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,