ii. 248

Korè-Persephonè, Zeus the Dragon, and their son, ii. 505

Kosmos, regarded as God or comprehending God, i. 154

Kounboum, mystery of, i. 289; the Sacred Tree of Thibet, i. 302; the wonderful Tree of Thibet with letters and symbols on its leaves, i. 440; Sanscrit characters on the leaves and bark, ii. 46

Kristophores, or the fourth degree, ii. 365

Kronos, i. 132

Krupte (crypt) the abode of a _teleiotes_, ii. 93

Kublai-Khan, ii. 608; why he failed to adopt Christianity, ii. 581, 582; reverences Christ, Mahomet, Moses, and Buddha all together, ii. 582; his testimony concerning Christians, ii. 583

Kuklopes or Cyclopeans, shepherds, miners, builders, metal-workers, and Anakim, i. 567

Kuklos Anangkes, or Circle of Necessity, i. 553

Kukushan, a medicinal plant of extraordinary virtue, ii. 608

Kumil-Mâdan, the undine, an elemental spirit, i. 496

Kurds, affirmed to be Indo-European, ii. 629; are Mahometans, magicians, Yezids, and fire-worshippers, ii. 630; scene with a sorcerer, ii. 631

Kutchi of Lha-Ssa, magically apprised by a Shaman of the author’s helpless condition in the desert, ii. 628

Kutti-Satan, a Tamil spirit, i. 567

Labyrinth, the great, description by Herodotus, i. 522

Lactantius on calling up souls, i. 167; declared the heliocentric system a heretical doctrine, i. 526; rejected the doctrine of the antipodes, ii. 477

Læstrygonians of the _Odyssey_ cannibal races of Norway, i. 549

Laghana-Sastra, a secret sect in India, ii. 315; their sacred groves, ii. 316

Lake, mysteries of, ii. 138; of fire and brimstone, ii. 12; the devil cast in it, with the beast and false prophet, _ib._; place of purification of the wicked, ii. 238

Lakes and mountains in the Sanctuary of Karnak, i. 524

Lakshmi or Lakmi, the Damatri Venus or Great Mother, ii. 259, 598

Lama infant, or reincarnated Buddha, interview with him, ii. 598

Lamaic saints at a cave-temple, ii. 599; exorcism, ii. 626

Lamaism, the purest Buddhism, ii. 608

Lamas, Thibetan, use the force known as Akâsa, i. 113

Lamps, ever-burning, one in the tomb of Cicero’s daughter, i. 224, 228; in crypts of India, Thibet, and Japan, i. 225; in Travancore, _ib._; in Egypt, i. 226; at Athens, Carthage, Edessa, Antioch, i. 227; in the Appian Way and the Mosaic Tabernacle, i. 128; mode of preparing, i. 229

Lamp-wicks of stone, i. 231; of asbestos, i. 231

Land-measuring, known by the Egyptians, i. 531

Lao-tsi, or Laotsen, his figure produced by magic, i. 600

Lares, i. 345

Larmenius, charter forged, ii. 385

Larva, the soul, i. 344, 345

Larvæ, shadows of men that have once lived, i. 310; their reincarnation, i. 357

Last rite, not known by the highest epoptæ, ii. 563

Latin Church, nearly upset by modern research, ii. 6; despoiled the kabalists and theurgists, ii. 85; preserves the old pagan worship, even to the dress of the clergy, ii. 92

Lausanne, declaration of the Supreme Masonic Councils, ii. 377; denounced by Gen. Pike, _ib._

Leaping of the prophets of Baal, ii. 45

Leaves, impressions made on, i. 368, 369

Le Comte, Prof., comparison of living and dead organism, i. 466; on vital force, i. 313

Lempriere accuses Pythagoras and Porphyry, i. 431

Lemure, i. 345

Lemuria, the last continent of the Indian Ocean, perhaps the same as Atlantis, i. 591, 592; the Indian legend, i. 594

Lens found at Nineveh, i. 239

Lentulus, his forged letter, ii. 151

Leopard-skin, a sacred appendage of the mysteries, i. 568; found sculptured in basso-relievo in Central America, i. 569; employed by the Brahmans, _ib._

Lesser mysteries, their meaning and object, ii. 111

Lesser and greater mysteries, accused of indecency, ii. 100

Letter of Father Raulica on magic, ii. 70; of Mary Virgin to the Bishop and Church of Messina, ii. 83; from a Druze brother to the author, ii. 313

Letters, ii. 83; invented in Egypt, i. 532

Levi, a caste rather than a tribe, i. 568

Levi, Eliphas, exposition of the means to acquire magical power, i. 137; his remark on the ancient Christian malignity, ii. 250

Leviathan, the occult science, ii. 499

Law of compensation never swerves, ii. 545

Levitation discussed, i. 491, 492, 494-498; under magnetic conditions practicable, ii. 589

Levitations, i. 100, 225; declared impossible, i. 105; of Iamblichus, i. 115; occasioned by the attraction of the _perisprit_ or astral soul, i. 197; disapproved by Iamblichus, i. 219

