Chapter XII (10)

Lord of the Genii, i. 300

Losing one’s soul possible, i. 317

Lost word, where to be sought, i. 580;
and its substitute, Mac Benac, ii. 349

Lotus, the sacred flower of Egyptians and Hindus, i. 91;
superseded by the lilies, i. 92

Loubère, M. de la, on Buddha and the Buddhists, ii. 576-579

Lourdes, shrine of, materializations of Virgin Mary, i. 119;
the madonna, her miracles, i. 614, ii. 6;
the moving of the statue, i. 618

Love, its magnetism the originator of created things, i. 210

Lucifer, i. 299

Luke, the evangelist, reputed an Essene, ii. 144

Lunar dynasties in India, the Chandra Vensa, ii. 438

Lundy, Rev. Dr., what he has proved, ii. 557

Luther and the demon, ii. 73;
the worst man in Europe, ii. 200;
his denunciation of the Catholics, ii. 208;
intolerant, and Calvin bloodthirsty, ii. 503

Lycanthropes, over 600 put to death in the Jura by sentence of a
judge, ii. 626

Lutherans burned as sorcerers, ii. 61

Luxor, unfading colors, i. 239;
brotherhood of, ii. 308

Macaulay, his criticism of scientists and philosophers, i. 424

Mac Benac, ii. 349

Machagistia, the magic taught in Persia and Babylonia, i. 251;
the testimony of Plato, ii. 306

Mackenzie, his description of the Jesuits, ii. 355

Macrocosm, i. 62

Macroprosopos or macrocosm, i. 580

Madonna of Barri, with crinoline, ii. 9;
of Rio de Janeiro, _décolletée_, with blonde hair and chignon, ii.
10

Madras famine made worse by Catholic taxation, ii. 532

Maëlstrom, the Charybdis of the Odyssey, i. 545.

Magendie, remedy for consumption, i. 89;
absents himself from experiments instituted by the French Academy
in 1826, i. 175, 176;
acknowledges that little is known of fœtal life, i. 386;
opinion of malformation, i. 388, 390;
asserts influence of imagination on the fœtus, i. 394

Magi established magic, i. 25;
taught the birth and decadence of worlds, i. 255;
Pythagoras, their associate, i. 284;
objected to the evocation of souls, i. 321;
three schools, ii. 361;
Chaldean, the masters of the Jews, _ib._;
two schools, ii. 128, 306

Magic, based on natural science, i. 17;
once universally taught, i. 18, 247;
a divine science, i. 25;
originally established by Magi, and not by priests, _ib._;
very ancient, _ib._;
Moses and Joseph proficients, _ib._;
two kinds, divine and evil, i. 26;
neglected by Masons, i. 30;
spiritualism, its modern form, i. 42;
profound knowledge of simples and minerals, i. 66;
likely to be rediscovered by scientists, i. 67;
esoteric in India, i. 90;
practised by Gymnosophists, i. 90;
the _divina sapientia_, i. 94;
Salverte’s Philosophy of Magic, i. 115;
mesmerism an important branch, i. 129;
theory of Eliphas Levi, i. 137;
modern forms, i. 138;
doctrine of Paracelsus, Agrippa, and Philalethes, i. 167;
included in the arcane doctrine of Wisdom, i. 205;
the power never possessed by those addicted to vicious indulgences,
i. 218;
its basis, the occult or spiritual principle, i. 244;
testimony of Du Potet, i. 279;
theurgical, i. 281;
a sacerdotal science, i. 262;
exemplified in eastern countries of Asia, i. 320;
adepts understand the akasa or astral fluid, i. 378;
synonymous with religion and science, i. 459;
belief of Demokritus; 800,000,000 believers in, i. 512;
Votan of Ancient America, i. 545;
cultivated by Aztecs and ancient Egyptians, i. 560;
studied by the people of Pashai or Peshawer, i. 599;
seance described by Hon. J. L. O’Sullivan, i. 608-611;
the church believes in it, ii. 76;
used to select the canonical books of Holy Scripture, ii. 251;
denounced, ii. 502;
the science of man and nature, and its applications in practice,
ii. 583;
its principles, ii. 587-590;
its cornerstone, ii. 589;
black, practised at the Vatican, ii. 6;
taught in the lamaseries, ii. 609;
magnetism its alphabet, ii. 610

Magic arcanum, i. 506;
crystal, i. 467;
lamp of Hermes, ii. 417

Magical anæsthetics of the Brahmans, used in the burning of widows,
i. 540;
exhibitions of Tartary and Thibet, testimony of Col. Yule, i. 600;
moon of Thibet, i. 441;
evocation a part of the sacerdotal office, ii. 118;
evocations must be pronounced in a particular dialect, ii. 46

Magician, how different from a witch, i. 366;
difference from a medium, i. 367;
can summon and dismiss spirits at will, _ib._

Magism flourished at the Ur of the Kasdeans, i. 549

Magnale magnum, i. 170, 213

Magus, Magh, Mahaji, i. 129

Magnes, i. 64;
rediscovered by Mesmer, i. 71;
the living fire or spirit of light, i. 129

Magret, rediscovered by Paracelsus, i. 71;
the stone, i. 129;
its concealed power, i. 168;
Kircher’s doctrine of one magnet in the universe, i. 208;
the same as the spiritual Sun, or God, i. 209;
the poles signified in the Mysteries by the Dioskuri, i. 235;
the sun, i. 271

Magnetic currents develop into electricity, i. 395

Magnetization, two kinds, i. 178;
of minerals by animal magnetism, i. 209;
of a table or person, i. 322

Magnetism, i. 129;
animal, denied by modern science and then accepted, i. 130;
the magic power of man, i. 170;
taught by Des Cartes, i. 206;
by Naudé, Hufeland, Wirdig, and Kepler, i. 207;
and by Porta and Father Kircher, i. 209;
of love, the originator of every created thing, i. 210;
taught in the Mysteries, i. 234;
poles represented by the Dioskuri, i. 235;
the universal law, i. 244;
the alphabet of magic, ii. 610;
being true, medicine absurd, _ib._

Mahâbhârata, antedated the age of Cyrus the great, ii. 428

Maha Deva or Siva, his lingham or emblem in pagodas, ii. 5;
worshipped by the dark races of Hindustan, ii. 434

Mahady of Elephanta, ii. 5

Mahat, or Prakriti, the external sense-life, ii. 565

Mahomet, his testimony concerning Jews, ii. 480

Mahometan, confession of Faith on the Chair of Peter, ii. 25

Mahometanism, the outgrowth of Christian cruelty, ii. 53, 54;
making more proselytes than Christians, ii. 239

