I. 279 ; theurgical, i. 281 ; a sacerdotal

science, i. 262 ; exemplified in eastern countries of Asia, i. 320; adepts under- stand the akasa or astral fluid, i. 378 ; synonymous with religion and science, L 459 ; belief of Demokritus ; 800,000,000 be- lievers in, i. 512 ; Votan of Ancient Amer- ica, i. 545 ; cultivated by Aztecs and ancient Egyptians, i. 560 ; studied by the people of Pashai or Peshawcr, i. 599 ; seance described by Hon. T. L. O'Sulli- van, L 608-611 J the churcn believes in it. ii. 76 ; used to select the canonical books of Holy Scripture, ii. 251 ; de- nounced, ii. 502 ; the science of man and nature, and its applications in practice, ii. 583 ; its principles, ii. 587-590 ; its comer- stone, ii. 589; black, practised at the Vatican, ii. 6 ; taught in the lamaseries, ii. 609 ; magnetism its alphabet, ii. 6zo
Magic arcanum, i. 506; crystal, i. 467 ; lamp of Hermes, ii. 417
Magical anaesthetics of the Brahmans, used
668
INDEX.
in the burning of widows, i. 540 ; exhibi- tions of Tartary and Thibet, testimony of Col. Yule, i. 600 ; moon of Thibet, 1. 441 ; evocation a part of the sacerdotal office, ii. 118 ; evocations must be pro- nounced in a particular dialect, iL 46
Magician, how different from a witch, i. 3& ; difference from a medium, i. 367 ; can summon and dismiss spirits at will, ib.
Magism flourished at the Ur of the Kas- dcans, i. 549
Magnale maenum, i. 170, 213
Magus, Magn, Mahaji, 1. 139
Magnes, i. 64; rediscovered by Mesmer, 71 ; the living fire or spirit of light, L 129
Magnet, rediscovered by Paracelsus, i. 71 ; the stone, i. 129 ; its concealed p>ower, i. 168 ; Kircher's doctrine of one magnet in the universe, i. 208 ; the same as the spir- itual Sun, or God, i. 209 ; the poles sig- nified in the Mysteries by the Dioskuri, 1. 235 ; the sun, i. 271
Magnetic currents develop into electricity,
J. 395
Magnetization, two kinds, i. 178 ; of mine- rals by animal magnetism, i. 209 ; of a table or person, i. 322
Magnetism, i. 129; animal, denied by mod- ern science and then accepted, 1. 130 ; the magic power of man, i. 170 ; taught by Des Cartes, i. 206 ; by Naud^, Hufe- land, Wirdig. and Kepler, i. 207 ; and by Porta and Father Kircner, i. 309 ; of love, the originator of eVery created thing, i. axo ; taught in the Mysteries, i. 234 ; poles represented by the Dioskuri, i. 235 ; the universal law, i. 244 ; the alphabet of magic, ii. 610 ; being true, medicine ab- surd, ib.
Mah&bharata, antedated the age of Cyrus the great, ii. 428
Maha Deva or Siva, his lingham or emblem in pagodas, ii. 5 ; worshipped by the dark races of Hindustan, ii. 434
Mahady of Elephanta, ii. 5
Mahat, or Prakriti, the external sense-life,
ii- 565 Mahomet, his testimony concerning Jews,
ii. 480
Mahometan, confession of Faith on the Chair of Peter, ii. 25
Mahometanism. the outgrowth of Christian cruelty, ii. 53, 54 ; making more prose- lytes than Christians, ii. 339
Maimonides, i. 17
Malagrida, burned for sorcery in 1761, ii.
58 Malays, their island empire, i. 59a Males suckling their young, i. 412 Malformations, opinion of Magendie, i. 388 ;
theory of Prof. Armor, i. 392 Malum in se, no such principle, ii. 480 Man, once communed with unseen uni- verses, i. 2 ; belief of the Kalmucks, ib. ; '* as immortal as God," i. 13 ; how influ- enced, i. 39; composed of like elements as the stars, i. 168 ; magnetism his magic power, i. 170 ; different electric condition
of persona and sexes, i. 171 ; possessed of three spirits, i. 212 ; a little world »• side the great, ib. ; Van Helmont's theory, i. 213 ; Plato's theory, i. 276. 297 ; andro- gynous, i. 497 ; created in the sixth mil- lenium, i 342 ; possesses arcane powers, ii. 113 ; how he should do, ii. 12a ; the fall an evolution, ii. 277 ; his spirit, if not his soul, prelFxistent. ii. 280 ; the object of the alchemic, Hermetic, and mystic ex- plorations, i. 308 ; the philosopher's stone and trinity in unity, i. 309 ; a microcosm, i. 323 ; never steps outside of universal life, ii. 343 ; the six principles, ii. 367 ; first appears as a stone, L 389 ; has power to shape matter, i. 394, 395 ; ante-oatal maternal impressions of this character, i. 395 ; seven days on the pillar, ii. 447 ; the story of the fall regarded as an allegory, ii. 546 ; has a natural, a spiritual, and final birth, ii. 565 ; triune, body, soul, and immortal spirit, ii. 588 ; how he becomes an immortal entity, ib,
Man-tree, i. 897
Mandrakes or Mandragora, a magical plant,
J. 465
Manes, i. 37, 345 ; his fate. ii. 308
Manifestations, subjective and objective, L 68 ; mediumistic, in Asia, i. 320
Mano, ii. 228, 229, 300
Mantheon, a title of Zoroaster, ii. 409
Mantic frenzy produced by exhalations from the earth, i. 531
Manu, laws the same as the doctrines of the sages and Kabala, I 271 ; doctrine of the universe, ib. ; laws of, opinion of Sir Wil- liam Jones, i. 585 ; the basis of the code of Justinian, i. 581 ; their age. 586-588 ; widow-burning not mentioned in them, i. 588 ; on life, evolution, and transforma- tions, i. 620. 621 ; predicts the advent of the Divine One, ii. 50 ; knew nothing of deluge, ii. 427, 428
Manus, six, progenitors of six races of men,
i. 590
Manu-Vina or Menes, colonixes Egypt from India, i. 627
Manwantara, i. 32
Marathos or Martu, ancient city and name of Phoenicia, means TMt Wrsi, i. 579
Marathon, neighing of horses and shouts of men heard 400 years after the battle, i. 70
Marcion distinguished between Judaism and Christianity, ii. 162; his doctrines, ii. 103 ; accepted Paul and denied the other apostles, ii. 168 ; the great hacresi- arch. his influence, ii. 159, 160; brutally assailed by Tertullian and Epiphanius. 1^.
