IX. , i. 27 ; the Klikouchy and the Yourode-

voy, i. 28; absurd position assumed by scientists, i. 40; Aksakof, i. 41; P'isk, Crookes, and Wallace, i. 42 ; the Dialecti- cal Society, i. 44 ; theories of Prof. Crookes, i. 47 ; existed long before spirit- ualism, i. S3 ; Prof. Faraday's tests, i. 63; materialization. 67 : a haunted house, i. 69 ; physical displays seldom caused by disem- bodied spirits, i. 73 ; opposition of the positivists, i. 75 ; hostility of allopathists, 1. 88 ; laid at the door of Satan, i. 99; tes- timony of de Gasparin, i. loi ; hostility of medical writers, i. 102; Mr. Weekman the first investigator in America, i. 106 ; re- ality acknowledged by Prof. Thury, i. no •
676
INDEX.
his theory, i. 113; E. Salverte, i. 115; De Mirville's five distractions or paradoxes, i. 116 ; condemned by Commission of the Imperial University of St Petcrsburgh, i. 117 ; how produced, i. 199 ; evidence ad- duced by Prot Crookes overwhelming, i. 902 ; given by an exterior intelligence, i. 203 ; deceptions, i. 2x7-222 ; lamblichus forbids endeavors to procure them, i. 219 Pherecydes, taught that aether was heaven,
i. 157
Philalethes, Eugenius (Thomas Vaughan), i. 51, 167 ; not an adept, i. 306 ; model of Swedenborg, ifi. ; anticipated modem doc- trine of the earth's beginning, i. 255
Phillips, Wendell, i. 211. 240
Philo Judseus, on spirits in the air, i. 2 ; praise of magic, i. 25 ; contradicted him- self on purpose, ii. 39 ; was the father of new platonism, ii. 144
Philonaea, visited her lover after death, i.
36s
Philosophers, believed in metempsychosis, also that men have two souls, i. 12 ; their consignment to hell desired, ii. 250
Philosopher's stone, sought by a king of Siam, i. 571
Philosophy, Oriental, its fundamental propo- sitions, li. 587
Phoenicians, circumnavigated the globe, i. 239 ; the earliest navigators, i. 545 ; their achievements, td. ; an Ethiopian race, i. 566, 567 ; traced by Herodotus to the Per- sian Gulf, i. 567 ; Phoinikes, or Ph'anakes, i. 569 ; the same as the Hyk-sos or shep- herds of Egypt, id. ; more or less identi- fied with the Israelites, id.
Photographing in colors by will-power, i.
463 Photography, electrical, i, 395 Phtha, the active or male creative principle,
i. 186 Physical body may be levitated, ii. 589 Physically spiritualized, the coming human
race to be, i. 296 Physician declares Daguerre to be insane,
ii. 619 Physicians wash their hands on leaving a
patient, ii, 611 ; problems, i. 277 Physicists divinify matter and overlook life,
i. 235 Pia Metak, king of Siam, becomes able to
walk in the air, ii. 618 Picture of a slain soldier, extraordinary
phenomena, ii. 17 Pictures hidden from view, Prof. Draper's
description, i. 186 Picus, Francisco, testimony in regard to
transmutation, i. 504 Pierart, explanation of catalepsy and vam- pirism, i. 449 Pigmies in Africa, i. 412 Pike, Gen. Albert, declaration against the
creative principle proclaimed at Lau- sanne, ii. 377 Pilate convokes an assembly of Jews, ii. 522 Pillars set up by the patriarchs, identical
with the lingam of Siva, ii. 235
Pimander, i. 93 ; the same as the Logos Pm- metheus« etc., i. 298; the nous, word, of Divine Light, ii. 50 Pippala, the sacred tree of knowledge, ii. 412 Pitar, its form seen at the moment of initia- tion, ii. 114 Pitris, the lunar ancestors of men, ii. 106, 117 ; their worship fast becoming the wor- ship of the spiritual portion of mankind, ii. 639 ; the doctrine of their existence reveal- ed to initiates, ii. 114; a sect in India, il 308 Pious assassins of the early church, ii. 504 Pius IX, excommunicates Czar Nicholas as a schismatic i. 27 ; has divine visions, or rather epileptic fits, id. ; evil eye, i 381 ; pretends to be superior to St. Ambrose and the prophet Nathan, ii. 14 : is the faithful echo of the Jesuits, ii. 359 Planchette, writing by, i. 199 Planet, i. 301
Plants are magnets, i. 281, 28a Plant-growing trick, i. 139, 141, 143 Plants, attracted by the sun, i. 909 ; sympa- thies and antipathies, id. ; svm|>athy with human beings, i. 246; possess mystical properties, ii. 589 Plato, not often read understandingly, i, 8 : echoed the teachings of Pythagoras, i. 9 ; doctrine of the soul, will, or nous, i. 14, 55 ; his symbology misunderstood, i. 37 ; suggestion for ^'ysical improvement of the human race, i. 77; doctrine of wisdom, i. X31 ; on trance prophets, i. 901 ; assert- ed to be ignorant of anatomy, i. 236 ; his method, i. 237; Prof. Jewett's acknow- ledgment, ijd. : on origm of the sun. i. 258 ; taught correlation of forces, i. 261 ; his doctrines the same as those of Manu. i. 271 ; declares man the toy of necessity, i. 276 ; doctrine of genius, i. 277 ; theory of metempsychosis, i. 277 ; attraction, i. 281 ; his speculations on creation and cosmogony, to be taken allegorically, i. 287 ; veneration for the mysteries, id. ; would not admit poets into his common- wealth, i. 288 ; dismisses Homer for his apparent antagonism to monotheism, id. ; accused of absurdities, etc., i. 307 ; derrved the soul from the world-soul. i. 316 ; shows the deity geometrizing, i. 318 ; on the future of the dead. i. 328; learned secret science in Egypt, i. 406 ; versed in the knowledge of the heliocentric system, i. 408. 409; his "noble lie" concerning Atlantis, i. 413 ; on human races, i. 438 ; his esoteric doctrines the same as the Buddhistic, i. 430; on prayer, i .434; on God geometrizing. i. 506: on spiritual numerals, i. 514 ; the Atlantis a possible cover of a story made arcane at initia- tion, i. 591 ; copies Djeminy and Vyasa, i. 621 ; complains of unbelief, ii. 16; his faculty of production, id. ; confessed that he derived his teachings from ancient and sacred doctrines, ii. 39 ; on divine mys- teries, ii. 113 ; not a " spirit-medium." ii. 118 ; and other philosophers laught
INDEX.
677
dual evolution, ii. 279 ; on the trine of n.An, ii. aSa ; definition of the soul, ii. 285 ; his testimony concerning the Macha- gistia. ii. ^06 ; discourse concerning the creation, ii 469 ; taught that there was in matter a blind force, li. 48;^ ; on exaltation of the soul above sense, ii. 591
Platonic philosophy adopted into the church, ii. 33
Platonism introduced into Christianity, ii. 325
Platonists, their books burned, i. 405
Pleroma, three degrees, i. 30a
Pleasanton on the Blue Kay, i. 137, 264 ; denies gravitation, and the existence of centripetal and centrifugal forces, i. 271 ; his theory of light, i. 272
Pliny mentions phantoms on the deserts of Africa, i. 604
Plotinus, on the descent of the soul into gen- erated existence, ii. 112 ; six times united to his god, ii. X15 ; i. 292; on human knowledge, i. 434 ; on prayer, ib. ; on ecstasy, 1. 486 ; impulse m the soul to re- turn to its centre, tb, ; on public worship of the gods, i. 489 ; a clairvoyant, seer, and more, ii. 591
Plutarch on the oracular vapors, i. 200 ; on the nature of men, ii. 283 ; on the daemon of Socrates, ii. 284
Pococke, E., his theory of Osiris and Ty- phon, ii. 435, 436
Poland, what a Catholic miracle in that country means, ii. x8
Polykritus returned after dying, i. 364
Polygamy openly preached by certain Posi- tivists, i. 78
Pompci, the room full of glass, i. 537
Pope seized the scepter of the Pagan pon- tiff, ii. 30; now sympathising with the Turks against Christians, ii. 8z ; Calvin and Luther, their doctrine one, ii. 479, 480 ; his fulminations against science, ii. 559. 560; Calixtus III. issues a bull against Halley's Comet, ii. 509
Popes known as magicians, ii. 56
Popol-Vuh, a manuscript of Quich6, 1. 2 ; leaves the antiquarian in the dark, i.
548
Porphyry, upon Diakka, bad demons of sorcery, i. 219 ; twice united with God, i. 292 ; upon the passion of spirits for putrid substances and fresh blood, i. 344 ; on freshly-spilt blood in evocation, i. 493
Porta. Baptista, theory of magic, world-soul, astral light, i. 208 ;
PoruthO-Madin, the wrestling demon, aid- ing in levitation. taming animals, etc., i. 49?
Positivism of Littr6 found in Vyasa, 10,400 B. c, i. 621
Positivists. i. 73 ; their religion without a God, i. 76 : design to uproot Spiritualism, ib. ; preach Polygamy, i. 78 ; the climax of their system, i. 80; neglect no means to overthrow Spiritualism, I 83; despised and hated, ii. 3
Possession, epidemic in Germany, i. 375
' Poudot. the shoemaker, his house beset by
an elemental demon, L 364 Power of leaving the body temporarily, i,
476. 477 ; power to disappear, and to be
seen in other forms, ii. 583 Powers in nature, as recognized by exact
science, and by kabalists, i. 466 Pradjapatis. the ancestors of mankind, ten
in number, ii. 427 Prakamya, the power to change old age to
youth, ii. 583 Pralayas or dissolutions, two, ii. 424 Prakriti, or Mahat, the external life, ii. 565 Pranayama, ii, 590 Prapti, the faculty of divination, healing and
predicting, ii. 593 Pratyahara, ii. 590 Pravritti or active existence, i. 243 Prayei and its sequences, i. 434 Prayers, kept secret from strangers, i. 581 Pre-Adamite, man described, 1. 295 ; earth.
Prediction of the Russo- Turkish w^ar, i. 260
Preeminence of woman, ii. 299
PreCxistence, apparent, L 179
PreCxistcnt, the spirit of man, i. 316, 317 ; ii. 280; law of form, i. 420
Pregnant woman, highly impressible and receptive, i. 394 ; odic emanation and its influence on fcetus, i. 395 ; under the in- fluence of the ether or astral light, ib. ; might influence the features of children by pentagram, ib.
Prehistoric races, i. 545
Premature burial, i, 456
Presbytere de Cideville, phenomenon of thunder and images of fantastic animals as predicted by a sorcerer, i. 106
Preston, Rev. Dr.. his doctrine of a Mother in the plan of redemption, ii . 172
Preterhuman beings, their alliance indicated in every ancient relieion, ii. 299
Pre-Vedfc religion of India, ii. 39
Priest. Assyrian, always bore the name of his god. i 554
Priest-ridden nations always fall, ii. lai,
122
Priestesses of Germany, how they prophe- sied, ii. 592
Priestley. Dr. Joseph, discovered oxygen, i. 250 ; anticipated the present-day philoso- phers, ib : on the godhood of Jesus, ii. 239
Priests, their cast-on garb worn by men of science, ii. 8
Priest-sorcerers, ii. 57
Primal element obtained, i. 51 ; like clear water, ib.
Primitive Christianity, with grip, pass-words and degrees of initiation, ii. 204 ; Christi- ans, a community of secret societies, il 335 ; triads, ii. 454
Primordial substance, i. 133
Prince of Hohenlohe a medium, i. 28 ; of Hell sides with the strongest, and treats Satan very badly, ii. 517
Principe Creatcur identical with the Princi" f>e Generattur and not Christian, ii. 377
678
INDEX.
