i. 419

Sargon, the original of the story of Moses, ii. 442

Sarpa Rajni, the queen of the serpents, ii. 489

Sarles, Rev. John W., advocates the damnation of adult heathen, ii. 474

Satan, his existence first made a dogma by Christians, ii. 13; declared fundamental, ii. 14; Ilda-Baoth, so called, ii. 186; identical with Jehovah, ii. 451; the mainstay of sacerdotism, ii. 480; to be contemplated from their planes, ii. 481; personified as a devil by the Asideans, ii. 481; same as Ahriman or Anramanyas, _ib._; the name applied to a serpent in the Hebrew Scriptures, ii. 481; the same as Seth, god of the Hittites, _ib._; of the book of Job, ii. 483; counsels with the Lord, ii. 485; a son of God, ii. 492; makes a sortie into New England and other colonies, ii. 503; the Biblical term for public accuser, ii. 494; the same as Typhon, _ib._; cast forth by the prince of hell, ii. 515, 516; is made subject to Beelzebub, prince of hell, ii. 517; and Beelzebub hold a conversation about Jesus, ii. 520, 521

Satanism defined by Father Ventura de Raulica, ii. 14

Sati, a burned widow, i. 541

Sattras, imitations of the course of the sun, i. 11

Saturation of the medium, i. 499, 500

Saturn, Chaldean discovery of his rings, i. 260, 263; the father of Zeus, i. 263; the same as Bel, Baal, and Siva, _ib._; his image, ii. 235; or Kronos, offers his only-begotten son to Ouranos and circumcises himself and family, i. 578; the myth original in the _Maha-Bharata_, _ib._

Saturnalia of monks at Christmas, ii. 366

Saul, evil spirit exorcised, i. 215

Saviour, would be lost if we lose our demons, ii. 476

Scandinavian tradition of trolls, ii. 624

Scepter of the Boddhisgat seen floating in the air, ii. 610

Scheme of the Ophites, ii. 292

Schlieman, the Hellenist, finds evidence of cycles of development, i. 6; at Mycenæ, i. 598

Schmidt, I. J., statement in regard to the steppes of Turan and desert of Gobi, i. 603

Scholars, ancient, believed in arcane doctrines, i. 205

Scholastic science knows neither beginning nor end, i. 336

Schools of magic in the Lamaseries, ii. 609

Schopenhauer, i. 55, 59; on nature as illusion, ii. 158

Science, formerly arcane and taught in the sanctuary, i. 7; its progress, i. 40; spiritualism, i. 83; “has no belief,” i. 278; knows no beginning or end, i. 336; called anti-christianism, i. 337; mystery fatal to it, i. 338; its parent source, the unknown, i. 339; its dilemma, i. 340; will never distinguish the difference between human and animal ovules, i. 397; invading the domain of religion, i. 403; surrounded by a large hypothetical domain, i. 404; her domain within the limit of the changes of matter, i. 421; gross conception of fire, i. 423; its dogmas concerning perpetual motion, elixir of life, transmutation of metals and universal solvent, i. 501; stages of its growth, i. 533; its three necessary elements, ii. 637; spiritism does not prevent them, _ib._; modern, fails to satisfy the aspirations of the race; makes the future a void and bereaves man of life, ii. 639

Scientific knowledge confined to the temples, i. 25; Association, or American Association for the Advancement of Science, on spiritualism and roosters crowing in the night, i. 245, 246; attainments of ancient Hindu savants, i. 618, 620

Scientists bound in duty to investigate, i. 5; afraid of spiritual phenomena, i. 41; treatment of Prof. Crookes, i. 44; likely to rediscover magic, i. 67; not to be credited for the increase of knowledge, i. 84; denied Buffon, Franklin, the steam-engine, railroad, etc., i. 85; surpassed the clergy in hostility to discovery, _ib._; as much given to persecution, _ib._; know little certain, i. 224; entrapping of Slade the medium, _ib._; put forth no new doctrines, i. 248, 249; anticipated by Liebig and Priestly, i. 250; many of them inanimate corpses, i. 317; their _ultima thule_, i. 340; curious conjectures concerning the aurora, i. 417; their incapacity to understand the spiritual side, i. 418

Scin-lecca, or double, ii. 104; makes the principal manifestations, ii. 517

Scintilla, the Divine, produces a monad, i. 302; of Abraham taken from Michael, ii. 452; Isaac from Gabriel, and Jacob from Uriel, ii. 452

