i. 371;

his explanation of their extraordinary power of resistance to blows, i. 375

Calmet, Dom, on vampires, i. 452

Calvin affirmed election, original sin, and reprobation, ii. 547

Carnac, the serpent’s mount, i. 554

Campanile Column, of St. Mark’s, in Venice, its original, ii. 5

Canals of Egypt, i. 516, 517

Canonical books, enforced eliminations, ii. 143; selected by sortilege, ii. 251

Capuchins, their Christmas observances, ii. 365

Carpenter, W. B., lecture on Egypt, i. 440

Carthage more civilized than Rome, i. 520; built long before the taking of Troy, _ib._; not built by Dido, _ib._

Cataclysms, periodical, i. 31

Catalepsy and vampirism, i. 449, 450

Catherine of Medicis employed a sorcerer, ii. 55; her resort to the charm of “the bleeding head,” ii. 56

Catholic ritual of pagan origin, ii. 85; miracle in Poland means revolution, ii. 17; must be Ultramontane and Jesuit, ii. 356; missionaries becoming Talapoins, ii. 531

Catholicism more fetish-worshipping than Hinduism, ii. 80

Catholics persecute other Christians, ii. 81

Causes, Platonic division, i. 393

Cave-men of Les Eyzies, i. 295

Cave-temples of Ajunta, Buddhistic, i. 349; of India, claimed by the Jainas, ii. 323

Caves of Mithras, ii. 491

Celestial Virgin pursued by the Dragon, a mystery and representation in the constellations, ii. 490

Celsus, his accusations of the Christians, ii. 51; not being refuted, his books burned, ii. 51, 52; a copy probably existing at a monastery on Mount Athos, ii. 52; his opinion of Jesus, ii. 530

Celebrated vase of the Genoa Cathedral, its material not known, i. 537, 538

Celt, probably a hybrid of the Aryan and Iberians of Europe, i. 576

Cement, ancient, i. 239

Cenchrea, Paul shorn and Lucius initiated there, ii. 90

Centenarians, Parr, Jenkins, and others, ii. 564

Central America, her peoples to be traced to the Phœnicians and Mosaic Israelites, i. 555; Asia, the face of the country changed, ii. 426; Invisible, i. 302

Cerebral electricity, its dependence upon the statical, i. 322

Ceremony of withdrawing the soul, ii. 603

Ceres or Demeter, the female or passive productive principle, ii. 560

Cerinthus, his doctrines described by Irenæus, ii. 176

Cevennes, prophets of, i. 221; the Convulsionaires, miraculous occurrences, i. 370; statement by Figuier, i. 370, 371

Chair of St. Fiacre and its prolificating virtue, ii. 332

Chaldean Arba and Christian Four, ii. 171; oracles, i. 535; denounce augury, _ib._

Chaldeans, their correct astronomical calculations, i. 11; their magic, i. 66; their theory of magic, i. 459; their origin, ii. 46; Hebrew Sanscrit, _ib._

Champollion declares the Egyptians monotheists, i. 24; his description of Karnak, i. 523; synopsis of his discoveries, i. 530

Chandragupta, his exploits, ii. 607, 608

Chaos, the Female Principle, i. 61; Archæus, Akasa, i. 125; the Soul of the World, i. 129; and ether, the first two, i. 341

Charlatan only will ever use mercury as a medicine, ii. 621

Charms, the Dharani, their extraordinary powers, i. 471

Charmed life, i. 379

Charmers, their power over beasts and reptiles, i. 381

Charybdis, the maëlstrom, i. 545

Chemi, or Chem, the ancient name of Egypt, i. 541

Chemical vapors taking forms, i. 127

Chemicals keep away disagreeable physical phenomena, i. 356, 357

Chemist and magician compared, i. 464

Chemistry, ancient proficiency, i. 50; revolution, i. 163; Egypt its cradle, i. 541; called alchemy, i. 542

Cheops, his engraved ring, i. 240; pyramid of, its measure and weight, i. 518; Prof. Smyth’s descriptions, i. 520

Cherub, one of his nails preserved as a relic, ii. 71; of Jeheskiel, ii. 451

Cherubs, the vehans of deity, ii. 231

Chess played in Egypt and India 5,000 years ago, i. 544

Chevalier Ramsay, the Jesuit inventor of the Scottish Rite, ii. 390

Chicago murderers converted in prison, ii. 543

Child, Mrs. Lydia M., remarks on Hindu emblems, i. 583; ii. 445

Child-burning by the Jesuits, ii. 65

Child-medium, Sanscrit written in her presence, i. 368; Kate Fox’s son, i. 439

Children, born malformed, wounded, and parts cut away, i. 386; may kill their parents, ii. 363; sacrificed to Moloch-Hercules, at Tophet, in the valley of Hinnom, ii. 11

China, the glass, i. 537; metal work, i. 538

Chinese believe in the art of overcoming mortality, i. 214; ancient emperor puts two astronomers to death, i. 241

_Chitonuth our_, chitons or coats of skin, a priestly garb, i. 575; Adam and his wife invested by יהוה אלהים, Java Aleim, _ib._

Chrestians before Christians, ii. 323

Chrestos, worshipped many centuries before Christ, ii. 324; Christians and Jews alike united, ii. 558

