Isis unveiled, Volume 2 (of 2), Theology

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Clocks and dials in ancient periods, i. 536

Coats of skin, i. 2, 149; explained, i. 293; worn by the priests of Hercules, i. 575; Adam and his wife so invested, _ib._; _Chitonuth our_, ii. 458

Code of Justinian copied from Manu, i. 586

_Codex Nazaræus_ prohibits the worship of Adonai the Sun-god, ii. 131; denounces Jesus, ii. 132

Coffin, from Egypt, dated by astronomical delineations, i. 520, 521

Colenso, Bishop, exiled the _Old Testament_, ii. 4

Colleges for teaching prophecy and occult sciences, i. 482

Collouca-Batta, account of the migrations of Manu-Vina from India to Egypt, i. 627

Collyridians asserted Mary to be virgin-born, ii. 110; transferred their worship from Astoreth to Mary, ii. 444

Colob, a planet on which the Mormon chief god lives, ii. 2

Colored masonry not acknowledged, ii. 391

Colquhoun, J. C., on the doctrine of a personal devil, ii. 477

Commission, Russian, to investigate spiritual phenomena, i. 117

Communication, subjective, with spirits, ii. 115

Communication, supposed, with the dead, with angels, devils, and gods, i. 323

Communion with God, a pagan sentiment, ii. 470

Companions, or Kabalists, ii. 470

Compensation, the law never swerves, ii. 545

Comte, Auguste, i. 76; catechism of religion of positivism, i. 78; his feminine mystery, i. 81; his doctrines repudiated by Huxley, i. 82; his philosophy belonging to David Hume, _ib._; the ventriloquist, on spiritual phenomena, i. 101

Comtists, or positivists, despised and hated, ii. 3

Conflict between the world-religions, i. 307

Conical monuments imputed to Hermes Trismegistus, i. 551

Conjurers, i. 73

Consciousness a quality of the soul, i. 199

Constitutions, secret, of the Jesuits, ii. 354

Continent, Atlantian, i. 591; Lemuria, i. 592; Great Equinoctial, i. 594; in the Pacific, i. 594; inhabited by the Rutas, _ib._

“Control,” i. 360

Convulsionaries cured by marriage, i. 375

Convulsionary, extraordinary resistance to external injury, i. 373

Corcoran, Catherine, malformed child, i. 392

Cordanus, power of leaving his body to go on errands, i. 477

Corinthian bride, resuscitated by Apollonius of Tyana, i. 481

Correspondences, Swedenborg’s doctrine that of Pythagoras and Kabalists, i. 306

Corson, Prof., on science and its contests with religion, i. 403

Cory, exceptions to his view of Plato and Pythagoras, i. 288

Cosmo, St., traffic by the Italian clergy in his phallic _ex-votos_, ii. 5

Cosmogonical doctrines based on one formula, i. 341

Counterfeit relics palmed off on Prince Radzivil, ii. 72; they work miracles, _ib._

Counterfeits in thaumaturgy are proofs of an original, ii. 567

Covercapal, the serpent-god, converted, ii. 509

Cox, Sergeant, proposition concerning the physical phenomena of spiritualism, i. 195; his denial, i. 201

Creation, doctrine of Hermetists and Rosicrucians, i. 258; cycle of, ii. 272, 273; Plato’s discourse, ii. 469; of mankind, Hindu legend, i. 148; Norse legend, i. 146, 151; of men from the tree _tzite_ and women from the reed _sibac_, i. 558

Creative Principle, proclaimed at Lausanne by the supreme councils of Freemasonry, ii. 377; denounced by Gen. Pike, _ib._

Creator, not the Highest God, i. 309; the father of matter and the bad, _ib._

Credo, as amended by Robert Taylor, ii. 522

Creed, suggested for Protestant and Catholic bodies, ii. 473

Crime of every kind sanctioned by Jesuit doctrine, ii. 353; by ecclesiastics in the United States, ii. 573

Crimean war, i. 260

Crook, Episcopal, adopted from the Etrurian augurs, ii. 94

Crookes, Prof., begins to investigate spiritual phenomena, i. 44; on psychic force, i. 45; theories, i. 47; remarks on Prof. Thury, i. 112; his experiment with the planchette, i. 199; acknowledges the evidence of spiritual phenomena overwhelming, i. 202; weighing light, i. 281

Cross, philosophical, i. 508; or Tau, an ancient symbol, ii. 393; Egyptian, found at Palenque, i. 572; a sign of recognition, long before the Christian era, ii. 87; found on the walls of the Serapeum, ii. 253, 254; used in the Mysteries, _ib._; of the Zodiac, ii. 452; revered by every nation, ii. 453; the geometrical basis of religious symbolism, _ib._; acknowledged by the Jews, ii. 454

Crosse, Andrew, producing living insects by chemical action, i. 465

Crowe, Catherine, on stigmata or birth marks, i. 396

Crusade of des Mousseaux and de Mirville against the arch-enemy, ii. 15

Cryptographs of the Sovereign Princes Rose Croix, ii. 394

Crypts of Thebes and Memphis, i. 553; mysteries of the circle of necessity, _ib._

Cults derived from one primitive religion, ii. 412

Cup, consecrated in the Bacchic mysteries, ii. 513

Cures effected at the Egyptian temples, i. 531, 532

Curse inheres in matter, i. 433; allegorical, of the earth, ii. 420

Cursing, a Christian, and not a pagan practice, ii. 334; prohibited because it will return, ii. 608

