of the future, _ib._;
of the ancients the religion of the future, i. 613;
private or national property, not to be shared with foreigners, i.
581;
taught in the oldest Mysteries, i. 567;
which dreads the light must be false, ii. 121;
of Gautama, propagandism, ii. 608
Religions, ancient, based on indestructibility of matter and force,
i. 243;
anciently sabaistic, i. 261;
derived from one source and tend to one end, ii. 639;
Papacy and scientific, i. 403
Religious customs of the Mexicans and Peruvians like those of the
Phœnicians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, i. 551;
instinct productive of immorality, i. 83;
liberty considered as intolerance, ii. 503;
reform pure at the beginning, ii. 333;
myths have an historical foundation, ii. 431;
teachers, ii. 1
Renan, E., described Jesus as a Gallicized rabbi, ii. 562
Repentance possible even in Hades or Gehenna, i. 352
Repercussion, i. 360
Rephaim, i. 133
Resistance, extraordinary, to blows, sharp instruments, etc., i. 375,
376
Resuscitated Buddha, a babe speaking with man’s voice, i. 437
Resuscitations, i. 478, 479, 480;
after actual death, impossible, i. 481
Report of French Parliament upon the Jesuits, ii. 353
Resplendent one, ii. 113;
the Augoeides, or self-shining vision, ii. 115
Retribution on the Roman Catholic Church, ii. 121
Reuchlin, John, a Kabalist, ii. 20
Revelation, or Apocalypse, its author a Kabalist, ii. 91;
his hatred of the Mysteries made him the enemy of Paul, _ib._
Revenge of Ilda-Baoth for the transgression of his command, ii. 185
Rib of the Word made flesh preserved as a relic, ii. 71
Rig-Veda, hymns written before Zoroaster, ii. 433
Rio Janeiro, her Madonna with bare limbs, blond hair and chignon,
ii. 9;
her Christ in dandy evening dress, ii. 10
Rishi Kutsa, i. 11
Rishis, or sages, i. 90
Rite of Swedenborg, a Jesuitical production, ii. 390
Rites and ceremonial dress of Christian clergy like that of
Babylonians, etc., ii. 94
Ritual of exorcism, ii. 69;
funeral, of the Egyptians, ii. 367
Rituals, Kabalistic and Catholic compared, ii. 85, 86
Rochester Cathedral, its originals, ii. 5;
rappings, i. 36
Rock-temples of Ipsambul, i. 542;
works of Phœnician cities, i. 570;
similar in Egypt and America, i. 571
Rod of Moses, the _crux ansata_, ii. 455
Roger Bacon, i. 64
Roma, Cambodian traditions, i. 566
Roman Catholic Clergy murdered mediums, i. 26;
Church burned sorcerers that were not priests, ii. 58;
Church has deprived herself of the key to her own religious
mysteries, ii. 121;
Church regards dissent, heresy, and witchcraft identical, ii. 503;
considers religious liberty as intolerance, _ib._
Roman Catholics in the United States, ii. 1;
frown at the spiritual phenomena as diabolical, ii. 4;
pontiffs arrogate dominion over Greek and Protestant Christians, i.
27
Rome, Church of, put Bruno to death for his doctrines, i. 93;
regards the spiritual phenomena as genuine, i. 100;
Church of, cursing spiritualists, ii. 6;
excommunicating the Bulgarians, Servians, Russians, and Italian
liberals, ii. 7
Rosaries of Buddhistic origin, ii. 95
Roscoe, Professor, on iron in the sun, i. 513
Rose, impression of one on Mme. von N., i. 398
Rosicrucians, persecuted and burned, i. 64;
their doctrine of creation, i. 258;
still a mystery, ii. 380;
unknown to its cruelest enemy, the Church, _ib._;
the aim to support Catholicism, ii. 394;
their doctrine of fire, i. 423
Rosie Cross, brothers live only in name, i. 29;
mysterious body, i. 64;
burned without mercy by the Church, _ib._
Round Tower of Bhangulpore, ii. 5
Rousseau, the savant, encounter with a toad, i. 399
Royal Arch word, ii. 293;
cipher, ii. 396
Ruc, from New Zealand, i. 603
Rufus of Thessalonica returned to life after dying, i. 365
Rules imposed upon neophytes, ii. 365
Russia, no church-miracles, ii. 17
Russian conquest of Turkey predicted, i. 260
S. P. R. C., the cipher, ii. 395
Sabazian worship Sabbatic, ii. 45
Sabbath, adopted by the Jews from other peoples, ii. 417;
Christian, its origin, ii. 419
Sabbatical institution not mentioned in Job, ii. 494
Sabeanism, treated of in Job, ii. 494
Sacerdotal caste in every ancient religion, ii. 99;
office, magical evocation, ii. 118
Sacred sleep, i. 357;
produced by draughts of soma-juice, _ib._;
lake, ii. 364;
writings of India have a deeper meaning, ii. 430;
books of the Jews destroyed, 158 B.C., ii. 470;
tree of Kounboum renews its budding in the time of Son-Ka-po, ii.
609
Sacrifice of the hierophant or victim, ii. 42;
of blood, ii. 566
Sacrificial worship never approved by the Israelitish prophets, ii.
525
Sacrilege to seek to understand a mystery, ii. 249
Sahara, perhaps once a sea-bed, i. 592
St. Paul’s Cathedral, its double lithoi, ii. 5;
Medard, the fanatics, i. 375;
John, Knights of, not Masons, ii. 383;
persecuted by the Inquisition, _ib._
Saints rescued from hell, ii. 517;
Buddhistic and Lamaistic, their great sanctity, ii. 608;
never washing themselves, ii. 511
Sakti, the active energy of the gods, ii. 276;
employed as a vehan, _ib._
Sakti-trimurti, or female trinity, ii. 444
Salamander or asbestos, i. 504
Salem, Mass., obsessions occurring there, i. 71;
witchcraft, the obeah woman, i. 361;
witchcraft, ii. 18
Salsette, the Kanhari caves, the abode of St. Josaphat, ii. 580, 581
Salt regarded as the universal menstruum and one of the chief
formative principles, i. 147
Salverte, his philosophy of magic, i. 115;
imputes deception to Iamblichus and others, _ib._;
his account of a soldier protected by an amulet, i. 378;
on mechanics and invention in ancient times, i. 516;
on the use of electricity, etc., by Numa and Tullus, kings of
Rome, i. 527
Samâddi, an exalted spiritual condition, ii. 590
Samael or Satan, the simoon or wind of the desert, ii. 483
Samaritans recognized only the books of Moses and Joshua, ii. 470
Samothrace, a mystery enacted there once every seven years, i. 302;
worship of the Kabeiri brought thither by Dardanus, i. 570
Samothracian Mysteries and new life, i. 132;
magnetism and electricity, i. 234
Samson, the Hebrew Herakles, a mythical character, ii. 439;
represented by the Somona of Ceylon, i. 577
Samuel the prophet, a mythical hero, the doppel of Samson, ii. 439;
the Hebrew Ganesa, _ib._;
his school, i. 26
San Marco at Venice, the original of the Campanila column, ii. 5
Sanchoniathon, on chaos and creation, i. 342
Sanctity of the chair of Peter, its source, ii. 25
Sankhya, the eight faculties of the soul, ii. 592, 593
Sanctuary of the pagodas never entered by a European [except Mr.
Ellis--see Higgins’s _Apocalypsis_--very doubtful], ii. 623
Sannyâsi, a saint of the second degree, ii. 98
Sanscrit, endeavor to show its derivation from the Greek, i. 443;
inscriptions, none older than Chandragupta, ii. 436;
the vernacular of the Akkadians, ii. 46;
appears on the leaves of the magical Koumboum, _ib._;
books written in presence of a child-medium, i. 368;
impressions by a fakir or juggler on leaves, i. 368, 369;
manuscripts translated into every Asiatic language, i. 578;
language derived from the Rutas, i. 594
Sapphire, sacred to the moon, i. 264;
possesses a magical power and produces somnambulic phenomena, _ib._;
Hindu legend of its first production, i. 265
Sar or Saros, i. 30
Sara-isvati, wife of Brahma, goddess of sacred knowledge, ii. 409
Sarcophagus, porphyry, in the pyramids, i. 519
Sargent, Epes, on spiritual deceptions, i. 220;
his arraignment of Tyndall for coquetting with different beliefs,
i. 419
Sargon, the original of the story of Moses, ii. 442
Sarpa Rajni, the queen of the serpents, ii. 489
Sarles, Rev. John W., advocates the damnation of adult heathen, ii.
