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Proctor, R. A., i. 245;
accuses the ancients of ignorance, i. 253

Profanation to eat blood, ii. 567

Projecting of the astral or spiritual body, ii. 619, 620

Prometheus, the Logos or Adam Kadmon, i. 298;
revealed the art of bringing down lightning, i. 526;
prediction of Hermes, ii. 514, 515

Prophecies from Hindu books, ii. 556;
antedate 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 worship, ii. 525;
led a party against the priests, _ib._

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. 1;
their bloody statutes against witchcraft, ii. 503

Protevangelium, a parody of the Nicene creed, ii. 473

Protogonos, i. 341

Proto-hippus, i. 411

Protoplasm, i. 223;
taught by Seneca, etc., i. 249;
doctrine of the Swâbhâvikas, 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, _ib._;
known to the ancient philosophers, 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
physiology, i. 424

Psychomatics of occultism, i. 344

Psychometry, i. 182;
Prof. Denton and wife, i. 183; i. 330;
practised by the ancients, 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 of God, ii. 8

Punch-and-Judy boxes or Christian mysteries, ii. 119

Punjaub, population hybridized with Asiatic Æthiopians, i. 567

Purana, rules for writing one, ii. 492;
the model of the Pentateuch, _ib._

Purple, Tyrian, i. 239

Pûttâm, or imps, i. 447

Pyramids, their architecture and symbolism, i. 236;
of Egypt, i. 518;
their purpose, i. 519;
the baptismal font, _ib._;
the supposed manufacture of the material, _ib._;
built on the former sea-shore, i. 520

Pyrrho, how to be interpreted, ii. 530

Pythagoras, his philosophy derived from the Brahmans, i. 9;
taught the heliocentric system, i. 35, 532;
believed in an infinity of worlds, i. 96;
Bruno his disciple, i. 96, 98;
taught God 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.
247;
dual signification of his precepts, i. 248;
his trinity, i. 262;
regard for precious stones and their mystical virtues, i. 265;
his doctrine the same as the laws of Manu, i. 271;
alleged influence on birds and animals, i. 283;
testimony of Thomas Taylor, i. 284;
initiated in the Mysteries of Byblos, Tyre, Syria, Egypt and
Babylon, _ib._;
did not teach literal transmigration of the soul, i. 289;
taught the Buddhistic doctrines, i. 289-291;
held for a clever impostor, i. 307;
derived the soul from the world-soul, i. 316;
mathematical doctrine of the universe, i. 318;
taught the same as Buddha, i. 347;
explains imagination as memory, i. 396;
copied by Euclid, Archimedes, and Ptolemy, i. 512;
learned music in Egypt and taught it in Italy, i. 544;
placed the sphere of purification in the sun, ii. 12;
subdued wild animals, ii. 77;
persuaded a bull not to eat beans, ii. 78;
was not a “spirit-medium,” ii. 118;
his system of numerals, ii. 300;
probably did not understand decimal notation, _ib._

Pythagorean pentacle, ii. 451, 452

Pythagorists were probably Buddhists, ii. 491

Pytho, or Ob, i. 355

Pythoness, her powers of seership, ii. 590

Quack, a false name imposed on Paracelsus, ii. 621

Queen of Heaven indebted to Pius IX., ii. 9;
the Virgin Mary, Isis, Ishtar, Astarté, Queen Dido, Anna, Anaitis,
etc., ii. 96, 446-450

Quetzo-Cohuatl, the serpent-god of Mexican legends, i. 546;
wonders wrought by him, ii. 558;
his wand, _ib._

Quiché cosmogony, i. 549

Quicksilver and sulphur, a magical preparation to give long life, ii.
620

Quotation from _Psalms_ credited by Matthew to Isaiah, ii. 172

Rabbinical chronology, none before the twelfth century, ii. 443

Races, human, many died out before Adam, i. 2;
pre-Adamite, i. 305;
of men differ in gifts, ii. 588

Radzivil, Prince, detects the impostures of monks, ii. 72

Rahat, or perfect man, ii. 287, 288

Railroads in Upper Egypt, i. 528

Ram, or Aries, the symbol of creative power, i. 262

Ramayana the source and origin of Homer’s inspiration, ii. 278

Ramsay, Count, his story of the Templars, ii. 384

Raspberry-mark produced by longing, i. 391

Rasit, its meaning suppressed, ii. 34;
wisdom, ii. 35

Rational soul, every man endowed, ii. 279

Raulica, Father Ventura de, letter on magic, ii. 70

Ravan and Rama, ii. 436

Raven and St. Benedict, ii. 78

Rawho, the demon of Ceylon, ii. 509

Rawlinson, Sir H. C., brings home an engraved stone, i. 240;
declares that the Akkadians came from Armenia, i. 263;
conjectures 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, ii. 71

