i. 243;

anciently sabaistic, i. 261; derived from one source and tend to one end, ii. 639; Papacy and scientific, i. 403

Religious customs of the Mexicans and Peruvians like those of the Phœnicians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, i. 551; instinct productive of immorality, i. 83; liberty considered as intolerance, ii. 503; reform pure at the beginning, ii. 333; myths have an historical foundation, ii. 431; teachers, ii. 1

Renan, E., described Jesus as a Gallicized rabbi, ii. 562

Repentance possible even in Hades or Gehenna, i. 352

Repercussion, i. 360

Rephaim, i. 133

Resistance, extraordinary, to blows, sharp instruments, etc., i. 375, 376

Resuscitated Buddha, a babe speaking with man’s voice, i. 437

Resuscitations, i. 478, 479, 480; after actual death, impossible, i. 481

Report of French Parliament upon the Jesuits, ii. 353

Resplendent one, ii. 113; the Augoeides, or self-shining vision, ii. 115

Retribution on the Roman Catholic Church, ii. 121

Reuchlin, John, a Kabalist, ii. 20

Revelation, or Apocalypse, its author a Kabalist, ii. 91; his hatred of the Mysteries made him the enemy of Paul, _ib._

Revenge of Ilda-Baoth for the transgression of his command, ii. 185

Rib of the Word made flesh preserved as a relic, ii. 71

Rig-Veda, hymns written before Zoroaster, ii. 433

Rio Janeiro, her Madonna with bare limbs, blond hair and chignon, ii. 9; her Christ in dandy evening dress, ii. 10

Rishi Kutsa, i. 11

Rishis, or sages, i. 90

Rite of Swedenborg, a Jesuitical production, ii. 390

Rites and ceremonial dress of Christian clergy like that of Babylonians, etc., ii. 94

Ritual of exorcism, ii. 69; funeral, of the Egyptians, ii. 367

Rituals, Kabalistic and Catholic compared, ii. 85, 86

Rochester Cathedral, its originals, ii. 5; rappings, i. 36

Rock-temples of Ipsambul, i. 542; works of Phœnician cities, i. 570; similar in Egypt and America, i. 571

Rod of Moses, the _crux ansata_, ii. 455

Roger Bacon, i. 64

Roma, Cambodian traditions, i. 566

Roman Catholic Clergy murdered mediums, i. 26; Church burned sorcerers that were not priests, ii. 58; Church has deprived herself of the key to her own religious mysteries, ii. 121; Church regards dissent, heresy, and witchcraft identical, ii. 503; considers religious liberty as intolerance, _ib._

Roman Catholics in the United States, ii. 1; frown at the spiritual phenomena as diabolical, ii. 4; pontiffs arrogate dominion over Greek and Protestant Christians, i. 27

Rome, Church of, put Bruno to death for his doctrines, i. 93; regards the spiritual phenomena as genuine, i. 100; Church of, cursing spiritualists, ii. 6; excommunicating the Bulgarians, Servians, Russians, and Italian liberals, ii. 7

Rosaries of Buddhistic origin, ii. 95

Roscoe, Professor, on iron in the sun, i. 513

Rose, impression of one on Mme. von N., i. 398

Rosicrucians, persecuted and burned, i. 64; their doctrine of creation, i. 258; still a mystery, ii. 380; unknown to its cruelest enemy, the Church, _ib._; the aim to support Catholicism, ii. 394; their doctrine of fire, i. 423

Rosie Cross, brothers live only in name, i. 29; mysterious body, i. 64; burned without mercy by the Church, _ib._

Round Tower of Bhangulpore, ii. 5

Rousseau, the savant, encounter with a toad, i. 399

Royal Arch word, ii. 293; cipher, ii. 396

Ruc, from New Zealand, i. 603

Rufus of Thessalonica returned to life after dying, i. 365

Rules imposed upon neophytes, ii. 365

Russia, no church-miracles, ii. 17

Russian conquest of Turkey predicted, i. 260

S. P. R. C., the cipher, ii. 395

Sabazian worship Sabbatic, ii. 45

Sabbath, adopted by the Jews from other peoples, ii. 417; Christian, its origin, ii. 419