474
Satan, his existence first made a dogma by Christians, ii. 13;
declared fundamental, ii. 14;
Ilda-Baoth, so called, ii. 186;
identical with Jehovah, ii. 451;
the mainstay of sacerdotism, ii. 480;
to be contemplated from their planes, ii. 481;
personified as a devil by the Asideans, ii. 481;
same as Ahriman or Anramanyas, _ib._;
the name applied to a serpent in the Hebrew Scriptures, ii. 481;
the same as Seth, god of the Hittites, _ib._;
of the book of Job, ii. 483;
counsels with the Lord, ii. 485;
a son of God, ii. 492;
makes a sortie into New England and other colonies, ii. 503;
the Biblical term for public accuser, ii. 494;
the same as Typhon, _ib._;
cast forth by the prince of hell, ii. 515, 516;
is made subject to Beelzebub, prince of hell, ii. 517;
and Beelzebub hold a conversation about Jesus, ii. 520, 521
Satanism defined by Father Ventura de Raulica, ii. 14
Sati, a burned widow, i. 541
Sattras, imitations of the course of the sun, i. 11
Saturation of the medium, i. 499, 500
Saturn, Chaldean discovery of his rings, i. 260, 263;
the father of Zeus, i. 263;
the same as Bel, Baal, and Siva, _ib._;
his image, ii. 235;
or Kronos, offers his only-begotten son to Ouranos and circumcises
himself and family, i. 578;
the myth original in the _Maha-Bharata_, _ib._
Saturnalia of monks at Christmas, ii. 366
Saul, evil spirit exorcised, i. 215
Saviour, would be lost if we lose our demons, ii. 476
Scandinavian tradition of trolls, ii. 624
Scepter of the Boddhisgat seen floating in the air, ii. 610
Scheme of the Ophites, ii. 292
Schlieman, the Hellenist, finds evidence of cycles of development, i.
6;
at Mycenæ, i. 598
Schmidt, I. J., statement in regard to the steppes of Turan and
desert of Gobi, i. 603
Scholars, ancient, believed in arcane doctrines, i. 205
Scholastic science knows neither beginning nor end, i. 336
Schools of magic in the Lamaseries, ii. 609
Schopenhauer, i. 55, 59;
on nature as illusion, ii. 158
Science, formerly arcane and taught in the sanctuary, i. 7;
its progress, i. 40;
spiritualism, i. 83;
“has no belief,” i. 278;
knows no beginning or end, i. 336;
called anti-christianism, i. 337;
mystery fatal to it, i. 338;
its parent source, the unknown, i. 339;
its dilemma, i. 340;
will never distinguish the difference between human and animal
ovules, i. 397;
invading the domain of religion, i. 403;
surrounded by a large hypothetical domain, i. 404;
her domain within the limit of the changes of matter, i. 421;
gross conception of fire, i. 423;
its dogmas concerning perpetual motion, elixir of life,
transmutation of metals and universal solvent, i. 501;
stages of its growth, i. 533;
its three necessary elements, ii. 637;
spiritism does not prevent them, _ib._;
modern, fails to satisfy the aspirations of the race; makes the
future a void and bereaves man of life, ii. 639
Scientific knowledge confined to the temples, i. 25;
Association, or American Association for the Advancement of
Science, on spiritualism and roosters crowing in the night, i.
245, 246;
attainments of ancient Hindu savants, i. 618, 620
Scientists bound in duty to investigate, i. 5;
afraid of spiritual phenomena, i. 41;
treatment of Prof. Crookes, i. 44;
likely to rediscover magic, i. 67;
not to be credited for the increase of knowledge, i. 84;
denied Buffon, Franklin, the steam-engine, railroad, etc., i. 85;
surpassed the clergy in hostility to discovery, _ib._;
as much given to persecution, _ib._;
know little certain, i. 224;
entrapping of Slade the medium, _ib._;
put forth no new doctrines, i. 248, 249;
anticipated by Liebig and Priestly, i. 250;
many of them inanimate corpses, i. 317;
their _ultima thule_, i. 340;
curious conjectures concerning the aurora, i. 417;
their incapacity to understand the spiritual side, i. 418
Scin-lecca, or double, ii. 104;
makes the principal manifestations, ii. 517
Scintilla, the Divine, produces a monad, i. 302;
of Abraham taken from Michael, ii. 452;
Isaac from Gabriel, and Jacob from Uriel, ii. 452
Scottish rite, its headquarters at a Jesuit college, ii. 381
Screw, invented by Archytas, the instructor of Plato, i. 543
Scyths, probably the same as Mongolians, i. 576
Sea, ancient inland sea north of the Himalayas, i. 589
Seal, Solomon’s of Hindu origin, i. 135
Seance in Bengal, i. 467
Second Emanation condenses matter and diffuses life, i. 302;
Adam created unisexual, i. 559;
spiritual birth, ii. 566;
advent, a fable invented for a precaution, ii. 535;
death, ii. 368;
sight, i. 211
Secret formulæ, i. 66;
sacerdotal castes in every ancient religion, ii. 99;
doctrine, its martyrs, i. 574;
of Moses, ii. 525;
volume, the real Hebrew Bible, ii. 471;
sects of the Christians, ii. 289;
are still in existence, ii. 290;
God of the Kabala, ii. 230;
of secrets, ii. 568
Secrets for prolonging life, ii. 563
Sectarian beliefs to disappear, i. 613
Sects existing before Christ, ii. 144
Sedecla, the Obeah woman of En-Dor, i. 494
Seer, receives impressions directly from his spirit, ii. 591
Seers or epoptæ, not spirit-mediums, ii. 118
Seer-adept, knows how to suspend the action of the brain, ii. 591
Seership natural with some people, ii. 588;
two kinds, of the soul and the spirit, ii. 590;
an elevation of the soul, ii. 591
Self of man, inner triune, ii. 114;
the future, ii. 115
Self-consciousness, attained on earth, i. 368
Self-printed records on the sacred tree, i. 302
Seir-Anpin, the Christos, ii. 230;
the third god, ii. 247
Semitic, the least spiritual branch of the human family, ii. 434;
its germs found in Khamism, ii. 435
Semi-monastics, ii. 608
Sensitive flame obeying a man’s order, ii. 607
Separation, temporary, of the spirit from the body, ii. 588
Sephira, i. 160;
the Divine Intelligence and mother of the Sephiroth, i. 258;
the same as Metis and Sophia, i. 263;
the first emanation, i. 270;
or Sacred Aged (Maha Lakshmi), ii. 421
Sephiroth, i. 258;
concealed wisdom, their father, _ib._;
or emanations, ii. 36;
ten, three classes in one unit, ii. 40;
the same as the ten Pradjapatis, ii. 215;
same as the ten patriarchs, _ib._
Sepulchres in Thibet, extraordinary arrangement of bodies and
decorations, ii. 604
Seraph, his snout preserved as a relic, ii. 71
Serapis, a name of Surya, ii. 438;
an accepted type of Christ, ii. 336;
his picture adopted by the Christians, _ib._;
represented by a serpent, ii. 490;
usurped the worship of Osiris, ii. 491;
the seven vowels chanted as a hymn in his honor, i. 514
Serpent of Genesis, des Mousseaux’s name for the devil, i. 15;
matter, i. 297;
dwelling in the branches of the tree of life, i. 298;
symbol of wisdom and immortality, i. 553;
of the book of _Genesis_, Ash-mogh or Asmodeus, ii. 188;
persuades man to eat of the tree of knowledge, ii. 185;
Christna crushing his head, ii. 446;
the divine symbol east and west, ii. 484;
most spirit-like of all reptiles, and hence a favorite symbol, ii.
