[841] Ibid., p. 78.
[842] “Chips;” “Aitareya Brahmanam.”
[843] Dr. M. Haug, Superintendent of the Sanscrit studies in
the Poona College, Bombay.
[844] Pococke belongs to that class of Orientalists who
believe that Buddhism preceded Brahmanism, and was the
religion of the earliest Vedas, Gautama having been but
the restorer of it in its purest form, which after him
degenerated again into dogmatism.
[845] “India in Greece,” p. 200.
[846] The Asiatic origin of the first dwellers in the Nilotic
Valley is clearly demonstrated by concurrent and
independent testimony. Cuvier and Blumenbach affirm that
all the skulls of mummies which they had the opportunity
of examining, presented the Caucasian type. A recent
American physiologist (Dr. Morton) has also argued for
the same conclusion (“Crania Ægyptiaca.” Philadelphia,
1844).
[847] The late Rajah of Travancore was succeeded by the elder
son of his sister now reigning, the Maharajah _Rama
Vurmah_. The next heirs are the sons of his deceased
sister. In case the female line is interrupted by death,
the royal family is obliged to adopt the daughter of
some other Rajah, and unless daughters are born to this
Rana another girl is adopted, and so on.
[848] There are some Orientalists who believe that this
custom was introduced only after the early Christian
settlements in Æthiopia; but as under the Romans the
population of this country was nearly all changed, the
element becoming wholly Arabic, we may, without doubting
the statement, believe that it was the predominating
Arab influence which had altered the earliest mode of
writing. Their present method is even more analogous to
the Devanāgarï, and other more ancient Indian Alphabets,
which read from left to right; and their letters show no
resemblance to the Phœnician characters. Moreover, all
the ancient authorities corroborate our assertion still
more. Philostratus makes the Brahmin Iarchus say (V. A.,
iii., 6) that the Æthiopians were originally _an Indian
race_, compelled to emigrate from the mother-land for
sacrilege and regicide (see Pococke’s “India,” etc.,
ii., p. 206). An Egyptian is made to remark, that he had
heard from his father, that the Indians were the wisest
of men, and that the Æthiopians, a colony of the
Indians, preserved the wisdom and usages of their
fathers, and acknowledged their ancient origin. Julius
Africanus (in Eusebius and Syncellus), makes the same
statement. And Eusebius writes: “The Æthiopians,
emigrating from the river Indus, settled in the vicinity
of Egypt” (Lemp., Barker’s edition, “Meroë”).
[849] They might have been also, as Pococke thinks, simply the
tribes of the “Oxus,” a name derived from the “Ookshas,”
those people whose wealth lay in the “Ox,” for he shows
_Ookshan_ to be a crude form of _Ooksha_, an ox (in
Sanscrit _ox_ is as in English). He believes that it was
they, “the lords of the Oxus,” who gave their name to
the sea around which they ruled in many a country, the
_Euxine_ or Ooksh-ine. _Pali_ means a shepherd, and
_s’than_ is a land. “The warlike tribes of the Oxus
penetrated into Egypt, then swept onward to Palestine
(PALI-STAN), the land of the Palis or shepherds, and
there effected more permanent settlements” (“India in
Greece”). Yet, if even so, it would only the more
confirm our opinion that the Jews are a hybrid race, for
the “Bible” shows them freely intermarrying, not alone
with the Canaanites, but with every other nation or race
they come in contact with.
[850] Prof. A. Wilder: “Notes.”
[851] Moses reigned over the people of Israel in the
wilderness for over _forty_ years.
[852] The name of the wife of Moses was Zipporah (Exodus ii.).
[853] About 1040, the Jewish doctors removed their schools
from Babylonia to Spain, and of the four great rabbis
that flourished during the next four centuries, their
works all show different readings, and abound with
mistakes in the manuscripts. The “Masorah” made things
still worse. Many things that then existed in the
manuscripts are there no longer, and their works teem
with interpolations as well as with _lacunæ_. The oldest
Hebrew manuscript belongs to this period. Such is the
divine revelation we are to credit.
[854] No chronology was accepted by the rabbis as authoritative
till the twelfth century. The 40 and 1,000 are not exact
numbers, but have been crammed in to answer monotheism
and the exigencies of a religion calculated to appear
different from that of the Pagans. (“Chron. Orth.,” p.
238). One finds in the “Pentateuch” only events
occurring about two years before the fabled “Exodus” and
the last year. The rest of the chronology is nowhere,
and can be followed only through kabalistic
computations, with a key to them in the hand.
[855] The Gnostics, called Collyridians, had transferred
from Astoreth their worship to Mary, also Queen of
Heaven. They were persecuted and put to death by the
orthodox Christians as heretics. But if these Gnostics
had established her worship by offering her sacrifices
of cakes, cracknels, or fine wafers, it was because they
imagined her to have been born of an immaculate virgin,
as Christ is alleged to have been born of his mother.
And now, the Pope’s _infallibility_ having been
recognized and accepted, its first practical
manifestation is the revival of the Collyridian belief
as an article of faith (See “Apocryphal New Testament;”
Hone: “The Gospel of Mary attributed to Matthew”).
[856] Hargrave Jennings: “Rosicrucians.”
[857] “Progress of Religious Ideas.”
[858] Lilith was Adam’s _first_ wife “before he _married_
Eve,” of whom “he begat nothing but devils;” which
strikes us as a very novel, if pious, way of explaining
a very philosophical allegory: Burton’s “Anatomy of
Melancholy.”
[859] It is in commemoration of the Ark of the Deluge that
the Phœnicians, those bold explorers of the “deep,”
carried, fixed on the prow of their ships, the image of
the goddess Astartè, who is Elissa, Venus Erycina of
Sicily, and Dido, whose name is the feminine of David.
[860] Dr. Lundy: “Monumental Christianity.”
[861] Lucian, iv. 276.
[862] 1 Kings xviii. All this is allegorical, and, what is
more, purely magical. For Elijah is bent upon an
incantation.
[863] The Talmud books say that Noah was himself the _dove_
(spirit), thus identifying him still more with the
Chaldean Nouah. Baal is represented with the wings of a
dove, and the Samaritans worshipped on Mount Gerizim the
image of a dove. “Talmud, Tract. Chalin.,” fol. 6, col. 1.
[864] Numbers x. 29, 31.
[865] The Bible contradicts itself as well as the Chaldean
account, for in chapter vii. of Genesis it shows
“every one of them” perishing in the deluge.
[866] Numbers xiii.
[867] We do not see why the clergy--especially the Catholic--
should object to our statement that the patriarchs are
all signs of the zodiac, and the old gods of the
“heathen” as well. There was a time, and that less than
two centuries ago, when they themselves exhibited the
most fervent desire to relapse into sun and star
worship. This pious and curious attempt was denounced
but a few months since by Camille Flammarion, the French
astronomer. He shows two Augsburgian Jesuits, Schiller
and Bayer, who felt quite anxious to change the names of
the whole Sabean host of the starry heaven, and worship
them again under Christian names! Having anathematized
the idolatrous sun-worshippers for over fifteen
centuries, the Church now seriously proposed to continue
heliolatry--_to the letter_ this time--as their idea was
to substitute for Pagan myths biblical and (in their
ideas) real personages. They would have called the sun,
Christ; the moon, Virgin Mary; Saturn, Adam; Jupiter,
Moses (!); Mars, Joshua; Venus, John the Baptist; and
Mercury, Elias. And very proper substitutes too, showing
the great familiarity of the Catholic Church with
ancient Pagan and kabalistic learning, and its
readiness, perhaps, to at last confess the source whence
came their own myths. For is not king Messiah the sun,
the Demiurge of the heliolaters, under various names? Is
he not the Egyptian Osiris and the Grecian Apollo? And
what more appropriate name than Virgin Mary for the
Pagan Diana-Astarté, “the Queen of Heaven,” against
which Jeremiah exhausted a whole vocabulary of
imprecations? Such an adoption would have been
historically as well as religiously correct. Two large
plates were prepared, says Flammarion, in a recent
number of “La Nature,” and represented the heavens with
Christian constellations instead of Pagan. Apostles,
popes, saints, martyrs, and personages of the Old and
New Testament completed this Christian Sabeanism. “The
disciples of Loyola used every exertion to make this
plan succeed.” It is curious to find in India among the
Mussulmans the name of Terah, Abraham’s father, Azar or
Azarh, and Azur, which also means fire, and is, at the
same time, the name of the Hindu third solar month (from
June to July), during which the sun is in _Gemini_, and
the full moon near _Sagittarius_.
[868] Cicero: “De Nat. Deo.,” i., 13.
[869] “Herodotus,” ii., 145.
[870] “Monumental Christianity,” p. 3.
[871] Who but the authors of the “Pentateuch” could have invented
a Supreme God or his angel so thoroughly human as to
require a smear of blood upon the door-post to prevent
his killing one person for another! For gross
materialism this exceeds any theistical conception that
we have noticed in Pagan literature.
[872] Denon: “Egypt,” ii., pl. 40, No. 8, p. 54.
[873] Pages 13 and 402.
[874] In Volney’s “Ruins of Empires” p. 360, it is remarked
that as _Aries_ was in its fifteenth degree 1447 B.C.,
it follows that the first degree of “Libra” could not
have coincided with the Vernal equinox more lately than
15,194 years B.C., to which, if you add 1790 years since
Christ, it appears that 16,984 years have elapsed since
the origin of the _Zodiac_.
[875] See cuts in Inman’s “Ancient Faiths.”
[876] Cicero: “De Nat. Deorum,” i., 10.
[877] Virgil: “Æneid,” vi., 724 ff.
[878] The term “coats of skin,” is the more suggestive when
we learn that the Hebrew word “skin” used in the
original text, means _human_ skin. The text says: “And
_Java Aleim_ made for Adam and his wife כתנות עור CHITONUT
OUR. The first Hebrew word is the same as the Greek
χιτων--chiton--coat. Parkhurst defines it as _the skin
of men_ or animals ער עור and ערה, OUR, OR, or ORA.
The same word is used at Exodus xxxiv. 30, 35, when the
_skin_ of Moses “shone” (A. Wilder).
[879] Here, again, the “Masorah,” by converting one name
into another, has helped to falsify the little that was
left original in the primitive Scriptures.
De Rossi, of Parma, says of the Massoretes, in his
“Compendis,” vol. iv., p. 7: “It is known with what
carefulness Esdras, the most excellent critic they have
had, had _reformed_ [the text] and _corrected_ it, and
restored it to its primary splendor. Of the many
revisions undertaken after him, none are more celebrated
than that of the Massoretes, who came after the sixth
century ... and all the most zealous adorers and
defenders of the “Masorah,” Christians and Jews ...
ingenuously accord and confess that it, such as it
exists, is _deficient_, _imperfect_, _interpolated_,
_full of errors_, and _a most unsafe guide_.” The square
letter was not invented till after the third century.
[880] Scorpio is the astrological sign of the organs of
reproduction.
[881] The patriarchs are all convertible in their numbers as
well as interchangeable. According to what they relate,
they become ten, five, seven, twelve, and even fourteen.
The whole system is so complicated that it is an utter
impossibility in a work like this to do more than hint
at certain matters.
[882] See vol. I. of the present work, p. 32. Alone, the Hindu
calculation by the Zodiac, can give a key to the Hebrew
chronologies and the ages of the patriarchs. If we bear
in mind that, according to the former astronomical and
chronological calculations, out of the fourteen
manwantara (or divine ages), each of which composed of
_twelve_ thousand years of the devas, multiplied by
seventy-one, forms _one period_ of creation--not quite
_seven_ are yet passed, the Hebrew calculation will
become more clear. To help, as much as possible, those
who will be sure to get a good deal bewildered in this
calculation, we will remind the reader that the Zodiac
is divided into 360 degrees, and every sign into thirty
degrees; that in the Samaritan _Bible the age of Enoch
is fixed at 360 years_; that in “Manu,” the divisions of
time are given thus: “The day and the night are composed
of thirty _Mouhourta_. A mouhourta contains thirty
_kalâs_. A month of the mortals is of thirty days, but
it is but _one_ day of the pitris.... A year of the
mortals is one day of the Devas.”
[883] See Rawlinson’s “Diagrams.”
[884] In the Brahmanical Zodiac the signs are all presided
over by and dedicated to one of the twelve great gods.
So, 1. Mecha (Aries) is dedicated to Varuna; 2. Vricha
(Taurus), to Yama; 3. Mithuna (Gemini), to Pavana; 4.
Karcataca (Cancer), to Sûrya; 5. Sinha (Leo), to Soma;
6. Kanya (Virgo), to Kartikeia; 7. Toulha (Libra), to
Kouvera; 8. Vristchica (Scorpio), to Kama; 9. Dhanous
(Sagittarius), to Ganesa; 10. Makara (Capricornus), to
Poulhar; 11. Kumbha (Aquarius), to Indra; and, 12, Minas
(Pisces), to Agni.
[885] Moor’s “Hindu Pantheon,” pp. 295-302.
[886] Apollo was also _Abelius_, or Bel.
[887] Halal is a name of Apollo. The name of Ma_halal_-Eliel
would then be the autumnal sun, of July, and this
patriarch presides over _Leo_ (July) the zodiacal sign.
[888] See description of the Sephiroth, in chapter iv.
[889] How servile was this Chaldean _copy_ may be seen in
comparing the Hindu chronology with that of the
Babylonians. According to Manu, the antediluvian
dynasties of the Pradjâpatis reigned 4,320,000 human
years, a whole divine age of the devas in short, or that
length of time which invariably occurs between life on
earth and the dissolution of that life, or pralaya. The
Chaldeans, in their turn, give precisely the same
figures, minus _one_ cipher, to wit: they make their 120
saros yield a total of 432,000 years.
[890] Eliphas Levi gives it both in the Greek and Hebrew
versions, but so condensed and arbitrarily that it is
impossible for one who knows less than himself to
understand him.
[891] See Rabbi Simeon’s dissertation on the primitive Man-Bull
and the horns, “Sohar.”
[892] “The Nuctameron of the Hebrews;” see Eliphas Levi,
vol. i.
[893] “Anszuge aus dem Sohar,” p. 13, 15.
[894] Such is the opinion of the erudite Dr. Jost and
Donaldson. “The Old Testament Books, as we now find
them, seem to have been concluded about 150 years
B.C.... The Jews now sought the other books, which had
been dispersed during the wars, and brought them into
one collection” (Ghillany: “Menschenopfer der Hebraër,”
p. 1). “Sod, the Son of the Man.” Appendix.