Marco Polo, on veins of salamander or as- bestos, i. 504 ; asserts that in Kashmere images are made to speak, i. 505 ; brought movable types and blocks for printing, from China, i. 513 ; describes Buddha as living like a Christian, ii. 581 ; on the no- ture-spirits of the deserts, i. 603 ; would not retract his "falsehoods," ib.\ decla- ration in regard to hearing spirits talk ia the desert, i. 604
INDEX.
669
Marcosians, their sacrament, ii. 513 • Marechale d'Ancre, her trial for sorcery, ii.
60 Mariana, Jesuit, explains the best way to kill
a king, li. 37a, 37^ Markland, a possible root of name America,
Marriage cured the convulsionaries, i. 375 Marrying the father's wife, ii. 240 Marses in Italy, power over serpents, i. 381 Martu or Marathos, the west, i. 579 Mary, virgin, materializing at Lourdes, i. 119 ; writes a letter from heaven declaring the pagans condemned to eternal torments, ii. 8 ; the anthropomorphized Isis, ii. 41 ; writes letters, il 8a, 83 ; text of one, iu 87 ; without her consent, no redemption, ii.X73, Z73 ; overshadowed by Ilda-Baoth and not bjr iEbel Zivo or Gabriel, ii. 247; like Dido, the Virgin of the Sea, ii. 446; is vis- ited by the Agathodaimon serpent, ii. 505 Mason, Osgood, on deity and nature, i. 426 Masonic ciphers, the keys, ii. m^ ; fraternity, its unworthy members, ii. A5 ; honors of- fered by M. de Negre, a grand hierophant, refused, ii. 380 ; institute, brought into dis- repute by the Jesuits, il 385 ; pagan in origin, iff. ; templars, a creation of the Jesuits, ii. 381 Masonry, neglect of magic and spiritualism, i. 30 ; once a true secret organization, ii . 349 ; who should be excluded, ii. 376 ; esoteric, not known in American lodges, iy ; the time to remodel it has come, ii. 377 ; no secrets left unpubhshed, id. ; whether Christian or pagan, id. ; de-
garting from its original aims, ii. 380 ; European and American, the Bible its
great light, ii. 389 Masons, accusations against them half guess- work, ii. 372; reject a personal God, ii.
375 ; and the impostor Anderson, ii. 389 Masorets changed the immodest words in the
Bible, ii. 430 Master-builder, epopt. adept, the Apostle
Paul, ii. 91 Master's word, communicated only at low
breath, ii. 99 Mas'udi. on the gh^ls in the desert, i. 604 Materialization, what spirits practice it, i.
319 ; |>ersonal, i. 321 Materializations recorded in the Bible, i.
493 *• Materialized spirits," i. 67 ; witnessed by
the author, i. 69; Virgin Mary to be ex- pected at the Vatican, ii. 82 ; often comes and lights a taper at Arras, id.
Mathematical error held by the Gnostics, ii. 194
Mathematicians, ancient, went to Egypt to be instructed, i. 531
Mathematics. Pythagorean and Platonic, i. 106
Matsya, the earliest avatar, ii. 427
Matter, how produced, i. 140; proclaimed by modern physicists sole and autocratic soverei^ of the universe, i. 235 ; its inde- structibility, I 243 ; origin, i. 258 ; the ser- |
pent that tempted man, i. 297 ; not created by Divine thought, i. 310 ; indestructible and eternal, i. 328 ; fructified by the Di- vine idea or imagination, i. 396 ; the re- mote effect of emanative energy, ii. 35
Matthew, gospel of. a secret book written in Hebrew, li. 181. 182 ; quotes the Egyp- tian Book of the Dead, ii. 548
Matwanlin, on voices in the deserts, i. 604
Maudsley. Prof., repudiates Comte. ii. 3; rejects the positive philosophy, i. 82
Mauritania Tingitana, its columns, ii. 545
Mauritius, his nauscopite, i. 240
Max Muller, scouts the idea of original human brutality, i. 4 ; on the meaning of Veda, i. ^54 ; on Sanscrit literature, i. 442 ; on the four ancestors, i. 559 ; on Brahmanical literature, i. 580 ; on the mu- tations of Christianity, ii. 10 ; on the science of religion, ii. 26 ; his retort upon Prof. Whitney, ii. 47 ; assertion on the Hindu gods, ii. 413 ; on the Vedas, ii. 414 ; his understanding of Nirvana, ii. 43a
Maxwell, his offer to cure diseases aban- doned as incurable, i. 215 ; his theory of the world -soul or life-spirit, i. 215, 216
Maya, or illusion, i. 289
Mayas of Yucatan, their mysterious city. i.
547 Mecassipa, an enchanter, 1. 355
Medallions from the ashes of the dead, ii.