489;
how it became the emblem of eternity and of the world, ii. 489;
universally venerated, ii. 489;
a symbol of Serapis and Jesus, ii. 490;
and Eve, ii. 512
Serpent-charmers, cannot fascinate human beings, ii. 612;
their powers, ii. 628
Serpent-charming, i. 381, 382, 470
Serpent-monsters, i. 393
Serpent-god, sons of, the hierophants, i. 553
Serpent-gods, Mexican, 13 in number, i. 572
Serpent-trail round the unformed earth, ii. 489
Serpent-worship, its origin not known, ii. 489
Serpent-worshippers of Kashmere become Buddhists, ii. 608
Serpent’s catacombs in Egypt, i. 553;
mysteries of the unavoidable cycle or centre of necessity, _ib._
Serpents, the earth their queen, i. 10;
Kneph, Agathodaimon, Kakodaimon, i. 133, 157;
Eliphas Levi’s, symbol of astral fire, i. 137;
queen of, ii. 489;
used as plaything at Hindu festivals, ii. 622
Servius, on the ancient practice of employing celestial fire at the
altars, i. 526
Sesostris, instructed by the oracle in the Trinity, ii. 51
Seth, the reputed son of Adam, the same as Hermes, Thoth, and Sat-an,
i. 554;
the same as Typhon, ii. 482
Seth, his interview with Michael at the gate of Paradise, ii. 520;
worshipped by the Hittites, ii. 523;
same as El, ii. 524
Sethicnites, disbelieved that Jesus was God, ii. 176
Seven, a sacred Hindu number, ii. 407;
among the Chaldeans, ii. 408;
potentiality of the number, ii. 417;
steps, the descent, i. 353;
degrees, old English Templar Rite, ii. 377;
vowels chanted as a hymn, i. 514;
caverns, i. 552;
spirits, i. 300, 301;
spirits of the Apocalypse, i. 461;
impostor demons, ii. 296;
Æons, _ib._;
rishis, _ib._
Seven-headed, serpent, ii. 489
Seventh degree, ii. 365;
ray and seven vowel, i. 514;
rite, the life transfer, ii. 564
Severus, Alexander, pillaged Egyptian temples for books, i. 406
Sexual element in Christianity, ii. 80;
emblems and worship, ii. 445
Shaberon, summoning a lama by spirit-message, ii. 604;
his wonderful summons to rescue the author from peril in Mongolia,
ii. 628
Shaberons, or Khubilhans, reincarnations of Buddha, ii. 609
Shad-belly coat first worn by Babylonian priests, ii. 458
Shadow, repugnance to stepping across it, ii. 610;
magnetic exhalation, ii. 611
Shakers, spiritual phenomena, ii. 18
Shaman, prophesying, ii. 624, 625;
prediction of the Crimean war, ii. 625;
extraordinary scene with the talismanic stone, ii. 626, 628;
“dragged out of his skin,” ii. 628;
priests bound to perform their “true rites” but once a year, at the
solstice, ii. 624
Shamanism or spirit-worship, the oldest religion of Mongolia, an
offshoot of primitive theurgy, ii. 615
Shamans occasionally enjoy divine powers, i. 3, 211;
of Siberia, degenerate scions of ancient Shamanism, ii. 616;
sometimes only mediums, sometimes magicians, ii. 625;
power over psychical epidemics, ii. 626;
each one has a talisman, _ib._
Shampooing or tschamping, a magical manipulation, i. 445
Shark-charmers or Kadal-katti, i. 606;
paid by the British government, i. 607
Shebang, the Sabbath, ii., 418
Shedim, nature-spirits, or Afrites, i. 313
Shekinah, the veil of the most ancient, ii. 223
Shem, Ham and Japhet, the old gods Samas, Kham and Iapetos, ii. 487
Shemites, Assyrians, i. 576;
probably a hybrid of Hamite and Aryan, _ib._
Shien-Sien, a blissful state, power of those obtaining it to
transport themselves everywhere, ii. 618, 620
Shiloh, daughters, their dance, ii. 45
Shimeon and Patar, ii. 93
Shoëpffer, Prof., teaches that the earth does not revolve, i. 621
Shoel ob, or consulter with familiar spirits, i. 355
Shudâla-Mâdan, the ghoul or graveyard fiend, i. 495
Shu-King, i. 11
Shûla-Mâdan, the furnace-demon, i. 496;
helps the juggler with raising trees, _ib._
Shu-tukt, a collegiate monastery, having in it over 30,000 monks, ii.
609
Siam, a king in 1670 who sought for the philosopher’s stone, i. 571
Siamese, the power of monks, i. 213, 214;
study of the philosopher’s stone, i. 214;
believe that some know how to render themselves immortal, _ib._
Sidereal force taught by Paracelsus, i. 168
Signature of the fœtus, i. 385
Silver, its aura, the quicksilver of the yogis or alchemists, ii.
620, 621
Silver and green associated in hermetic symbolism, i. 513
Silvery spark in the brain, i. 329
Simeon, the existence of such a tribe denied, i. 368;
ben Iochai, compiler of the _Zohar_, ii. 548;
rabbi, author of the _Zohar_, i. 301, 302;
his sons arise and relate what they saw in hell, ii. 519;
his prototype in India, _ib._
Simon ben Iochai, i. 263;
Stylites, lived 36 years atop of a pillar, ii. 77;
cured a dragon of a sore eye, _ib._
Simon Magus, a personification of the apostle Paul, ii. 89;
powers attributed to him, i. 471;
his journey through the air, ii. 357;
and Peter, ii. 190, 191
Simoun, or the wind of the desert, called Diabolos, ii. 483
Simulacrum of a Roumanian lady conducted by a Shaman to the tent of
the author, ii. 627, 628
Sin the necessary cause of the greatest good, ii. 479
Sinai, Mount, metals smelted there, i. 542;
story of Moses and the brass seraph, _ib._
Singing sands, i. 605
Sins, the five which divide the offender from his associates, ii. 608
Siphra Dzeniouta, i. 1
Sister’s son inheriting a crown, ii. 437
Sistra at the Israelitish festival, ii. 45
Siva, the fire-god, same as Bel and Saturn or Kronos, i. 263;
vigil-night, i. 446;
represented as sacrificing a rhinoceros instead of his son, i. 577,
578;
identical with Baal, Moloch, Saturn and Abraham, i. 578;
created Adhima and Heva, ancestors of the present race of mankind,
i. 590;
hurls fallen angels into Onderah, ii. 11;
his paradise, ii. 234;
hurls the devils into the bottomless pit, ii. 238;
Sabazios and Sabaoth the same divinity, ii. 487;
the same as the western chief gods, ii. 524;
most intellectual of the gods, _ib._
Six principles of man, ii. 367;
days of evolution and one of repose, ii. 422;
sacred syllables, “aum mani padma houm,” ii. 606;
races of men mentioned in laws of Manu, i. 590;
thousand years the term of creation, i. 342;
thousand infant skulls found in a fish-pond by a convent in Rome,
ii. 58
Sixteenth incarnation of Buddha at Urga, ii. 617
Sixth degree, ii. 365
Sixty thousand (60,428) paid religious teachers in the United States,
ii. 1
Skepticism a malady, i. 115
Skill displayed in embalming in Thibet, ii. 603, 604
Skulls of infants found at nunneries, ii. 58, 210
Slade, the medium, pretended exposure by Prof. Lankester, i. 118, 224
Slavonian Christians now assailed by the Catholics, ii. 81
Slavonians, the mystic word, ii. 42
Smaragdine, tablet of Hermes, found at Hebron, i. 507
Smith, George, his reading of the Assyrian tablets, ii. 422;
his reading of the story of Sargon, ii. 442
Snake-symbol of Phanes, the mundane serpent and mundane year, i. 146,
151, 157
Smyth, Prof. Piazzi, on the corn-bin, i. 519;
mathematical description of the great pyramid, i. 520
Snake-skin considered magnetic, ii. 507
Snake’s Hole, the subterranean passage terminating at the root of the
heavens, i. 553
Snakes kept in Moslem mosques, ii. 490;
reared with children in India, _ib._
Snout of a seraph preserved as a relic, ii. 71
Society not certain but that all ends in annihilation, ii. 3
“Society,” British, in India, its supercilious contempt for the
Hindus and marvels in Hindustan, ii. 613
Socrates, his demoniac or divine faculty and its service, i. 131;
his demon, ii. 283;
same as the _nous_ or spirit, ii. 284;
opinion of Justin Martyr about his future fate criticised, ii. 8;
a medium, and therefore not initiated, ii. 117;
why put to death as an atheist, ii. 118
Sod, an arcanum of Mystery, i. 301, 555;
the Mysteries of Baal, Adonis and Bacchus, _ib._;
the _secret_ of Simeon and Levi, _ib._;
great, of the Kadeshim, ii. 131
Sodales, or priest-colleges, Moses their chief, i. 555
Sodalian oath, i. 409
Sodom and Gomorrah, suffering eternal fire, ii. 12
Sohar, its compilation, ii. 348;
its theories like the Hindu, ii. 276
Solar trinity, red, blue and yellow, ii. 417;
dynasty in India, the Surga Vansa, ii. 437
Solemn ceremony of the Druzes, ii. 312
Solidarities of Greece and Rome, ii. 389
Solitary Copts, students of ancient lore, ii. 306
Solomon, or Sol-Om-On, ii. 389; i. 19;
obtained secret learning, i. 135;
seal of Hindu origin, _ib._;
ships to Ophir or India, i. 136;
his seven abominations, ii. 67;
learned from Votan the particulars of the products of the occident,
i. 546;
the builder of temples, ii. 439;
revolts against him, _ib._;
his temple never visited by the prophets, ii. 525;
and his temple only allegorical, ii. 391;
temple, the brazen columns and bowls to aid in entheastic power,
ii. 542
Soma, juice of, produces trance, i. 357
Somona, the Singalese Samson, i. 577
“Son of Man,” ii. 232
Son of God at one with man, ii. 635
Sons of the Serpent-God, i. 553
Son-Ka-po, the Shaberon, or avatar and great reformer, immaculately
conceived, and translated without dying into heaven, ii. 609
Sophia or wisdom, ii. 41;
the Holy Ghost as a female principle, i. 130;
the Gnostic principle of wisdom, the same as Sephira and Metis, i.