[895] “Jost,” vol. i., p. 51.
[896] Burder’s “Josephus,” vol. ii., pp. 331-335.
[897] “Die Kabbala,” p. 95.
[898] Gaffarel: Introduction to “Book of Enoch.”
[899] So firmly established seems to have been the reputation
of the Brahmans and Buddhists for the highest morality,
and that since time immemorial, that we find Colonel
Henry Yule, in his admirable edition of “Marco Polo,”
giving the following testimony: “The high virtues
ascribed to the Brahman and Indian merchants were,
perhaps, in part, matter of tradition ... but the eulogy
is so constant among mediæval travellers _that it must
have had a solid foundation_. In fact, it would not be
difficult to trace a chain of similar testimony from
ancient times down to our own. Arrian says no Indian was
ever accused of falsehood. Hwen T’sang ascribes to the
people of India eminent uprightness, honesty, and
disinterestedness. Friar Jordanus (_circa_ 1330) says
the people of Lesser India (Sindh and Western India)
were true in speech and eminent in justice; and we may
also refer to the high character given to the Hindus by
Abul Fazl. But _after 150 years of European trade,
indeed, we find a sad deterioration_.... Yet Pallas, in
the last century, noticing the Bamyan colony at
Astrakhan, says its members were notable for an upright
dealing that made them greatly preferable to Armenians.
And that wise and admirable public servant, the late Sir
William Sleeman, in our own time, has said that he knew
no class of men in the world more strictly honorable
than the mercantile classes of India.”[900]
The sad examples of the rapid demoralization of _savage_
American Indians, as soon as they are made to live in a
close proximity with _Christian_ officials and
missionaries, are familiar in our modern days.
[900] The “Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian,” translated
by Colonel Henry Yule, vol. ii., p. 354.
[901] At the present moment Mr. O’Grady is Editor of the
“American Builder,” of New York, and is well known for
his interesting letters, “Indian Sketches--Life in the
East,” which he contributed under the pseudonym of
_Hadji Nicka Bauker Khan_, to the Boston “Commercial
Bulletin.”
[902] Ecclesiastes xii. 13; see Tayler Lewis’s “Metrical
Translation.”
“The great conclusion here;
Fear God and His commandments keep, for this is all of man.”
[903] See Micah vi., 6-8, “Noyes’s Translation.”
[904] Matthew xvii., 37-40.
[905] “Les Hauts Phénomenes de la Magie,” p. 12, preface.
[906] “History of Magic, Witchcraft, and Animal Magnetism.”
[907] See Draper’s “Conflict between Religion and Science.”
[908] Gospel according to Mark, iii. 29: “He that shall
blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, hath never
forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation”
(αμαρτηματος, error).
[909] Gospel according to Matthew, v. 44.
[910] “Comparative Mythology,” April, 1856.
[911] 1st Epistle of John, iii. 8.
[912] 2 Kings, xviii. 4. It is probable that the fiery serpents
or _Seraphim_ mentioned in the twenty-first chapter of
the book of Numbers were the same as the Levites, or
Ophite tribe. Compare Exodus xxxii. 26-29 with Numbers
xxi. 5-9. The names Heva, חוה, _Hivi_ or Hivite, הוי, and
Levi לוי, all signify a serpent; and it is a curious fact
that the Hivites, or serpent-tribe of Palestine, like
the Levites or Ophites of Israel, were ministers to the
temples. The Gibeonites, whom Joshua assigned to the
service of the sanctuary, were Hivites.
[913] 1 Chronicles, xxi. 1: “And Satan stood up against Israel
and moved David to number Israel.” 2d Samuel, xxiv. 1:
“And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against
Israel, and he moved David against them to say: ‘Go,
number Israel and Judah.’”
[914] Zechariah iii. 1, 2. A pun or play on words is noticeable;
“adversary” is associated with “Satan,” as if from שטן, to
oppose.
[915] Jude 9.
[916] In the “Assyrian Tablets,” Palestine is called “the land
of the Hittites;” and the Egyptian Papyri, declaring the
same thing, also make Seth, the “pillar-god,” their
tutelar deity.
[917] _Seth_, _Suteh_, or Sat-an, was the god of the aboriginal
nations of Syria. Plutarch makes him the same as Typhon.
Hence he was god of Goshen and Palestine, the countries
occupied by the Israelites.
[918] “Vendidad,” fargard x., 23: “I combat the dæva Æshma, the
very evil.” “The Yaçnas,” x. 18, speaks likewise of
Æshma-Dæva, or Khasm: “All other sciences depend upon
Æshma, the cunning.” “Serv.,” lvi. 12: “To smite the
wicked Auramanyas (Ahriman, the evil power), to smite
Æshma with the terrible weapon, to smite the Mazanian
dævas, to smite all devas.”
In the same fargard of the “Vendidad” the Brahman
divinities are involved in the same denunciation with
Æshma-dæva: “I combat India, I combat Sauru, I combat
the Dæva Naonhaiti.” The annotator explains them to be
the Vedic gods, Indus, Gaurea, or Siva, and the two
Aswins. There must be some mistake, however, for Siva,
at the time the “Vedas” were completed, was an
aboriginal or Æthiopian God, the Bala or Bel of Western
Asia. He was not an Aryan or Vedic deity. Perhaps Sûrya
was the divinity intended.
[919] Jacob Bryant: “Analysis of Ancient Mythology.”
[920] Plutarch: “de Iside,” xxx., xxxi.
[921] Wilkinson’s “Ancient Egyptians,” p. 434.
[922] See “Vendidad,” fargand x.
[923] Salverte: “Des Sciences Occultes,” appendix, note A.
[924] The term πειρασμος signifies a trial, or probation.
[925] 2 Samuel, ii. 5, 15; vi. 1-4. Pliny.
[926] See 1 Corinthians, v. 5; 2 Corinthians, xi. 14;
1 Timothy, i. 20.
[927] 2d Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, xii. In
Numbers xxii. 22 the angel of the Lord is described
as acting the part of a Satan to Balaam.
[928] 1 Kings, xxii. 19-23.
[929] Haug: “Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and
Religion of the Parsees.”
[930] The “Avesta” describes the serpent Dahaka, as of the
region of Bauri or Babylonia. In the Median history are
two kings of the name Deiokes or Dahaka, and Astyages or
Az-dahaka. There were children of Zohak seated on
various Eastern thrones, after Feridun. It is apparent,
therefore, that by Zohak is meant the Assyrian dynasty,
whose symbol was the _purpureum signum draconis_--the
purple sign of the Dragon. From a very remote antiquity
(Genesis xiv.) this dynasty ruled Asia, Armenia, Syria,
Arabia, Babylonia, Media, Persia, Bactria, and
Afghanistan. It was finally overthrown by Cyrus and
Darius Hystaspes, after “1,000 years’” rule. Yima and
Thrætaona, or Jemshid and Feridun, are doubtless
personifications. Zohak probably imposed the Assyrian or
Magian worship of fire upon the Persians. Darius was the
vicegerent of Ahura-Mazda.
[931] The name in the Gospels is βεελζεβουλ, or Baal of the
Dwelling. It is pretty certain that Apollo, the Delphian
God, was not Hellenian originally, but Phœnician. He was
the Paian or physician, as well as the god of oracles.
It is no great stretch of imagination to identify him
with Baal-_Zebul_, the god of Ekron, or Acheron,
doubtless changed to _Zebub_, or flies, by the Jews in
derision.
[932] “Against Apion,” i. 25. “The Egyptians took many
occasions to hate and envy us: in the first place
because our ancestors (the Hyk-sos, or shepherds) had
had the dominion over their country, and when they were
delivered from them and gone to their own country, they
lived there in prosperity.”
[933] Bunsen. The name _Seth_ with the syllable _an_ from the
Chaldean _ana_ or Heaven, makes the term _Satan_. The
punners seem now to have pounced upon it, as was their
wont, and so made it _Satan_ from the verb שטן _Sitan_,
to oppose.
[934] “Vendidad,” fargard x. The name _Vendidad_ is a
contraction of _Vidæva-data_, ordinances against the
Dævas.
[935] _Bundahest_, “Ahriman created out of the materials of
darkness Akuman and Ander, then Sauru and Nakit.”
[936] See Lenoir’s “Du Dragon de Metz,” in “Mémoires de
l’Académie Celtique,” i., 11, 12.
[937] Plutarch: “Isis and Osiris.”
[938] “The Origin of Serpent Worship,” by C. Staniland Wake,
M.A.I. New York: J. W. Bouton, 1877.
[939] “Tree and Serpent Worship,” etc.
[940] Godfrey Higgins: “Anacalypsis;” Dupuis: “Origines des
Cultes,” iii., 51.
[941] Martianus Capella: “Hymn to the Sun,” i., ii.; Movers:
“Phiniza,” 266.
[942] Plutarch: “Isis and Osiris.”
[943] Virgil: “Eclogues,” iv.
[944] Ovid: “Fasti,” ii., 451.
[945] Knorring: “Terra et Cœlum,” 53.
[946] Anna is an Oriental designation from the Chaldean _ana_,
or heaven, whence Anaïtis and Anaïtres. Durga, the
consort of Siva, is also named Anna purna, and was
doubtless the original St. Anna. The mother of the
prophet Samuel was named Anna; the father of his
counterpart, Samson, was _Manu_.
[947] The virgins of ancient time, as will be seen, were not
maids, but simply almas, or nubile women.
[948] Kircher: “Œdipus Ægypticus,” iii., 5.
[949] From θεραπευω, to serve, to worship, to heal.
[950] E. Pococke derives the name _Pythagoras_ from _Buddha_,
and _guru_, a spiritual teacher. Higgins makes it
Celtic, and says that it means an observer of the stars.
See “Celtic Druids.” If, however, we derive the word
_Pytho_ from פתה, _petah_, the name would signify an
expounder of oracles, and Buddha guru a teacher of the
doctrines of Buddha.
[951] In the Secret Museum of Naples, there is a marble
bas-relief representing the _Fall of Man_, in which _God
the Father plays the part of the Beguiling Serpent_.
[952] First Epistle to the Corinthians, x. 11.: “All these
things happened unto them for _types_.”
[953] Epistle to the Galatians, iv. 24: “It is written that
Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond-maid, the other
by a freewoman ... which things are an allegory.”
[954] See “Job,” by various translators, and compare the
different texts.
[955] See Kerr Porter’s “Persia,” vol. i., plates 17, 41.
[956] The expression “of the kindred of Ram” denotes that he
was an Aramæan or Syrian from Mesopotamia. Buz was a son
of Nahor. “Elihu son of Barachel” is susceptible of two
translations. Eli-Hu--God is, or Hoa is God; and
Barach-Al--the worshipper of God, or Bar-Rachel, the son
of Rachel, or son of the ewe.
[957] xxxvi. 24-27.
[958] ix. 5-11.
[959] xxxviii. 1, _et passim_.
[960] Job xxxviii. 35.
[961] Ibid., xli. 8.
[962] Ibid., xli. 34.
[963] _Atum_, or At-ma, is the Concealed God, at once Phtha
and Amon, Father and Son, Creator and thing created,
Thought and Appearance, Father and Mother.
[964] Molitor, Ennemoser, Henman, Pfaff, etc.
[965] Schopheim: “Traditions,” p. 32.
[966] W. Williams: “Primitive History;” Dunlap: “Spirit
History of Man.”
[967] Plutarch: “Isis and Osiris,” p. 17.
[968] “Sibylline Oracles,” 760-788.
[969] Euripides: “Bacchæ.”
[970] We doubt the propriety of rendering κορη, virgin.
Demeter and Persephoneia were substantially the same
divinity, as were Apollo and Esculapius. The scene of
this adventure is laid in _Krete_ or _Koureteia_, where
Zeus was chief god. It was, doubtless, _Keres_ or
Demeter that is intended. She was also named κουρα,
which is the same as κωρη. As she was the goddess of the
Mysteries, she was fittest for the place as consort of
the Serpent-God and mother of Zagreus.
[971] Pococke considers Zeus a grand lama, or chief Jaina,
and Kore-Persephone, or Kuru-Parasu-pani. Zagreus, is
_Chakras_, the wheel, or circle, the earth, the ruler of
the world. He was killed by the Titans, or Teith-ans
(Daityas). The Horns or crescent was a badge of Lamaic
sovereignty.
[972] Nonnus: “Dionysiacs.”
[973] See Deane’s “Serpent Worship,” pp. 89, 90.
[974] Creuzer: “Symbol.,” vol. i., p. 341.
[975] The Dragon is the _sun_, the generative principle--
Jupiter-Zeus; and Jupiter is called the “Holy Spirit” by
the Egyptians, says Plutarch, “De Iside,” xxxvi.
[976] In the original it stands _Æons_ (emanations). In the
translation it stands _worlds_. It was not to be
expected that, after anathematizing the doctrine of
emanations, the Church would refrain from erasing the
original word, which clashed diametrically with her
newly-enforced dogma of the Trinity.
[977] See Dean’s “Serpent Worship,” p. 145.
[978] Ecclesiasticus xxiv. 3.
[979] See Dunlap’s “Spirit History of Man,” the chapter on
“the Logos, the Only Begotten and the King.”
[980] Translated by Buckley.
[981] “Select Works on Sacrifice.”
[982] Typhon is called by Plutarch and Sanchoniathon,
“Tuphon, the _red_-skinned.” Plutarch: “Isis and
Osiris,” xxi.-xxvi.
[983] “Conflict between Religion and Science,” p. 269.
[984] Rahu and Kehetty are the two fixed stars which form
the head and tail of the constellation of the Dragon.
[985] E. Upham: “The Mahâvansi, etc.,” p. 54, for the
answer given by the chief-priest of Mulgirs Galle
Vihari, named Sue Bandare Metankere Samanere
Samayahanse, to a Dutch Governor in 1766.
[986] We leave it to the learned archæologists and philologists
to decide how the _Naga_ or Serpent worship could travel
from Kashmir to Mexico and become the Nargâl worship,
which is also a Serpent worship, and a doctrine of
lycanthropy.
[987] Michael, the chief of the Æons, is also “Gabriel, the
messenger of Life,” of the Nazarenes, and the Hindu
Indra, the chief of the good Spirits, who vanquished
Vasouki, the Demon who rebelled against Brahma.
[988] See the Gnostic amulet called the “Chnuphis-Serpent,”
in the act of raising its head crowned with the _seven
vowels_, which is the kabalistic symbol for signifying
the “gift of speech to man,” or _Logos_.
[989] “Tamas, the Vedas.”
[990] Thomas Aquinas: “Somma,” ii., 94 Art. 4.