Christ a reïncarnationist, ii. 145; destroyed Jehovah-worship, ii. 527; a modified Christna, ii. 532; a personage rather than a person, ii. 576

Christian spiritualists, i. 54; denominations, peculiarity of their deity, ii. 2, 354, 485, 581; spent on their buildings, ii. 2; the spiritualists in them, ii. 2; hatred of spiritualism, ii. 4; symbols, presence of phallism, ii. 5; Church, with the rites and priestly robes of heathenism, ii. 96; doctrines classified, ii. 145; doctrines, their origin in Middle Asia, ii. 338; Gnostics, ii. 324; appeared just as the Essenes disappeared, _ib._; Sabbath, its date, ii. 419; theology, its origin, ii. 525

Christianity, early, based on the doctrine of God, the universal mind diffused through all things, i. 285; description of Max Müller, ii. 10; pure heathenism, ii. 80; primitive, had secret pass-words and rites, ii. 204; doctrines taken from Brahmanism and Buddhism, the ceremonials and pageantry from Lamaism, ii. 211; its true spirit found only in Buddhism, ii. 240; made little change from Roman paganism, ii. 334; its doctrines plagiarized, ii. 346; and a personal God repudiated by Freemasons at Lausanne, ii. 377; bull’s eye in its target, ii. 476; theological, the Devil its patron genius, ii. 478; its symbols anticipated by the older religions, ii. 557; Paul the real founder, ii. 574; stripped of every feature to make it acceptable to the Siamese, ii. 579

Christians, few understand Jewish theology, i. 17; divided into three unequal parties, ii. 3; why they quarrelled with the Pagans, ii. 51; accepted the worship of the God of the gardens, _ib._; Old, called Nazarenes, ii. 151; only seven to twelve in each church, ii. 175; Pauline and Petrine controversy, _ib._; of St. John, or Mendæans, ii. 289, 290; do not believe in Christ, ii. 290; accused of child-murder at their “perfect passover,” ii. 333; originally composed of secret societies, ii. 335; anciently kept no Sabbaths, ii. 419; claim the discovery of the Devil, ii. 477; praiseworthy, modified Buddhists, ii. 540; Russian and Bulgarian, cursed by the Pope, ii. 560

Christism, before Christ, ii. 32

Christmas festivals of Capuchins, ii. 365

Christna, orthography of the name, i. 586; crushing the head of the serpent, ii. 446; and his mother with the aureole, ii. 95; raises the daughter of Angashuna to life, ii. 241; the good shepherd, crushes the serpent Kalinaga, is crucified, ii. 447; Sakya-muni, and Jesus, three men exalted to deity, ii. 536; lived 6,877 years ago (1877), ii. 537; his dying words to the hunter, ii. 545, 546; his eulogy of works rather than contemplations, ii. 563

Christos or Crestos, ii. 142; his entering into the man Jesus at the Jordan, ii. 186; the Angel Gabriel, ii. 193; from the Sanskrit kris or sacred, ii. 158; an aggregation of the emanations, etc., ii. 159

Christs of the pre-Christian ages, ii. 43

Church and priest, benefits if they were to pass away, ii. 586

Church of Rome in 1876, excommunicating and cursing, ii. 6; her powerless fury against the Bulgarians and Servians, ii. 7; pre-eminent in murderous propensity, i. 27; has mightier enemies than “heretics” and “infidels,” ii. 30; believes in magic, ii. 76; its maxim to deceive and lie to promote its ends, ii. 303

Churches, their phallic symbols, ii. 5; ancient, only seven to twelve in each, ii. 175.

Cicero, on divine exhalations from the earth, i. 200; concerning the gods, i. 280

Cipher of the S. P. R. C., the Knight Rosy Cross of Heredom, and of the Knights Kadosh, ii. 395; Royal Arch, ii. 396

Circle, perfect, decussated, ii. 469; of necessity, i. 296; of necessity, when completed, i. 346; of necessity, the sacred mysteries at Thebes, i. 553; of stones, i. 572

Circle-dance or chorus of the Amazons, performed by King David and others, ii. 45; of the Amazons around a priapic image, a common usage and sanctioned by a Catholic priest, ii. 331, 332; taught to initiates in the sixth degree, ii. 365

Circulation, terrestrial, i. 503; of the blood, understood by the Egyptians, i. 544

City, the mysterious, story of, i. 547

Civilization, ancient, i. 239; of the east preceded that of the west, i. 539

Clairvoyance, cataleptic, the subject practically dead, i. 484

Clearchus gives five cases of larvæ or vampires, i. 364; story of the boy whose soul was led away from the body and returned again, i. 365, 366

Clear vision obstructed by physical memory, ii. 591

Clemens Alexandrinus, believed in metempsychosis, i. 12; denounces the Mysteries, ii. 100

Cleonymus returned after dying, i. 364

Cleopatra sent news by a wire, i. 127

Clergy, Greek, Roman and Protestant, discountenance spiritual phenomena, i. 26; Roman and Protestant burned and hanged mediums, _ib._; Protestant, their hatred of spiritualism, ii. 4; their cast-off garb worn by men of science, ii. 8; attired in the cast-off garb of the heathen priesthood, _ib._

Clerkship of the Templars, ii. 385

Clermont system, the Scottish Rite, ii. 381

Clinton, De Witt, Grand Master of the first Grand Encampment General,