i. 341;

fraternities, i. 16; gold, i. 511; philosophers, i. 1

Hermetists’ doctrine of creation, i. 258; why they wrote incomprehensibly, i. 627

Hermodorus or Hermotimus, i. 364, 476

Hero invented a steam-engine, i. 241

Herodotus mentioned a night of six months, i. 412; testimony concerning the pyramids, i. 518, 519; description of the labyrinth, i. 522

Hezekiah, the Redeemer and Messiah, ii. 440, 441; the rod or scion from the stem of Jesse, ii. 441; a prince from Bethlehem establishes a sacred college and a new religion, terminating Baal and serpent-worship, ii. 440; succeeded on the extinction of the family of Ahaz, ii. 166

Hiarchus and Hiram, i. 19

Hieroglyph of Knights Kadosh, ii. 391

Hieroglyphics on the stones of the Temple of Dendera, i. 524

Hierophant offered his own life, ii. 42; did not allow candidates to see or hear him personally, ii. 93

Hierophants, Egyptian, i. 90

Higgins, Godfrey, i. 33; rebuke of skeptics who accept the Bible stories, i. 284; had not the key to the esoteric doctrine, i. 347; on the Rasit, ii. 35

High Hierophant transferring his life, ii. 564

Highest pyrotechny, i. 306

Hildebrand, the seventh Pope Gregory, a magician, ii. 557

Hindu demigods, ii. 103; wonderful appearance seen by Jacolliot, _ib._; gods, masks without actors, ii. 261, 262; populations in Greece, ii. 428; rites belong to a religion older than the present one, ii. 535

Hindus, more susceptible to magnetism, ii. 610; and Iranians, battles, i. 12; ancient, their philosophy and science, i. 618-620; their great probity, ii. 474; corrupted by European associations, _ib._

Hindustan, once called Æthiopia, ii. 434; dark races worshipped Maha Deva, _ib._

Hiouen-Thsang, his description of the magicians of Peshawer, i. 599; his vision of the shade of Buddha, i. 600

Hippocrates, his views like of Herakleitos, i. 423; identical with those of the Rosicrucians, _ib._; his doctrine of man’s inner sense, i. 425; praise of instinct, i. 434

Hiram, i. 19

Hiram Abiff, i. 29

Hitchcock, E. A., exposition of alchemy, i. 308; Prof., on psychometric photography, i. 184

Hivim, or Hivites, descendants of the Serpent, i. 554; Ophites, or serpent-tribe, Cain their ancestor, ii. 446; of Palestine a serpent-tribe, ii. 481

Hobbs, Abigail, confederated with the devil, i. 361

Holy Ghost, the Æther, the breath of God, ii. 50; a bit of his finger kept as a relic, ii. 71.

Holy kiss, and toilet directions of Augustine, ii. 331; limbs of Sts. Cosmo and Damiano, phallic symbols, ii. 5; syllable, supreme mystery, ii. 114; thief ascends out of hell, ii. 517

Homer, the Iliad probably plagiarized, ii. 436

Homunculi of Paracelsus, i. 465

Hononer, the Persian Logos, or living manifested word, i. 560

Horse with fingers, i. 411, 412

Horse-shoe magnet applied to the phantom-hand, ii. 594

Horus piercing the head of the serpent, ii. 446

Hospitals anciently established near temples, ii. 98

Houdin Robert, i. 73, 100; testimony in regard to table-rapping and levitation, i. 358, 359; suspected of magic, i. 379

House of David deposed by the Israelites, ii. 439

Howitt William, explanation of exorcism, ii. 66

Huc, Abbé, his testimony concerning the infant Dalai-Lama, i. 438; his book placed on the _Index Expurgatorius_, _ib._; his account of the marvellous tree, i. 440; the picture of the moon, i. 441; punishment for his candor, ii. 345, 346; his testimony of the Lamaic doctrines, ii. 582; his story of the children compelled to swallow mercury, ii. 604.

Hufeland, Dr., theory of magnetic sympathy, i. 207

Human body once half ethereal, i. 1; made as a prison of earlier races, i. 2; credulity contains inside of it an omni-perceptive faith, ii. 120; embryo, evolved, i. 302, 303; fœtus, transient forms like those of fœtal animals, i. 388; process of development, i. 389; race, many before Adam, i. 2; imprisoned in bodies, i. 2; antiquity more than 250,000 years, i. 3; authorities differ in regard to original barbarism, i. 4; sacrifices, an ancient practice, ii. 547; abolished in Egypt, Africa, and Greece, ii. 568; offered to the Virgin Mary as heretics, _ib._; soul an immortal god, i. 345; is born and dies like man, _ib._; spirit, sees all things as in the present, i. 185

Humanity, happy day for it, ii. 586.

Humboldt, Alexander von, suspected intercourse between Mexicans and Hindus, i. 548

Humboldt, Alexander, on presumptuous skepticism, i. 223

Hume, David, exalted by Prof. Huxley, i. 421; the real founder of the positive philosophy, i. 82; testimony in the miracles at the tomb of Abbé Paris, i. 373

Hunt, Prof. Sterry, on solutions, i. 192

Huss, John, his memory sacred in Bohemia, ii. 560

Huxley, physical basis of life, i. 15; classes spiritualism outside of philosophical inquiry, i. 15; repudiates positive philosophy as Catholicism minus Christianity,