[991] See des Mousseaux; see various other Demonographers;
the different “Trials of Witches,” the depositions of
the latter exacted by torture, etc. In our humble
opinion, the Devil must have contracted this
disagreeable smell and his habits of uncleanliness in
company with mediæval monks. Many of these saints
boasted of having never washed themselves! “To strip
one’s self for the sake of _vain_ cleanliness, is to sin
in the eyes of God,” says Sprenger, in the “Witches’
Hammer.” Hermits and monks “dreaded all cleansing as so
much defilement. There was no bathing for a thousand
years!” exclaims Michelet in his “Sorcière.” Why such an
outcry against Hindu fakirs in such a case? These, if
they keep dirty, besmear themselves only after washing,
for their religion commands them to wash every morning,
and sometimes several times a day.
[992] Lermontoff, the great Russian poet, author of the “Demon.”
[993] “Les Hauts Phénomenes de la Magie,” p. 379.
[994] “Movers,” p. 109.
[995] Hercules is of Hindu origin.
[996] The same as the Egyptian _Kneph_, and the Gnostic Ophis.
[997] “Serpent Worship,” p. 145.
[998] “Movers,” p. 397. Azazel and Samael are identical.
[999] Saturn is Bel-Moloch and even Hercules and Siva. Both
of the latter are _Harakala_, or gods of the war, of the
battle, or the “Lords of Hosts.” Jehovah is called “a
man of war” in Exodus xv. 3. “The Lord of Hosts is his
name” (Isaiah li. 15), and David blesses him for
teaching his “hands to war and his fingers to fight”
(Psalms cxliv. 1). Saturn is also the Sun, and Movers
says that “Kronos Saturn was called by the Phœnicians
_Israel_ (130). Philo says the same (in Euseb., p. 44).
[1000] “Blessed be Iahoh, Alahim, Alahi, _Israel_” (Psalm
lxxii.).
[1001] Hardy’s “Manual of Buddhism,” p. 60.
[1002] Cousin: “Lect. on Mod. Phil.,” vol. i., p. 404.
[1003] Movers, Duncker, Higgins, and others.
[1004] “Hæres,” xxxiv; “Gnostics,” p. 53.
[1005] Wine was first made _sacred_ in the mysteries of Bacchus.
Payne Knight believes--erroneously we think--that wine
was taken with the view to produce a false ecstasy
through intoxication. It was held _sacred_, however, and
the Christian Eucharist is certainly an imitation of the
Pagan rite. Whether Mr. Knight was right or wrong, we
regret to say that a Protestant clergyman, the Rev.
Joseph Blanchard, of New York, was found drunk in one of
the public squares on the night of Sunday, August 5,
1877, and lodged in prison. The published report says:
“The prisoner said that he had been to church and taken
a little too much of the communion wine!”
[1006] The initiatory rite typified a descent into the underworld.
Bacchus, Herakles, Orpheus, and Asklepius all descended
into hell and ascended thence the third day.
[1007] King’s “Hist. Apost. Creed,” 8vo, p. 26.
[1008] Justice Bailey’s “Common Prayer,” 1813, p. 9.
[1009] “Apostle’s Creed;” “Apocryphal New Testament.”
[1010] “On the Creed,” fol. 1676, p. 225.
[1011] Lib. 1, c. 2; “Lib. de Princ.,” in “Proœm. Advers.
Praxeam,” c. ii.
[1012] “De Fide et Symbol.”
[1013] “Preller:” ii., p. 154.
[1014] Nicodemus: “Apocryphal Gospel,” translated from the
Gospel published by Grynæus, “Orthodoxographa,” vol. i.,
tom. ii., p. 643.
[1015] Euripides: “Herakles,” 807.
[1016] “Æneid,” viii., 274, ff.
[1017] “Frogs;” see fragments given in “Sod, the Mystery of
Adonis.”
[1018] See pages 180-187, 327.
[1019] Aristophanes: “Frogs.”
[1020] See Preface to “Hermas” in the Apocryphal New Testament.
[1021] In the “Life of Buddha,” of Bkah Hgyur (Thibetan text),
we find the original of the episode given in the Gospel
according to Luke. An old and holy ascetic, Rishi Asita,
comes from afar to see the infant Buddha, instructed as
he is of his birth and mission by supernatural visions.
Having worshipped the little Gautama, the old saint
bursts into tears, and upon being questioned upon the
cause of his grief, answers: “After becoming Buddha, he
will help hundreds of thousands of millions of creatures
to pass to the other shore of the ocean of life, and
will lead them on forever to immortality. And I--I shall
not behold this pearl of Buddhas! Cured of my illness, I
shall not be freed by him from human passion! Great
King! I am too old--that is why I weep, and why, in my
sadness, I heave long sighs!”
It does not prevent the holy man, however, from
delivering prophecies about the young Buddha, which,
with a very slight difference, are of the same substance
as those of Simeon about Jesus. While the latter calls
the young Jesus “a light for the revelation of the
Gentiles and the glory of the people of Israel,” the
Buddhist prophet promises that the young prince will
find himself clothed with the perfect and complete
_enlightenment_ or “light” of Buddha, and will turn the
wheel _of law_ as no one _ever did before him_. “Rgya
Tcher Rol Pa;” translated from the Thibetan text and
revised on the original Sanscrit, _Lalitavistara_, by P.
E. Foncaux. 1847. Vol. ii., pp. 106, 107.
[1022] The sign of the cross--only a few days after the
resurrection, and before the cross was ever thought
of as a symbol!
[1023] Payne Knight shows that “from the time of the first
King Menes, under whom all the country below Lake Mœris
was a bog (Herod., ii., 4), to that of the Persian
invasion, when it was the garden of the world”--between
11,000 and 12,000 years must have elapsed. (See “Ancient
Art and Mythology;” cli., R. Payne Knight, p. 108. Edit.
by A. Wilder.)
[1024] Seth or Sutech, “Rawlinson’s History of Herodotus,”
book ii., appendix viii., 23.
[1025] The fact is vouchsafed for by Epiphanius. See Hone:
“Apocryphal New Testament;” “The Gospel of the Birth of
Mary.”
In his able article “Bacchus, the Prophet-God,”
Professor A. Wilder remarks that “Tacitus was misled
into thinking that the Jews worshipped an ass, the
symbol of Typhon or Seth, the Hyk-sos God. The Egyptian
name of the ass was _eo_, the phonetic of Iao;” and
hence, probably, he adds, “a symbol from that mere
circumstance.” We can hardly agree with this learned
archæologist, for the idea that the Jews reverenced, for
some mysterious reason, Typhon under his symbolical
representation rests on more proof than one. And for one
we find a passage in the “Gospel of Mary,” is cited from
Epiphanius, which corroborates the fact. It relates to
the death of “Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist,
murdered by Herod,” says the Protevangelion. Epiphanius
writes that the cause of the death of Zacharias was that
upon seeing a vision in the temple he, through surprise,
was willing to disclose it, but his mouth was stopped.
That which he saw was at the time of his offering
incense, and it was a man STANDING IN THE FORM OF AN
ASS. When he was gone out, and had a mind to speak thus
to the people, _Woe unto you, whom do ye worship?_ he
who had appeared unto him in the temple took away the
use of his speech. Afterward when he recovered it, and
was able to speak, he declared this to the Jews, and
they slew him. They (the Gnostics) add in this book,
that on this very account the high priest was commanded
by the law-giver (Moses) to carry little bells, that
whensoever he went into the temple to sacrifice, he
_whom they worshipped_, hearing the noise of the bells,
might have time enough to hide himself, and not be
caught in that ugly shape and figure” (Epiph.).
[1026] “Phallism in Ancient Religions,” by Staniland Wake and
Westropp, p. 74.
[1027] Hercules is also a god-fighter as well as Jacob-Israel.
[1028] “Phallism in Ancient Religions,” p. 75.
[1029] Antiochus Epiphanius found in 169 B.C. in the Jewish
temple, a man kept there to be sacrificed. Apion:
“Joseph, contra Apion,” ii., 8.
[1030] The ox of Dionysus was sacrificed at the Bacchic Mysteries.
See “Anthon,” p. 365.
[1031] “Paus.,” 5, 16.
[1032] Judges iv. 4.
[1033] 2 Kings, xxii. 14.
[1034] xiv. 2; xx. 16, 17.
[1035] xxvii. 28, 29.
[1036] The festival denominated Liberalia occurred on the
seventeenth of March, now St. Patrick’s Day. Thus
Bacchus was also the patron saint of the Irish.
[1037] Prof. A. Wilder: “Bacchus, the Prophet-God,” in the June
number (1877) of the “Evolution, a Review of Polities,
Religion, Science, Literature, and Art.”
[1038] “Edinburgh Review,” April, 1851, p. 411.
[1039] “Indian Sketches; or Life in the East,” written for the
“Commercial Bulletin,” of Boston.
[1040] See chapter ii. of this vol., p. 110.
[1041] It would be worth the trouble of an artist, while
travelling around the world, to make a collection of the
multitudinous varieties of Madonnas, Christs, saints,
and martyrs as they appear in various costumes in
different countries. They would furnish models for
masquerade balls in aid of church charities!
[1042] Even as we write, there comes from Earl Salisbury,
Secretary of State for India, a report that the Madras
famine is to be followed by one probably still more
severe in Southern India, the very district where the
heaviest tribute has been exacted by the Catholic
missionaries for the expenses of the Church of Rome. The
latter, unable to retaliate otherwise, despoils British
subjects, and when famine comes as a consequence, makes
the heretical British Government pay for it.
[1043] “Ancient Faiths and Modern,” p. 24.
[1044] “Fétichisme, Polythéisme, Monothéisme.”
[1045] “Oriental and Linguistic Studies,” “Vedic Doctrine of a
Future Life,” by W. Dwight Whitney, Prof. of Sanscrit
and Comparative Philology at Yale College.
[1046] “Oriental and Linguistic Studies,” p. 48.
[1047] In his article on “Paul, the Founder of Christianity,”
Professor A. Wilder, whose intuitions of truth are
always clear, says: “In the person of _Aher_ we
recognize the Apostle Paul. He appears to have been
known by a variety of appellations. He was named _Saul_,
evidently because of his vision of Paradise--Saul or
_Sheol_ being the Hebrew name of the other world.
_Paul_, which only means ‘the little man,’ was a species
of nickname. _Aher_, or _other_, was an epithet in the
Bible for persons outside of the Jewish polity, and was
applied to him for having extended his ministry to the
Gentiles. His real name was Elisha ben Abuiah.”
[1048] “In the ‘Talmud’ Jesus is called AUTU H-AIS, אותו האיש,
_that man_.”--A. Wilder.
[1049] See Moor’s plates, 75, No. 3.
[1050] Max Müller’s estimate.
[1051] Dr. Lundy: “Monumental Christianity,” p. 153.
[1052] Buddhaghosa’s “Parables,” translated from the
Burmese, by Col. H. T. Rogers, R. E.; with an
introduction by M. Müller, containing “Dhammapada,”
1870.
[1053] Interpreter of the Consulate-General in Siam.
[1054] “Ancient Faith and Modern,” p. 162.
[1055] Ibid.
[1056] The words contained within quotation marks are Inman’s.
[1057] See vol. i. of this work, p. 319.
[1058] p. 57.
[1059] Matthew vii. 2.
[1060] P. 25.
[1061] See Draper’s “Conflict between Religion and Science,”
p. 224.
[1062] This is the doctrine of the Supralapsarians, who
asserted that “He [God] _predestinated the fall of
Adam_, with all its pernicious consequences, from all
eternity, and that our first parents had no liberty from
the beginning.”
It is also to this highly-moral doctrine that the
Catholic world became indebted, in the eleventh century,
for the institution of the Order known as the Carthusian
monks. Bruno, its founder, was driven to the foundation
of this monstrous Order by a circumstance well worthy of
being recorded here, as it graphically illustrates this
_divine_ predestination. A friend of Bruno, a French
physician, famed far and wide for his extraordinary
_piety_, _purity of morals_, and _charity_, died, and
his body was watched by Bruno himself. Three days after
his death, and as he was going to be buried, the pious
physician suddenly sat up in his coffin and declared, in
a loud and solemn voice, “that by the just judgment of
God he was eternally damned.” After which consoling
message from beyond the “dark river,” he fell back and
relapsed into death.
In their turn, the Parsi theologians speak thus: “If any
of you commit sin under the belief that he shall be
saved by _somebody_, both the deceiver as well as the
deceived shall be damned to the day of Rasta Khéz....
There is no Saviour. In the other world you shall
receive the return according to your actions.... _Your
Saviour is your deeds_ and God Himself.[1063]
[1063] “The Modern Parsis,” lecture by Max Müller, 1862.
[1064] “De Isid. et Osir.,” p. 380.
[1065] Every tradition shows that Jesus was educated in Egypt
and passed his infancy and youth with the Brotherhoods
of the Essenes and other mystic communities.
[1066] Bunsen found some records which show the language and
religious worship of the Egyptians, for instance, not
only existing at the opening of the old Empire, “but
already so fully established and fixed as to receive
_but a very slight development_ in the course of the
old, middle, and modern Empires,” and while this opening
of the old Empire is placed by him beyond the Menes
period, at least 4,000 years B.C., the origin of the
ancient Hermetic prayers and hymns of the “Book of the
Dead,” is assigned by Bunsen to the pre-Menite dynasty
of Abydos (between 4,000 and 4,500 B.C.), thus showing
that “the system of Osirian worship and mythology was
already formed 3,000 years before the days of Moses.”
[1067] It was also called the “hook of attraction.” Virgil
terms it “Mystica vannus Iacchi,” “Georgics,” i., 166.
[1068] In an Address to the Delegates of the Evangelical
Alliance, New York, 1874, Mr. Peter Cooper, a Unitarian,
and one of the noblest _practical_ Christians of the
age, closes it with the following memorable language:
“In that _last and final account_ it will be happy for
us if we shall then find that our influence through life
has tended to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, and
soothe the sorrows of those who were sick and in
prison.” Such words from a man who has given two million
dollars in charity; educated four thousand young girls
in useful arts, by which they gain a comfortable
support; maintained a free public library, museum, and
reading-room; classes for working people; public
lectures by eminent scientists, open to all; and been
foremost in all good works, throughout a long and
blameless life, come with the noble force that marks the
utterances of all benefactors of their kind. The deeds
of Peter Cooper will cause posterity to treasure his
golden sayings in its heart.
[1069] “_Aus dem Tibetischen übersetzt und mit dem Originaltexte
herausgegeben_,” von S. J. Schmidt.
