ii. 280;

its feminine, ii. 281; a part of it mortal, ii. 283; the doctrine of Pythagoras, ii. 283; Plato’s definition, ii. 285, 286; its paralysis during life, ii. 368; not knit to flesh, ii. 565; sentient, the Ego, inseparable from the brain, ii. 590; raised above inferior good, ii. 591; power to liberate itself and behold things subjectively, ii. 591; its eight faculties, ii. 592; its teachings authoritative, ii. 593; possesses a power of prescience even when in the body, ii. 594; disembodied, meets itself at the gate of Paradise, ii. 635; of the world the archeal universal, “mind,” Sophia the Holy Ghost as a female principle, i. 130; doctrine of Baptista Porta, i. 208; external, i. 276; higher mortal, _ib._; the great universal, union with it does not involve loss of individuality, ii. 116

Soul-blind like color-blind, i. 387

Soul-electricity, i. 322

Soul-deaths, ii. 369

Soulless men yet living, ii. 369

Souls, or immortal gods emanate from the triad, i. 348; come to souls and impart to them information, ii. 594

Source of the religious faiths of mankind, ii. 639; double, of every religion, _ib._

South Carolina, statutes in force in 1865, imposing the death-penalty for witchcraft, ii. 18

Sparks or old worlds that perished, ii. 421

Speaking images, i. 505

Specialties in medical practice in Egypt, i. 545

Speculative Masons, ii. 392

Spectre of a herdsman in Bavaria, i. 451

Spectroscope, confirmed doctrines of Paracelsus, i. 168, 169

Spell of the evil eye, ii. 633

Spheres, music of, i. 275

Spinoza, his philosophy, i. 93; furnishes a key to the unwritten secret, i. 308

Spirit, its origin, i. 258; not existing, but immortal, i. 291; or spiritus, the soul or _anima mundi_, the mother, i. 299, 300; progeny of, i. 301; human, an emanation of the eternal spirit, i. 305; never entered wholly into the body, i. 306; is masculine, ii. 281; of man preëxistent, ii. 280; distinct from soul, i. 315; individualization depends upon it, _ib._; becomes an angel, i. 316; its preëxistence believed, _ib._; alone immortal, ii. 362; leaving an old for a young body, ii. 563; by its vision all things can be known, ii. 588; may abandon the body for specific periods, ii. 589; the sole original unity, ii. 607; the interpreter of God to man, ii. 635; its Protean powers little known by spiritualists, ii. 638

Spirit-ancestor, a serpent, 45, 46

Spirit-form, i. 197

Spirit-voices not articulate, i. 68; audible, i. 220

Spirit-intercourse, 446,000,000 believers, i. 117

Spirit-flowers produced by a Bikshuni, ii. 609

Spiritists of France attacked by the Roman church, ii. 6

Spirits that control mediums, generally human, i. 67; cannot “materialize,” _ib._; not attracted by every body alike, i. 69; produce few of the “physical phenomena,” i. 73; the seven, i. 300, 301; not possessed of the same attractions, i. 344; or ghosts, hurt by weapons, i. 363; heard talking in the desert of Lop, and elsewhere, i. 604; three categories of communication, ii. 115; may take possession of bodies in the absence of the soul, ii. 589; bad, compelled Garma-Khian to appear and render an account, ii. 616; city of, _ib._

Spiritual phenomena among the Shakers, ii. 18; discountenanced by the clergy, i. 26; chase the scientists, i. 41; Iamblichus forbids the endeavor to procure them, i. 219; sun, i. 29, 32; the magnet of Kircher, i. 208, 209; Gama, Ormazd, the soul of things, God, i. 270; invisible and in the centre of space, i. 302; the supreme deity, ii. 13; death, its cause, i. 318; eyes, i. 145; sight, scientists without it, i. 318; photography, i. 486

Spiritual entity, in man, an ancient doctrine, ii. 593; transferred, ii. 563; limbs, can be made visible, ii. 596; world in proximity to us, ii. 593; state, as unfolded in the Sankhya, a philosophy, ii. 593; numerals, i. 514; crisis of the Shaman, ii. 625; or magical powers exist in every man, ii. 635; circles are constructed on no principle, ii. 638; Self the sole and Supreme God, ii. 566

Spiritualism, drifting, i. 53; efforts of Positivists to uproot, i. 76, 83; pretends only to be a science, i. 83; pronounced a delusion in Russia, i. 118; universally diffused from remote antiquity, i. 205; why it must continue to vegetate, ii. 636; is iconoclastic, not constructed, ii. 637; not scientific, ii. 637, 638; exoteric, too much directed to personal matters, _ib._; esoteric, very rare, _ib._

