Chapter XII (part 2 of 2)

Chapter XII (part 2 of 2)

Mirville, De, i. 99; refutes Babinet’s denial of levitation, i. 105; the nebulous Almighty, i. 129

Mithra, a triple god, ii. 41

Mithraic Mysteries, ii. 351; initiation of Julian the Emperor, ii. 566

Mixture to out-stench devils, ii. 67

Mnizurin, i. 321

Mochtana or Mokomna, the Druze apostle, ii. 308

Morals, the Buddhistic code, ii. 608

Model of the Universe, i. 302

Modern philosophers, see only the physical form of Isis, i. 16; devil, a heritage from Cybelè, ii. 501; Savants know less than ancients, i. 15; science denies a Supreme Being or Personal God, i. 16; teaches the power of human thought to affect the matter of another universe, i. 310; scientists hate new truths, i. 409; spiritualism, i. 40; the modern form of magic, i. 42

Mœris, the artificial lake constructed in Egypt, i. 516

Moisasure, the Hindu Lucifer, i. 299

Moksha and the Nirvana, ii. 116; the second spiritual birth, ii. 566

Moldenwaher, his documents concerning the prosecution of the Knights-Templar, bought up by Free-masons, ii. 383

Moloch-Hercules, children immolated to him in the valley of the Gehenna, ii. 11

Moloch-God of the inquisition, ii. 65

Moloch-like divinity of Roman church, i. 27

Monad, i. 212; Buddha, i. 291

Monas, ii. 347

Mongolians, ought to have been called Scyths, i. 576

Monkey of God, now exorcised with holy water, ii. 96

Monkeys exhibiting human intellect, i. 326; fabled to be progenitors of western people, i. 563; in Egyptian temples, i. 564; in all Buddhistic temples, ib.

Monkish impostors expelled from convents in Southern Mongolia, ii. 609

Monks, their fury for exorcising and roasting the convulsionaires of the Cevennes, i. 370, 372; none in hell, ii. 75

Monoliths, for Egyptian monuments, i. 518; how transported, ib.

Monogenes, or only-begotten, a name of Proserpina, ii. 284

Montesquieu, on two witnesses, i. 87

Montezuma, his effigy worshipped in Mexico, i. 557

Montgeron, writes a book on Jansenist miracles, i. 373

Monuments, religious, the expression of the same thoughts, i. 561; planned and built under supervision of priests, ib.; alike in Asia and America, ib.

Moody, the revivalist, would see his son’s eyes dug out, ii. 250; and Sankey, confounded by a Roman bishop with spiritualists, ii. 7

Moon, the same as Diana, Diktynna, Artemis, Juno, etc., i. 267; her worship in Crete, ib.; influence on women, ib.; legends of her phases, i. 265, 266; influence on tides, persons, and vegetation, i. 273; in middle nature, and green the middle color, i. 514

Moon-god, Deus Lunus, worshipped by the Khaldi, ii. 48

Moon-kings, or lunar dynasty, reigned at Pruyag and Allahabad, ii. 48

Moor, his explanation of the Wittoba, ii. 557, 558

Moore, Rev. Dunlop, assertion of the age of the institutes of Manu, i. 585

Moors, bearded, figures at the great temple of Angkor, or Nagkon-Wat, i. 565, 567

Mora in Sweden, young children burned alive as witches, ii. 503

More, Henry, i. 54, 74; his belief in Pythagorean doctrines, i. 204, 205; adversary of Eugenius Philalethes, i. 308; demonstration of witchcraft, i. 353; theory of birth-marks, i. 384, 385

Morgan, “good enough till after the election,” ii. 372

Moigno, Abbé, his wretched success in writing down Huxley, Tyndall, and Raymond, i. 336

Mormons, polytheists, ii. 2

Mortal soul, i. 276, 326

Mosaic books, regarded by well-educated Jews allegory, i. 554, 555; religion a sun-and-serpent worship, ii. 129

Moses, the pupil of the mother of Pharaoh’s daughter, i. 25; communicated secrets to the seventy elders, i. 26; his code required two witnesses, i. 87; placed a perpetual lamp in the tabernacle, i. 228; described Jehovah the anthropomorphic deity as being the highest God, i. 307; could not obtain his other name, i. 309; philosophized or spoke in allegory, i. 436; said to have had knowledge of electricity, i. 528; chief of the Sodales or priest-colleges, i. 555; a hierophant of Heliopolis and priest of Osiris, ib.; initiated, ib.; became an Egyptian and a priest, i. 556; denounced the spirit of Ob, not Od, i. 594; disputes over his body, its allegorical interpretation, ii. 482; an initiate, ii. 129; and the Israelites, their story typical, ii. 493; versed in occult sciences, ii. 59; the law not more than two or three centuries older than Christianity, ii. 526

Moslem arms blessed by the Pope, ii. 560

Mother and child, a very ancient sign and myth, ii. 491; -trunk, the universal religion, ii. 123; of God the most ancient, ii. 49, 50; the Heaven itself, ii. 50; lodge, the great, ii. 315

Mountain of light, its appearance to Hiouen-Thsang, i. 600

Mouse-mark, produced by alarm, i. 391

Mousseaux, Des, i. 99; declares the devil the chief pillar of faith, i. 103

Movable printing types, in China before our Era, i. 513; used in the earliest periods of lamaism in Thibet, ib.