[1070] “Buddhism in Tibet,” by Emil Schlagintweit, 1863, p. 213.
[1071] “Ecclesiastical History,” l. i., c. 13.
[1072] Tathagâta is Buddha, “he who walks in the footsteps of
his predecessors;” as _Bhagavat_--he is the _Lord_.
[1073] We have the same legend about St. Veronica--as a pendant.
[1074] “Introduction à l’Histoire du Buddhisme Indien,” E.
Burnouf, p. 341.
[1075] Moses was a most notable practitioner of Hermetic
Science. Bearing in mind that Moses (Asarsiph) is made
to run away to the Land of Midian, and that he “sat down
by a well” (Exod. ii.), we find the following:
The “Well” played a prominent part in the Mysteries of
the Bacchic festivals. In the sacerdotal language of
every country, it had the same significance. A well is
“the fountain of salvation” mentioned in _Isaiah_ (xii.
3). The water is the _male principle_ in its spiritual
sense. In its physical relation in the allegory of
creation, the water is chaos, and chaos is the female
principle vivified by the Spirit of God--the male
principle. In the “Kabala,” _Zachar_ means “male;” and
the Jordan was called Zachar (“Universal History,” vol.
ii., p. 429). It is curious that the Father of St. John
the Baptist, the Prophet of _Jordan_--Zacchar--should be
called _Zachar-ias_. One of the names of Bacchus is
_Zagreus_. The ceremony of pouring water on the shrine
was sacred in the Osirian rites as well as in the Mosaic
institutions. In the _Mishna_ it is said, “Thou shalt
dwell in Succa and _pour out water_ seven, and the pipes
six days” (“Mishna Succah,” p. 1). “Take _virgin earth_
... and work up the _dust_ with _living_ WATER,”
prescribes the _Sohar_ (Introduction to “Sohar;”
“Kabbala Denudata,” ii., pp. 220, 221). Only “earth and
water, according to Moses, can bring forth a _living
soul_,” quotes Cornelius Agrippa. The water of Bacchus
was considered to impart the Holy _Pneuma_ to the
initiate; and it washes off all sin by baptism through
the Holy _Ghost_, with the Christians. The “well” in the
kabalistic sense, is the mysterious emblem of the
_Secret Doctrine_. “If any man thirst, let him come
_unto me and drink_,” says Jesus (John vii.).
Therefore, Moses the adept, is naturally enough
represented sitting by a well. He is approached by the
_seven_ daughters of the Kenite Priest of Midian coming
to fill the troughs, _to water their father’s flock_.
Here we have seven again--the mystic number. In the
present biblical allegory the daughters represent the
_seven occult powers_. “The shepherds came and drove
them (the seven daughters) away, but Moses stood up, and
helped them, and watered their flock.” The shepherds are
shown, by some kabalistic interpreters, to represent the
seven “badly-disposed Stellars” of the Nazarenes; for in
the old Samaritan text the number of these Shepherds is
also said to be seven (see kabalistic books).
Then Moses, who had conquered the seven _evil_ Powers,
and won the friendship of the seven _occult_ and
beneficent ones, is represented as living with the Reuel
Priest of Midian, who invites “the Egyptian” to eat
bread, _i.e._, to partake of his wisdom. In the Bible
the elders of Midian are known as great soothsayers and
diviners. Finally, Reuel or Jethro, the initiator and
instructor of Moses, gives him in marriage his daughter.
This daughter is Zipporah, _i.e._, the esoteric Wisdom,
the shining light of knowledge, for Siprah means the
“shining” or “resplendent,” from the word “Sapar” to
shine. Sippara, in Chaldea, was the city of the “Sun.”
Thus Moses was initiated by the Midianite, or rather the
Kenite, and thence the biblical allegory.
[1076] Schmidt: “Der Weise und der Thor,” p. 37.
[1077] “Rgya Tcher Rol. Pa.,” “History of Buddha Sakya-muni”
(Sanscrit), “Lalitavistara,” vol. ii., pp. 90, 91.
[1078] “Protevangelion” (ascribed to James), ch. xiii. and xiv.
[1079] “Pali Buddhistical Annals,” iii., p. 28; “Manual of
Buddhism,” 142. Hardy.
[1080] “Gospel of the Infancy,” chap. xx., xxi.; accepted by
Eusebius, Athanasius, Epiphanius, Chrysostom, Jerome,
and others. The same story, with the Hindu earmarks
rubbed off to avoid detection, is found at Luke ii.,
46, 47.
[1081] Alabaster: “Wheel of the Law,” pp. 29, 34, 35, and 38.
[1082] E. Upham: “The History and Doctrines of Buddhism,”
p. 135. Dr. Judson fell into this prodigious error by
reason of his fanaticism. In his zeal to “save souls,”
he refused to peruse the Burmese classics, lest his
attention should be diverted thereby.
[1083] “Indian Antiquary,” vol. ii., p. 81; “Book of Ser Marco
Polo,” vol. i., p. 441.
[1084] “Ssabismus,” vol. i., p. 725.
[1085] Murray’s “History of Discoveries in Asia.”
[1086] “Manual of Buddhism,” p. 142.
[1087] See Inman’s “Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian
Symbolism,” p. 92.
[1088] “Rgya. Tcher. Rol. Pa.,” Bkah Hgyour (Thibetan version).
[1089] Gospel according to Luke, i. 39-45.
[1090] Didron: “Iconograph. Chrétienne Histoire de Dieu.”
[1091] There are numerous works deduced immediately from the
“Vedas,” called the “Upa-Ved.” Four works are included
under this denomination, namely, the “Ayus,”
“Gandharva,” “Dhanus,” and “Sthāpatya.” The third
“Upaveda” was composed by Viswamitra for the use of the
Kshatriyas, the warrior caste.
[1092] Bunsen’s “Egypt’s Place in Universal History,” vol. v.,
p. 93.
[1093] Alabaster; “Wheel of the Law,” pp. 43-47.
[1094] “The Debatable Land,” p. 145.
[1095] “We divide our zeal,” says Dr. Henry More, “against so
many things that we fancy Popish, that we scarce reserve
_a just share of detestation_ against what is truly so.
Such are that gross, rank, and scandalous impossibility
_of transubstantiation_, the various modes of fulsome
idolatry and lying impostures, the uncertainty of their
loyalty to their lawful sovereigns by their
superstitious adhesion to the spiritual tyranny of the
Pope, and that _barbarous and ferine cruelty against
those_ that are not either such fools as to be persuaded
to believe such things as they would obtrude upon men,
or, are not so false to God and their own consciences,
as, knowing better, yet to profess them” (Postscript to
“Glanvill”).
[1096] Payne Knight believes that Ceres was not a personification
of the brute matter which composed the earth, but of the
female _productive principle_ supposed to pervade it,
which, joined to the active, was held to be the cause of
the organization and animation of its substance.... She
is mentioned as the wife of the Omnipotent Father,
Æther, or Jupiter (“The Symbolical Language of Ancient
Art and Mythology,” xxxvi.). Hence the words of Christ,
“it is the Spirit that quickeneth, _flesh profiteth
nothing_,” applied in their dual meaning to both
spiritual and terrestrial things, to spirit and matter.
Bacchus, as Dionysus, is of Indian origin. Cicero
mentions him as a son of Thyoné and Nisus. Διόνυσος
means the god Dis from Mount Nys in India. Bacchus,
crowned with ivy, or _kissos_, is Christna, one of whose
names was _Kissen_. Dionysus is preëminently the deity
on whom were centred all the hopes for future life; in
short, he was the god who was expected to _liberate the
souls of men_ from their prisons of flesh. Orpheus, the
poet-Argonaut, is also said to have come on earth to
purify the religion of its gross, and terrestrial
anthropomorphism, he abolished human sacrifice and
instituted a mystic theology based on pure spirituality.
Cicero calls Orpheus a son of Bacchus. It is strange
that both seem to have originally come from India. At
least, as Dionysus Zagreus, Bacchus is of undoubted
Hindu origin. Some writers deriving a curious analogy
between the name of Orpheus and an old Greek term,
ὀρφος, _dark or tawny-colored_, make him Hindu by
connecting the term with his dusky Hindu complexion. See
Voss, Heyne and Schneider on the Argonautis.
[1097] “Vie de Jesus,” p. 219.
[1098] Ibid., p. 221.
[1099] “Analysis of Religious Belief,” vol. i., p. 467.
[1100] See the “Gita,” translated by Charles Wilkins, in 1785;
and the “Bhagavad-Purana,” containing the history of
Christna, translated into French by Eugène Burnouf.
1840.
[1101] Matthew vii. 21.
[1102] “Of the People of India,” vol. i., p. 84.
[1103] Or “Researches into the Mysteries of Occultism;” Boston,
1877, Edited by Mrs. E. Hardinge Britten.
[1104] See “Stone Him to Death;” “Septenary Institutions.”
Capt. James Riley, in his “Narrative” of his enslavement
in Africa, relates like instances of great longevity on
the Sahara Desert.
[1105] Russian Armenia; one of the most ancient Christian
convents.
[1106] “Egyptian Book of the Dead.” The Hindus have seven
upper and seven lower heavens. The seven mortal sins of
the Christians have been borrowed from the Egyptian
Books of Hermes with which Clement of Alexandria was so
familiar.
[1107] The atrocious custom subsequently introduced among the
people, of sacrificing human victims, is a perverted
copy of the Theurgic Mystery. The Pagan priests, who did
not belong to the class of the hierophants, carried on
for awhile this hideous rite, and it served to screen
the genuine purpose. But the Grecian Herakles is
represented as the adversary of human sacrifices and as
slaying the men and monsters who offered them. Bunsen
shows, by the very absence of any representation of
human sacrifice on the oldest monuments, that this
custom had been abolished in the old Empire, at the
close of the seventh century after Menes; therefore,
3,000 years B.C., Iphiscrates had stopped the human
sacrifices entirely among the Carthaginians. Diphilus
ordered bulls to be substituted for human victims.
Amosis forced the priests to replace the latter by
figures of wax. On the other hand, for every stranger
offered on the shrine of Diana by the inhabitants of the
Tauric Chersonesus, the Inquisition and the Christian
clergy can boast of a dozen of heretics offered on the
altar of the “mother of God,” and her “Son.” And when
did the Christians ever think of substituting either
animals or wax-figures for living heretics, Jews, and
witches? They burned these in effigy only when, through
providential interference, the doomed victims had
escaped their clutches.
[1108] This is why Jesus recommends prayer in the solitude of
one’s closet. This secret prayer is but the _paravidya_
of the Vedantic philosopher: “He who knows his soul
(inner self) daily retires to the region of _Swarga_
(the heavenly realm) in his own heart,” says the
_Brihad-Aranyaka_. The Vedantic philosopher recognizes
the Âtman, the spiritual _self_, as the sole and Supreme
God.
[1109] “Wheel of the Law,” p. 54.
[1110] A. Wilder: “Ancient and Modern Prophecy.”
[1111] While at _Petrovsk_ (Dhagestan, region of the Caucasus)
we had the opportunity of witnessing another such
_mystery_. It was owing to the kindness of Prince
Melikoff, the governor-general of Dhagestan, living at
Temerchan-Shoura, and especially of Prince Shamsoudine,
the ex-reigning Shamchal of Tarchoff, a native Tartar,
that during the summer of 1865 we assisted at this
ceremonial from the safe distance of a sort of private
box, constructed under the ceiling of the temporary
building.
[1112] Does not this afford us a point of comparison with the
so-called “materializing mediums?”
[1113] The Yezidis must number over 200,000 men altogether.
The tribes which inhabit the Pashalik of Bagdad, and are
scattered over the Sindjar mountains are the most
dangerous, as well as the most hated for their evil
practices. Their chief Sheik lives constantly near the
tomb of their prophet and reformer Adi, but every tribe
chooses its own sheik among the most learned in the
“black art.” This Adi or Ad is a mythic ancestor of
theirs, and simply is, Adi--the God of wisdom or the
Parsi Ab-ad the first ancestor of the human race, or
again Adh-Buddha of the Hindus, anthropomorphized and
degenerated.
[1114] Within less than four months we have collected from the
daily papers forty-seven cases of crime, ranging from
drunkenness up to murder, committed by ecclesiastics in
the United States only. By the end of the year our
correspondents in the East will have valuable facts to
offset missionary denunciations of “heathen”
misdemeanors.
[1115] “Evolution,” art. Paul, the Founder of Christianity.
[1116] We find in Galatians iv. 4, the following: “But when the
fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son,
_made of a woman, made under the law_.”
[1117] The date has been fully established for these Pali Books
in our own century; sufficiently so, at least, to show
that they existed in Ceylon, 316 B.C., when Mahinda, the
son of Asoka, was there (See Max Müller, “Chips, etc.,”
vol. i., on Buddhism).
[1118] “A New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam,” by
M. de la Loubère, Envoy to Siam from France, 1687-8,
chap. xxv., London; “Diverse Observations to be Made in
Preaching the Gospel to the Orientals.”
The Sieur de la Loubère’s report to the king was made,
as we see, in 1687-8. How thoroughly his proposition to
the Jesuits, to suppress and dissemble in preaching
Christianity to the Siamese, met their approval, is
shown in the passage elsewhere quoted from the Thesis
propounded by the Jesuits of Caen (“Thesis propugnata in
regio Soc. Jes. Collegio, celeberrimæ Academiæ
Cadoniensis, die Veneris, 30 Jan., 1693), to the
following effect: “... neither do the Fathers of the
Society of Jesus dissemble _when they adopt the
institute and the habit_ of the Talapoins of Siam.” In
five years the Ambassador’s little lump of leaven had
leavened the whole.
[1119] In a discourse of Hermes with Thoth, the former says:
“It is impossible for thought to rightly conceive of
God.... One cannot describe, through material organs,
that which is immaterial and eternal.... One is a
perception of the spirit, the other a reality. That
which can be perceived by our senses can be described in
words; but that which is incorporeal, invisible,
immaterial, and without form cannot be realized through
our ordinary senses. I understand thus, O Thoth, I
understand that God is ineffable.”
In the _Catechism of the Parsis_, as translated by M.
Dadabhai Naoroji, we read the following:
“Q. What is the form of our God?”
“A. Our God has neither face nor form, color nor shape,
nor fixed place. There is no other like Him. He is
Himself, singly such a glory that we cannot praise or
describe Him; nor our mind comprehend Him.”
[1120] “Contemporary Review,” p. 588, July, 1870.
[1121] “Book of Ser Marco Polo,” vol. ii., pp. 304, 306.
