Isis unveiled, Volume 1 (of 2), Science

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Gehenna, a valley near Jerusalem, where the Israelites immolated their children, ii. 11; of the universe, or eighth sphere or planet, i. 328; repentance possible, i. 352

Gemantria, ii. 298

Gemma, Cornelius, account of a child born wounded, i. 386

Genealogy of the gods, astronomical, i. 267

Generations, fall into, i. 315

Genesis, Book of, a reminiscence of the Babylonish captivity, i. 576; first three chapters transcribed from other cosmogonies, the fourth and fifth from the secret _Book of Numbers_, the _Kabala_, i. 579; the introductory chapters do not treat of creation, ii. 421; the book later than the invention of the sign Libra, ii. 457

Genghis Khan, his tomb and promised reappearance, i. 598

Genii, or Æons, lord of, i. 300

Genius, the divine spirit, i. 277

Genoa cathedral, the celebrated vase, i. 537, 538

Geographers in pre-Mosaic days, i. 406

Geometers of the Alexandrian Museum, i. 7

Germany depopulated by the thirty years’ war, ii. 503; priestesses, how they hypnotized themselves, ii. 592

Ghosts, unlike materialized spirits, i. 69; i. 345

Ghouls, i. 319; or ghûls, in the deserts, i. 604; and vampires, ii. 564

Giants, i. 31; progenitors of Brahmans, i. 122; remains of a prehistorical race, i. 303, 304

Gibbon, his praise of the Gnostics, ii. 249

Gilbert on magnetism, i. 497

Giles, Rev. Chauncey, on spiritual death, i. 317

Ginnungagap, the cup of illusion, i. 147; the boundless abyss of the mundane pit, i. 160

Girard, Father, his employment of sorcery and revolting crimes, ii. 633

Gladstone, Hon. W. E., “Speeches of Pius IX.,” ii. 4; catalogue of “flowers of speech” in papal discourses, ii. 7

Glass that would not break, i. 50; malleable, i. 239; in Pompeii, China, and Genoa, i. 537

Glass-blowing in Egypt, i. 543

Gliddon, George R., description of the moving of an obelisk, i. 519; eloquent testimony to Egyptian civilization, i. 521, 522

Glycerine, a compound of three hydroxyl groups, i. 505, 506

Gnosis, the Kabala, or secret knowledge, still existing, ii. 38

Gnostic, wrote _Gospel according to John_, i. 2; serpent with the seven vowels, ii. 489

Gnosticism, oriental, i. 271; Buddhistic elements, ii. 321

Gnostics, ii. 41; believed in metempsychosis, i. 12; early Christians and followers of the Essenes, i. 26; originated many Christian doctrines, ii. 41, 42; their greatest heresies, ii. 155, 156; praised by Gibbon, ii. 259; their doctrines falsified by the Christian Fathers, ii. 326; their view of the Jewish God, ii. 526

Gobi desert, the seat of empire, i. 598; jealousy of foreign intrusion, i. 599; testimony of Marco Polo, _ib._; believed to be inhabited by malignant beings, i. 603

Goblins, elementary, i. 68

God, personal, denied by modern scientists, i. 16; an intelligent, omnipotent, individual will, i. 58; his existence denied by Comte and the Positivists, i. 76; to be sought in nature, and not outside, i. 93; belief of Henry More, the English Platonist, i. 205, 206; Kircher’s doctrine of the one magnet, i. 208; the monad, i. 212; doctrines of Voltaire and Volney, i. 268; the central sun, i. 270; the universal mind, the original doctrine, i. 289; is no-thing, not a concrete or visible being like objects, i. 292; belief of the Stoics, i. 317; of the several Christian denominations, ii. 2; the Father, ii. 50; of the gardens, his rites adopted by the Fathers, ii. 51; each immortal spirit, ii. 153; “manifest in the flesh,” a forged text, ii. 178; his actions subject to necessity, ii. 251; Masonic testimony, ii. 377; the Father, the beguiling serpent, ii. 492; prepares hell for priers into his mysteries, ii. 524; every man’s, bounded by his own conceptions, ii. 567

God-man, the first man, i. 297

God’s comedy and our tragedy, ii. 534

Godfrey Higgins in error about Roman Catholic esoterism, ii. 121

Gods, eminent men so called, i. 24, 280; inferior to deities, i. 287; supercelestial and intercosmic, i. 312; pagan, Christian archangels, i. 316; kind and beneficent demons, i. 332; their names kept secret, i. 581; not incarnations of the Supreme Being, ii. 153

Gogard, the Hellenic tree of life, i. 297

Gold, basic matter of, i. 50; its manufacture asserted, i. 503; testimony of Francesco Picos, i. 504; assertion of Dr. Peisse, i. 508, 509; made by Theodore Tiffereau, i. 509; the deposit of light, i. 511

_Golden Legend_, a conservatory of pious lies, ii. 74; choice excerpts, ii. 76-79; beats the _Decameron_, ii. 79; a parodized or plagiarized history of Buddha, ii. 579

Good demons appear, i. 333; spirits hardly ever appear, i. 344; enough Morgan, ii. 372; Shepherd, a Gnostic symbol, ii. 149

Goodale, Miss Annie, death, i. 479

Goodness must be alternated by its opposite, ii. 480

Gorillas mentioned by Hanno, i. 412

Gospel according to Peter, ii. 181; fourth, full of Gnostic expressions, ii. 205; fourth, blends Christianity with the Gnosis and Kabala, ii. 211

