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,