Chapter XII (8)

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