i. 591;

copies Djeminy and Vyasa, i. 621; complains of unbelief, ii. 16; his faculty of production, _ib._; confessed that he derived his teachings from ancient and sacred doctrines, ii. 39; on divine mysteries, ii. 113; not a “spirit-medium,” ii. 118; and other philosophers taught dual evolution, ii. 279; on the trine of man, ii. 282; definition of the soul, ii. 285; his testimony concerning the Machagistia, ii. 306; discourse concerning the creation, ii. 469; taught that there was in matter a blind force, ii. 483; on exaltation of the soul above sense, ii. 591

Platonic philosophy adopted into the church, ii. 33

Platonism introduced into Christianity, ii. 325

Platonists, their books burned, i. 405

Pleroma, three degrees, i. 302

Pleasanton on the Blue Ray, i. 137, 264; denies gravitation, and the existence of centripetal and centrifugal forces, i. 271; his theory of light, i. 272

Pliny mentions phantoms on the deserts of Africa, i. 604

Plotinus, on the descent of the soul into generated existence, ii. 112; six times united to his god, ii. 115; i. 292; on human knowledge, i. 434; on prayer, _ib._; on ecstasy, i. 486; impulse in the soul to return to its centre, _ib._; on public worship of the gods, i. 489; a clairvoyant, seer, and more, ii. 591

Plutarch on the oracular vapors, i. 200; on the nature of men, ii. 283; on the dæmon of Socrates, ii. 284

Pococke, E., his theory of Osiris and Typhon, ii. 435, 436

Poland, what a Catholic miracle in that country means, ii. 18

Polykritus returned after dying, i. 364

Polygamy openly preached by certain Positivists, i. 78

Pompei, the room full of glass, i. 537

Pope seized the scepter of the Pagan pontiff, ii. 30; now sympathising with the Turks against Christians, ii. 81; Calvin and Luther, their doctrine one, ii. 479, 480; his fulminations against science, ii. 559, 560; Calixtus III. issues a bull against Halley’s Comet, ii. 509

Popes known as magicians, ii. 56

Popol-Vuh, a manuscript of Quiché, i. 2; leaves the antiquarian in the dark, i. 548

Porphyry, upon Diakka, bad demons of sorcery, i. 219; twice united with God, i. 292; upon the passion of spirits for putrid substances and fresh blood,