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 theurgi-
cal 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 Kash-
mere, i. 579

Ad-Am, only-begotten, i. 579

Adam (avoporos), 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, 1. 297; the first man evolved,
ib.; same as the Logos, Prometheus, Pi-
mander, 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; Kad-
mon, i. 93; Kadmon, the first race of men
his emanations, ii. 276; Primus, the Mi-
croprosopus, ii. 452

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 Ra-
matsariar, 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

Eons, or genii, i. 300

Aerolites, used in the Mysteries, i. 282;
in the tower of Belos, ii. 331; used to de-
velop prophetic power, ib.

Æther, i. 56; in that form the Deity per-
vading 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 be-
tween this world and the other, ib.; the
Breath of the Father, the Holy Ghost, ii.
50

Æthiopia, east of Babylonia, ii, 434
Ethiopians from the Indus, who settled
near Egypt, probably Jews, i. 567; origi-
nally an Indian race, ii. 437; law of in-
heritance by the mother, ib.

Affinity of soul for body, i. 344; acknowl-
edged between the Syllabus and the Ko-
ran, ii. 82

Afrasiah, the King of Assyria, i. 575

Africa, phantoms appearing in the desert, i.
604

Afrits, i. 141; nature-spirits, Shedim, de-
mons, i. 313; studying antediluvian lit-
erature, 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
Abijah 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
Akasa, or life-principle, i. 113; known to
Hindu magicians, ib.; same as Ar-
chæus, 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 in-
structors 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 de-
cision of Prof. Mendeleyeff and commis-
sion 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,

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 Hel-
mont 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 psychol

ogy, i. 88; oppose everything till stamp-
ed 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 gar-
ment 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.

II

Americ, or great mountain, the name of a
range in Central America visited by Co-
lumbus, 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 conserva-
tory of spiritual sensitives, ii. 19
American lodges know nothing of esoteric
Masonry, ii. 376; templarism, its three de-
grees, ii. 383

Americans to join the Catholic Church, ii.
379

Amita or Buddha, his realm, i. 601
Ammonius Sakkas, i. 443; dated his philoso-
phy 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. II

Anathems, a custom original with Chris-
tians, ii. 334

Anaxagoras, belief concerning spiritual pro-
totypes, i. 158

Anaximenes held the doctrine of evolution
or development, i. 238
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite a Jesui
tical product, ii. 390

Ancient Philosophies, based on the doctrine

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 na-
tural 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.

645

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 alle-
gory, 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 Jus-
tin Martyr respecting his powers, ii. 97;
not a "spirit-medium," ii. 118; his mis-
take, ii. 341; his conjurations when
wrapped in a woolen mantle, ii. 344; vis-
ited 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 mis.
states 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 orac-
ular head of Albertus Magnus, ii. 56
Arabic manuscripts, 80,000 burned at Gra-
nada, 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