Maimonides, i. 17

Malagrida, burned for sorcery in 1761, ii. 58

Malays, their island empire, i. 592

Males suckling their young, i. 412

Malformations, opinion of Magendie, i. 388;
theory of Prof. Armor, i. 392

_Malum in se_, no such principle, ii. 480

Man, once communed with unseen universes, i. 2;
belief of the Kalmucks, _ib._;
“as immortal as God,” i. 13;
how influenced, i. 39;
composed of like elements as the stars, i. 168;
magnetism his magic power, i. 170;
different electric condition of persons and sexes, i. 171;
possessed of three spirits, i. 212;
a little world inside the great, _ib._;
Van Helmont’s theory, i. 213;
Plato’s theory, i. 276, 297;
androgynous, i. 497;
created in the sixth millenium, i. 342;
possesses arcane powers, ii. 113;
how he should do, ii. 122;
the fall an evolution, ii. 277;
his spirit, if not his soul, preëxistent, ii. 280;
the object of the alchemic, Hermetic, and mystic explorations, i.
308;
the philosopher’s stone and trinity in unity, i. 309;
a microcosm, i. 323;
never steps outside of universal life, ii. 343;
the six principles, ii. 367;
first appears as a stone, i. 389;
has power to shape matter, i. 394, 395;
ante-natal maternal impressions of this character, i. 395;
seven days on the pillar, ii. 447;
the story of the fall regarded as an allegory, ii. 546;
has a natural, a spiritual, and final birth, ii. 565;
triune, body, soul, and immortal spirit, ii. 588;
how he becomes an immortal entity, _ib._

Man-tree, i. 297

Mandrakes or Mandragora, a magical plant, i. 465

Manes, i. 37, 345;
his fate, ii. 208

Manifestations, subjective and objective, i. 68;
mediumistic, in Asia, i. 320

Mano, ii. 228, 229, 300

Mantheon, a title of Zoroaster, ii. 409

Mantic frenzy produced by exhalations from the earth, i. 531

Manu, laws the same as the doctrines of the sages and Kabala, i. 271;
doctrine of the universe, _ib._;
laws of, opinion of Sir William Jones, i. 585;
the basis of the code of Justinian, i. 581;
their age, i. 586-588;
widow-burning not mentioned in them, i. 588;
on life, evolution, and transformations, i. 620, 621;
predicts the advent of the Divine One, ii. 50;
knew nothing of deluge, ii. 427, 428

Manus, six, progenitors of six races of men, i. 590

Manu-Vina or Menes, colonizes Egypt from India, i. 627

Manwantara, i. 32

Marathos or Martu, ancient city and name of Phœnicia, means _The
West_, i. 579

Marathon, neighing of horses and shouts of men heard 400 years after
the battle, i. 70

Marcion distinguished between Judaism and Christianity, ii. 162;
his doctrines, ii. 103;
accepted Paul and denied the other apostles, ii. 168;
the great hæresiarch, his influence, ii. 159, 160;
brutally assailed by Tertullian and Epiphanius, _ib._

Marco Polo, on veins of salamander or asbestos, i. 504;
asserts that in Kashmere images are made to speak, i. 505;
brought movable types and blocks for printing, from China, i. 513;
describes Buddha as living like a Christian, ii. 581;
on the nature-spirits of the deserts, i. 603;
would not retract his “falsehoods,” _ib._;
declaration in regard to hearing spirits talk in the desert, i. 604

Marcosians, their sacrament, ii. 513

Marechale d’Ancre, her trial for sorcery, ii. 60

Mariana, Jesuit, explains the best way to kill a king, ii. 372, 373

Markland, a possible root of name America, i. 592

Marriage cured the convulsionaries, i. 375

Marrying the father’s wife, ii. 240

Marses in Italy, power over serpents, i. 381

Martu or Marathos, the west, i. 579

Mary, virgin, materializing at Lourdes, i. 119;
writes a letter from heaven declaring the pagans condemned to
eternal torments, ii. 8;
the anthropomorphized Isis, ii. 41;
writes letters, ii. 82, 83;
text of one, ii. 87;
without her consent, no redemption, ii. 172, 173;
overshadowed by Ilda-Baoth and not by Æbel Zivo or Gabriel, ii. 247;
like Dido, the Virgin of the Sea, ii. 446;
is visited by the Agathodaimon serpent, ii. 505

Mason, Osgood, on deity and nature, i. 426

Masonic ciphers, the keys, ii. 394;
fraternity, its unworthy members, ii. 376;
honors offered by M. de Nègre, a grand hierophant, refused, ii. 380;
institute, brought into disrepute by the Jesuits, ii. 385;
pagan in origin, _ib._;
Templars, a creation of the Jesuits, ii. 381

Masonry, neglect of magic and spiritualism, i. 30;
once a true secret organization, ii. 349;
who should be excluded, ii. 376;
esoteric, not known in American lodges, _ib._;
the time to remodel it has come, ii. 377;
no secrets left unpublished, _ib._;
whether Christian or pagan, _ib._;
departing from its original aims, ii. 380;
European and American, the Bible its great light, ii. 389

Masons, accusations against them half guess-work, ii. 372;
reject a personal God, ii. 375;
and the impostor Anderson, ii. 389

Masorets changed the immodest words in the Bible, ii. 430

Master-builder, epopt, adept, the Apostle Paul, ii. 91

Master’s word, communicated only at low breath, ii. 99

Mas’udi, on the ghûls in the desert, i. 604

Materialization, what spirits practice it, i. 319;
personal, i. 321

Materializations recorded in the Bible, i. 493

“Materialized spirits,” i. 67;
witnessed by the author, i. 69;
Virgin Mary to be expected at the Vatican, ii. 82;
often comes and lights a taper at Arras, _ib._

Mathematical error held by the Gnostics, ii. 194

Mathematicians, ancient, went to Egypt to be instructed, i. 531

Mathematics, Pythagorean and Platonic, i. 106

Matsya, the earliest avatar, ii. 427

Matter, how produced, i. 140;
proclaimed by modern physicists sole and autocratic sovereign of
the universe, i. 235;
its indestructibility, i. 243;
origin, i. 258;
the serpent that tempted man, i. 297;
not created by Divine thought, i. 310;
indestructible and eternal, i. 328;
fructified by the Divine idea or imagination, i. 396;
the remote effect of emanative energy, ii. 35

Matthew, gospel of, a secret book written in Hebrew, ii. 181, 182;
quotes the Egyptian Book of the Dead, ii. 548