Principes, i. 3C»
Probation of Jesus, ii. 484, 485 ; the Devil or Diabolos no malignant principle, ii. 485
Proclus, on magic and emanation, i. 243 ; theory of the gods or planetary spirits, i. 311. 312; his remarkable statements of marvels acted by dead persons, i. 364 ; on second dying and the luminous form, i. 432 ; his idea of divine power, i. 489 ; the mystic pass-word, idi ; his expla- nation of the gradation of the Mysteries, ii. zoi ; u|x>n apparitions beheld in the Mys- teries, li. 113
Proctor. R. A., i. 245; accuses the ancients of ignorance, i. 253
Profanation to eat blood, ii. 567
Projecting of the asftal or spiritual body, ii. 619, 620
Prometheus, the Logos or Adam Kadmon, ), 298 : revealed the art of bringing down lightning, i. 526 ; prediction of Hermes, ii.
514. 515
Prophecies from Hindu books, ii. 556 ; ante- date Christianity, ii. 557
Prophecy determined in two ways, i. 200 ; gift imparted by infection, i. 217 ; a power possessed by the soul both in and apart from the body, ii. 594
Prophetic star of the incarnation, ii. 454
Prophets of Baal danced the circle-dance of the Amazons, ii. 45 ; dominated in Israel, and priests in judah. ii. 439; of Israel never approved of sacrificial wor- ship, ii. 525 ; led a party against the priests, ii.
Protection from vampires, etc., i. 460
Protest against ethnological distinction from the progeny of Noah, ii. 434
Protestant world still under the imputation of magical commerce with Satan, ii. 503
Protestantism has no rights, i. 27
Protestants in the United States, ii. i ; their bloody statutes against witchcraft, ii. 503
Protevangelium, a parody of the Nicenc creed, ii. 473
Protogonos, i. 341
Proto-hippus, i. 411
Protoplasm, i. 223; taught by Seneca, etc., i. 249; doctrine of the Swabhavikas, or Hindu pantheists, i. 250
Prunnikos, mother of Ilda-Baoth, the God of the Jews, ii. 187
Psyche, the animal soul, i. 317
Psychic embryos, i. 311 ; force, i. 45-67 ; same as ectenic force, i. 113 ; same as the Akasa, i^. ; known to the ancient philoso- phers, i. 131 ; propositions of Sergeant Cox, i. 195 ; a blind force, i. 199
Psychode force, i. 55, 113
Psychography, or writing of messages by spirits, i. 367
Psychological epidemics, ii. 625 ; powers of certain nuns in Thibet, ii. 609
Psychology, heretofore almost unknown, i. 407 ; the basis of physiology anciently, but now based by scholars upon physiol- ogy, i. 424
Psychomatics of occultism, i. 344
Psychometry, I 182; Prof. Denton and wife, L 183 ; L 330 ; practised by the an- cients, i. 331
Psychophobia, i 46
Psylli in Africa, serpent-charmers, i. 381
Pueblos of Mexico still worship the sun, moon, stars, and fire, i. 557
Pulpit of Peter the teaching of the Spirit ot God, ii. 8
Punch-and-Judy boxes or Christian mys> teries, ii. 119
Punjaub. population hybridized with Asia- tic i^!^thiopians. i. 567
Purana, rules for writing one, ii. 49a; the model of the Pentateudi. i^.
Purple. Tynan, i. 239
Pfltt&m, or imps, i. 447
Pyramids, their architecture and s^nib ism, i. 236; of Egypt, i. 518; theu- pur- pose, i. 519 ; the baptismal font, td. ; tbt supposed manufacture of the material, iS. ; built on the former sea-shore, L 520
Pyrrho, how to be interpreted, ii. 530
Pythagoras, his philosophy derived from the Brahmans, 1. 9 ; taught the heliocen- tric system, i. 35, 532 ; believed in nn infinity of worlds, i. q6 ; Bruno his disci- ple, i. 96. 98 ; taught ood as the Universal Mind, i. 131 ; his esoteric system included in the arcane doctrines of wisdom, i. 205 ; Galileo a student, i. 238 ; his maxim widely scattered, " Do not stir the fire with a sword," i. 347; dual signification of his precepts, i. 248 ; his trinity, i. 262 ; regard for precious stones and their m>-s- tical virtues, i. 265 ; his doctrine the same as the laws of Manu, i. 271 ; alleged influ- ence on birds and animals, i. 383 ; testi- mony of Thomas Taylor, i. 284 ; initiated in the Mysteries of By bios. Tyre, Syria, Egypt and Babylon, t^. ; did not teach literal transmigration of the soul, i. 289 ; taught the Buddhistic doctrines. 289-291 ; held for a clever impostor, i. 307 ; derived the soul from the world-soul, i. 316; mathematical doctrine of the universe, L 318 ; taught the same as Buddha, i. 347 ; explains imagination as memory, i. 396 ; copied by Euclid, Archimedes, and Ptol- emy, i. 5x2 ; learned music in Egypt and taught it in Italy, i. 544 ; placed the sphere of purification in the sun, it la ; subdued wild animals, il 77; persnaded a bull not to eat beans, ii. 78 ; was not a " spirit-medium," ii. 118 ; his system of numerals, ii. 300; probably did not un- derstand decimal notation, ifi.
Pythagorean pentacle, ii. 451, 452
Pythagorists were protMibly Buddhists, ii. 491
Pytho, ©r Ob. I 355
Pythoness, her powers of seership, li 590
Quack, a false name imposed on Paracd-
sus. ii. 621 Queen of Heaven indebted to Pius IX., il
9 ; the Virgin Mary, Isis. Ishtar, Astarti&,
INDEX.
679
Queen Dido, Anna, Anaitis, etc., ii. 96,
44^50
Quetzo-Cohuatl, the serpent-god of Mexi- can legends, L 546 ; wonders wrought by him, ii. 558 ; his wand, i^.
Quiche cosmogony, i. 549
Quicksilver and sulphur, a magical prepa- ration to give long life, ii. 6ao
Quotation from Psalms credited by Mat- thew to Isaiah, IL 17a
Rabbinical chronology, none before the
twelfth century, ii. 443 Races, human, many died out before Adam,
L 3 ; pre-Adamite, i. 305 ; of men differ
in gifts, ii. 588 Radxivil, Prince, detects the impostures of
monks, ii. 7a Rabat, or perfect man, ii. 287, 388 Railroads in Upper Egypt. L 528 Ram, or Aries, the symbol of creative power,
i. a6a Ramayana the source and origin of Homer's
inspiration, ii. 278 Ramsay, Count, his story of the Templars,
ii. 384 Raspt>erry-mark produced by longing, i.
391
Rasit, its meaning suppressed, ii. 34 ; wis- dom, ii. 35
Rational soul, every man endowed, ii. 379
Raulica, Father Ventura de, letter on magic, ii. 70
Ravan and Rama. 11. 436
Raven and St. Benedict, ii. 78
Rawho, the demon of Ceylon, ii. 509
Rawlinson, Sir H. C, brings home an en- graved stone, i. 240 ; declares that the Ak- kadians came from Armenia, i. 263 ; con- jectures respecting the Aryans, ii. 433
Rawson, Prof. A. L.. a member of the Druze Brotherhood of Lebanon, ii. 312 ; account of his initiation, ii. 313
Rays of the Star of Bethlehem preserved as a relic, iL 71
Razors, superior article in Africa, i. 538
Realm of Amita, legend of. i. 6oz
Reason, what it is, i. 435 ; developed at the expense of instinct, i. 433; and instinct, their source, i. 432
Reber, G. , shows that there was no apostolic church at Rome, ii. 124
Rebold, Dr., statement concerning the an- cient colleges of Egypt, i. 530
Reciprocal influences, 1. 314
Red dragon, the Assyrian military symbol, borrowed by Persia, Byzantium.and Rome, ii. 484
Redeemer not promised in the book of Genesis, but by Manu, ii. 50
Red-haired man. repugnance to stepping over his shadow, ii. 010; the magnetism dreaded, ii. 611
Reformation had Paul for leader, ii. 180
Reformers as bloodthirsty as Catholics, ii.
503 Rejg^azzoni, remarkable experiments, i. 142 ;
the mesmerist, feats, 1. 283
Regenerated heathendom in the Christian ranks, ii. 80
Regeneration or spiritual birth taught in India, ii. 565
Regulation wardrobe of the Madonna, ii. 9
Reichenbach, described the Od force, i. 146; prepared the way to understand Paracel- sus, i. 167; on odic force of pregnant women, i. 394
Reincarnation, its cause, i. 346 ; its possi- bility, and impossibility, i. 351
Religion without a God, i. 76 ; of the fu- ture, ib. \ of the ancients the religion of the future, i. 613 ; private or national property, not to be shared with foreigners, 1. 581 ; taught in the oldest Mysteries, i. 567; which dreads the light must be false, ii. 121; of Gautama, propagandism, ii. 608
Religions, ancient, based on indestructibil- ity of matter and force, i. 243 ; anciently sabaistic, i. 261 ; derived from one source and tend to one end, ii. 639 ; Papacy and scientific, i. 403
Religious customs of the Mexicans and Pe- ruvians like those of the Phoenicians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, i. 551 ; in- stinct productive of immorality, i. 83; liberty considered as intolerance, ii. 503 ; reform pure at the beginning, ii. 33^; myths have an historical foundation, li. 431 ; teachers, it i
Renan, E., described Jesus as a Gallicijced rabbi, ii. 563
Repentance possible even in Hades or Ge- henna, i. 353
Repercussion, i. 360
Rephaim. i. 133
Resistance, extraordinary, to blows, sharp instruments, etc., I 375, 376
Resuscitated Buddha, a babe speaking with man's voice, i. 437
Resuscitations, i. 478^ 479, 480 ; after actual death, impossible, 1. 481
Report of French Parliament upon the Jesuits, ii. 353
Resplendent one, ii. 113 ; the Augoeides. ot self-shining vision, ii. Z15
Retribution on the Roman Catholic Church, ii. 131
Reuchlin. John, a Kabalist. ii. 90
Revelation, or Apocalypse, its author a Kabalist, ii. 91 ; his natred of the MyS' teries made him the enemy of Paul, ib.
Revenge of Ilda-Baoth for the transgressioi; of his command, ii. 185
Rib of the Word made flesh preserved as a relic, ii. 71
Rig-Veda, hymns written before Zoroaster
"433 Rio Janeiro, her Madonna with bare limbs,
blond hair and chignon, ii. 9; her Christ
in dandy evening dress, ii. 10
Rishi Kutsa, i. 11
Rishis, or sages, i. 90
Rite of Swedenborg. a Jesuitical produc- tion, ii. 390
Rites and ceremonial dress of Christian
68o
INDEX.
clergy like that of Babylonians, etc., ii.
94
Ritual of exorcism, ii. 69 ; funeral, of the Egyptians, ii. 367
Rituals, Kabalistic and Catholic compared, ii. 8s. 86
Rochester Cathedral, its originals, iL 5 ; rappings, i. 36
Rock-temples of Ipsambul, i. 543 ; works of Phoenician cities, i. 570 ; similar in Egypt and America, i. 571
Rod of Moses, the crux ansata, ii. 455
Roger Bacon, i. 64
Roma, Cambodian traditions, i. 566
Roman Catholic Clergy murdered mediums, i. 26 ; Church burned sorcerers that were not priests, ii. 58 ; Church has deprived herself of the key to her own religious mysteries, ii. 121 ; Church regards dissent, heresy, and witchcraft identical, ii. 503 ; considers religious liberty as intolerance, ib,
Roman Catholics in the United States, ii. i ; frown at the spiritual phenomena as dia- bolical, ii. 4; pontiffs arrogate dominion over Greek and Protestant Christians, i.