Spiritualists, the majority remain in the religious denominations, ii. 2; take no active part in the formation of a system of philosophy, ii. 637; start with a fallacy, ii. 638

Splendor, mighty Lord of, i. 301

Spurious passage in the First Epistle of John, ii. 177

Square hat of the Hierophant, ii. 392

Squirrel materialized, i. 329

Sri-Iantara, or Solomon’s seal, ii. 265

Stainton, Moses, his criticisms of popular spiritualism, ii. 638

Stan-gyour, a work on magic, i. 580

Stanhope, Lady Esther, faints at a Yezidi orgy, ii. 572

Star of Bethlehem, rays carried home by a monk as relics, ii. 71

Starry heaven, worship proposed under Christian names, ii. 450

Stars, ignition, i. 254; influence on fates of men, i. 259; and man have direct affinity, i. 168, 169

Statues, restorative of health, i. 283; possible to animate them, i. 485; endowed with reason, i. 613

Steam-engine, invented by Hero of Alexandria, i. 241

Stedingers, accused and exterminated, ii. 331

Steel, rusts in India and Egypt, i. 211; superior article in India, i. 538; in Egypt, _ib._

Steeples, turrets, and domes, phallic symbols, ii. 5

Stephens, believes the key to American hieroglyphs will yet be obtained, i. 546; story of the unknown city of the Mayas, i. 547

Stewart, Prof. Balfour, his tribute to Herakleitus, i. 422; warning to scientists, i. 424; denies perpetual light, i. 510

Stigmata, or birth-marks, i. 384; produced by sorcery of a Jesuit priest, ii. 633

Stone of Memphis, its potency to prevent pain, i. 540; two tables, masculine and feminine, ii. 5; a Shaman’s talisman, “spoke” saving the author’s life, ii. 626

Stonehenge, its gods recognized as the divinities of Delphos and Babylon, i. 550; remarkable statement of Dr. Stukely, i. 572; Hamitic in plan, _ib._

Stoics, belief concerning God, i. 317

Stones, their secret virtues, i. 265

Strangers, never admitted into a caste, nor to religion, i. 581

Stukely, Dr., remarks concerning Stonehenge, i. 572

Subjective mediums, i. 311; communication with human god-like spirits, ii. 115

Subsidy paid by the East India Company to maintain worship at the pagodas, ii. 624

Subterranean passages in Peru, i. 595, 597

Subtile influence emanated from every man’s body, ii. 610

Suetonius knew nothing of Christians, ii. 535, 536

Suez Canal, i. 516, 517; that of Necho, i. 517

Sufis, their idea of one universal creed, ii. 306

Suicide and insanity caused by Elementaries, ii. 7

Suicides and murderers, i. 344

Sulanuth, i. 325

Sulphur, the secret fire or spirit of the alchemists, i. 309; and quicksilver, a preparation to promote longevity, ii. 620, 621

Summary of Koheleth, ii. 476

Sun, an emblem of the sun-god, i. 270; only a magnet or reflector, i. 271; has no more heat in it than the moon, _ib._; represented under the image of a dragon, i. 552; made the location of hell, ii. 12; view of Pythagoras, _ib._; increases the magnetic exhalations, ii. 611; and serpent-worship, the religion of the Phœnicians and Mosaic Israelites, i. 555

Sun-worship once contemplated by Catholics, ii. 450

Sun-worshippers always regarded the sun as an emblem of the spiritual sun, i. 270

Sunrise and sunset as taught by the Shastras, i. 10

Supersentient soul, ii. 590

“Superstitions” in regard to drowned persons, ii. 611

Supreme Being denied by modern science, i. 16; by the positivists, i. 71; never rejected by Buddhistical philosophy, i. 292; Essence, ii. 213, 214; the Swayambhuva and En-Soph, ii. 218; mystery of the holy syllable, ii. 114

Surgery of Yogis and Talapoins, ii. 621

Surnden, Rev. T., on locality of hell, ii. 12

Sutrantika, the sect having secret Buddhistic religion, ii. 607

Suttee, or burning of widows, not practised when the Code of Manu was compiled, i. 588

Swâbhâvikas, Hindu pantheists, the teachers of protoplasm, i. 250; their views of Essence, ii. 262

Swayambhuva, the unrevealed Deity, ii. 39; the unity of three trinities, making with himself two prajapatis,