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,