Moyst natures or elementary spirits, i. 342, 343

Mukti, or half-gods, ii. 566

Müller, Albrecht, testimony in regard to ancient skill, i. 539

Mummy, bandaging, i. 20; a symbol, i. 297; a finger-ring at the London Exhibition of 1851, i. 531

Mummy-bandaging, i. 539; 1000 yards long ib.

Mundane tree, i. 297

Mundane cross of heaven, ii. 454; egg or universal womb, ii. 214; snake creeps out of the primordial ilus, i. 298

Muratori, his felt cuirasse, copied from the ancients, i. 530

Murder, an obstacle to ancient, but not to Jesuit initiation, ii. 363

Murderous language of Jerome and Tertullian, ii. 250

Music, power over diseases, i. 215; effect on persons, i. 275; its influence on reptiles, i. 382; employed in Egyptian temples for healing of nervous disorders, i. 544

Musical instruments in Egypt, i. 544; sand, i. 605; tones influence vegetation, i. 514

Mutton-protoplasm, i. 251

Mysteries, i. 15; little known, i. 24; of the Israelites, i. 26; theurgic, i. 130; Samothracian, i. 132; occult properties of magnetism and electricity taught, i. 234; representation of Demeter with the electrified head, ib.; the Dioskuri, i. 234-243; Pythagoras initiated, i. 284; their gradation, ii. 101; ennobling in their character, ib.; of the ancients identical with the Hindu and Buddhist initiations, ii. 113, 114; divine visions beheld in them, ii. 118; of the Christians, ii. 119; Jesuit, not revealed to all priests, ii. 350; Mithraïc, twelve tortures, ii. 351; taught to the Babylonians, ii. 457

Mysterious city of the Mayas of Yucatan, i. 547; science existed apart from “mediumship,” ii. 118

Mystery of the celestial Virgin pursued by the Dragon, ii. 490; and science, Mr. Felix’s book, i. 337

Mystery-God of the Ineffable Name, ii. 289

Mystic doctrines not properly understood, i. 429; legends of the Middle Ages, ii. 38

Mystical words of power in old religions, ii. 99; properties in plants, ii. 589

Myths, fables, when misunderstood, and truths as once understood, ii. 431

Nabatheans in Lebanon, ii. 197

Nagal, the chief sorcerer of the Mexicans, i. 556

Nagas, or kingly snakes, i. 448; or serpent-tribes of Kashmere, teachers of Apollonius, ii. 434; or serpent-worshippers of Kashmere converted to the Buddhistic faith, ii. 608

Nagkon-Wat, i. 239; description of Frank Vincent, i. 561-563; pictures represent scenes from the Ramayava, i. 573; 100,000 separate figures, ib.; ascribed to the lost tribes of Israel, i. 565; suggested to have been built for Buddhaghosa, ib.; contains representations of Oannes or Dagon, the Kabeiri, the monkey or Vulcan, Egyptian and Assyrian figures, ib.

Nagualism and voodoo-worship, i. 556, 557; secret worships, i. 557; ii. 572; perpetuated by Catholic persecution, ii. 573

Nails of a cherub preserved as relics, ii. 71

Name, Ineffable, not possessed by Masons, ii. 387

Nandi, the Vehan of Siva, ii. 235

Nara, the mundane egg or universal womb, ii. 214

Narayana, mover of the waters, Brahma, i. 91

Nation, its greatest curse, ii. 121

National Quarterly, on modern scientists, i. 240, 249

Natural magic, no relation to sleight of hand, i. 128; “mediumship,” ii. 118

Nature, four kingdoms, i. 329; a materialization of spirit, i. 428; triune, the visible or objective, the vital or subjective principle and the eternal spirit, ii. 587; the servant of the magician, ii. 590; reveals all arts, i. 424, 425

Nature-spirits or shedim, i. 313; or elementary, i. 349

Naudé, a defender of occult magnetism and theosophy, i. 207

Naus-copite, an optical instrument, i. 240

Navel and less comely parts of Jesus for relics, ii. 71; symbolized by the ark, ii. 444

Nazarene system explained, ii. 227-229; diagram, ii. 295

Nazarenes, had a gospel inscribed to Peter, ii. 127; an anti-Bacchus caste, ii. 129; existed before Christ, ii. 139, 181; some as Galileans, ii. 139; their belief of a divine overshadowing, ii. 154

Nazaret or Zoroaster, ii. 140

Nazars, Joseph, Samuel, Samson, Zoroaster, and Zorobabel, ii. 128; wore their hair long, but cut it off at initiation, ii. 90; Jesus belonged to them, ib.