Razors, superior article in Africa, i. 538

Realm of Amita, legend of, i. 601

Reason, what it is, i. 425;
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 ancient colleges of Egypt, i.
520

Reciprocal influences, i. 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. 610;
the magnetism dreaded, ii. 611

Reformation had Paul for leader, ii. 180

Reformers as bloodthirsty as Catholics, ii. 503

Regazzoni, remarkable experiments, i. 142;
the mesmerist, feats, i. 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 Paracelsus, i. 167;
on odic force of pregnant women, i. 394

Reincarnation, its cause, i. 346;
its possibility, and impossibility, i. 351

Religion without a God, i. 76;
of the future, _ib._;
of the ancients the religion of the future, i. 613;
private or national property, not to be shared with foreigners, i.
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 indestructibility 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 Peruvians like those of the
Phœnicians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, i. 551;
instinct productive of immorality, i. 83;
liberty considered as intolerance, ii. 503;
reform pure at the beginning, ii. 333;
myths have an historical foundation, ii. 431;
teachers, ii. 1

Renan, E., described Jesus as a Gallicized rabbi, ii. 562

Repentance possible even in Hades or Gehenna, i. 352

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, i. 481

Report of French Parliament upon the Jesuits, ii. 353

Resplendent one, ii. 113;
the Augoeides, or self-shining vision, ii. 115

Retribution on the Roman Catholic Church, ii. 121

Reuchlin, John, a Kabalist, ii. 20

Revelation, or Apocalypse, its author a Kabalist, ii. 91;
his hatred of the Mysteries made him the enemy of Paul, _ib._

Revenge of Ilda-Baoth for the transgression of his command, ii. 185

Rib of the Word made flesh preserved as a relic, ii. 71

Rig-Veda, hymns written before Zoroaster, ii. 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 production, ii. 390

Rites and ceremonial dress of Christian 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. 85, 86

Rochester Cathedral, its originals, ii. 5;
rappings, i. 36

Rock-temples of Ipsambul, i. 542;
works of Phœnician 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. 1;
frown at the spiritual phenomena as diabolical, 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 spiritual phenomena as genuine, i. 100;
Church of, cursing spiritualists, ii. 6;
excommunicating the Bulgarians, Servians, Russians, 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 cruelest enemy, the Church, _ib._;
the aim to support Catholicism, ii. 394;
their doctrine of fire, i. 423

Rosie Cross, brothers live only in name, i. 29;
mysterious body, i. 64;
burned without mercy by the Church, _ib._

Round Tower of Bhangulpore, ii. 5

Rousseau, the savant, encounter with a toad, i. 399

Royal Arch word, ii. 293;
cipher, ii. 396

Ruc, 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. 260

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, ii. 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, ii. 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, i. 592

St. Paul’s Cathedral, its double lithoi, ii. 5;
Medard, the fanatics, i. 375;
John, Knights of, not Masons, ii. 383;
persecuted by the Inquisition, _ib._

Saints rescued from hell, ii. 517;
Buddhistic and Lamaistic, their great sanctity, ii. 608;
never washing themselves, ii. 511

Sakti, the active energy of the gods, ii. 276;
employed as a vehan, _ib._

Sakti-trimurti, or female trinity, ii. 444

Salamander or asbestos, i. 504

Salem, Mass., obsessions occurring there, i. 71;
witchcraft, the obeah woman, i. 361;
witchcraft, ii. 18

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 Iamblichus and others, _ib._;
his account of a soldier protected by an amulet, i. 378;
on mechanics and invention in ancient times, i. 516;
on the use of electricity, etc., by Numa and Tullus, kings of
Rome, i. 527

Samâddi, 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, i. 302;
worship of the Kabeiri brought thither by Dardanus, i. 570

Samothracian Mysteries and new life, i. 132;
magnetism and electricity, i. 234

Samson, the Hebrew Herakles, a mythical character, ii. 439;
represented by the Somona 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. 342

Sanctity of the chair of Peter, its source, ii. 25

Sankhya, the eight faculties of the soul, ii. 592, 593

Sanctuary of the pagodas never entered by a European [except Mr.
Ellis--see Higgins’s _Apocalypsis_--very doubtful], ii. 623

