ii. 434

Protestant world still under the imputation of magical commerce with Satan, ii. 503

Protestantism has no rights, i. 27

Protestants in the United States, ii. 1; their bloody statutes against witchcraft, ii. 503

Protevangelium, a parody of the Nicene creed, ii. 473

Protogonos, i. 341

Proto-hippus, i. 411

Protoplasm, i. 223; taught by Seneca, etc., i. 249; doctrine of the Swâbhâvikas, or Hindu pantheists, i. 250

Prunnikos, mother of Ilda-Baoth, the God of the Jews, ii. 187

Psyche, the animal soul, i. 317

Psychic embryos, i. 311; force, i. 45-67; same as ectenic force, i. 113; same as the Akasa, _ib._; known to the ancient philosophers, i. 131; propositions of Sergeant Cox, i. 195; a blind force, i. 199

Psychode force, i. 55, 113

Psychography, or writing of messages by spirits, i. 367

Psychological epidemics, ii. 625; powers of certain nuns in Thibet, ii. 609

Psychology, heretofore almost unknown, i. 407; the basis of physiology anciently, but now based by scholars upon physiology, i. 424

Psychomatics of occultism, i. 344

Psychometry, i. 182; Prof. Denton and wife, i. 183; i. 330; practised by the ancients, i. 331

Psychophobia, i. 46

Psylli in Africa, serpent-charmers, i. 381

Pueblos of Mexico still worship the sun, moon, stars, and fire, i. 557

Pulpit of Peter the teaching of the Spirit of God, ii. 8

Punch-and-Judy boxes or Christian mysteries, ii. 119

Punjaub, population hybridized with Asiatic Æthiopians, i. 567

Purana, rules for writing one, ii. 492; the model of the Pentateuch, _ib._

Purple, Tyrian, i. 239

Pûttâm, or imps, i. 447

Pyramids, their architecture and symbolism, i. 236; of Egypt, i. 518; their purpose, i. 519; the baptismal font, _ib._; the supposed manufacture of the material, _ib._; built on the former sea-shore, i. 520

Pyrrho, how to be interpreted, ii. 530

Pythagoras, his philosophy derived from the Brahmans, i. 9; taught the heliocentric system, i. 35, 532; believed in an infinity of worlds, i. 96; Bruno his disciple, i. 96, 98; taught God as the Universal Mind, i. 131; his esoteric system included in the arcane doctrines of wisdom, i. 205; Galileo a student, i. 238; his maxim widely scattered, “Do not stir the fire with a sword,” i. 247; dual signification of his precepts, i. 248; his trinity, i. 262; regard for precious stones and their mystical virtues, i. 265; his doctrine the same as the laws of Manu, i. 271; alleged influence on birds and animals, i. 283; testimony of Thomas Taylor, i. 284; initiated in the Mysteries of Byblos, Tyre, Syria, Egypt and Babylon, _ib._; did not teach literal transmigration of the soul, i. 289; taught the Buddhistic doctrines, i. 289-291; held for a clever impostor, i. 307; derived the soul from the world-soul, i. 316; mathematical doctrine of the universe, i. 318; taught the same as Buddha, i. 347; explains imagination as memory, i. 396; copied by Euclid, Archimedes, and Ptolemy, i. 512; learned music in Egypt and taught it in Italy, i. 544; placed the sphere of purification in the sun, ii. 12; subdued wild animals, ii. 77; persuaded a bull not to eat beans, ii. 78; was not a “spirit-medium,” ii. 118; his system of numerals, ii. 300; probably did not understand decimal notation, _ib._

Pythagorean pentacle, ii. 451, 452

Pythagorists were probably Buddhists, ii. 491

Pytho, or Ob, i. 355

Pythoness, her powers of seership, ii. 590

Quack, a false name imposed on Paracelsus, ii. 621

Queen of Heaven indebted to Pius IX., ii. 9; the Virgin Mary, Isis, Ishtar, Astarté, Queen Dido, Anna, Anaitis, etc., ii. 96, 446-450

Quetzo-Cohuatl, the serpent-god of Mexican legends, i. 546; wonders wrought by him, ii. 558; his wand, _ib._

Quiché cosmogony, i. 549

Quicksilver and sulphur, a magical preparation to give long life, ii. 620

Quotation from _Psalms_ credited by Matthew to Isaiah, ii. 172

Rabbinical chronology, none before the twelfth century, ii. 443

Races, human, many died out before Adam, i. 2; pre-Adamite, i. 305; of men differ in gifts, ii. 588

Radzivil, Prince, detects the impostures of monks, ii. 72

Rahat, or perfect man, ii. 287, 288

Railroads in Upper Egypt, i. 528

Ram, or Aries, the symbol of creative power, i. 262

Ramayana the source and origin of Homer’s inspiration, ii. 278

Ramsay, Count, his story of the Templars, ii. 384

Raspberry-mark produced by longing, i. 391

Rasit, its meaning suppressed, ii. 34; wisdom, ii. 35

Rational soul, every man endowed, ii. 279

Raulica, Father Ventura de, letter on magic, ii. 70

Ravan and Rama, ii. 436

Raven and St. Benedict, ii. 78

Rawho, the demon of Ceylon, ii. 509

Rawlinson, Sir H. C., brings home an engraved stone, i. 240; declares that the Akkadians came from Armenia, i. 263; conjectures respecting the Aryans, ii. 433

Rawson, Prof. A. L., a member of the Druze Brotherhood of Lebanon,