Levites, or serpent-tribe, the seraphs or fiery serpents, ii. 481

Lewis, Sir G. C., opinion adverse to the culture of the ancients, i. 525

Liberalia, or St. Patrick’s day, a festival of the Church, ii. 528

Libyan shepherds, Cyclopeans, i. 567

Lichen, produced, i. 302

Life, a phenomenon of matter, i. 115

Life-principle, speculations, i. 466

Life-transfer, ii. 564

Light, chemical relations, i. 136; undulatory theory much doubted, i. 137; mystical, the Divine Intelligence, i. 258; same as electricity, _ib._; both matter and a force, i. 281; sympathy its offspring, i. 309; an energy, not an emanation, the view of Aristotle, i. 510; sublimated gold, i. 511

Lightning, conjured down by Prometheus, i. 526; fate of Tullius, i. 527

Lightning-photographs, i. 394, 395

Lightning-rods on ancient temples, i. 527, 528; used in India, i. 528

Lilith, Adam’s “first wife,” ii. 445

Linen of ancient Egypt, i. 536; fire-proof, i. 230

Linga, same as the pillars of the patriarchs, ii. 235

Lingham, or emblem of Maha Deva, ii. 5; and Yoni in churches, ii. 5

Lithos or phallus, reproduced in steeples, turrets, and domes, ii. 5

Littré on positive philosophy, i. 78

Living acari by chemical experiments, i. 465; fire, i. 301

Local gods, ii. 451

Lodestone, its power to affect a whole audience, i. 265

Logia, or secret doctrines taught by Jesus, ii. 191

Logoi, all fail and are punished, i. 298

Logos, i. 131; in every mythos, i. 162

Λόγος Αληθής, _True Doctrine_ of Celsus, story of the book at a convent, ii. 52

Long-face, the Supreme God, ii. 247

Long hair, worn by John the Baptist and Jesus, and denounced by Paul, ii. 140

Lord of the Genii, i. 300

Losing one’s soul possible, i. 317

Lost word, where to be sought, i. 580; and its substitute, Mac Benac, ii. 349

Lotus, the sacred flower of Egyptians and Hindus, i. 91; superseded by the lilies, i. 92

Loubère, M. de la, on Buddha and the Buddhists, ii. 576-579

Lourdes, shrine of, materializations of Virgin Mary, i. 119; the madonna, her miracles, i. 614, ii. 6; the moving of the statue, i. 618

Love, its magnetism the originator of created things, i. 210

Lucifer, i. 299

Luke, the evangelist, reputed an Essene, ii. 144

Lunar dynasties in India, the Chandra Vensa, ii. 438

Lundy, Rev. Dr., what he has proved, ii. 557

Luther and the demon, ii. 73; the worst man in Europe, ii. 200; his denunciation of the Catholics, ii. 208; intolerant, and Calvin bloodthirsty, ii. 503

Lycanthropes, over 600 put to death in the Jura by sentence of a judge, ii. 626

Lutherans burned as sorcerers, ii. 61

Luxor, unfading colors, i. 239; brotherhood of, ii. 308

Macaulay, his criticism of scientists and philosophers, i. 424

Mac Benac, ii. 349

Machagistia, the magic taught in Persia and Babylonia, i. 251; the testimony of Plato, ii. 306

Mackenzie, his description of the Jesuits, ii. 355

Macrocosm, i. 62

Macroprosopos or macrocosm, i. 580

Madonna of Barri, with crinoline, ii. 9; of Rio de Janeiro, _décolletée_, with blonde hair and chignon, ii. 10

Madras famine made worse by Catholic taxation, ii. 532

Maëlstrom, the Charybdis of the Odyssey, i. 545.

Magendie, remedy for consumption, i. 89; absents himself from experiments instituted by the French Academy in 1826, i. 175, 176; acknowledges that little is known of fœtal life, i. 386; opinion of malformation, i. 388, 390; asserts influence of imagination on the fœtus, i. 394

Magi established magic, i. 25; taught the birth and decadence of worlds, i. 255; Pythagoras, their associate, i. 284; objected to the evocation of souls, i. 321; three schools, ii. 361; Chaldean, the masters of the Jews, _ib._; two schools, ii. 128, 306

Magic, based on natural science, i. 17; once universally taught, i. 18, 247; a divine science, i. 25; originally established by Magi, and not by priests, _ib._; very ancient, _ib._; Moses and Joseph proficients, _ib._; two kinds, divine and evil, i. 26; neglected by Masons, i. 30; spiritualism, its modern form, i. 42; profound knowledge of simples and minerals, i. 66; likely to be rediscovered by scientists, i. 67; esoteric in India, i. 90; practised by Gymnosophists, i. 90; the _divina sapientia_, i. 94; Salverte’s Philosophy of Magic, i. 115; mesmerism an important branch, i. 129; theory of Eliphas Levi, i. 137; modern forms, i. 138; doctrine of Paracelsus, Agrippa, and Philalethes, i. 167; included in the arcane doctrine of Wisdom, i. 205; the power never possessed by those addicted to vicious indulgences,