Matwanlin, on voices in the deserts, i. 604

Maudsley, Prof., repudiates Comte, ii. 3;
rejects the positive philosophy, i. 82

Mauritania Tingitana, its columns, i. 545

Mauritius, his nauscopite, i. 240

Max Müller, scouts the idea of original human brutality, i. 4;
on the meaning of Veda, i. 354;
on Sanscrit literature, i. 442;
on the four ancestors, i. 559;
on Brahmanical literature, i. 580;
on the mutations of Christianity, ii. 10;
on the science of religion, ii. 26;
his retort upon Prof. Whitney, ii. 47;
assertion on the Hindu gods, ii. 413;
on the _Vedas_, ii. 414;
his understanding of Nirvana, ii. 432

Maxwell, his offer to cure diseases abandoned as incurable, i. 215;
his theory of the world-soul or life-spirit, i. 215, 216

Maya, or illusion, i. 289

Mayas of Yucatan, their mysterious city, i. 547

Mecassipa, an enchanter, i. 355

Medallions from the ashes of the dead, ii. 603

Mediatorship, how exercised, i. 487, 488

Medici family patrons of the black art, ii. 55

Medicine, classed by Bacon as a conjectural science, i. 405;
modern, what it has gained and lost, i. 20;
occult, suggested by Descartes, i. 214

Medium, a conductor, i. 201;
difference from a magician, i. 367;
a passive, the adept an active instrument, ii. 588;
needs a foreign intelligence, ii. 592

Medium-catcher of Prof. Faraday, i. 63

Medium-healers, charged with vampirism, i. 490, 491

Mediums, their visions more trustworthy than those of Catholic
priests, ii. 73;
burned, hanged, and otherwise murdered, i. 26, 353;
in Russia, i. 27;
generally utter commonplace ideas, i. 221;
their astral limbs, ii. 595;
are usually diseased, _ib._;
the Mosaic law contemplated killing them, i. 356;
passive, i. 488;
unregulated ones persecuted, i. 489;
how cured, i. 490;
generally disordered while the ancient thaumaturgists were not,
_ib._

Mediumistic diathesis, i. 117;
phenomena in Asia, i. 320

Mediumship, physical and spiritual, i. 367;
its phases seldom altered, _ib._;
depends upon a peculiar organization, i. 367;
psychographic, i. 368;
its conditions and circumstances, i. 487;
in holy men, mediatorship, _ib._;
in these days an undesirable gift, i. 488;
natural, ii. 118;
the opposite of adeptship, ii. 588

Megasthenes traces the Jews to the Kalani of India, i. 567

Melampus, his magical cures, i. 531

Melanephoris, the third degree, ii. 364

Mementos of a long bygone civilization, i. 349

Memory, views of Ammonius Sakkas, ii. 591;
of God, i. 178

Men produced by the giant Ymir, and also by the cow Audhumla, i.
148;
denoted by the tree of life, Yggdrasill, Zampun, Aswatha, i. 151-4;
existed at a period extremely remote, i. 155;
of the Stone Age described by Mrs. Denton, i. 295;
revivified without souls, ii. 564;
races differ in their spiritual gifts, ii. 588;
soulless, ii. 369;
of science wear the cast-off garb of priests dyed to escape
detection, ii. 8

Mendeleyeff, Prof., declares spiritualism a mixture of superstition,
delusion, and fraud, i. 117;
protest by Butleroff, Aksakoff, and others, i. 118

Menes, turned the course of the Nile, i. 516

Menon, the inventor of letters, i. 532

Mensabulism, i. 322

Mental photography, i. 322

Mentuhept, Queen, inscription on her monument, ii. 92

Mercaba, ii. 348;
must be first known, ii. 349;
a hidden doctrine, _ib._

Mercurius vitæ of Paracelsus, ii. 620

Mercury, water of, symbol of the soul, i. 309;
or quicksilver, never used by Yogi or alchemist, only by
charlatans, and not by Paracelsus, ii. 620, 621;
never restored a man to health, _ib._

Meridian, known when the first pyramid was built, i. 536

Meru or Meruah, sound, etc., i. 592;
and its gods, ii. 233, 234

Mesmer, rediscovered animal magnetism, i. 165;
his 27 propositions, i. 172;
condemned by the French Committee of 1784

Mesmerism, i. 23;
a rediscovery of what Paracelsus taught, i. 72;
repudiated by positivists, i. 82;
used successfully by physicians, _ib._;
an important branch of magic, i. 129, 131;
condemned in France in 1784, i. 171;
prize offered for thesis by the Prussian Government, i. 173;
taught by Descartes, i. 206

Message delivered at Kounboum, ii. 604

Messages, writing by spirits, i. 367

Messiah, comes in the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, in the sign
Pisces, ii. 256;
the fifth emanation, ii. 259

Metallic springs found in ancient war-chariots, i. 530

Metalline, a compound overcoming friction, i. 502

Metallurgy among the Egyptians and Semitic races, i. 538

Metals not simple bodies, i. 509

Metatron, or angel of the Lord, transformed into Jesus the son of
Mary, ii. 33;
seventy names, ii. 245

Metempsychosis, i. 8;
believed by all philosophers, early fathers and Gnostics, i. 12;
doctrine of Plato, i. 276, 277;
an allegory, not to be literally understood, and relating to
experiences of the soul, i. 289, 550;
of Buddha, i. 291;
dreaded by Hindus, i. 348;
the separation of the _thumos_ and ridding the _nous_ of the
_phren_, ii. 286

Methuselah helps Enoch construct nine chambers underground in the
land of Canaan, i. 571;
receives from him certain secret learning, _ib._

Metis, the same as Sophia of the Gnostics, and Sephira, ii. 163

Mexican serpent-gods, i. 572

Mexicans, ancient, i. 313;
their theory of lunar eclipses similar to the Hindu, i. 548

Mexico, serpent-worship, i. 46, 551-558

Michael, the unknown angel, ii. 488;
a phial of his sweat preserved as a relic, ii. 71;
the archangel, the same as Ophiomorphos, ii. 206;
and the Devil, their dispute, ii. 482;
the Dragon-slayer, ii. 488

Michelet, testimony in regard to the Jesuits, ii. 358, 359

Microcosm, i. 212

Microcosmos, i. 28

Microprosopos (little face), the microcosm, i. 580;
the Adam primos, ii. 452

Microscope, its brothers in the Books of Moses, i. 240

Middle Asia, botany and mineralogy, i. 89;
ever-burning lamps, i. 227

Midgard snake, i. 151

Midianites regarded as wise men, ii. 449

Milk of the Celestial Virgin, i. 64

Milton, John, regarded _Paradise Lost_ as a book of fiction, ii. 501

Mimer, the deep well of wisdom, i. 151

Minarets of Islam, ii. 5

Minerals, magnetized by man, i. 209;
the basis of evolution of vegetable organisms, _ib._;
their occult properties, ii. 589

