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

lachus, an Egyptian physician, L 406
laho, variety of etymologies, ii. 301 ; state- ment of Aristotle, ii. 302
lamblichus, i. 33 ; raised ten cubits from the ground, i. 115; forbids endeavors to pro- cure phenomena, i. 219; explanation of Pythagoras, i. 248, 284 ; on manifestations ot demons, etc., i. 333; the founder of the- urgy, his practice, i. 489 ; his explanation of the objects of the Mysteries, ii. loi
lao, the male essence of the Phoenicians, i. 61
nVT^, Yava, the secret name of the mystery- god, ii. 165
Idseic finger, i. 23
Identity of all ancient religions and secret fraternities between the ancient faiths, ii. 100
Idiots, reborn, i. 351
lessacns, ii. 190
levo, not the same as lao, ii. 296
lezedians, 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. no
Imagination, the plastic power of the soul, i. 396 ; not identical with fancy, ib, ; a memory ot preceding states, ib. \ its power upon physical condition, i. 385 ; its influence on foetal life doubted by Magen- die, 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
Hus or Hyle, the slime or earth-matter, L 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 d\'nasty, ii. 361 ; of the spirit, Moksha and Nirvana, ii. 116 ; of all, a false idea, i. 3x6 ; to be woo, ib.
Imparting the secret to the successor, ii. 671
Impostor-demons, seven, ii. 234
Incarnation explained, ii. 152, 153; pro- phetic star, ii. 454; exhibited before the author, ii. 599-602
Incarnations, the five of the Buddhists, iL 275 ; known in all the old world-religions, ii. 503 ; of the deity, periodical, ii. 535
Incas, the lost treasures, i. ^96; the story of the last cjueen, ib, \ their tomb, L 597; the tunnel, 1. 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 ; South- ern, 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, L 316; existence, how sustained, i. 318.3x9; existence of the spirit a Hindu doctrine,
ii. 534
Individualization depends on the spirit, L 3x5
Indranee and her son painted with the aureole, ii. 95
Induction, not the usual mode of great dis- coveries, L 5x3
Ineffable name employed by Tesus, iL 387
Infant, temporarily animated by the sp«iit of a lama, ii. 601, 602
Infant-girl burned as a witch, iL 65
Infant-prophet in France, i. 438
Infants, dying, prematurely bom a seccHid time, L 351 ; unborn, how influenced, L 395 ; eaten at the sacrifices in Hayti, iL 57a
Initiation, the practice in every ancient re> ligion, ii. 99 ; represented the experience otthe soul after death, ii. 494 ; of a Drui^
ii. 313 Injunction of secresy, ii. 40
Inman, Dr. Thos., defines greatest curse of a nation, ii. X2i, 122 ; on Christian heathen- ism. iL 80, 81 ; declares the Atheism im- puted to Buddha Sakva not supported, ii. 533 ; comparison of Christians and Budd- hists, iL 540
Inner Man, can withdraw^ from the body, iL 588
INDEX.
663
Inner Sense, doctrine of Hippocrates, i.
424, 425 ; of lamblichus, 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. sa ;
its atrocious cruelty, ii. 55 ; its bloodshed
and human sacrifices unparalleled in
paganism, iL 5, 6 ; why invented, ii. 58 ;
Its origin in Paradise, iL 59; burned
Hebrew Bibles, it 430 Inquisitors of our days, the scientists, L 99 Insanity from spiritualism in the United
States, ii. 7 ; the obsession by spirits, ii.
589 Inscription on the coffin of Queen Mentn-
hept, L 9a
Instinct, i. 425 ; its miracles, i. 433
Integral whole, ii. iz6
Intelligence of the electric bolt, I 188; ether directed, I 199
Intelligent electricity, i. 32a
Intercosmic gods, i. 312
Interior Man. doctrine of Socrates and Plato, ii. 283
Interview with a yoimg lama re-4ncamated Buddha, ii. 598
Intuition the guide of the seer, i. 433 ; a ru- diment in every one, i. 434 ; doctrine of lamblichus. i. 435
Investigation denounced as a criminal labor, ii. 96
Invisible Sun, i. 302
Invocation of ancestors by Moldavian Chris- tians, ii. 570
Invulnerability, can be imparted, i. 379
Iran and Turan, their wars conflicts between Persians and Assyrians or Aturians, i.