263
Sorcerer in Africa, impervious to bullets, i. 379
Sorcerers, burned when not priests, ii. 58
Sorcery, i. 279;
misapplied arcane knowledge, ii. 581;
few facts better established, i. 366;
with blood, ii. 567, 568;
practised at the Vatican, ii. 620;
approved by Augustine, ii. 20;
employed for crime, ii. 633
Sortes Sanctorum, ii. 20, 21
Sortie of Satan into New England, ii. 503
Sortilegium or sorcery, practised by clergy and monks, ii. 6;
Gregory of Tours, ii. 20
Sosigenes, reformed the calendar for Cæsar, i. 11
Sosiosh, the tenth avatar and fifth Buddha, ii. 236;
a permutation of Vishnu, ii. 237
Sotheran, Charles, letter on Freemasonry, ii. 388
Soul, displays power when the body is asleep, i. 199;
the two named by Plato, i. 276;
marvellous power, i. 280;
passage through the seven planetary chambers, i. 297;
spirit wholly distinct, i. 315;
dissolves into ether, _ib._;
possible loss of its distinct being, i. 316, 317;
the garment of the spirit, i. 309;
exists as preexisting matter, i. 317;
doctrine of the Greek and Roman philosophers, i. 429;
of Aristotle, Homer, the Jains and Brahmans, _ib._;
the camera in which facts are fixed, i. 486;
escaping temporarily from the body, ii. 105;
may dwell in paradise while the body lives in this world, i. 602;
punished by union with the body, ii. 112;
the Vedic doctrine, ii. 263;
universal, when it sleeps, ii. 274;
its transmigration does not relate to man’s condition after death,
ii. 280;
its feminine, ii. 281;
a part of it mortal, ii. 283;
the doctrine of Pythagoras, ii. 283;
Plato’s definition, ii. 285, 286;
its paralysis during life, ii. 368;
not knit to flesh, ii. 565;
sentient, the Ego, inseparable from the brain, ii. 590;
raised above inferior good, ii. 591;
power to liberate itself and behold things subjectively, ii. 591;
its eight faculties, ii. 592;
its teachings authoritative, ii. 593;
possesses a power of prescience even when in the body, ii. 594;
disembodied, meets itself at the gate of Paradise, ii. 635;
of the world the archeal universal, “mind,” Sophia the Holy Ghost
as a female principle, i. 130;
doctrine of Baptista Porta, i. 208;
external, i. 276;
higher mortal, _ib._;
the great universal, union with it does not involve loss of
individuality, ii. 116
Soul-blind like color-blind, i. 387
Soul-electricity, i. 322
Soul-deaths, ii. 369
Soulless men yet living, ii. 369
Souls, or immortal gods emanate from the triad, i. 348;
come to souls and impart to them information, ii. 594
Source of the religious faiths of mankind, ii. 639;
double, of every religion, _ib._
South Carolina, statutes in force in 1865, imposing the death-penalty
for witchcraft, ii. 18
Sparks or old worlds that perished, ii. 421
Speaking images, i. 505
Specialties in medical practice in Egypt, i. 545
Speculative Masons, ii. 392
Spectre of a herdsman in Bavaria, i. 451
Spectroscope, confirmed doctrines of Paracelsus, i. 168, 169
Spell of the evil eye, ii. 633
Spheres, music of, i. 275
Spinoza, his philosophy, i. 93;
furnishes a key to the unwritten secret, i. 308
Spirit, its origin, i. 258;
not existing, but immortal, i. 291;
or spiritus, the soul or _anima mundi_, the mother, i. 299, 300;
progeny of, i. 301;
human, an emanation of the eternal spirit, i. 305;
never entered wholly into the body, i. 306;
is masculine, ii. 281;
of man preëxistent, ii. 280;
distinct from soul, i. 315;
individualization depends upon it, _ib._;
becomes an angel, i. 316;
its preëxistence believed, _ib._;
alone immortal, ii. 362;
leaving an old for a young body, ii. 563;
by its vision all things can be known, ii. 588;
may abandon the body for specific periods, ii. 589;
the sole original unity, ii. 607;
the interpreter of God to man, ii. 635;
its Protean powers little known by spiritualists, ii. 638
Spirit-ancestor, a serpent, 45, 46
Spirit-form, i. 197
Spirit-voices not articulate, i. 68;
audible, i. 220
Spirit-intercourse, 446,000,000 believers, i. 117
Spirit-flowers produced by a Bikshuni, ii. 609
Spiritists of France attacked by the Roman church, ii. 6
Spirits that control mediums, generally human, i. 67;
cannot “materialize,” _ib._;
not attracted by every body alike, i. 69;
produce few of the “physical phenomena,” i. 73;
the seven, i. 300, 301;
not possessed of the same attractions, i. 344;
or ghosts, hurt by weapons, i. 363;
heard talking in the desert of Lop, and elsewhere, i. 604;
three categories of communication, ii. 115;
may take possession of bodies in the absence of the soul, ii. 589;
bad, compelled Garma-Khian to appear and render an account, ii. 616;
city of, _ib._
Spiritual phenomena among the Shakers, ii. 18;
discountenanced by the clergy, i. 26;
chase the scientists, i. 41;
Iamblichus forbids the endeavor to procure them, i. 219;
sun, i. 29, 32;
the magnet of Kircher, i. 208, 209;
Gama, Ormazd, the soul of things, God, i. 270;
invisible and in the centre of space, i. 302;
the supreme deity, ii. 13;
death, its cause, i. 318;
eyes, i. 145;
sight, scientists without it, i. 318;
photography, i. 486
Spiritual entity, in man, an ancient doctrine, ii. 593;
transferred, ii. 563;
limbs, can be made visible, ii. 596;
world in proximity to us, ii. 593;
state, as unfolded in the Sankhya, a philosophy, ii. 593;
numerals, i. 514;
crisis of the Shaman, ii. 625;
or magical powers exist in every man, ii. 635;
circles are constructed on no principle, ii. 638;
Self the sole and Supreme God, ii. 566
Spiritualism, drifting, i. 53;
efforts of Positivists to uproot, i. 76, 83;
pretends only to be a science, i. 83;
pronounced a delusion in Russia, i. 118;
universally diffused from remote antiquity, i. 205;
why it must continue to vegetate, ii. 636;
is iconoclastic, not constructed, ii. 637;
not scientific, ii. 637, 638;
exoteric, too much directed to personal matters, _ib._;
esoteric, very rare, _ib._
Spiritualists, the majority remain in the religious denominations,
ii. 2;
take no active part in the formation of a system of philosophy, ii.
