ii. 487;

Plutarch’s explanation, ii. 483; father of Ierosolumos and Ioudaios, ii. 484; separated from his androgyne, ii. 524

Tyrian worship introduced into Israel by Ahab, ii. 525

Tyrrhenian cosmogony, i. 342

Udayna or Pashai (Peshawer) the classic land of sorcery, i. 599; statement of Hiouen-Thsang, _ib._

Ultramontanes accused in France of siding with the Mahometans, ii. 82

Ulysses frightens phantoms with his sword, i. 362

Umbilical cord ruptured and healed, i. 386

Umbilicus, represented by the ark, ii. 444

Umbra, or shade, i. 37

Unavoidable cycle, Mysteries, i. 553

Unconscious cerebration, i. 55, 232; ventriloquism, i. 101

Urdar, the fountain of life, i. 151, 162

Underworld, i. 37

Undines, i. 67

Union to the Deity, ii. 591

Unity of three trinities, ii. 39; the Sephiroth or prajapatis, _ib._

Universal soul, or mind, i. 56; the doctrine underlying all philosophies, Buddhism, Brahmanism, and Christianity, i. 289; relation to the reasoning and the animal soul, i. 316; solvent, i. 50, 137, 189

Universals to particulars, i. 288

Universe, or Kosmos, the body of the invisible sun, i. 302; doubt, i. 324; how came it, i. 341; the concrete image of the ideal abstraction, i. 342; existed from eternity, _ib._; passes through four ages, ii. 421; a musical instrument, i. 514

Unknown presence, when witnessed, ii. 164; the future self of man, ii. 165

Unregulated mediums punished, i. 489

Unrevealed God, i. 160

Unseen Universe, or all things there recorded, ii. 588; spiritual universe, its existence demonstrated, ii. 15

Untrained mediumship illustrated by Socrates and his daimonion, ii. 117

Untenable dogmas of science, i. 501

Upasakes and Upasakis, Buddhistic semi-monastics, ii. 608

Uper-Ouranoi, i. 312

Vach, or sacred speech, ii. 409

Vaivaswata, the Hindu Noah, ii. 425

Valachian lady, her simulacrum brought to the author in her tent in Mongolia, ii. 627, 628

Vampirism, a terrible case in Russia, i. 454

Vampire-governor, and his widow, i. 454, 455

Vampires, i. 319; shedim, etc., i. 449; magnetic, i. 462; ghouls and, wandering about, ii. 564

Van Helmont, i. 50, 57; on magnetism and will, i. 170; on transmutation of earth into water, i. 190; testimony of Deleuze, i. 194; a Pythagorean, i. 205; theory of man, i. 213; remarkable account of a child born headless immediately after an execution, i. 386; on the power of woman’s imagination, i. 399; testimony of Dr. Fournier, i. 400; ridiculed for his directions for production of animals, i. 414

Vari-colored fragments of the beam of Divine Truth, ii. 639

Vasitva, power of mesmerizing, also of restraining the passions, i. 393

Vasaki, the great dragon, ii. 490

Vast inland sea of middle Asia, and its island, i. 589

Vatican, black magic practised there, ii. 6; secret libraries, ii. 16, 19; clergy, how an access, ii. 18

Vatou, or candidate, for initiation, ii. 98; sensitive to spiritual influences, ii. 118

Vaughan, Thomas, anecdote of his attempted sale of gold, i. 504

Vedas, antedate the Bible, i. 91; contain no such immodesty as the Bible, ii. 80; older than the flood, ii. 427

Vedic words, the controversies of Sanscrit scholars, ii. 47; peoples not all Aryans, ii. 413

Vedic Pitris, their worship fast becoming the worship of the spiritual portion of mankind, ii. 639

Vegetation, influence of the moon, i. 273; influenced by musical tones, i. 514

Vehicle of life, ii. 418

Venerable “Mah,” ii. 388

Ventriloquists or pythiæ, i. 355

Ventura de Raulica, his letter asserting the existence of Satan as a fundamental dogma of the Church, ii. 14

Vesica Piscis, a Zodiacal sign, ii. 255

Vicarious atonement, a ridiculous idea, i. 316

Vicarious atonement, ii. 542; obliterates no wrong, ii. 545; not known by Peter, ii. 546

Vigil-night of Siva, i. 446

Vincent, Frank, his description of the ruins of Nagkon-Wat, i. 562, 565

Vine, the symbol of blood and life, ii. 244; Jesus, ii. 561; his “Father” not God, but the hierophant, _ib._