576
Iren?eus, makes Christ fifty years old, ii. 305 ; on the trine in man, ii. 285 ; and the Gnostics, their contests, ii. 51 ; believed the soul corporeal, i. 317 ; attempted to establish a new doctrine on the basis of Plato, i. 289 ; found guilty of falsehood, ii. 327
Irenseus Philalctha, explanation of the pecu- liar style of Hermetic writers, i. 628
Ireland visited by Buddhist missionaries, ii. 290, 291
Iron in the sun, i. 513 ; found in the Pyra- mid of Cheops, i. 542.
Isaiah the prophet, his vision of seraphs, i. ^3 ; terminated the direct line of David, li. 440 ; celebrates the new chief, Heze- kiah, ib,
Isarim or Essenean initiates, ii. 42 ; found the Smaragdine Tablet at Hebron, i. 507
Isemia, worship of the limbs of Saints Cosmo and Damiano, and traffic in phallic ex votoSf ii. 5
Ishmonia. the petrified city, traditions of books and magic literature, ii. 29
Isis, the name of a medicine, i. 532 ; the Virgin Mother of Egypt, ii. xo ; queen of Heaven, ii. 50 ; immaculate, her titles ap>- plied to the Virgin Mary, ii. 95 ; anthropo-
morphised into Mary, ii. 41 ; the ** woman clothed with the sun," ii. 489
Isitwa, the divine power, ii. 593
Islam, the minarets, ii. 5
Islamism, the outgrowth of the Nestorian controversy, ii. 54
Island of Middle Asia, inhabited by Elohim, i- 589 ; empire of the Pacific Ocean, i. 59a
Israel, what the name means, ii. 401 ; the enumeration of 12 tribes supposed to be purely mythical, i. 568
Israelites, intermarried perpetually with the other nations of Palestine, i. 568; why their language was Semitic, ib. ; their symbols relate to sun-worship, ii. 40X ; the plebeian were Canaanites and Phoe- nicians, ii. Z34 ; worshipped Baal or Bac- chus and the Serpent, ii. 533 ; their pro- phets disapproved of sacrificial worship, li. 525 ; offered human sacrifices, ii. 524 ; their prophetesses, ib.
Israelitish Tabernacle, elegant workman- ship, i. 536
Istar, Astoreth, the same as Venus, Queen of Heaven, ii. 444
Isvara, a psychological condition, ii. 591
^* Itself" met by the disembodiedsoul atthe gates of Paradise, il 635
lurbo Adonai, ii. 185, 189
Ixtlilxochitl, author of the Popul-Vuh, i. 548
Jacob, extraordinary fecundity of his family, ii. 558 ; the Zouave, i. X65, 217, 218
Jacob's pillar a lingham, ii. 445 acoUiot, Louis, i. 139; criticises oriental- ists, i. 583 ; testimony in regard to the- opoeia, i. 616, 617 ; branded as a humbug, iL 47 ; denounces the theory of Turani- ans and Semitism. ii. 48 ; on vulgar magic in India, ii. 70 ; description of Brahmanic initiations, ii. 103 ; sees a living spectre, ii. X04, X05 ; on Hindu metaphysics, ii. 262 ; disbelieves in the chastity of Buddhistic monks, ii. 331 ; knew no secrets, ii. 584
Jadfigar or sorcerers in India, iL 69
* aga-nath, ii. 297
' ah-Buh-Sun, ii. 348
] aina sect claims Buddhism, ii. 321 ; own- ers of the cave-temples, ii. 323
Jains, taught the existence of two ethereal bodies, 1. 429
Jairus, resuscitation of his daughter by Jesus, L 481
James the Just, never called Jesus the Son of God, 11. 203
Japanese, their probity, iL 573
lasher, Book of. ii. 399
Java Aleim, DTl^fiC mm (Lord-God), head of the priest-caste of Eden or Babylonia, i. 575 ; invests man with the coat ofskin, ib. ; of the Sacerdotal College, ii. 293
Javanese, island empire. 1. 592
Jehovah, his castle of fire, i. 270 ; a cruel anthropomorphic deity, L 307; not the sacred name at all, ii. 398 ; onl^ a Maso- retic invention, ib. ; feminine, iu 399 ; re- sembled Siva, iL 524
664
INDEX.
