i. 567, 568

Batria, the wife of Pharaoh, teacher of Moses, i. 25

Battle of life, ii. 112

Baubo, in the Mysteries, what she directed, ii. 112

Bayle, his testimony on spurious relics, ii. 72

Beads and rosaries, of Buddhistic origin, ii. 95.

Beatific vision or epopteia, testimony of Paul and Apuleius, ii. 146

Beaujeu, Count, his Masonic imposture, ii. 381

Beaumont, Elie de, on terrestrial circulation, i. 503

Beausobre, on the Rasit or Principle, ii. 36

Beel-Zebub (more properly Beel-Zebul, the Baal of the Temple) the same as Apollo, the Oracle-God, ii. 481; nicknamed Beel-Zebub, a god of flies, ii. 486

Beer made in ancient Egypt, i. 543

Bel, a personification of the Hindu Siva, i. 263; and the dragon, i. 550; Baal, the Devil, i. 552

Belial, a Diakka, ii. 482

Believers in magic, mesmerism and spiritualism, 800,000,000, i. 512

Bellarmin, Cardinal, his vision about the bottomless pit, ii. 8

Bells before the shrine of Jupiter-Ammon, ii. 95; in Jewish and Buddhistic rites, _ib._

Belus, the first Assyrian king, deified, i. 552

Ben Asai, in the garden of delights, ii. 119; Zoma, in the garden of delights, ii. 119

Benedict, St., and his black raven, ii. 78

Bengal, magical seance, i. 467

Bengalese conjurers and jugglers, i. 457; planting trees, etc., which grew at once, _ib._

Bethlehem, grotto of, temple of Adonis, ii. 139

Beverages to produce visions, ii. 117

Bhagaved-gita, opinion of du Perron, ii. 562; reverenced by the Brahmans, _ib._; contains the greatest mysteries of the Brahmanic religion, ii. 563; reverenced alike by Brahmanists and Buddhists, _ib._

Bhagavant, the same as Parabrahma, i. 91; endued Brahma with creative power, i. 90; not a creator, i. 347; enters the world-egg, _ib._

Bhagaved, i. 148

Bhangulpore, Round Tower, ii. 5

Bhutavan, the Spirit of Evil, created to destroy the incarnation of the sin of Brahma, i. 265

Bible, antedated by Vedas, i. 91; its allegories repeated in Talapoin and Ceylonese traditions and manuscripts, i. 577; used as a weapon against the people who furnished it, ii. 96; an allegorical screen of the Kabala, ii. 210; the great light of modern Masonry, ii. 389; four or five times written over, ii. 470; when made up, ii. 471; a secret volume, _ib._; Patriarchs only zodiacal signs, ii. 459

Bilocation, i. 361

Binlang-stone, ii. 234

Biographers of the Devil, ii. 15

Birds, sung a mass for St. Francis, ii. 77

Birs-Nimrud, the temple of seven stages, i. 261

Birth of the human soul, i. 345

Birth-marks, i. 384

Bisexual, the first man, i. 559

Bishops of the fourth century illiterate, ii. 251

Black-faced Christ in India, ii. 532

Black gods worshipped by the Yakuts, ii. 568, 569

Blackguardism of Father Weninger, ii. 379

Black magic practised at the Vatican, ii. 6; sorcery and witchcraft, an abuse, ii. 118; mirror, i. 596; reveals to the Inca queen her husband’s death, _ib._; virgins in French cathedrals, figures of Isis, ii. 95

“Bleeding Head” of a murdered child employed as an oracle, ii. 56; image, ii. 17

Blessed Virgin gives a demoniac a sound thrashing, ii. 76

Blind Force plus intelligence, i. 199; psychic force, _ib._

Blood, the baptism, ii. 42; of Jesus Christ, a phial of it presented to Henry III. of England,