637;
start with a fallacy, ii. 638
Splendor, mighty Lord of, i. 301
Spurious passage in the First Epistle of John, ii. 177
Square hat of the Hierophant, ii. 392
Squirrel materialized, i. 329
Sri-Iantara, or Solomon’s seal, ii. 265
Stainton, Moses, his criticisms of popular spiritualism, ii. 638
Stan-gyour, a work on magic, i. 580
Stanhope, Lady Esther, faints at a Yezidi orgy, ii. 572
Star of Bethlehem, rays carried home by a monk as relics, ii. 71
Starry heaven, worship proposed under Christian names, ii. 450
Stars, ignition, i. 254;
influence on fates of men, i. 259;
and man have direct affinity, i. 168, 169
Statues, restorative of health, i. 283;
possible to animate them, i. 485;
endowed with reason, i. 613
Steam-engine, invented by Hero of Alexandria, i. 241
Stedingers, accused and exterminated, ii. 331
Steel, rusts in India and Egypt, i. 211;
superior article in India, i. 538;
in Egypt, _ib._
Steeples, turrets, and domes, phallic symbols, ii. 5
Stephens, believes the key to American hieroglyphs will yet be
obtained, i. 546;
story of the unknown city of the Mayas, i. 547
Stewart, Prof. Balfour, his tribute to Herakleitus, i. 422;
warning to scientists, i. 424;
denies perpetual light, i. 510
Stigmata, or birth-marks, i. 384;
produced by sorcery of a Jesuit priest, ii. 633
Stone of Memphis, its potency to prevent pain, i. 540;
two tables, masculine and feminine, ii. 5;
a Shaman’s talisman, “spoke” saving the author’s life, ii. 626
Stonehenge, its gods recognized as the divinities of Delphos and
Babylon, i. 550;
remarkable statement of Dr. Stukely, i. 572;
Hamitic in plan, _ib._
Stoics, belief concerning God, i. 317
Stones, their secret virtues, i. 265
Strangers, never admitted into a caste, nor to religion, i. 581
Stukely, Dr., remarks concerning Stonehenge, i. 572
Subjective mediums, i. 311;
communication with human god-like spirits, ii. 115
Subsidy paid by the East India Company to maintain worship at the
pagodas, ii. 624
Subterranean passages in Peru, i. 595, 597
Subtile influence emanated from every man’s body, ii. 610
Suetonius knew nothing of Christians, ii. 535, 536
Suez Canal, i. 516, 517;
that of Necho, i. 517
Sufis, their idea of one universal creed, ii. 306
Suicide and insanity caused by Elementaries, ii. 7
Suicides and murderers, i. 344
Sulanuth, i. 325
Sulphur, the secret fire or spirit of the alchemists, i. 309;
and quicksilver, a preparation to promote longevity, ii. 620, 621
Summary of Koheleth, ii. 476
Sun, an emblem of the sun-god, i. 270;
only a magnet or reflector, i. 271;
has no more heat in it than the moon, _ib._;
represented under the image of a dragon, i. 552;
made the location of hell, ii. 12;
view of Pythagoras, _ib._;
increases the magnetic exhalations, ii. 611;
and serpent-worship, the religion of the Phœnicians and Mosaic
Israelites, i. 555
Sun-worship once contemplated by Catholics, ii. 450
Sun-worshippers always regarded the sun as an emblem of the spiritual
sun, i. 270
Sunrise and sunset as taught by the Shastras, i. 10
Supersentient soul, ii. 590
“Superstitions” in regard to drowned persons, ii. 611
Supreme Being denied by modern science, i. 16;
by the positivists, i. 71;
never rejected by Buddhistical philosophy, i. 292;
Essence, ii. 213, 214;
the Swayambhuva and En-Soph, ii. 218;
mystery of the holy syllable, ii. 114
Surgery of Yogis and Talapoins, ii. 621
Surnden, Rev. T., on locality of hell, ii. 12
Sutrantika, the sect having secret Buddhistic religion, ii. 607
Suttee, or burning of widows, not practised when the Code of Manu was
compiled, i. 588
Swâbhâvikas, Hindu pantheists, the teachers of protoplasm, i. 250;
their views of Essence, ii. 262
Swayambhuva, the unrevealed Deity, ii. 39;
the unity of three trinities, making with himself two prajapatis,
ii. 39, 40;
the Supreme Essence the same as En-Soph, ii. 214
Swearing forbidden by Jesus, ii. 273
Sweat of St. Michael, a phial of it preserved, ii. 71
Swedenborg personated by a Diakka, i. 219;
on speech of spirits, i. 220;
_Heavenly Arcana_, i. 306;
a natural-born magician, but not an adept, _ib._;
made Thomas Vaughan his model, _ib._;
doctrine of correspondences, or hermetic symbolism, _ib._;
believed in possibility of losing individual existence, i. 317;
miraculous cures by his father, i. 464;
indicates _the lost word_, i. 580;
rite of, a Jesuitical product, ii. 390
Swedenborgians believe in possible obliteration of the human
personality, i. 317;
believe that the soul may abandon the body for specific periods,
ii. 319
Swedish system of Freemasonry, ii. 381
Syllabus and Koran, a great affinity acknowledged, ii. 82
Sylvester II., Pope, a sorcerer, ii. 56;
his “oracular head,” ii. 56
Symbol, its use, ii. 93
Symbols, i. 21;
Christian, and phallism, ii. 5
Sympathy, mysterious, between plants and human beings, i. 246;
the offspring of light, i. 309
Synagogue, “deposited its inheritance in the hands of Christ,” ii.
477;
has not expired, _ib._
Synesius, belief in metempsychosis, i. 12;
his quotation from the book of stone at Memphis, i. 257;
believed the spirit preëxisted from eternity as a distinct being,
i. 316;
bishop of Cyrene, his letter to Hypatia, ii. 53;
adhered to the Platonic doctrines, ii. 198
Systems, Indian, Chaldean and Ophite compared, ii. 170
Tabernacles or ingatherings, feast of, ii. 44;
regarded as Bacchic rites, _ib._
Table, no demons enclosed, i. 322
Table-turning, i. 99, 105
Tainting of Souls, i. 321
Talapoins, of Siam, power over wild beasts, i. 213;
have incombustible cloth, i. 231;
have the _Kabala_, _Bible_, and other allegories in their
manuscripts, i. 577;
Jesuits disguised as, ii. 371;
their secrets of medicine, ii. 621
Tale of the Two Brothers of Central America, i. 550
Talisman, i. 462; ii. 636
Talismans of Apollonius, testimony of Justin Martyr, ii. 97
Talmage, Rev. Dr., description of Martha, ii. 102
Talmud, i. 17
Tamil-Hindus worship Kutti-Satan, perhaps Seth or Satan, i. 567
Tamti, the same as Belita, ii. 444;
the sea, ii. 445
Tanaim, the four who entered the garden, ii. 119;
the Kabalistic, ii. 470
Tarchon, an Etruscan priest and his bryony-hedge, i. 527
Tartar robber detected by a Koordian sorcerer, ii. 631
Tartary, magic, i. 599;
spiritualism, i. 600;
planchette-writing, _ib._;
happy and heathen, ii. 240
Tau and astronomical cross of Egypt found at the palace of
Palenque, i. 572;
the handled cross, a symbol of Eternal life, ii. 254;
the signet or name of God, _ib._;
the hierophantic investiture, ii. 365
Taylor, Thomas, his testimony concerning Pythagoras, i. 284;
is unceremonious with the Mosaic God, i. 288
Taylor, Robert, his amended Credo, ii. 522
Tcharaka, a Hindu physician of 5,000 years ago, i. 560
Tcherno-Bog, or Bogy, the ancient deity of the Russians, ii. 572
Teaching of the soul, the highest method of knowledge, ii. 595
Tear of Brahma, the hottest, becoming a sapphire, i. 265
Telegraphy, neurological, i. 324
Telephone, i. 126;
some such mode of communication possessed by the Egyptian priests,
i. 127
Telescope in the light-house of Alexandria, i. 528
Templar rite, old English, of seven degrees, ii. 377
Templarism is Jesuitism, ii. 390
Templars, the founding of the ancient order, ii. 381, 382;
did not believe in Christ, ii. 382;
succeeded by the Jesuits, ii. 383;
the pseudo-order invented to obviate the imputation of Jesuitism,
ii. 384
Temple of the Holy Molecule, i. 413;
had possession of Eastern mysteries, ii. 380;
of the perpetual fire, ii. 632;
at Jerusalem, not so ancient as was pretended, ii. 389;
of Solomon, not esteemed by any Hebrew prophet, ii. 525
Temples, anciently the repositories of science, i. 25
Ten, the Pythagorean, ii. 171;
virtues of initiation, ii. 98
Teraphim, Kabeiri-gods, i. 570;
identical with Seraphim, _ib._;
serpent-images, _ib._;
received by Dardanus as a dowry and carried to Samothrace and Troy,
_ib._
Teratology, named by Geoffroi St. Hilaire, i. 390
Terrestrial elementary spirits, i. 319;
circulation, i. 503;
immortality, ii. 620
Tertullian, i. 46;
on devils, i. 159;
believed the soul corporeal, i. 317;
desires to see all philosophers in the Gehenna-fire, ii. 250;
his intolerance, ii. 329
Tetractys, i. 9;
the One, the Chaos, wisdom and reason, ii. 36; i. 507
Tetragram, i. 506, 507
Thales, believed water the primordial substance, i. 134, 189;
said to have discovered the electric properties of amber, i. 234;
his belief concerning water and the Divine Mind, ii. 458
Thaumaturgist, his power of becoming invisible, or appearing in two
or more forms, ii. 588
Thaumaturgists, use the force known as Akasa, i. 113;
declared by Salverte to be knaves, i. 115
Thebes, or Th-aba, ii. 448;
ancient, i. 523;
its prodigious ruins, i. 523, 524;
the Twelve Tortures, ii. 364
Themura, ii. 298
Theocletus, Grand Pontiff of the Order of the Temple, initiated the
original Knight Templars, ii. 382
Theology, comparative, and two-edged weapon, ii. 531;
Christian, subversive rather than promotive of spirituality and
good morals, ii. 634
Theologies, ancient, all agree, ii. 39
Theon of Smyrna, his explanation of the five grades in the Mysteries,
ii. 101
Theomania of the Cevennois imputed to hysteria and epilepsy, i. 371
Theophrastus, legatee of Aristotle, i. 320
Theopœa, the art of endowing figures with life, i. 615, 616;
testimony of Jacolliot, i. 616, 617
Theosophists, their confederations in Germany, ii. 20
Theosophy, disfigured by theology, i. 13
Therapeutæ, a branch of the Essenes, ii. 144
Therapeutists probably Buddhists, ii. 491
Thermuthis, the name of Pharaoh’s daughter and of the sacred asp, i.