Sannyâsi, a saint of the second degree, ii. 98

Sanscrit, endeavor to show its derivation from the Greek, i. 443;
inscriptions, none older than Chandragupta, ii. 436;
the vernacular of the Akkadians, ii. 46;
appears on the leaves of the magical Koumboum, _ib._;
books written in presence of a child-medium, i. 368;
impressions by a fakir or juggler on leaves, i. 368, 369;
manuscripts translated into every Asiatic language, i. 578;
language derived from the Rutas, i. 594

Sapphire, sacred to the moon, i. 264;
possesses a magical power and produces somnambulic phenomena, _ib._;
Hindu legend of its first production, i. 265

Sar or Saros, i. 30

Sara-isvati, wife of Brahma, goddess of sacred knowledge, ii. 409

Sarcophagus, porphyry, in the pyramids, i. 519

Sargent, Epes, on spiritual deceptions, i. 220;
his arraignment of Tyndall for coquetting 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 damnation of adult heathen, ii.
474

Satan, his existence first made a dogma by Christians, ii. 13;
declared fundamental, ii. 14;
Ilda-Baoth, so called, ii. 186;
identical with Jehovah, ii. 451;
the mainstay 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, _ib._;
the name applied to a serpent in the Hebrew Scriptures, ii. 481;
the same as Seth, god of the Hittites, _ib._;
of the book of Job, ii. 483;
counsels with the Lord, ii. 485;
a son of God, ii. 492;
makes a sortie into New England and other colonies, ii. 503;
the Biblical term for public accuser, ii. 494;
the same as Typhon, _ib._;
cast forth by the prince of hell, ii. 515, 516;
is made subject 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. 11

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, _ib._;
his image, ii. 235;
or Kronos, offers his only-begotten son to Ouranos and circumcises
himself and family, i. 578;
the myth original in the _Maha-Bharata_, _ib._

Saturnalia of monks at Christmas, ii. 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 Mycenæ, i. 598

Schmidt, I. J., statement in regard to the steppes of Turan and
desert of Gobi, i. 603

Scholars, ancient, believed in arcane doctrines, 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 illusion, ii. 158

Science, formerly arcane and taught in the sanctuary, i. 7;
its progress, i. 40;
spiritualism, i. 83;
“has no belief,” i. 278;
knows no beginning or end, i. 336;
called anti-christianism, i. 337;
mystery fatal to it, i. 338;
its parent source, the unknown, i. 339;
its dilemma, i. 340;
will never distinguish the difference between human and animal
ovules, i. 397;
invading the domain 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 dogmas concerning perpetual motion, elixir of life,
transmutation of metals and universal solvent, i. 501;
stages of its growth, i. 533;
its three necessary elements, ii. 637;
spiritism does not prevent them, _ib._;
modern, fails to satisfy the aspirations of the race; makes the
future a void and bereaves man of life, ii. 639

Scientific knowledge confined to the temples, i. 25;
Association, or American Association for the Advancement of
Science, on spiritualism and roosters crowing in the night, i.
245, 246;
attainments of ancient 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;
likely to rediscover magic, i. 67;
not to be credited for the increase of knowledge, i. 84;
denied Buffon, Franklin, the steam-engine, railroad, etc., i. 85;
surpassed the clergy in hostility to discovery, _ib._;
as much given to persecution, _ib._;
know little certain, i. 224;
entrapping of Slade the medium, _ib._;
put forth no new doctrines, i. 248, 249;
anticipated by Liebig and Priestly, i. 250;
many of them inanimate corpses, i. 317;
their _ultima thule_, i. 340;
curious conjectures concerning the aurora, i. 417;
their incapacity to understand the spiritual side, i. 418

Scin-lecca, or double, ii. 104;
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

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 Himalayas, i. 589

Seal, Solomon’s of Hindu origin, i. 135

Seance in Bengal, i. 467

Second Emanation condenses matter and diffuses life, i. 302;
Adam created unisexual, i. 559;
spiritual birth, ii. 566;
advent, a fable invented for a precaution, ii. 535;
death, ii. 368;
sight, i. 211

Secret formulæ, i. 66;
sacerdotal castes in every ancient religion, ii. 99;
doctrine, its martyrs, i. 574;
of Moses, ii. 525;
volume, the real Hebrew Bible, ii. 471;
sects of the Christians, ii. 289;
are still in existence, ii. 290;
God of the Kabala, ii. 230;
of secrets, ii. 568

Secrets for prolonging life, ii. 563

Sectarian beliefs to disappear, i. 613

Sects existing before Christ, ii. 144

Sedecla, the Obeah woman of En-Dor, i. 494

Seer, receives impressions directly from his spirit, ii. 591

Seers or epoptæ, not spirit-mediums, ii. 118

Seer-adept, knows how to suspend the action 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. 114;
the future, ii. 115