27 Rome, Church of, put Bruno to death for his doctrines, i. 93 ; regards the spirit- ual phenomena as genuine, i. 100; Church of. cursing spiritualists, ii. 6 ; excommu- nicating the Bulgarians. Servians, Rus- sians, and Italian liberals, ii. 7 Rosaries of Buddhistic origin, ii. 95 Roscoe, Professor, on iron in the sun, i. 513 Rose, impression of one on Mme. von N., i.
398
Rosicrucians, persecuted and burned, i. 64 ; their doctrine of creation, i. 258 ; still a mystery, ii. 380; unknown to its crudest enemy, the Church, ib. \ the aim to sup- port Catholicism, ii. 394 { their doctrine of fire, i. 423
Rosie Cross, brothers live only in name. i. 29 ; mysterious body. i. 64 ; burned with- out mercy by the Church, ib.
Round Tower of Bhangulpore, ii. 5
Rousseau, the savant, encounter with a toad,
>• 399 Royal Arch word, ii. 293 ; cipher, ii. 396
Rue. from New Zealand, i. 603
Rufus of Thessalonica returned to life after
dying, i. 365
Rules imposed upon neophytes, ii. 365
Russia, no church-miracles, ii. 17
Russian conquest of Turkey predicted, i. a6o
S. P. R. C. , the cipher, ii. 395
Sabazian worship Sabbatic, ii. 45
Sabbath, adopted by the Jews from other
peoples, ii. 417; Christian, its origin ii.
419 Sabbatical institution not mentioned in Job,
ii. 494 Sabeanism, treated of in Job, ii. 494 Sacerdotal caste in every ancient religion,
ii. 99 ; office, magical evocation, ii 118 Sacred sleep, i. 357 ; produced by draughts
of soma-juice, ib. ; lake, ii. 364 ; writings of India have a deeper meaning, iL 430 ; books of the Jews destroyed, 158 B.C. ii. 470 ; tree of Kounboum renews its budding in the time of Son-Ka-po, ii. 609
Sacrifice of the hierophant or victim, iL 42 ; of blood, ii. 566
Sacrificial worship never approved by the Israelitish prophets, ii. 525
Sacrilege to seek to understand a mystery, ii. 249
Sahara, perhaps once a sea-bed, L 592
St. Paul s Cathedral, its double lithoi, ii. 5 ; Medard. the fanatics, i. 375 ; John, Knights of. not Masons, iL 383 ; persecuted by the Inquisition, ib.
Saints rescued from hell, ii. 517 ; Buddhistic and Lamaistic, their great sanctity, iL 608 ; never washing themselves, ii. 511
Sakti, the active energy of the gods, iL 276 ; employed as a vehan, ib.
Sakti-trimurti. or female trinity, iL 444
Salamander or asbestos, L 504
Salem, Mass.. obsessions occurring there, L 71 ; witchcraft; the obeah woman, i. 361 ; witchcraft. iL i8
Salsette, the Kanhari caves, the abode of St. Josaphat, ii. 580, 581
Salt regarded as the universal menstruum and one of the chief formative principles, i. 147
Salverte, his philosophy of magic, i. 115 ; imputes deception to lamblichus and others, ib. \ his account of a soldier pro- tected by an amulet, i. 378 ; on mechanics and invention in ancient times. L 516; on the use of electricity, etc., by Numa and Tullus, kings of Rome, L 527
Samaddi, an exalted spiritual condition, ii.
590 Samael or Satan, the simoon or wind of the
desert, ii. 483 Samaritans recognized only the books of
Moses and Joshua, ii. 470 Samothrace. a mystery enacted there once
every seven years, 1. 302 ; worship of the
Kabeiri brought thither by Dardanus, L
570 Samothracian Mysteries and new life, i. 13s ;
magnetism and electricity, i. 234 Samson, the Hebrew Herakles. a mythical
character, ii. 439 ; represented by the So-
mona of Ceylon, i. 577 Samuel the prophet, a mythical hero, the
doppel of Samson, ii. 439 ; the Hebrew
Ganesa. ib.) his school, i. 26 San Marco at Venice, the original of the
Campanila column, ii. 5 Sanchoniathon, on chaos and creation, i. 34a Sanctity of the chair of Peter, its source, iL
25 Sankhya. the eight faculties of the soul, iL
593, 593 Sanctuary of the pagodas never entered by
a European [except Mr. Ellis— see Hig-
gins's Apocal^psis—s^ry doubtful] ii. 623 Sanny&si, a samt of the second degree, ii. 98 Sanscrit, endeavor to show its ilerivation
INDEX.
68 1
from the Greek, i. 443 ; inscriptions, none older than Chandragupta, ii. 436; the vernacular of the Akkadians, ii. 46 ; ap- pears on the leaves of the magical Koum- boum, /^.; books vrritten in presence of a child-medium, i. 368 ; impressions by a fa- kir or juggler on leaves, i. 368, 369 ; manu- scripts translated into every Asiatic lan- guage, i. 578 ; language derived from the Kutas, i. 594
Sapphire, sacred to the moon, i. 264 ; pos- sesses a magical power and produces som- nambulic phenomena, i^.; Hindu legend ■of its first production, i. 265
Sar or Saros, i. 30
Sara-is vati, wife of Brahma, goddess of sa- cred knowledge, ii. 409
Sarcophagus, porphyry, in the pyramids, i.
519 Sargent, Epes, on spiritual deceptions, i.
aao ; his arraignment of Tyndall for co- quetting with different beliefs, i. 419
Sargon, the original of the story of Moses, ii. 442
Sarpa Rajni, the queen of the serpents, ii. 489
Sarles, Rev. John W., advocates the damna- tion of adult heathen, ii. 474
Satan, his existence first made a dogma b^ Christians ii. 13 ; declared fundamental, ii. 14 ; Ilda-Baoth, so called, ii. 186 ; identical with Jehovah, ii. 451 ; the mainstav of sacerdotism, ii. 480; to be contemplated from their planes, ii. 481 ; personified as a devil by the Asideans, ii. 481 ; same as Ahriman or Anramanyas, id.; the name applied to a serpent in the Hebrew Scrip- tures, ii. 481 ; the same as Seth, ^od of the Hittites, iS.: of the book of Job, li. 483 ; counsels with the Lord, ii. 485 ; a son of God, ii. 492 ; makes a sortie into New England and other colonies, ii. 50;^ : the Biblical term for public accuser, ii. 494; the same as Typhon, iS.; cast forth by the prince of hell, ii. 515, 516; is made sub- ject to Beelzebub, prince of hell, ii. 517; and Beelzebub hold a conversation about Jesus, ii. 520, 521
Satanism defined by Father Ventura de Raulica, ii. 14
Sati. a burned widow, i. 541
Sattras, imitations of the course of the sun, i. IX
Saturation of the medium, i. 499. 500
Saturn, Chaldean discovery of his rings, i. 260, 263 ; the father of Zeus, i. 263 ; the same as Bel, Baal, and Siva, ifi. ; his image, ii. 235 ; or Kronos, offers his only- begotten son to Ouranos and circumcises himself and family, i. 578 ; the myth origi- nal in the Maha-Bharata, ib.
Saturnalia of monks at Christmas, il 366
Saul, evil spirit exorcised, i. 215
Saviour, would be lost if we lose our demons, ii. 476
Scandinavian tradition of trolls, ii. 624
Scepter of the Boddhisgat seen floating in the air, ii. 610
Scheme of the Ophites, ii. 292
Schlieman, the Hellenist, finds evidence of cycles of development, i. 6 ; at Mycenae, i. 598
Schmidt. I. J., statement in regard to the steppes 01 Turan and desert of Gobi, i. 603
Scholars, ancient, believed in arcane doc- trines, i. 205
Scholastic science knows neither beginning nor end, I 336
Schools of magic in the Lamaseries, ii. 609 •
Schopenhauer, i. 55, 59 ; on nature as illu- sion, il 158
Science, formerly arcane and taught in the sanctuary^, i. 7 ; its progress, i. 40 ; spirit- ualism, 1. 83; "has no belief," I 278; knows no beginning or end, i. 336 ; railed anti-christianism, i. 337 ; mystery fatal to it, i. 338 : its parent source, the unknown, L 339 ; its dilemma, i. 340 ; will never distin- guish the difference between human and animal ovules, i. 397 ; invading the do- main of religion, i. 403 ; surrounded by a large hypothetical domain, i. 404; her domain within the limit of the changes of matter, i. 421 ; gross conception of fire, i. 423 ; its doj^mas concernmg perpetual motion, elixir of life, transmutation of metals and universal solvent, i. 501 ; stages of its growth, i. 533 ; its three ne- cessary elements, ii. 637 ; spiritism does not prevent them, U>. \ modern, fails to satisfy the aspirations of the race ; makes the future a void and bereaves man of life, ii. 6^9
Scientific knowledge confined to the tem- ples, i. 25 ; Association, or American As- sociation for the Advancement of Science, on spiritualism and roosters crowing in the night, i. 245, 246; attainments of an- cient Hindu savants, i. 618, 620
Scientists bound in duty to investigate, i. 5 ; afraid of spiritual phenomena, i. 41 ; treatment of Prof. Crookes, i. 44; likelv to rediscover magic, i. 67 , not to be crecf- itcd for the increase of knowledge, i. 84 ; denied Buffon, Franklin, the steam-en- gine, railroad, etc., i. 85; surpassed the clergy in hostility to discovery, ib. ; as much given to persecution, tb. ; know little certain, i. 224 ; entrapping of Slade the medium, ib, ; put forth no new doc- trines, i. 248, 249 : anticipated by Liebi^ and Priestly, i. 250; many of them inani- mate corpses, i. 317; their ultima thule^ i. 340 : curious conjectures concerning the aurora, i. 4x7; their incapacity to under- stand the spiritual side, i. 418
Scin-lecca, or double, ii. X04; makes the principal manifestations, ii. 517
Scintilla, the Divine, produces a monad, i. 302 ; of Abraham taken from Michael, ii. 452 ; Isaac from Gabriel, and Jacob from Uriel, ii. 452
Scottish rite, its headquarters at a Jesuit college, ii. 381
682
INDEX.
Screw, invented by Archytas, the instructor
of Plato, i. 543 Scyths, probably the same as Mongolians,
i. 576 Sea, ancient inland sea north of the Hima- layas, i. 589 Seal, Solomon's of Hindu origin, i. 135 Seance in Bengal, i. 467 Second Emanation condenses matter and diffuses life, i. 502 ; Adam created uni- sexual, i. 559 ; spiritual birth, ii. 566 ; ad- vent, a fable invented for a precaution, ii. 535 ; death, ii. 368 ; sight, i. an * Secret formulae, i. 66 ; sacerdotal castes in every ancient religion, ii. 99; doctrine, its martyrs, i. 574 ; of Moses, ii. 525 ; vol- ume, the real Hebrew Bible, ii. 471 ; sects of the Qiristians, ii. 289 ; are still in exis- tence, ii. 290 ; God of the Kabala, ii. 230 ; of secrets, ii. 568 Secrets for prolonging life, ii. 563 Sectarian beliefs to disappear, i. 6x3 Sects existing before Christ, ii. 144 Sedecla, the Obeah woman of En-Dor, t.