Jehovah-Nissi or lao-Nisi. the same as Osiris or Bacchus the Dio-Nysos or Jove of Ny- sa, ii. 165, 526
Jehovah-worship and Christianity aban- doned by Freemasons at Lausanne, ii. 377
Jeroboam made the lawful king of the Is- raelites, ii. 439
Jerome, St., mentions Jews of Lydda and Tiberias as mystic teachers, i. 26 ; pro- cured the Gospel of Matthew from the Nazarenes, ii. 181 ; his perverted text of Job, ii. 496
Jerusalem, the temple not so ancient as pre- tended, ii. 389
Jesuit cryptography, ii. 397
Jesuits, a secret society, now control the Roman Church, ii. 352 ; their magic, ii. 353; their secret constitution, ii. 354; Mackenzie's description, ii. 355; their
f>rofession of faith, ii. 358; their expulsion irom Venice, id. ; declare Christianity not evidently true, ii. 358, 359 ; sanction the murder of parents, ii. 363 ; disguised as Talapoins, i. 371 ; contest of ma^ic with the Augustinians, i. 445 ; two, desiring to change Sabean for Christian names, ii. 450; adopt the institute and habit of Siamese Talapoins. ii. 577 ; set aside Christian doctrines, il 578 Jesus, of Renan. Strauss and Viscount Amberley, ii. 562 ; Talmudic story, ii. 901 ; discovered and revealed the occult theology, ii. 202 ; or Nebo, inspired by Mercury, ii, 132 ; and Christna, united to their Chrestos, ii. 558 ; his life a copy of Christna, his character of Buddha, ii. 339 ; preached Buddhism, il 123 ; believed in Ferho or Fo. ii. 290 ; did not give any name to the Father, id.; his true history imparted to the Templars, ii. 382; regarded as a brother, i^.; an avatar like Mclchize- dek, becomes a son of God by baptism, ii. 566 ; son of Panther, a high pontiff of the universal secret doctrines, ii. 386; proclaims himself the Son of God and hu- manity, id.', represented by a great ser- pent, ii. 490 ; an Essene and Nazarene. ii. 1^1 ; used oil and drank wine, id.; of the church, the ideal of Irenaeus, ii. 33 ; clas- sified his teachings, ii. 145. 147; said to have been a Pharisee, ii. 148 ; said to have been a magician, id.; the materialized divine spirit, ii. 576 ; deified because of his dramatic death, ii. 339 ; why he died. »• 545 ; always called a man, ii. 239 ; for- gave his enemies, ii. 8 ; the heirs of Peter curse theirs, ii. 9 ; cast out devils by puri- fying the atmosphere, i. 356 ; taugnt the Logia, or secret doctrines, ii. 191 ; trans- mitted magnetic or theurgical powers, i. 130 ; healed by word of command, i. 217 ; his followers innovators, ii. 132 ; endeav- ored to give the arcane truth to the many, ii. 561 ; made little impression upon his own century ii. 335 ; familiar with the Koinoboi, ii. 336 ; who rejected him as the Son of God, ii. 455 ; said to have been hanged and stoned, ii. 255 ; never pro-
nounced the name of Jehovah, ii. 163 ; his doctrines like those of Manu, iL 164 ; and Buddha never wrote, iL 559 ; unwiUiiig to die, hence, no self-sacrificing Savior, ii.
545
Jewish colonists of Palestine imbued widi Magdean notions, ii. 481 ; people regard the Mosaic books as an allegory, i. 554, 555 : theology not understood by Chris- tians, i. 17
Jews excluded from Masonic lodges, ii. 390 ; their doubtful origin, ii. 438 ; worshipped Baal or Hercules, ii. 524 ; brought the Persian dualism to Palestine, ii. 300, 501 ; named Ormazd and Ahriman. Satan, ii. 501 ; an Indian sect, the Kaloni, i. ^\ probably came from Afghanistan or India, id, \ similar or identical with the Phoeni- cians, i. 566
Job, book of, Satan or Typhon appears, ii. 483 ; the allegory explained in the Book of the Dead. ii. 493 ; a representation of initiation, ii. 494 ; will give the key to the whole matter of the Devil, ii. 493; his trials and vindication, ii. 485 ; seeing God, ii. 485, 486 ; the neophyte, hears Uod in the whirlwind, ii. 498 ; vindicated by his Redeemer or champion, ii. 499, 500
Jobard, on two kinds of electricity, i. 188
John, Gospel written by a Gnostic, i. a; travelled in Asia Minor and learned of the Mithraic rites, ii. 507 ; the Baptist, his dis- ciples Essenean dissenters, ii. 130 ; disci- ples of. same as Nazareans or Mendaeans, do not believe in Christ, ii. 390
Jonah, the prophet, the allegory explained, ii. 258
Jones. Sir William, on the laws of Mann, i. 585 ; rules for constructing a purana, ii. 49a
Josapbat, St., a transmogrified Buddha, ii.