Gospels, their authors and compilers not known, ii. 37, 38

Gossein, fakir, contest with a sorcerer, i. 368

Græco-Russian church never under the Roman Catholics, i. 27

Grand council of the emperors, a Jesuitical production, ii. 390; secours, i. 374; cycle, Orpheus, i. 294; its character, i. 296; cycle completed, i. 303

Grandville, Dr., on mummy-bandaging, i. 539

Gravitation, none in the Newtonian sense, i. 271

Gray brain-matter the god, i. 36

Great Dragon, crushed under the foot of the Virgin of the Sea, ii. 446; Vasaki, casting out a flood of poison which the earth swallows, ii. 490; equinoctial continent, i. 594; Masonic revolution of 1717, ii. 389; secret of evocation, ii. 114; snake, worshipped by the pueblo-chiefs of Mexico, i. 557; spirit of the Indian, the manifested Brahma, i. 560; synagogue revised the Pentateuch, i. 578; universal soul, absorption into it does not involve loss of individuality, ii. 116; year, i. 30

Greatest scientists inanimate corpses, i. 318

Greece derived its art from Egypt, i. 521

Gregory VII., pope, a magician, ii. 56, 57; of Tours, exposition of sortilege, ii. 20

Gross, T., denounces those opposed to investigation, ii. 96

Grote assimilates the Pythagoreans to the Jesuits, ii. 529

Gunpowder, anciently used by the Chinese, i. 241

Guru-astara, a spiritual teacher, ii. 141

Gymnosophists of India, i. 90; knew the Akâsa, i. 113

Half-death, i. 452

Half-gods, i. 323; or mukti, men regenerate on earth, ii. 566

Hierophant, transfer of his life to a candidate, ii. 563

Hakem, the wise one of the Druzes, ii. 310

Haideck, Countess, a Mason, ii. 391

Hall of spirits, ii. 365

Hamites preferred to settle near rivers and oceans, ii. 458

Hamsa, the Messiah of the Druzes, ii. 308; the precursor, ii. 310

Hanno, mention of gorillas, i. 412

Hanuma, or Hanuman the sacred monkey, the progenitor of the Europeans, i. 563; resembles the Egyptian cynocephalus, i. 564; endowed with speech, ii. 274

Hare, Prof., i. 38; views of Comte’s positive philosophy, i. 79; mistreated by Harvard professors, i. 176, 177; declared _non compos mentis_, i. 233; bullied by Prof. Henry, i. 245

Harmony and justice analagous, i. 330

Hasty burial deprecated, i. 453

Haug, Dr., asserts the affinity of the Zoroastrian, Jewish, and Christian religions, ii. 486

Haunted house, i. 69

Hayes, Moses Michael, introduced Royal Arch Masonry into this country, ii. 393

Hayti, a centre of secret societies, where infants are immolated, ii. 572

Healing art in the temples always magical, ii. 502

Heathen processions and priapic emblems at Easter in France, ii. 332; priesthood, their cast-off garb worn by Christian clergy, ii. 8

Heavenly Man, Tikkun, Protogonos, ii. 276

Hebrew manuscripts of the Bible the oldest, ii. 430; burned by the Inquisition, _ib._

Hebron, or Kirjath-Arba, city of the four Kabeiri, ii. 171; Smaragdine tablet of Hermes found, i. 507

Heliocentric system known by Hindus 2,000 B.C., i. 9; denied alike by scholars and the clergy, i. 84; known by the priests of Egypt, i. 532

Hel, or Hela, neither a state nor place of punishment, ii. 11; cold and cheerless, _ib._

Hell, a German goddess, ii. 11; not a place of punishment in Scandinavian mythology, _ib._; nowhere so set forth in Egyptian or Hindu mythology, nor in the Jewish Scriptures, _ib._; the Archimedean lever of Christian theology, _ib._; said to be located in the sun, ii. 12; denied by Origen, ii. 13; hypothesis of Mr. Swinden, _ib._; Augustine’s theory of miracles, _ib._; eternal torments of, all pagans condemned to, ii. 8; Virgin Mary testifying to it with her own signature, _ib._; the damned, ii. 25; priests there, but no monks, _ib._; no Dominicans, _ib._; a hallucination, ii. 507; never means eternal torment, ii. 507; the translation in the Bible a forgery, ii. 506; its prince quarrelling with Satan, ii. 515

Hellenic figures at Nagkon-Wat, i. 568

Hell-torments, their perpetuity denied by Origen, ii. 13

Helps, artificial, to clairvoyance, ii. 592

Heptaktis, the seven-rayed god, ii. 417

Herakleitus on fighting with anger, i. 248; the Ephesian, his philosophical doctrine of fire and flux, i. 422; the spirit of fire, i. 423

Herakles, the Grecian Hercules, the Logos, i. 298; disseminated a mild religion, ii. 515; the only-begotten, ii. 515; the saviour, _ib._; ascending from the nether house of Pluto, ii. 517; slew the sacrificers of men, ii. 565

Herbs of dreams and enchantments, ii. 589

Her-cules, the Sanscrit form of Mel-Kartha, i. 567

Hercules, the magnet named from him, i. 130; not the same as the Grecian Herakles, _ib._; creator and father, i. 131; killed by the devil, i. 132; and Thor, i. 261; the first-begotten, Bel, Baal, and Siva, ii. 492; the Titan, restores Jupiter or Zeus to his throne, i. 299; descends to Hades, _ib._; Invictus, his initiation into the Eleusynia and descent into hell,