, ii. 85;

miracle in Poland means revolution, ii. 17;

must be Ultramontane and Jesuit, ii. 356;

missionaries becoming Talapoins, ii. 531

Catholicism more fetish-worshipping than Hinduism, ii. 80

Catholics persecute other Christians, ii. 81

Causes, Platonic division, i. 393

Cave-men of Les Eyzies, i. 295

Cave-temples of Ajunta, Buddhistic, i. 349;

of India, claimed by the Jainas, ii. 323

Caves of Mithras, ii. 491

Celestial Virgin pursued by the Dragon, a mystery and representation in the constellations, ii. 490

Celsus, his accusations of the Christians, ii. 51;

not being refuted, his books burned, ii. 51, 52;

a copy probably existing at a monastery on Mount Athos, ii. 52;

his opinion of Jesus, ii. 530

Celebrated vase of the Genoa Cathedral, its material not known, i. 537, 538

Celt, probably a hybrid of the Aryan and Iberians of Europe, i. 576

Cement, ancient, i. 239

Cenchrea, Paul shorn and Lucius initiated there, ii. 90

Centenarians, Parr, Jenkins, and others, ii. 564

Central America, her peoples to be traced to the Phœnicians and Mosaic Israelites, i. 555;

Asia, the face of the country changed, ii. 426;

Invisible, i. 302

Cerebral electricity, its dependence upon the statical, i. 322

Ceremony of withdrawing the soul, ii. 603

Ceres or Demeter, the female or passive productive principle, ii. 560

Cerinthus, his doctrines described by Irenæus, ii. 176

Cevennes, prophets of, i. 221;

the Convulsionaires, miraculous occurrences, i. 370;

statement by Figuier, i. 370, 371

Chair of St. Fiacre and its prolificating virtue, ii. 332

Chaldean Arba and Christian Four, ii. 171;

oracles, i. 535;

denounce augury, ib.

Chaldeans, their correct astronomical calculations, i. 11;

their magic, i. 66;

their theory of magic, i. 459;

their origin, ii. 46;

Hebrew Sanscrit, ib.

Champollion declares the Egyptians monotheists, i. 24;

his description of Karnak, i. 523;

synopsis of his discoveries, i. 530

Chandragupta, his exploits, ii. 607, 608

Chaos, the Female Principle, i. 61;

Archæus, Akasa, i. 125;

the Soul of the World, i. 129;

and ether, the first two, i. 341

Charlatan only will ever use mercury as a medicine, ii. 621

Charms, the Dharani, their extraordinary powers, i. 471

Charmed life, i. 379

Charmers, their power over beasts and reptiles, i. 381

Charybdis, the maëlstrom, i. 545

Chemi, or Chem, the ancient name of Egypt, i. 541

Chemical vapors taking forms, i. 127

Chemicals keep away disagreeable physical phenomena, i. 356, 357

Chemist and magician compared, i. 464

Chemistry, ancient proficiency, i. 50;

revolution, i. 163;

Egypt its cradle, i. 541;

called alchemy, i. 542

Cheops, his engraved ring, i. 240;

pyramid of, its measure and weight, i. 518;

Prof. Smyth’s descriptions, i. 520

Cherub, one of his nails preserved as a relic, ii. 71;

of Jeheskiel, ii. 451

Cherubs, the vehans of deity, ii. 231

Chess played in Egypt and India 5,000 years ago, i. 544

Chevalier Ramsay, the Jesuit inventor of the Scottish Rite, ii. 390

Chicago murderers converted in prison, ii. 543

Child, Mrs. Lydia M., remarks on Hindu emblems, i. 583; ii. 445

Child-burning by the Jesuits, ii. 65

Child-medium, Sanscrit written in her presence, i. 368;

Kate Fox’s son, i. 439

Children, born malformed, wounded, and parts cut away, i. 386;

may kill their parents, ii. 363;

sacrificed to Moloch-Hercules, at Tophet, in the valley of Hinnom, ii. 11

China, the glass, i. 537;

metal work, i. 538

Chinese believe in the art of overcoming mortality, i. 214;

ancient emperor puts two astronomers to death, i. 241

Chitonuth our, chitons or coats of skin, a priestly garb, i. 575;

Adam and his wife invested by יהוה אלהים, Java Aleim, ib.

Chrestians before Christians, ii. 323

Chrestos, worshipped many centuries before Christ, ii. 324;

Christians and Jews alike united, ii. 558

Christ a reïncarnationist, ii. 145;

destroyed Jehovah-worship, ii. 527;

a modified Christna, ii. 532;

a personage rather than a person, ii. 576

Christian spiritualists, i. 54;

denominations, peculiarity of their deity, ii. 2, 354, 485, 581;

spent on their buildings, ii. 2;

the spiritualists in them, ii. 2;

hatred of spiritualism, ii. 4;

symbols, presence of phallism, ii. 5;

Church, with the rites and priestly robes of heathenism, ii. 96;

doctrines classified, ii. 145;

doctrines, their origin in Middle Asia, ii. 338;

Gnostics, ii. 324;

appeared just as the Essenes disappeared, ib.;

Sabbath, its date, ii. 419;

theology, its origin, ii. 525

Christianity, early, based on the doctrine of God, the universal mind diffused through all things, i. 285;

description of Max Müller, ii. 10;

pure heathenism, ii. 80;

primitive, had secret pass-words and rites, ii. 204;

doctrines taken from Brahmanism and Buddhism, the ceremonials and pageantry from Lamaism, ii. 211;

its true spirit found only in Buddhism, ii. 240;

made little change from Roman paganism, ii. 334;

its doctrines plagiarized, ii. 346;

and a personal God repudiated by Freemasons at Lausanne, ii. 377;

bull’s eye in its target, ii. 476;

theological, the Devil its patron genius, ii. 478;

its symbols anticipated by the older religions, ii. 557;

Paul the real founder, ii. 574;

stripped of every feature to make it acceptable to the Siamese, ii. 579

Christians, few understand Jewish theology, i. 17;

divided into three unequal parties, ii. 3;

why they quarrelled with the Pagans, ii. 51;

accepted the worship of the God of the gardens, ib.;

Old, called Nazarenes, ii. 151;

only seven to twelve in each church, ii. 175;

Pauline and Petrine controversy, ib.;

of St. John, or Mendæans, ii. 289, 290;

do not believe in Christ, ii. 290;

accused of child-murder at their “perfect passover,” ii. 333;

originally composed of secret societies, ii. 335;

anciently kept no Sabbaths, ii. 419;

claim the discovery of the Devil, ii. 477;

praiseworthy, modified Buddhists, ii. 540;

Russian and Bulgarian, cursed by the Pope, ii. 560

Christism, before Christ, ii. 32

Christmas festivals of Capuchins, ii. 365

Christna, orthography of the name, i. 586;

crushing the head of the serpent, ii. 446;

and his mother with the aureole, ii. 95;

raises the daughter of Angashuna to life, ii. 241;

the good shepherd, crushes the serpent Kalinaga, is crucified, ii. 447;

Sakya-muni, and Jesus, three men exalted to deity, ii. 536;

lived 6,877 years ago (1877), ii. 537;

his dying words to the hunter, ii. 545, 546;

his eulogy of works rather than contemplations, ii. 563

Christos or Crestos, ii. 142;

his entering into the man Jesus at the Jordan, ii. 186;

the Angel Gabriel, ii. 193;

from the Sanskrit kris or sacred, ii. 158;

an aggregation of the emanations, etc., ii. 159

Christs of the pre-Christian ages, ii. 43

Church and priest, benefits if they were to pass away, ii. 586

Church of Rome in 1876, excommunicating and cursing, ii. 6;

her powerless fury against the Bulgarians and Servians, ii. 7;

pre-eminent in murderous propensity, i. 27;

has mightier enemies than “heretics” and “infidels,” ii. 30;

believes in magic, ii. 76;

its maxim to deceive and lie to promote its ends, ii. 303

Churches, their phallic symbols, ii. 5;

ancient, only seven to twelve in each, ii. 175.

Cicero, on divine exhalations from the earth, i. 200;

concerning the gods, i. 280

Cipher of the S. P. R. C., the Knight Rosy Cross of Heredom, and of the Knights Kadosh, ii. 395;

Royal Arch, ii. 396

Circle, perfect, decussated, ii. 469;

of necessity, i. 296;

of necessity, when completed, i. 346;

of necessity, the sacred mysteries at Thebes, i. 553;

of stones, i. 572

Circle-dance or chorus of the Amazons, performed by King David and others, ii. 45;

of the Amazons around a priapic image, a common usage and sanctioned by a Catholic priest, ii. 331, 332;

taught to initiates in the sixth degree, ii. 365

Circulation, terrestrial, i. 503;

of the blood, understood by the Egyptians, i. 544

City, the mysterious, story of, i. 547

Civilization, ancient, i. 239;

of the east preceded that of the west, i. 539

Clairvoyance, cataleptic, the subject practically dead, i. 484

Clearchus gives five cases of larvæ or vampires, i. 364;

story of the boy whose soul was led away from the body and returned again, i. 365, 366

Clear vision obstructed by physical memory, ii. 591

Clemens Alexandrinus, believed in metempsychosis, i. 12;

denounces the Mysteries, ii. 100

Cleonymus returned after dying, i. 364

Cleopatra sent news by a wire, i. 127

Clergy, Greek, Roman and Protestant, discountenance spiritual phenomena, i. 26;

Roman and Protestant burned and hanged mediums, ib.;

Protestant, their hatred of spiritualism, ii. 4;

their cast-off garb worn by men of science, ii. 8;

attired in the cast-off garb of the heathen priesthood, ib.