579 Judaism, Gnosticism, Christianity, and Ma- sonry erected on the same cosmical myths,
i- 405 Joseph, studied in Egypt, i. 95 ; became an
Egyptian, i. 566 Josephus, interpolated, ii. 196 ; his passage
concerning Jesus, ii. 328 Joshua, fugitives, i. 545 Jowett, translator of Plato, exceptions to his
criticism, i. 288 Judaeans, whether they were ever in Pales*
tine before Cyrus, a problem, i. 568 Judasi. the designation of the Jews, an Indian
term, ii. 441 Judea. its primitive history a distortion of
Indian fable, ii. 471 Judgment of the Dead, ii. 364 Juggernaut, his procession imitated by mif-
sionaries in Ceylon, ii. 113 Jugglers of India and Egypt, i. 73 ; walkiBg
from tree-top \o tree-top, i. 495 Julian, the emperor, a son of God or Mithra
by initiation, iL 566 Juno, her temple covered with pointed
blades of swords, i. 527 ; her abandoning
of Veii for Rome, i. 614
INDEX,
665
Jupiter and four moons discovered in Assy- ria, i. 361 ; his mythological adventures, astronomical phenomena, i. 367, a68 ; or Zeus originally the cosmic force, i. 262; also the demiurg, ib. ; the chief deity of the Orphic hymn, i. 263
Jury-trial, introduced by the Egyptians, i.
545 Justice and harmony analogous, i. 330
Justin Martyr, criticised for his heretical opinion about Socrates, ii. 8; his testi- mony concerning the talismans of Apol- lonius of Tyana. ii. 97 ; on the non-observ- ance of the Sabbath by Christians, ii. 419
Justinian, code of, copied from the code of Manu, i. 586
K , a positivist and skeptic, his experi- ences in Thibet, ii. 599-602
Kabala, its fundamental geometrical figure the key to the problem, i. 14; Chaldean, not known, i. 17 ; included m the Arcane doctrines, i. 205 ; same as the laws of Manu, i. 271 ; solves esoteric doctrines of every religion, i. 271 ; never written, ib. ; concerning Shedim, i. 313 ; its system of Sephiroth and emanations, ii. 213; re- peated in Talapoin manuscripts, i. 577 ; Oriental, or secret Book of Numbers, i.
579
Kabalists, Chaldean, claim science above 70,000 years old. i. i ; explanation of the allegory of descent into hell, i. 299
Kabeiri, Assyrian divinities, i. ^69; diflFer- ently named and numbered m different places, ib. ; reproduced in their Samo- thracian postures on the walls of Nagkon- Wat. ib. ; had similar names east as west, ib. ; worshipped at Hebron, the city of Beni-Anakor^«a^/»i. ib. ; number hardly known, ii. 478 ; their names, ii. 170
Kabeirian gods represented at Nagkon-Wat,
i. 565. 566
Kadeshim, or Galli, in the Hebrew sanctua- ries, ii. 45
Kadeshuth, or Nautch-girls in India, ii. 45
Kadosh degree invented cat Lyons, ii. 384
Kalani, an Indian sect, progenitors of the Jews, i. 567
Kalavatti, raised from the dead by Christna, ii. 241
Kalmucks, described earlier human races than the present, i. a
Kalpas, i. 31
Kali, the " tall of man." ii. 275
Kali-Yug, the desi^ation of the present third yug or age of mankind, i. 587 ; began 4,500 years ago, ib.