603 Mediatorship, how exercised, i. 487, 488 Medici family patrons of the black art, ii. 55 Medicine, classed by Bacon as a conjectural science, i. 405 ; modem, what it has gain- ed and lost, i. ao; occult, suggested by Descartes, i. 214 Medium, a conductor, i. 201 ; difference from a magician, i. 367 ; a passive, the adept an active instrument, ii. 588 ; needs a foreign intelligence, ii. 592 Medium-catcher of Prof. Faraday, i. 63 Medium-healers, charged with vampirism,
i. 490. 491
Mediums, their visions more trustworthy than those of Catholic priests, ii. 73 ; burned, hanged, and otherwise murdered, J- 26, 353 ; in Russia, i. 27 ; generally utter commonplace ideas, i. 221 ; their astral limbs, ii. 595 ; are usually dis- eased, iff. ; the Mosaic law contemplated killing them, i. 356 ; passive, i. 488 ; un- regulated ones persecuted, i. 489; how cured, i. 490 ; generally disordered while the ancient thaumatur^psts were not, id.
Mediumistic diathesis, 1. 117 ; phenomena in Asia. i. 320
Mcdiumship, physical and spiritual, i. 367 ; its phases seldom altered, id. ; depends upon a peculiar organization, i. 367; psy- chographic, i. 368 ; its conditions and cir- cumstances, i. 487 ; in holy men. media- torship. id. \ in these days an undesirable gift, i. 488; natural, ii. zi8; the opposite of adcptship, ii. 588
Megasthenes traces the Jews to the Kalani of India, i. 567
670
INDEX.
MelampuSf his magical cures, i. 531 Melanephoris, the third degree, ii. 364 Mementos of a long bygone civilization, i.
349
Memory, views of Ammonius Sakkas, ii. 591 ; of God, i. 178
Men produced by the giant Ymir, and also by the cow Audhumla. i. 148 ; denoted by the -tree of life, Yg^drasill, Zampun, As- watha, i. 151-4 ; existed at a period ex- tremely remote, i. 155 ; of the Stone Age descril>ed by Mrs. Denton, i. 295 ; revivi- fied without souls, ii. 564 ; races differ in their spiritual gifts, ii. 588 ; soulless, ii. 369 ; of science wear the cast-off garb of priests dyed to escape detection, ii. 8
Mendeleyeff, Prof., declares spiritualism a mixture of superstition, delusion, and fraud, i. 117 ; protest by Butlerofli Aksa- koff, and others, i. 118
Menes, turned the course of the Nile, i. S16
Menon, the inventor of letters, i. 532
Mensubulism, i. 322
Mental photography, i. 322
Mentuhept, Queen, inscription on her monu- ment, ii. 92
Mercaba, ii. 348 ; must be first known, ii. 349 ; a hidden doctrine, ib.
Mercurius vitas of Paracelsus, ii. 620
Mercury, water of. symbol of the soul, i. 309; or quicksilver, never used by Yogi or alchemist, only by charlatans, and not by Paracelsus, ii. 620, 621 ; never restored a man to health, ib.
Meridian, known when the first pyramid was built, i. 536
Meru or Meru^, sound, etc. , i. 592 ; and its gods, ii. 233. 234
Mcsmer, rediscovered animal magnetism, i. 165; his 27 propositions, i. 172; con- demned by the French Committee of 1784
Mesmerism, i. 23 ; a rediscovery of what Paracelsus taught, i. 72 ; repudiated by positivists, i. 82; used successfully by physicians, ib. \ an important brancn of magic, i. 129, 131 ; condemned in France in 1784, i. 171 ; prize offered for thesis by the Prussian Government, i. 173 ; taught by Descartes, i. 206
Message delivered at Kounboum, ii. 604
Messages, writing by spirits, i. 367
Messiah, comes in the conjunction of Jupi- ter and Saturn, in the sign Pisces, ii. 256 ; the fifth emanation, ii. 259
Metallic springs found in ancient war- chariots, i. 530
Metalline, a compound overcoming friction, i. 502
Metallurgy among the Egyptians and Semi- tic races, i. 538
Metals not simple bodies, i. 509
Metatron, or angel of the Lord, transformed into Jesus the son of Mary, ii. 33 ; seven- ty names, ii. 245
Metempsychosis, i. 8 ; believed by all phil- osophers, early fathers and Gnostics, i.
12 ; doctrine of Plato, i. 276, 277 ; an alle- gory, not to be literally understood, and relating to experiences of the soul, i 989, 550 ; of Buddha, i. 291 ; dreaded by Hin- dus, i . 348 ; the separation of the tktiwus and ridding the nous of the phren, ii. s86
Methuselah helps Enoch construct nine chambers underground in the land Canaan, i. 571 ; receives from him certain secret learning, ib.