Nazireates, inimical to the Israelites, ii. 131

Nebelheim, the matrix of the earth, i. 147

Nebular theory, the ancient docrine, i. 238

Necessity, circle of, i. 226, 296; men its toy, i. 276; circle of, when completed, i. 346

Necho, King of Egypt, wrote on astronomy, i. 406; canal of, i. 517; II., sent a fleet to circumnavigate Africa, i. 542

Necklace, imprinted by lightning on two ladies, i. 398

Necromancy, a science of remote antiquity, i. 205

ΝΕΚΡΟΚΗΔΕΙΑ nekrokedeia, i. 228

Neoconis, the second degree, ii. 364

Neo-Platonic Eclectic School, ii. 32

Neo-Platonists, i. 262; their time of greatest glory, ii. 41; their doctrines and practices copied, ii. 84; not “spirit mediums,” ii. 118; when they were doomed, ii. 252

Nero, his ring, i. 240; dared not seek initiation, ii. 363

Neros I., i. 31; the Great, i. 33

Nervous disorders, i. 117; disorders a specialty in ancient Egypt, i. 529; disorders treated with music in Egyptian temples, i. 544; exhaustion at spiritual circles, i. 343

Neurological telegraphy proposed, i. 324

Never-embodied men, i. 301

Neville, Francis, twice resuscitated, i. 479

New birth and accompanying slaughter, ii. 42; taught by Buddha and Jesus, ii. 566

New Jersey, negroes burned at the stake for witchcraft, ii. 18

New Testament, passages compared with sentences from the philosophers, ii. 338

Newton Bishop, on the transformation of paganism into popery, ii. 29; Dr. the American healer, i. 165, 217, 218; Isaac, believer in magnetism, i. 177

Niccolini, his exposure of the profligacy of monks, ii. 365, 366

Nicodemus, Gospel taken from the pagan authors, ii. 518

Nicolaitans adhered to marriage, ii. 329

Nicolas, a man of honest report, ii. 333

Night of Brahma, ii. 272, 273

Nimbus and Tonsure solar emblems, ii. 94

Nimrod, or spotted, a name of Bacchus, the wearer of the spotted skin, i. 568

Nimroud, convex lens found, i. 240

Nin or Imus of the Tzendales the same as Ninus, i. 551; received homage in the form of a serpent, i. 522

Nineveh, 47 miles in circumference, i. 241

Nirvana, i. 241, 290; the world of cause, i. 346; not nihilism nor extinction, i. 430; complete purification from matter, ii. 117; subjective but not objective existence, ii. 286; a personal immortality in spirit, but not in soul, ii. 320; or Moksha, the second spiritual birth, ii. 566; the ocean to which all religions tend, ii. 639

Nirvritti or rest, i. 243

No devil, no Christ, ii. 492

Noah, or Nuah, same as Swayambhuva, ii. 448; the universal mother, ii. 444

Nonnus, his legend of Korè and her son, ii. 504

Norns, or Parcæ, watering the roots of the tree Yggdrasill, i. 151

Norse kingdom of the dead, ii. 11; contained no blazing hell, ib.

NOUS, i. 55, 131; consecrated to Mary, Isis, and Nari, ii. 210; or rational soul, everyman endowed, ii. 279; the spirit or reasoning soul, doctrine of Aristotle, i. 317; the first-born, or Christ, ii. 157

No-Zeruan, the ancient of days, ii. 142

Nout, the Egyptian name of the Divine Spirit, ii. 282; same as Nous, ib.

Nuah (Hea) king of the humid principle, ii. 429

Nubia, its rock-temples, i. 542

Nucleus of the embryo, i. 389

Numa, King of Rome, Books of, i. 527; understood electricity, ib.; opposed the use of images in worship, ib.

Numbers, Hermetic Book, on cosmic changes, i. 254; book of secret, the great Kabala, i. 579

Numerals of Pythagoras, hieroglyphical symbols, i. 35; the basis of all systems of mysticism, ii. 407

Nun, an Egyptian designation, ii. 95

Nysa, Nyssa, always found where Bacchus was worshipped, ii. 165; same as Sinai, ib.

Oak, sacred, i. 297, 298

Oannes, i. 133; the man fish, i. 349; the same as Vishnu, ii. 257; name signifies a spirit, ib.

Oath taken by initiates, i. 409

Ob, the astral light, i. 158

Obeah women in Guiana charm snakes, i. 383

Obelisks of Egypt, i. 518; mode of transporting them, i. 519; imputed to Hermes Trismegistus, i. 551

Object of this book, ii. 98, 99

Obscene relics at Embrum, ii. 332

Obscene bas-reliefs on the doors of St. Peter’s Cathedral, ib.

Obscene statue of Christ and its miracles, ib.

