IX. /' ii. 4; catalogue of "flowers of

speech " in papal discourses, ii. 7 Glass that would not break, i. 50 ; malleable,
i. 239; in PomfKfii, China, and Genoa, i.
.537
Glass-blowing in Egypt, i. 543
Gliddon, George H., description of the moving of an obelisk, i. 519 ; eloquent tes- timony 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 accordinj^ to John, i. 3 ; serpent with the seven vowels, ii. 489
Gnosticism, oriental, i. 271 ; Buddhistic ele- ments, ii. 321
Gnostics. 41 ; believed in metempsychosis, i. 12 ; early Christians and followers of the Essenes, i. 26 ; originated many Christian doctrines, ii. 41, 42; their greatest here- sies, ii. 155, 156 ; praised by Gibbon, ii. 859 ! their doctrines falsified by the Chris- tian Fathers, ii. 326 ; their view of the Jew- ish God, ii. 526
Gobi desert, the seat of empire, i. 598 ; jeal- ousy of foreign intrusion, i. 599 ; testimo- ny of Marco Polo, ib.\ believed to be in- habited by malignant beings, i. 603
Goblins, elementary, i. 68
God, personal, denied by modem scientists, i. 16 ; an intelligent, omnipotent, individ- ual 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 Plato- nist, 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 ob- jects, 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 l>y 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 ; Mjisonic tes- timony, 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 ; supercelesiial and intercosmic, i. 312 ; pagsm. Christian archangels, i. 316 ; kind and beneficent de- mons, 1. 332 ; their names kept secret, i. 581 ; not incarnations of the Supreme Be- ing, 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, 76-79 ; beats the Decameron^ ii- 79 I a parodized or pla- giarized history of Buddha, ii. 579
Good demons appear, i. 333 ; spirits hardly ever appear, i, 344 ; enough Morgan, ii. 372 ; Shepherd, a Gnostic sjrmbol, ii. 149
Guodale, Miss Annie, death, 1. 479
Goodness must be alternated by its oppo- site, ii. 480
Gorillas mentioned by H.inno, i. 412
Gospel according to Peter, ii, 181 ; fourth, full of Gnostic expressions, ii. 205 ; fourth, blends Christianity \vith the Gnosis and Kabala, ii. 211
Gospels, their authors and compilers not known, ii. 37, 38
Gossein, fakir, contest with a sorcerer, i. 368
Grieco-Russian church never under the Ro- man Catholics, i. 27
Grand council of the emperors, a Jesuitical production, ii. 390 ; secours, i. 374 ; cycle, Orpheus, i. 294 ; its character, i. 296 ; cy- cle completed, i. 303
Grandville, Dr., on mummy-bandaging, i
539 Gravitation, none in the Ncw^tonian sense,
i. 271 Gray br.iin-matter the gorl, i. 36 Great Dragon, crushed under the foot of
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the Virgin of the Sea, ii. 446; Vasaki. casting out a flood of poison which the earth swallows, ii. 490 ; equinoctial con- tinent, i. 594 ; Masonic revolution of 1717, iL 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, L 578 ; universal soul, absorption into it does not involve loss of individuality, ii. 116 ; year, i. 30
Greatest scientists inanimate corpses. L 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 in- vestigation, 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 Akisa, 1. 113
HALF-death, i. 452
Half-gods, i, 323 ; or mukti, men regenerate on earth, ii. 566
Hierophant. transfer of his life to a candi- date, ii. 563
Hakem, the wise one of the Druzes, ii. 3x0
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. ^8 ; views of Comte's positive philosophy, i. 79 ; mistreated by Harvard professors, i. 176, 177 ; declared non com- pos mmtis^ i. 233 ; bullied by Prof. Henry,
i. 245 Harmony and justice analagous, L 330 Hasty burial deprecated, i. 453 Haug, Dr., asserts the affinity of the Zoro-
astrian. 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 old- est, ii. 430; bumodby 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, 1. 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 mydiok>- gy, 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. xa; denied byPri- gen, ii. 13; hypothesis of Mr. Swinden, tb. ; Augustine's theory of miracles, ib. \ eternal torments of, all pagans con- demned to, ii. 8 ; Virgin Mary testifying to it with her own signature, ib. ; the damned, ii. 25 ; priests there, but no monks, ib. \ no I>ominicans, ib. ; a hallu- cination, ii. 507 ; never means eternal tor- ment, ii. 507 ; the translation in the Bible a forgery, ii. 506 ; its prince quarrelliog with Satan, ii. 5x5 Hellenic figures at Nagkon-Wat, i. 568 Hell-torments, their perpetuity denied by
Origen, ii. 13 Helps, artificial, to clairvoyance, ii. 59a Heptaktis, the seven-rayed god, ii. 417 Herakleitus on fighting with anger, i. 948; 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, il 5x5; the only-begotten, ii. 515 ; the saviour, ib. ; ascending from the nether house of Pluto, ii. 517 ; slew the sacrificers of men,