Metis, the same as Sophia of the Gnostics, and Sephira, ii. 163
Mexican serpent-gods, i. 57a
Mexicans, ancient, i. 313 ; their theory aft lunar eclipses similar to the Hindu, L
548 Mexico, serpent-worship, i. 46. 551-558 Michael, the unknown angel, ii 488 ; ajdiial of his sweat preserved as a relic, ii. 71 ; the archangel, the same as Ophiomorphos, ii. 206 ; and the Devil, their dispute, iL 482 ; the Dragon-slayer, ii. 488 Michelet, testimony in regard to the Jesuits,
ii. 358, 359 Microcosm, i. 21a
Microcosmos, i. 28
Microprosopos (little face), the microcosm, L 580 ; the .Adam primos, ii. 45a
Microscope, its brothers in the Books of Moses, i. 240
Middle Asia, botany and mineralogy, i. 89; ever-burning lamps, i. 227
Midgard snake, i. 151
Midianites regarded as wise men, ii. 449
Milk of the Celestial Virgin, i. 64
Milton, John, regarded Paradise Lost as a book of fiction, ii. 501
Mimer, the deep well of wisdom, i. 151
Minarets of Islam, ii. 5
Minerals, magnetized by man. i. 909 ; the basis of evolution of vegetable organisms, ib. \ their occult properties, ii. 589
Miracles, those of the Bible surpassed by those of the Vedas, i. 90 ; so-called, gen- uine, from Moses to Cagliostro, i. laS ; none in nature, ii. 587; at the tomb of Abb^ Paris, i. 372 ; among the Convulsionaires. ib. ; none in Protestant countries, ii. 17 ; in spite of the Church, ii. 22, 23
Miraculous Conception, a legend of Buddh- ism, ii. 504 ; fire at the Holy Sepulchre, ii. 404
Mirville, De, i. 99 ; refutes Babinet's denial of levitation, i. 105 ; the nebulous Al- mighty, i. 129
Mithra, a triple god, ii. 41
Mithraic Mysteries, ii. 351 ; initiation of Julian the Emperor, ii. 566
Mixture to out-stench devils, ii, 71
Mnirurin, i. 321
Mochtana or Mokomna, the Druze apostle, ii. 308
Morals, the Buddhistic code, ii. 608
Model of the Universe, i. 30a
Modern philosophers, see only the physical form of Isis, i. 16 ; devil, a herlta^ from Cybeld, ii. 501 ; Savants know less than ancients, 1. 15 ; science denies a Supreme
INDEX.
671
Being or Personal God, i. 16 ; teaches the power of human thought to affect the matter of another universe, i. 310 ; scien- tists hate new truths, i. 409 ; spiritualism, i. 40 ; the modem form of magic, i. 43
Mceris, the artificial lake constructed in Egypt, i. 516
Moibasure, the Hindu Lucifer, i. 299
Moksha and the Nirvana, ii, zz6; the second spiritual birth, ii. 566
Moldenwaher, his documents concerning the prosecution of the Knights-Templar, bought up by Free-masons, ii. 383
Moloch- Hercules, children immolated to ' him in the valley of the Gehenna, ii. xi
Moloch-God of the inquisition, ii. 65
Moloch-like divinity of Roman church, i. 27
Monad, i. aia ; Buddha, i. 291
Monas, iL 347
Mongolians, ought to have been called Scyths, i. 576
Monkey of God, now exorcised with holy water, ii. 96
Monkeys exhibiting human intellect, i. 326 ; fabled to be progenitors of western peo- ple, i. 563 ; in Egyptian temples, i, 564 ; m all Buddhistic temples, id.
Monkish impostors expelled from convents in Southern Mongolia, ii. 609
Monks, their fury for exorcising and roast- ing the convulsionaires of the Cevennes, i- STpt 37a ; none in hell, ii. 75
Monoliths, for Egyptian monuments, i. 518 ; how transported, id.
Monogenes, or only-begotten, a name of Proserpina, ii. 284
Montesquieu, on two witnesses, i. 87
Montezuma, his effigy worshipped in xMexico. i. 557
Moncgeron, writes a book on Jansenist miracles, i, 373
Monuments, religious, the expression of the same thoughts, i. 561 ; planned and built under supervision of priests, id. ; alike in Asia and America, i6.
Moody, the revivalist, would see his son's eyes dug out, ii. 250; and Sankey, con- founded by a Roman bishop with spiritual- istl, ii. 7
Moon, the same as Diana, Diktynna, Artemis, Juno, etc. , i. 267 ; her worship in Crete, id. ; influence on women, id. ; legends of her phases , i. 265, 266j in- fluence on tides, persons, and vegetation, i. 273 ; in middle nature, and green the middle color, i. 514
Moon-god, Deus Lunus, worshipped by the Khaldi, ii. 48
Moon-kings, or lunar dynasty, reigned at Pruyag and Allahabad, il 48
Moor, his explanation of the Wittoha, ii.
557. 558 Moore, Rev. Dunlop, assertion of the age
of the institutes of Manu, i. 585 Moors, bearded, figures at the great temple
of Angkor, or Nagkon-Wat, i. 565, 567 Mora in Sweden, young children burned
alive as witches, ii. 503
More Henry, i. 54, 74 ; his belief in Py- thagorean doctrines, i. 204, 205 ; adver- sary of Eugenius Philalethcs, i. 308 ; de- monstration of witchcraft, i. 353 ; theory of birth-marks, i. 384. 385
Morgan, " good enough till after the elec- tion," ii. 372
Moigno, Abb writing down Huxley, Tyndall, and Ray- mond, i. 336
Mormons, polytheists, ii. 2
Mortal soul, i. 276, 326
Mosaic books, regarded by well-educated Jews allegory, i. 554, 555 ; religion a sun- and-serpent worship, ii. 129
Moses, the pupil of the mother of Pharaoh's daughter, i. 25 ; communicated secrets to the seventy elders, i. 26 ; his code required two witnesses, i. 87; placed a perpetual lamp in the tabernacle, i, 228 ; described
iehovah the anthropomorphic deity as eing the highest God, i. 307 ; could not obtam his other name, i. 309 ; philoso- phized or spoke in allegory, i. 436 ; said to have had knowledge of electricity, i. 528 ; chief of the Sodales or priest-col- leges, i, 555 ; a hierophant of Heliopolis and priest of Osiris, id. ; initiated, id. ; became an Egyptian and a priest, 1. 536 ; denounced the spirit of Ob, not Od, i. 594 ; disputes over his body, its allegorical interpretation, ii. 482; an initiate, ii. 129; and the Israelites, their story typical, ii, 493 ; versed in occult sciences, ii. 59 ; the law not more than two or three cen- turies older than Christianity, ii. 526
Moslem arms blessed by the Pope, ii. 560
Mother and child, a very ancient sign and myth, ii. 4^1 ;-trunk, the universal religion, ii. 123; of'^God the most ancient, ii. 49, 50 ; the Heaven itself, ii. 50 ; lodge, the great, 11. 315
Mountain of light, its appearance to Hiouen- Thsang, i. 600
Mouse-mark, produced by alarm, i. 391
Mousseaux, Des, I 99 ; declares the devil the chief pillar of faith, i. 103
Movable printing types, in China before our Era, i. 513 ; used in the earliest j>eriods of lamaism in Thibet, id.