Obscenity of heathen rites, ii. 76

Obsession and possession, i. 487, 488; ii. 16; all confined to Roman Catholic countries, ii. 17

Obsessions, irresistible, i. 276

Occult properties in minerals, ii. 589; powers by inheritance, ii. 635, 636

Occultism, physical, i. 19

Oculists in ancient Egypt, i. 545

Od, an agent described by Baron Reichenbach, i. 146; astral currents vivified, i. 158; emanations identical with flames from magnets, etc., i. 169

Odic Force, i. 67

Odin, i. 19; breathing in man and woman, the ash and the alder, the breath of life, i. 151; Alfadir, ib.

Oersted, on laws of nature, i. 506, 507

Oetinger, experiment on ashes of plants, i. 476

O’Grady, Wm. L. D., his letter denouncing the influence of missionaries in India, ii. 475; on Hindu demoralization under British rule, ii. 574; his account of a Christian saturnalia in India, ii. 532

Okhal or hierophant of the Druzes, ii. 309

Okhals or spiritualists of Syria, ii. 292

Old book, one original copy only in existence, i. 1; gods of the heathen, the same as the ancient patriarchs, ii. 450; man and his son, remarkable resuscitation, i. 484; Testament, exiled by Colenso and recalled, ii. 4; Testament, no real history in it, ii. 441; universes evolved before the present, ii. 421

Olympic gods, their biographies relate to physics and chemistry, i. 261; women climbing perpendicular walls, i. 374

Onderah, the Hindu abyss of darkness, only an intermediate state, ii. 11

One only good, ii. 238; in three, i. 258

Only-begotten sons, ii. 191

Operative masons, ii. 392

Ophiomorphos and Ophis Christos, ii. 449

Ophion called also Dominus, ii. 512

Ophiozenes in Cyprus, power over venomous reptiles, i. 381

Ophis, the same as Chnuphis or Kneph, ii. 187; or the agathodaimon, ii. 293, 295

Ophism and heliolatry imputed to Hermes, i. 55i

Ophite Gnostics rejected the Old Testament, ii. 147; Theogony correctly given, ii. 187; worship transmuted into Christian symbolism, ii. 505; or serpent-worshipping Christians, their scheme, ii. 292; seven planetary genii, ii. 296; rejected the Mosaic writings, ii. 168; taught the doctrine of emanations, ii. 169; and Nazarenes compared, ii. 174; denounced by Peter and Jude, ii. 205; accused of licentiousness, ii. 325

Optical instruments of ancient times, i. 240

Oracle of the bleeding head consulted by Queen Catherine of Medicis, ii. 56

Oracles obtained during the sacred sleep, i. 357

Oracular head, made by Pope Sylvester II., ii. 56; by Albertus Magnus destroyed by Thomas Aquinas, ib.

Orcus, i. 298, 299

Oriental philosophy, fundamental propositions, ii. 587

Orientals, their senses more acute, i. 211; ascribe a human figure to the soul, i. 214; believe certain persons have made gold and lived for ages, ib.

Orientalists have shown similarities between religions, ii. 49

Origen, believed in metempsychosis, i. 12; an Alexandrian Platonist, i. 25; secret doctrines of Moses, i. 26; believed the spirit preëxistent from eternity, i. 316; deemed the soul corporeal, i. 317; denied the perpetuity of hell-torments, ii. 13; taught that devils would be pardoned, ib.; believed that the damned would receive pardon and bliss, ii. 238; on the threefold partition of man, ii. 285

Ormazd, his worship restored, ii. 220; his creations, ii. 221

Orobio exposes the inquisition, ii. 59

Orohippus, i. 411

Orpheus, alleged to be a disciple of Moses, i. 532; on the virtues of the lodestone, i. 265

Orphic Mysteries not the popular Bacchic rites, ii. 129

Osiris, i. 93, 202; brought up at Nysa and called Dionnysos, ii. 165; his slaying denoted the period when his worship was under the ban of the Hyk-sos government, ii. 487; and Typhon, E. Pococke’s theory, ii. 435, 436

O’Sullivan, Hon. John L., description of a semi-magical seance, i. 608

Oulam does not mean infinite duration, ii. 12

Ovule ceases to be an integral part of the body of the mother, i. 401

Ovum, impregnated, its evolutionary history, i. 389

Oxus-tribes or bull-worshippers dominate Western Asia, ii. 439

Owen, Robert D., on worship of words, ii. 560

Pagan idols, their destruction commanded by the Roman emperor, ii. 40; worship, the Latin church preserves its symbols, rites, architecture and clerical dress, ii. 92

Paganism, true meaning of the word, ii. 179; ancient wisdom replete with deity, ii. 639; converted and applied to popery, ii. 29

Pagans condemned to the eternal torments of hell, ii. 8; Virgin Mary writing this to a saint, ib.

Palenque, keystone not found, i. 571; the Tau and astronomical cross, i. 572

Pali, their manuscripts translated, i. 578; have similar traditions as the Babylonians, ib.; shepherds, who emigrated west, ib.