Self-consciousness, attained on earth, i. 368

Self-printed records on the sacred tree, i. 302

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 emanation, i. 270;
or Sacred Aged (Maha Lakshmi), ii. 421

Sephiroth, 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. 215;
same as the ten patriarchs, _ib._

Sepulchres in Thibet, extraordinary arrangement of bodies and
decorations, ii. 604

Seraph, his snout preserved as a relic, ii. 71

Serapis, a name of Surya, ii. 438;
an accepted type of Christ, ii. 336;
his picture adopted by the Christians, _ib._;
represented by a serpent, ii. 490;
usurped the worship of Osiris, ii. 491;
the seven vowels chanted as a hymn in his honor, i. 514

Serpent of Genesis, des Mousseaux’s name for the devil, i. 15;
matter, i. 297;
dwelling in the branches of the tree of life, i. 298;
symbol of wisdom and immortality, i. 553;
of the book of _Genesis_, Ash-mogh or Asmodeus, ii. 188;
persuades man to eat of the tree of knowledge, ii. 185;
Christna crushing his head, ii. 446;
the divine symbol east and west, ii. 484;
most spirit-like of all reptiles, and hence a favorite symbol, ii.
489;
how 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. 381, 382, 470

Serpent-monsters, i. 393

Serpent-god, sons of, the hierophants, i. 553

Serpent-gods, Mexican, 13 in number, i. 572

Serpent-trail round the unformed earth, ii. 489

Serpent-worship, its origin not known, ii. 489

Serpent-worshippers of Kashmere become Buddhists, ii. 608

Serpent’s catacombs in Egypt, i. 553;
mysteries of the unavoidable cycle or centre of necessity, _ib._

Serpents, the earth their queen, i. 10;
Kneph, Agathodaimon, Kakodaimon, i. 133, 157;
Eliphas Levi’s, symbol of astral fire, i. 137;
queen of, ii. 489;
used as plaything at Hindu festivals, ii. 622

Servius, on the ancient practice of employing celestial fire at the
altars, i. 526

Sesostris, instructed by the oracle in the Trinity, ii. 51

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 El, ii. 524

Sethicnites, disbelieved that Jesus was God, ii. 176

Seven, a sacred Hindu number, ii. 407;
among the Chaldeans, ii. 408;
potentiality of the number, ii. 417;
steps, the descent, i. 353;
degrees, old English Templar Rite, ii. 377;
vowels chanted as a hymn, i. 514;
caverns, i. 552;
spirits, i. 300, 301;
spirits of the Apocalypse, i. 461;
impostor demons, ii. 296;
Æons, _ib._;
rishis, _ib._

Seven-headed, serpent, ii. 489

Seventh degree, ii. 365;
ray and seven vowel, i. 514;
rite, the life transfer, ii. 564

Severus, Alexander, pillaged Egyptian temples for books, i. 406

Sexual element in Christianity, ii. 80;
emblems and worship, ii. 445

Shaberon, summoning a lama by spirit-message, ii. 604;
his wonderful summons to rescue the author from peril in Mongolia,
ii. 628

Shaberons, or Khubilhans, reincarnations of Buddha, ii. 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. 624, 625;
prediction of the Crimean war, ii. 625;
extraordinary scene with the talismanic stone, ii. 626, 628;
“dragged out of his skin,” ii. 628;
priests bound to perform their “true rites” but once a year, at the
solstice, ii. 624

Shamanism or spirit-worship, the oldest religion 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._

Shampooing or tschamping, a magical manipulation, 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 Afrites, i. 313

Shekinah, the veil of the most ancient, ii. 223

Shem, Ham and Japhet, the old gods Samas, Kham and Iapetos, ii. 487

Shemites, Assyrians, i. 576;
probably a hybrid of Hamite and Aryan, _ib._

Shien-Sien, a blissful state, power of those obtaining it to
transport themselves everywhere, ii. 618, 620

Shiloh, daughters, their dance, ii. 45

Shimeon and Patar, ii. 93

Shoëpffer, Prof., teaches that the earth does not revolve, i. 621

Shoel ob, or consulter with familiar spirits, i. 355

Shudâla-Mâdan, the ghoul or graveyard fiend, i. 495

Shu-King, i. 11

Shûla-Mâdan, the furnace-demon, i. 496;
helps the juggler with raising trees, _ib._

Shu-tukt, a collegiate monastery, having in it over 30,000 monks, ii.
609

Siam, a king in 1670 who sought for the philosopher’s stone, i. 571

Siamese, the power of monks, i. 213, 214;
study of the philosopher’s stone, i. 214;
believe that some know how to render themselves immortal, _ib._

