i. 590

A’di Buddha, the Unknown, ii. 156; the father of the Yezidis, ii. 571

Adima and Heva, in the prophecies of Ramatsariar, i. 579

Adonai or Adamites, i. 303

Adonim, i. 301

Adonis, his rites celebrated in the grotto at Bethlehem, ii. 139

Adonis-worship, at the Jordan, ii. 181

Adrian supposed the Christians to worship Serapis, ii. 336

Æbel-Zivo, the Metatron, or Anointed spirit, ii. 154; ii. 236, 247; the same as the Angel Gabriel, ii. 247

Æneas drives away ghosts with his sword, i. 362, 363

Æons, or genii, i. 300

Aërolites, used in the Mysteries, i. 282; in the tower of Belos, ii. 331; used to develop prophetic power, _ib._

Æther, i. 56; in that form the Deity pervading all, i. 129; the primordial chaos, i. 134; the spirit of cosmic matter, i. 156; deified, i. 158; source whence all things come and whither they will return, i. 189; the fifth element, i. 342; a medium between this world and the other, _ib._; the Breath of the Father, the Holy Ghost, ii. 50

Æthiopia, east of Babylonia, ii. 434

Æthiopians from the Indus, who settled near Egypt, probably Jews, i. 567; originally an Indian race, ii. 437; law of inheritance by the mother, _ib._

Affinity of soul for body, i. 344; acknowledged between the _Syllabus_ and the _Koran_, ii. 82

Afrasiah, the King of Assyria, i. 575

Africa, phantoms appearing in the desert, i. 604

Afrits, i. 141; nature-spirits, Shedim, demons, i. 313; studying antediluvian literature, ii. 29

Agassiz, Prof. L., unfairness of, i. 63; his argument in favor of the immortality of all orders of living beings, i. 420

Agathodaimon and Kakothodaimon, i. 133

Agathadæmon, the serpent on a pole, ii. 512

Age of paper, i. 535

Aged of the aged, ii. 244

Ages, golden, silver, copper and iron, no fiction, i. 34; or Aions, ii. 144

Agni, the sun-god and fire-god, i. 270

Agrippa, Cornelius, i. 167, 200; his remarks on the marvellous power of the human soul, i. 280

Ahab and his sons encouraged by the prophets, ii. 525

Ahaz, his family deposed, ii. 440

Ahijah the prophet instigates Jeroboam to revolt against Solomon, ii. 439

Ahriman, his contest with Ormazd, ii. 237; to be purified in the fiery lake, ii. 238

Aij-Taïon, the Supreme God of the Yakuts of Siberia, ii. 568

Ain-Soph, ii. 210

Ajunta, Buddhistic caverns of, i. 349

Akâsa, or life-principle, i. 113; known to Hindu magicians, _ib._; same as Archæus, i. 125; a designation of astral and celestial lights combined, forming the _anima mundi_, and constituting the soul and spirit of man,