Pallium, or stole, a feminine sign, ii. 94; that of Augustine bedecked with Buddhistic crosses, ii. 94

Panther, Grecian, contained Egyptian gods, i. 543; panther, the sinful father of Jesus, ii. 386

Papacy, scientific, danger of, i. 403; “and civil power,” Mr. Thompson’s book denounced, ii. 378

Papal tiara, the coiffure of the Assyrian gods, ii. 94; discourses, catalogue of foul epithets on those who oppose the pope, ii. 7

Paper, time-proof, i. 529

Papyrus, as old as Menes and the first dynasty, i. 530; art of its preparation, ib.

Parables or double-meanings in the discourses of Jesus, ii. 145

Parabrahma the Eternal, Bhaghavant, i. 91

Paracelsus, i. 20, 50; his learning, i. 52; discovered hydrogen, i. 52, 169; his doctrine of faith and will, i. 57, 170; rediscovery of the magnet, i. 71, 164, 167; persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church, i. 100; his homunculi, i. 133, 465; teacher of animal-magnetism and electro-magnetism, i. 164; theory of a concealed power of the magnet, i. 168; sidereal force, ib.; theory of dreams, i. 170; on the alkahest, i. 191; method of transposing letters in his terms, ib.; taught that three spirits actuate man, i. 212; removed disease by contact of healthy persons, i. 217; his preparation of mercury, ii. 620; and chorœa, and was persecuted for it as a magician, ii. 565; received the true initiation, ii. 349; his assertion that magic was taught in the Bible, ii. 500; Alsatians believe him not dead, ib.

Paradigm of the universe, i. 212

Paradise Lost, the drama of Milton, ii. 501, 502; the unformulated belief of the English, ib.

Paradoxes, five, of adversaries of Spiritualism, i. 116

Paralysis of the soul during life, ii. 368

Parerga, i. 59

Pariahs, or Tchandales, the parents of the Jews, ii. 438

Paris carrying off Helen, and Ravana carrying off Sita, i. 566; Abbé, the Jansenist, miracles at his tomb for 20 years, i. 372

Parker, Father, accuses the Protestants of the purpose to destroy the Bible, ii. 200

Parodi, Maria Teresa, case of malformed child, i. 392

Parrot-headed squabs, i. 395, 396

Parsis deny any vicarious sacrifice, ii. 547

Pashai (Peshawer) or Udayna, classic land of sorcery, i. 599; testimony of Hiouen-Thsang, ib.

Pastaphoris, the first degree, ii. 364

Patriarchs, great gods, and pradjapatis represented signs of the Zodiac, ii. 450

Paul, supposed to have been personified and assailed by Peter under the name of Simon Magus, ii. 89; and Plato, quoted, ii. 89, 90; the real founder of Christianity, ii. 574; a wise master-builder, or adept, ii. 90, 91; why persecuted by Peter, James, and John, ii. 91; supposed to be polluted by the Gnosis, ib.; the apostle, used language pertaining to initiations, ii. 90; was initiated, ib.; confessed himself a Nazarene, ii. 137; on the beatific vision, ii. 146; his epistles alone acknowledged by Marcion, ii. 162; differs from Peter, ii. 180; is adopted by the Reformers, ib.; his reference to occult powers, ii. 206; only worthy apostle of Jesus, ii. 241; taught that man was a trine, ii. 281; regarded Christianity and Judaism as entirely distinct, ii. 525; the apostle, his descendants said to possess the power of braving serpents, i. 381; asserted the story of Moses and Abraham to be allegories, ii. 493

Pausanias on shadowy soldiers at Marathon, i. 70; warned not to unveil the holy rites, i. 130

Perry Chand Mittra, his views on psychology of the Aryas, ii. 593

Pedactyl equus, i. 411

Peisse, Dr., on alchemy and making gold, i. 508, 509

Penalties of mutilation, ii. 99, 100

Pencil writing answers to questions, in Tartary, i. 600

Pentacle, Pythagorean, ii. 451, 452

Pentagram, can determine the countenance of unborn infants, i. 395

Pentateuch, constituted after the model of a purana, ii. 492; not written by Moses, ii. 167; compiled by Ezra and revised, i. 578; revised by the Jews, ii. 526

Pepper, Prof., his apparatus to produce spiritual appearances, i. 359

Perfect circle decussated by the letter X, ii. 469

Perfect Passover of orthodox Christians, ii. 333

Periktione, mother of Plato, her miraculous conception, ii. 325

Perispirit, i. 197; the astral soul, i. 289

Permutation, doctrine of, ii. 152

Perpetual motion, denied by science, i. 501; illustrated by the universe and the atomic theory, i. 502; proved by the telescope and microscope, ib.