Miracles, those of the Bible surpassed by those of the Vedas, i. 90;
so-called, genuine, from Moses to Cagliostro, i. 128;
none in nature, ii. 587;
at the tomb of Abbé Paris, i. 372;
among the Convulsionaires, _ib._;
none in Protestant countries, ii. 17;
in spite of the Church, ii. 22, 23

Miraculous Conception, a legend of Buddhism, ii. 504;
fire at the Holy Sepulchre, ii. 404

Mirville, De, i. 99;
refutes Babinet’s denial of levitation, i. 105;
the nebulous Almighty, i. 129

Mithra, a triple god, ii. 41

Mithraic Mysteries, ii. 351;
initiation of Julian the Emperor, ii. 566

Mixture to out-stench devils, ii. 67

Mnizurin, i. 321

Mochtana or Mokomna, the Druze apostle, ii. 308

Morals, the Buddhistic code, ii. 608

Model of the Universe, i. 302

Modern philosophers, see only the physical form of Isis, i. 16;
devil, a heritage from Cybelè, ii. 501;
Savants know less than ancients, i. 15;
science denies a Supreme Being or Personal God, i. 16;
teaches the power of human thought to affect the matter of another
universe, i. 310;
scientists hate new truths, i. 409;
spiritualism, i. 40;
the modern form of magic, i. 42

Mœris, the artificial lake constructed in Egypt, i. 516

Moisasure, the Hindu Lucifer, i. 299

Moksha and the Nirvana, ii. 116;
the second spiritual birth, ii. 566

Moldenwaher, his documents concerning the prosecution of the
Knights-Templar, bought up by Free-masons, ii. 383

Moloch-Hercules, children immolated to him in the valley of the
Gehenna, ii. 11

Moloch-God of the inquisition, ii. 65

Moloch-like divinity of Roman church, i. 27

Monad, i. 212;
Buddha, i. 291

Monas, ii. 347

Mongolians, ought to have been called Scyths, i. 576

Monkey of God, now exorcised with holy water, ii. 96

Monkeys exhibiting human intellect, i. 326;
fabled to be progenitors of western people, i. 563;
in Egyptian temples, i. 564;
in all Buddhistic temples, _ib._

Monkish impostors expelled from convents in Southern Mongolia, ii. 609

Monks, their fury for exorcising and roasting the convulsionaires of
the Cevennes, i. 370, 372;
none in hell, ii. 75

Monoliths, for Egyptian monuments, i. 518;
how transported, _ib._

Monogenes, or only-begotten, a name of Proserpina, ii. 284

Montesquieu, on two witnesses, i. 87

Montezuma, his effigy worshipped in Mexico, i. 557

Montgeron, writes a book on Jansenist miracles, i. 373

Monuments, religious, the expression of the same thoughts, i. 561;
planned and built under supervision of priests, _ib._;
alike in Asia and America, _ib._

Moody, the revivalist, would see his son’s eyes dug out, ii. 250;
and Sankey, confounded by a Roman bishop with spiritualists, ii. 7

Moon, the same as Diana, Diktynna, Artemis, Juno, etc., i. 267;
her worship in Crete, _ib._;
influence on women, _ib._;
legends of her phases, i. 265, 266;
influence on tides, persons, and vegetation, i. 273;
in middle nature, and green the middle color, i. 514

Moon-god, Deus Lunus, worshipped by the Khaldi, ii. 48

Moon-kings, or lunar dynasty, reigned at Pruyag and Allahabad, ii. 48

Moor, his explanation of the Wittoba, ii. 557, 558

Moore, Rev. Dunlop, assertion of the age of the institutes of Manu,
i. 585

Moors, bearded, figures at the great temple of Angkor, or Nagkon-Wat,
i. 565, 567

Mora in Sweden, young children burned alive as witches, ii. 503

More, Henry, i. 54, 74;
his belief in Pythagorean doctrines, i. 204, 205;
adversary of Eugenius Philalethes, i. 308;
demonstration of witchcraft, i. 353;
theory of birth-marks, i. 384, 385

Morgan, “good enough till after the election,” ii. 372

Moigno, Abbé, his wretched success in writing down Huxley, Tyndall,
and Raymond, i. 336

Mormons, polytheists, ii. 2

Mortal soul, i. 276, 326

Mosaic books, regarded by well-educated Jews allegory, i. 554, 555;
religion a sun-and-serpent worship, ii. 129

Moses, the pupil of the mother of Pharaoh’s daughter, i. 25;
communicated secrets to the seventy elders, i. 26;
his code required two witnesses, i. 87;
placed a perpetual lamp in the tabernacle, i. 228;
described Jehovah the anthropomorphic deity as being the highest
God, i. 307;
could not obtain his other name, i. 309;
philosophized or spoke in allegory, i. 436;
said to have had knowledge of electricity, i. 528;
chief of the Sodales or priest-colleges, i. 555;
a hierophant of Heliopolis and priest of Osiris, _ib._;
initiated, _ib._;
became an Egyptian and a priest, i. 556;
denounced the spirit of Ob, not Od, i. 594;
disputes over his body, its allegorical interpretation, ii. 482;
an initiate, ii. 129;
and the Israelites, their story typical, ii. 493;
versed in occult sciences, ii. 59;
the law not more than two or three centuries older than
Christianity, ii. 526

Moslem arms blessed by the Pope, ii. 560

Mother and child, a very ancient sign and myth, ii. 491;
-trunk, the universal religion, ii. 123;
of God the most ancient, ii. 49, 50;
the Heaven itself, ii. 50;
lodge, the great, ii. 315

Mountain of light, its appearance to Hiouen-Thsang, i. 600

Mouse-mark, produced by alarm, i. 391

Mousseaux, Des, i. 99;
declares the devil the chief pillar of faith, i. 103

Movable printing types, in China before our Era, i. 513;
used in the earliest periods of lamaism in Thibet, _ib._

Moyst natures or elementary spirits, i. 342, 343

Mukti, or half-gods, ii. 566

Müller, Albrecht, testimony in regard to ancient skill, i. 539

Mummy, bandaging, i. 20;
a symbol, i. 297;
a finger-ring at the London Exhibition of 1851, i. 531

Mummy-bandaging, i. 539;
1000 yards long _ib._

Mundane tree, i. 297

Mundane cross of heaven, ii. 454;
egg or universal womb, ii. 214;
snake creeps out of the primordial _ilus_, i. 298

Muratori, his felt cuirasse, copied from the ancients, i. 530

Murder, an obstacle to ancient, but not to Jesuit initiation, ii. 363

Murderous language of Jerome and Tertullian, ii. 250

Music, power over diseases, i. 215;
effect on persons, i. 275;
its influence on reptiles, i. 382;
employed in Egyptian temples for healing of nervous disorders, i.
544

Musical instruments in Egypt, i. 544;
sand, i. 605;
tones influence vegetation, i. 514

