ii. 209

Des Mousseaux, his reply to Calmeil and Figuier in regard to Convulsionaries, i. 375, 376; on miracles, magic, etc., i. 614, 615; Chevalier, his crusade against the devil, ii. 15; proves magic and spiritualism to be twin-sciences, _ib._

Despres made the diamond, i. 509

Destiny, an influence that each man weaves round himself, ii. 593; how guided, _ib._

Devas and Asuras, their battles, i. 12

Devs, i. 141; nature-spirits, called also shedim, demons, and afrites, i. 313

Devil, memoir of, i. 102; the chief pillar of faith, i. 103; not an entity, but an errant force, i. 138; and deity, words of the same etymology, ii. 512; the Shadow of God, i. 560; the anthropomorphic, a creation of man, i. 561; Aryan nations had none, ii. 10; called by des Mousseaux the Serpent of _Genesis_, ii. 15; a whole community possessed, ii. 16; pesters St. Dominic as a flea and as a monkey, ii. 78; Christians claim the discovery, ii. 477; the patron genius of theological Christianity, ii. 477; to deny him equivalent to denying the Saviour, ii. 478; what he is, ii. 480; an essential antagonistic force, _ib._; the key found in the book of Job, ii. 493; the fundamental stone of Christianity, ii. 501; origin of the English notions, _ib._; the European, ii. 502; with horns and hoof, only known in Popish Encyclicals, ii. 503; his various delineations by authors, ii. 511

Devils, 15,000 in a man, ii. 75; the Fathers made them from the pagan gods, ii. 502

Devil-worshippers of Travancore, i. 135; falsely-termed, their practice, i. 446, 447

Dew from heaven, i. 307

Dewel, a demon of Ceylon, i. 448

Dharana, or catalepsy, ii. 590, 591

Dharm-Asoka, the great propagandist of Buddhism, ii. 607

Dhyâna or perfection, ii. 287

Diabolical manifestations, frowned at by the Roman Church, ii. 4

Diagram of the Nazarenes, ii. 295

Diakka, discovered by A. J. Davis, i. 218; what Porphyry said, i. 219

Dialogue of David and the devils, ii. 75

Diamond, made by Desprez, i. 509

Dido, Elissa, or Astarte, the virgin of the sea, ii. 446

Dirghatamas’ hymns, ii. 411

Di Franciscis, Don Pasquale, “professor of flunkeyism in things spiritual,” ii. 7; pious collection of papal fishwoman’s talk, _ib._

Dii minores, or twelve gods, ii. 451

Diktamnos, i. 264

Diobolos (son of Zeus) changed to Diabolos, an accuser, ii. 485

Dionysus, his worship superseded by the rites of Mithras, ii. 491; or Bacchus, his Hindu origin, ii. 560

Diploteratology or production of monsters, i. 390

Disbelievers in magic cannot share the faith of the church, ii. 71

Diocletian burned libraries of books upon the secret arts, i. 405

Dionysius Areopagita and the Kabala, i. 26

Dionè pursued by Typhon to the Euphrates, ii. 490

Disciples of John, ii. 289, 290; do not believe in Christ, ii. 290

Dissimilarities between Buddhism and Christianity, ii. 540, 541

“Distractions” of adversaries of spiritualism, i. 116

Divination by the lot, ii. 20, 21; prohibited by the Council of Varres, i. 21; devoid of sin, ii. 353

Divine book, i. 406; magic, i. 26

Djin reading magic rolls, ii. 29

Docetæ or illusionists, believed in the Maya, ii. 157

Documents sure to reappear, ii. 26

Dodechædron, the geometrical figure of the universe, i. 342

Domes, the reproductions of the lithos, ii. 5

Dominic and the devils, ii. 73, 75; receives a rosary from the Virgin Mary, ii. 74; most hated by devils, ii. 75; and the devil flea and monkey, ii. 78

Dominicans, none in hell, ii. 75

Dodona, priestesses, prophesied by means of the oak, ii. 592

Doppelganger, or astral body, i. 360

Double cross of Chaldea, ii. 453; existence, i. 179, 180; life of the adept, ii. 564; perverted into the offering of human sacrifices, ii. 565

Double-sexed creators, i. 156

Dove, represented Noah, worshipped, ii. 448

Dowager mother alone the mediatrix, ii. 9; owes the present Pope for the finest gem in her coronet, _ib._

Dracontia, or temples to the dragon, i. 554

Dragon and the sun, the basis of heliolatrous religion, i. 550; sons of, the hierophants, i. 553; cured of a sore eye by Simeon Stylites, and adored God, ii. 77; Apophis, his influence on the soul, ii. 368; Horus piercing his head, ii. 446; pursues Thuesis and her son, ii. 490; glided over the cradle of Mary, ii. 505; of Ceylon, Rawho, ii. 509

Dragons, oriental in character, i. 448

Drama of Job explained, ii. 494, 495

Draper, Prof., on pagan belief concerning the human spirit, i. 429; asserts that Aristotle taught the Buddhistic doctrine, i. 430; probably meant to misrepresent the Neo-platonic philosophers, i. 431; defines the “age of faith” and “age of decrepitude,” i. 582; on Olympus restored by Constantine, ii. 49; on the conflict instituted by Augustine between religion and science, ii. 88

Dream produced by the inner ego of a Shaman at the author’s request,