494
Seer, receives impressions directly from his spirit, ii. 591
Seers or epoptae, not spirit-mediums, il 1x8
Seer-adept, knows how to suspend the ac- tion of the brain, ii. 591
Seership natural with some people, ii. 588 ; two kinds, of the soul and the spirit, ii. 590 ; an elevation of the soul, ii. 591
Self of man, inner triune, ii. XX4; the future, ii. xis
Self-consciousness, attained on earth, i. 368
Self-printed records on the sacred tree, i. 30a
Seir-Anpin, the Christos, ii. '230; the third god, ii. 247
Semitic, the least spiritual branch of the human family, ii. 434 ; its germs found in Khamism, ii. 435
Semi-monastics, ii. 608
Sensitive flame obeying a man's order, ii. 607
Separation, temporary, of the spirit from the body, ii. 588
Sephira, i. 160 ; the Divine Intelligence and mother of the Sephiroth, i. 258 ; the same as Metis and Sophia, i. 263 ; the first ema- nation, i. 270; or Sacred Aged (Maha Lakshmi), ii. 421
Seuhiroth, i. 258 ; concealed wisdom, their father, ib.', or emanations, ii. 36; ten, three classes in one unit, ii. 40 ; the same as the ten Pradjapatis, ii. 2x5 ; same as the ten patriarchs, id.
Sepulchres in Thibet, extraordinary ar- rangement of bodies and decorations, ii. 604
Seraph, his snout preserved as a relic, ii.
71 Serapis, a name of Surya, ii. 438 ; an ac- cepted type of Christ, ii. 336; his picture adop>ted by the Christians, ih. ; represent- ed by a serpent, ii. 490 ; usurped the wor-
ship of Osiris, ii. 491 ; the seven vowels chanted as a hymn in his honor, i. 5x4
Serpent of Genesis, des Mousseaux's name for the devil, i. X5 ; matter, i. 297 ; dwell- ing in the branches of the tree of life, i. 298 ; symbol of wisdom and immortality, '• 553 : of the book of Genesis^ Ash-mogh or Asmodeus, ii. x88 ; persuades man to eat of the tree of knowledge, ii. X85; Christna crushing his head, ii. 446; the divine symbol east and west, ii. 484 ; most spirit-like of all reptiles, and hence a fav- orite symbol, ii. 489; bow it became the emblem of eternity and of the world, ii. 489; universally venerated, ii. 489; a symbol of Serapis and Jesus, ii. 490; and Eve, ii. 512
Serpent-charmers, cannot fascinate human beings, ii. 612 ; their powers, ii. 628
Serpent-charming, i. 38X, 382, 470
Serpent-monsters, i. 393
Serpent-god. sons of. the hiero]>hants, i. 553
Serpent-gods, Mexican, 13 in number, L
572
Serpent-trail round the unformed earth, iL 489
Serpent-worship, its origin not known, ii 489
Serpent-worshippers of Kashmere becoaw Buddhists, ii. 608
Serpent's catacombs in Eg>-pt, i. 553; mysteries of the unavoidable cycle or centre of necessity, ib.
Serpents, the earth their aueen. i. 10; Kneph, Agathodaimon. Kakodaimon, L 233t 157 ; Eliphas Levi's, symbol of astral fire. L X37 : queen of, ii. 4S9 ; used as plaything at Hindu festivals, ii. 622
Servius, on the ancient practice of employ- ing celestial fire at the altars. L 526
Sesostris, instructed by the oracle in the Trinity, ii. 5X
Seth. the reputed son of Adam, the same as Hermes, Thoth, and Sat-an, i. 554; the same as Typhon. ii. 482
Seth, his interview with Michael at the gate of Paradise, ii. 520 ; worshipped by the Hittites, ii. 523 ; same as £1, ii. 524
Sethicnites, disbelieved that Jesus was God* il X76
Seven, a sacred Hindu number, ii 407; among the Chaldeans, ii. 408 ; potential- ity of the number, ii. 4x7 ; steps, the de- scent, i. 353 ; degrees, old English Temp- lar Rite. ii. 377 ; vowels chanted as a hymn. i. 5x4 ; caverns, i 552 ; spirits, i. 300, 30X ; spirits of the Apocalypse, i. 461; impostor demons, ii. 296 ; /Eons, ik, ; rishis, tb.
Seven-headed, serpent, iL 489
Seventh degree, ii. 365 ; ray and scren vowel, i. 514 ; rite, the life transfer, ii. 564
Sever us. Alexander, pillaged Egyptian tem- ples for books, i. 406
Sexual element in Christianity, ii. 80 ; em- blems and worship, ii. 445
Shaberon, summonmg a lama by spirit-mes- sage, li. 604 ; his wonderful summons to
INDEX.
683
rescue the author from peril in Mongolia, ii. 628
Shaberons, or Khubilhans, reincarnations of Buddha, il 609
Shad-belly coat first worn by Babylonian priests, ii. 458
Shadow, repugnance to stepping across it, ii. 610; magnetic exhalation, ii 611
Shakers, spiritual phenomena, ii. 18
Shaman, prophesying, ii. 634, 635 ; predic- tion of the Crimean war, ii. 625 ; extra- ordinary scene with the talismanic stone, ii. 6a6. 628; ; " dragged out of his skin," ii. 6a8 ; priests bound to perform their "true rites" but once a year, at the solstice, ii.
694
Shamanism or spirit-worship, the oldest reli- gion of Mongolia, an offshoot of primitive theurgy, ii. 615
Shamans occasionally enjoy divine powers, i. 3. 211 ; of Siberia, degenerate scions of ancient Shamanism, ii. 616 ; sometimes only mediums, sometimes magicians, ii. 625; power over psychical epidemics, ii. 626 ; each one has a talisman, ib.
Shamp)ooing or tschamping, a magical man- ipulation, i. 445
Shark-charmers or Kadal-katti, i. 606 ; paid by the British government, i, 607
Shebang, the Sabbath, ii., 418,
Shedim, nature-spirits, or Afritcs. i. 313
Shckinah, the veil of the most ancient, ii. 223
Shem, Ham and Japhet, the old gods Samas, Kham and lapetos, ii. 4^7
Shemites, Assyrians, i. 576 ; probably a hybrid of Hamite and Aryan, ib.
Shien-Sien, a blissful state, |x>wer of those obtaining it to transport themselves every- where, ii. 618, 620
Shiloh, daughters, their dance, IL 45
Shimeon and Patar, ii. 93
ShoOpffer. Prof., teaches that the earth does not revolve, i. 621
Shoel ob. orconsulter with familiar spirits, i.
355 Shudala-Madan, the ghoul or graveyard
fiend, i. 495 Shu-King. i. 11 Shula-M&dan, the furnace-demon, i. 496,
helps the juggler with raising trees, ib. Shu-tukt. a collegiate monastery, having in
it over 30.ocx> monks, ii. 609 Siam, a king in 1670 who sought for the
philosopher's stone, i. 571 Siamese, the power of monks, i. 21^. 214 ;
study of the philosopher's stone, 1. 214 ;
believe that some know how to render
themselves immortal, ib. Sidereal force taught by Paracelsus, i. 168 Signature of the foetus, i. 385. Silver, its aura, the quicksilver of the yogis
or alchemists, ii. 6ai, 621. Silver and green associated in hermetic
symbolism, i. 513 Silvery spark in the brain, i. 329. Simeon, the existence of such a tribe de- nied, i. 363 ; ben lochai, compiler of the
Zahar, ii. 548 ; rabbi, author of the Zokar,
i. 301, 302 ; his sons arise and relate what they saw in hell, ii, 5x9 ; his prototype in India, ib.
Simon ben lochai, i. 263; Stylites, lived 36 years atop of a pillar, ii. 77 ; cured a dra- gon of a sore eye, ib.
Simon Magus, a personification of the apos- tle Paul, ii. 89 ; powers attributed to him, i. 471 ; his journey through the air, ii. 357; and Peter, ii. 190, 191
Simoun, or the wind of the desert, called Diabolos, ii. 483
Simulacrum of a Roumanian lady conducted by a Shaman to the tent of the author, ii. 627. 628
Sin the necessary cause of the greatest good. ii. 479
Sinai. Mount, metals smelted there, i. 542 ; story of Moses and the brass seraph, ib.
Singing sands, i. 605
Sins, the five which divide the ofifender from his associates, ii. 608 ; Siphra Dzeniouta, i. i , Sister's son inheriting a crown, ii. 437 j Sistra at the Israel itish festival, ii. 45 ■ Siva, the fire-god, same as Bel and Saturn or Kronos, 1. 263 ; vigil-night, i. 446 ; rep- resented as sacrificing a rhinoceros instead of his son, i. 577, 578 ; identical with Baal, Moloch, Saturn and Abraham, i. 578 ; cre- ated Adhima and Heva, ancestors of the present race of mankind, i. 590 ; hurls fall- en angels into Onderah, ii. xi ; his para- dise, il. 234 ; hurls the devils into the bot- tomless pit, ii. 238 ; Sabazios and Sabaoth the same divinity, ii. 487 ; the same as the western chief gods, ii. 524 ; most intellec- tual of the gods, ib.
Six principles of man. ii. 367 ; days of evolu- tion and one of repose, ii. 422 ; sacred syllables. " aum mani padma houm," ii. 606 ; races of men mentioned in laws of Manu, i. 590; thousand years the term of creation, i. 342 ; thousand infant skulls found in a fish-pond by a convent in Rome, ii. 58
Sixteenth incarnation of Buddha at Urga, ii. 617
Sixth degree, ii. 365
Sixty thousand (60,428) paid religious teach- ers in the United States, ii. i
Skepticism a malady, i. 1x5
Skill displayed in embalming in Thibet, ii. 603, 604
Skulls of infants found at nunneries, ii. 58, 210
Slade, the medium, pretended exposure by Prof. Lankester, i. xx8, 224
Slavonian Christians now assailed by the Catholics, ii. 8x
Slavonians, the mystic word, ii. 42
Sroaragdine, tablet of Hermes, found at Hebron, i. 507
Smith, George, his reading of the Assyrian tablets, ii. 422 ; his readmg of the story of Sargon. ii. 442
Snake-symbol of Phanes, the mundane ser- pent and mundane year, i. 146, 15X, X57
684
INDEX.
Smyth, Prof. Piazzi, on the corn-bin, i. 519; mathematical description of the great pyramid, i. 520
Snake-skin considered magnetic, ii. 507
Snake's Hole, the subterranean passage ter- minating at the root of the heavens, i 553
Snakes kept in Moslem mosques, ii. 490 ; reared with children in India, ib.