Mutton-protoplasm, i. 251

Mysteries, i. 15;
little known, i. 24;
of the Israelites, i. 26;
theurgic, i. 130;
Samothracian, i. 132;
occult properties of magnetism and electricity taught, i. 234;
representation of Demeter with the electrified head, _ib._;
the Dioskuri, i. 234-243;
Pythagoras initiated, i. 284;
their gradation, ii. 101;
ennobling in their character, _ib._;
of the ancients identical with the Hindu and Buddhist initiations,
ii. 113, 114;
divine visions beheld in them, ii. 118;
of the Christians, ii. 119;
Jesuit, not revealed to all priests, ii. 350;
Mithraïc, twelve tortures, ii. 351;
taught to the Babylonians, ii. 457

Mysterious city of the Mayas of Yucatan, i. 547;
science existed apart from “mediumship,” ii. 118

Mystery of the celestial Virgin pursued by the Dragon, ii. 490;
and science, Mr. Felix’s book, i. 337

Mystery-God of the Ineffable Name, ii. 289

Mystic doctrines not properly understood, i. 429;
legends of the Middle Ages, ii. 38

Mystical words of power in old religions, ii. 99;
properties in plants, ii. 589

Myths, fables, when misunderstood, and truths as once understood, ii.
431

Nabatheans in Lebanon, ii. 197

Nagal, the chief sorcerer of the Mexicans, i. 556

Nagas, or kingly snakes, i. 448;
or serpent-tribes of Kashmere, teachers of Apollonius, ii. 434;
or serpent-worshippers of Kashmere converted to the Buddhistic
faith, ii. 608

Nagkon-Wat, i. 239;
description of Frank Vincent, i. 561-563;
pictures represent scenes from the _Ramayava_, i. 573;
100,000 separate figures, _ib._;
ascribed to the lost tribes of Israel, i. 565;
suggested to have been built for Buddhaghosa, _ib._;
contains representations of Oannes or Dagon, the Kabeiri, the
monkey or Vulcan, Egyptian and Assyrian figures, _ib._

Nagualism and voodoo-worship, i. 556, 557;
secret worships, i. 557; ii. 572;
perpetuated by Catholic persecution, ii. 573

Nails of a cherub preserved as relics, ii. 71

Name, Ineffable, not possessed by Masons, ii. 387

Nandi, the Vehan of Siva, ii. 235

Nara, the mundane egg or universal womb, ii. 214

Narayana, mover of the waters, Brahma, i. 91

Nation, its greatest curse, ii. 121

_National Quarterly_, on modern scientists, i. 240, 249

Natural magic, no relation to sleight of hand, i. 128;
“mediumship,” ii. 118

Nature, four kingdoms, i. 329;
a materialization of spirit, i. 428;
triune, the visible or objective, the vital or subjective principle
and the eternal spirit, ii. 587;
the servant of the magician, ii. 590;
reveals all arts, i. 424, 425

Nature-spirits or shedim, i. 313;
or elementary, i. 349

Naudé, a defender of occult magnetism and theosophy, i. 207

Naus-copite, an optical instrument, i. 240

Navel and less comely parts of Jesus for relics, ii. 71;
symbolized by the ark, ii. 444

Nazarene system explained, ii. 227-229;
diagram, ii. 295

Nazarenes, had a gospel inscribed to Peter, ii. 127;
an anti-Bacchus caste, ii. 129;
existed before Christ, ii. 139, 181;
some as Galileans, ii. 139;
their belief of a divine overshadowing, ii. 154

Nazaret or Zoroaster, ii. 140

Nazars, Joseph, Samuel, Samson, Zoroaster, and Zorobabel, ii. 128;
wore their hair long, but cut it off at initiation, ii. 90;
Jesus belonged to them, _ib._

Nazireates, inimical to the Israelites, ii. 131

Nebelheim, the matrix of the earth, i. 147

Nebular theory, the ancient docrine, i. 238

Necessity, circle of, i. 226, 296;
men its toy, i. 276;
circle of, when completed, i. 346

Necho, King of Egypt, wrote on astronomy, i. 406;
canal of, i. 517;
II., sent a fleet to circumnavigate Africa, i. 542

Necklace, imprinted by lightning on two ladies, i. 398

Necromancy, a science of remote antiquity, i. 205

ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ _nekrokedeia_, i. 228

Neoconis, the second degree, ii. 364

Neo-Platonic Eclectic School, ii. 32

Neo-Platonists, i. 262;
their time of greatest glory, ii. 41;
their doctrines and practices copied, ii. 84;
not “spirit mediums,” ii. 118;
when they were doomed, ii. 252

Nero, his ring, i. 240;
dared not seek initiation, ii. 363

Neros I., i. 31;
the Great, i. 33

Nervous disorders, i. 117;
disorders a specialty in ancient Egypt, i. 529;
disorders treated with music in Egyptian temples, i. 544;
exhaustion at spiritual circles, i. 343

Neurological telegraphy proposed, i. 324

Never-embodied men, i. 301

Neville, Francis, twice resuscitated, i. 479

New birth and accompanying slaughter, ii. 42;
taught by Buddha and Jesus, ii. 566

New Jersey, negroes burned at the stake for witchcraft, ii. 18

New Testament, passages compared with sentences from the
philosophers, ii. 338

Newton Bishop, on the transformation of paganism into popery, ii. 29;
Dr. the American healer, i. 165, 217, 218;
Isaac, believer in magnetism, i. 177

Niccolini, his exposure of the profligacy of monks, ii. 365, 366

Nicodemus, Gospel taken from the pagan authors, ii. 518

Nicolaitans adhered to marriage, ii. 329

Nicolas, a man of honest report, ii. 333

Night of Brahma, ii. 272, 273

Nimbus and Tonsure solar emblems, ii. 94

Nimrod, or spotted, a name of Bacchus, the wearer of the spotted
skin, i. 568

Nimroud, convex lens found, i. 240

Nin or Imus of the Tzendales the same as Ninus, i. 551;
received homage in the form of a serpent, i. 522

Nineveh, 47 miles in circumference, i. 241

Nirvana, i. 241, 290;
the world of cause, i. 346;
not nihilism nor extinction, i. 430;
complete purification from matter, ii. 117;
subjective but not objective existence, ii. 286;
a personal immortality in spirit, but not in soul, ii. 320;
or Moksha, the second spiritual birth, ii. 566;
the ocean to which all religions tend, ii. 639