[1122] Ibid.
[1123] Ibid.
[1124] “Dec.,” v., lib. vi., cap. 2.
[1125] “Travels in Tartary,” etc., pp. 121, 122.
[1126] “Book of Ser Marco Polo,” vol. ii., p. 340.
[1127] His twenty or more volumes on Oriental subjects are
indeed a curious conglomerate of truth and fiction. They
contain a vast deal of fact about Indian traditions,
philosophy and chronology, with most just views
courageously expressed. But it seems as if the
philosopher were constantly being overlaid by the
romancist. It is as though two men were united in their
authorship--one careful, serious, erudite, scholarly,
the other a sensational and sensual French romancer, who
judges of facts not as they are but as _he_ imagines
them. His translations from _Manu_ are admirable; his
controversial ability marked; his views of priestly
morals unfair, and in the case of the Buddhists,
positively slanderous. But in all the series of volumes
there is not a line of dull reading; he has the eye of
the artist, the pen of the poet of nature.
[1128] Les Fils de Dieu. “L’Inde Brahmanique,” p. 296.
[1129] In its general sense, _Isvara_ means “Lord;” but the
Isvara of the mystic philosophers of India was
understood precisely as the union and communion of men
with the Deity of the Greek mystics. _Isvara-Parasada_
means, literally, in Sanscrit, _grace_. Both of the
“Mimansas,” treating of the most abstruse questions,
explain _Karma_ as merit, or the _efficacy of works_;
Isvara-Parasada, as grace; and _Sradha_, as faith. The
“Mimansas” are the work of the two most celebrated
theologians of India. The “Pourva-Mimansa” was written
by the philosopher Djeminy, and the “Outtara-Mimansa”
(or Vedanta), by Richna Dvipayaa Vyasa, who collected
the four “Vedas” together. (See Sir William Jones,
Colebrooke, and others.)
[1130] Suetonius: “August.”
[1131] Plutarch.
[1132] “Pliny,” xxx., pp. 2, 14.
[1133] “Servius ad. Æon,” p. 71.
[1134] Peary Chand Mittra: “The Psychology of the Aryas;”
“Human Nature,” for March, 1877.
[1135] The Boulogne (France) correspondent of an English
journal says that he knows of a gentleman who has had an
arm amputated at the shoulder, “who is certain that he
has a spiritual arm, which he sees and actually feels
with his other hand. He can touch anything, and even
pull up things with the spiritual or phantom arm and
hand.” The party knows nothing of spiritualism. We give
this as we get it, without verification, but it merely
corroborates what we have seen in the case of an Eastern
adept. This eminent scholar and practical kabalist can
at will project his astral arm, and with the hand take
up, move, and carry objects, even at a considerable
distance from where he may be sitting or standing. We
have often seen him thus minister to the wants of a
favorite elephant.
[1136] Answer to a question at “The National Association of
Spiritualists,” May 14th, 1877.
[1137] “A Buddhist’s Opinions of the Spiritual States.”
[1138] See the “London Spiritualist,” May 25, 1877, p. 246.
[1139] See Coleman’s “Hindu Mythology.”
[1140] Russian subjects are not allowed to cross the Tartar
territory, neither the subjects of the Emperor of
China to go to the Russian factories.
[1141] These are the representatives of the Buddhist Trinity,
Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, or Fo, Fa, and Sengh, as
they are called in Thibet.
[1142] A Bikshu is not allowed to accept anything directly even
from laymen of his own people, least of all from a
foreigner. The slightest contact with the body and even
dress of a person not belonging to their special
community is carefully avoided. Thus even the offerings
brought by us and which comprised pieces of red and
yellow _pou-lou_, a sort of woollen fabric the lamas
generally wear, had to pass through strange ceremonies.
They are forbidden, 1, to ask or beg for anything--even
were they starving--having to wait until it is
voluntarily offered; 2, to touch either gold or silver
with their hands; 3, to eat a morsel of food, even when
presented, unless the donor distinctly says to the
disciple, “This is for your master to _eat_.” Thereupon,
the disciple turning to the _pazen_ has to offer the
food in his turn, and when he has said, “Master, this is
allowed; take and eat,” then only can the lama take it
with the right hand, and partake of it. All our
offerings had to pass through such purifications. When
the silver pieces, and a few handfuls of annas (a coin
equal to four cents) were at different occasions offered
to the community, a disciple first wrapped his hand in a
yellow handkerchief, and receiving it on his palm,
conveyed the sum immediately into the _Badir_, called
elsewhere _Sabaït_, a sacred basin, generally wooden,
kept for offerings.
[1143] These stones are highly venerated among Lamaists and
Buddhists; the throne and sceptre of Buddha are
ornamented with them, and the Taley Lama wears one on
the fourth finger of the right hand. They are found in
the Altai Mountains, and near the river Yarkuh. Our
talisman was a gift from the venerable high-priest, a
_Heiloung_, of a Kalmuck tribe. Though treated as
apostates from their primitive Lamaism, these nomads
maintain friendly intercourse with their brother
Kalmucks, the Chokhots of Eastern Thibet and Kokonor,
but even with the Lamaists of Lha-Ssa. The
ecclesiastical authorities however, will have no
relations with them. We have had abundant opportunities
to become acquainted with this interesting people of the
Astrakhan Steppes, having lived in their _Kibitkas_ in
our early years, and partaken of the lavish hospitality
of the Prince Tumene, their late chief, and his
Princess. In their religious ceremonies, the Kalmucks
employ trumpets made from the thigh and arm bones of
deceased rulers and high priests.
[1144] The Buddhist Kalmucks of the Astrakhan steppes are
accustomed to make their idols out of the cremated ashes
of their princes and priests. A relative of the author
has in her collection several small pyramids composed of
the ashes of eminent Kalmucks and presented to her by
the Prince Tumene himself in 1836.
[1145] The sacred fan used by the chief priests instead of an
umbrella.
[1146] See vol. i., p. 476.
[1147] See his “Lectures on Sound.”
[1148] From the compound word sûtra, maxim or precept, and
antika, close or near.
[1149] It sounds like injustice to Asôka to compare him with
Constantine, as is done by several Orientalists. If, in
the religious and political sense, Asôka did for India
what Constantine is alleged to have achieved for the
Western World, all similarity stops there.
[1150] See “Indian Sketches;” Appleton’s “New Cyclopedia,” etc.
[1151] _Aum_ (mystic Sanscrit term of the Trinity), _mani_
(holy jewel), _padmé_ (_in_ the lotus, padma being the
name for lotus), _houm_ (be it so). The six syllables in
the sentence correspond to the six chief powers of
nature emanating from Buddha (the abstract deity, not
Gautama), who is the _seventh_, and the Alpha and Omega
of being.
[1152] Moru (the pure) is one of the most famous lamaseries of
Lha-Ssa, directly in the centre of the city. There the
Shaberon, the Taley Lama, resides the greater portion of
the winter months; during two or three months of the
warm season his abode is at Foht-lla. At Moru is the
largest typographical establishment of the country.
[1153] The Buddhist great canon, containing 1,083 works in
several hundred volumes, many of which treat of magic.
[1154] “Crawfurd’s Mission to Siam,” p. 182.
[1155] “Semedo,” vol. iii., p. 114.
[1156] There was an anecdote current among Daguerre’s friends
between 1838 and 1840. At an evening party, Madame
Daguerre, some two months previous to the introduction
of the celebrated Daguerrean process to the _Académie
des Sciences_, by Arago (January, 1839), had an earnest
consultation with one of the medical celebrities of the
day about her husband’s mental condition. After
explaining to the physician the numerous symptoms of
what she believed to be her husband’s mental aberration,
she added, with tears in her eyes, that the greatest
proof to her of Daguerre’s insanity was his firm
conviction that he would succeed in nailing his own
shadow to the wall, or fixing it on _magical_ metallic
plates. The physician listened to the intelligence very
attentively, and answered that he had himself observed
in Daguerre lately the strongest symptoms of what, to
his mind, was an undeniable proof of madness. He closed
the conversation by firmly advising her to send her
husband quietly and without delay to Bicétre, the
well-known lunatic asylum. Two months later a profound
interest was created in the world of art and science by
the exhibition of a number of pictures taken by the new
process. The _shadows_ were fixed, after all, upon
metallic plates, and the “lunatic” proclaimed the father
of photography.
[1157] Schott: “Über den Buddhismus,” p. 71.
[1158] “The Book of Ser Marco Polo,” vol. ii., p. 352.
[1159] Ibid., vol. ii., p. 130, quoted by Col. Yule in vol. ii.,
p. 353.
[1160] No country in the world can boast of more medicinal
plants than Southern India, Cochin, Burmah, Siam, and
Ceylon. European physicians--according to time-honored
practice--settle the case of professional rivalship, by
treating the native doctors as quacks and empirics; but
this does not prevent the latter from being often
successful in cases in which eminent graduates of
British and French schools of Medicine have signally
failed. Native works on Materia Medica do not certainly
contain the secret remedies known, and successfully
applied by the native doctors (the Atibbā), from time
immemorial; and yet the best febrifuges have been
learned by British physicians from the Hindus, and where
patients, deafened and swollen by abuse of quinine, were
slowly dying of fever under the treatment of enlightened
physicians, the bark of the Margosa, and the Chiretta
herb have cured them completely, and these now occupy an
honorable place among European drugs.
[1161] The Hindu appellation for the peculiar mantrâm or charm
which prevents the serpent from biting.
[1162] Between the bells of the “heathen” worshippers, and the
bells and pomegranates of the Jewish worship, the
difference is this: the former, besides purifying the
soul of man with their harmonious tones, kept _evil_
demons at a distance, “for the sound of pure bronze
breaks the enchantment,” says Tibullius (i., 8-22), and
the latter explained it by saying that the sound of the
bells “should be heard [by the Lord] when he [the
priest] goeth in unto the holy place before the Lord,
and when he goeth out, _that he die not_” (Exodus
xxviii. 33; Eccles. xiv. 9). Thus, one sound served to
keep away _evil_ spirits, and the other, the Spirit of
Jehovah. The Scandinavian traditions affirm that the
Trolls were always driven from their abodes by the bells
of the churches. A similar tradition is in existence in
relation to the fairies of Great Britain.
[1163] An elemental dæmon, in which every native of Asia believes.
[1164] Lady, or Madam, in Moldavian.
[1165] The hour in Bucharest corresponded perfectly with that
of the country in which the scene had taken place.
[1166] Capt. W. L. D. O’Grady: “Life in India.”
[1167] Neither Russia nor England succeeded in 1849 in forcing
them to recognize and respect the Turkish from the
Persian territory.
[1168] Persepolis is the Persian Istakhâar, northeast of
Shiraz; it stood on a plain now called Merdusht. At the
confluence of the ancient Medus and the Araxes, now
Pulwân and Bend-emir.
[1169] “Ægyptiaci Theatrum Hierogliphicum,” p. 544.
[1170] We have twice assisted at the strange rites of the
remnants of that sect of fire-worshippers known as the
Guebres, who assemble from time to time at Baku, on the
“field of fire.” This ancient and mysterious town is
situated near the Caspian Sea. It belongs to Russian
Georgia. About twelve miles northeast from Baku stands
the remnant of an ancient Guebre temple, consisting of
four columns, from whose empty orifices issue constantly
jets of flame, which gives it, therefore, the name of
Temple of the Perpetual Fire. The whole region is
covered with lakes and springs of naphtha. Pilgrims
assemble there from distant parts of Asia, and a
priesthood, worshipping the divine principle of fire, is
kept by some tribes, scattered hither and thither about
the country.
[1171] Baadéy-ku-Ba--literally “a gathering of winds.”
[1172] See also “Magic and Mesmerism,” a novel reprinted by the
Harpers, thirty years ago.
INDEX.
INDEX.
Abarbanel, his explanation of the sign of the coming of the Messiah,
ii. 256
Abracadabra, diabolical, evoked anew, ii. 4
Abraham, his history, ii. 217;
belongs to the universal mythology, ii. 216;
_Zeruan_, _ib._;
Isaac, and Judah, from Brahma, Ikshwaka and Yada, ii. 488;
and his sons, the story an allegory, ii. 493
Abraiaman, or charmers of fishes and wild beasts in Ceylon, i. 606
Absolution and penance authorized in the Church of England, ii. 544
Absorbed, a state of intimate union, ii. 117
Abuses of magic denounced by the ancients, ii. 97, 99
Abydos, a pre-Menite dynasty, ii. 361
Academicians, French, i. 60;
reject theurgical magic, i. 281
Academy, French, indignant at the charge of Satanism, i. 101;
rejected mesmerism, i. 165, 171;
Committee of 1784, i. 171;
Committee of 1826, i. 173
Acari, produced by chemical experiments, i. 465
Accuser of Souls at the judgment, ii. 487
Acher (Paul) in the garden of delights, ii. 119;
“made depredations,” _ib._
Actions guided by spiritual beings, i. 366
Ad, its meaning, i. 579
Adah, her sons from the Euxine to Kashmere, i. 579
Ad-Am, only-begotten, i. 579
Adam (ανθροπως), Divine essence emanating from,
i. 1;
the primitive man, i. 2;
the second, i. 297;
the same as the “gods,” or Elohim, i. 299;
of dust, i. 302;
Kadmon, androgynous, i. 297;
the first man evolved, _ib._;
same as the Logos, Prometheus, Pimander, Hermes, and Herakles, i.