Moyst natures or elementary spirits, i, 343, 343
Mukti, or half-gods, ii. 566
MUllcr, Albrecht, testimony in regard to an- cient skill, i. 539
Mummy, bandaging, i. 20 ; a symbol, i. 297; a finger-ring at the I^ndon Exhibition of
1851, i. 531 Mummy-bandaging, i. 539 ; 1000 yards long
id. Mundane tree, i. 297 Mundane cross of heaven, ii. 454 ; egg or
universal womb, ii. 214 ; snake creeps out
of the primordial i/us, i. 298 Muraton, his felt cuirassa^ copied from the
ancients, i. 530 Murder, an obstacle to ancient, but not to
Jesuit initiation, ii. 363
6/2
INDEX.
Murderous language of Jerome and Tertul- lian, ii. 250
Music, power over diseases, i. 215 ; effect on persons, i. 275 ; its influence on rep- tiles, i. 382 ; employed in Egyptian tem- ples for healing of nervous disorders, i.
544 Musical instruments in Egypt, i. 544 ; sand.
i. 605 ; tones influence vegetation, i. 514
Mutton-protoplasm, i. 251
Mysteries, i. 15 ; little known, i. 24 ; of the Israelites, i. 26 ; theurgic. i. i^ ; Samo- thracian, i. 132 ; occult properties of mag- netism and electricity taught, i. 234 ; representation of Demetcr with the elec- triflcd head, i^. ; the Dioskuri, i. 234-243 ; Pythagoras initiated, i. 284 ; their grada- tion, ii. loi ; ennobling in their character. ib. ; of the ancients identical with the Hindu and Buddhist initiations, ii. 113, 114; divine visions beheld in them, ii. 118; of the Christians, ii. 1x9; Jesuit, not revealed to all priests, ii. 350 ; Mith- raic, twelve tortures, ii. 351 ; taught to the Babylonians, ii. 457
Mysterious city of the Mayas of Yucatan, i. 547 ; science existed apart from •* me- diumship," ii. 118
Mystery of the celestial Virgin pursued by the Dragon, ii. 490 ; and science, Mr. Felix's book, i. 337
Mystery-God of the InefiTable Name, ii. 289
Mystic doctrines not properly understood, 1. 429; legends of the Middle Ages. ii. 38
Mystical words of power in old religions, ii. 99 ; properties in plants, ii. 589
Myths, fables, when misunderstood, and truths as once understood, ii. 431
Nabatheans in Lebanon, ii. 197
Nagal. the chief sorcerer of the Mexicans, i. 556
Nagas, or kingly snakes, i. 448 ; or serpent- tribes of Kashmere, teachers of ApoUo- nius, ii. 434 ; or serpent-worshippers of Kashmere converted to the Buddhistic faith, ii. 608
Nagkon-Wat, i. 239; description of Frank Vincent, i. 561-563 ; pictures represent scenes from the Ramayava, i. 573 ; 100,000 separate figures, ib. ; ascribed to the lost tribes of Israel, i. 565 ; suggested to have been built for Buddhaghosa, ib. ; contains representations of Cannes or Dagon, the Kabeiri, the monkey or Vulcan, Egyptian and Assyrian figures, ib.
Nagualism and voodoo-worship, i. 556, 557 ; secret worships, i. 557 ; ii. 572 ; perpetu- ated by Catholic persecution, ii. 573
Nails of a cherub preserved as relics, ii. 71
Name, Ineff"ablc, not possessed by Masons, ii. 387
Nandi, the Vehan of Siva, ii. 235
Nara, the mundane egg or universal womb, ii. 214
Narayana, mover of the waters, Brahma, i.
Nation, its greatest curse, il 121
National Quarterly ^ on modem scientists, i. 240. 249
Natural magic, no rjelation to sleight oi hand. I 128 ; " mediumship," ii. 118
Nature, four kingdoms, i. 539 ; a material- ization of spirit, I 428 ; triune, the visible or objective, the vital or subjective prin- ciple and the eternal spirit, ii. 587; the servant of the magician, ii. '590 ; reve^ all arts. 424, 425
Nature-spirits orshedim, L 313; or elemen- tary, i. 349
Naude. a defender of occult magnetism and theosophy. i. 207
Naus-copite. an optical instrument. L 240
Navel and less comely parts of Jesus for relics, ii. 71 ; symbolized by the ark. iL
444
Nazarene system explained, ii. 227-229; diagram, ii. 295
Nazarenes, had a gospel inscribed to Peter, ii. 127; an anti-Bacchus caste, ii. 129; existed before Christ, ii. i^, 181; some as Galileans, 139 ; their belief of a divine overshadowing, ii. 154
Nazaret or Zoroaster, ii. 140
Nazars, Joseph. Samuel, Samson. Zoroas- ter, and Zorobabel, il 128 ; wore their hair long, but cut it off at initiation, ii 90 ; Jesus belonged to them. ib.
