i. 82;

defines what constitutes proof, i. 121; confesses ignorance of matter, i. 408; his theory formulated, i. 419

Hyk-sos, or shepherds of Egypt, the ancestors of the earlier Israelites, ii. 487

Hymns by Dirghatamas, ii. 411

Hyneman, Leopold, testimony on Masonry becoming sectarian, ii. 380

Hypatia, her atrocious murder by order of St. Cyril, ii. 53; letter of Synesius, _ib._; why Cyril caused her to be murdered, ii. 253

Hystaspes, Gushtasp, Vistaspa, ii. 141; visited Kashmere, ii. 434

Hysteria imputed to the prophets of the Cevennes, i. 371

I was, but am no more, ii. 393

I. H. S., in hoc signum, ii. 527

Iachus, an Egyptian physician, i. 406

Iaho, variety of etymologies, ii. 301; statement of Aristotle, ii. 302

Iamblichus, i. 33; raised ten cubits from the ground, i. 115; forbids endeavors to procure phenomena, i. 219; explanation of Pythagoras, i. 248, 284; on manifestations of demons, etc., i. 333; the founder of theurgy, his practice, i. 489; his explanation of the objects of the Mysteries, ii. 101

Iao, the male essence of the Phœnicians, i. 61

Yava, יהוה, the secret name of the mystery-god, ii. 165

Idæic finger, i. 23

Identity of all ancient religions and secret fraternities between the ancient faiths, ii. 100

Idiots, reborn, i. 351

Iessaens, ii. 190

Ievo, not the same as Iao, ii. 296

Iezedians, came from Basrah, ii. 197

Ignition of stars, i. 254

Ilda-Baoth, the son of Chaos, ii. 183; his sons, _ib._; creates man, ii. 184; punishes him for transgression, ii. 185; his abode in the planet Saturn, ii. 236; transformed into the Devil, ii. 501

Illuminati and their purposes, ii. 391

Illusion (_Maya_), the veil of the arcana, i. 271

Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin, an element of old phallic religion, ii. 5; why promulgated, ii. 110

Imagination, the plastic power of the soul, i. 396; not identical with fancy, _ib._; a memory of preceding states, _ib._; its power upon physical condition, i. 385; its influence on fœtal life doubted by Magendie, i. 390

Immodesty of the _Vedas_ exceeded by that of the Bible, ii. 88

Immoral principles of the Jesuits, ii. 355

Immorality, sexual, said to be produced by religious instinct, i. 83

Ilus or Hyle, the slime or earth-matter, i. 146

Immortal, Chinese, Siamese, etc., believe some know the art of becoming, i. 214; theory of Maxwell, i. 216; breath, i. 302; portion of immortal matter, ii. 262

Immortality of the soul, the doctrine as old as the twelfth Egyptian dynasty, ii. 361; of the spirit, Moksha and Nirvana, ii. 116; of all, a false idea, i. 316; to be won, _ib._

Imparting the secret to the successor, ii. 671

Impostor-demons, seven, ii. 234

Incarnation explained, ii. 152, 153; prophetic star, ii. 454; exhibited before the author, ii. 599-602

Incarnations, the five of the Buddhists, ii. 275; known in all the old world-religions, ii. 503; of the deity, periodical, ii. 535

Incas, the lost treasures, i. 596; the story of the last queen, _ib._; their tomb, i. 597; the tunnel, i. 598

Incendiarism, epidemic, i. 276

India, magic in, i. 89; gymnosophists, i. 80; of the archaic period, i. 589; included Persia, Thibet, Mongolia, and Great Tartary, _ib._; the alma mater of the world-religions, ii. 30; said to be the cradle of the human race, _ib._; derived her rites from some foreign source, ii. 535; Southern, the law of inheritance, ii. 437

Indian dynasties, solar and lunar, ii. 437, 438

Indicator, Prof. Faraday, i. 63

Individual life in the future to be won, i. 316; existence, how sustained, i. 318, 319; existence of the spirit a Hindu doctrine, ii. 534

Individualization depends on the spirit, i. 315

Indranee and her son painted with the aureole, ii. 95

Induction, not the usual mode of great discoveries, i. 513

Ineffable name employed by Jesus, ii. 387

Infant, temporarily animated by the spirit of a lama, ii. 601, 602

Infant-girl burned as a witch, ii. 65

Infant-prophet in France, i. 438

Infants, dying, prematurely born a second time, i. 351; unborn, how influenced, i. 395; eaten at the sacrifices in Hayti, ii. 572

Initiation, the practice in every ancient religion, ii. 99; represented the experience of the soul after death, ii. 494; of a Druze, ii. 313

Injunction of secresy, ii. 40

Inman, Dr. Thos., defines greatest curse of a nation, ii. 121, 122; on Christian heathenism, ii. 80, 81; declares the Atheism imputed to Buddha Sakya not supported, ii. 533; comparison of Christians and Buddhists, ii. 540

Inner Man, can withdraw from the body, ii. 588

Inner Sense, doctrine of Hippocrates, i. 424, 425; of Iamblichus, i. 435

Innocent III., bull against magic, ii. 69

Innocents of Bethlehem, their massacre, a myth copied from India, ii. 199

Inquisition, the slaughter-house of the church, destroyed by Napoleon I., ii. 22; its atrocious cruelty, ii. 55; its bloodshed and human sacrifices unparalleled in paganism, ii. 5, 6; why invented, ii. 58; its origin in Paradise, ii. 59; burned Hebrew Bibles, ii. 430