Sidereal force taught by Paracelsus, i. 168

Signature of the fœtus, i. 385

Silver, its aura, the quicksilver of the yogis or alchemists, ii.
620, 621

Silver and green associated in hermetic symbolism, i. 513

Silvery spark in the brain, i. 329

Simeon, the existence of such a tribe denied, i. 368;
ben Iochai, compiler of the _Zohar_, ii. 548;
rabbi, author of the _Zohar_, i. 301, 302;
his sons arise and relate what they saw in hell, ii. 519;
his prototype in India, _ib._

Simon ben Iochai, i. 263;
Stylites, lived 36 years atop of a pillar, ii. 77;
cured a dragon of a sore eye, _ib._

Simon Magus, a personification of the apostle 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 offender from his associates, ii. 608

Siphra Dzeniouta, i. 1

Sister’s son inheriting a crown, ii. 437

Sistra at the Israelitish festival, ii. 45

Siva, the fire-god, same as Bel and Saturn or Kronos, i. 263;
vigil-night, i. 446;
represented as sacrificing a rhinoceros instead of his son, i. 577,
578;
identical with Baal, Moloch, Saturn and Abraham, i. 578;
created Adhima and Heva, ancestors of the present race of mankind,
i. 590;
hurls fallen angels into Onderah, ii. 11;
his paradise, ii. 234;
hurls the devils into the bottomless pit, ii. 238;
Sabazios and Sabaoth the same divinity, ii. 487;
the same as the western chief gods, ii. 524;
most intellectual of the gods, _ib._

Six principles of man, ii. 367;
days of evolution 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 teachers in the United States,
ii. 1

Skepticism a malady, i. 115

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. 118, 224

Slavonian Christians now assailed by the Catholics, ii. 81

Slavonians, the mystic word, ii. 42

Smaragdine, tablet of Hermes, found at Hebron, i. 507

Smith, George, his reading of the Assyrian tablets, ii. 422;
his reading of the story of Sargon, ii. 442

Snake-symbol of Phanes, the mundane serpent and mundane year, i. 146,
151, 157

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 terminating 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 annihilation, ii. 3

“Society,” British, in India, 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 criticised, ii. 8;
a medium, and therefore not initiated, ii. 117;
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, i. 555

Sodalian oath, i. 409

Sodom and Gomorrah, suffering eternal fire, ii. 12

Sohar, its compilation, ii. 348;
its theories like the Hindu, ii. 276

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;
obtained 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 his temple only allegorical, ii. 391;
temple, the brazen columns and bowls to aid in entheastic power,
ii. 542

Soma, juice of, produces trance, i. 357

Somona, the Singalese 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.
263

Sorcerer in Africa, impervious to bullets, i. 379

Sorcerers, burned when not priests, ii. 58

Sorcery, i. 279;
misapplied arcane knowledge, ii. 581;
few facts better established, i. 366;
with blood, ii. 567, 568;
practised at the Vatican, ii. 620;
approved by Augustine, ii. 20;
employed for crime, ii. 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. 20

Sosigenes, reformed the calendar for Cæsar, i. 11

Sosiosh, the tenth avatar and fifth Buddha, ii. 236;
a permutation of Vishnu, ii. 237

Sotheran, Charles, letter on Freemasonry, ii. 388

Soul, displays power when the body is asleep, i. 199;
the two named by Plato, i. 276;
marvellous power, i. 280;
passage through the seven planetary chambers, i. 297;
spirit wholly distinct, i. 315;
dissolves 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. 280;
its feminine, ii. 281;
a part of it mortal, ii. 283;
the doctrine of Pythagoras, ii. 283;
Plato’s definition, 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 authoritative, 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. 208;
external, i. 276;
higher mortal, _ib._;
the great universal, union with it does not involve loss of
individuality, ii. 116

Soul-blind like color-blind, i. 387

Soul-electricity, i. 322

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, _ib._

South Carolina, statutes in force in 1865, imposing the death-penalty
for witchcraft, ii. 18

Sparks or old worlds that perished, ii. 421

Speaking images, i. 505

Specialties in medical practice in Egypt, i. 545

Speculative Masons, ii. 392

Spectre of a herdsman in Bavaria, i. 451

Spectroscope, confirmed doctrines of Paracelsus, i. 168, 169

Spell of the evil eye, ii. 633

Spheres, music of, i. 275

Spinoza, his philosophy, i. 93;
furnishes a key to the unwritten secret, i. 308

Spirit, its origin, i. 258;
not existing, but immortal, i. 291;
or spiritus, the soul or _anima mundi_, the mother, i. 299, 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 preëxistent, ii. 280;
distinct from soul, i. 315;
individualization depends upon it, _ib._;
becomes an angel, i. 316;
its preëxistence 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;
may 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 spiritualists, ii. 638