Kadiadovki. or Christian mysteries, ii. 119
Kangalins, or witches in India, ii. 69
Kannari caves at Salsctte, the abode of St. Josaphat, ii. 580, 581
Kanni, or bad virgins, ii 447
Kansa of Madura, commands the murder of Christna and the massacre of the in- fants, ii. X99
Kapila, a skeptic, i. 121 ; i. 307 ; denied a First Cause, ii. 261
Karabtanos, i. 300
Kamak, the representative of Thebes, its archeological remains, i. 523 ; lakes and mountains in its sanctuary, i. 524
Kasbeck, the mountain where Prometheus was punished, i. 298
Katie king, i. 48, 54 ; soulless, i. 67
Kavindisami the fakir, causes a seed to grow miraculously, i. 139
Kebar-Zivo. i. 300
Kepler believed the stars to be intelli- gences, i. 207, 208, 253
Kerrenhappuch, a mystic name, ii. 496
Kemer, Dr., witnessing case of Elizabeth Eslinger, i. 68 ; account of the encounter of the Cossack and Frenchman, i. 398
Keto or Cetus, the same as Dagon or Posei- don, ii. 258
Key to the Buddhist system, i. 289; to the mysteries lost by the Roman Catholic Church, ii. 121 ; G. Higgins mistaken, ib.
Keys of St. Peter, where they originated, ii. 31 ; cross and fishes, eastern symbols, ii. 235 ; to Masonic ciphers, ii. 394
Keystone, absent at Nagkon-Wat, Santa Cruz del Quichb, Ocosingo. and the Cyclopean structures of Greece and Italy, i. 571 ; has an esoteric meaning, ib.
Khaldi, worshippers of the muon-god, ii. 48
Khamism, an ancient dep>osit from Western Asia, ii. 435
Khansa, remarkable juggling trick, i. 473
Kidder, Bishop, remarkable testimony con- cerning the religion a wise man would choose, ii. 240
King. John, i. 75
Kings and statesmen. Jesuit method for as- sassinating, ii. 373
Kircher, Father, taught universal magne- tism, i 208
Ki^un or Kivan, the same as Siva, i. 570
Klikoucha. i. 28
Klippoth. i. 141
Kneph, his snake-emblem, i. 133; produ- cing the mundane egg, ii. 226
Knights Kadosch, cipher, ii. 395; hieroglyph, "• 396 1 Rose Croix, cipher, ii. 395 ; Tem- plars, i. 30; Templars, the modem, have no secrets dangerous to the Church, ii. 381 ; Templars, French Order, ii. 384, 385 ; the assassination of a Prince, ii. 385
Knowledge, tree of. the pippala, ii. 412 ; arcane, when sorcery and when wisdom,
ii. 58
Koheleth, the summary, ii. 476
Koinobi or communists of Egypt, ii. 305
Kol-Arbas, the Tetrad or group of four mis- taken for a Gnostic leader, ii. 248
Kor^-Persephont, Zeus the Dragon, and their son, ii. 505
Kosmos. regarded as God or comprehend- ing God, 1. 154
Kounboum. mystery of, i. 289; the Sacred Tree of Thibet, i. 302 ; the wonderful Tree of Thibet with letters and symbols on its leaves, i. 440 ; Sanscrit characters on the leaves and bark, ii. 46
Kristophores, or the fourth degree, il 365
(^
INDEX.
Kronos, i. 132
Krupte (crypt) the abode of a teleioUs, ii. 93
Kublai-Khan, ii. 608 ; why he failed to adopt Christianity, ii. 581, 582; reverences Christ, Mahomet, Moses, and Buddha all together, li. 582 ; his testimony concerning Christians, ii. 583
Kuklopes or Cyclopeans, shepherds, miners, builders, metal-workers, and Anakim, i.