Cusco, its temples and hieroglyphics, i. 597; tunnel to Lima and Bolivia, _ib._

Cycle, at the bottom, i. 247; doctrine demonstrated, i. 348; the Unavoidable, the Mysteries, i. 553

Cycles of human existence, i. 5, 6, 247, 293; of the universe, ii. 420

Cyclopeans were Phœnicians, i. 567; were shepherds in Libya, miners and builders, and forged bolts for Zeus, _ib._; same as Anakim, _ib._

Cyclopes, or Cuclo-pos, the Rajpoot race, ii. 438

Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, anthropomorphized Isis as Mary, ii. 41; his murder of Hypatia, ii. 53; the assassin of Hypatia sold church vessels, etc., ii. 253

Czechs of Bohemia burn the Bull and Syllabus, ii. 560

Dactyls, Phrygian, i. 23

Daguerre declared by a physician to be insane because he declared his discovery, ii. 619

Daimonion of Socrates the cause of his death, ii. 117

Daimonia, i. 276

Daityas, i. 313

Damiano, St., traffic in Isernia, in his limbs and _ex-voto_, ii. 5

Dam-Sâdhna, a practice of fakirs like the rabbinic method of “entering paradise,” ii. 590

Danger, the greatest to be feared, ii. 122

Daniel a Babylonian Rabbi, astrologer, and magus, ii. 236

Dardanus received the Kabeiri gods as a dowry, i. 570; carried their worship to Samothrace and Troy, _ib._

Darius Hystaspes, teacher of the Mazdean religion, ii. 140; put down the magian rites, ii. 142; restored the worship of Ormazd, ii. 220; added the Brahman to the Magian doctrine, ii. 306; the institutor of magism, ii. 502; established a Persian colony in Judea, ii. 441

Dark races of Hindustan worshipped Bala-Mahadeva, ii. 434

Darkness and the bad, how produced, i. 302

Darwin, his theory, i. 14

Darwinian line of descent, i. 154; theory, in book of Genesis, i. 303

Daughters of Shiloh, their dance, ii. 45

David, King, exorcised the evil spirit of God, i. 215; how he reinforced his failing vigor, i. 217; danced the circle-dance of the Amazons, ii. 45; knew nothing of Moses, _ib._; performing a phallic dance before the ark, ii. 79; brought the name Jehovah to Palestine, ii. 297; established the Sadducean priesthood, _ib._; ascends out of hell, ii. 517; the Israelitish King Arthur, ii. 439; establishes a new religion in Palestine, _ib._

Davis, A. J., on Diakka, i. 218

Day and night of Brahma, ii. 421

Daytha, the Hindu Nimrod, ii. 425

Dead, their ashes assuming their likeness, ii. 663

Death, when it actually occurs, i. 482; when resuscitation is possible, i. 485; planetary, i. 254; no certain signs, i. 479; exposition, i. 480; language of Pimander, i. 624, 625; the penalty for divulging secrets of initiation, ii. 99; the Gates, ii. 364; the second, ii. 368

Death-symbol at the orgies, ii. 138

Decameron, Boccaccio’s, prudery beside the _Golden Legend_, ii. 79

Decimal notation unknown to Pythagoras, ii. 300; known to the Pythagoreans, _ib._

Degeneracy of Christians, ii. 575

Degrees, the three, ii. 364

Deicide, never charged on the Jews by Jesus, ii. 193

Deity, from deva, and devil from daeva, the same etymology, ii. 512; represented by three circles in one, ii. 212

Delegatus, ii. 154

Deluge, i. 30; Hindu story, ii. 425

Demeter, the Kabeirian, her picture represented with the electrified head, i. 234; or Ceres, the intellectual soul, ii. 112

Demigod philosophers, ii. 536

Demigods and atmospheric electricity, i. 261

Demiurgic Mind, i. 55

Demiurgos, or architect of the world, Brahma, i. 191; Jehovah, _ib._

Democritus, i. 61; on death, i. 365; on the soul, i. 401; a student of the Magi, i. 512; his belief concerning magic, _ib._

Demon and Martin Luther, ii. 73; of Socrates, ii. 283, 284; same as the _nous_, _ib._

Demons, the doctrine of Buddha, i. 448; in the Western Sahara, fascinate travellers, i. 604; sometimes speak the truth, ii. 71; opinion of Proclus, i. 312

Demoniac, sulphurous flames, ii. 75; one receives a sound thrashing from the Blessed Virgin, ii. 76

Demonologia, i. 89

Demon-worship and saint-worship substantially the same, ii. 29

Dendera, the temple, the female figures, i. 524

De Negre, Grand Hierophant of the Rite of Memphis, ii. 380

Denon, his description of the ruins of Karnak, i. 524

Dentists in ancient Egypt, i. 545

Denton, Prof., examples of psychometrical power, i. 183; illustrates archæology by psychometry, i. 295

Dervish, their initiation, ii. 317

Desatir, or book of Shet, on light, ii. 113

Descartes believed in occult medicine, i. 71; his system of physics, i. 206

Descendants, resemblance to ancestors, i. 385

Descent into hell, ii. 177; to subdue the rebellious archangel, i. 299; how explained by Kabalists, _ib._; of spirit to matter, i. 285

Designations of the virgin-mothers, Hindu, Egyptian, and Catholic,