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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, 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, ii. 557
Wizard, a wise man, i. 354
Wolf, converted by St. Francis, ii. 77
Wolsey, Cardinal, accused of sorcery, ii. 57
Woman, of the future, i. 77; fecundated artificially, i. 77, 81; must cease to be the female of the men, i. 78; ridding her of every maternal function, ib.; applying a latent force, ib.; offered to the encubi, ib.; impossible, i. 81; evolved out of men, i. 297; highly impressible when pregnant, i. 394; exudes akasa as an odic emanation, i. 395; how this is projected into the astral light or ether, and repercussing, impresses itself upon the fœtus, ib.; evolved out of the lusts of matter, i. 433; clothed with the sun, the goddess Isis, ii. 489
Women, magnetically influenced by the moon, i. 264
Women-colleges, to superintend worship, ii. 524, 525
Wong-Ching-Fu, his explanation of Nepang or Nirvana, ii. 319, 320
Wonder-working fakirs seldom to be seen, ii. 612, 613
Word, magical, i. 445; ineffable, and performance of miracles, ii. 370; lost by the Christians, ib.; where to be sought, ii. 371, ii. 418; “long lost but now found,” ii. 393
World, how called into existence, i. 341; how all will go well with it, ii. 122; soul of, i. 129, 208, 215, 342; religions, startled by utterances of scientists, i. 248, 249
World-religions, conflict between, i. 307; identical at their starting-point, ii. 215; the devil their founder, ii. 479
World-mountains, allegorical expressions of cosmogony, i. 157
World-soul, the source of all souls, and ether, i. 316
World-tree of knowledge, i. 574
Worlds, an incalculable number before the present one, ii. 424
Worship of the sun and serpent by Phœnicians and Mosaic Israelites, i. 555; of words, denounced, ii. 560; of the spiritual portion of mankind, ii. 639
Wounds, mortal, self-inflicted and healed, i. 224
Wreaths of green leaves for oracles, ii. 612
Wren, Sir Christopher, simply the Master of the London operative masons, ii. 390
Wright, Thomas, on sorcery and magic, i. 356
Writings under the ban, ii. 8
X, decussation of the perfect circle, ii. 469
X., Dr. extraordinary scenes at a seance, i. 608-611
Xenophanes, his satire on the representations of God, ii. 242
Ximenes, cardinal, burned 80,000 Arabic manuscripts, i. 511
Xisuthrus or Hasisadra, sailed with the ark to Armenia, ii. 217; translated to the gods, ii. 424; Oannes and Vishnu in the first avatar, ii. 457
Yaho, an old Shemitic mystic name of the Supreme Being, ii. 297
Yadus migrating from India to Egypt, i. 444
Yang-kie and Mahu, dwellers in both worlds, i. 601, 602
Yakuts and their worship, ii. 568
Yarker, John jr., account of the dervishes, ii. 316; his testimony in regard to Free-masonry, ii. 376
Year of blood, 1876, i. 439
Yezidis, or devil-worshippers genuine sorcerers, ii. 571; their worship, ii. 572
Yggdrasill, i. 133; universe springing up beneath its branches, i. 151
Ymir, the Norse giant, i. 147; generates a race of depraved men, i. 148; is slain by the sons of Bur, i. 150
Yogas or cycles, i. 293
Yogis of India, ii. 346; their extraordinary powers, ii. 565; regarded as demi-gods, ii. 612; a peculiar medicine used by them composed of sulphur and juice of a plant, ii. 621; their longevity, ii. 620; their medicinal preparation of sulphur and quicksilver, ii. 620
Yörmungand, the midgard or earth-serpent, i. 151
Yourodevoy, i. 28
Youth, the means of regaining, ii. 618
Yowahous, ii. 313
Yugas, i. 31
Yule, Colonel, on movable type, i. 515; on spiritualism in Tartary, i. 600; testimony in regard to spiritual flowers drawn by a medium in Bond street, London, i. 601
Zacharias, saw an apparition in the temple, ass-formed, ii. 523
Zadokites, or Sadducees, made a priest-caste by David, ii. 297
Zampun, the Thibetan tree of life, i. 152
Zamzummim, the Cyclopeans, i. 567
Zarathustra-Spitoma, his untold antiquity, i. 12
Zarevna Militrissa and the serpent, i. 550
Zeller, criticism of the Fathers in regard to Plato, i. 288
Zequiel, a demon presented to Torralva, ii. 60
Zeno taught two eternal qualities in nature, i. 12
Zeru-Ishtar, a Chaldean or Magian high-priest, ii. 129
Zeruan, Saturn or Abraham, the legend of the Titans, ii. 217
Zeus, the æther, i. 187, 188
Zeus-Dionysus, i. 262
Zmeij Gorenetch, the dragon, i. 550
Znachar, the Russian sorcerer, ii. 571
Zodiac, its symbolism, ii. 456; its origin, 16,984 years ago, ib.
Zohak and Gemshid, their struggle that of the Persians and Assyrians, i. 576; and Feridun, the legend explained, ii. 486; or Azhi-Dahaka, the serpent of the Avesta, ii. 486; a personification of Assyria, ib.
Zonarus traces knowledge from Chaldea to Egypt, thence to the Greeks, i. 543
Zoömagnetism, or animal magnetism, i. 206; can magnetize minerals, ib.
Zoroaster, Zarathustra, Zuruastara, Zuryaster, a spiritual teacher, ii. 141; a reformer of Chaldean Magic, i. 191; when he lived, ii. 141; Baron Bunsen’s opinion, ii. 432
Zoroastrian religion, its affinity with Judaism and Christianity, ii. 486
Zoroastrianism, no schism, ii. 142
Zoroastrians, migrated from India, ii. 143
Zoro-Babel or prince of Babylon, ii. 441
Zuinglius, the first reformer, his cosmopolitan doctrine of the Holy Ghost, i. 132
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