Clerkship of the Templars, ii. 385

Clermont system, the Scottish Rite, ii. 381

Clinton, De Witt, Grand Master of the first Grand Encampment General, ii. 383

Clocks and dials in ancient periods, i. 536

Coats of skin, i. 2, 149;

explained, i. 293;

worn by the priests of Hercules, i. 575;

Adam and his wife so invested, ib.;

Chitonuth our, ii. 458

Code of Justinian copied from Manu, i. 586

Codex Nazaræus prohibits the worship of Adonai the Sun-god, ii. 131;

denounces Jesus, ii. 132

Coffin, from Egypt, dated by astronomical delineations, i. 520, 521

Colenso, Bishop, exiled the Old Testament, ii. 4

Colleges for teaching prophecy and occult sciences, i. 482

Collouca-Batta, account of the migrations of Manu-Vina from India to Egypt, i. 627

Collyridians asserted Mary to be virgin-born, ii. 110;

transferred their worship from Astoreth to Mary, ii. 444

Colob, a planet on which the Mormon chief god lives, ii. 2

Colored masonry not acknowledged, ii. 391

Colquhoun, J. C., on the doctrine of a personal devil, ii. 477

Commission, Russian, to investigate spiritual phenomena, i. 117

Communication, subjective, with spirits, ii. 115

Communication, supposed, with the dead, with angels, devils, and gods, i. 323

Communion with God, a pagan sentiment, ii. 470

Companions, or Kabalists, ii. 470

Compensation, the law never swerves, ii. 545

Comte, Auguste, i. 76;

catechism of religion of positivism, i. 78;

his feminine mystery, i. 81;

his doctrines repudiated by Huxley, i. 82;

his philosophy belonging to David Hume, ib.;

the ventriloquist, on spiritual phenomena, i. 101

Comtists, or positivists, despised and hated, ii. 3

Conflict between the world-religions, i. 307

Conical monuments imputed to Hermes Trismegistus, i. 551

Conjurers, i. 73

Consciousness a quality of the soul, i. 199

Constitutions, secret, of the Jesuits, ii. 354

Continent, Atlantian, i. 591;

Lemuria, i. 592;

Great Equinoctial, i. 594;

in the Pacific, i. 594;

inhabited by the Rutas, ib.

“Control,” i. 360

Convulsionaries cured by marriage, i. 375

Convulsionary, extraordinary resistance to external injury, i. 373

Corcoran, Catherine, malformed child, i. 392

Cordanus, power of leaving his body to go on errands, i. 477

Corinthian bride, resuscitated by Apollonius of Tyana, i. 481

Correspondences, Swedenborg’s doctrine that of Pythagoras and Kabalists, i. 306

Corson, Prof., on science and its contests with religion, i. 403

Cory, exceptions to his view of Plato and Pythagoras, i. 288

Cosmo, St., traffic by the Italian clergy in his phallic ex-votos, ii. 5

Cosmogonical doctrines based on one formula, i. 341

Counterfeit relics palmed off on Prince Radzivil, ii. 72;

they work miracles, ib.

Counterfeits in thaumaturgy are proofs of an original, ii. 567

Covercapal, the serpent-god, converted, ii. 509

Cox, Sergeant, proposition concerning the physical phenomena of spiritualism, i. 195;

his denial, i. 201

Creation, doctrine of Hermetists and Rosicrucians, i. 258;

cycle of, ii. 272, 273;

Plato’s discourse, ii. 469;

of mankind, Hindu legend, i. 148;

Norse legend, i. 146, 151;

of men from the tree tzite and women from the reed sibac, i. 558

Creative Principle, proclaimed at Lausanne by the supreme councils of Freemasonry, ii. 377;

denounced by Gen. Pike, ib.

Creator, not the Highest God, i. 309;

the father of matter and the bad, ib.

Credo, as amended by Robert Taylor, ii. 522

Creed, suggested for Protestant and Catholic bodies, ii. 473

Crime of every kind sanctioned by Jesuit doctrine, ii. 353;

by ecclesiastics in the United States, ii. 573

Crimean war, i. 260

Crook, Episcopal, adopted from the Etrurian augurs, ii. 94

Crookes, Prof., begins to investigate spiritual phenomena, i. 44;

on psychic force, i. 45;

theories, i. 47;

remarks on Prof. Thury, i. 112;

his experiment with the planchette, i. 199;

acknowledges the evidence of spiritual phenomena overwhelming, i. 202;

weighing light, i. 281

Cross, philosophical, i. 508;

or Tau, an ancient symbol, ii. 393;

Egyptian, found at Palenque, i. 572;

a sign of recognition, long before the Christian era, ii. 87;

found on the walls of the Serapeum, ii. 253, 254;

used in the Mysteries, ib.;

of the Zodiac, ii. 452;

revered by every nation, ii. 453;

the geometrical basis of religious symbolism, ib.;

acknowledged by the Jews, ii. 454

Crosse, Andrew, producing living insects by chemical action, i. 465

Crowe, Catherine, on stigmata or birth marks, i. 396

Crusade of des Mousseaux and de Mirville against the arch-enemy, ii. 15

Cryptographs of the Sovereign Princes Rose Croix, ii. 394

Crypts of Thebes and Memphis, i. 553;

mysteries of the circle of necessity, ib.

Cults derived from one primitive religion, ii. 412

Cup, consecrated in the Bacchic mysteries, ii. 513

Cures effected at the Egyptian temples, i. 531, 532

Curse inheres in matter, i. 433;

allegorical, of the earth, ii. 420

Cursing, a Christian, and not a pagan practice, ii. 334;

prohibited because it will return, ii. 608

Cusco, its temples and hieroglyphics, i. 597;

tunnel to Lima and Bolivia, ib.

Cycle, at the bottom, i. 247;

doctrine demonstrated, i. 348;

the Unavoidable, the Mysteries, i. 553

Cycles of human existence, i. 5, 6, 247, 293;

of the universe, ii. 420

Cyclopeans were Phœnicians, i. 567;

were shepherds in Libya, miners and builders, and forged bolts for Zeus, ib.;

same as Anakim, ib.

Cyclopes, or Cuclo-pos, the Rajpoot race, ii. 438

Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, anthropomorphized Isis as Mary, ii. 41;

his murder of Hypatia, ii. 53;

the assassin of Hypatia sold church vessels, etc., ii. 253

Czechs of Bohemia burn the Bull and Syllabus, ii. 560

Dactyls, Phrygian, i. 23

Daguerre declared by a physician to be insane because he declared his discovery, ii. 619

Daimonion of Socrates the cause of his death, ii. 117

Daimonia, i. 276

Daityas, i. 313

Damiano, St., traffic in Isernia, in his limbs and ex-voto, ii. 5

Dam-Sâdhna, a practice of fakirs like the rabbinic method of “entering paradise,” ii. 590

Danger, the greatest to be feared, ii. 122

Daniel a Babylonian Rabbi, astrologer, and magus, ii. 236

Dardanus received the Kabeiri gods as a dowry, i. 570;

carried their worship to Samothrace and Troy, ib.

Darius Hystaspes, teacher of the Mazdean religion, ii. 140;

put down the magian rites, ii. 142;

restored the worship of Ormazd, ii. 220;

added the Brahman to the Magian doctrine, ii. 306;

the institutor of magism, ii. 502;

established a Persian colony in Judea, ii. 441

Dark races of Hindustan worshipped Bala-Mahadeva, ii. 434

Darkness and the bad, how produced, i. 302

Darwin, his theory, i. 14

Darwinian line of descent, i. 154;

theory, in book of Genesis, i. 303

Daughters of Shiloh, their dance, ii. 45

David, King, exorcised the evil spirit of God, i. 215;

how he reinforced his failing vigor, i. 217;

danced the circle-dance of the Amazons, ii. 45;

knew nothing of Moses, ib.;

performing a phallic dance before the ark, ii. 79;

brought the name Jehovah to Palestine, ii. 297;

established the Sadducean priesthood, ib.;

ascends out of hell, ii. 517;

the Israelitish King Arthur, ii. 439;

establishes a new religion in Palestine, ib.