Nazireates, inimical to the Israelites, ii 131
Nebelheim (Niflheim), the matrix of the earth, i 147
Nebular theory, the ancient docrine, l 238
Necessity, circle of. i 226. 296; men its toy. i 276 ; circle of, when completed, i 346
Necho, King of Egypt, wrote on astronomy, i 406 ; canal of. i. 517 ; II., sent a fleet to circumnavigate Africa, i. 542
Necklace, imprinted by lightning on t^o ladies, i 398
Necromancy, a science of remote antiquity, i 205
NEKPOKHAEIA nekrokedeia^ L 228
Neoconis, the second degree, ii. 364
Neo-Platonic Eclectic School, ii. 3a
Neo-Platonists, i 262 ; their time of greatest glory, ii. 41 ; their doctrines and prarticcs copied, ii 84; not "spirit mediums." ii. 118 ; when they were doomed, ii. 252
Nero, his ring, 240 ; dared not seek initia- tion, ii. 363
Nerds I. , i. 31 ; the Great, i. 33
Nervous disorders, i. 117 ; disorders a spe- cialty in ancient Egypt, i. 529 ; disorders treated with music in Egyptian temples, L 544 ; exhaustion at spiritual circles, i. 343
Neurological telegraphy prop>osed, L 324
Never-embodied men, 1. 301
Neville, Francis, twice resuscitated, i. 479
New birth and accompanying slaughter, ii. 42 ; taught by Buddha and Jesus, ii. 566
New Jersey, negroes burned at the stake for witchcraft, ii. 18
New Testament, passa|;es compared with sentences from the philosophers, ii. 338
Newton Bishop, on the transformation of
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paganism into popery, ii. 99; Dr. the American healer. 1. 165, aiy. 318 ; Isaac, believer in magnetism, i. 177
Niccolini, his exposure of the profligacy of monks, il 365. 366
Nicodemus, Gospel taken from the pagan authors, ii. 518
Nicolaitans adhered to marriage, ii. 339
Nicolas, a man of honest report, ii. 333
Night of Brahma, ii. 372, 373
Nimbus and Tonsure solar emblems, ii. 94
Nimrod, or spotted, a name of Bacchus, the wearer of the spotted skin, i. 568
Nimroud, convex lens found, i. 340
Nin or Imus of the Tzendales the same as Ninus. i. 551 ; received homage in the form of a serpent, i. 533
Nineveh, 47 miles in circumference, i. 341
Nirvana, i. 341, 390; -the world of cause, i. 346; not nihilism nor extinction, i. 430; complete purification from matter. iL 117 ; subjective but not objective exist- ence, iL 386; a personal immortality in spirit, but not in soul, ii. 330 ; or Moksha, the second spiritual birth, ii. 566; the ocean to which aU religions tend, ii. 639
Nirvritti or rest, i. 343
No devil, no Christ, ii. 493
Noah, or Nuah, same as Swayambhuva, ii. 443 ; the universal mother, h. 444
Nonnus, his legend of Kor^ and her son, il
504 Noms, or Parcae, watering the roots of the
tree Yggdrasill. i. 151 Norse kingdom of the dcod, ii. iz ; contained
no blazing hell, ib. Nous, i. 55, 131 ; consecrated to Mary, Isis,
and Nari. ii. aio; or rational soul, every-
man endowed. iL 379; the spirit or rea- soning soul, doctrine of Aristotle, i. 317 ;
the first-lx>m, or Christ, ii. 157 No-Zeruan, the ancient of days, ii. 143 Nout, the Egyptian name of the Divine
Spirit, ii. 282 ; same as Nous, ib. Nuah (Hea) king of the humid principle, ii.
429 Nubia, its rock-temples, i. 542 Nucleus of the embryo, i. 389 Numa, King of Rome, Books of, i. 537 ;
understood electricity, ib, ; opposed the
use of images in worship, ib. Numbers, Hermetic Book, on cosmic
changes. I 254 ; book of secret, the great
Kabala, i. 579 Numerals of Pythagoras, hieroglyphical
symbols, i. 35 ; the basis of all systems of
mysticism, ii. 407 Nun, an Egyptian designation, ii. 95 Nysa, Nyssa, always found where Bacchus
was worshipped, ii. 165 ; same as Sinai,
ib.
Oak, sacred, i. 297, 398
Oanncs, i. 133; the man fish, i. 349; the
same as Vishnu, ii. 257 ; name signifles a
spirit, ib. Oath taken by initiates, i, 409 Ob, the astral light, i. 158
Obeah women in Guiana charm snakes, i. 383
Obelisks of Egypt, L 518 ; mode of trans- porting them, I. 5x9 ; imputed to Hermes Trismegistus, i. 551
Object of this book, ii. 98. 99
Obscene relics at Embrum, ii. 333
Obscene bas-reliefs on the doors of St. Peter's Cathedral, ib.
Obscene statue of Christ and its miracles, ib.
Obscenity of heathen rites, ii. 76
Obsession and possession, I 487, 488 ; ii. 16 ; all connned to Roman Catholic countries, ii. 17
Obsessions, irresistible, i. 376
Occult properties in minerals, ii. 589 ; powers by inheritance, ii. 635, 636
Occultism, pbysical, I 19
Oculists in ancient Egypt, i. 545 I Od, an a^ent described by Baron Reichen- bach, 1. 146; astral currents vivified, i. 158 ; emanations identical with flames from magnets, etc, i. 169
Odic Force, I 67
Odin, i. 19 ,- breathing in man and woman, the ash and the alder, the breath of life. i. 151 ; Alfadir, ib.