Nirvritti or rest, i. 243

No devil, no Christ, ii. 492

Noah, or Nuah, same as Swayambhuva, ii. 448;
the universal mother, ii. 444

Nonnus, his legend of Korè and her son, ii. 504

Norns, or Parcæ, watering the roots of the tree Yggdrasill, i. 151

Norse kingdom of the dead, ii. 11;
contained no blazing hell, _ib._

NOUS, i. 55, 131;
consecrated to Mary, Isis, and Nari, ii. 210;
or rational soul, everyman endowed, ii. 279;
the spirit or reasoning soul, doctrine of Aristotle, i. 317;
the first-born, or Christ, ii. 157

No-Zeruan, the ancient of days, ii. 142

Nout, the Egyptian name of the Divine Spirit, ii. 282;
same as Nous, _ib._

Nuah (Hea) king of the humid principle, ii. 429

Nubia, its rock-temples, i. 542

Nucleus of the embryo, i. 389

Numa, King of Rome, Books of, i. 527;
understood electricity, _ib._;
opposed the use of images in worship, _ib._

Numbers, Hermetic Book, on cosmic changes, i. 254;
book of secret, the great Kabala, i. 579

Numerals of Pythagoras, hieroglyphical symbols, i. 35;
the basis of all systems of mysticism, ii. 407

Nun, an Egyptian designation, ii. 95

Nysa, Nyssa, always found where Bacchus was worshipped, ii. 165;
same as Sinai, _ib._

Oak, sacred, i. 297, 298

Oannes, i. 133;
the man fish, i. 349;
the same as Vishnu, ii. 257;
name signifies a spirit, _ib._

Oath taken by initiates, i. 409

Ob, the astral light, i. 158

Obeah women in Guiana charm snakes, i. 383

Obelisks of Egypt, i. 518;
mode of transporting them, i. 519;
imputed to Hermes Trismegistus, i. 551

Object of this book, ii. 98, 99

Obscene relics at Embrum, ii. 332

Obscene bas-reliefs on the doors of St. Peter’s Cathedral, _ib._

Obscene statue of Christ and its miracles, _ib._

Obscenity of heathen rites, ii. 76

Obsession and possession, i. 487, 488; ii. 16;
all confined to Roman Catholic countries, ii. 17

Obsessions, irresistible, i. 276

Occult properties in minerals, ii. 589;
powers by inheritance, ii. 635, 636

Occultism, physical, i. 19

Oculists in ancient Egypt, i. 545

Od, an agent described by Baron Reichenbach, i. 146;
astral currents vivified, i. 158;
emanations identical with flames from magnets, etc., i. 169

Odic Force, i. 67

Odin, i. 19;
breathing in man and woman, the ash and the alder, the breath
of life, i. 151;
Alfadir, _ib._

Oersted, on laws of nature, i. 506, 507

Oetinger, experiment on ashes of plants, i. 476

O’Grady, Wm. L. D., his letter denouncing the influence of
missionaries in India, ii. 475;
on Hindu demoralization under British rule, ii. 574;
his account of a Christian saturnalia in India, ii. 532

Okhal or hierophant of the Druzes, ii. 309

Okhals or spiritualists of Syria, ii. 292

Old book, one original copy only in existence, i. 1;
gods of the heathen, the same as the ancient patriarchs, ii. 450;
man and his son, remarkable resuscitation, i. 484;
Testament, exiled by Colenso and recalled, ii. 4;
Testament, no real history in it, ii. 441;
universes evolved before the present, ii. 421

Olympic gods, their biographies relate to physics and chemistry, i.
261;
women climbing perpendicular walls, i. 374

Onderah, the Hindu abyss of darkness, only an intermediate state, ii.
11

One only good, ii. 238;
in three, i. 258

Only-begotten sons, ii. 191

Operative masons, ii. 392

Ophiomorphos and Ophis Christos, ii. 449

Ophion called also Dominus, ii. 512

Ophiozenes in Cyprus, power over venomous reptiles, i. 381

Ophis, the same as Chnuphis or Kneph, ii. 187;
or the agathodaimon, ii. 293, 295

Ophism and heliolatry imputed to Hermes, i. 55i

Ophite Gnostics rejected the _Old Testament_, ii. 147;
Theogony correctly given, ii. 187;
worship transmuted into Christian symbolism, ii. 505;
or serpent-worshipping Christians, their scheme, ii. 292;
seven planetary genii, ii. 296;
rejected the Mosaic writings, ii. 168;
taught the doctrine of emanations, ii. 169;
and Nazarenes compared, ii. 174;
denounced by Peter and Jude, ii. 205;
accused of licentiousness, ii. 325

Optical instruments of ancient times, i. 240

Oracle of the bleeding head consulted by Queen Catherine of Medicis,
ii. 56

Oracles obtained during the sacred sleep, i. 357

Oracular head, made by Pope Sylvester II., ii. 56;
by Albertus Magnus destroyed by Thomas Aquinas, _ib._

Orcus, i. 298, 299

Oriental philosophy, fundamental propositions, ii. 587

Orientals, their senses more acute, i. 211;
ascribe a human figure to the soul, i. 214;
believe certain persons have made gold and lived for ages, _ib._

Orientalists have shown similarities between religions, ii. 49

Origen, believed in metempsychosis, i. 12;
an Alexandrian Platonist, i. 25;
secret doctrines of Moses, i. 26;
believed the spirit preëxistent from eternity, i. 316;
deemed the soul corporeal, i. 317;
denied the perpetuity of hell-torments, ii. 13;
taught that devils would be pardoned, _ib._;
believed that the damned would receive pardon and bliss, ii. 238;
on the threefold partition of man, ii. 285

Ormazd, his worship restored, ii. 220;
his creations, ii. 221

Orobio exposes the inquisition, ii. 59

Orohippus, i. 411

Orpheus, alleged to be a disciple of Moses, i. 532;
on the virtues of the lodestone, i. 265

Orphic Mysteries not the popular Bacchic rites, ii. 129

Osiris, i. 93, 202;
brought up at Nysa and called Dionnysos, ii. 165;
his slaying denoted the period when his worship was under the ban
of the Hyk-sos government, ii. 487;
and Typhon, E. Pococke’s theory, ii. 435, 436

O’Sullivan, Hon. John L., description of a semi-magical seance, i. 608

Oulam does not mean infinite duration, ii. 12

Ovule ceases to be an integral part of the body of the mother, i. 401

Ovum, impregnated, its evolutionary history, i. 389

Oxus-tribes or bull-worshippers dominate Western Asia, ii. 439

Owen, Robert D., on worship of words, ii. 560

Pagan idols, their destruction commanded by the Roman emperor, ii. 40;
worship, the Latin church preserves its symbols, rites,
architecture and clerical dress, ii. 92

Paganism, true meaning of the word, ii. 179;
ancient wisdom replete with deity, ii. 639;
converted and applied to popery, ii. 29

Pagans condemned to the eternal torments of hell, ii. 8;
Virgin Mary writing this to a saint, _ib._