Davis, A. J., on Diakka, i. 218

Day and night of Brahma, ii. 421

Daytha, the Hindu Nimrod, ii. 425

Dead, their ashes assuming their likeness, ii. 663

Death, when it actually occurs, i. 482;

when resuscitation is possible, i. 485;

planetary, i. 254;

no certain signs, i. 479;

exposition, i. 480;

language of Pimander, i. 624, 625;

the penalty for divulging secrets of initiation, ii. 99;

the Gates, ii. 364;

the second, ii. 368

Death-symbol at the orgies, ii. 138

Decameron, Boccaccio’s, prudery beside the Golden Legend, ii. 79

Decimal notation unknown to Pythagoras, ii. 300;

known to the Pythagoreans, ib.

Degeneracy of Christians, ii. 575

Degrees, the three, ii. 364

Deicide, never charged on the Jews by Jesus, ii. 193

Deity, from deva, and devil from daeva, the same etymology, ii. 512;

represented by three circles in one, ii. 212

Delegatus, ii. 154

Deluge, i. 30;

Hindu story, ii. 425

Demeter, the Kabeirian, her picture represented with the electrified head, i. 234;

or Ceres, the intellectual soul, ii. 112

Demigod philosophers, ii. 536

Demigods and atmospheric electricity, i. 261

Demiurgic Mind, i. 55

Demiurgos, or architect of the world, Brahma, i. 191;

Jehovah, ib.

Democritus, i. 61;

on death, i. 365;

on the soul, i. 401;

a student of the Magi, i. 512;

his belief concerning magic, ib.

Demon and Martin Luther, ii. 73;

of Socrates, ii. 283, 284;

same as the nous, ib.

Demons, the doctrine of Buddha, i. 448;

in the Western Sahara, fascinate travellers, i. 604;

sometimes speak the truth, ii. 71;

opinion of Proclus, i. 312

Demoniac, sulphurous flames, ii. 75;

one receives a sound thrashing from the Blessed Virgin, ii. 76

Demonologia, i. 89

Demon-worship and saint-worship substantially the same, ii. 29

Dendera, the temple, the female figures, i. 524

De Negre, Grand Hierophant of the Rite of Memphis, ii. 380

Denon, his description of the ruins of Karnak, i. 524

Dentists in ancient Egypt, i. 545

Denton, Prof., examples of psychometrical power, i. 183;

illustrates archæology by psychometry, i. 295

Dervish, their initiation, ii. 317

Desatir, or book of Shet, on light, ii. 113

Descartes believed in occult medicine, i. 71;

his system of physics, i. 206

Descendants, resemblance to ancestors, i. 385

Descent into hell, ii. 177;

to subdue the rebellious archangel, i. 299;

how explained by Kabalists, ib.;

of spirit to matter, i. 285

Designations of the virgin-mothers, Hindu, Egyptian, and Catholic, ii. 209

Des Mousseaux, his reply to Calmeil and Figuier in regard to Convulsionaries, i. 375, 376;

on miracles, magic, etc., i. 614, 615;

Chevalier, his crusade against the devil, ii. 15;

proves magic and spiritualism to be twin-sciences, ib.

Despres made the diamond, i. 509

Destiny, an influence that each man weaves round himself, ii. 593;

how guided, ib.

Devas and Asuras, their battles, i. 12

Devs, i. 141;

nature-spirits, called also shedim, demons, and afrites, i. 313

Devil, memoir of, i. 102;

the chief pillar of faith, i. 103;

not an entity, but an errant force, i. 138;

and deity, words of the same etymology, ii. 512;

the Shadow of God, i. 560;

the anthropomorphic, a creation of man, i. 561;

Aryan nations had none, ii. 10;

called by des Mousseaux the Serpent of Genesis, ii. 15;

a whole community possessed, ii. 16;

pesters St. Dominic as a flea and as a monkey, ii. 78;

Christians claim the discovery, ii. 477;

the patron genius of theological Christianity, ii. 477;

to deny him equivalent to denying the Saviour, ii. 478;

what he is, ii. 480;

an essential antagonistic force, ib.;

the key found in the book of Job, ii. 493;

the fundamental stone of Christianity, ii. 501;

origin of the English notions, ib.;

the European, ii. 502;

with horns and hoof, only known in Popish Encyclicals, ii. 503;

his various delineations by authors, ii. 511

Devils, 15,000 in a man, ii. 75;

the Fathers made them from the pagan gods, ii. 502

Devil-worshippers of Travancore, i. 135;

falsely-termed, their practice, i. 446, 447

Dew from heaven, i. 307

Dewel, a demon of Ceylon, i. 448

Dharana, or catalepsy, ii. 590, 591

Dharm-Asoka, the great propagandist of Buddhism, ii. 607

Dhyâna or perfection, ii. 287

Diabolical manifestations, frowned at by the Roman Church, ii. 4

Diagram of the Nazarenes, ii. 295

Diakka, discovered by A. J. Davis, i. 218;

what Porphyry said, i. 219

Dialogue of David and the devils, ii. 75

Diamond, made by Desprez, i. 509

Dido, Elissa, or Astarte, the virgin of the sea, ii. 446

Dirghatamas’ hymns, ii. 411

Di Franciscis, Don Pasquale, “professor of flunkeyism in things spiritual,” ii. 7;

pious collection of papal fishwoman’s talk, ib.

Dii minores, or twelve gods, ii. 451

Diktamnos, i. 264

Diobolos (son of Zeus) changed to Diabolos, an accuser, ii. 485

Dionysus, his worship superseded by the rites of Mithras, ii. 491;

or Bacchus, his Hindu origin, ii. 560

Diploteratology or production of monsters, i. 390

Disbelievers in magic cannot share the faith of the church, ii. 71

Diocletian burned libraries of books upon the secret arts, i. 405

Dionysius Areopagita and the Kabala, i. 26

Dionè pursued by Typhon to the Euphrates, ii. 490

Disciples of John, ii. 289, 290;

do not believe in Christ, ii. 290

Dissimilarities between Buddhism and Christianity, ii. 540, 541

“Distractions” of adversaries of spiritualism, i. 116

Divination by the lot, ii. 20, 21;

prohibited by the Council of Varres, i. 21;

devoid of sin, ii. 353

Divine book, i. 406;

magic, i. 26

Djin reading magic rolls, ii. 29

Docetæ or illusionists, believed in the Maya, ii. 157

Documents sure to reappear, ii. 26

Dodechædron, the geometrical figure of the universe, i. 342

Domes, the reproductions of the lithos, ii. 5

Dominic and the devils, ii. 73, 75;

receives a rosary from the Virgin Mary, ii. 74;

most hated by devils, ii. 75;

and the devil flea and monkey, ii. 78

Dominicans, none in hell, ii. 75

Dodona, priestesses, prophesied by means of the oak, ii. 592

Doppelganger, or astral body, i. 360

Double cross of Chaldea, ii. 453;

existence, i. 179, 180;

life of the adept, ii. 564;

perverted into the offering of human sacrifices, ii. 565

Double-sexed creators, i. 156

Dove, represented Noah, worshipped, ii. 448

Dowager mother alone the mediatrix, ii. 9;

owes the present Pope for the finest gem in her coronet, ib.

Dracontia, or temples to the dragon, i. 554

Dragon and the sun, the basis of heliolatrous religion, i. 550;

sons of, the hierophants, i. 553;

cured of a sore eye by Simeon Stylites, and adored God, ii. 77;

Apophis, his influence on the soul, ii. 368;

Horus piercing his head, ii. 446;

pursues Thuesis and her son, ii. 490;

glided over the cradle of Mary, ii. 505;

of Ceylon, Rawho, ii. 509

Dragons, oriental in character, i. 448

Drama of Job explained, ii. 494, 495

Draper, Prof., on pagan belief concerning the human spirit, i. 429;

asserts that Aristotle taught the Buddhistic doctrine, i. 430;

probably meant to misrepresent the Neo-platonic philosophers, i. 431;

defines the “age of faith” and “age of decrepitude,” i. 582;

on Olympus restored by Constantine, ii. 49;

on the conflict instituted by Augustine between religion and science, ii. 88

Dream produced by the inner ego of a Shaman at the author’s request, ii. 628

Dress of the Christian clergy like that of ancient pagans, ii. 94

Druidical structures like other ancient works, i. 572

Druids denominated themselves snakes, i. 554

Drummer of Tedworth, i. 363

Druzes of Mount Lebanon, ii. 306;

their 80,000 warriors, ii. 308;

never became Christians, ii. 309;

their doctrines, ii. 309, 310;

believe in “two souls,” ii. 315;

their tricks with strangers, ib.;

correct and garbled versions of their commandments, ii. 311

Duad or second, i. 212;

ether and chaos the first, i. 343

Dual evolution represented in Adam, ii. 277;

taught by Plato and others, ii. 279

Dudim, or mandragora, i. 465

Dunbar, George, endeavor to derive the Sanscrit from the Greek language, i. 443

Duomo of Milan, its original, ii. 5

Du Potet, Baron, Grand Master of Mesmerism, i. 166;

views of sorcery, epidemics, antipathies, magic, i. 279, 333

Dupuis mistook ancient symbolism, i. 24

Durga, the active virtue, or Shekinah, ii. 276

Dust of the earth to become the constituent of living soul, ii. 420

Dynasties, two in India, ii. 437

Dwellers of the threshold, i. 285

Early Christian Church invented the doctrine of Second Advent to shut off periodical incarnations, ii. 535;

Christianity itself a heresy, ii. 123;

its history imparted to the first Knight Templars, ii. 382

Earth, queen of the Serpents, i. 10;

the goddess Anahit or Venus, i. 11;

magical exhalations, i. 199, 200;

a magnet, i. 282

Earths germinate, i. 389

East, the land of knowledge, i. 89;

its civilization preceded that of the West, i. 539

Eastern Æthiopians an Aryan stock, ii. 435;

magic, its adepts uniformly in good health, ii. 595;

requires no “conditions” like mediums, ib.