Oersted, on laws of nature. i« 5,06. 507
Oetingcr, experiment on ashes of plants^ i. 476
O'Grady, Wm. L. D., his letter denouncinp; the influence of missionaries in India, ii. 475 ; on Hindu demoralization under Brit- ish rule, li. 574 ; his account of a Christian saturnalia in India, ii, 533
Okhal or hierophant of the Dnues. ii. 309
Okhals or spiritualists of Syria, ii. 392
Old book, one original copy only in exis- tence, i. I ; gods of the heathen, the same as the ancient patriarchs, ii. 450 ; man and his sou, remarkable resuscitation, i 4E4 ; Testament, exiled by Colenso and re- called, ii. 4; Testament, no real history in it, ii. 441 ; universes evolved before the present, ii. 421
Olympic gods, their biographies relate to physics and chemistry, i, 261 ; women climbing perpendicular walls, i. 374
Onderah, the Hindu abyss of darkness, only an intermediate state, ii. 11
One only good. ii. 338 ; in three, i. 358
Only-begotten sons, ii. 191
Operative masons, ii. 393
Ophiomorphos and Ophis Christos, ii. 449
Ophion called also Dominus. ii. 513
Ophiozenes in Cyprus, power over venom- ous reptiles, i. 381
Ophis, the same as Chnuphis or Kneph, ii. 187 ; or the agathodaimon, il 393, 395
Ophism and heliolatry imputed to Hermes,
i- 551 Ophite Gnostics rejected the Old Testament^
ii. 147; Theogony correctly given, ii. 187; worship transmuted into Christian sym- bolism, ii. 505 ; or serpent-worshipping Christians, their scheme, ii. 292 ; seven planetary genii, iL 396 ; rejected the Mo-
674
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saic writings, ii. i68 ; taught the doctrine of emanations, ii. 169 ; and Nazarenes compared, \L 174 ; denounced by Peter andjude, ii. 905; accused of licentious- ness, ii. 325 Optical instruments of ancient times, i. 340 Oracle of the bleeding head consulted by
Queen Catherine of Medicis, ii. 56 Oracles obtained during the sacred sleep,
i. 357 Oracular head, made bv Pope Sylvester II.,
ii. 56: by Albertus Nlagnus destroyed by
Thomas Aquinas, ifi.
Orcus. i. 298, 299
Oriental philosophy, fundamental proposi- tions, ii. 587
Orientals, their senses more acute, i. 211 ; ascribe a human figure to the soul, i. 214 ; believe certain persons have made gold and lived for ages, i^.
Orientalists have shown similarities between religions, ii. 49
Origen, believed in metempsychosis, i. 12 ; an Ale.xandrian Platonist, i. 25; secret doctrines of Moses, i. 26 ; believed the spirit preftxistent from eternity, i. 316; deemed the soul corporeal, i. 317 ; denied the perpetuity of hell-torments, ii. 13 ; taught that devils would be pardoned, id. ; believed that the damned would receive pardon and bliss, ii. 238 ; on the threefold partition of man, ii. 285
Ormazd, his worship restored, ii. 220; his creations, ii. 221
Orobio exposes the inquisition, ii. 59
Orohippus, i. 411
Orpheus, alleged to be a disciple of Moses, i. 532; on the virtues of the lodestone, i. 265
Orphic Mysteries not the popular Bacchic rites, ii. 129
Osiris, i. 93. 202; brought up at Nysa and called Dionnysos, ii. 165 ; his slaying de- noted the period when his worship was under the ban of the Hyk-sos government, ii. 487 ; and Typhon, L. Pococke's theory,
ii. 435. 436 O'Sullivan, Hon. John L., description of a
semi-magical seance, i. 608 Oulam does not mean infinite duration, ii.
12
Ovule ceases to be an integral part of the
body of the mother, i. 401 Ovum, impregnated, its evolutionary his- tory, i. 389 Oxus-tribes or bull-worshippers dominate
Western Asia, ii. 439 Owen, Robert D., on worship of words, ii.
560
Pagan idols, their destruction commanded by the Roman emperor, ii. 40 ; worship, the Latin church preserves its symbols, rites, architecture and clerical dress, ii, 92
Paganism, true meaning of the word, ii. 179 ; ancient wisdom replete with deity, ii. 639 ; converted and applied to pop>erv, ii. 29
Pagans condemned to the eternal torments
of hell ii. 8 ; Virgm Mary writing this to a saint, ii.
Palenque, keystone not found, L 571 ; the Tau and astronomical cross, i. 57a
Pali, their manuscripts translated, i. 578; have similar traditions as the Babylonians, ii.; shepherds, who emigrated west, iS.
Pallium, or stole, a feminine si?n, iL 94; that of Augustine bedecked wiUi Buddhis- tic crosses, ii. 94
Panther, Grecian, contained Egyptian gods, j« 543 1 panther, the sinful famer of Jesus, ii. 386
Papacy, scientific, dajQjB^er of, i. 403; "and civil power," Mr. Thompson's book de- nounced, ii. 378
Papal tiara, the coiffure of the Assrrian gods, il 94 ; discourses, catalogue of foul epithets on those who oppose the pope, ii 7
Paper, time-proof, i. 529
Papyrus, as old as Menes and the first dy- nasty, i. 530 ; art of its preparation, ik
Parables or double-meanings in the dis- courses of Jesus, iL 145
Parabrahma the Eternal. Bhaghavant. L 91
Paracelsus, i 20, 50; his learning, i. 52; discovered hydrogen, 52, 169; his doc- trine of faith and will, i. 57. 170 ; redis- covery of the magnet, i. 71, 164, i secuted by the Roman Catholic Chinrh. i. 100 ; his homunculi. i. 133. 465 ; teacher of animal-magnetism and electro-magnet- ism, i. 164 ; theory of a concealed power of the magnet, i 168 ; sidereal force, ii.; theory of dreams, i. 170 ; on the alkahest, i. 191 ; method of transposing letters in his terms, ii.; taught that three spirits actuate man, i. 212 ; removed disease by contact of healthy persons, i 217; his preparation of mercury, ii. 690; and chorcea. and was persecuted for it as a magician, ii. ^65 ; received the true initia- tion, ii. 349 ; his assertion that magic was taught in the Bible, ii. 500 ; Alsatians be- lieve him not dead, ii.
Paradigm of the universe, i 21a
Paradise Lost, the drama of Milton, ii. 501, 502 ; the unformulated belief of the Eng- lish, ii.