Spirit-ancestor, a serpent, 45, 46

Spirit-form, i. 197

Spirit-voices not articulate, i. 68;
audible, i. 220

Spirit-intercourse, 446,000,000 believers, i. 117

Spirit-flowers 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 phenomena,” 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 elsewhere, i. 604;
three categories of communication, 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;
Iamblichus forbids 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, i. 318;
photography, i. 486

Spiritual entity, in man, an ancient doctrine, ii. 593;
transferred, ii. 563;
limbs, can be made visible, ii. 596;
world in proximity to us, ii. 593;
state, as unfolded in the Sankhya, a philosophy, ii. 593;
numerals, i. 514;
crisis of the Shaman, ii. 625;
or magical 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 Positivists to uproot, i. 76, 83;
pretends only to be a science, i. 83;
pronounced a delusion in Russia, i. 118;
universally diffused from remote antiquity, i. 205;
why it must continue to vegetate, ii. 636;
is iconoclastic, not constructed, ii. 637;
not scientific, ii. 637, 638;
exoteric, too much directed to personal matters, _ib._;
esoteric, very rare, _ib._

Spiritualists, the majority remain in the religious 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 of John, ii. 177

Square hat of the Hierophant, ii. 392

Squirrel materialized, i. 329

Sri-Iantara, or Solomon’s seal, ii. 265

Stainton, Moses, his criticisms of popular spiritualism, ii. 638

Stan-gyour, a work on magic, i. 580

Stanhope, Lady Esther, faints at a Yezidi orgy, ii. 572

Star of Bethlehem, rays carried home by a monk as relics, ii. 71

Starry heaven, worship proposed under Christian names, ii. 450

Stars, ignition, i. 254;
influence on fates of men, i. 259;
and man have direct affinity, i. 168, 169

Statues, restorative of health, i. 283;
possible to animate them, i. 485;
endowed with reason, i. 613

Steam-engine, invented by Hero of Alexandria, i. 241

Stedingers, accused and exterminated, ii. 331

Steel, rusts in India and Egypt, i. 211;
superior article in India, i. 538;
in Egypt, _ib._

Steeples, turrets, and domes, phallic symbols, ii. 5

Stephens, believes the key to American hieroglyphs will yet be
obtained, i. 546;
story of the unknown city of the Mayas, i. 547

Stewart, Prof. Balfour, his tribute to Herakleitus, 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 divinities 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 into a caste, nor to religion, i. 581

Stukely, Dr., remarks concerning Stonehenge, i. 572

Subjective mediums, i. 311;
communication with human god-like spirits, ii. 115

Subsidy paid by the East 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 Elementaries, ii. 7

Suicides and murderers, i. 344

Sulanuth, i. 325

Sulphur, the secret fire or spirit of the alchemists, i. 309;
and quicksilver, a preparation to promote longevity, ii. 620, 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 Pythagoras, _ib._;
increases the magnetic exhalations, ii. 611;
and serpent-worship, the religion of the Phœnicians and Mosaic
Israelites, i. 555

Sun-worship once contemplated by Catholics, ii. 450

Sun-worshippers always regarded the sun as an emblem of the spiritual
sun, i. 270

Sunrise and sunset as taught by the Shastras, i. 10

Supersentient soul, ii. 590

“Superstitions” in regard to drowned persons, ii. 611

Supreme Being denied by modern science, i. 16;
by the positivists, i. 71;
never rejected 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

Surnden, Rev. T., on locality of hell, ii. 12

Sutrantika, the sect having secret Buddhistic religion, ii. 607

Suttee, or burning of widows, not practised when the Code of Manu was
compiled, i. 588

Swâbhâvikas, Hindu pantheists, the teachers of protoplasm, i. 250;
their views of Essence, ii. 262

Swayambhuva, the unrevealed Deity, ii. 39;
the unity of three trinities, making with himself two prajapatis,
ii. 39, 40;
the Supreme 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 Arcana_, i. 306;
a natural-born magician, but not an adept, _ib._;
made Thomas Vaughan his model, _ib._;
doctrine of correspondences, or hermetic symbolism, _ib._;
believed in possibility of losing individual 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 obliteration of the human
personality, i. 317;
believe that the soul may abandon the body for specific periods,
ii. 319