567 Kuklos Anangkes, or Circle of Necessity, i.
553
Kukushan, a medicinal plant of extraordi- nary virtue, ii. 608
Kumil-M&dan, the undine, an elemental spirit, i. 496
Kurds, affirmed to be Indo-European ii. 629 ; are Mahometans, magicians, Yezids, and fire-worshippers, ii. 630 ; scene with a sorcerer, ii. 631
Kutchi of Lha-Ssa, magically apprised by a Shaman of the author's helpless condition in the desert, ii. 628
Kutti-Satan, a Tamil spirit, i. 567
Labyrinth, the great, description by He- rodotus, i. 522
Lactantius on calling up souls, i. 167 ; de- clared the heliocentric svstem,a heretical doctrine, i. 526 ; rejected the doctrine of the antipodes, ii. 477
Laestrygonians of the Odyssey cannibal races of Norway, i. 549
Laghana-Sastra, a secret sect in India, ii. 315 ; their sacred groves, ii. 316
Lake, mysteries of, ii. 138 ; of fire and brim- stone, ii. 12 ; the devil cast in it, with the beast and false prophet, ib. ; place of pu- rification of the wicked, ii. 238
Lakes and mountains Jn the Sanctuary of Karnak, i. 524
Lakshmi or Lakmi, the Damatil Venus or Great Mother, ii. 259, 598
Lama infant, or reincarnated Buddha, inter- view with him, ii. 859
Lamaic saints at a cave-temple, ii. 599 ; ex- orcism, ii. 626
Lamaism. the purest Buddhism, ii. 608
Lamas, Tliibetan, use the force known as Akasa, i. 113
Lamps, ever-burning, one in the tomb of Cicero's daughter, i. 224, 228 ; in crypts of India, Thibet, and Japan, i. 225 ; m Tra- vancore, ib. ; in Egypt, i. 226 ; at Athens, Carthage, Edessa, Antioch, i. 227 ; in the Appian Way and the Mosaic Tabernacle, i. 128 ; mode of preparing, i. 229
Lamp-wicks of stone, i. 231 ; of asbestos, i. 231
Land-measuring, known by the Egyptians,
iS3i Lao-tsi, or Laotsen. his figure produced by
magic, i. 600 Lares, i. 345
Larmcnius, charter forged, ii. 385 Larva, the soul, i. 344, 345 Larvae, shadows of men that have once lived,
i. 310 ; their reincarnation, i. 357
Last rite, not known by the highest epoptx,
ii. 563 Latin Church, nearly upset bv modem re- search, ii. 6 ; despoiled the kabalists and theurgists, ii. 85 ; preserves the old pagan worship, even to the dress of the clergy, ii. 9a Lausanne, declaration of the Supreme Ma- sonic Councils, ii. 377; denounced bj Gen . Pike, ib. Leaping of the prophets of Baal. ii. 45 Leaves, impressions made on, L 368, 369 Le Comte, Prof., comparison of living and dead organism, i. 466 ; on vital force, L
313 Lempriere accuses Pythagoras and Porphy- ry, i. 431 Lemure, i. 345
Lemuria, the last continent of the Indian Ocean, perhaps the same as Atlantis, i« 591. 592 : the Indian legend, i. 594 Lens found at Nineveh, i. 239 Lentulus, his forged letter, ii. 151 Leopard-skin, a sacred appendage of the mysteries, i. 568 ; found sculptured in basso-relievo in Central America, i. 569 ; employed by the Brahmans, ib. Lesser mysteries, their meaning and object,
ii. Ill Lesser and ^eater mysteries, accused of in- decency, li. 100 Letter of Father Raulica on magic, ii. 70 : of Mary Virgin to the Bishop and Churdi of Messina, ii. 83 ; firom a Dnize brother to the author, ii. 313 Letters, ii. 83 ; invented in Egypt, i. 532 Levi, a caste rather than a tribe, i. 568 Levi, Eliphas, exposition of the means to acquire magical power, i. 137 ; his remaik on the ancient Christian maJignity. ii. 250 Leviathan, the occult science, ii. 499 Law of com|>ensation never swerves, ii. 545 Levitation discussed, i. 491, 492, 494-4^ ; under magnetic conditions practicable, ii.
589
Levitations, i. 100, 225 ; declared impossible, i. 105 ; of lamblichus, i. 115 ; occasioned by the attraction of the J»eris/rit or astral soul. i. 197 ; disapproved by lamblichus, i. 219
Leviles, or serpent-tribe, the seraphs ex fiery serpents, ii. 481
Lewis, Sir G. C.. opinion adverse to the culture of the ancients, i. 525
Liberal ia, or St. Patrick's day, a festival of the Church, ii. 528
Libyan shepherds, Cyclopeans, i. 567
Lichen, produced, i. 30a
Life, a phenomenon of matter, i. 115
Life-principle, speculations, i. 466
Life-transfer, ii. 564
Light, chemical relations, i. 136 ; undnlatory theory much doubted, i. 137 ; mystical, the Divine Intelligence, i. 258 ; same as elec- tricity, ib, ; both matter and a force. I 981; sympathy its offspring, i. 309 ; an energy, not an emanation, the view of AristoCle. i 510 ; sublimated gold, L 511
INDEX.
(£>7
Lightning, conjured down by Prometheus.
i. sa6 ; late of Tullius, i. 527 Lightning-photographs, i. 394, 395 Lightning-rods on ancient temples, L 527,
53S ; used in India, i. 528 Lilith, Adam's *' first wife," ii. 445 Linen of ancient Egypt, i. 536 ; fire-proof, i.