Inquisitors of our days, the scientists, i. 99

Insanity from spiritualism in the United States, ii. 7; the obsession by spirits, ii. 589

Inscription on the coffin of Queen Mentuhept, i. 92

Instinct, i. 425; its miracles, i. 433

Integral whole, ii. 116

Intelligence of the electric bolt, i. 188; ether directed, i. 199

Intelligent electricity, i. 322

Intercosmic gods, i. 312

Interior Man, doctrine of Socrates and Plato, ii. 283

Interview with a young lama re-incarnated Buddha, ii. 598

Intuition the guide of the seer, i. 433; a rudiment in every one, i. 434; doctrine of Iamblichus, i. 435

Investigation denounced as a criminal labor, ii. 96

Invisible Sun, i. 302

Invocation of ancestors by Moldavian Christians, ii. 570

Invulnerability, can be imparted, i. 379

Iran and Turan, their wars conflicts between Persians and Assyrians or Aturians, i. 576

Irenæus, makes Christ fifty years old, ii. 305; on the trine in man, ii. 285; and the Gnostics, their contests, ii. 51; believed the soul corporeal, i. 317; attempted to establish a new doctrine on the basis of Plato, i. 289; found guilty of falsehood, ii. 327

Irenæus Philaletha, explanation of the peculiar style of Hermetic writers, i. 628

Ireland visited by Buddhist missionaries, ii. 290, 291

Iron in the sun, i. 513; found in the Pyramid of Cheops, i. 542.

Isaiah the prophet, his vision of seraphs, i. 358; terminated the direct line of David, ii. 440; celebrates the new chief, Hezekiah, _ib._

Isarim or Essenean initiates, ii. 42; found the Smaragdine Tablet at Hebron, i. 507

Isernia, worship of the _limbs_ of Saints Cosmo and Damiano, and traffic in phallic _ex-votos_, ii. 5

Ishmonia, the petrified city, traditions of books and magic literature, ii. 29

Isis, the name of a medicine, i. 532; the Virgin Mother of Egypt, ii. 10; queen of Heaven, ii. 50; immaculate, her titles applied to the Virgin Mary, ii. 95; anthropomorphised into Mary, ii. 41; the “woman clothed with the sun,” ii. 489

Isitwa, the divine power, ii. 593

Islam, the minarets, ii. 5

Islamism, the outgrowth of the Nestorian controversy, ii. 54

Island of Middle Asia, inhabited by Elohim, i. 589; empire of the Pacific Ocean, i. 592

Israel, what the name means, ii. 401; the enumeration of 12 tribes supposed to be purely mythical, i. 568

Israelites, intermarried perpetually with the other nations of Palestine, i. 568; why their language was Semitic, _ib._; their symbols relate to sun-worship, ii. 401; the plebeian were Canaanites and Phœnicians, ii. 134; worshipped Baal or Bacchus and the Serpent, ii. 523; their prophets disapproved of sacrificial worship, ii. 525; offered human sacrifices, ii. 524; their prophetesses, _ib._

Israelitish Tabernacle, elegant workmanship, i. 536

Istar, Astoreth, the same as Venus, Queen of Heaven, ii. 444

Isvara, a psychological condition, ii. 591

“Itself” met by the disembodied soul at the gates of Paradise, ii. 635

Iurbo Adonai, ii. 185, 189

Ixtlilxochitl, author of the Popul-Vuh, i. 548

Jacob, extraordinary fecundity of his family, ii. 558; the Zouave, i. 165, 217, 218

Jacob’s pillar a lingham, ii. 445

Jacolliot, Louis, i. 139; criticises orientalists, i. 583; testimony in regard to theopœia, i. 616, 617; branded as a humbug, ii. 47; denounces the theory of Turanians and Semitism, ii. 48; on vulgar magic in India, ii. 70; description of Brahmanic initiations, ii. 103; sees a living spectre, ii. 104, 105; on Hindu metaphysics, ii. 262; disbelieves in the chastity of Buddhistic monks, ii. 321; knew no secrets, ii. 584

Jadūgar or sorcerers in India, ii. 69

Jaga-nath, ii. 297

Jah-Buh-Sun, ii. 348

Jaina sect claims Buddhism, ii. 321; owners of the cave-temples, ii. 323

Jains, taught the existence of two ethereal bodies, i. 429

Jairus, resuscitation of his daughter by Jesus, i. 481

James the Just, never called Jesus the Son of God, ii. 202

Japanese, their probity, ii. 573

Jasher, Book of, ii. 399

Java Aleim, יהוה אלהים (Lord-God), head of the priest-caste of Eden or Babylonia, i. 575; invests man with the coat of skin, _ib._; of the Sacerdotal College, ii. 293

Javanese, island empire, i. 592

Jehovah, his castle of fire, i. 270; a cruel anthropomorphic deity, i. 307; not the sacred name at all, ii. 398; only a Masoretic invention, _ib._; feminine, ii. 399; resembled Siva, ii. 524

Jehovah-Nissi or Iao-Nisi, the same as Osiris or Bacchus the Dio-Nysos or Jove of Nysa, ii. 165, 526

Jehovah-worship and Christianity abandoned by Freemasons at Lausanne,