Ebers Papyrus in the Astor library, i. 3;

quoted, i. 23;

its curious contents, i. 529

Ebionites, ii. 127;

the first Christians, ii. 180;

the relatives of Jesus, ii. 181;

used only the Gospel according to Matthew, ii. 182;

the Nazarenes their instructors, ii. 190;

condemned as heretics, ii. 307

Ecbatana, her seven walls and other wonders, i. 534

Echo in the desert of Gobi, i. 606

Ecclesia non novit sanguinem, ii. 58

Eclectic Platonists adopt the inductive method, ii. 34;

school, its dispersion desired by Christians, ii. 52;

its groundwork, ii. 342, 343

Ecstasy, power of conversing with Deity, i. 121;

doctrine of Paracelsus and Van Helmont, i. 170;

defined by Plotinus, i. 486

Ectenic force, i. 55;

same as psychic force, i. 113;

same as the Akasa, ib.

Eden, the allegory of the Book of Genesis, i. 575

Edison, of Newark, N. J., supposed discovery of a new force, i. 126

Egg, spiritual or mundane, i. 56;

evolved by Emepht, the supreme, i. 146;

Isle of Chemmis produced from it, i. 147;

Bhagavant enters and emerges as Brahma, i. 346;

and bird, which appeared first?, i. 426, 428

Egkosmioi, i. 312

Ego, the sentient soul, inseparable from the brain, ii. 590

Egypt, resort of philosophers, i. 25;

priests could communicate from temple to temple, i. 127;

doctrine of evolution taught, i. 154;

the perpetual lamp discovered there, i. 226;

taught the secret to Moses, i. 228;

Pythagoras twenty-two years in the temple, i. 284;

Hermetic brothers, ii. 307;

secret biography of its gods, i. 406;

books before Menes, ib.;

did not learn her wisdom from her Semitic neighbors, i. 515;

akin with India, ib.;

probably colonized by the Eastern Ethiopians, ib.;

20,000 years’ antiquity, i. 519;

the birthplace of chemistry, i. 541;

dentists and oculists, i. 545;

no doctor allowed to practice more than one specialty, ib.;

trial by jury, ib.;

received her laws from pre-Vedic India, i. 589;

colonized from India in the dynasty of Soma-Vanga, i. 627

Egyptian temples, architecture of, i. 517;

monuments defeat the efforts of the fathers, ii. 520;

saints reappearing as a serpent, ii. 490

Egyptians, civilized before the first dynasties, i. 6;

astronomical calculations, i. 21;

were monotheists, i. 23;

knowledge of engineering, i. 516;

changed the course of the Nile, ib.;

their astronomical erudition, i. 520;

their high civilization disputed, i. 521;

arts of war, i. 531;

gods in the Grecian pantheon, i. 543;

made beer, manufactured glass and imitated gems, i. ib.;

the best music-teachers, i. 544;

understood the circulation of the blood, ib.;

their sacred books older than the Genesis, ii. 431;

ancient Indians, ii. 434;

the Caucasian race, ii. 436

Eight powers of the soul, ii. 593

Eight hundred million believers in magic, mesmerism, and spiritualism, i. 512

Eight-pointed star or double cross, ii. 453

El, i. 13;

the sun-god, same as Seth, Saturn, Seth, Siva, ii. 524

Elcazar, Rabbi, expelled demons, ii. 350

Electric waves, i. 278

Electrical photography, i. 395

Electricity, personated by Thor in Norse legends, i. 160, 161;

two kinds, i. 188, 322;

occult properties anciently understood, i. 234;

represented at Samothrace by the Kabeirian Demeter, ib.;

denoted by the Dioskuri, i. 235;

the fire on the altar, i. 283;

blind and intelligent, i. 322;

cerebral, ib.;

developed from magnetic currents, i. 395;

used anciently to supply fire to the altars, i. 526

Electro-magnetism, i. 103;

employed by Paracelsus, i. 164

Elion, or Elon, the highest god, i. 554

Eliphas Levi, on resuscitation of the dead, i. 485

Elixir of life regarded as absurd, i. 501;

possible, i. 502;

curious accounts, i. 503

Elizabeth, Queen, Jesuitic attempt to murder her, ii. 373

Elemental demon driven away with a sword, i. 364;

spirits, i. 67, 311;

inhabit the universal ether, i. 284;

psychic embryos, i. 311;

live in the ether, ib.;

power to assume tangible bodies, ib.

Elementary spirits, i. 67;

three classes, i. 310;

called demons by Proclus, i. 312;

terrestrial spirits, i. 319;

four classes, ib.;

peril of evoking them, i. 342;

afraid of sharp weapons, i. 362

Elephanta, the Mahody, ii. 5

Eleusinian Mysteries, ii. 44

Elihu, the hierophant of Job, ii. 497

Elisha anointed Jehu that he might unite the Israelites, ii. 525

Ellenborough, Lady, her talisman, ii. 255, 256

Elohim inhabiting an island in the ancient inland sea of Middle Asia, i. 589, 590, 599

Eloim, gods or powers, priests; also Aleim, i. 575

Emanation of souls from divinity, doctrine of, i. 13

Emanations, doctrine of, ii. 34

Embalming in Thibet, ii. 603

Emanuel, not Christ, but the son of Isaiah, ii. 166;

the son of the Alma, in whose days Syria and Israel were overcome, ii. 440

Embryo, stamped with a resemblance by the imagination of the mother, i. 385;

its nucleus, i. 389

Emepht, the supreme, first principle, i. 146;

emanation from him of the creative God, ii. 41

Emigration from India to the West, ii. 428

Eminent men called gods, i. 24, 280

Emmerich, Catherine, the Tyrolese ecstatic, i. 398

Empedocles believed in two souls, i. 317;

restored a woman to life, i. 480;

arrested a water-spout, ii. 597

Empusa or ghûl, beheld by Apollonius of Tyana, i. 604

Enmity, everlasting, between theology and science, ii. 88

Ennemoser on seership, etc., in India, i. 460

Enoch, sacred delta of, i. 20;

Masonic legend, i. 571;

builds a subterranean structure with nine chambers, ib.;

communicates secrets to Methuselah, ib.;

the type of the dual man, spiritual and terrestrial, ii. 453;

and Elias ascending from hell, ii. 517

Enoch-Verihe, i. 560

En-Soph, i. 16, 67, 270, 272;

means No-Thing, quo ad non, the same as nirvana, i. 292;

the first principle, i. 347;

within its first emanation, ii. 37

Enthusiastic energy, ii. 591

Ephesus a focus of the universal secret doctrines, ii. 155

Epicurus disbelieved in God, i. 317;

believed the soul constituted of the roundest, finest atoms, ib.;

testimony concerning the gods, i. 436

Epidemic in moral and physical affairs, i. 274, 276, 277;

of assassination, i. 277;

of possession in Germany, i. 374

Epimenides, i. 364;

power to make his soul leave his body and return, ii. 597

Epiphanius, a Gnostic renegade, who betrayed his associates as state’s evidence, ii. 249;

belied the Gnostics, ii. 330

Episcopalian crook adopted from the augurs of Etruria, ii. 94

Epopt, master-builder, adept, ii. 91

Epoptæ, knew nothing of the last and dreaded rite, ii. 563

Epopteia, revelation and clairvoyance, the last stage in initiation, ii. 90

Erring spirits, their re-incarnation, i. 357

Eslinger, Elizabeth, the apparition, i. 68

Esoteric catechism, i. 19;

doctrines never committed to writing, i. 271;

Masonry not known in American lodges, ii. 376

Essaoua or sorcerers, i. 488

Essenes, hermetic fraternities, i. 16;

had greater and minor mysteries, ii. 42;

had the same customs as the Apostles, ii. 196;

believed in pre-existence, ii. 280;

declared by Eusebius to have been the first Christians, ii. 323;

older than the Christians, ib.;

never employed oaths, ii. 373;

probably Buddhists, ii. 491

Eternal torments of hell, why pagans are condemned to them, ii. 8;

letter of Virgin Mary on the subject, ib.;

damnation, the only doctrine invented originally by Christians, ii. 334;

meaning of the word, ii. 12

Eternity, the duad or second, i. 212;

no Hebrew word to express the idea, ii. 12

Ether, the universal, i. 128, 156, 284;

properties, i. 181;

directed by an intelligence, i. 199;

disturbed by planetary aspects, i. 275;

influenced by Divine thought, i. 310;

the universal world-soul, i. 316, 341;

universal, the womb of the universe, i. 389;

universal, the repository of the spiritual images of all forms and thoughts, i. 395;

the Orphean doctrine denounced by the early Christians, ii. 35

Ethereal body, i. 281

Ethiopians, eastern, the builders, colonists of Egypt, i. 515

Etruscans understood electricity and employed it in worship, i. 527;

invented lightning-rods, ib.