Scottish rite, its headquarters at a Jesuit college, ii. 381

Screw, invented by Archytas, the instructor of Plato, i. 543

Scyths, probably the same as Mongolians, i. 576

Sea, ancient inland sea north of the Himalayas, i. 589

Seal, Solomon’s of Hindu origin, i. 135

Seance in Bengal, i. 467

Second Emanation condenses matter and diffuses life, i. 302; Adam created unisexual, i. 559; spiritual birth, ii. 566; advent, a fable invented for a precaution, ii. 535; death, ii. 368; sight, i. 211

Secret formulæ, i. 66; sacerdotal castes in every ancient religion, ii. 99; doctrine, its martyrs, i. 574; of Moses, ii. 525; volume, the real Hebrew Bible, ii. 471; sects of the Christians, ii. 289; are still in existence, ii. 290; God of the Kabala, ii. 230; of secrets, ii. 568

Secrets for prolonging life, ii. 563

Sectarian beliefs to disappear, i. 613

Sects existing before Christ, ii. 144

Sedecla, the Obeah woman of En-Dor, i. 494

Seer, receives impressions directly from his spirit, ii. 591

Seers or epoptæ, not spirit-mediums, ii. 118

Seer-adept, knows how to suspend the action of the brain, ii. 591

Seership natural with some people, ii. 588; two kinds, of the soul and the spirit, ii. 590; an elevation of the soul, ii. 591

Self of man, inner triune, ii. 114; the future, ii. 115

Self-consciousness, attained on earth, i. 368

Self-printed records on the sacred tree, i. 302

Seir-Anpin, the Christos, ii. 230; the third god, ii. 247

Semitic, the least spiritual branch of the human family, ii. 434; its germs found in Khamism, ii. 435

Semi-monastics, ii. 608

Sensitive flame obeying a man’s order, ii. 607

Separation, temporary, of the spirit from the body, ii. 588

Sephira, i. 160; the Divine Intelligence and mother of the Sephiroth, i. 258; the same as Metis and Sophia, i. 263; the first emanation, i. 270; or Sacred Aged (Maha Lakshmi), ii. 421

Sephiroth, i. 258; concealed wisdom, their father, _ib._; or emanations, ii. 36; ten, three classes in one unit, ii. 40; the same as the ten Pradjapatis, ii. 215; same as the ten patriarchs, _ib._

Sepulchres in Thibet, extraordinary arrangement of bodies and decorations, ii. 604

Seraph, his snout preserved as a relic, ii. 71

Serapis, a name of Surya, ii. 438; an accepted type of Christ, ii. 336; his picture adopted by the Christians, _ib._; represented by a serpent, ii. 490; usurped the worship of Osiris, ii. 491; the seven vowels chanted as a hymn in his honor, i. 514

Serpent of Genesis, des Mousseaux’s name for the devil, i. 15; matter, i. 297; dwelling in the branches of the tree of life, i. 298; symbol of wisdom and immortality, i. 553; of the book of _Genesis_, Ash-mogh or Asmodeus, ii. 188; persuades man to eat of the tree of knowledge, ii. 185; Christna crushing his head, ii. 446; the divine symbol east and west, ii. 484; most spirit-like of all reptiles, and hence a favorite symbol, ii. 489; how it became the emblem of eternity and of the world, ii. 489; universally venerated, ii. 489; a symbol of Serapis and Jesus, ii. 490; and Eve, ii. 512

Serpent-charmers, cannot fascinate human beings, ii. 612; their powers, ii. 628

Serpent-charming, i. 381, 382, 470

Serpent-monsters, i. 393

Serpent-god, sons of, the hierophants, i. 553

Serpent-gods, Mexican, 13 in number, i. 572

Serpent-trail round the unformed earth, ii. 489

Serpent-worship, its origin not known, ii. 489

Serpent-worshippers of Kashmere become Buddhists, ii. 608

Serpent’s catacombs in Egypt, i. 553; mysteries of the unavoidable cycle or centre of necessity, _ib._

Serpents, the earth their queen, i. 10; Kneph, Agathodaimon, Kakodaimon, i. 133, 157; Eliphas Levi’s, symbol of astral fire, i. 137; queen of, ii. 489; used as plaything at Hindu festivals, ii. 622

Servius, on the ancient practice of employing celestial fire at the altars, i. 526

Sesostris, instructed by the oracle in the Trinity, ii. 51

Seth, the reputed son of Adam, the same as Hermes, Thoth, and Sat-an,