Palenque, keystone not found, i. 571;
the Tau and astronomical cross, i. 572

Pali, their manuscripts translated, i. 578;
have similar traditions as the Babylonians, _ib._;
shepherds, who emigrated west, _ib._

Pallium, or stole, a feminine sign, ii. 94;
that of Augustine bedecked with Buddhistic crosses, ii. 94

Panther, Grecian, contained Egyptian gods, i. 543;
panther, the sinful father of Jesus, ii. 386

Papacy, scientific, danger of, i. 403;
“and civil power,” Mr. Thompson’s book denounced, ii. 378

Papal tiara, the coiffure of the Assyrian gods, ii. 94;
discourses, catalogue of foul epithets on those who oppose the
pope, ii. 7

Paper, time-proof, i. 529

Papyrus, as old as Menes and the first dynasty, i. 530;
art of its preparation, _ib._

Parables or double-meanings in the discourses of Jesus, ii. 145

Parabrahma the Eternal, Bhaghavant, i. 91

Paracelsus, i. 20, 50;
his learning, i. 52;
discovered hydrogen, i. 52, 169;
his doctrine of faith and will, i. 57, 170;
rediscovery of the magnet, i. 71, 164, 167;
persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church, i. 100;
his homunculi, i. 133, 465;
teacher of animal-magnetism and electro-magnetism, i. 164;
theory of a concealed power of the magnet, i. 168;
sidereal force, _ib._;
theory of dreams, i. 170;
on the alkahest, i. 191;
method of transposing letters in his terms, _ib._;
taught that three spirits actuate man, i. 212;
removed disease by contact of healthy persons, i. 217;
his preparation of mercury, ii. 620;
and chorœa, and was persecuted for it as a magician, ii. 565;
received the true initiation, ii. 349;
his assertion that magic was taught in the Bible, ii. 500;
Alsatians believe him not dead, _ib._

Paradigm of the universe, i. 212

Paradise Lost, the drama of Milton, ii. 501, 502;
the unformulated belief of the English, _ib._

Paradoxes, five, of adversaries of Spiritualism, i. 116

Paralysis of the soul during life, ii. 368

Parerga, i. 59

Pariahs, or Tchandales, the parents of the Jews, ii. 438

Paris carrying off Helen, and Ravana carrying off Sita, i. 566;
Abbé, the Jansenist, miracles at his tomb for 20 years, i. 372

Parker, Father, accuses the Protestants of the purpose to destroy the
Bible, ii. 200

Parodi, Maria Teresa, case of malformed child, i. 392

Parrot-headed squabs, i. 395, 396

Parsis deny any vicarious sacrifice, ii. 547

Pashai (Peshawer) or Udayna, classic land of sorcery, i. 599;
testimony of Hiouen-Thsang, _ib._

Pastaphoris, the first degree, ii. 364

Patriarchs, great gods, and pradjapatis represented signs of the
Zodiac, ii. 450

Paul, supposed to have been personified and assailed by Peter under
the name of Simon Magus, ii. 89;
and Plato, quoted, ii. 89, 90;
the real founder of Christianity, ii. 574;
a wise master-builder, or adept, ii. 90, 91;
why persecuted by Peter, James, and John, ii. 91;
supposed to be polluted by the Gnosis, _ib._;
the apostle, used language pertaining to initiations, ii. 90;
was initiated, _ib._;
confessed himself a Nazarene, ii. 137;
on the beatific vision, ii. 146;
his epistles alone acknowledged by Marcion, ii. 162;
differs from Peter, ii. 180;
is adopted by the Reformers, _ib._;
his reference to occult powers, ii. 206;
only worthy apostle of Jesus, ii. 241;
taught that man was a trine, ii. 281;
regarded Christianity and Judaism as entirely distinct, ii. 525;
the apostle, his descendants said to possess the power of braving
serpents, i. 381;
asserted the story of Moses and Abraham to be allegories, ii. 493

Pausanias on shadowy soldiers at Marathon, i. 70;
warned not to unveil the holy rites, i. 130

Perry Chand Mittra, his views on psychology of the Aryas, ii. 593

Pedactyl equus, i. 411

Peisse, Dr., on alchemy and making gold, i. 508, 509

Penalties of mutilation, ii. 99, 100

Pencil writing answers to questions, in Tartary, i. 600

Pentacle, Pythagorean, ii. 451, 452

Pentagram, can determine the countenance of unborn infants, i. 395

Pentateuch, constituted after the model of a purana, ii. 492;
not written by Moses, ii. 167;
compiled by Ezra and revised, i. 578;
revised by the Jews, ii. 526

Pepper, Prof., his apparatus to produce spiritual appearances, i. 359

Perfect circle decussated by the letter X, ii. 469

Perfect Passover of orthodox Christians, ii. 333

Periktione, mother of Plato, her miraculous conception, ii. 325

Perispirit, i. 197;
the astral soul, i. 289

Permutation, doctrine of, ii. 152

Perpetual motion, denied by science, i. 501;
illustrated by the universe and the atomic theory, i. 502;
proved by the telescope and microscope, _ib._

Persiphone or Proserpina, the same as Ceres or Demeter, ii. 505

Persepolis, wonders, i. 534;
the inscriptions older than any in Sanscrit, ii. 436

Persia, her wonders, i. 534

Persian Mirror, a robber detected by its use and punished, ii. 631

Persian colonists dominated in Judea, the Canaanites being the
proletaries, ii. 441

Personal devil not believed in by the ancients, ii. 483

Personality not to be applied to spiritual essence, i. 315

Persons cut to pieces and put again together good as new, i. 473, 474

Peru, net-work of subterranean passages, i. 595, 598;
treasures of the Incas, i. 596

Peruvians, still preserve their ancient traditions and sacerdotal
caste, i. 546;
magical ceremonies, _ib._

Peter, פתר, name taken from the Mysteries, ii. 29

PTR, its symbol an opened eye, ii. 92, 93;
the interpreter, ii. 392;
had nothing to do with the foundation of the Latin Church, ii. 91;
his name Petra or Kiffa, _ib._;
the whole story of his apostleship at Rome a play on the name
denoting the Hierophant or interpreter of the mysteries, ii.
91, 92;
the pulpit of, declared to be the teachings of the spirit of God,
ii. 8;
had two chairs, ii. 23, 25;
was never at Rome, ii. 24;
his life at Babylon, ii. 127;
was a Nazarene, _ib._;
denounced Paul without naming him, ii. 179

Peter-ref-su, a mystery-word on a coffin, ii. 92;
Bunsen’s comments, ii. 92, 93

Peter the Great, stopped spurious miracles, ii. 17

Petra, the rock-temple of the Church, ii. 30

Petra, or rock, the logos, ii. 246

Petroma, the two tablets of stone, ii. 91

_Phœdrus_, i. 2

Phallic symbols in churches, ii. 5;
stone, batylos, or lingham, denounced by des Mousseaux, _ib._