Eucharist, common to many ancient nations, ii. 43

Eurinus returned after dying, i. 365

European science, without the knowledge of the secrets of herbs of dreams, ii. 589

Europeans cannot see certain colors, i. 211

Eusebius, Bishop of Cæsarea, perverted chronology, i. 288;

convicted of mendacity, ii. 327

Evapto, or initiation, same as epopteia, ii. 90, 91

Eve, the name and its affinity with the Tetragrammaton, ii. 299;

her story told kabalistically, ii. 223-225

Every nation has believed in a God, ii. 121

Evil possessed space as the intelligences retired, i. 342;

essential to the evolving of the good, ii. 480;

eye, i. 380;

Pope Pio Nono said to have the gift, ib.;

magic, i. 26

Evocation, of souls, objected to, i. 321;

of the dead, i. 492;

the “souls of the blessed” do not come, i. 493;

blood used for the purpose, ib.

Evocations, magical, pronounced in a particular dialect, ii. 46;

a formula, ib.

Evolution, taught by science, the secret doctrine and the Bible, i. 152;

theory found in India and Assyria, i. 154;

held by Anaximenes and accepted by the Chaldeans, i. 238;

taught by Hermes, i. 257;

doctrine of Robert Fludd, i. 258;

ancient belief, i. 285, 295;

doctrine of A. R. Wallace, i. 294;

operation defined, i. 329, 330;

spiritual and physical, i. 352;

theory does not solve the ultimate mystery, i. 419;

of man out of primordial spirit-matter, i. 429;

Darwin begins his theory at the wrong end, ib.;

as taught by the Bhagavat and Manu, ii. 260;

by Sanchoniathon and Darwin, ii. 261;

of our own planet, ii. 420;

for six days, and one of repose, ii. 422;

of the universe, ii. 467;

of man from the highest to lowest, ii. 424

Exorcising a girl in Catalonia, ii. 68

Exorcism, ii. 66;

new ritual, ii. 69

Exorcist-priest, ii. 66

Exoteric religion, its God an idol or fiction, i. 307

Exposures, pretended, of impostors, i. 75

Extinction at death, those who believe it will commit, in consequence, any sin they choose, ii. 566

Ex votos, Phallic, traffic by the Roman clergy, ii. 5

Ezekiel’s wheel, a wheel of the Adonai, ii. 451;

explained, ii. 455;

exoteric, ii. 461;

esoteric, ii. 462

Ezra compiled the Pentateuch, i. 578

Fables, allegorical science and anthropology, i. 122;

allegorized the gods and natural phenomena, i. 261

Fairfield, Francis Gerry, his testimony in regard to the phantom-hand, ii. 594, 595

Faith, the Devil the chief pillar, i. 103;

its power to heal disease, i. 216;

phenomena of, i. 323;

its great power, ii. 597;

of the Church, disbelievers in magic cannot share, ii. 76;

omni-perceptive, inside of human credulity, ii. 120

Faithful daughters of the church, ii. 54

Fakir buried six weeks and resuscitated, i. 477;

and his guru, ii. 105

Fakirs not harmed by alligators, i. 383;

use the force known as Akasa, i. 113;

raised from the ground, i. 115, 224

Fall of Adam, not a personal transgression, but an evolution, ii. 277

Fallen angels, hurled by Siva into Onderah, ii. 11

Familiar spirit, those having one, refused initiation, ii. 118

Famines follow missionaries, ii. 531

Faraday, i. 11;

his medium-catcher, i. 63

Fascination, i. 380, 381;

at a precipice, i. 501

Fatalism rejected by ancients, ii. 593

Fate, defined by Henry More, i. 206

“Father” of Jesus, the hierophant of the mysteries, ii. 561

Fathers, selected narratives for their saints, from the poets and pagan legends, ii. 78

Fauste asserts that the evangeliums or gospels were not written by Jesus or the apostles, but by unknown persons, ii. 38

Fav-Atma, or sentient soul, ii. 590

Favre, Jules, counsel for Madam Roger, i. 166

Feast of the dead in Moldavia and Bulgaria, ii. 569, 570

Felix, preacher of Notre Dame, on mystery and science, i. 337

Felt, George H., i. 22

Female trinity, ii. 444

Ferho, the greatest, i. 300;

first cause, i. 301;

believed in by Jesus and John, ii. 290

Fessler’s rite, a Jesuitical production, ii. 390

Fetahil, i. 298;

called to aid in creation, i. 299;

the newest man and creator, i. 300;

the “newest man,” ii. 175

Fiery serpents (Numbers, xxi.), a name given to the Levites, i. 555;

or seraphs, the Levites, or serpent-tribe, ii. 481;

the allegory explained, ii. 129

Fifteen thousand devils in a man, ii. 75

Fifth degree, ii. 365;

element, i. 317;

stage of initiation the most awful and sublime, ii. 101

Fifty millions slaughtered by Christians since Jesus said, “Love your enemies,” ii. 479

Fifty-five thousand Protestant clergymen in the United States, ii. 1

Final absorption, i. 12

Finger of the Holy Ghost preserved as a relic, ii. 71

Fiords of Norway described in the Odyssey, i. 549

Fire, living, i. 129;

on the altar, electric, i. 283;

its triple potency, i. 423;

from heaven, always employed by the ancients in the temples, i. 526;

preserved by the magi, i. 528;

and brimstone, the lake, ii. 12

Fire-proof mediums, i. 445, 446

Fūkara-Yogis, ii. 164

First Air, or anima mundi, ii. 227;

adept, ii. 317;

begotten, constructed the world, i. 342;

cause, denied by Vyasa and Kapila, ii. 261;

Christians, the Elianites, ii. 180;

the disciples of Paul, ii. 178;

cycle, i. 301;

gods, a hierarchy of higher powers, ii. 451;

light, i. 302;

man created bi-sexual, i. 559;

races of men spiritual, ii. 276;

direct emanations of the Tikkun or Adam Kadmon, ib.;

sin, committed by Brahma-Pragâpati and his daughter Ushas, i. 265;

the spirit of evil created to destroy its incarnation, ib.;

trinity, i. 341.

Fish displaying magnetic affinity, i. 210

Fish-charming in Ceylon, i. 606

Fisher (Dr. G.) on deploteratology, i. 390

Fishwife, talk of papal discourses, ii. 7

Fiske, Prof. J., i. 42;

disputes the doctrine of cycles and the high civilization of the Egyptians, i. 521;

declares the theories of profound science in ancient Egypt and the East utterly destroyed, i. 525

Five thousand Roman Catholic clergy in the United States, ii. 1

Flammarion the astronomer, his avowal, i. 195;

Camille, his curious revelation, ii. 450

Flight of the alone to the Alone, ii. 413

Flood, 10,000 years B.C., i. 241;

as described in the Assyrian tablets, ii. 422;

Hindu legend, ii. 428;

the old serpent, ii. 447

Florentine scientist witnessing a re-incarnation of a Dalai-Lama, i. 437

“Flowers of Speech,” Mr. Gladstone’s catalogue, ii. 7

Fludd, Robert (de Fluctibus), on magnetism, i. 71;

on minerals as rudimentary of plants, etc., i. 258;

chief of the “philosophers by fire,” i. 309;

on the essence of gold, i. 511

Flute-player of Vaucanson, i. 543

Fœtal life, little known about it, i. 386

Fœtus, its sensitive surface like a collodionized plate, i. 385;

its signature, ib.;

extinguished, i. 402

Foraisse, M., his story respecting Masonry, ii. 381

Forbidden ground, i. 418

Force, magnetic, body nourished by, i. 169;

produced by will, i. 285;

the supreme artist and providence, ii. 40

Force-correlation, i. 235;

taught in prehistoric time, i. 241, 242;

the A B C of Occultism, i. 243

Fore-heaven, ii. 534

Fall of man an allegory, and so regarded, ii. 541

Forever, meaning of the word, ii. 12

Forgery the basis of the Church, ii. 329

Former life, i. 347

Forms, images impressed on the ether, i. 395

Formula of an evocation, ii. 46

Formulas, secret, i. 66;

for inextinguishable fire, i. 229

Four ages or yugs, ii. 275;

ages of the Bible like those of the nations, ii. 443;

gospels, their doctrines found elsewhere, ii. 337;

kingdoms in nature, i. 329;

men not begotten by the gods, nor born of women, i. 558;

the gods afraid of them, and give them wives, i. 558;

races of men, i. 559;

Tanaïm, etc., entered the garden, ii. 119;

“Truths,” i. 290, 291

Fournié, Dr., declares that no physiology of the nervous system exists, i. 407;

remarkable declaration concerning the human ovule, i. 397

Fourth degree, ii. 365;

race, parents of men “whose daughters were fair,” i. 559

Fourfold emanations, ii. 272

Francis, St., preached to the birds, ii. 77;

preached to a wolf till he repented, ib.

