ii. 542

Soma, juice of, produces trance, i. 357

Somona, the Singalese Samson, i. 577

“Son of Man,” ii. 232

Son of God at one with man, ii. 635

Sons of the Serpent-God, i. 553

Son-Ka-po, the Shaberon, or avatar and great reformer, immaculately conceived, and translated without dying into heaven, ii. 609

Sophia or wisdom, ii. 41; the Holy Ghost as a female principle, i. 130; the Gnostic principle of wisdom, the same as Sephira and Metis, i. 263

Sorcerer in Africa, impervious to bullets, i. 379

Sorcerers, burned when not priests, ii. 58

Sorcery, i. 279; misapplied arcane knowledge, ii. 581; few facts better established, i. 366; with blood, ii. 567, 568; practised at the Vatican, ii. 620; approved by Augustine, ii. 20; employed for crime, ii. 633

Sortes Sanctorum, ii. 20, 21

Sortie of Satan into New England, ii. 503

Sortilegium or sorcery, practised by clergy and monks, ii. 6; Gregory of Tours, ii. 20

Sosigenes, reformed the calendar for Cæsar, i. 11

Sosiosh, the tenth avatar and fifth Buddha, ii. 236; a permutation of Vishnu, ii. 237

Sotheran, Charles, letter on Freemasonry, ii. 388

Soul, displays power when the body is asleep, i. 199; the two named by Plato, i. 276; marvellous power, i. 280; passage through the seven planetary chambers, i. 297; spirit wholly distinct, i. 315; dissolves into ether, _ib._; possible loss of its distinct being, i. 316, 317; the garment of the spirit, i. 309; exists as preexisting matter, i. 317; doctrine of the Greek and Roman philosophers, i. 429; of Aristotle, Homer, the Jains and Brahmans, _ib._; the camera in which facts are fixed, i. 486; escaping temporarily from the body, ii. 105; may dwell in paradise while the body lives in this world, i. 602; punished by union with the body, ii. 112; the Vedic doctrine, ii. 263; universal, when it sleeps, ii. 274; its transmigration does not relate to man’s condition after death,