Paradoxes, five, of adversaries of Sfnritual- ism. i. 1x6
Paralysis of the soul during life, ii 368
Parerga, i. 59
Pariahs, or Tchandales, the parents of the Jews, ii. 438
Paris carrying off Helen, and Ravan.i carry- ing: off Sita. i 566 ; Abb^. the Jansenbt. miracles at his tomb for ao years, i. 372
Parker, Father, accuses the Ptotestants of the purpose to destroy the Bible, ii. 200
Parodi, Maria Teresa, case of malifonned child, i. 392
Parrot-headed squabs, i. 395, 396
Parsis deny any vicarious sacrifice, ii 547
Pashai (Peshawer) or Udayna, classic land of sorcery, i. 599 ; testimony of Hiooen- Thsang, ii.
Pastaphoris, the first degree, ii. 564
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Patriarchs, great gods, and pradjapatis rep- resented signs of the Zodiac, ii'45o
Paul, supposed to have been personified and assailed by Peter under the name of Simon Magus, ii. 89 ; and Plato, quoted, ii. 89. 90; the real founder of Christianity, ii. 574 ; a wise master-builder, or adept, il 90. 91 ; wh^ persecuted by Peter, James, and John, il. 91 ; supposed to be polluted by the Gnosis, ib. ; the apostle, used language pertaining to initiations, iL 90 ; was initi- ated, ib. ; confessed himself a Nazarenc, il 137; on the beatific vision, ii. 146; his epistles alone acknowledged b^ Marcion, ii. i6a : differs from Peter, li. 180 ; is adopted by the Reformers, ib. ; his refer- ence to occult powers, ii. 206 ; only worthy apostle of Jesus, ii. 341 ; taught that man was a trine, ii. 281 ; regarded Christianity and Judaism as entirely distinct, iL 525 ; the apostle, his descendants said to p>ossess the prower of braving serpents, i. 381 ; as- serted the story of Moses and Abraham to be allegories, ii. 493
Pansanias on shadowy soldiers at Marathon, i. 70; warned not to unveil the holy rites, i. 130
Perry Chand Mittra, his views on psycholo- gy of the Aryas, ii. 593
Pedactyl equus, i. 4x1
Peisse, Dr., on alchemy and making gold, i.
508,509 Penalties of mutilation, ii. 99, 100
Pencil writing answers to questions, in Tar-
tary, i. 600 Pentacle, Pythagorean, ii. 451, 45a Pentagram, can determine the countenance
of unlx)m infants, i. 395 Pentateuch, constituted after the model of a
purana, ii. 492 ; not written by Moses, ii.
167 ; compiled by Ezra and revised, i.
578 ; revised bv the Jews, ii. 526 Pepper, Prof., nis apparatus to produce
spiritual appearances, i. 359 Perfect circle decussated by the letter X, ii.
469 Perfect Passover of orthodox Christians, ii.
333 Periictione, mother of Plato, her miraculous
conception, ii. 325
Perispint, i. 197 ; the astral soul, i. 289
Permutation, doctrine of, ii. 152
Perpetual motion, denied by science, i. 501 ; illustrated by the imi verse and the atomic theory, i. 502 ; proved by the tele- scope and microscope, ib.
Persiphone or Proserpina, the same as Ceres or Demeter, ii. 505
Persepolis, wonders, i. 534 ; the inscriptions older than any in Sanscrit, ii. 436
Persia, hi*r wonders, i. 534
Persian Mirror, a robber detected by its use and punished, ii. 631
Persian colonists dominated in Judea, the Canaanites being the proletaries, ii. 441
Personal devil not believed in by the an- cients, ii. 483
34
Personality not to be applied to spiritual essence, i. 315
Persons cut to pieces and put again together good as new, I 473, 474
Peru, net-work of subterranean passages, L 595' 598 ; treasures of the Incas, i. 596
Peruvians, still preserve their ancient tradi- tions and sacerdotal caste, i. 546 ; magical ceremonies, ib.
Peter, TiC, name taken from the Mysteries, ii. 29
PTR, its symbol an opened eye, ii. 92, 93 ; the interpreter, ii. 392 ; had nothing to do with the foundation of the Latin Church, ii. 91 ; his name Petra or Kiffa, ib. ; the whole story of his apostleship at Rome a play on the name denoting the Hierophant or interpreter of the mysteries, it 91, 92 ; the pulpit of, declared to be the teachings of the spirit of God, ii. 8 ; had two chairs, ii. 23, 25 ; was never at Rome, ii. 24 ; his life at Babylon, ii. 127; was a Nazarcne, ib. ; denounced Paul without naming him, ii. 179
Peter-ret-su, a mystery-word on a cofhn, ii. 92 ; Bunsen's comments, 92, 93
Peter the Great, stopped spurious miracles, ii. 17
Petra, the rock-temple of the Church, ii. 30
Petra, or rock, the logos, ii. 246
Petroma. the two tablets of stone, ii. 91
Phocdrus, i. 2
Phallic symbols in churches, ii. 5 ; stone, batylos, or lingham, denounced by des Mousscaux, ib.
Phallism. heathen, in Christian symbols, ii. 5 ; in the dogma of the Immaculate Con- ception, and the fetish-worship of Isemia, ib.
Phanes. the revealed god, i. 146
Phantasmal duplicate, i. 360
Phantasy, ii. 591
Phantom-hand, false as well as true, ii. 594 ; statement of Dr. Fairfield, ii. 595 ; what it really is, ib.
Phantoms, the manifestations of bad demons,
i- 333 Phases of modem Christianity, ii. 575
Pharisees, believed in transmigration of souls, i. 347
Phenomena, spiritual, discountenanced by the clergy, i. 26 ; divine visions of Pius,