Francke, A., remarks on the transmutations of Christianity, ii. 38;

the Sephiroth and Providence, ii. 40

Free and Accepted Masons, and the Masonic impostor, Anderson, ii. 389

Free-Masonry, its origin in London, ii. 349;

proclaims a creative principle as Great Architect, ii. 377

French Revolution, what it achieved for freedom, ii. 22

Fretheim, Abbé, his faculty of conversing by power of will, i. 476

Friar Pietro presents a demon to Dr. Torralva, ii. 60

Fundamental doctrine identical in all the ancient religions, ii. 99

Funeral ritual of the Egyptians, ii. 367

Future life, better to believe in it, ii. 566;

self, beheld at the moment of initiation, ii. 115;

man, primitive shape, i. 388, 389;

religion of, i. 76;

woman of, artificially fecundated, i. 77;

also offered to the incubi, i. 78

Gabriel, the same as Christos, ii. 193

Gaffarillus, on the form of a burned plant remaining in the ashes, i. 475, 476

Galileo, i. 35;

anticipated, i. 159, 238

Gallæus, quotation from, ii. 504

Gan-Duniyas, an Assyrian name of Babylonia, i. 575

Gan-Eden, or garden of Eden, also Ganduniyas, a name of Babylonia, i. 575

Ganesor, the elephant-headed god found in Central America, i. 572, 573

Ganges, the paradisiacal river, ii. 30

Gap between Christianity and Judaism, ii. 526

Garden of delight (Eden), the mysterious science, ii. 119;

of Eden, allegory, i. 575;

name of Babylonia, ib.;

explanation as a sacerdotal college, ib.

Garibaldi, his testimony concerning priests, ii. 347;

a Mason, ii. 391

Garlic, story by Hippocrates, i. 20

Gasparin, Count Agenor de, i. 99;

makes no differences between magnetic phenomena and will-force, i. 109;

his labors, ii. 15

Gate of the House of Life, and of Dionysus, ii. 245, 246

Gates of Death, in the hall of initiation, ii. 364

Gautama-Buddha, his birth announced to Maya his mother by a vision, i. 92;

called an atheist, i. 307;

his answer to King Prasenagit on miracles, i. 599, 600;

a disciple of a Jaina guru, ii. 322;

his legends wrought into the evangelists, ii. 491, 492;

his history copied into The Golden Legend, ii. 579;

his esoteric doctrines, ii. 319;

first opened the sanctuary to the pariah, ib.

Gayatri, its metre, ii. 410

Gegen Chutuktu, late patriarch of Mongolia, an incarnation of Buddha, ii. 617

Gehenna, a valley near Jerusalem, where the Israelites immolated their children, ii. 11;

of the universe, or eighth sphere or planet, i. 328;

repentance possible, i. 352

Gemantria, ii. 298

Gemma, Cornelius, account of a child born wounded, i. 386

Genealogy of the gods, astronomical, i. 267

Generations, fall into, i. 315

Genesis, Book of, a reminiscence of the Babylonish captivity, i. 576;

first three chapters transcribed from other cosmogonies, the fourth and fifth from the secret Book of Numbers, the Kabala, i. 579;

the introductory chapters do not treat of creation, ii. 421;

the book later than the invention of the sign Libra, ii. 457

Genghis Khan, his tomb and promised reappearance, i. 598

Genii, or Æons, lord of, i. 300

Genius, the divine spirit, i. 277

Genoa cathedral, the celebrated vase, i. 537, 538

Geographers in pre-Mosaic days, i. 406

Geometers of the Alexandrian Museum, i. 7

Germany depopulated by the thirty years’ war, ii. 503;

priestesses, how they hypnotized themselves, ii. 592

Ghosts, unlike materialized spirits, i. 69; i. 345

Ghouls, i. 319;

or ghûls, in the deserts, i. 604;

and vampires, ii. 564

Giants, i. 31;

progenitors of Brahmans, i. 122;

remains of a prehistorical race, i. 303, 304

Gibbon, his praise of the Gnostics, ii. 249

Gilbert on magnetism, i. 497

Giles, Rev. Chauncey, on spiritual death, i. 317

Ginnungagap, the cup of illusion, i. 147;

the boundless abyss of the mundane pit, i. 160

Girard, Father, his employment of sorcery and revolting crimes, ii. 633

Gladstone, Hon. W. E., “Speeches of Pius IX.,” ii. 4;

catalogue of “flowers of speech” in papal discourses, ii. 7

Glass that would not break, i. 50;

malleable, i. 239;

in Pompeii, China, and Genoa, i. 537

Glass-blowing in Egypt, i. 543

Gliddon, George R., description of the moving of an obelisk, i. 519;

eloquent testimony to Egyptian civilization, i. 521, 522

Glycerine, a compound of three hydroxyl groups, i. 505, 506

Gnosis, the Kabala, or secret knowledge, still existing, ii. 38

Gnostic, wrote Gospel according to John, i. 2;

serpent with the seven vowels, ii. 489

Gnosticism, oriental, i. 271;

Buddhistic elements, ii. 321

Gnostics, ii. 41;

believed in metempsychosis, i. 12;

early Christians and followers of the Essenes, i. 26;

originated many Christian doctrines, ii. 41, 42;

their greatest heresies, ii. 155, 156;

praised by Gibbon, ii. 259;

their doctrines falsified by the Christian Fathers, ii. 326;

their view of the Jewish God, ii. 526

Gobi desert, the seat of empire, i. 598;

jealousy of foreign intrusion, i. 599;

testimony of Marco Polo, ib.;

believed to be inhabited by malignant beings, i. 603

Goblins, elementary, i. 68

God, personal, denied by modern scientists, i. 16;

an intelligent, omnipotent, individual will, i. 58;

his existence denied by Comte and the Positivists, i. 76;

to be sought in nature, and not outside, i. 93;

belief of Henry More, the English Platonist, i. 205, 206;

Kircher’s doctrine of the one magnet, i. 208;

the monad, i. 212;

doctrines of Voltaire and Volney, i. 268;

the central sun, i. 270;

the universal mind, the original doctrine, i. 289;

is no-thing, not a concrete or visible being like objects, i. 292;

belief of the Stoics, i. 317;

of the several Christian denominations, ii. 2;

the Father, ii. 50;

of the gardens, his rites adopted by the Fathers, ii. 51;

each immortal spirit, ii. 153;

“manifest in the flesh,” a forged text, ii. 178;

his actions subject to necessity, ii. 251;

Masonic testimony, ii. 377;

the Father, the beguiling serpent, ii. 492;

prepares hell for priers into his mysteries, ii. 524;

every man’s, bounded by his own conceptions, ii. 567

God-man, the first man, i. 297

God’s comedy and our tragedy, ii. 534

Godfrey Higgins in error about Roman Catholic esoterism, ii. 121

Gods, eminent men so called, i. 24, 280;

inferior to deities, i. 287;

supercelestial and intercosmic, i. 312;

pagan, Christian archangels, i. 316;

kind and beneficent demons, i. 332;

their names kept secret, i. 581;

not incarnations of the Supreme Being, ii. 153

Gogard, the Hellenic tree of life, i. 297

Gold, basic matter of, i. 50;

its manufacture asserted, i. 503;

testimony of Francesco Picos, i. 504;

assertion of Dr. Peisse, i. 508, 509;

made by Theodore Tiffereau, i. 509;

the deposit of light, i. 511

Golden Legend, a conservatory of pious lies, ii. 74;

choice excerpts, ii. 76-79;

beats the Decameron, ii. 79;

a parodized or plagiarized history of Buddha, ii. 579

Good demons appear, i. 333;

spirits hardly ever appear, i. 344;

enough Morgan, ii. 372;

Shepherd, a Gnostic symbol, ii. 149

Goodale, Miss Annie, death, i. 479

Goodness must be alternated by its opposite, ii. 480

Gorillas mentioned by Hanno, i. 412

Gospel according to Peter, ii. 181;

fourth, full of Gnostic expressions, ii. 205;

fourth, blends Christianity with the Gnosis and Kabala, ii. 211

Gospels, their authors and compilers not known, ii. 37, 38

Gossein, fakir, contest with a sorcerer, i. 368

Græco-Russian church never under the Roman Catholics, i. 27

Grand council of the emperors, a Jesuitical production, ii. 390;

secours, i. 374;

cycle, Orpheus, i. 294;

its character, i. 296;

cycle completed, i. 303

Grandville, Dr., on mummy-bandaging, i. 539

Gravitation, none in the Newtonian sense, i. 271

Gray brain-matter the god, i. 36

Great Dragon, crushed under the foot of the Virgin of the Sea, ii. 446;