556
Thespesius, apparently dead for three days, i. 484
Thessalian sorceresses evoked shadows with blood, ii. 568
Theurgic Mystery, ii. 563-575
Theurgists, i. 205-219;
knew occult properties of magnetism and electricity, i. 234;
not “spirit-mediums,” ii. 118;
persecuted by the Christians, ii. 34
Theurgy, its phenomena produced by magnetic powers, i. 23;
the devil at its head, i. 161
Thevetat, the “Dragon” of the Atlantis, i. 593;
his seduction of the people, _ib._
Thing, the one, of the Smaragdine Tablet, i. 507, 508;
named by Hermetic philosophy, i. 508
Third emanation produces the universe of physical matter, and,
finally, “Darkness and the Bad,” i. 302;
race of men in Hesiod, i. 558;
in Popul-Vuh, _ib._;
race of men, the Nephilim, i. 559
Thirteen Mexican Serpent-Gods, i. 572
This book, its object, ii. 98, 99
Thomas, St., in Malabar, ii. 534;
Aquinas, ii. 20;
Taylor, an expositor of Plato’s meaning, ii. 108, 109
Thomson, Sir William, declares science bound to face every problem,
i. 223
Thompson, Hon. R. W., denounced by a Catholic priest, ii. 378
Thor, his electric hammer, i. 160
Thought affects the matter of another universe, i. 310
Thought-communication effected by a Shaman with his stone, ii. 627
Thoughts guided by spiritual being, i. 366;
human, projected upon the universal ether, i. 395; ii. 636
Thrætaona, the Persian Michael, contending with Zohak, ii. 486
Three degrees of the pleroma, i. 302;
tricks exhibited, i. 73;
degrees of communication with spirits, ii. 115;
emanations, i. 302;
kabalistic forces, _ib._;
Gods, or archial principles, First Cause, Logos, and World-soul,
ii. 33;
Saviours, ii. 536;
legends concerning them, ii. 537-539;
enumeration of their followers, ii. 539;
births of man, ii. 568;
three hundred million Buddhists seeking Nirvana, ii. 533;
mothers, i. 257
Three-sided prism of man’s nature, ii. 634
Throwing spells by aid of the wind, ii. 632
Thrum-stone, i. 231
Thummim, i. 536, 537
Θυμος, _thumos_, the astral soul, i. 429
Thury, Prof., on levitation, cited by de Gasparin, i. 99, 109;
his theory of spiritual phenomena, i. 110;
imputes them to the action of wills not human, i. 112;
psychode and ectenic force, i. 113
Tiara, papal, the coiffure of the Assyrian gods, ii. 94
Tickets to Heaven, ii. 243
Tiffereau, Theodore, assertion that he had made gold, i. 509
Tiger mesmerized, i. 467
Tigress, bereft of her cubs, mesmerized by a fakir, ii. 623
Tikkun, the first born, the Heavenly Man, ii. 276
Tillemont, declares all illustrious pagans condemned to the eternal
torments of hell, ii. 8
_Timæus_, cannot be understood except by an initiate, ii. 39
Time and space no obstacles to the inner man, ii. 588
Tir-thankara, the preceptor of Gautama, ii. 322
Tissu, the spiritual teacher of Kublai-Khan, his great holiness, ii.
608;
reforms religion, ii. 609
To Ον, of Plato, ii. 38
Tobo, liberator of the soul of Adam, ii. 517
Todas, a strange people discovered in Southern Hindustan fifty years
ago, ii. 613;
revered and maintained by the Badagas, ii. 614;
an order and not a race, _ib._
Tolticas, said to be descended from the house of Israel, i. 552
Tooth, Navel and less comely relics of Jesus, ii. 71
Tophet, a place in the valley of Gehenna, where a fire was kept and
children immolated, ii. 11;
not a place of endless woe, ii. 502
Torquemeda, Tomas de, his prodigious cruelty, ii. 59;
burned Hebrew Bibles, ii. 430
Torralva and his demon Zequiel, ii. 60
Torturing people by means of Simulacra, ii. 55
Toulouse, the Bishop of, his falsehoods about Protestants and
Spiritualists of America, ii. 7
Townshend, Colonel, remarkable power of suspending animation, i. 483
Traditions, ancient, belong to India, ii. 259
Tragedy of Human Life, its plot ever the same, ii. 640
Trance-life, i. 181
Transformation of the ancient ideas, ii. 491
Transmigration, dreaded by the Hindu, i. 346;
of the soul, does not relate to man’s condition after death, ii.
280
Transmural Vision, i. 145
Transmutation of metal, the actual fact asserted, i. 503, 504;
Dr. Wilder’s opinion, i. 505;
salt, sulpher, and mercury thrice combined in azoth, _ib._
Transubstantiation, an arcane utterance perverted, ii. 560
Travancore, perpetual lamp, i. 225
Tree, Yggdrasill, i. 133, 151;
Zampun, i. 152;
Aswatha, _ib._;
symbol of universal life, _ib._;
the pyramid, i. 154;
Gogard, i. 297;
serpent dwells in its branches, i. 298;
the microcosmic and macrocosmic, i. 297;
tziti, the third race of men, i. 558;
of knowledge, ii. 184;
or pippala, ii. 412
Triad, the Intelligible, i. 212;
from the duad, i. 348
Triads, or trinities, Babylonian, Phœnician and Hindu, ii. 48;
Persian and Egyptian, ii. 49
Tribes of Israel, what evidence before Ezra, i. 508;
no tribe of Simeon, _ib._
Trigonocephali, their bite kills like a flash of lighting, ii. 622
Trimurti, i. 92;
their habitation, ii. 234
Trinities, three, in one unity, making ten Sephiroth or Prajâpatis,
ii. 39, 40;
Hindu, Egyptian and Christian, ii. 227
Trinity, the first, i. 341;
of Egyptians, i. 160;
three Sephiroth or emanations, ii. 36;
the doctrine revealed to Sesostris, ii. 51;
the word first found in the Gospel of Nicodemus, ii. 522;
listening for the answer of Mary, ii. 173;
kabalistic, ii. 222;
of workers in the cosmogony, ii. 420;
of nature the lock of magic, ii. 635
Triple Trimurti, ii. 39
Trithemius, ii. 20
Trizna or feast of the dead in Moldavia, ii. 569, 570
Trojan war a counterpart of that of the _Ramâyana_, i. 566
Troy, worship of the Kabeiri brought by Dardanus, i. 570
True Adamic Earth, i. 51;
doctrine Λόγος Αληθής of Celsus, a copy still in
existence, ii. 52;
faith the embodiment of divine charity, ii. 640
Truth, religions but vari-colored fragments of its beam, ii. 639
Tschuddi, Dr., his story of the train of llama, and treasure, i. 546
Tullia, daughter of Cicero, lamp found burning in her tomb, i. 224
Tullus Hostilius, King of Rome, struck by lightning, i. 527
Tum, devotees of, ii. 387
Tunnel from Cusco to Lima and Bolivia, i. 597;
entrance, _ib._;
dangers of its exploration, i. 598
Turkey, wars with Russia and final conquest, i. 261
Turanian, should have been applied to the Assyrians, i. 576;
evidently applied to the nomadic Caucasian, progenitor of the
Hamite or Æthiopian, _ib._
Turner, his account of an interview with a young lama or reincarnated
Buddha, ii. 598
Turrets, the reproduction of the lithos, ii. 5
Tutelar genius who hardened the heart of Pharaoh, etc., ii. 639
Twelve houses, the fable, i. 267;
tables, a compilation, i. 588;
labors of Hercules depicted on the chair of Peter, ii. 25;
disciples sent by Jehosaphat to preach, ii. 517;
great gods, ii. 448;
minor gods, Dii minores, ii. 451;
tortures, ii. 351;
of Theban initiation, ii. 364;
thousand years employed in creation, i. 342
Twenty-nine witch-burnings, ii. 62
Two souls taught by the philosophers, i. 12, 317;
idols of monotheistic Christianity, ii. 9;
primeval principles, i. 341;
principles, the Jews brought the doctrine from Persia, ii. 500, 501;
diagrams explained, ii. 266, 271;
“old ones,” ii. 350;
brothers of the Bible, the good and evil principles, ii. 489;
religions in each old faith, ii. 607
Two-headed serpents, i. 393
Tycho-Brahe, vision of the star, i. 441, 442
Tyndall confesses science powerless, i. 14;
views of consciousness, i. 86;
displays forms as of living plants and animals in an experimental
tube, i. 127;
his avoidance to investigate spiritual phenomena, i. 176;
his Belfast Address, i. 314;
his judgment of cowards, i. 418;
declares spiritualism a degrading belief, _ib._;
confesses that the evolution hypothesis does not solve the last
mystery, i. 419;
his experiments on sound, ii. 606;
his definition of science, ii. 637
Typhon once worshipped in Egypt, and then changed to an evil demon,
ii. 487;
Plutarch’s explanation, ii. 483;
father of Ierosolumos and Ioudaios, ii. 484;
separated from his androgyne, ii. 524
Tyrian worship introduced into Israel by Ahab, ii. 525
Tyrrhenian cosmogony, i. 342
Udayna or Pashai (Peshawer) the classic land of sorcery, i. 599;
statement of Hiouen-Thsang, _ib._
Ultramontanes accused in France of siding with the Mahometans, ii. 82
Ulysses frightens phantoms with his sword, i. 362
Umbilical cord ruptured and healed, i. 386
Umbilicus, represented by the ark, ii. 444
Umbra, or shade, i. 37
Unavoidable cycle, Mysteries, i. 553
Unconscious cerebration, i. 55, 232;
ventriloquism, i. 101
Urdar, the fountain of life, i. 151, 162
Underworld, i. 37
Undines, i. 67
Union to the Deity, ii. 591
Unity of three trinities, ii. 39;
the Sephiroth or prajapatis, _ib._
Universal soul, or mind, i. 56;
the doctrine underlying all philosophies, Buddhism, Brahmanism, and
Christianity, i. 289;
relation to the reasoning and the animal soul, i. 316;
solvent, i. 50, 137, 189
Universals to particulars, i. 288
Universe, or Kosmos, the body of the invisible sun, i. 302;
doubt, i. 324;
how came it, i. 341;
the concrete image of the ideal abstraction, i. 342;
existed from eternity, _ib._;
passes through four ages, ii. 421;
a musical instrument, i. 514
Unknown presence, when witnessed, ii. 164;
the future self of man, ii. 165
Unregulated mediums punished, i. 489
Unrevealed God, i. 160
Unseen Universe, or all things there recorded, ii. 588;
spiritual universe, its existence demonstrated, ii. 15
Untrained mediumship illustrated by Socrates and his daimonion, ii.