Swedish system of Freemasonry, ii. 381

Syllabus and Koran, a great affinity acknowledged, ii. 82

Sylvester II., Pope, a sorcerer, ii. 56;
his “oracular head,” ii. 56

Symbol, its use, ii. 93

Symbols, i. 21;
Christian, and phallism, ii. 5

Sympathy, mysterious, between plants and human beings, i. 246;
the offspring of light, i. 309

Synagogue, “deposited its inheritance in the hands of Christ,” ii.
477;
has not expired, _ib._

Synesius, belief in metempsychosis, i. 12;
his quotation from the book of stone at Memphis, i. 257;
believed the spirit preëxisted 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 compared, ii. 170

Tabernacles or ingatherings, feast of, ii. 44;
regarded as Bacchic rites, _ib._

Table, no demons enclosed, i. 322

Table-turning, i. 99, 105

Tainting of Souls, i. 321

Talapoins, of Siam, power over wild beasts, i. 213;
have incombustible cloth, i. 231;
have the _Kabala_, _Bible_, and other allegories in their
manuscripts, i. 577;
Jesuits disguised as, ii. 371;
their secrets of medicine, ii. 621

Tale of the Two Brothers of Central America, i. 550

Talisman, i. 462; ii. 636

Talismans of Apollonius, testimony of Justin Martyr, ii. 97

Talmage, 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 sorcerer, ii. 631

Tartary, magic, i. 599;
spiritualism, i. 600;
planchette-writing, _ib._;
happy and heathen, ii. 240

Tau and astronomical cross of Egypt found at the palace of
Palenque, i. 572;
the handled cross, a symbol of Eternal life, ii. 254;
the signet or name of God, _ib._;
the hierophantic investiture, ii. 365

Taylor, Thomas, his testimony concerning Pythagoras, i. 284;
is unceremonious with the Mosaic God, i. 288

Taylor, Robert, his amended Credo, ii. 522

Tcharaka, a Hindu physician of 5,000 years ago, i. 560

Tcherno-Bog, or Bogy, the ancient deity of the Russians, ii. 572

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. 126;
some such mode of communication possessed by the Egyptian priests,
i. 127

Telescope in the light-house of Alexandria, i. 528

Templar rite, old English, of seven degrees, ii. 377

Templarism is Jesuitism, ii. 390

Templars, the founding of the ancient order, ii. 381, 382;
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 Jerusalem, 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, Kabeiri-gods, i. 570;
identical with Seraphim, _ib._;
serpent-images, _ib._;
received by Dardanus as a dowry and carried to Samothrace and Troy,
_ib._

Teratology, named by Geoffroi St. Hilaire, i. 390

Terrestrial elementary spirits, i. 319;
circulation, i. 503;
immortality, ii. 620

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 substance, 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 invisible, or appearing in two
or more forms, ii. 588

Thaumaturgists, use the force known as Akasa, i. 113;
declared by Salverte 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. 101

Theomania of the Cevennois imputed to hysteria and epilepsy, i. 371

Theophrastus, legatee of Aristotle, i. 320

Theopœa, the art of endowing figures with life, i. 615, 616;
testimony of Jacolliot, i. 616, 617

Theosophists, their confederations in Germany, ii. 20

Theosophy, disfigured by theology, i. 13

Therapeutæ, a branch of the Essenes, ii. 144

Therapeutists probably Buddhists, ii. 491

Thermuthis, the name of Pharaoh’s daughter and of the sacred asp, i.
556

Thespesius, apparently dead for three days, i. 484

Thessalian sorceresses evoked shadows with blood, ii. 568

Theurgic Mystery, ii. 563-575

Theurgists, i. 205-219;
knew occult properties of magnetism and electricity, i. 234;
not “spirit-mediums,” ii. 118;
persecuted by the Christians, ii. 34

Theurgy, its phenomena produced by magnetic 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, i. 507, 508;
named by Hermetic philosophy, i. 508

Third emanation produces the universe of physical matter, and,
finally, “Darkness and the Bad,” i. 302;
race of men in Hesiod, i. 558;
in Popul-Vuh, _ib._;
race of men, the Nephilim, i. 559

Thirteen Mexican Serpent-Gods, i. 572

This book, its object, ii. 98, 99

Thomas, St., in Malabar, ii. 534;
Aquinas, ii. 20;
Taylor, an expositor 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 universe, i. 310

Thought-communication effected by a Shaman with his stone, ii. 627

Thoughts guided by spiritual being, i. 366;
human, projected upon the universal ether, i. 395; ii. 636