298;
of Eden, eat without initiation of the Tree of Knowledge or secret
doctrine, i. 575;
invested with the _chitun_, or coat of skin, _ib._;
the fall, not personal transgression, but a law of dual evolution,
ii. 277;
conducted from Hell, ii. 517;
same as Tamuz, Adonis, and Helios, _ib._;
sends Seth on an errand to paradise, ii. 520;
Kadmon, ii. 36;
Kadmon, i. 93;
Kadmon, the first race of men his emanations, ii. 276;
Primus, the Microprosopus, ii. 452
Adamic Earth, i. 51
Adamite, the third race, produced by two races, i. 305
Adanari, the Hindu goddess, ii. 451, 453
Adar-gat, Aster’t, etc., the _Magna Mater_, i. 579
Adept, the first self-made, ii. 317;
of the highest order, may live indefinitely, ii. 563;
of the seventh rite, ii. 564
Adepts few, i. 17;
in Paris and elsewhere ii. 403;
“travellers,” _ib._
Adhima and Heva, created by Siva, and ancestors of the present race,
i. 590
A’di Buddha, the Unknown, ii. 156;
the father of the Yezidis, ii. 571
Adima and Heva, in the prophecies of Ramatsariar, i. 579
Adonai or Adamites, i. 303
Adonim, i. 301
Adonis, his rites celebrated in the grotto at Bethlehem, ii. 139
Adonis-worship, at the Jordan, ii. 181
Adrian supposed the Christians to worship Serapis, ii. 336
Æbel-Zivo, the Metatron, or Anointed spirit, ii. 154; ii. 236, 247;
the same as the Angel Gabriel, ii. 247
Æneas drives away ghosts with his sword, i. 362, 363
Æons, or genii, i. 300
Aërolites, used in the Mysteries, i. 282;
in the tower of Belos, ii. 331;
used to develop prophetic power, _ib._
Æther, i. 56;
in that form the Deity pervading all, i. 129;
the primordial chaos, i. 134;
the spirit of cosmic matter, i. 156;
deified, i. 158;
source whence all things come and whither they will return, i. 189;
the fifth element, i. 342;
a medium between this world and the other, _ib._;
the Breath of the Father, the Holy Ghost, ii. 50
Æthiopia, east of Babylonia, ii. 434
Æthiopians from the Indus, who settled near Egypt, probably Jews, i.
567;
originally an Indian race, ii. 437;
law of inheritance by the mother, _ib._
Affinity of soul for body, i. 344;
acknowledged between the _Syllabus_ and the _Koran_, ii. 82
Afrasiah, the King of Assyria, i. 575
Africa, phantoms appearing in the desert, i. 604
Afrits, i. 141;
nature-spirits, Shedim, demons, i. 313;
studying antediluvian literature, ii. 29
Agassiz, Prof. L., unfairness of, i. 63;
his argument in favor of the immortality of all orders of living
beings, i. 420
Agathodaimon and Kakothodaimon, i. 133
Agathadæmon, the serpent on a pole, ii. 512
Age of paper, i. 535
Aged of the aged, ii. 244
Ages, golden, silver, copper and iron, no fiction, i. 34;
or Aions, ii. 144
Agni, the sun-god and fire-god, i. 270
Agrippa, Cornelius, i. 167, 200;
his remarks on the marvellous power of the human soul, i. 280
Ahab and his sons encouraged by the prophets, ii. 525
Ahaz, his family deposed, ii. 440
Ahijah the prophet instigates Jeroboam to revolt against Solomon, ii.
439
Ahriman, his contest with Ormazd, ii. 237;
to be purified in the fiery lake, ii. 238
Aij-Taïon, the Supreme God of the Yakuts of Siberia, ii. 568
Ain-Soph, ii. 210
Ajunta, Buddhistic caverns of, i. 349
Akâsa, or life-principle, i. 113;
known to Hindu magicians, _ib._;
same as Archæus, i. 125;
a designation of astral and celestial lights combined, forming
the _anima mundi_, and constituting the soul and spirit of man,
i. 139;
the will, i. 144
Ak-Ad or Akkad, meaning suggested, i. 579
Akkadians, introduced the worship of Bel or Baal, i. 263;
progenitors and Aryan instructors of the Chaldeans, i. 576;
never a Turanian tribe, _ib._;
a tribe of Hindus, _ib._;
from Armenia, perhaps from Ceylon, i. 578;
invented by Lenormant, ii. 423
Akiba in the garden of delights, ii. 119
Aksakof, i. 41, 46; protests against the decision of Prof.
Mendeleyeff and commission adverse to mediumism, i. 118
Alba petra, or white stone of initiation, ii. 351
Alberico and not Amerigo, the name of Vespucius or Vespuzio, i. 591
Albertus Magnus, ii. 20
Albigenses, descendants of the Gnostics, ii. 502
Albumazar on the identity of the myths, ii. 489
Alchemical principles, i. 191
Alchemists, i. 66, 205
Alchemy, universally studied, i. 502;
old as tradition, i. 503;
books destroyed by Diocletian, the Roman Emperor, _ib._
Alchemy and magic prevalent among the clergy, ii. 57
Aleim or Eloim, gods or powers, also priests, i. 575
Alexander of Macedonia, his expedition into India doubtful, ii. 429
Alexandrian library, the most precious rolls preserved, ii. 27;
learned Copts do not believe it destroyed, ii. 28;
obtained from the Asiatics, _ib._;
school, derived the soul from the ether or world-soul, i. 316.
Algebra, i. 536
Alkahest, i. 50;
the universal solvent clear water, i. 133;
overlooked by the French Academy, i. 165;
explained by Van Helmont and Paracelsus, i. 191
Allegory, becomes sacred history, ii. 406;
reserved for the inner sanctuary, ii. 493
Alligators do not disturb fakirs, i. 383
Allopathists in medicine enemies to psychology, i. 88;
oppose everything till stamped as regular, _ib._;
oppose discoveries, _ib._
All things formed after the model, i. 302
“Almighty, the Nebulous,” i. 129
Al-om-jah, an Egyptian hierophant, ii. 364
Alsatians believe Paracelsus to be only sleeping in his grave, ii. 500
Amasis, King of Egypt, sends a linen garment to Lindus, i. 536
Amazons, their circle-dance in Palestine, ii. 45
Amberley, Viscount, regards Jesus as an iconoclastic idealist, ii.
562;
looks down upon the social plane indicated by the great Sopher,
_ib._
Amenthes, or Amenti, has no blazing hell, ii. 11
Americ, or great mountain, the name of a range in Central America
visited by Columbus, i. 592
America, Central, lost cities, i. 239;
not named from Vespucius, i. 591;
name found in Nicaragua, i. 592;
first applied to the continent in 1522, _ib._;
Markland, _ib._;
note of A. Wilder, _ib._;
the conservatory of spiritual sensitives, ii. 19
American lodges know nothing of esoteric Masonry, ii. 376;
templarism, its three degrees, ii. 383
Americans to join the Catholic Church, ii. 379
Amita or Buddha, his realm, i. 601
Ammonius Sakkas, i. 443;
dated his philosophy from Hermes, ii. 342
Amrita, the supreme soul, i. 265
Amulet, a soldier made proof by one against bullets, i. 378
Amulets and relics, spells and phylacteries, ii. 352
Amun, i. 262
An, spirits of, ii. 387
Anæsthesia, its discovery by Wells, i. 539;
the improvements by Morton, Simpson, and Colton, i. 540;
understood by the Egyptians and Brahmans, _ib._
Anahit, the earth, i. 11
Anathems, a custom original with Christians, ii. 334
Anaxagoras, belief concerning spiritual prototypes, i. 158
Anaximenes held the doctrine of evolution or development, i. 238
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite a Jesuitical product, ii. 390
Ancient Philosophies, based on the doctrine of God the universal mind
diffused throughout nature, i. 289;
books written symbolically, i. 19;
of the ancient, i. 302;
Code of Manu, not in our possession, i. 585, 586;
landmarks of Masonry departed from, ii. 380;
mysteries hidden only from the profane, ii. 121;
religions, the wisdom or doctrine, their basis, ii. 99;
identical as to their secret meaning, ii. 410;
derived from one primitive worship, ii. 412;
word, note of Emanuel Swedenborg, ii. 470;
in Buddhistic Tartary, ii. 471
Ancients, monotheistical before Moses, i. 23;
knew certain sciences better than modern savants, i. 25;
regarded the physical sun as only an emblem, i. 270;
practiced psychometry, i. 331;
their religion that of the future, i. 613
Anderson, author of the Constitutions of 1723 and 1738, a Masonic
impostor, ii. 389;
Steve, his spiritual advisers anxious for his speedy execution lest
he should fall from grace, ii. 543
Angelo, Michel, his remarkable gem, i. 240
Angkor, figures purely archaic, i. 567
Anglican Church adopting again the Roman usages, ii. 544
Anima, i. 37
Anima Mundi, or world-soul, i. 56, 258;
same as Nirvana, i. 291;
feminine with the Gnostics and Nazarenes, i. 300;
bi-sexual, i. 301;
same as the astral light, _ib._;
an igneous, ethereal nature, i. 316, 317;
the human soul born upon leaving, i. 345
Animals, perhaps immortal, argument of Agassiz, i. 420, 427;
argument from natural instinct, i. 426, 427;
shut up in the ark, ii. 447
Animation, suspended, i. 483;
voluntarily, _ib._;
in cataleptic clairvoyance, i. 489
Anna, St., going in quest of her daughter Mary, ii. 491;
the origin of the name, _ib._
Annas and Caiaphas confess Jesus to be the Son of God, ii. 522
Annihilation, the meaning of the Buddhist doctrine, i. 290;
of the soul, i. 319
Annoia, ii. 282, 286
Anthesteria, the baptism and passage through the gate, ii. 245, 246
Anthropomorphic devil the bottom card, ii. 479
Anti-Christ, a fable invented as a precaution, ii. 535
Antichristianism, seeking to overthrow Christianity by science, i. 337
Anti-Masonic Convention denying the validity of an oath, ii. 373-375
Antipathy, its beginning, i. 309
Antitypes of men to be born, i. 310
Antiquity of human race, over 250,000 years, i. 3;
of necromancy and spiritualism, remote, i. 205;
lost natural philosophy, i. 235;
of optical instruments, gunpowder, the steam-engine, astronomical
science, i. 240, 241;
of the flood, i. 241;
opinion of Aristotle, i. 428
Ape, astral body, i. 327;
a degenerated man, ii. 278
Apis, the bull, secret book concerning his age, i. 406
Apocryphal Gospels first received and then discarded, ii. 518
Apollo made the prince of demons and lord of the under-world, ii. 488
Apollonius of Tyana, his journey an allegory, i. 19;
regard for stones, i. 265;
cast out devils, i. 356;
his power to witness the present and the future, i. 486;
beheld an empusa or ghûl, i. 604;
testimony of Justin Martyr respecting his powers, ii. 97;
not a “spirit-medium,” ii. 118;
his mistake, ii. 341;
his conjurations when wrapped in a woolen mantle, ii. 344;
visited Kashmere, ii. 434;
the faculty of his soul to quit the body, ii. 597;
vanished from sight and renewal elsewhere, _ib._
Apollyon, his various characters, ii. 511
Apophis, or Apap, the dragon, infests the soul, ii. 368
Apostles, Acts of, rejected, ii. 182;
Creed a forgery, ii. 514
Apostles of Buddhism, ii. 608
Apparitions of spirits of animals, i. 326
Appleton’s New American Cyclopædia misstates the date of the laws of
Manu, i. 587
Apuleius’ doctrine concerning birth and death of the soul, ii. 345;
on the beatific vision, ii. 145;
accused of black magic, ii. 149
Aquinas, Thomas, destroys the brazen oracular head of Albertus
Magnus, ii. 56
Arabic manuscripts, 80,000 burned at Granada, i. 511
Aralez, Armenian gods who revivify men, ii. 564
Arcane powers in Man, ii. 112;
knowledge and sorcery, ii. 583
Archæus, i. 14;
same as Chaos, fire, sidereal or astral light, psychic or ektenic
force, Akasa, etc., i. 125;
the principle of life, i. 400
Archæologists, their attacks on each other, ii. 471, 472
Archetypal man a spheroid, ii. 469
Architecture of the Egyptian temples, i. 517
Architectural remains in different countries, their remarkable
identity of parts, i. 572
Archons of this world, ii. 89, 90
Archytas, instructor of Plato, constructed a wooden dove, i. 543;
invented the screw and crane, _ib._
Arctic regions visited by the Phœnicians, i. 545
Argha, or ark, ii. 444
Arhat, i. 291;
reaches Nirvana while on earth, ii. 320
Arhats, free from evil desire, i. 346
Aristotle on the human soul and the world-soul, i. 251;
three natural principles, i. 310;
on gas from the earth, i. 200;
on form, i. 312;
on the _nous_ and _psuche_, i. 316;
on the filth element, i. 317;
believed in the nous and psuche, the reasoning and the animal soul,
i. 317;
borrowed doctrines from Pythagoras, i. 319, 320;
believed in a past eternity of human existence, i. 428;
doctrine of two-fold soul, i. 429;
taught the Buddhistic doctrine, i. 430;
believed light to be itself an energy, i. 510;
contradicted by the Neo-Platonists, i. 430;
taught that the earth was the centre of the universe, i. 408;
obnoxious to Christian theology, ii. 34;
upon Jon or יהוה, ii. 302
Ark, what it represents, ii. 444
Armenian tradition of giving life to a slain warrior, ii. 564
Armor, Prof., theory of malformations, i. 392
Arnobius, believed the soul corporeal, i. 317
Artesian well, used in China, i. 517
Articles of faith of the ancient wisdom-religions, ii. 116
Artificial lakes in ancient temples in Egypt, Asia, and America, i.