Snout of a seraph preserved as a relic, ii. 71
Society not certain but that all ends in anni- hilation, ii. 3
" Society," British, in Tndia, its supercilious contempt for the Hindus and marvels in Hindustan, ii. 613
Socrates, his demoniac or divine faculty and its service, i. 131 ; his demon, ii. 283 ; same as the nous or spirit, ii. 284 ; opinion of Justin Martyr about his future fate crit- icised, ii. 8 ; a medium, and therefore not initiated, il 1x7; why put to death as an atheist, ii. 118
Sod, an arcanum of Mystery, i. 301, 555 ; the Mysteries of Baal, Adonis and Bacchus, ib.\ the secret of Simeon and Levi, ib.; great, of the Kadeshim, ii. 131
Sodales, or priest-colleges, Moses their chief, 555
Sodalian oath, i. 409
Sodom and Gomorrah, suffering eternal fire, ii. 12
Sohar, its compilation, ii. 348 ; its theories like the Hindu, ii. 27
Solar trinity, red, blue and yellow, ii. 417 ; dynasty in India, the Surga Vansa, ii. 437
Solemn ceremony of the Druzes, ii. 312
Solidarities of Greece and Rome, ii. 389
Solitary Copts, students of ancient lore. ii. 306
Solomon, or Sol-Om-On, ii. 389 ; i. 19 ; ob- tained secret learning, i. 135 ; seal of Hindu origin, ib. ; ships to Ophir or India, i. 136 ; his seven abominations, ii. 67 ; learned from Votan the particulars of the products of the Occident, i. 546 ; the builder of temples, ii. 439 ; revolts against him, ib.; his temple never visited by the prophets, ii. 525 ; and hi temple only allegorical, 391 ; temple, the brazen columns and bowls to aid in entheastic power, ii. 542
Soma, juice of, produces trance, i. 357
Somona, the Sinhalese Samson, i. 577
" Son of Man," ii. 232
Son of God at one with man, ii. 635
Sons of the Serpent-God, i. 553
Son-Ka-po, the Shaberon, or avatar and great reformer, immaculately conceived, and translated without dying into heaven, ii. 609
Sophia or wisdom, ii. 41 ; the Holy Ghost as a female principle, i. 130 ; the Gnostic principle of wisdom, the same as Sephira and Metis, i. 363
Sorcerer in Africa, impervious to bullets, i.
379 Sorcerers, burned whtn not priests, ii. f 8 Sorcery, i. 279 ; misapplied arcane know- ledge, ii. 581 ; few facts better established,
i. 366 ; with blood, ii. 567, 568 ; practised at the Vatican, ii. 690 ; approved by Au- gustine, ii. 20 ; employed for crime, li. 633
Sortes Sanctorum, ii. 20, 21
Sortie of Satan into New England, ii. 503
Sortilegium or sorcery, practised by clergy and monks, ii. 6 ; Gregory of Tours, ii., ao
Sosigenes, reformed the calendar for Cesar, i. II
Sosiosh, the tenth avatar and fifth Buddha, ii. 236 ; a permutation of Vishnu, ii. 337
Sotheran, Charles, letter on Freexnasoniy,
ii. 388
Soul, displays f>ower when the body is ^leep, i. 199; the two named by Plato, i. 376 ; marvellous power, i 280 ; passage through the seven planetary chambers, L i. 297; spirit wholly distinct, i. 315; dis- solves into ether, ib. ; possible loss of its distinct being, i. 316, 317 ; the garment of the spirit, i. 309 ; exists as preexisting matter, i. 317 : doctrine of the Greek and Roman philosophers, i. 429 ; of Aristotle. Homer, the Jains and Brahmans, ib. ; the camera in which facts are fixed, i. 486; escaping temporarily from the body, ii. 105 ; may dwell in paradise while the body lives in this world, i. 602 ; punished by union with the body, ii. 112; the Vedic doctrine, ii. 263 ; universal, when it sleeps, ii. 274 ; its transmigration does not relate to man's condition after death, ii. a8o ; its feminine, ii. 281 ; a part of it mortal, ii. 283 ; the doctnne of Pythagoras, ii. 283; Plato's detinition. ii. 285, 286 ; its paralysis during life, ii. 368 ; not knit to flesh, ii. 565 ; sentient, the Ego, inseparable from the brain, ii. 590 ; raised above inferior good. ii. 591 ; power to liberate itself and behold things subjectively, ii. 591 ; its eight faculties, ii. 592 ; its teachings au- thoritative, ii. 593; possesses a power of prescience even when in the body, ii. 594 ; disembodied, meets itself at the gate of Paradise, ii. 635 ; of the world the archeal universal, " mind," Sophia the Holy Ghost as a female principle, i. 130 ; doctrine of Baptista Porta, i. ao8 ; exter- nal, i. 276 ; higher mortal, ib. ; the great universal, union with it does not involve loss of individuality, ii. xi6
Soul-blind like color-blind, i. 387
Soul-electricity, i. 32a
Soul-deaths, ii. 369
Soulless men yet living, ii. 369
Souls, or immortal gods emanate from the triad, i. 348 ; come to souls and impart to them information, ii. 594
Source of the religious faiths of mankind, ii. 639 ; double, of every religion, ii.
South Carolina, statutes in force in i8(k, imposing the death-penalty for witchcratti ii. 18
Sparks or old worlds that perished, IL 421
Speaking images, i. 505
Specialties in medical practice in Egypt* L
545 Speculative Masons, ii. 393
INDEX.
68 s
Spectre of a herdsman in Bavaria, i. 451
Spectroscope, confirmed doctrines of Para- celsus, i. 168, 169
Spell of the evil eye, ii. 633
Spheres, music of, i. 275
Spinoza, his philosophy, i. 93 ; furnishes a ke^ to the unwritten secret, i. 308
Spirit, its origin, i. 258 ; not existing, but immortal, 391 ; or spiritus, the soul or anima mnndi, the mother, i. 399, 300; progeny of, i. 301 ; human, an emanation of the eternal spirit, i. 305 ; never entered wholly into the body, i. 306 ; is masculine, ii. 281 ; of man prefixistent, ii. 280 ; dis- tinct from soul, 1. 315 ; individualization depends upon it, ib. ; becomes an angel, i. 316 ; its preSxistence believed. • ib. ; alone immortal, ii. 362 ; leaving an old for a young body, ii. 563 ; by its vision all things can be known, ii. 588 ; ma^ abandon the body for specific periods, ii. 589 ; the sole original unity, ii. 607 ; the interpreter of God to man, ii. 635 ; its Protean powers little known by spiritual- ists, ii. 638
Spirit-ancestor, a serpent, 45, 46
Spirit-form, i. 197
Spirit-voices not articulate, i. 68 ; audible, i. 220
Spirit-intercoui;se, 446,000,000 believers, i. 117
Spirit-fiowers produced by a Bikshuni.ii. 609
Spiritists of France attacked by the Roman church, ii. 6
Spirits that control mediums, generally human, i. 67; cannot " materialize," ib. \ not attracted by every body alike, i. 69 ; produce few of the '• physical phenom- ena," i. 73; the seven, i. 300, 301; not possessed of the same attractions, i. 344 ; or ghosts, hurt by weapons, i. 363 ; heard talking in the desert of Lop, and else- where, i. 604 ; three categories of commu- nication, ii. 115 ; may take possession of bodies in the absence of the soul, ii. 589 ; bad, compelled Garma-Khian to appear and render an account, ii. 616 ; city of, ib.
Spiritual phenomena among the Shakers, ii. 18 : discountenanced by the clergy, i. 26 ; chase the scientists, i. 41 ; lamblichus for- bids the endeavor to procure them, i. 219 ; sun, i. 29, 32 ; the magnet of Kircher, i. 208, 209; Gama, Ormazd, the soul of things, God, i. 270 ; invisible and in the centre of space, i. 302 ; the supreme deity, ii. 13 ; death, its cause, i. 318 ; eyes, i. 145 : sight, scientists without it, 1. 318 ; photography, i. 486
Spiritual entity, in man, an ancient doctrine, li. 593 ; transferred, ii. 563 ; limbs, can be made visible, fi. 596 ; world in proximityto us, ii. 593 ; state, as unfolded m the San- khya, a philosophy, ii. 593 ; numerals, i. 514 ; crisis of the Shaman, ii. 625 ; or magi- cal powers exist in every man, ii. 635 ; circles are constructed on no principle, ii. 638 ; Self the sole and Supreme God, ii. 566
Spiritualism, drifting, i. 53 ; efforts of Posi- tivists to uproot, 1. 76, 83 ; pretends only to be a science, i. 83 ; pronounced a de- lusion in Russia, i. 118 ; universally dif- fused from remote antiquity, i. 205 ; why it must continue to vegetate, ii. 636 ; is icono- clastic, not constructed, ii. 637 ; not scien- tific, ii. 637, 638 ; exoteric, too much directed to personal matters, ib. ; esoteric, very rare, ib.
Spiritualists, the majority remain in the re- ligious denominations, ii. 2; take no active part in the formation of a system of philosophy, ii. 637 ; start with a fallacy, ii. 638
Splendor, mighty Lord of, i. 301
Spurious passage in the First Epistle oi John, iL 177
Square hat of the Hierophant, ii. 392
Squirrel materialized, i. 329
Sri-Iantara, or Solomon's seal, ii. 265
Stain ton, Moses, his criticisms of popular spiritualism, ii. 638
Stan-gyour, a work on magic, i. 580
Stanhope, Lady Esther, foints at a Yezidi orgy, ii. 572
Star of Bethlehem, rays carried home by a monk as relics, ii. 71
Starry heaven, worship proi>oscd under Christian names, ii. 450
Stars, ignition, i. 254 ; influence on fates of men, i. 259 ; and man have direct affinity, i. x68, 169
Statues, restorative of health, i. 283 ; possi- ble to animate them, i. 485 ; endowed with reason, i. 613
Steam-engine, invented by Hero of Alexan- dria, i. 241
Stedingers, accused and exterminated, ii. 331
Steel, rusts in India and Egypt, i. 211 ; su- perior article in India, i. 538 ; in Egypt, ib.
Steeples, turrets, and domes, phallic sym- bols, ii. 5
Stephens, believes the key to American hie- roglyphs will yet l-e obtained, i. 546; story of the unknown city of the Mayas, i.
547 Stewart, Prof. Balfour, his tribute to Hera-
kleitus, i. 422; warning to scientists, i.
424 ; denies perpetual light, i. 510
Stigmata, or birth-marks, i. 384 ; produced by sorcery of a Jesuit priest, ii. 633
Stone of Memphis, its potency to prevent pain, i. 540; two tables, masculine and feminine, ii. 5 ; a Shaman's talisman, " spoke " saving the author's life, ii. 626 ;
Stonehenge, its gods recognized as the di- vinities of Delphos and Babylon, i. 550; remarkable statement of Dr. Stukely. i. 572 ; Hamitic in plan, ib.
Stoics, belief concerning God, i. 317
Stones, their secret virtues, i. 265
Strangers, never admitted intoa c religion, i. 581
Stukely, Dr., remarks concerning Stone- henge, i. 572
686
INDEX.