Vasaki, casting out a flood of poison which the earth swallows, ii. 490;

equinoctial continent, i. 594;

Masonic revolution of 1717, ii. 389;

secret of evocation, ii. 114;

snake, worshipped by the pueblo-chiefs of Mexico, i. 557;

spirit of the Indian, the manifested Brahma, i. 560;

synagogue revised the Pentateuch, i. 578;

universal soul, absorption into it does not involve loss of individuality, ii. 116;

year, i. 30

Greatest scientists inanimate corpses, i. 318

Greece derived its art from Egypt, i. 521

Gregory VII., pope, a magician, ii. 56, 57;

of Tours, exposition of sortilege, ii. 20

Gross, T., denounces those opposed to investigation, ii. 96

Grote assimilates the Pythagoreans to the Jesuits, ii. 529

Gunpowder, anciently used by the Chinese, i. 241

Guru-astara, a spiritual teacher, ii. 141

Gymnosophists of India, i. 90;

knew the Akâsa, i. 113

Half-death, i. 452

Half-gods, i. 323;

or mukti, men regenerate on earth, ii. 566

Hierophant, transfer of his life to a candidate, ii. 563

Hakem, the wise one of the Druzes, ii. 310

Haideck, Countess, a Mason, ii. 391

Hall of spirits, ii. 365

Hamites preferred to settle near rivers and oceans, ii. 458

Hamsa, the Messiah of the Druzes, ii. 308;

the precursor, ii. 310

Hanno, mention of gorillas, i. 412

Hanuma, or Hanuman the sacred monkey, the progenitor of the Europeans, i. 563;

resembles the Egyptian cynocephalus, i. 564;

endowed with speech, ii. 274

Hare, Prof., i. 38;

views of Comte’s positive philosophy, i. 79;

mistreated by Harvard professors, i. 176, 177;

declared non compos mentis, i. 233;

bullied by Prof. Henry, i. 245

Harmony and justice analagous, i. 330

Hasty burial deprecated, i. 453

Haug, Dr., asserts the affinity of the Zoroastrian, Jewish, and Christian religions, ii. 486

Haunted house, i. 69

Hayes, Moses Michael, introduced Royal Arch Masonry into this country, ii. 393

Hayti, a centre of secret societies, where infants are immolated, ii. 572

Healing art in the temples always magical, ii. 502

Heathen processions and priapic emblems at Easter in France, ii. 332;

priesthood, their cast-off garb worn by Christian clergy, ii. 8

Heavenly Man, Tikkun, Protogonos, ii. 276

Hebrew manuscripts of the Bible the oldest, ii. 430;

burned by the Inquisition, ib.

Hebron, or Kirjath-Arba, city of the four Kabeiri, ii. 171;

Smaragdine tablet of Hermes found, i. 507

Heliocentric system known by Hindus 2,000 B.C., i. 9;

denied alike by scholars and the clergy, i. 84;

known by the priests of Egypt, i. 532

Hel, or Hela, neither a state nor place of punishment, ii. 11;

cold and cheerless, ib.

Hell, a German goddess, ii. 11;

not a place of punishment in Scandinavian mythology, ib.;

nowhere so set forth in Egyptian or Hindu mythology, nor in the Jewish Scriptures, ib.;

the Archimedean lever of Christian theology, ib.;

said to be located in the sun, ii. 12;

denied by Origen, ii. 13;

hypothesis of Mr. Swinden, ib.;

Augustine’s theory of miracles, ib.;

eternal torments of, all pagans condemned to, ii. 8;

Virgin Mary testifying to it with her own signature, ib.;

the damned, ii. 25;

priests there, but no monks, ib.;

no Dominicans, ib.;

a hallucination, ii. 507;

never means eternal torment, ii. 507;

the translation in the Bible a forgery, ii. 506;

its prince quarrelling with Satan, ii. 515

Hellenic figures at Nagkon-Wat, i. 568

Hell-torments, their perpetuity denied by Origen, ii. 13

Helps, artificial, to clairvoyance, ii. 592

Heptaktis, the seven-rayed god, ii. 417

Herakleitus on fighting with anger, i. 248;

the Ephesian, his philosophical doctrine of fire and flux, i. 422;

the spirit of fire, i. 423

Herakles, the Grecian Hercules, the Logos, i. 298;

disseminated a mild religion, ii. 515;

the only-begotten, ii. 515;

the saviour, ib.;

ascending from the nether house of Pluto, ii. 517;

slew the sacrificers of men, ii. 565

Herbs of dreams and enchantments, ii. 589

Her-cules, the Sanscrit form of Mel-Kartha, i. 567

Hercules, the magnet named from him, i. 130;

not the same as the Grecian Herakles, ib.;

creator and father, i. 131;

killed by the devil, i. 132;

and Thor, i. 261;

the first-begotten, Bel, Baal, and Siva, ii. 492;

the Titan, restores Jupiter or Zeus to his throne, i. 299;

descends to Hades, ib.;

Invictus, his initiation into the Eleusynia and descent into hell, ii. 516

Herder places the cradle of mankind in India, ii. 30

Heredom Rosy Cross, ii. 394

Heresies, early Christianity among them, ii. 123;

secret sects of the Christians, ii. 289;

one still in existence, ii. 290

Hermas, the pastor of, a book quoting from the Sohar, ii. 243, 244

Hermes, the counterpart of the serpent, ii. 508;

his prediction to Prometheus, ii. 514, 515;

Trismegistus, 20,000 books written before Menes, i. 406;

his Smaragdine Tablet or manual of alchemy, i. 507;

reputed author of serpent-worship and heliolatry, i. 551;

an evocation of angels and demons to preside at Mysteries, i. 613;

and Hostanes believed in one God, ii. 88

Hermetic books on medicine, i. 3;

their antiquity, i. 37;

Brothers of Egypt, ii. 307;

doctrine accounts most reasonably for the formation of the world, i. 341;

fraternities, i. 16;

gold, i. 511;

philosophers, i. 1

Hermetists’ doctrine of creation, i. 258;

why they wrote incomprehensibly, i. 627

Hermodorus or Hermotimus, i. 364, 476

Hero invented a steam-engine, i. 241

Herodotus mentioned a night of six months, i. 412;

testimony concerning the pyramids, i. 518, 519;

description of the labyrinth, i. 522

Hezekiah, the Redeemer and Messiah, ii. 440, 441;

the rod or scion from the stem of Jesse, ii. 441;

a prince from Bethlehem establishes a sacred college and a new

religion, terminating Baal and serpent-worship, ii. 440;

succeeded on the extinction of the family of Ahaz, ii. 166

Hiarchus and Hiram, i. 19

Hieroglyph of Knights Kadosh, ii. 391

Hieroglyphics on the stones of the Temple of Dendera, i. 524

Hierophant offered his own life, ii. 42;

did not allow candidates to see or hear him personally, ii. 93

Hierophants, Egyptian, i. 90

Higgins, Godfrey, i. 33;

rebuke of skeptics who accept the Bible stories, i. 284;

had not the key to the esoteric doctrine, i. 347;

on the Rasit, ii. 35

High Hierophant transferring his life, ii. 564

Highest pyrotechny, i. 306

Hildebrand, the seventh Pope Gregory, a magician, ii. 557

Hindu demigods, ii. 103;

wonderful appearance seen by Jacolliot, ib.;

gods, masks without actors, ii. 261, 262;

populations in Greece, ii. 428;

rites belong to a religion older than the present one, ii. 535

Hindus, more susceptible to magnetism, ii. 610;

and Iranians, battles, i. 12;

ancient, their philosophy and science, i. 618-620;

their great probity, ii. 474;

corrupted by European associations, ib.

Hindustan, once called Æthiopia, ii. 434;

dark races worshipped Maha Deva, ib.

Hiouen-Thsang, his description of the magicians of Peshawer, i. 599;

his vision of the shade of Buddha, i. 600

Hippocrates, his views like of Herakleitos, i. 423;

identical with those of the Rosicrucians, ib.;

his doctrine of man’s inner sense, i. 425;

praise of instinct, i. 434

Hiram, i. 19

Hiram Abiff, i. 29

Hitchcock, E. A., exposition of alchemy, i. 308;

Prof., on psychometric photography, i. 184

Hivim, or Hivites, descendants of the Serpent, i. 554;

Ophites, or serpent-tribe, Cain their ancestor, ii. 446;

of Palestine a serpent-tribe, ii. 481

Hobbs, Abigail, confederated with the devil, i. 361

Holy Ghost, the Æther, the breath of God, ii. 50;

a bit of his finger kept as a relic, ii. 71.