117
Untenable dogmas of science, i. 501
Upasakes and Upasakis, Buddhistic semi-monastics, ii. 608
Uper-Ouranoi, i. 312
Vach, or sacred speech, ii. 409
Vaivaswata, the Hindu Noah, ii. 425
Valachian lady, her simulacrum brought to the author in her tent in
Mongolia, ii. 627, 628
Vampirism, a terrible case in Russia, i. 454
Vampire-governor, and his widow, i. 454, 455
Vampires, i. 319;
shedim, etc., i. 449;
magnetic, i. 462;
ghouls and, wandering about, ii. 564
Van Helmont, i. 50, 57;
on magnetism and will, i. 170;
on transmutation of earth into water, i. 190;
testimony of Deleuze, i. 194;
a Pythagorean, i. 205;
theory of man, i. 213;
remarkable account of a child born headless immediately after an
execution, i. 386;
on the power of woman’s imagination, i. 399;
testimony of Dr. Fournier, i. 400;
ridiculed for his directions for production of animals, i. 414
Vari-colored fragments of the beam of Divine Truth, ii. 639
Vasitva, power of mesmerizing, also of restraining the passions, i.
393
Vasaki, the great dragon, ii. 490
Vast inland sea of middle Asia, and its island, i. 589
Vatican, black magic practised there, ii. 6;
secret libraries, ii. 16, 19;
clergy, how an access, ii. 18
Vatou, or candidate, for initiation, ii. 98;
sensitive to spiritual influences, ii. 118
Vaughan, Thomas, anecdote of his attempted sale of gold, i. 504
Vedas, antedate the Bible, i. 91;
contain no such immodesty as the Bible, ii. 80;
older than the flood, ii. 427
Vedic words, the controversies of Sanscrit scholars, ii. 47;
peoples not all Aryans, ii. 413
Vedic Pitris, their worship fast becoming the worship of the
spiritual portion of mankind, ii. 639
Vegetation, influence of the moon, i. 273;
influenced by musical tones, i. 514
Vehicle of life, ii. 418
Venerable “Mah,” ii. 388
Ventriloquists or pythiæ, i. 355
Ventura de Raulica, his letter asserting the existence of Satan as a
fundamental dogma of the Church, ii. 14
Vesica Piscis, a Zodiacal sign, ii. 255
Vicarious atonement, a ridiculous idea, i. 316
Vicarious atonement, ii. 542;
obliterates no wrong, ii. 545;
not known by Peter, ii. 546
Vigil-night of Siva, i. 446
Vincent, Frank, his description of the ruins of Nagkon-Wat, i. 562,
565
Vine, the symbol of blood and life, ii. 244;
Jesus, ii. 561;
his “Father” not God, but the hierophant, _ib._
Viracocha, the Peruvian deity, ii. 259
Viradji, the Son of God, his origin, ii. 111
Virgin, celestial, milk of, i. 64;
of the sea, crushes the dragon under her feet, ii. 446;
of the Zodiac, rises above the horizon, Dec. 25th, ii. 490;
Blessed, thrashing a demoniac, ii. 76;
Mary, declaring all pagans condemned to eternal torments, over her
own signature, ii. 8;
succeeded to the titles, symbols and rites of Isis, ii. 95;
on the crescent moon, like pagan goddesses, ii. 96;
queen of heaven, ii. _ib._;
mother without a husband, positivist, i. 81;
of the Avatar, Son-Ka-po, ii. 589
Virgin-mothers, Hindu, Egyptian, and Catholic, their epithets, ii. 209
Vishnu, takes the form of a fish, ii. 257;
same as Oannes, _ib._;
the Adam Kadmon of the kabalists, ii. 259;
his ten avatars, ii. 274;
symbolize evolution, ii. 275;
the expression of the whole universe, ii. 277
Vishnu-flower, ii. 467
Visible universe from Brahma-Prajapati, i. 348
Visions witnessed by initiates, ii. 113;
produced by sorcery, ii. 633
Visit to the Ladakh in Thibet, ii. 598
Visiting and leaving the body at home, ii. 604, 605
Vistaspa, a king of Bactriana, ii. 141
Visvamitra, his escape in the ark, ii. 257;
Egypt colonized in his reign, i. 627
Vital force, speculations of men of science, i. 466
Viti, Sancti, Chorœa, or St. Vitus’ Dance, ii. 625
Voices of spirits and goblins heard in the desert, i. 604
Volatile salts obnoxious to devils, i. 356
Volney, mistook ancient worship, i. 24;
his doctrine of God, i. 268
Voltaire, on the being of God, i. 268
Voluntary withdrawal of the spirit from the body, ii. 588
Votan, his admission to the snake’s hole as a son of the snakes, i.
553;
supposed by de Bourbourg to be descended from Ham and Canaan, i.
554;
the hero of the Mexicans, i. 545;
probably identical with Quetzel-coatl, _ib._;
intercourse with King Solomon, _ib._;
the navigating serpent, _ib._
Voodo orgy in Cuba, ii. 573
Vourdalak or vampires of Servia, i. 451, ii. 368
Vowels, the seven, chanted as a hymn to Serapis, i. 514
Vridda Manava, or laws of Manu, i. 585
Vril, Bulwer-Lytton’s designation of the one primal force, i. 64, 125
Vril-ya, the coming race, i. 296
Vulcan, Phta, or Hephaistos, represented at Nakyon-Wat, i. 565, 566
Vulgar magic in India, ii. 20
Vyasa, a positivist, i. 621;
denied a First Cause, ii. 261
Vyse, Col., found a piece of iron in the pyramid of Cheops, i. 542
Wagner, Prof. Nicholas, on heat and psychical force, i. 497;
on mediumistic phenomena, i. 499
Walking above the ground, i. 472;
the faculty sought by devotees, and attained by a King of Siam, ii.
618
Wallace, A. R., on cycles, i. 155;
belief in spiritualism and mesmerism, i. 177;
theory of human development, i. 294
War of Michael and the dragon, an old myth, ii. 486
Warrior, slain and resuscitated, but without a soul, ii. 564
War-chariots, ancient, lighter than modern artillery-wagons, i. 530;
had metallic springs, _ib._
Water, of Phtha, i. 64;
the first principle of things, i. 133;
an universal solvent, i. 133, 189;
of mercury, the soul or psychical substance, i. 309;
the first-created element, ii. 458
Waters turned to blood, i. 413, 415
Washing of images, ii. 138
Wave-theory of light not accepted by Prof. Cooke, i. 137
Weapons, dæmons afraid of, i. 362
Weekman, reputed the first investigator of spirit-phenomena in
America, i. 105
Weeks of seven days used in the East, ii. 418
Weird cries of the Gobi, i. 604
Weninger, Father F. X., a Jesuit priest, his denunciation of
Secretary Thompson, ii. 378, 379
Wesermann, power to influence the dreams of others, and to appear
double, i. 477
White-skinned people not often able to acquire magical powers, ii. 635
White stone of initiation, ii. 351
Whitney, Prof. W. D., his criticism of Max Müller, ii. 47;
denunciation of Jacolliot, _ib._;
his translation of a Vedic hymn, ii. 534
Widow-burning, or _suttee_, practised 2,500 years, but not when the
Code of Manu was compiled, i. 588;
sustained by the Brahmans from a forged verse of the _Rig-Veda_, i.