ii. 56s Herbs of dreams and enchantments, ii. 589 Her-cules, the Sanscrit form of Mel-Karma,
i. 567
Hercules, the magnet named from hire, 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 Elcusynia and descent into hell, ii. 5x6
Herder places the cradle of mankind in In- dia, 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 firom the Sokar, li. 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 Smara^iM Tablet or manual of alchemy, i. 507 ; re- puted author of serpent- worship and be-
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liolatry, 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 an- tiquity, i. 37 ; Brothers of Egypt, ii. 307 ; doctrine accounts most reasonably for the formation of tho world, i. 341 ; fraterni- ties, i. 16 ; gold, i. 5x1 ; philosophers, i. I
Hermetists' doctrine of creation, i. 258 ; why they wrote incomprehensibly, i. 6*7
Hermodorus or Hermotimus, i. 364, 476
Hero invented a steam-engine, i. 341
Herodotus mentioned a night of six months, L 41a ; testimony concerning the pyra- nnids, i. 518, 519 ; description of the laby- rinth, i. $22
Hezekiah, the Redeemer and Messiah, ii. 440, 44Z ; the rod or scion from the stem of Jesse, ii. 441 ; a prince from Bethle- hem establishes a sacred college and a new religion, terminating Baal and ser- pent-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. 4a ; 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. 384 ; had not the key to the esoteric doctrine, i. ^7 ; on the Rasit, ii. 35
High Hierophant transferring his life. ii. 564
Highest pyrotechny, i. «)6
Hildebrand, the seventh Pope Gregory, a magician, ii. 557
Hindu demigods, ii. 103 ; wonderful ap- pearance seen by Jacolliot. i^. ; gods, masks without actors, ii. a6i, a6a ; popu- lations 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. xa ; ancient, their philosophy and science, i. 618-630 ; their great probity, ii. 474 ; corrupted by European associations, id,
Hindustan, once called i£thiopia. ii. 434; dark races worshipped Maha Deva. id.
Hiouen-Thsang. his description of the ma- gicians 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 Rosicru- cians, id. ; 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. X84
Hi vim, or Hivites, descendants of the Ser- pent, 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 iEther, the breath of God, ii. 50 ; a bit of his finger kept as a relic, ii. 71.
Holy kiss, and toilet directions of Augus- tine, 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, 4x2
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 re- gard to table-rapping and levitation, i. 358, 359 ; suspected of magic, i. 379
House of David deposed by the Israelites,
». 439 Howitt William, explanation of exorcism,
ii. 66
Hue, Abbe, his testimony concerning the in- fant Dalai-Lama, i. 438 ; his book placed on the /ftdfx lixpurj^atorius , id. ; his ac- count of the marvellous tree, i. 440 ; the picture of the moon, i. 44X ; punishment for his candor, ii. 345, 346 ; his testimony of the Lamaic doctrines, ii. 582 ; his story of the children compelled to swallow mer- cury, ii. 604
Hufeland. Dr.. theory of magnetic sympa- thy, i. 207
Human body once half ethereal, i. x ; made as a prison of earlier races, i. 2 ; credulity contains inside of it an omni-perceptive faith, ii. 120 ; embryo, evolved, 1. 302. 303 ; fcetus, transient forms like those of fcetal animals, i. 388 ; process of development, i. ^89; race, many before Adam, i. 2 ; im- prisoned in bodies, i. s ; antiquity more than 250,000 years, i. 3 ; authorities differ in regard to original barbarism, i. 4 ; sac- rifices, an ancient practice, ii. 547 ; abol- ished in Egypt, Africa, and Greece, ii. 568 ; offered to the Virgin Mary as here- tics, id. \ soul an immortal god, i. 345 ; is born and dies like man, id. \ spirit, sees all things as in the present, i. 185
Humanity, happy day for it, ii. 586.
Humboldt, Alexander von, suspected inter- course between Mexicans and Hindus, i. 548
Humboldt, Alexander, on presumptuous skepticism, 1. 223
Hume, David, exalted by Prof. Huxley, i. 421 ; the real founder of the positive phi- losophy, i. 82 ; testimony in the miracles at the tomb of Abbe Paris, i. 373
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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 inqui- ry, i. 15 ; repudiates positive pnilosophy as Catholicism minus Christianity, i. 8a ; de- fines what constitutes proof, 1. Z2i ; con- fesses ignorance of matter, i. 408 ; his the- ory formulated, i. 4x9
Hyk-sos, or shepherds of Egypt, the ances- tors of the earlier Israelites, ii. 487
Hymns by Dirghatamas, ii. 41 z
Hyneman, Leopold, testimony on Masonry becoming sectarian, ii. 380
Hypatia, her atrocious murder by order of St Cyril, ii. 53; letter of Synesius, id. ; why Cyril caused her to be murdered,
ii. 253
Hystaspes, Gushtasp, Vistaspa, ii. 141 ; vis- ited K ash mere, ii. 434
Hysteria imputed to the prophets of the Cevennes, i. 371
I WAS. but am no more, ii. 393