Phallism, heathen, in Christian symbols, ii. 5;
in the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, and the fetish-worship
of Isernia, _ib._

Phanes, the revealed god, i. 146

Phantasmal duplicate, i. 360

Phantasy, ii. 591

Phantom-hand, false as well as true, ii. 594;
statement of Dr. Fairfield, ii. 595;
what it really is, _ib._

Phantoms, the manifestations of bad demons, i. 333

Phases of modern Christianity, ii. 575

Pharisees, believed in transmigration of souls, i. 347

Phenomena, spiritual, discountenanced by the clergy, i. 26;
divine visions of Pius, IX., i. 27;
the Klikouchy and the Yourodevoy, i. 28;
absurd position assumed by scientists, i. 40;
Aksakof, i. 41;
Fisk, Crookes, and Wallace, i. 42;
the Dialectical Society, i. 44;
theories of Prof. Crookes, i. 47;
existed long before spiritualism, i. 53;
Prof. Faraday’s tests, i. 63;
materialization, i. 67;
a haunted house, i. 69;
physical displays seldom caused by disembodied spirits, i. 73;
opposition of the positivists, i. 75;
hostility of allopathists, i. 88;
laid at the door of Satan, i. 99;
testimony of de Gasparin, i. 101;
hostility of medical writers, i. 102;
Mr. Weekman the first investigator in America, i. 106;
reality acknowledged by Prof. Thury, i. 110;
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
Petersburgh, i. 117;
how produced, i. 199;
evidence adduced by Prof. Crookes overwhelming, i. 202;
given by an exterior intelligence, i. 203;
deceptions, i. 217-222;
Iamblichus forbids endeavors to procure them, i. 219

Pherecydes, taught that æther was heaven, i. 157

Philalethes, Eugenius (Thomas Vaughan), i. 51, 167;
not an adept, i. 306;
model of Swedenborg, _ib._;
anticipated modern doctrine of the earth’s beginning, i. 255

Phillips, Wendell, i. 211, 240

Philo Judæus, on spirits in the air, i. 2;
praise of magic, i. 25;
contradicted himself on purpose, ii. 39;
was the father of new platonism, ii. 144

Philonæa, visited her lover after death, i. 365

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 propositions, ii. 587

Phœnicians, circumnavigated the globe, i. 239;
the earliest navigators, i. 545;
their achievements, _ib._;
an Ethiopian race, i. 566, 567;
traced by Herodotus to the Persian Gulf, i. 567;
Phoinikes, or Ph’anakes, i. 569;
the same as the Hyk-sos or shepherds of Egypt, _ib._;
more or less identified with the Israelites, _ib._

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 vampirism, i. 449

Pigmies in Africa, i. 412

Pike, Gen. Albert, declaration against the creative principle
proclaimed at Lausanne, 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 Prometheus, etc., i. 298;
the nous, word, or Divine Light, ii. 50

Pippala, the sacred tree of knowledge, ii. 412

Pitar, its form seen at the moment of initiation, ii. 114

Pitris, the lunar ancestors of men, ii. 106, 117;
their worship fast becoming the worship of the spiritual portion of
mankind, ii. 639;
the doctrine of their existence revealed to initiates, ii. 114;
a sect in India, ii. 308

Pious assassins of the early church, ii. 304

Pius IX, excommunicates Czar Nicholas as a schismatic i. 27;
has divine visions, or rather epileptic fits, _ib._;
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, 282

Plant-growing trick, i. 139, 141, 142

Plants, attracted by the sun, i. 209;
sympathies and antipathies, _ib._;
sympathy 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 physical improvement of the human race, i. 77;
doctrine of wisdom, i. 131;
on trance prophets, i. 201;
asserted to be ignorant of anatomy, i. 236;
his method, i. 237;
Prof. Jewett’s acknowledgment, _ib._;
on origin 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, _ib._;
would not admit poets into his commonwealth, i. 288;
dismisses Homer for his apparent antagonism to monotheism, _ib._;
accused of absurdities, etc., i. 307;
derived 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. 428;
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 initiation,
i. 591;
copies Djeminy and Vyasa, i. 621;
complains of unbelief, ii. 16;
his faculty of production, _ib._;
confessed that he derived his teachings from ancient and sacred
doctrines, ii. 39;
on divine mysteries, ii. 113;
not a “spirit-medium,” ii. 118;
and other philosophers taught dual evolution, ii. 279;
on the trine of man, ii. 282;
definition of the soul, ii. 285;
his testimony concerning the Machagistia, ii. 306;
discourse concerning the creation, ii. 469;
taught that there was in matter a blind force, ii. 483;
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. 302

Pleasanton on the Blue Ray, 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 generated existence, ii.
112;
six times united to his god, ii. 115; i. 292;
on human knowledge, i. 434;
on prayer, _ib._;
on ecstasy, i. 486;
impulse in the soul to return to its centre, _ib._;
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 dæmon of Socrates, ii. 284

Pococke, E., his theory of Osiris and Typhon, ii. 435, 436

Poland, what a Catholic miracle in that country means, ii. 18

Polykritus returned after dying, i. 364

Polygamy openly preached by certain Positivists, i. 78

Pompei, the room full of glass, i. 537

Pope seized the scepter of the Pagan pontiff, ii. 30;
now sympathising with the Turks against Christians, ii. 81;
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 Quiché, i. 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

Poruthû-Madân, the wrestling demon, aiding in levitation, taming
animals, etc., i. 496

Positivism of Littré 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, i. 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

Prayer and its sequences, i. 434

Prayers, kept secret from strangers, i. 581

Pre-Adamite, man described, i. 295;
earth, i. 505

Prediction of the Russo-Turkish war, i. 260

Preëminence of woman, ii. 299

Preëxistence, apparent, i. 179

Preëxistent, 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 fœtus, i. 395;
under the influence 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
religion, ii. 299

Pre-Vedic religion of India, ii. 39

Priest, Assyrian, always bore the name of his god, i. 554

Priest-ridden nations always fall, ii. 121, 122

Priestesses of Germany, how they prophesied, ii. 592

Priestley, Dr. Joseph, discovered oxygen, i. 250;
anticipated the present-day philosophers, _ib._;
on the godhood of Jesus, ii. 239

Priests, their cast-off 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;
Christians, a community of secret societies, ii. 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 Createur_ identical with the _Principe Generateur_ and not
Christian, ii. 377

Principes, i. 300

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, _ib._;
his explanation of the gradation of the Mysteries, ii. 101;
upon apparitions beheld in the Mysteries, ii. 113

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._