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,