Viracocha, the Peruvian deity, ii. 259

Viradji, the Son of God, his origin, ii. 111

Virgin, celestial, milk of, i. 64; of the sea, crushes the dragon under her feet, ii. 446; of the Zodiac, rises above the horizon, Dec. 25th, ii. 490; Blessed, thrashing a demoniac, ii. 76; Mary, declaring all pagans condemned to eternal torments, over her own signature, ii. 8; succeeded to the titles, symbols and rites of Isis, ii. 95; on the crescent moon, like pagan goddesses, ii. 96; queen of heaven, ii. _ib._; mother without a husband, positivist, i. 81; of the Avatar, Son-Ka-po, ii. 589

Virgin-mothers, Hindu, Egyptian, and Catholic, their epithets, ii. 209

Vishnu, takes the form of a fish, ii. 257; same as Oannes, _ib._; the Adam Kadmon of the kabalists, ii. 259; his ten avatars, ii. 274; symbolize evolution, ii. 275; the expression of the whole universe, ii. 277

Vishnu-flower, ii. 467

Visible universe from Brahma-Prajapati, i. 348

Visions witnessed by initiates, ii. 113; produced by sorcery, ii. 633

Visit to the Ladakh in Thibet, ii. 598

Visiting and leaving the body at home, ii. 604, 605

Vistaspa, a king of Bactriana, ii. 141

Visvamitra, his escape in the ark, ii. 257; Egypt colonized in his reign, i. 627

Vital force, speculations of men of science, i. 466

Viti, Sancti, Chorœa, or St. Vitus’ Dance, ii. 625

Voices of spirits and goblins heard in the desert, i. 604

Volatile salts obnoxious to devils, i. 356

Volney, mistook ancient worship, i. 24; his doctrine of God, i. 268

Voltaire, on the being of God, i. 268

Voluntary withdrawal of the spirit from the body, ii. 588

Votan, his admission to the snake’s hole as a son of the snakes, i. 553; supposed by de Bourbourg to be descended from Ham and Canaan, i. 554; the hero of the Mexicans, i. 545; probably identical with Quetzel-coatl, _ib._; intercourse with King Solomon, _ib._; the navigating serpent, _ib._

Voodo orgy in Cuba, ii. 573

Vourdalak or vampires of Servia, i. 451, ii. 368

Vowels, the seven, chanted as a hymn to Serapis, i. 514

Vridda Manava, or laws of Manu, i. 585

Vril, Bulwer-Lytton’s designation of the one primal force, i. 64, 125

Vril-ya, the coming race, i. 296

Vulcan, Phta, or Hephaistos, represented at Nakyon-Wat, i. 565, 566

Vulgar magic in India, ii. 20

Vyasa, a positivist, i. 621; denied a First Cause, ii. 261

Vyse, Col., found a piece of iron in the pyramid of Cheops, i. 542

Wagner, Prof. Nicholas, on heat and psychical force, i. 497; on mediumistic phenomena, i. 499

Walking above the ground, i. 472; the faculty sought by devotees, and attained by a King of Siam, ii. 618

Wallace, A. R., on cycles, i. 155; belief in spiritualism and mesmerism, i. 177; theory of human development, i. 294

War of Michael and the dragon, an old myth, ii. 486

Warrior, slain and resuscitated, but without a soul, ii. 564

War-chariots, ancient, lighter than modern artillery-wagons, i. 530; had metallic springs, _ib._

Water, of Phtha, i. 64; the first principle of things, i. 133; an universal solvent, i. 133, 189; of mercury, the soul or psychical substance, i. 309; the first-created element, ii. 458

Waters turned to blood, i. 413, 415

Washing of images, ii. 138

Wave-theory of light not accepted by Prof. Cooke, i. 137

Weapons, dæmons afraid of, i. 362

Weekman, reputed the first investigator of spirit-phenomena in America, i. 105

Weeks of seven days used in the East, ii. 418

Weird cries of the Gobi, i. 604

Weninger, Father F. X., a Jesuit priest, his denunciation of Secretary Thompson, ii. 378, 379

Wesermann, power to influence the dreams of others, and to appear double, i. 477

White-skinned people not often able to acquire magical powers, ii. 635

White stone of initiation, ii. 351

Whitney, Prof. W. D., his criticism of Max Müller, ii. 47; denunciation of Jacolliot, _ib._; his translation of a Vedic hymn, ii. 534

Widow-burning, or _suttee_, practised 2,500 years, but not when the Code of Manu was compiled, i. 588; sustained by the Brahmans from a forged verse of the _Rig-Veda_, i. 589

Widows burned without pain by the Brahmans, i. 540

Wild beasts will not attack Buddhistic nuns, ii. 609

Wilder, A., on possibility of transmutation, i. 505; suggestion of another classification of the Assyrians and Mongols,