230 Linga. same as the pillars of the patriarchs,
ii. 235 Lingham, or emblem of Maha Deva, ii. 5 ;
and Yoni in churches, ii. 5 Lithos or phallus, reproduced in steeples,
turrets, and domes, ii. 5 Littr6 on positive philosophy, i. 78 Living acari by chemical experiments, i.
465 ; fire, i. 301 Local gods, ii. 451
Lodestone, its power to affect a whole audi- ence, i. 265 Logia, or secret doctrines taught by Jesus,
ii. 191 Logoi. all fail and are punished, L 298 Logos, i. 131 ; in every mythos, i. 162 h.oyi K\n9m, True Doctrine of Celsus, story
of the book at a convent, ii. 52 Long-face, the Supreme God, ii. 247 Long hair, worn by John the Baptist and
Jesus, and denounced by Paul. ii. 140 Lord of the Genii, i, 300 Losing one's soul possible, i. 317 Lost word, where to be sou^^ht, i. 580 ; and its
substitute, Mac Benac. ii. 349 Lotus, the sacred flower of Egyptians and
Hindus, i. 91 ; superseded by the lilies, i.
92
Loub^re, M . de la, on Buddha and the Bud- dhists, ii. 576-579
Lourdes. shrine of. materializations of Vir- gin Mary, i. X19; the madonna, her mira- cles, i. 614, ii. 6; the moving of the statue, i. 618
Love, its magnetism the originator of created things, i. 210
Lucifer, i. 299
Luke, the evangelist, reputed an Essene, ii.
144 Lunar dynasties in India, the Chandra Ven-
sa, ii. 438 Lundy, Rev. Dr., what he has proved, ii. 557 Luther and the demon, ii. 73 ; the worst man
in Europe, ii. 200; his denunciation of the
Catholics, ii. 208 ; intolerant, and Calvin
bloodthirsty, ii. 503 Lycanth ropes, over wx) put to death in the
Jura by sentence of a judge, ii. 626 Lutherans burned as sorcerers, ii. 61 Luxor, unfading colors, i. 239 ; brotherhood
of, ii. 308
Macaulay, his criticism of scientists and
philosophers, i. 424 Mac Benac, ii. 349 Muchagistia, the magic taught in Persia and
Babylonia, i. 251 ; the testimony of Plato,
ii. 306 Mackenzie, his description of the Jesuits, ii.
355
Macrocosm, i. 62
Macroprosopos or macrocosm, i. 580
Madonna of Barri, with crinoline, il 9 ; of Rio de Janerio, dicolleUe, witn blonde hair and chignon, ii. 10
Madras famine made worse by Catholic tax- ation, ii. 532
Maektrom, the Charybdis of the Odyssey, i.
545
Magendie, remedy for consumption, \. 89 ; absents himself from experiments insti- tuted by the French Academy in 1826, i. i75> 176 ; acknowledges that little is known of fcctal life, i. 386 ; opinion of malformation, i. 388, 390 ; asserts influence of imagination on the foetus, i. 394
Magi established mag^c. i. 25 ; taught the birth and decadence of worlds, 1. 255 ; Pythagoras, their associate, i. 284 ; ob- jected to the evocation of souls, i. 321 ; three schools, ii. 361 ; Chaldean, the masters of the Jews, ib. ; two schools, ii. 128, 306
Magic, based on natural science, i. 17 ; once universally taught, i. 18, 247 ; a divine science, i. 25 ; originally established by Mugi, and not by priests, ib. \ very ancient, ib. \ Moses and Joseph pro- ficients, ib. ; two kinds, divine and evil, i. 26 ; neglected by Masons, i. 30 ; spirit- ualism, its modern form, i. 42 ; profound knowledge of simples and minerals, i. 66 ; likely to be rediscovered by scientists, i. 67; esoteric in India, i. 90 ; practised by Gymnosophists, L 90; the divina ^apicn- tia, I 94 ; Salverte's Philosophy of Magic, i. 115 ; mesmerism an important branch, i. 129 ; theory of Eliphas Levi, i. 137 ; modern forms, i. 138 ; doctrine of Para- celsus, A^rippa, and Philalethes, i. 167; included m the arcane doctrine of Wis- dom, i. 205 ; the power never possessed by those addicted to vicious indulgences, i. 218 ; its basis, the occult or spiritual principle, i. 244 ; testimony of Du Potet,