i. 575;

notes in regard to America, the Atlantic continent, Lemuria, and the deserts of Africa and Asia, i. 592; on skeptics, and respect for earnest convictions, i. 437; on Paul and Plato, ii. 90; on the designation Peter and the pretension of the Pope to be his successor, ii. 92; opinion of Zeruana, Turan, and Zohak, ii. 142; description of Paul, ii. 574-6

Wilkinson, Sir Gardner, his testimony in regard to ancient Egyptian civilization, i. 526; J. J. G., declares truth temperamental, i. 234

Will, i. 56-61; its potency in a state of ecstasy, i. 170; produces force, i. 285; an emanation of deity, _ib._; power of, ii. 21; enables one to wound or injure another, i. 360, 361; generates force, and force generates matter, ii. 320

Will-force of the Yogis, ii. 565

Will-power, killing birds by it, i. 380; photographing by, i. 463; the most powerful of magnets, i. 472; its exercise the highest form of prayer, ii. 592

Wine first sacred in the Bacchic Mysteries, ii. 514

Winged men of the _Phædrus_, i. 2

Wirdig taught that nature is ensouled, i. 207

Wisdom, the arcane doctrine of the ancients, i. 205, 436; or the principle, ii. 35; the chief, ii. 36; first emanation of the En-Soph, ii. 37; origin, ii. 218; the ethnic parent of every religion, ii. 639, 640

Wisdom-doctrine underlay every ancient religion, ii. 99

Wisdom-religion, to be found in the pre-Vedic religion of India, ii. 39; its articles of faith, ii. 116; explained in Code of Manu, _ib._; the parent cult, ii. 216

Wise women, ii. 525

Witch, a knowing woman, i. 354; or kangalin, lawful for a Hindu to kill her, ii. 612

Witch-burnings in Germany, ii. 61; twenty-nine, ii. 62, 63

Witchcraft, execution in Salem, and other American provinces, ii. 18; laws in force in South Carolina in 1865, _ib._; an offence among the ancients, ii. 98; those guilty of it not initiates, ii. 117, 118

Witches, pretended, dozens of thousands burned, i. 353; of the middle ages, the votaries of the former religion, ii. 502

Witches’ Sabbath, the orgies of Bacchus, ii. 528

Withdrawal of the inner from the outer man, ii. 583

Withdrawing of the inner from the outer, i. 476

Wittoba, the crucified image of Christna anterior to Christianity,