of asbestos, i. 231
Land-measuring, known by the Egyptians, i. 531
Lao-tsi, or Laotsen, his figure produced by magic, i. 600
Lares, i. 345
Larmenius, charter forged, ii. 385
Larva, the soul, i. 344, 345
Larvæ, shadows of men that have once lived, i. 310;
their reincarnation, i. 357
Last rite, not known by the highest epoptæ, ii. 563
Latin Church, nearly upset by modern research, ii. 6;
despoiled the kabalists and theurgists, ii. 85;
preserves the old pagan worship, even to the dress of the clergy,
ii. 92
Lausanne, declaration of the Supreme Masonic Councils, ii. 377;
denounced by Gen. Pike, _ib._
Leaping of the prophets of Baal, ii. 45
Leaves, impressions made on, i. 368, 369
Le Comte, Prof., comparison of living and dead organism, i. 466;
on vital force, i. 313
Lempriere accuses Pythagoras and Porphyry, i. 431
Lemure, i. 345
Lemuria, the last continent of the Indian Ocean, perhaps the same as
Atlantis, i. 591, 592;
the Indian legend, i. 594
Lens found at Nineveh, i. 239
Lentulus, his forged letter, ii. 151
Leopard-skin, a sacred appendage of the mysteries, i. 568;
found sculptured in basso-relievo in Central America, i. 569;
employed by the Brahmans, _ib._
Lesser mysteries, their meaning and object, ii. 111
Lesser and greater mysteries, accused of indecency, ii. 100
Letter of Father Raulica on magic, ii. 70;
of Mary Virgin to the Bishop and Church of Messina, ii. 83;
from a Druze brother to the author, ii. 313
Letters, ii. 83;
invented in Egypt, i. 532
Levi, a caste rather than a tribe, i. 568
Levi, Eliphas, exposition of the means to acquire magical power, i.
137;
his remark on the ancient Christian malignity, ii. 250
Leviathan, the occult science, ii. 499
Law of compensation never swerves, ii. 545
Levitation discussed, i. 491, 492, 494-498;
under magnetic conditions practicable, ii. 589
Levitations, i. 100, 225;
declared impossible, i. 105;
of Iamblichus, i. 115;
occasioned by the attraction of the _perisprit_ or astral soul, i.
197;
disapproved by Iamblichus, i. 219
Levites, or serpent-tribe, the seraphs or fiery serpents, ii. 481
Lewis, Sir G. C., opinion adverse to the culture of the ancients, i.
525
Liberalia, or St. Patrick’s day, a festival of the Church, ii. 528
Libyan shepherds, Cyclopeans, i. 567
Lichen, produced, i. 302
Life, a phenomenon of matter, i. 115
Life-principle, speculations, i. 466
Life-transfer, ii. 564
Light, chemical relations, i. 136;
undulatory theory much doubted, i. 137;
mystical, the Divine Intelligence, i. 258;
same as electricity, _ib._;
both matter and a force, i. 281;
sympathy its offspring, i. 309;
an energy, not an emanation, the view of Aristotle, i. 510;
sublimated gold, i. 511
Lightning, conjured down by Prometheus, i. 526;
fate of Tullius, i. 527
Lightning-photographs, i. 394, 395
Lightning-rods on ancient temples, i. 527, 528;
used in India, i. 528
Lilith, Adam’s “first wife,” ii. 445
Linen of ancient Egypt, i. 536;
fire-proof, i. 230
Linga, same as the pillars of the patriarchs, ii. 235
Lingham, or emblem of Maha Deva, ii. 5;
and Yoni in churches, ii. 5
Lithos or phallus, reproduced in steeples, turrets, and domes, ii. 5
Littré on positive philosophy, i. 78
Living acari by chemical experiments, i. 465;
fire, i. 301
Local gods, ii. 451
Lodestone, its power to affect a whole audience, i. 265
Logia, or secret doctrines taught by Jesus, ii. 191
Logoi, all fail and are punished, i. 298
Logos, i. 131;
in every mythos, i. 162
Λόγος Αληθής, _True Doctrine_ of Celsus, story of the
book at a convent, ii. 52
Long-face, the Supreme God, ii. 247
Long hair, worn by John the Baptist and Jesus, and denounced by
Paul, ii. 140
Lord of the Genii, i. 300
Losing one’s soul possible, i. 317
Lost word, where to be 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._
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