Persiphone or Proserpina, the same as Ceres or Demeter, ii. 505

Persepolis, wonders, i. 534; the inscriptions older than any in Sanscrit, ii. 436

Persia, her wonders, i. 534

Persian Mirror, a robber detected by its use and punished, ii. 631

Persian colonists dominated in Judea, the Canaanites being the proletaries, ii. 441

Personal devil not believed in by the ancients, ii. 483

Personality not to be applied to spiritual essence, i. 315

Persons cut to pieces and put again together good as new, i. 473, 474

Peru, net-work of subterranean passages, i. 595, 598; treasures of the Incas, i. 596

Peruvians, still preserve their ancient traditions and sacerdotal caste, i. 546; magical ceremonies, ib.

Peter, פתר, name taken from the Mysteries, ii. 29

PTR, its symbol an opened eye, ii. 92, 93; the interpreter, ii. 392; had nothing to do with the foundation of the Latin Church, ii. 91; his name Petra or Kiffa, ib.; the whole story of his apostleship at Rome a play on the name denoting the Hierophant or interpreter of the mysteries, ii. 91, 92; the pulpit of, declared to be the teachings of the spirit of God, ii. 8; had two chairs, ii. 23, 25; was never at Rome, ii. 24; his life at Babylon, ii. 127; was a Nazarene, ib.; denounced Paul without naming him, ii. 179

Peter-ref-su, a mystery-word on a coffin, ii. 92; Bunsen’s comments, ii. 92, 93

Peter the Great, stopped spurious miracles, ii. 17

Petra, the rock-temple of the Church, ii. 30

Petra, or rock, the logos, ii. 246

Petroma, the two tablets of stone, ii. 91

Phœdrus, i. 2

Phallic symbols in churches, ii. 5; stone, batylos, or lingham, denounced by des Mousseaux, ib.

Phallism, heathen, in Christian symbols, ii. 5; in the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, and the fetish-worship of Isernia, ib.

Phanes, the revealed god, i. 146

Phantasmal duplicate, i. 360

Phantasy, ii. 591

Phantom-hand, false as well as true, ii. 594; statement of Dr. Fairfield, ii. 595; what it really is, ib.

Phantoms, the manifestations of bad demons, i. 333

Phases of modern Christianity, ii. 575

Pharisees, believed in transmigration of souls, i. 347

Phenomena, spiritual, discountenanced by the clergy, i. 26; divine visions of Pius, IX., i. 27; the Klikouchy and the Yourodevoy, i. 28; absurd position assumed by scientists, i. 40; Aksakof, i. 41; Fisk, Crookes, and Wallace, i. 42; the Dialectical Society, i. 44; theories of Prof. Crookes, i. 47; existed long before spiritualism, i. 53; Prof. Faraday’s tests, i. 63; materialization, i. 67; a haunted house, i. 69; physical displays seldom caused by disembodied spirits, i. 73; opposition of the positivists, i. 75; hostility of allopathists, i. 88; laid at the door of Satan, i. 99; testimony of de Gasparin, i. 101; hostility of medical writers, i. 102; Mr. Weekman the first investigator in America, i. 106; reality acknowledged by Prof. Thury, i. 110; his theory, i. 113; E. Salverte, i. 115; De Mirville’s five distractions or paradoxes, i. 116; condemned by Commission of the Imperial University of St Petersburgh, i. 117; how produced, i. 199; evidence adduced by Prof. Crookes overwhelming, i. 202; given by an exterior intelligence, i. 203; deceptions, i. 217-222; Iamblichus forbids endeavors to procure them, i. 219

Pherecydes, taught that æther was heaven, i. 157

Philalethes, Eugenius (Thomas Vaughan), i. 51, 167; not an adept, i. 306; model of Swedenborg, ib.; anticipated modern doctrine of the earth’s beginning, i. 255

Phillips, Wendell, i. 211, 240

Philo Judæus, on spirits in the air, i. 2; praise of magic, i. 25; contradicted himself on purpose, ii. 39; was the father of new platonism, ii. 144

Philonæa, visited her lover after death, i. 365

Philosophers, believed in metempsychosis, also that men have two souls, i. 12; their consignment to hell desired, ii. 250

Philosopher’s stone, sought by a king of Siam, i. 571

Philosophy, Oriental, its fundamental propositions, ii. 587

Phœnicians, circumnavigated the globe, i. 239; the earliest navigators, i. 545; their achievements, ib.; an Ethiopian race, i. 566, 567; traced by Herodotus to the Persian Gulf, i. 567; Phoinikes, or Ph’anakes, i. 569; the same as the Hyk-sos or shepherds of Egypt, ib.; more or less identified with the Israelites, ib.