Sabbatical institution not mentioned in Job, ii. 494

Sabeanism, treated of in Job, ii. 494

Sacerdotal caste in every ancient religion, ii. 99; office, magical evocation, ii. 118

Sacred sleep, i. 357; produced by draughts of soma-juice, _ib._; lake, ii. 364; writings of India have a deeper meaning, ii. 430; books of the Jews destroyed, 158 B.C., ii. 470; tree of Kounboum renews its budding in the time of Son-Ka-po, ii. 609

Sacrifice of the hierophant or victim, ii. 42; of blood, ii. 566

Sacrificial worship never approved by the Israelitish prophets, ii. 525

Sacrilege to seek to understand a mystery, ii. 249

Sahara, perhaps once a sea-bed, i. 592

St. Paul’s Cathedral, its double lithoi, ii. 5; Medard, the fanatics, i. 375; John, Knights of, not Masons, ii. 383; persecuted by the Inquisition, _ib._

Saints rescued from hell, ii. 517; Buddhistic and Lamaistic, their great sanctity, ii. 608; never washing themselves, ii. 511

Sakti, the active energy of the gods, ii. 276; employed as a vehan, _ib._

Sakti-trimurti, or female trinity, ii. 444

Salamander or asbestos, i. 504

Salem, Mass., obsessions occurring there, i. 71; witchcraft, the obeah woman, i. 361; witchcraft, ii. 18

Salsette, the Kanhari caves, the abode of St. Josaphat, ii. 580, 581

Salt regarded as the universal menstruum and one of the chief formative principles, i. 147

Salverte, his philosophy of magic, i. 115; imputes deception to Iamblichus and others, _ib._; his account of a soldier protected by an amulet, i. 378; on mechanics and invention in ancient times, i. 516; on the use of electricity, etc., by Numa and Tullus, kings of Rome, i. 527

Samâddi, an exalted spiritual condition, ii. 590

Samael or Satan, the simoon or wind of the desert, ii. 483

Samaritans recognized only the books of Moses and Joshua, ii. 470

Samothrace, a mystery enacted there once every seven years, i. 302; worship of the Kabeiri brought thither by Dardanus, i. 570

Samothracian Mysteries and new life, i. 132; magnetism and electricity, i. 234

Samson, the Hebrew Herakles, a mythical character, ii. 439; represented by the Somona of Ceylon, i. 577

Samuel the prophet, a mythical hero, the doppel of Samson, ii. 439; the Hebrew Ganesa, _ib._; his school, i. 26

San Marco at Venice, the original of the Campanila column, ii. 5

Sanchoniathon, on chaos and creation, i. 342

Sanctity of the chair of Peter, its source, ii. 25

Sankhya, the eight faculties of the soul, ii. 592, 593

Sanctuary of the pagodas never entered by a European [except Mr. Ellis--see Higgins’s _Apocalypsis_--very doubtful], ii. 623

Sannyâsi, a saint of the second degree, ii. 98

Sanscrit, endeavor to show its derivation from the Greek, i. 443; inscriptions, none older than Chandragupta, ii. 436; the vernacular of the Akkadians, ii. 46; appears on the leaves of the magical Koumboum, _ib._; books written in presence of a child-medium, i. 368; impressions by a fakir or juggler on leaves, i. 368, 369; manuscripts translated into every Asiatic language, i. 578; language derived from the Rutas, i. 594

Sapphire, sacred to the moon, i. 264; possesses a magical power and produces somnambulic phenomena, _ib._; Hindu legend of its first production, i. 265

Sar or Saros, i. 30

Sara-isvati, wife of Brahma, goddess of sacred knowledge, ii. 409

Sarcophagus, porphyry, in the pyramids, i. 519

Sargent, Epes, on spiritual deceptions, i. 220; his arraignment of Tyndall for coquetting with different beliefs,