589
Widows burned without pain by the Brahmans, i. 540
Wild beasts will not attack Buddhistic nuns, ii. 609
Wilder, A., on possibility of transmutation, i. 505;
suggestion of another classification of the Assyrians and Mongols,
i. 575;
notes in regard to America, the Atlantic continent, Lemuria, and
the deserts of Africa and Asia, i. 592;
on skeptics, and respect for earnest convictions, i. 437;
on Paul and Plato, ii. 90;
on the designation Peter and the pretension of the Pope to be his
successor, ii. 92;
opinion of Zeruana, Turan, and Zohak, ii. 142;
description of Paul, ii. 574-6
Wilkinson, Sir Gardner, his testimony in regard to ancient Egyptian
civilization, i. 526;
J. J. G., declares truth temperamental, i. 234
Will, i. 56-61;
its potency in a state of ecstasy, i. 170;
produces force, i. 285;
an emanation of deity, _ib._;
power of, ii. 21;
enables one to wound or injure another, i. 360, 361;
generates force, and force generates matter, ii. 320
Will-force of the Yogis, ii. 565
Will-power, killing birds by it, i. 380;
photographing by, i. 463;
the most powerful of magnets, i. 472;
its exercise the highest form of prayer, ii. 592
Wine first sacred in the Bacchic Mysteries, ii. 514
Winged men of the _Phædrus_, i. 2
Wirdig taught that nature is ensouled, i. 207
Wisdom, the arcane doctrine of the ancients, i. 205, 436;
or the principle, ii. 35;
the chief, ii. 36;
first emanation of the En-Soph, ii. 37;
origin, ii. 218;
the ethnic parent of every religion, ii. 639, 640
Wisdom-doctrine underlay every ancient religion, ii. 99
Wisdom-religion, to be found in the pre-Vedic religion of India, ii.
39;
its articles of faith, ii. 116;
explained in Code of Manu, _ib._;
the parent cult, ii. 216
Wise women, ii. 525
Witch, a knowing woman, i. 354;
or kangalin, lawful for a Hindu to kill her, ii. 612
Witch-burnings in Germany, ii. 61;
twenty-nine, ii. 62, 63
Witchcraft, execution in Salem, and other American provinces, ii. 18;
laws in force in South Carolina in 1865, _ib._;
an offence among the ancients, ii. 98;
those guilty of it not initiates, ii. 117, 118
Witches, pretended, dozens of thousands burned, i. 353;
of the middle ages, the votaries of the former religion, ii. 502
Witches’ Sabbath, the orgies of Bacchus, ii. 528
Withdrawal of the inner from the outer man, ii. 583
Withdrawing of the inner from the outer, i. 476
Wittoba, the crucified image of Christna anterior to Christianity,
ii. 557
Wizard, a wise man, i. 354
Wolf, converted by St. Francis, ii. 77
Wolsey, Cardinal, accused of sorcery, ii. 57
Woman, of the future, i. 77;
fecundated artificially, i. 77, 81;
must cease to be the female of the men, i. 78;
ridding her of every maternal function, _ib._;
applying a latent force, _ib._;
offered to the encubi, _ib._;
impossible, i. 81;
evolved out of men, i. 297;
highly impressible when pregnant, i. 394;
exudes akasa as an odic emanation, i. 395;
how this is projected into the astral light or ether, and
repercussing, impresses itself upon the fœtus, _ib._;
evolved out of the lusts of matter, i. 433;
clothed with the sun, the goddess Isis, ii. 489
Women, magnetically influenced by the moon, i. 264
Women-colleges, to superintend worship, ii. 524, 525
Wong-Ching-Fu, his explanation of Nepang or Nirvana, ii. 319, 320
Wonder-working fakirs seldom to be seen, ii. 612, 613
Word, magical, i. 445;
ineffable, and performance of miracles, ii. 370;
lost by the Christians, _ib._;
where to be sought, ii. 371, ii. 418;
“long lost but now found,” ii. 393
World, how called into existence, i. 341;
how all will go well with it, ii. 122;
soul of, i. 129, 208, 215, 342;
religions, startled by utterances of scientists, i. 248, 249
World-religions, conflict between, i. 307;
identical at their starting-point, ii. 215;
the devil their founder, ii. 479
World-mountains, allegorical expressions of cosmogony, i. 157
World-soul, the source of all souls, and ether, i. 316
World-tree of knowledge, i. 574
Worlds, an incalculable number before the present one, ii. 424
Worship of the sun and serpent by Phœnicians and Mosaic Israelites,
i. 555;
of words, denounced, ii. 560;
of the spiritual portion of mankind, ii. 639
Wounds, mortal, self-inflicted and healed, i. 224
Wreaths of green leaves for oracles, ii. 612
Wren, Sir Christopher, simply the Master of the London operative
masons, ii. 390
Wright, Thomas, on sorcery and magic, i. 356
Writings under the ban, ii. 8
X, decussation of the perfect circle, ii. 469
X., Dr. extraordinary scenes at a seance, i. 608-611
Xenophanes, his satire on the representations of God, ii. 242
Ximenes, cardinal, burned 80,000 Arabic manuscripts, i. 511
Xisuthrus or Hasisadra, sailed with the ark to Armenia, ii. 217;
translated to the gods, ii. 424;
Oannes and Vishnu in the first avatar, ii. 457
Yaho, an old Shemitic mystic name of the Supreme Being, ii. 297
Yadus migrating from India to Egypt, i. 444
Yang-kie and Mahu, dwellers in both worlds, i. 601, 602
Yakuts and their worship, ii. 568
Yarker, John jr., account of the dervishes, ii. 316;
his testimony in regard to Free-masonry, ii. 376
Year of blood, 1876, i. 439
Yezidis, or devil-worshippers genuine sorcerers, ii. 571;
their worship, ii. 572
Yggdrasill, i. 133;
universe springing up beneath its branches, i. 151
Ymir, the Norse giant, i. 147;
generates a race of depraved men, i. 148;
is slain by the sons of Bur, i. 150
Yogas or cycles, i. 293
Yogis of India, ii. 346;
their extraordinary powers, ii. 565;
regarded as demi-gods, ii. 612;
a peculiar medicine used by them composed of sulphur and juice of
a plant, ii. 621;
their longevity, ii. 620;
their medicinal preparation of sulphur and quicksilver, ii. 620
Yörmungand, the midgard or earth-serpent, i. 151
Yourodevoy, i. 28
Youth, the means of regaining, ii. 618
Yowahous, ii. 313
Yugas, i. 31
Yule, Colonel, on movable type, i. 515;
on spiritualism in Tartary, i. 600;
testimony in regard to spiritual flowers drawn by a medium in Bond
street, London, i. 601
Zacharias, saw an apparition in the temple, ass-formed, ii. 523
Zadokites, or Sadducees, made a priest-caste by David, ii. 297
Zampun, the Thibetan tree of life, i. 152
Zamzummim, the Cyclopeans, i. 567
Zarathustra-Spitoma, his untold antiquity, i. 12
Zarevna Militrissa and the serpent, i. 550
Zeller, criticism of the Fathers in regard to Plato, i. 288
Zequiel, a demon presented to Torralva, ii. 60
Zeno taught two eternal qualities in nature, i. 12
Zeru-Ishtar, a Chaldean or Magian high-priest, ii. 129
Zeruan, Saturn or Abraham, the legend of the Titans, ii. 217
Zeus, the æther, i. 187, 188
Zeus-Dionysus, i. 262
Zmeij Gorenetch, the dragon, i. 550
Znachar, the Russian sorcerer, ii. 571
Zodiac, its symbolism, ii. 456;
its origin, 16,984 years ago, _ib._
Zohak and Gemshid, their struggle that of the Persians and Assyrians,
i. 576;
and Feridun, the legend explained, ii. 486;
or Azhi-Dahaka, the serpent of the Avesta, ii. 486;
a personification of Assyria, _ib._
Zonarus traces knowledge from Chaldea to Egypt, thence to the Greeks,
i. 543
Zoömagnetism, or animal magnetism, i. 206;
can magnetize minerals, _ib._
Zoroaster, Zarathustra, Zuruastara, Zuryaster, a spiritual teacher,
ii. 141;
a reformer of Chaldean Magic, i. 191;
when he lived, ii. 141;
Baron Bunsen’s opinion, ii. 432
Zoroastrian religion, its affinity with Judaism and Christianity, ii.
486
Zoroastrianism, no schism, ii. 142
Zoroastrians, migrated from India, ii. 143
Zoro-Babel or prince of Babylon, ii. 441
Zuinglius, the first reformer, his cosmopolitan doctrine of the Holy
Ghost, i. 132
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