572
Artificially fecundated woman, i. 77, 81
Arts in the archaic ages, i. 405, 406
Artufas, the temples of nagualism, i. 557
Aryan, Median, Persian, and Hindu, also the Gothic and Slavic
peoples, i. 576;
nations, had no devil, ii. 10;
carried bronze manufacture into Europe, i. 539;
united, 3,000 B.C., ii. 433;
in the valley of the upper Indus, _ib._;
did not borrow from the Semites, ii. 426
Asbestos, i. 229;
thread and oil made from it, i. 504
Asclepiadotus, reproduces chemically the exhalations of the sacred
oracle-grotto, i. 531
Asdt, אשדת (_Deut._ xxxiii. 2), signifies emanations, but
mistranslated, ii. 34
Asgârtha, temple in India, ii. 31
Ash-trees, third race of men created from, i. 558
Ashmole, Elias, the Rosicrucian, the first operative Mason of note,
ii. 349
Asia, middle belt, perhaps once a sea-bed, i. 590, 592
Asideans, or Khasdims, the same as Pharsi or Pharisees, ii. 441
Asmodeus, or Æshma-deva, ii. 482
Asmonean priest-kings promulgated the _Old Testament_ in opposition
to the Apocrypha, ii. 135;
first Pharisees, and then Sadducees, _ib._
Asoka and Augustine, ii. 32;
his missionaries, ii. 42;
the Buddhist, sent missionaries to other countries, ii. 491
Ass, the form of Typhon, ii. 484;
its Coptic name, AO, a phonetic of Iao, _ib._;
head found in the temple, ii. 523
Assyria, the land of Nimrod, or Bacchus, i. 568
Assyrians basso-relievos at Nagkon-Wat, i. 566;
sphinxes, ii. 451;
tablets, the flood, ii. 422
Assyrians, their archaic empire, ii. 486
Astral atmosphere, i. 314;
body or doppelganger, i. 360;
of the ape, i. 327;
fire, represented by the serpent, i. 137;
fluid can be compressed about the body, to protect it from
violence, i. 378, 380;
a bolt of it can be directed with fatal force, i. 380;
form oozing out of the body, i. 179;
bound to the corpse and infesting the living, i. 432;
light, i. 56, 156, 247;
the Ob or Python, i. 158;
currents, i. 247;
same as the anima mundi, i. 301;
dual and bi-sexual, _ib._;
Soul or Spirit, i. 12;
divided by H. More into the aërial and ætherial vehicles, i. 206;
said to linger about the body 3,000 years, i. 226;
doctrine of Epicurus, i. 250;
the perisprit, composed of matter, i. 289;
not immortal, i. 432;
virgin, i. 126
Astrograph, i. 385
Astrologers, Chaldean, i. 205
Astrology, i. 259
Astronomus, the title of the highest initiate, ii. 365
Astronomical calculations of Chaldeans and Egyptians, i. 21;
of Chaldeans and Aztecs, i. 11, 241;
of Chinese, i. 241
Aswatha, the Hindu tree of life, i. 152, 153
Athanor, the, the Archimedean lever, i. 506
Atheism, not a Buddhistical doctrine, i. 292
Atharva-Veda, great value, ii. 414, 415
Athbach, ii. 299
Atheists, none among heathen populations, ii. 240;
none in days of old, ii. 530
Athos, Mount, story of the manuscripts, ii. 52
Athothi, king of Egypt, writes a book on anatomy, i. 406
Athtor, or Mother Night, i. 91
Atlantis, the legend believed, i. 557
Atlantic ocean, once intersected by islands and a continent, i. 557,
558;
mentioned in the _Secret Book_, i. 590;
perhaps the actual name of the great Southern continent in the
Indian Ocean, i. 591;
name not Greek, _ib._;
probable etymology of the name, _ib._;
two orders of inhabitants, i. 592, 593;
their fall, and the submersion of the island, i. 593
Atma, i. 346
Atman, the spiritual self, recognized as God, ii. 566
Atmospheric electricity embodied in demi-gods, i. 261
Atoms, doctrine taught by Demokritus, i. 249
Atonement, origin of the doctrine, ii. 41;
error of Prof. Draper, _ib._;
mysteries of initiation, ii. 42
Attraction, the great mystery, i. 338
Audhumla, the cow or female principle, i. 147
Augoeides, or part of the divine spirit, i. 12, 306, 315;
cannot be communed with by a hierophant with a touch of mortal
passion, i. 358;
self-shining vision of the future self, ii. 115;
the âtman or self, ii. 317
Augsburgian Jesuits desirous to change the Sabean emblems, ii. 450
Augustine, his accession to Christianity placed theology and science
at everlasting enmity, ii. 88;
his directions about the ladies’ toilet, ii. 331;
scouted the sphericity of the earth, ii. 477;
affirmed a predestinated state of happiness and predetermined
reprobation, ii. 546
A U M, meaning of the sacred letters, ii. 31;
the holy primitive syllable, ii. 39;
and Tum, ii. 387
Aur, i. 158
Aura Placida, deified into two martyrs, ii. 248
Aureole, from Babylonia, ii. 95
Auricular confession in the Anglican church, ii. 544
Aurora borealis, conjectures concerning it of scientists, i. 417
Aurumgahad, i. 349;
Buddhistic mementos, i. 349
Austin Friars, or Augustinians, outdone in magic by the Jesuits, i.
445
Avany, the Virgin, by whom the first Buddha was incarnated, ii. 322
Avatar, i. 291;
the earliest, ii. 427
Avatars and emanations, ii. 155, 156;
of Vishnu, ii. 274;
they symbolize evolution of races, ii. 275
Avicenna, on chickens with hawks’ heads, i. 385
Azaz-El, or Siva, ii. 302, 303
Azoth, or creative principle, symbol, i. 462;
blunder of de Mirville, _ib._
Aztecs, of Mexico, their calendar, i. 11;
resembled the ancient Egyptians, i. 560
Baal, prophets danced the circle-dance of the Amazons, ii. 45;
Tsephon, god of the crypt, ii. 487;
how his hierophants procured apparitions, ii. 567
Babies speaking good French, i. 371
Babinet on table-turning, i. 60, 101, 104;
declares levitation impossible and is refuted, i. 105;
his story of a fire-globe resembling a cat, i. 107
Babylon, built by those who escaped the deluge, i. 31;
after three conquerors, i. 534;
the great mother, or Magna Mater, ii. 501
Babylonia, the seat of Sanscrit literature, ii. 428
Babylonian priests, asserted their observations to have extended back
470,000 years, i. 533;
system defined, ii. 170
Bacchic fan, held by Osiris, ii. 494
Bacchus, a saint of the Roman calendar, i. 160;
worship among the Jews, ii. 128;
“the son of God,” ii. 492;
myth, contains the history of the gods, ii. 527;
the Prophet-God, ii. 527, 528;
a saint in the calendar, ii. 528;
or Dionysus, his Indian origin, ii. 560
Bacon, Roger, miracles, i. 69;
predicted the use of steam and other modern inventions, i. 413
Badagas, a people of Hindustan who revere and maintain the Todas, ii.
613-615
Bad demons, i. 343
Bael-tur, sacred to Siva, i. 469
Baggage from the Pagan mysteries, ii. 334
Bahak-Zivo, i. 298;
ordered to create, i. 299;
the creator, ii. 134
Bahira, the Nestorian monk, ii. 54
Balahala, the fifth degree, ii. 365
Balam Acan, a Toltecan king, i. 553
Ban, on spiritualistic writings, ii. 8
Banyan, the tree of knowledge and life, ii. 293
Baphomet, the alleged god of the Templars, ii. 302
Baptism of blood, the slaughter of a hierophant or an animal, ii. 42;
a general practice, ii. 134
Baptismal font in Egyptian pyramids, i. 519
Baptist preachers’ meeting in New York, ii. 473, 474;
a warm doctrine, _ib._
Baptista Porta, i. 66
Baptists, ii. 291
Bardesanian system, ii. 224
Barjota, Curé de, his magical powers, ii. 60;
saves the Pope’s life, _ib._
Barlaam and Josaphat, a ridiculous romance, ii. 580
Barrachias-Hassan-Oglu, i. 43
Barri (Italy), a statue of the Madonna with crinoline, ii. 9
Bart, his testimony in regard to Herakles, ii. 515
Basic matter of gold, i. 50
Basileus, the archon taking charge of the Eleusinians, ii. 90
Basilidean system, the exposition of Irenæus, ii. 157
Basilides, description of Clement, ii. 123;
derived his doctrines from the Gospel according to Matthew, ii. 155;
his doctrines set forth by Tertullian, ii. 189
Bastian, Dr., his conception of the temple of Angkor or Nagkon-Wat,
i. 567, 568
Batria, the wife of Pharaoh, teacher of Moses, i. 25
Battle of life, ii. 112
Baubo, in the Mysteries, what she directed, ii. 112
Bayle, his testimony on spurious relics, ii. 72
Beads and rosaries, of Buddhistic origin, ii. 95.
Beatific vision or epopteia, testimony of Paul and Apuleius, ii. 146
Beaujeu, Count, his Masonic imposture, ii. 381
Beaumont, Elie de, on terrestrial circulation, i. 503
Beausobre, on the Rasit or Principle, ii. 36
Beel-Zebub (more properly Beel-Zebul, the Baal of the Temple) the
same as Apollo, the Oracle-God, ii. 481;
nicknamed Beel-Zebub, a god of flies, ii. 486
Beer made in ancient Egypt, i. 543
Bel, a personification of the Hindu Siva, i. 263;
and the dragon, i. 550;
Baal, the Devil, i. 552
Belial, a Diakka, ii. 482
Believers in magic, mesmerism and spiritualism, 800,000,000, i. 512
Bellarmin, Cardinal, his vision about the bottomless pit, ii. 8
Bells before the shrine of Jupiter-Ammon, ii. 95;
in Jewish and Buddhistic rites, _ib._
Belus, the first Assyrian king, deified, i. 552
Ben Asai, in the garden of delights, ii. 119;
Zoma, in the garden of delights, ii. 119
Benedict, St., and his black raven, ii. 78
Bengal, magical seance, i. 467
Bengalese conjurers and jugglers, i. 457;
planting trees, etc., which grew at once, _ib._
Bethlehem, grotto of, temple of Adonis, ii. 139
Beverages to produce visions, ii. 117
Bhagaved-gita, opinion of du Perron, ii. 562;
reverenced by the Brahmans, _ib._;
contains the greatest mysteries of the Brahmanic religion, ii. 563;
reverenced alike by Brahmanists and Buddhists, _ib._
Bhagavant, the same as Parabrahma, i. 91;
endued Brahma with creative power, i. 90;
not a creator, i. 347;
enters the world-egg, _ib._
Bhagaved, i. 148
Bhangulpore, Round Tower, ii. 5
Bhutavan, the Spirit of Evil, created to destroy the incarnation of
the sin of Brahma, i. 265
Bible, antedated by Vedas, i. 91;
its allegories repeated in Talapoin and Ceylonese traditions and
manuscripts, i. 577;
used as a weapon against the people who furnished it, ii. 96;
an allegorical screen of the Kabala, ii. 210;
the great light of modern Masonry, ii. 389;
four or five times written over, ii. 470;
when made up, ii. 471;
a secret volume, _ib._;
Patriarchs only zodiacal signs, ii. 459
Bilocation, i. 361
Binlang-stone, ii. 234
Biographers of the Devil, ii. 15
Birds, sung a mass for St. Francis, ii. 77
Birs-Nimrud, the temple of seven stages, i. 261
Birth of the human soul, i. 345
Birth-marks, i. 384
Bisexual, the first man, i. 559
Bishops of the fourth century illiterate, ii. 251
Black-faced Christ in India, ii. 532
Black gods worshipped by the Yakuts, ii. 568, 569
Blackguardism of Father Weninger, ii. 379
Black magic practised at the Vatican, ii. 6;
sorcery and witchcraft, an abuse, ii. 118;
mirror, i. 596;
reveals to the Inca queen her husband’s death, _ib._;
virgins in French cathedrals, figures of Isis, ii. 95
“Bleeding Head” of a murdered child employed as an oracle, ii. 56;
image, ii. 17
Blessed Virgin gives a demoniac a sound thrashing, ii. 76
Blind Force plus intelligence, i. 199;
psychic force, _ib._
Blood, the baptism, ii. 42;
of Jesus Christ, a phial of it presented to Henry III. of England,
ii. 71;
eagerness of spirits for it, i. 344;
its circulation understood by the Egyptians, i. 544;
liquefied at Naples and Nargercoil, in India, i. 613;
its emanations serve spirits with material for their apparitions,
ii. 567;
the universal Proteus and arcanum of life, _ib._;
-demons, i. 353;
-evocation by the Yakuts, Bulgarians and Moldavians, ii. 569, 570
Bloody legislation of Protestant countries against witchcraft, ii.
503;
rites in Hayti, ii. 572
Blue, held in aversion as the symbol of evil, ii. 446;
ray, i. 137, 264;
-violet, the seventh ray, most responsive of all, i. 514
Body, the sepulchre of the soul, ii. 112;
how long it may be kept alive, ii. 563;
of Moses, a symbol for Palestine, ii. 482;
may be obsessed by spirits during the temporary absence of the
soul, ii. 589
Boismont, de, Brierre, on hallucinations, i. 144
Boodhasp, the founder of Sabism or baptism, ii. 290, 291
Book of the Dead, Egyptian, i. 517, 518;
quoted in the Gospel according to Matthew, ii. 548;
older than Menes, ii. 361;
of Jasher, i. 549;
of Jasher, the _Old Testament_ condensed, ii. 399;
of Numbers, Chaldean, i. 32
Books lost and destroyed, i. 24;
of Hermes, i. 33;
of Hermes, attested by the Champollions, i. 625
Births, feast of, supposed to be Bacchic, ii. 44, 45
Bosheth, Israelites consecrated, ii. 130
Both-al, Batylos, and Beth-el, i. 550
Bourbourg, Brasseur de, publishes _Popol Vuh_, i. 2
Boussingault on table-turning, i. 60
Bozrah, the convent there the place where the seed of Islam was sown,
ii. 54
Brachmans in Greece, ii. 321
Brahm, i. 291
Brahma, a secondary deity, like Jehovah, the demiurgos, i. 91;
evolved himself, and then brought nature from himself, i. 93;
creates Lomus, i. 133;
produces spiritual beings, then daints or giants, and, finally, the
castes of men, i. 148;
the name of the universal germ, ii. 261;
night of, ii. 272, 273, 421;
manifested as twelve attributes or gods, i. 348;
day and night, ii. 421
Brahma-Prajapati committed the first sin, i. 265;
his repentance and the hottest tear, _ib._
Brahm-âtma, or chief of the initiates, had the two crossed keys, ii.
31
Brahman, his astounding declaration to Jacolliot, ii. 585
Brahmanas, ii. 409, 410;
the key to the Rig-Veda, ii. 415
Brahmanical religion, stated in the doctrine of God as the Universal
mind diffused through all things, i. 289
Brahmanism, pre-Vedic, identical with Buddhism, ii. 142;
Buddhism its primitive source, ii. 169
Brahman gods, Siva, Surya, and the Aswins denounced in the _Avesta_,
ii. 482, 483
Brahman-Yoggins, i. 307;
story of descent from giants, i. 122;
theories of the sun and moon, i. 264;
their powers of prediction and clairvoyance, i. 446;
possess secrets of anæsthesia, i. 540;
widows burned without hurting them, _ib._;
know that the rite of widow-burning was never prescribed, i. 541;
their religion exclusive, and not to be disseminated, i. 581;
dispossessed the Jaina natives of India, ii. 323;
in Babylonia, ii. 428;
and Buddhists, their extraordinary probity, ii. 474;
how it has deteriorated by Christian association, _ib._
Brain, substance changed by thought and sensation, i. 249, 250;
silvery spark in, i. 329
Brazen serpent, the caduceus of Mercury or Asklepios, i. 556;
symbol of Esculapius or Iao, ii. 481;
worshipped by the Israelites, _ib._;
broken by Hezekiah, ii. 440
Bread-and-mutton protoplasms, i. 421
Bread and wine, a sacrifice of great antiquity, ii. 43, 44, 513
Breath, immortal, infusing life, i. 302
Brighou, the pragâpati and his patriarchal descendants, ii. 427
Bronze age, i. 534
Bronze introduced into Europe 6,000 years ago by Aryan immigrants, i.