Subjective mediums, i. 311 ; communication with human god-like spirits, ii. 115
Subsidy paid by the Kast India Company to maintain worship at the pagodas, ii. 624
Subterranean passages in Peru, i. 595, 597
Subtile influence emanated from every man's body, ii. 610
Suetonius knew nothing of Christians, ii. 535, 536
Suez Canal, i. 516. 517 ; that of Necho, i. 517
Sufis, their idea of one universal creed, ii. 306
Suicide and insanity caused by Elementa- ries, ii. 7
Suicides and murderers, i. 344
Sulanuth, i. 325
Sulphur, the secret fire or spirit of the alche- mists, i. 309 ; and quicksilver, a prepara- tion to promote longevity, ii. 6ao, 621
Summary of Koheleth, ii. 476
Sun, an emblem of the sun-god, i. 270 ; only a magnet or reflector, i. 271 ; has no more heat in it than the moon, ib. ; represented under the image of a dragon, i. 552 ; made the location of hell, ii. 12 ; view of Pythag-
• oras, id. ; increases the magnetic exhala- tions, ii. 611 ; and serpent-worship, the eligion of the Phoenicians and Mosaic Israelites, i. 555
Sun-worship once contemplated by Catho- lics, ii. 450
Sun-worshippers always regarded the sun as an emblem of the spiritual sun, i. 270
Sunrise and sunset as taught by the Shas- tras, i. 10
Supersentient soul, ii. 590
•* Superstitions" in regard to drowned per- sons, ii. 61X
Supreme Being denied by modem science, i. 16 ; by the positivists, i. 71 ; never re- jected by Buddhistical philosophy, i. 292 ; Essence, ii. 213, 214 ; the Swayambhuva and En Soph, ii. 218; mystery of the holy syllable, ii. 114
Surgery of Yogis and Talapoins, ii. 621
Sumden, Rev. T., on locality of hell, ii. 12
Sutrantika^ the sect hiving secret Buddhistic religion, ii. 607
Suttee, or burning of widows, not practised when the Code of Manu was compiled, i. 588
Swdbhavikas, Hindu pantheists, the teachers of protoplasm, i. 250; their views of Es- sence, ii. 262
Swayambhuva, the unrevealed Deity, ii. 39 ; the unity of three trinities, makmg with himself two praj.ipatis, ii. 39, 40 ; the Su- preme Essence the same as En Soph, ii. 214
Swearing forbidden by Jesus, ii. 273
Sweat of St. Michael, a phial of it preserved, ii. 71
Swedenborg personated by a Diakka, i. 219 ; on speech of spirits, i. 220 ; Heavenly Ar- cana, i. 306 ; a natural-born magician, but not an adept, ib. ; made Thomas Vaughan his model, ib. ; doctrine of correspond- ences, or hermetic symbolism, ib. ; be-
lieved in possibility of losing indindiuJ existence, i. 317 ; miraculous cures by his father, i. 464 ; indicates the lost word, i. 580; rite of, a Jesuitical product, ii. 390
Swedenborgians believe in possible obIitera« tion of the human personality, i. 317 ; be- lieve that the soul may abandon the body for specific periods, ii. 319
Swedish system of Freemasonry, ii. 381
Syllabus and Koran, a great affinity ac- knowledged, ii. 8a
Sylvester II., Pope, a sorcerer, ii. 56; his " oracular head," ii. 56
Symbol, its use, il 93
Symbols, i. 21 ; Christian, and phallism, ii. 5
Sympathy, mysterious, between plants and human beings, i. 246 ; the onspring of light, i. 309
Synagogue, "deposited its inheritance in the hands of Christ," ii. 477; has not ex- pired, ib.
Synesius, belief in metempsychosis, i. 12; his quotation from the book of stone at Memphis, i. 257; bclievcrd the spirit fM'e- existed from eternity as a distinct being. i. 316 ; bishop of Cyrene, his letter to Hypatia. ii. 53, ; adhered to the Platonic doctrines, ii, 198
Systems, Indian, Chaldean and Ophite com- pared, ii. 170
Tabernacles or ingatherings, feast of, iL 44 ; regarded as Bacchic rites, ib.
Table, no demons enclosed, i. 32a
Table-turning, i. 99, 105
Tainting of Souls, I 321
Talaix>ins, of Siam, power over wild beasts, i. 213 ; have incombustible cloth, i. 231 ; have the Kabala, Bible, and other al- legories in their manuscripts, L 577 ; Jes- uits disguised as, ii. 371 ; their secrets of medicine, ii. 621
Tale of the Two Brothers of Central Amer- ica, i. 550
Talisman, i. 462 ; il 636
Talismans of Apollonius, testimony of Jus- tin Martyr, ii. 97
Talmagc. Rev. Dr., description of Martha, ii. 102
Talmud, i. 17
Tamil-Hindus worship Kutti-Satan, perhaps Seth or Satan, i. 567
Tamti, the same as Belita, ii. 444 ; the sea,
ii. 445 Tanaim, the four who entered the garden,
ii. 119; the Kabalistic, ii 470
Tarchon, an Etruscan priest and his bryony- hedge, i. 527
Tartar robber detected by a Koordian sor- cerer, ii. 631
Tartary, magic, i. 599; spiritualism, i. 600; planchettc-writing, ib. \ happy and heath- en, ii. 240
Tau and astronomical cross of Egypt found at the palace of Palenque, i. '572 ; the handled cross, a symbol of Etemai life, ii 254 ; the signet or name of God, ib, \ the hierophanlic investiture, ii 365
INDEX.
687
Taylor, Thomas, his testimony concerning Pythagoras, i. 284 ; is unceremonious with the Nf osaic God, i. 388
Taylor, Robert, his amended Credo, ii.
Tcharaka, a Hindu physician of 5,000 years ago, i. 560
Tchemo-Ek)g, or Bogy, the ancient deity of the Russians, ii. 57a
Teaching of the soul, the highest method of knowledge, ii. 595
Tear of Brahma, the hottest, becoming a sapphire, i. 265
Telegraphy, neurological, i. 324
Telephone, i. ia6 ; some such mode of com- munication possessed by the Egyptian priests, i. 127
Telescope in the light-house of Alexandria, i. 528
Templar rite, old English, of seven de- grees, ii. 377
Templarism is Jesuitism, ii. 390
Templars, the founding of the ancient or- der, ii. 381, 38a ; did not believe in Christ, ii. 382 ; succeeded by the Jesuits, ii. 383 ; the pseudo-order invented to obviate the imputation of Jesuitism, ii. 384
Temple of the Holy Molecule, i. 413 ; had possession of Eastern mysteries, ii. 380 ; of the perpetual fire, ii. 632 ; at Jerusa- lem, not so ancient as was pretended, ii. 389 ; of Solomon, not esteemed by any Hebrew prophet, ii. 525
Temples, anciently the repositories of science, i. 25
Ten, the Pythagorean, ii. 171 ; virtues of initiation, ii. 98
Teraphim, Kabciri-gods, i. 570; identical with Seraphim, ib. ; serpent-images, ib. ; received by Dardnnus as a dowry and car- ried to Samothracc and Troy, ib.
Teratology, named by Geoflfroi St. Hilaire, i.
390
Terrestrial elementary spirits, i. 319 ; Circu- lation, i. 503 ; immortality, ii. 6x>
Tertullian, i. 46 ; on devils, i. 159 ; believed the soul corporeal, i. 317 ; desires to see all philosophers in the Gehenna-fire. ii. 250 : his intolerance, ii. 329
Tetractys, i. 9 ; the One, the Chaos, wisdom and reason, ii. 36 ; i. 507
Tetragram. i. 506, 507
Thales, believed water the primordial sub- stance, i. 134, 189 ; said to have discovered the electric properties of amber, i. 234 ; his belief concerning water and the Divine Mind. ii. 458
Thaumaturgist, his power of becoming in- visible, or appearing in two or more forms, ii. 588
Thaumaturgists. use the force known as Akasa. i. 113 ; declared by Salvcrte to be knaves, i. 115
Thebes, or Th-aba, ii. 448 ; ancient, i. 523 ; its prodigious ruins, i. 523, 524 ; the Twelve Tortures, ii. 364
Themura, ii. 298
Theocletus, Grand Pontiff of the Order of
the Temple, initiated the original Knight Templars, ii. 382
Theology, comparative, and two-edged weapon, ii. 531 ; Christian, subversive rather than promotive of spirituality and good morals, ii. 634
Theologies, ancient, all agree, ii. 39
Theon of Smyrna, his explanation of the five grades in the Mysteries, ii. loi
Theomania of the Cevennois imputed to hysteria and epilepsy, i. 371
Theophrastus, legatee of Aristotle, i. 320
Tbeopoca. the art of* endowing figures with life, i. 615, 616; testimony of Jacol- liot, i. 616, 617
Theosophists, their confederations in Ger- many, ii. 20
Theosophy. disfigured by theology, i. 13
Therapeulai, a branch of the Essenes, ii. 144
Therapeutists probably Buddhists, ii. 491
Thermuthis, the name of Pharaoh's daugh- ter and of the sacred asp, i. 556
Thespesius, apparently dead for three days, i. 484
Thessalian sorceresses evoked shadows with blood, ii. 568
Theurgic Mysteiy, ii. 563-575
Theurgists, 1. 205-219 ; knew occult proper- ties of magnetism and electricity, i. 234 ; not "spirit-mediums." ii. 118; p>ersecuted by the Christians, ii. 34
Theurgy, its phenomena produced by mag- netic powers, i. 23 ; the devil at its head, i. 161
Thevetat, the " Dragon" of the Atlantis, i. 593 ; his seduction of the people, ib.
Thing, the one, of the Smaragdine Tablet, '• 507- 508 ; named by Hermetic philoso- phy, i. 508
Third emanation produces the universe of physical matter, and, finally, " Darkness and the Bad," i. 302; race of men in He- siod, i. 558 ; in Popul-Vuh, ib. ; race of men, the Nephilim, i. 559
Thirteen Mexican Serpent-Gods, i. 57a
This book, its object, ii. 98, 99
Thomas, St., in Malabar, ii. 534; Aquinas, ii. 20 ; Taylor, an exp>ositor of Plato's meaning, ii. 108, 109
Thomson, Sir William, declares science bound to face every problem, i. 223
Thompson, Hon. R. W., denounced by a Catholic priest, ii. 378
Thor, his electric hammer, i. 160
Thought affects the matter of another uni- verse, i. 310
Thought-communication effected by a Sha- man with his stone, ii. 627
Thoughts guided by spiritual being, i. 366 ; human, projected uix>n the universal ether, i. 395 ; ii. 636
Thrjetaona, the Persian Michael, contend- ing with Zohak. ii. 486
Three degrees of the plcroma. i. 302 ; tricks exhibited, i. 73 ; degrees of communica- tion with spirits, ii. 115 ; emanations, i. 302 ; kabalistic forces, ib. ; Gods, or ar-
688
INDEX.
chial principles, First Cause. Logos, and World-soul, ii. 33 ; Saviours, ii. 536 ; le- gends concerning them, ii. 5^-539 ; enu- meration of their followers, ii. 539 ; births of man, ii. 568 ,* three hundred million Buddhists seeking Nirvana, ii. 533 ; moth- ers, i. 257
Three-sided prism of man's nature, ii. 634
Throwing spells by aid of the wind, ii 632
Thrum-stone, i. 231
Thumniim, i. 536, 537
6v/io(, thumos, the astral soul, i. 439
Thury, Prof., on leVitation, cited by de Gas- parin, i. 99, 109 ; his theory of spiritual phenomena, i. no; imputes them to the action of wills not human, i. 112 ; psychode and ectenic force, i. 113
Tiara, papal, the coiffure of the Assyrian gods, ii. 94
Tickets to Heaven, ii. 243
TifTereau, Theodore, assertion that he had made gold, i. 509
Tiger mesmerized, i. 467
Tigress, bereft of her cubs, mesmerized by a fakir, ii. 623
Tikkun, the first bom, the Heavenly Man, ii. 276
Tillemont, declares all illustrious pagans condemned to the etern^ torments of hell, ii.8
Timeeus, cannot be understood except by an initiate, ii. 39
Time and space no obstacles to the inner man. ii. 588
Tir-thankara, the preceptor of Gautama, ii. 322
Tissu, the spiritual teacher of Kublai-Khan, his great holiness, it 608 ; reforms reli- gion, ii. 609
To, O*-, of Plato, ii. 38
Tobo, liberator of the soul of Adam, ii.
517
Todas, a strange people discovered in South- ern Hindustan fifty years ago, ii. 613 ; revered and maintained by the Badagas, ii. 614 ; an order and not a race, ib.
Tolticas, said to be descended from the house of Israel, i. 552
Tooth, Navel and less comely relics of Jesus, ii. 71
Tophet, a place in the valley of Gehenna, where a fire was kept and children immo- lated, ii. II ; not a place of endless woe, ii. 502
Torqucmeda, Tomas de, his prodigious cruelty, ii. 59 ; burned Hebrew Bibles, ii. 430
Torralva and his demon Zequiel, il 60
Torturing people by means of Simulacra, ii.