Holy kiss, and toilet directions of Augustine, ii. 331;

limbs of Sts. Cosmo and Damiano, phallic symbols, ii. 5;

syllable, supreme mystery, ii. 114;

thief ascends out of hell, ii. 517

Homer, the Iliad probably plagiarized, ii. 436

Homunculi of Paracelsus, i. 465

Hononer, the Persian Logos, or living manifested word, i. 560

Horse with fingers, i. 411, 412

Horse-shoe magnet applied to the phantom-hand, ii. 594

Horus piercing the head of the serpent, ii. 446

Hospitals anciently established near temples, ii. 98

Houdin Robert, i. 73, 100;

testimony in regard to table-rapping and levitation, i. 358, 359;

suspected of magic, i. 379

House of David deposed by the Israelites, ii. 439

Howitt William, explanation of exorcism, ii. 66

Huc, Abbé, his testimony concerning the infant Dalai-Lama, i. 438;

his book placed on the Index Expurgatorius, ib.;

his account of the marvellous tree, i. 440;

the picture of the moon, i. 441;

punishment for his candor, ii. 345, 346;

his testimony of the Lamaic doctrines, ii. 582;

his story of the children compelled to swallow mercury, ii. 604.

Hufeland, Dr., theory of magnetic sympathy, i. 207

Human body once half ethereal, i. 1;

made as a prison of earlier races, i. 2;

credulity contains inside of it an omni-perceptive faith, ii. 120;

embryo, evolved, i. 302, 303;

fœtus, transient forms like those of fœtal animals, i. 388;

process of development, i. 389;

race, many before Adam, i. 2;

imprisoned in bodies, i. 2;

antiquity more than 250,000 years, i. 3;

authorities differ in regard to original barbarism, i. 4;

sacrifices, an ancient practice, ii. 547;

abolished in Egypt, Africa, and Greece, ii. 568;

offered to the Virgin Mary as heretics, ib.;

soul an immortal god, i. 345;

is born and dies like man, ib.;

spirit, sees all things as in the present, i. 185

Humanity, happy day for it, ii. 586.

Humboldt, Alexander von, suspected intercourse between Mexicans and Hindus, i. 548

Humboldt, Alexander, on presumptuous skepticism, i. 223

Hume, David, exalted by Prof. Huxley, i. 421;

the real founder of the positive philosophy, i. 82;

testimony in the miracles at the tomb of Abbé Paris, i. 373

Hunt, Prof. Sterry, on solutions, i. 192

Huss, John, his memory sacred in Bohemia, ii. 560

Huxley, physical basis of life, i. 15;

classes spiritualism outside of philosophical inquiry, i. 15;

repudiates positive philosophy as Catholicism minus Christianity, i. 82;

defines what constitutes proof, i. 121;

confesses ignorance of matter, i. 408;

his theory formulated, i. 419

Hyk-sos, or shepherds of Egypt, the ancestors of the earlier Israelites, ii. 487

Hymns by Dirghatamas, ii. 411

Hyneman, Leopold, testimony on Masonry becoming sectarian, ii. 380

Hypatia, her atrocious murder by order of St. Cyril, ii. 53;

letter of Synesius, ib.;

why Cyril caused her to be murdered, ii. 253

Hystaspes, Gushtasp, Vistaspa, ii. 141;

visited Kashmere, ii. 434

Hysteria imputed to the prophets of the Cevennes, i. 371

I was, but am no more, ii. 393

I. H. S., in hoc signum, ii. 527

Iachus, an Egyptian physician, i. 406

Iaho, variety of etymologies, ii. 301;

statement of Aristotle, ii. 302

Iamblichus, i. 33;

raised ten cubits from the ground, i. 115;

forbids endeavors to procure phenomena, i. 219;

explanation of Pythagoras, i. 248, 284;

on manifestations of demons, etc., i. 333;

the founder of theurgy, his practice, i. 489;

his explanation of the objects of the Mysteries, ii. 101

Iao, the male essence of the Phœnicians, i. 61

Yava, יהוה, the secret name of the mystery-god, ii. 165

Idæic finger, i. 23

Identity of all ancient religions and secret fraternities between the ancient faiths, ii. 100

Idiots, reborn, i. 351

Iessaens, ii. 190

Ievo, not the same as Iao, ii. 296

Iezedians, came from Basrah, ii. 197

Ignition of stars, i. 254

Ilda-Baoth, the son of Chaos, ii. 183;

his sons, ib.;

creates man, ii. 184;

punishes him for transgression, ii. 185;

his abode in the planet Saturn, ii. 236;

transformed into the Devil, ii. 501

Illuminati and their purposes, ii. 391

Illusion (Maya), the veil of the arcana, i. 271

Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin, an element of old phallic religion, ii. 5;

why promulgated, ii. 110

Imagination, the plastic power of the soul, i. 396;

not identical with fancy, ib.;

a memory of preceding states, ib.;

its power upon physical condition, i. 385;

its influence on fœtal life doubted by Magendie, i. 390

Immodesty of the Vedas exceeded by that of the Bible, ii. 88

Immoral principles of the Jesuits, ii. 355

Immorality, sexual, said to be produced by religious instinct, i. 83

Ilus or Hyle, the slime or earth-matter, i. 146

Immortal, Chinese, Siamese, etc., believe some know the art of becoming, i. 214;

theory of Maxwell, i. 216;

breath, i. 302;

portion of immortal matter, ii. 262

Immortality of the soul, the doctrine as old as the twelfth Egyptian dynasty, ii. 361;

of the spirit, Moksha and Nirvana, ii. 116;

of all, a false idea, i. 316;

to be won, ib.

Imparting the secret to the successor, ii. 671

Impostor-demons, seven, ii. 234

Incarnation explained, ii. 152, 153;

prophetic star, ii. 454;

exhibited before the author, ii. 599-602

Incarnations, the five of the Buddhists, ii. 275;

known in all the old world-religions, ii. 503;

of the deity, periodical, ii. 535

Incas, the lost treasures, i. 596;

the story of the last queen, ib.;

their tomb, i. 597;

the tunnel, i. 598

Incendiarism, epidemic, i. 276

India, magic in, i. 89;

gymnosophists, i. 80;

of the archaic period, i. 589;

included Persia, Thibet, Mongolia, and Great Tartary, ib.;

the alma mater of the world-religions, ii. 30;

said to be the cradle of the human race, ib.;

derived her rites from some foreign source, ii. 535;

Southern, the law of inheritance, ii. 437

Indian dynasties, solar and lunar, ii. 437, 438

Indicator, Prof. Faraday, i. 63

Individual life in the future to be won, i. 316;

existence, how sustained, i. 318, 319;

existence of the spirit a Hindu doctrine, ii. 534

Individualization depends on the spirit, i. 315

Indranee and her son painted with the aureole, ii. 95

Induction, not the usual mode of great discoveries, i. 513

Ineffable name employed by Jesus, ii. 387

Infant, temporarily animated by the spirit of a lama, ii. 601, 602

Infant-girl burned as a witch, ii. 65

Infant-prophet in France, i. 438

Infants, dying, prematurely born a second time, i. 351;

unborn, how influenced, i. 395;

eaten at the sacrifices in Hayti, ii. 572

Initiation, the practice in every ancient religion, ii. 99;

represented the experience of the soul after death, ii. 494;

of a Druze, ii. 313

Injunction of secresy, ii. 40

Inman, Dr. Thos., defines greatest curse of a nation, ii. 121, 122;

on Christian heathenism, ii. 80, 81;

declares the Atheism imputed to Buddha Sakya not supported, ii. 533;

comparison of Christians and Buddhists, ii. 540

Inner Man, can withdraw from the body, ii. 588

Inner Sense, doctrine of Hippocrates, i. 424, 425;

of Iamblichus, i. 435

Innocent III., bull against magic, ii. 69

Innocents of Bethlehem, their massacre, a myth copied from India, ii. 199

Inquisition, the slaughter-house of the church, destroyed by Napoleon I., ii. 22;

its atrocious cruelty, ii. 55;

its bloodshed and human sacrifices unparalleled in paganism, ii. 5, 6;

why invented, ii. 58;

its origin in Paradise, ii. 59;

burned Hebrew Bibles, ii. 430

Inquisitors of our days, the scientists, i. 99

Insanity from spiritualism in the United States, ii. 7;

the obsession by spirits, ii. 589

Inscription on the coffin of Queen Mentuhept, i. 92

Instinct, i. 425;

its miracles, i. 433

Integral whole, ii. 116

Intelligence of the electric bolt, i. 188;

ether directed, i. 199

Intelligent electricity, i. 322

Intercosmic gods, i. 312

Interior Man, doctrine of Socrates and Plato, ii. 283

Interview with a young lama re-incarnated Buddha, ii. 598

Intuition the guide of the seer, i. 433;

a rudiment in every one, i. 434;

doctrine of Iamblichus, i. 435

Investigation denounced as a criminal labor, ii. 96