Photographing in colors by will-power, i. 463

Photography, electrical, i. 395

Phtha, the active or male creative principle, i. 186

Physical body may be levitated, ii. 589

Physically spiritualized, the coming human race to be, i. 296

Physician declares Daguerre to be insane, ii. 619

Physicians wash their hands on leaving a patient, ii. 611; problems, i. 277

Physicists divinify matter and overlook life, i. 235

Pia Metak, king of Siam, becomes able to walk in the air, ii. 618

Picture of a slain soldier, extraordinary phenomena, ii. 17

Pictures hidden from view, Prof. Draper’s description, i. 186

Picus, Francisco, testimony in regard to transmutation, i. 504

Pierart, explanation of catalepsy and vampirism, i. 449

Pigmies in Africa, i. 412

Pike, Gen. Albert, declaration against the creative principle proclaimed at Lausanne, ii. 377

Pilate convokes an assembly of Jews, ii. 522

Pillars set up by the patriarchs, identical with the lingam of Siva, ii. 235

Pimander, i. 93; the same as the Logos Prometheus, etc., i. 298; the nous, word, or Divine Light, ii. 50

Pippala, the sacred tree of knowledge, ii. 412

Pitar, its form seen at the moment of initiation, ii. 114

Pitris, the lunar ancestors of men, ii. 106, 117; their worship fast becoming the worship of the spiritual portion of mankind, ii. 639; the doctrine of their existence revealed to initiates, ii. 114; a sect in India, ii. 308

Pious assassins of the early church, ii. 304

Pius IX, excommunicates Czar Nicholas as a schismatic i. 27; has divine visions, or rather epileptic fits, ib.; evil eye, i. 381; pretends to be superior to St. Ambrose and the prophet Nathan, ii. 14; is the faithful echo of the Jesuits, ii. 359

Planchette, writing by, i. 199

Planet, i. 301

Plants are magnets, i. 281, 282

Plant-growing trick, i. 139, 141, 142

Plants, attracted by the sun, i. 209; sympathies and antipathies, ib.; sympathy with human beings, i. 246; possess mystical properties, ii. 589

Plato, not often read understandingly, i. 8; echoed the teachings of Pythagoras, i. 9; doctrine of the soul, will, or nous, i. 14, 55; his symbology misunderstood, i. 37; suggestion for physical improvement of the human race, i. 77; doctrine of wisdom, i. 131; on trance prophets, i. 201; asserted to be ignorant of anatomy, i. 236; his method, i. 237; Prof. Jewett’s acknowledgment, ib.; on origin of the sun, i. 258; taught correlation of forces, i. 261; his doctrines the same as those of Manu, i. 271; declares man the toy of necessity, i. 276; doctrine of genius, i. 277; theory of metempsychosis, i. 277; attraction, i. 281; his speculations on creation and cosmogony, to be taken allegorically, i. 287; veneration for the mysteries, ib.; would not admit poets into his commonwealth, i. 288; dismisses Homer for his apparent antagonism to monotheism, ib.; accused of absurdities, etc., i. 307; derived the soul from the world-soul, i. 316; shows the deity geometrizing, i. 318; on the future of the dead, i. 328; learned secret science in Egypt, i. 406; versed in the knowledge of the heliocentric system, i. 408, 409; his “noble lie” concerning Atlantis, i. 413; on human races, i. 428; his esoteric doctrines the same as the Buddhistic, i. 430; on prayer, i. 434; on God geometrizing, i. 506; on spiritual numerals, i. 514; the Atlantis a possible cover of a story made arcane at initiation, i. 591; copies Djeminy and Vyasa, i. 621; complains of unbelief, ii. 16; his faculty of production, ib.; confessed that he derived his teachings from ancient and sacred doctrines, ii. 39; on divine mysteries, ii. 113; not a “spirit-medium,” ii. 118; and other philosophers taught dual evolution, ii. 279; on the trine of man, ii. 282; definition of the soul, ii. 285; his testimony concerning the Machagistia, ii. 306; discourse concerning the creation, ii. 469; taught that there was in matter a blind force, ii. 483; on exaltation of the soul above sense, ii. 591

Platonic philosophy adopted into the church, ii. 33

Platonism introduced into Christianity, ii. 325

Platonists, their books burned, i. 405

Pleroma, three degrees, i. 302

Pleasanton on the Blue Ray, i. 137, 264; denies gravitation, and the existence of centripetal and centrifugal forces, i. 271; his theory of light, i. 272

Pliny mentions phantoms on the deserts of Africa, i. 604

Plotinus, on the descent of the soul into generated existence, ii. 112; six times united to his god, ii. 115; i. 292; on human knowledge, i. 434; on prayer, ib.; on ecstasy, i. 486; impulse in the soul to return to its centre, ib.; on public worship of the gods, i. 489; a clairvoyant, seer, and more, ii. 591

Plutarch on the oracular vapors, i. 200; on the nature of men, ii. 283; on the dæmon of Socrates, ii. 284

Pococke, E., his theory of Osiris and Typhon, ii. 435, 436

Poland, what a Catholic miracle in that country means, ii. 18

Polykritus returned after dying, i. 364

Polygamy openly preached by certain Positivists, i. 78

Pompei, the room full of glass, i. 537

Pope seized the scepter of the Pagan pontiff, ii. 30; now sympathising with the Turks against Christians, ii. 81; Calvin and Luther, their doctrine one, ii. 479, 480; his fulminations against science, ii. 559, 560; Calixtus III. issues a bull against Halley’s Comet, ii. 509