55 Toulouse, the Bishop of, his falsehoods about
Protestants and Spiritualists of America,
ii. 7 Townshend, Colonel, remarkable power of
suspending animation, i. 483 Traditions, ancient, belong to India, ii. 259 Tragedy of Human Life, its plot ever the
same, ii. 640
Trance-life, i. 181
Transformation of the ancient ideas, ii. 491
Transmigration, dreaded by the Hindu, i. 346 : of the soul, does not relate to man's condition after death, ii. 280
Transmural Vision, i. 145
Transmutation of metal, the actual fact as- serted, I 503, 504 ; Dr. Wilder's opinion, i. 505 ; salt, sulpher, and mercury thrice combined in azoth. ii*.
Transubstantiation, an arcane utterance per- verted, ii. 560
Travancore, perpetual lamp, i. 325
Tree, Yggdrasill, i. 133. 151 ; Zampun, i. 152; Aswatha, ib. ; symbol of universal life, ib. ; the pyramid, i. 154 ; Gogard, I 297 ; serpent clwells in its branches, i. 298 ; the microcosmic and macrocosmic. 297 ; tziti, the third race of men, i. 558 ; of knowledge, ii. 184 ; or pippala, ii. 412
Triad, the Intelligible, i. 212; irova. the duad. i. 348
Triads, or trinities, Babyloniaa, Phoenician and Hindu, ii. 48 ; Persian and Egyptian, ii. 49
Tribes of Israel, what evidence before Ezra. L 508 ; no tribe of Simeon, id.
Trigonocephali, their bite kills like a flash of lighting, ii. 622
Trimurti, i. 92 ; their habitation, ii. 234
Trinities, three, in one unity, making ten Sephiroth or Prajipatis. ii. ^ 40; Hindu, Egyptian and Christian, ii. 227
Trinity, the nrst, i. 341 ; of Egyptians, i. 160 ; three Sephiroth or emanations, ii. 36 ; the doctrine revealed to Sesostris, ii. 51 ; the word first found in the Gospel of Nicodemus, ii. 522 ; listening for the an- swer of Mary, ii. 173 ; kabalistic. ii. 223 ; of workers in the cosmogony, iL 420 ; of nature the lock of magic, ii. 635
Triple Trimurti, ii. 39
Trithemius, ii. 20
Triztia or feast of the dead in Moldavia, ii.
569.570 Trojan war a counterpart of that of the Ra-
fndyana, i. 566
Troy, worship of the Kabeiri brought by Dardanus, i. 570
True Adaniic Earth,* L 51 ; doctrine Xox*f aAij0i}( of Celsus, a copy still in exist- ence, ii. 52 ; faith the embodiment of divine charity, ii. 640
Truth, religions but vari-colored fragments of its beam, ii. 639
Tschuddi, Dr., his story of the train of llama, and treasure, i, 546
TuUia, daughter of Cicero, lamp found burning in her tomb, i. 224
Tullus Hostilius, King of Rome, struck by lightning, i. 527
Turn, devotees of, ii. 387
Tunnel from Cusco to Lima and Bolivia, i. 597 ; entrance, ib. ; dangers of its explora- tion, i. 598
Turkey, wars with Russia and final con- quest, i. 261
Turanian, should have been applied to the
INDEX.
689
Assyrians, i. 576 ; evidently applied to the nomadic Caucasinn, progenitor of the Ha- inite or ..-Eihiopian, ib. Turner, his account of an interview with a young lama or reincarnated Buddha, ii.
598
Turrets, the reproduction of the lithos, ii. 5
Tutelar genius who hardened the heart of Pharaoh, etc., ii. 639
Twelve houses, the (able, i. 267 ; tables, a compilation, i. 588 ; labors of Hercules depicted on the chair of Peter, ii. 25 ; dis- ciples sent by Jehosaphat to preach, ii. 517 ; great gods, ii. 44i8 ; minor gods, Dii minores, ii. 451 ; tortures, ii. 351 ; of The- ban initiation, ii. 364; thousand years employed in creation, i. 542
Twenty-nine witch-burnings, ii. 62
Two souls taught by the philosophers, i. 12, 317: idols of monotheistic Christianity, ii. 9 ; primeval principles, i. 341 ; principles, the Jews brought the doctrine from Persia, ii. ^bo, 501 ; diagrams explained, ii. 266, 271 ; "old ones,' ii. 350 ; brothers of the Bible, the good and evil principles, il 489 ; religions in each old faith, ii. 607
Two-headed serpents, i. 393
Tycho-Brahe. vision of the star, i, 441, 442
Tyndall confesses science powerless, i. 14 ; views of consciousness, i. 86 ; displays forms as of living plants and animals in an experimental tube, i. 127 ; his avoidance to investigate spiritual phenomena, i. 176 ; 176 ; his Belfast Address, i. 314 ; his judg- ment of cowards, i. 418; declares spirit- ualism a degrading belief, ib. \ confesses that the evolution hypothesis does not solve the last mystery, i. 419; his experi- ments on sound, ii. 606 ; his definition of science, ii. 637
Typhon once worshipped in Egypt, and then changed to an evil demon, ii. 487; Plu- tarch s explanation, ii. 483; father of lero- solumos and loudaios, ii. 484 ; separated from his androj^yne, ii. 524
Tyrian worship mtroduced into Israel by Ahab, ii. 525
Tyrrhenian cosmogony, i. 342
Udayna or Pashai (Peshawer) the classic land of sorcery, i. 599 ; statement of Hiouen-Thsang, ib.
Ultramontancs accused in France of siding with the Mahometans, ii. 82
Ulysses frightens phantoms with his sword, i. 362
Umbilical cord ruptured and healed, i. 386
Umbilicus, represented by the ark, ii. 444
Umbra, or shade, i. 37
Unavoidable cycle. Mysteries, i. 553
Unconscious cerebration, i. 55, 232 ; ventril- oquism, i. loi
Urdar, the fountain of life, 1. 151, 162
Underworld, i. 37
Undines, i. 67
Union to the Deity, ii. 591
Unity of three trinities, ii. 39 ; the Sephi- roUi or prajapatis, ib.
Universal soul, or' mind, I 56 ; the doctrine underlying all philosophies. Buddhism, Brahmanism, and Christianity, i. 289 ; re- lation to the reasoning and the animal soul, i. 316 ; solvent, i. 50, 137, 189
Universals to particulars, i. 288
Universe, or Kosraos, the bod^ of the in- visible sun, i. 302 ; doubt, 1. 324 ; how came it, i. 341 ; the concrete image of the ideal abstraction, i. 342 ; existed from eternity, ib. ; passes through four ages, ii. 421 ; a musicsd instrument, i. 514
Unknown presence, when witnessed, ii. 164 ; the future self of man, ii. 165
Unregulated mediums punished, i. 489
Unrevealed God, i. 160
Unseen Universe, or all things there re- corded, ii. 588; spiritual universe, its existence demonstrated, ii. 15
Untrained mediumship illustrated by So- crates and his daimonion, ii. 117
Untenable dogmas of science, i. 501
Upasakes and Upasakis, Buddhistic semi- monastics, ii. 608
Uper-Ouranoi, i. 312
Vach, or sacred speech, ii. 409 Vaivaswata, the Hindu Noah, ii. 425 Valachian lady, her simulacrum brought to
the author in her tent in Mongolia, ii. 627,
628 Vampirism, a terrible case in Russia, i. 454 Vampire-governor, and his widow, i. 454,
455
Vampires, i. 319 ; shedim, etc., i. 449; mag- netic, i. 462; ghouls and, wandering about, ii. 564
Van Helmont, i. 50, 57 ; on magnetism and will, i. 170 ; on transnmtation of earth into water, 190 ; testimony of Deleuze, i. 194 ; a Pythagorean, i. 205 ; theory of man, i. 213 ; rem child born headless immediately after an execution, I 386 ; on the power of woman's imagination, i. 399; testimony of Dr. Foumier, i. 400 ; ridiculed for 'his direc- tions for production of animals, i. 4x4
Vari-colored fragments of the beam of Divine Truth, ii. 639
Vasitva, power of mesmerizing, also of re- straining the passions, i. ^93
Vasaki, the great dragon, ii. 490
Vast inland sea of middle Asia, and its island, i. 589
Vatican, black ma^c practised there, ii. 6 ; secret libraries, ii. 16, 19 ; clergy, how an
Vatou, or candidate, for initiation, ii. 98 ; sen- sitive to spiritual influences, ii. 118
Vaughan, Thomas, anecdote of his at- tempted sale of gold, i. 504
Vedas. antedate the Bible, i. 91 ; contain no such immodesty as the Bible, ii. 80 ; older than the flood, ii. 427
Vedic words, the controversies of Sanscrit scholars, ii. 47 ; peoples not all Aryans, ii.
413 Vedic Pitris. their worship fast becoming
690
INDEX.
the worship of the spiritual portion of mankind, li. 639
Vegetation, influence of the moon, i. 273 ; influenced by musical tones, i. 514
V»»hicle of life, iL 418
Venerable " Mah," ii. 388
Ventriloquists or pythioe, i. 355
Ventura de Raulica, his letter asserting the existence of Satan as a fundamental dogma of the Church, ii. 14
Vesica Piscis, a Zodiacal sign, ii. 255
Vic 316
Vicarious atonement, ii. 542 ; obliterates no wrong, ii. 545 ; not known by Peter, ii. 546
Vigil-night of Siva, i. 446
Vincent, Frank, his description of the ruins of Nagkon-Wat, i. 562, 565
Vine, the symbol of blood and life, ii. 244 ; Jesus, ii. 561 ; his *• Father " not God, V)ut the hierophant, ib.
Viracocha, the Peruvian deity, ii. 259
Viradji, the Son of God, his origin, ii. iii
Virgin, celestial, milk of, i. 64; of the sea, crushes the dragon under her feet, ii. 446 ; of the Zodiac, rises above the horizon, Dec. 25th, ii. 490 ; Blessed, thrashing a de- moniac, ii. 76 ; Mary, declaring all pagans condemned to eternal torments, over her own signature, ii. 8 ; succeeded to the titles, symbols and rites of Isis, ii 95 ; on the crescent moon, like pag^an goddesses, ii. 96 ; queen of heaven, li. id. ; mother without a husband, positivist, i. 81 ; of the Avatar, Son-Ka-po, ii. 589
Virgin-mothers. Hindu. Egyptian, and Cath- olic, their epithets, ii. 209
Vishnu, takes the form of a fish, ii. 257; same as Cannes, ib. ; the Adam Kadmon of the kabalists, ii. 259 ; his ten avatars, ii. 274 ; symbolize evolution, ii. 275 ; the expression of the whole universe, ii. 277
Vishnu-flower, ii. 467
Visible universe from Brahma-Prajapati, i.
348 Visions witnessed by initiates, ii. 113 ; pro- duced by sorcery, ii. 633 Visit to the Ladakh in Thibet, ii. 508 Visiting and leaving the body at home, ii.
604. 605 Vistaspa, a king of Bactriana, ii. 141 Visvamitra, his escape in the ark, ii. 257 ;
Egypt colonized in his reign, i. 627 VitjU force, speculations of men of science,
i. 466 Viti. Sancti, Chorcca, or St. Vitus' Dance, ii.
625 Voices of spirits and goblins heard in the
desert, i. 604 Volatile salts obnoxious to devils, i. 356 Volncy, mistook ancient worship, i. 24 ; his
doctrine of God, i. 268 Voltaire, on the being of God, i. 268 Voluntary withdrawal of the spirit from the
body, ii. 588 Votan, his admission to the snake's hole as
a son of the snakes, i, 553 ; supposed by
de Bourbourg to be descended from Ham
and Canaan, i. 554 ; the hero of the Mejri-
cans, i. 545 ; probably identical %iith
Quetzel-coatl, ib. ; intercourse with Kin?