Thrætaona, the Persian Michael, contending with Zohak, ii. 486

Three degrees of the pleroma, i. 302;
tricks exhibited, i. 73;
degrees of communication with spirits, ii. 115;
emanations, i. 302;
kabalistic forces, _ib._;
Gods, or archial principles, First Cause, Logos, and World-soul,
ii. 33;
Saviours, ii. 536;
legends concerning them, ii. 537-539;
enumeration of their followers, ii. 539;
births of man, ii. 568;
three hundred million Buddhists seeking Nirvana, ii. 533;
mothers, i. 257

Three-sided prism of man’s nature, ii. 634

Throwing spells by aid of the wind, ii. 632

Thrum-stone, i. 231

Thummim, i. 536, 537

Θυμος, _thumos_, the astral soul, i. 429

Thury, Prof., on levitation, cited by de Gasparin, i. 99, 109;
his theory of spiritual phenomena, i. 110;
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

Tiffereau, 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 born, the Heavenly Man, ii. 276

Tillemont, declares all illustrious pagans condemned to the eternal
torments of hell, ii. 8

_Timæus_, 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, ii.
608;
reforms religion, ii. 609

To Ον, of Plato, ii. 38

Tobo, liberator of the soul of Adam, ii. 517

Todas, a strange people discovered in Southern 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 immolated, ii. 11;
not a place of endless woe, ii. 502

Torquemeda, Tomas de, his prodigious cruelty, ii. 59;
burned Hebrew Bibles, ii. 430

Torralva and his demon Zequiel, ii. 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 asserted, i. 503, 504;
Dr. Wilder’s opinion, i. 505;
salt, sulpher, and mercury thrice combined in azoth, _ib._

Transubstantiation, an arcane utterance perverted, ii. 560

Travancore, perpetual lamp, i. 225

Tree, Yggdrasill, i. 133, 151;
Zampun, i. 152;
Aswatha, _ib._;
symbol of universal life, _ib._;
the pyramid, i. 154;
Gogard, i. 297;
serpent dwells in its branches, i. 298;
the microcosmic and macrocosmic, i. 297;
tziti, the third race of men, i. 558;
of knowledge, ii. 184;
or pippala, ii. 412

Triad, the Intelligible, i. 212;
from the duad, i. 348

Triads, or trinities, Babylonian, Phœnician and Hindu, ii. 48;
Persian and Egyptian, ii. 49

Tribes of Israel, what evidence before Ezra, i. 508;
no tribe of Simeon, _ib._

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 Prajâpatis,
ii. 39, 40;
Hindu, Egyptian and Christian, ii. 227

Trinity, the first, 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 answer of Mary, ii. 173;
kabalistic, ii. 222;
of workers in the cosmogony, ii. 420;
of nature the lock of magic, ii. 635

Triple Trimurti, ii. 39

Trithemius, ii. 20

Trizna or feast of the dead in Moldavia, ii. 569, 570

Trojan war a counterpart of that of the _Ramâyana_, i. 566

Troy, worship of the Kabeiri brought by Dardanus, i. 570

True Adamic Earth, i. 51;
doctrine Λόγος Αληθής of Celsus, a copy still in
existence, 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

Tullia, daughter of Cicero, lamp found burning in her tomb, i. 224

Tullus Hostilius, King of Rome, struck by lightning, i. 527

Tum, devotees of, ii. 387

Tunnel from Cusco to Lima and Bolivia, i. 597;
entrance, _ib._;
dangers of its exploration, i. 598

Turkey, wars with Russia and final conquest, i. 261

Turanian, should have been applied to the Assyrians, i. 576;
evidently applied to the nomadic Caucasian, progenitor of the
Hamite or Æthiopian, _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 fable, i. 267;
tables, a compilation, i. 588;
labors of Hercules depicted on the chair of Peter, ii. 25;
disciples sent by Jehosaphat to preach, ii. 517;
great gods, ii. 448;
minor gods, Dii minores, ii. 451;
tortures, ii. 351;
of Theban initiation, ii. 364;
thousand years employed in creation, i. 342

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. 500, 501;
diagrams explained, ii. 266, 271;
“old ones,” ii. 350;
brothers of the Bible, the good and evil principles, ii. 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;
his Belfast Address, i. 314;
his judgment of cowards, i. 418;
declares spiritualism a degrading belief, _ib._;
confesses that the evolution hypothesis does not solve the last
mystery, i. 419;
his experiments on sound, ii. 606;
his definition of science, ii. 637

Typhon once worshipped in Egypt, and then changed to an evil demon,
ii. 487;
Plutarch’s explanation, ii. 483;
father of Ierosolumos and Ioudaios, ii. 484;
separated from his androgyne, ii. 524

Tyrian worship introduced into Israel by Ahab, ii. 525