539
Brothers of the Shadow, i. 319
Broussard on magnetism and medicine, ii. 610
Bruno, why slaughtered, i. 93;
Prof. Draper misrepresents him, i. 94;
held Jesus to be a magician, _ib._;
accusation against him, i. 95;
his reply, i. 96;
declared this world a star, _ib._;
acknowledged an universal Providence, _ib._;
doubted the Trinity, i. 97;
a Pythagorean, i. 98
Brutal force adored by Christendom, ii. 334
Buchanan, Prof. J. R., criticises Agassiz, i. 63;
his bridge from physical impression to consciousness, i. 87;
theory of psychometry, i. 182;
on tendency of gestures to follow the phrenological organs, i. 500
Buddha, the formless Brahm, i. 291;
the monad, _ib._, 550;
incarnation, _ib._;
his lama representative, i. 437, 438;
appearing of his shadow to Hiouen-Thsang, i. 600;
never deified by his followers, ii. 240;
a social rather than a religious reformer, ii. 339;
tempted and victorious, ii. 513;
never wrote, ii. 559;
his lessons to his disciples, _ib._;
taught the new birth, ii. 566;
breaks with the old mysteries, _ib._;
or Sommona-Cadom, the Siamese Saviour, ii. 576;
changed by the Vatican into St. Josaphat, ii. 579;
“just as if he had been a Christian,” ii. 581
Buddha-Siddârtha, i. 34;
-Gautama, i. 92;
lived 2,540 years ago, ii. 537;
teaches how to escape reincarnation, i. 346
Buddhism based on the doctrine of God, the universal Mind diffused
through all things, i. 289;
prehistoric, the once universal religion, ii. 123;
preached by Jesus, ii. 123;
its ethics, ii. 124;
identical with pre-Vedic Brahmanism, ii. 142;
the primitive source of Brahmanism, ii. 169;
its groundwork the kabalistic doctrine, i. 271;
its doctrine based on works, ii. 288;
esoteric doctrines, ii. 319;
the religion of the earlier Vedas, ii. 436;
degenerated into Lamaism, ii. 582
Buddhist patriarch of Nangasaki, ii. 79;
system, how mastered, i. 289;
monks in Syria and Babylon, ii. 290;
went so far as Ireland, _ib._;
theories of sun and moon, i. 264;
respect for the sapphire-stone, _ib._
Buddhistic element in Gnosticism and missionaries in Greece, ii. 321;
theology, four schools, ii. 533
Bull the emblem of life everywhere, ii. 235, 236;
against the comet, ii. 509;
and syllabus burned by the Bohemians, ii. 560
Bull’s eye in the target of Christianity, ii. 476
Bullets successfully resisted by talismans, i. 378
Bulwer-Lytton, his description of the _vril_, or primal force, i. 64,
125;
elementary beings, i. 285, 289;
the Vril-ya, or coming race, i. 296
Bunsen, testimony concerning the Origines of Egypt, i. 529;
description of the Pyramid of Cheops, i. 518;
account of the Egyptian skill in quarrying, _ib._;
on the word PTR, ii. 93;
his opinion respecting Zoroaster and the Baktrian emigration, ii.
432;
his opinion of Khamism, ii. 435;
on the exodus of the Israelites, ii. 558
Bur, the offspring of Audhumla, i. 147
Burning men to avoid shedding their blood, i. 64;
scientists about as ready as clergy, i. 85
Buried cities in Hindustan, i. 350
Butlerof, Prof. A., on the facts of spiritualism, ii. 3
Cabeirians, i. 23
Cable-tow, the Brahmanical cord, ii. 393
Cadière, Mlle., her seduction by a Jesuit priest, ii. 633, 634
Cagliostro, an Hermetic philosopher, persecuted by the Church of
Rome, i. 200;
said to have made gold and diamonds, i. 509
Cain, ancestor of the Hivites, or Serpents, ii. 446;
and Siva, ii. 448;
or Kenu, the eldest, ii. 464
Calmeil imputes theomania of the Calvinists to hysteria and epilepsy,
i. 371;
his explanation of their extraordinary power of resistance to
blows, i. 375
Calmet, Dom, on vampires, i. 452
Calvin affirmed election, original sin, and reprobation, ii. 547
Carnac, the serpent’s mount, i. 554
Campanile Column, of St. Mark’s, in Venice, its original, ii. 5
Canals of Egypt, i. 516, 517
Canonical books, enforced eliminations, ii. 143;
selected by sortilege, ii. 251
Capuchins, their Christmas observances, ii. 365
Carpenter, W. B., lecture on Egypt, i. 440
Carthage more civilized than Rome, i. 520;
built long before the taking of Troy, _ib._;
not built by Dido, _ib._
Cataclysms, periodical, i. 31
Catalepsy and vampirism, i. 449, 450
Catherine of Medicis employed a sorcerer, ii. 55;
her resort to the charm of “the bleeding head,” ii. 56
Catholic ritual of pagan origin, ii. 85;
miracle in Poland means revolution, ii. 17;
must be Ultramontane and Jesuit, ii. 356;
missionaries becoming Talapoins, ii. 531
Catholicism more fetish-worshipping than Hinduism, ii. 80
Catholics persecute other Christians, ii. 81
Causes, Platonic division, i. 393
Cave-men of Les Eyzies, i. 295
Cave-temples of Ajunta, Buddhistic, i. 349;
of India, claimed by the Jainas, ii. 323
Caves of Mithras, ii. 491
Celestial Virgin pursued by the Dragon, a mystery and representation
in the constellations, ii. 490
Celsus, his accusations of the Christians, ii. 51;
not being refuted, his books burned, ii. 51, 52;
a copy probably existing at a monastery on Mount Athos, ii. 52;
his opinion of Jesus, ii. 530
Celebrated vase of the Genoa Cathedral, its material not known, i.
537, 538
Celt, probably a hybrid of the Aryan and Iberians of Europe, i. 576
Cement, ancient, i. 239
Cenchrea, Paul shorn and Lucius initiated there, ii. 90
Centenarians, Parr, Jenkins, and others, ii. 564
Central America, her peoples to be traced to the Phœnicians and
Mosaic Israelites, i. 555;
Asia, the face of the country changed, ii. 426;
Invisible, i. 302
Cerebral electricity, its dependence upon the statical, i. 322
Ceremony of withdrawing the soul, ii. 603
Ceres or Demeter, the female or passive productive principle, ii. 560
Cerinthus, his doctrines described by Irenæus, ii. 176
Cevennes, prophets of, i. 221;
the Convulsionaires, miraculous occurrences, i. 370;
statement by Figuier, i. 370, 371
Chair of St. Fiacre and its prolificating virtue, ii. 332
Chaldean Arba and Christian Four, ii. 171;
oracles, i. 535;
denounce augury, _ib._
Chaldeans, their correct astronomical calculations, i. 11;
their magic, i. 66;
their theory of magic, i. 459;
their origin, ii. 46;
Hebrew Sanscrit, _ib._
Champollion declares the Egyptians monotheists, i. 24;
his description of Karnak, i. 523;
synopsis of his discoveries, i. 530
Chandragupta, his exploits, ii. 607, 608
Chaos, the Female Principle, i. 61;
Archæus, Akasa, i. 125;
the Soul of the World, i. 129;
and ether, the first two, i. 341
Charlatan only will ever use mercury as a medicine, ii. 621
Charms, the Dharani, their extraordinary powers, i. 471
Charmed life, i. 379
Charmers, their power over beasts and reptiles, i. 381
Charybdis, the maëlstrom, i. 545
Chemi, or Chem, the ancient name of Egypt, i. 541
Chemical vapors taking forms, i. 127
Chemicals keep away disagreeable physical phenomena, i. 356, 357
Chemist and magician compared, i. 464
Chemistry, ancient proficiency, i. 50;
revolution, i. 163;
Egypt its cradle, i. 541;
called alchemy, i. 542
Cheops, his engraved ring, i. 240;
pyramid of, its measure and weight, i. 518;
Prof. Smyth’s descriptions, i. 520
Cherub, one of his nails preserved as a relic, ii. 71;
of Jeheskiel, ii. 451
Cherubs, the vehans of deity, ii. 231
Chess played in Egypt and India 5,000 years ago, i. 544
Chevalier Ramsay, the Jesuit inventor of the Scottish Rite, ii. 390
Chicago murderers converted in prison, ii. 543
Child, Mrs. Lydia M., remarks on Hindu emblems, i. 583; ii. 445
Child-burning by the Jesuits, ii. 65
Child-medium, Sanscrit written in her presence, i. 368;
Kate Fox’s son, i. 439
Children, born malformed, wounded, and parts cut away, i. 386;
may kill their parents, ii. 363;
sacrificed to Moloch-Hercules, at Tophet, in the valley of Hinnom,
ii. 11
China, the glass, i. 537;
metal work, i. 538
Chinese believe in the art of overcoming mortality, i. 214;
ancient emperor puts two astronomers to death, i. 241
_Chitonuth our_, chitons or coats of skin, a priestly garb, i. 575;
Adam and his wife invested by יהוה אלהים, Java Aleim, _ib._
Chrestians before Christians, ii. 323
Chrestos, worshipped many centuries before Christ, ii. 324;
Christians and Jews alike united, ii. 558
Christ a reïncarnationist, ii. 145;
destroyed Jehovah-worship, ii. 527;
a modified Christna, ii. 532;
a personage rather than a person, ii. 576
Christian spiritualists, i. 54;
denominations, peculiarity of their deity, ii. 2, 354, 485, 581;
spent on their buildings, ii. 2;
the spiritualists in them, ii. 2;
hatred of spiritualism, ii. 4;
symbols, presence of phallism, ii. 5;
Church, with the rites and priestly robes of heathenism, ii. 96;
doctrines classified, ii. 145;
doctrines, their origin in Middle Asia, ii. 338;
Gnostics, ii. 324;
appeared just as the Essenes disappeared, _ib._;
Sabbath, its date, ii. 419;
theology, its origin, ii. 525
Christianity, early, based on the doctrine of God, the universal mind
diffused through all things, i. 285;
description of Max Müller, ii. 10;
pure heathenism, ii. 80;
primitive, had secret pass-words and rites, ii. 204;
doctrines taken from Brahmanism and Buddhism, the ceremonials and
pageantry from Lamaism, ii. 211;
its true spirit found only in Buddhism, ii. 240;
made little change from Roman paganism, ii. 334;
its doctrines plagiarized, ii. 346;
and a personal God repudiated by Freemasons at Lausanne, ii. 377;
bull’s eye in its target, ii. 476;
theological, the Devil its patron genius, ii. 478;
its symbols anticipated by the older religions, ii. 557;
Paul the real founder, ii. 574;
stripped of every feature to make it acceptable to the Siamese, ii.
579
Christians, few understand Jewish theology, i. 17;
divided into three unequal parties, ii. 3;
why they quarrelled with the Pagans, ii. 51;
accepted the worship of the God of the gardens, _ib._;
Old, called Nazarenes, ii. 151;
only seven to twelve in each church, ii. 175;
Pauline and Petrine controversy, _ib._;
of St. John, or Mendæans, ii. 289, 290;
do not believe in Christ, ii. 290;
accused of child-murder at their “perfect passover,” ii. 333;
originally composed of secret societies, ii. 335;
anciently kept no Sabbaths, ii. 419;
claim the discovery of the Devil, ii. 477;
praiseworthy, modified Buddhists, ii. 540;
Russian and Bulgarian, cursed by the Pope, ii. 560
Christism, before Christ, ii. 32
Christmas festivals of Capuchins, ii. 365
Christna, orthography of the name, i. 586;
crushing the head of the serpent, ii. 446;
and his mother with the aureole, ii. 95;
raises the daughter of Angashuna to life, ii. 241;
the good shepherd, crushes the serpent Kalinaga, is crucified, ii.
447;
Sakya-muni, and Jesus, three men exalted to deity, ii. 536;
lived 6,877 years ago (1877), ii. 537;
his dying words to the hunter, ii. 545, 546;
his eulogy of works rather than contemplations, ii. 563
Christos or Crestos, ii. 142;
his entering into the man Jesus at the Jordan, ii. 186;
the Angel Gabriel, ii. 193;
from the Sanskrit kris or sacred, ii. 158;
an aggregation of the emanations, etc., ii. 159
Christs of the pre-Christian ages, ii. 43
Church and priest, benefits if they were to pass away, ii. 586
Church of Rome in 1876, excommunicating and cursing, ii. 6;
her powerless fury against the Bulgarians and Servians, ii. 7;
pre-eminent in murderous propensity, i. 27;
has mightier enemies than “heretics” and “infidels,” ii. 30;
believes in magic, ii. 76;
its maxim to deceive and lie to promote its ends, ii. 303
Churches, their phallic symbols, ii. 5;
ancient, only seven to twelve in each, ii. 175.
Cicero, on divine exhalations from the earth, i. 200;
concerning the gods, i. 280
Cipher of the S. P. R. C., the Knight Rosy Cross of Heredom, and of
the Knights Kadosh, ii. 395;
Royal Arch, ii. 396
Circle, perfect, decussated, ii. 469;
of necessity, i. 296;
of necessity, when completed, i. 346;
of necessity, the sacred mysteries at Thebes, i. 553;
of stones, i. 572
Circle-dance or chorus of the Amazons, performed by King David and
others, ii. 45;
of the Amazons around a priapic image, a common usage and
sanctioned by a Catholic priest, ii. 331, 332;
taught to initiates in the sixth degree, ii. 365
Circulation, terrestrial, i. 503;
of the blood, understood by the Egyptians, i. 544
City, the mysterious, story of, i. 547
Civilization, ancient, i. 239;
of the east preceded that of the west, i. 539
Clairvoyance, cataleptic, the subject practically dead, i. 484
Clearchus gives five cases of larvæ or vampires, i. 364;
story of the boy whose soul was led away from the body and returned
again, i. 365, 366
Clear vision obstructed by physical memory, ii. 591
Clemens Alexandrinus, believed in metempsychosis, i. 12;
denounces the Mysteries, ii. 100
Cleonymus returned after dying, i. 364
Cleopatra sent news by a wire, i. 127
Clergy, Greek, Roman and Protestant, discountenance spiritual
phenomena, i. 26;
Roman and Protestant burned and hanged mediums, _ib._;
Protestant, their hatred of spiritualism, ii. 4;
their cast-off garb worn by men of science, ii. 8;
attired in the cast-off garb of the heathen priesthood, _ib._
Clerkship of the Templars, ii. 385