Solomon, ib. ; the navigating serpent, tL Voodo orgy in Cuba, ii. 573 Vourdalak or vampires of Servia, i. 451. ii.
368 Vowels, the seven, chanted as a hymn to
Serapis, i. 514 Vridda Manava, or laws of Manu, i. 585 Vril, Bulwer-Lytton's designation of the
one primal force, i. 64, 125 Vril-ya, the coming race, i. 296 Vulcan, Phta, or Hephaistos, represented at
Nakyon-Wat, i. 505. 566 Vulgar magic in India, ii. 20 Vyasa, a positivist, i. 621 ; denied a Fii-5t
Cause, ii. 261 Vyse, Col., found a piece of iron in the
pyramid of Cheops, 1. 54a
Wagnkr, Prof. Nicholas, on heat and psy- chical force, i. 497 ; on mediuraistn; phe- nomena, i. 499
Walking above the ground, i. 47a ; the faculty sought by devotees, and attained by a King of Siam, ii. 618 j Wallace, A. R., on cycles, i. 155; bcbef in spiritualism and mesmerism, i. 177; tlieory of human development, L 294
War of Michael and the dragon, an old myth, ii. 486
Warrior, slain and resuscitated, but without a soul. ii. 564
War-chariots, ancient, lighter than modern artillory-wagons, i. 530; had metaitic springs, ib.
Water, of Phtha, i. 64; the first principle of things, i. 133 ; an universal solvent, i. ^33^ 189 ; of mercury, the soul or psychi- cal substance, i. 309 ; the first-created ele- ment, ii. 458
Waters turned to blood, i. 413, 415
Washing of images, ii. 138
Wave-theory of light not accepted by Prof. Cooke, i. 137
Weapons, da-mons afraid of, i. 362
Weekman, reputed the first investigator of spirit-phenomena in America, i. 105
Weeks of seven days used in the East. iL 418
Weird cries of the Gobi, i. 604
Weninger, Father F. X., a Jesuit priest, his denunciation of Secretary Thompson,
ii. 378, 379
Wesermann, power to influence the dreams of others, and to appear double, i. 477
White-skinned people not often able to ac- quire magical powers, ii. 635
White stone of initiation, ii. 3^1
Whitney, Prof W. D., his critici«im of Max MuUer, ii. 47; denunciation of JacoUiot, ib. ; his translaiion of a Vedic uymn, il
534 Widow-burning, or suttee, practised 2.500 years, but not when the Code of Manu was compiled, i. 588; sustained by the B rah mans from a forged verse of the Ri^ Veda, i. 589
INDEX.
691
Widows burned without pain by the Brah- mans, i, 540
Wild beasts will not attack Buddhistic nuns, ii. 609
Wilder, A., on p>ossibility of transmutation, i. 505 ; suggestion of another classifica- tion of the Assyrians and Mongols, i. 575 ; notes in regard to America, the Atlantic continent, Lemuria, and the deserts of Africa and Asia, i. 592 ; on skeptics, and respect for earnest convictions, 1. 437 ; on Paul and Plato, ii. 90 ; on the designation Peter and the pretension of the Pope to be his successor, ii. 92 ; opinion of Zeru- ana, Turan, and Zohak, ii. 142 ; descrip- tion of Paul. ii. 574-6
Wilkinson, Sir Gardner, his testimony in regard to ancient Egyptian civilization, i. 526 ; J. J. G., declares truth temperamen- tal, i. 234
Will, i. 56-61 ; its potency in a state of ec- stasy, i. 170; produces force, i. 285; an emanation of deity, ib. ; power of, ii. 21 ; enables one to wound or injure another, i. 360, 361 ; generates force, and force generates matter, ii. 320
Will-force of the Yogis, ii. 565
Will-power, killing birds by it, i. 380 ; pho- tographing by, i. 463 ; the most powerful of magnets, i. 472 ; its exercise the high- est form of prayer, ii. 592
Wine first sacred in the Bacchic Mysteries, ii. 514
Winged men of the Phivdrus, i. 2
Wirdig taught that nature is ensouled, i. 207
Wisdom, the arcane doctrine of the an- cients, 205, 436 ; or the principle, ii. 35 ; the chief, ii. 36 ; first emanation of the En Soph, ii. 37 ; origin, ii. 218 ; the ethnic parent of every religion, ii. 639, 640
Wisdom-doctrine underlay every ancient religion, ii. 99
Wisdom-religion, to be found in the prc- Vedic religion of India, ii. 39 ; its articles of faith, ii. 116; explained in Code of Manu. ib. ; the parent cult, ii. 216
Wise women, ii. 525
Witch, a knowing woman, i. 354 ; or kanga- lin, lawful for a Hindu to kill her, ii. 612
Witch-burnings in Germany, ii. 61 ; twenty- nine, ii. 62, 63
Witchcraft, execution in Salem, and other American provinces, ii. 18 ; laws in force in South Carolina in 1865, ib. an offence among the ancients, ii. 98 ; those guilty of it not initiates, ii. 117. 118
Witches, pretended, dozens of thou.sands burned, i. 353 ; of the middle ages, the votaries of the former religion, ii. 502
Witches' Sabbath, the orgies of Bacchus, iL 538
Withdrawal of the inner from the outer man, ii. 583
Withdrawing of the inner from the outer, i. 476
Wittoba, the crucified image of Christna anterior to Christianity, ii. 557
44
Wizard, a wise man, i. 354 Wolf, converted by St. Francis, ii. 77 Wolsey, Cardinal, accused of sorcery, ii. 57 Woman, of the future, i. 77 ; fecundated artificially, 77, 81 ; mu.st cea.se to b« the female of tiie men, i. 78 ; ridding her of every maternal function, ib. \ applying a latent force, ib.\ offered to the encubi, ib. ; impossible, 81 ; evolved out of men, i. 297 : highly impressible when pregnant, i- 394 : exudes akasa as an odic emana- tion, i. 395 ; how this is projected into the astral light or ether, and repercussing, impresses itself upon the foiitus, ib. ; evolved out of the lusts of matter, i. 43^ ; clothed with the sun, the goddess Isis, li, 489 Women, magnetically influenced by the
moon, i. 264 Women-colleges, to superintend worship,
ii. 524. 525
Wcmg-Chmg-Fu, his explanation of Nepang or Nirvana, ii. 319, 320
Wonder-working fakirs seldom to be seen, ii. 612, 613
Word, magical, i. 445 ; ineffable, and per- formance of miracles, ii. 370 ; lost by the Christians, ib. ; where to be sought, ii. ^i, ii. 418; "long lost but now found,'
»• 393 World, how called into existence, i. 341 ;
how all will go well with it, ii. 122 ; soul
of, i. 129, 208, 215, 342 ; religions, startled
by utterances of scientists, i. 248, 249
World-religions, conflict between, i. 307 ; identical at their starting-point, ii. 215 ; the devil their founder, ii. 479
World-mountains, allegorical expressions of cosmogony, i. 157
World-soul, the source of all souls, and ether, i. 316
\V^>rh.l-trcc of knowledge, i. 574
Worlds, an incalculable number before the present one, ii. 424
Worship of the sun and serpent by Phoeni- cians and Mosaic Israelites, i. 555 ; of worils, denounced, ii. 560 ; of the spiritual portion of mankind, ii. 639
Wounds, mortal, self-inflicted and healed, i. 224
Wreaths of green leaves for oracles, ii. 61a
Wren, Sir Christopher, simply the Master ol the London operative masons, ii. 390
Wright, ITiomas, on sorcery and magic, L
356 Writings under the ban, ii. 8
X, decussation of the perfect circle, ii. 469
X., Dr. extraordinary scenes at a seance, i. 608-611
Xenophanes, his satire on the representa- tions of God, ii. 242
Ximenes, cardinal, burned 80,000 Arabic manuscripts, i. 511
Xisuthrus or Hasisadra, sailed with the ark to Armenia, ii. 217 ; translated to the gods, ii. 424 ; Oannes and Vishnu in the first avatar, ii. 457
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INDEX.
Yaho, an old Shemitic mystic name of the
Supreme Being, ii. 297 Yadus migrating from India to Egypt, i
444
Yang-kie and Mahu, dwellers in both worlds, i. 601, 6oa
Yakuts and their worship, ii. 568
Yarker, John jr. , account of the dervishes, ii. 3x6 ; his testimony in regard to Free-ma- sonry, ii. 376
Year of blood, 1876, L 4^
Yezidis, or devil-worshippers genuine sor- cerers, ii. 571 ; their worship, ii. 57a
Yggdrasill, i. 133; universe springing up beneath its branches, i. 151
Ymir, the Norse giant, i. 147 ; generates a race of depraved men, i. 148 ; is slain by the sons of Bur, i. 150
Yogas or cycles, i. 293
Yogis of India, ii . 346 ; their extraordinary powers, it 565 ; regarded as demi-gods, li. 612 ; a peculiar medicine used by them composed of sulphur and juice of a plant, ii. 621 ; their longevity, ii. 620 ; their medi- cinal preparation of sulphur and quick- silver, ii. 620
YOrmungand, the midgard or earth-serpent,
I 151
Yourodevoy, i. 28
Youth, the means of regaining, ii. 618
Yowahous, ii. 313
Yugas, i. 31
Yule, Colonel, on movable type, i. 515 ; on spiritualism in Tartary, i. 600 ; testimony in regard to spiritual flowers drawn by a medium in Bond street. Ix>ndon, i. 601
Zacharias. saw an apparition in the temple, ass-formed, ii. 523
Zadokitcs. or Sadducees. made a priest- caste by David, iL 297
Zampun, the Thibetan tree of life, i. 152 Zamzummim, the Cyclopcans, i. 567 Zarathustra-Spitoma, his untold antiquity,
i. 12 Zarevna Militrissa and the serpent. L 550 Zeller, criticism of the Fathers in regard to
Plato, i. 288 Zequiel, a demon presented to Torralva, ii.
60 Zeno taught two eternal qualities in nature.
i. 12 Zeru-Isbtar, a Chaldean or Magian high- priest, ii. 129 Zeruan, Saturn or Abraham, the legend of
the Titans, ii. 217 Zeus, the lether, i. 187, 188 Zeus-Dionysus, i. 262 Zmeij Gorenetch, the dragon, i. 550 Znachar, the Russian sorcerer, ii. 571 Zodiac, its symbolism, ii. 456 ; its origin,
16.984 years ago. ib. Zohaic and Gemshid. their struggle that of the Persians and Assyrians, i. 576 ; and Feridun. the legend explained, ii. 486; or Azhi-D;U3aka, the serpent of the .\vesta, ii. 486; a personification of Assyria, ik. Zonarus traces knowledge from Chaldea to
Egypt, thence to the Greeks, i. 543 ZoOmagnetism, or animal magnetism, i.
206 ; can magnetize minerals, 16. Zoroaster. Zarathustra, Zuruastara. Zuryas- ter. a spiritual teacher, ii. 141 ; areformei of Chaldean Magic, i. 191 ; when he lived, ii. 141 ; Baron Bunsen's opinion, ii. 432 Zoroastrian religion, its amnity with Juda- ism and Christianity, ii. 486 Zoroastrianism, no schism, ii. 14a Zoroastrians. migrated from India, it 143 Zoro-Babel or prince of Babylon, iL 441 Zuinglius. the nrst reformer, his cosmopoli- tan doctrine of the Holy Ghost, i. 132
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