Popes known as magicians, ii. 56

Popol-Vuh, a manuscript of Quiché, i. 2; leaves the antiquarian in the dark, i. 548

Porphyry, upon Diakka, bad demons of sorcery, i. 219; twice united with God, i. 292; upon the passion of spirits for putrid substances and fresh blood, i. 344; on freshly-spilt blood in evocation, i. 493

Porta, Baptista, theory of magic, world-soul, astral light, i. 208

Poruthû-Madân, the wrestling demon, aiding in levitation, taming animals, etc., i. 496

Positivism of Littré found in Vyasa, 10,400 B.C., i. 621

Positivists, i. 73; their religion without a God, i. 76; design to uproot Spiritualism, ib.; preach Polygamy, i. 78; the climax of their system, i. 80; neglect no means to overthrow Spiritualism, i. 83; despised and hated, ii. 3

Possession, epidemic in Germany, i. 375

Poudot, the shoemaker, his house beset by an elemental demon, i. 364

Power of leaving the body temporarily, i. 476, 477; power to disappear, and to be seen in other forms, ii. 583

Powers in nature, as recognized by exact science, and by kabalists, i. 466

Pradjapatis, the ancestors of mankind, ten in number, ii. 427

Prakamya, the power to change old age to youth, ii. 583

Pralayas or dissolutions, two, ii. 424

Prakriti, or Mahat, the external life, ii. 565

Pranayama, ii. 590

Prapti, the faculty of divination, healing and predicting, ii. 593

Pratyahara, ii. 590

Pravritti or active existence, i. 243

Prayer and its sequences, i. 434

Prayers, kept secret from strangers, i. 581

Pre-Adamite, man described, i. 295; earth, i. 505

Prediction of the Russo-Turkish war, i. 260

Preëminence of woman, ii. 299

Preëxistence, apparent, i. 179

Preëxistent, the spirit of man, i. 316, 317; ii. 280; law of form, i. 420

Pregnant woman, highly impressible and receptive, i. 394; odic emanation and its influence on fœtus, i. 395; under the influence of the ether or astral light, ib.; might influence the features of children by pentagram, ib.

Prehistoric races, i. 545

Premature burial, i. 456

Presbytere de Cideville, phenomenon of thunder and images of fantastic animals as predicted by a sorcerer, i. 106

Preston, Rev. Dr., his doctrine of a Mother in the plan of redemption, ii. 172

Preterhuman beings, their alliance indicated in every ancient religion, ii. 299

Pre-Vedic religion of India, ii. 39

Priest, Assyrian, always bore the name of his god, i. 554

Priest-ridden nations always fall, ii. 121, 122

Priestesses of Germany, how they prophesied, ii. 592

Priestley, Dr. Joseph, discovered oxygen, i. 250; anticipated the present-day philosophers, ib.; on the godhood of Jesus, ii. 239

Priests, their cast-off garb worn by men of science, ii. 8

Priest-sorcerers, ii. 57

Primal element obtained, i. 51; like clear water, ib.

Primitive Christianity, with grip, pass-words and degrees of initiation, ii. 204; Christians, a community of secret societies, ii. 335; triads, ii. 454

Primordial substance, i. 133

Prince of Hohenlohe a medium, i. 28; of Hell sides with the strongest, and treats Satan very badly, ii. 517

Principe Createur identical with the Principe Generateur and not Christian, ii. 377

Principes, i. 300

Probation of Jesus, ii. 484, 485; the Devil or Diabolos no malignant principle, ii. 485

Proclus, on magic and emanation, i. 243; theory of the gods or planetary spirits, i. 311, 312; his remarkable statements of marvels acted by dead persons, i. 364; on second dying and the luminous form, i. 432; his idea of divine power, i. 489; the mystic pass-word, ib.; his explanation of the gradation of the Mysteries, ii. 101; upon apparitions beheld in the Mysteries, ii. 113

Proctor, R. A., i. 245; accuses the ancients of ignorance, i. 253

Profanation to eat blood, ii. 567

Projecting of the astral or spiritual body, ii. 619, 620

Prometheus, the Logos or Adam Kadmon, i. 298; revealed the art of bringing down lightning, i. 526; prediction of Hermes, ii. 514, 515

Prophecies from Hindu books, ii. 556; antedate Christianity, ii. 557

Prophecy determined in two ways, i. 200; gift imparted by infection, i. 217; a power possessed by the soul both in and apart from the body, ii. 594

Prophetic star of the incarnation, ii. 454

Prophets of Baal danced the circle-dance of the Amazons, ii. 45; dominated in Israel, and priests in Judah, ii. 439; of Israel never approved of sacrificial worship, ii. 525; led a party against the priests, ib.

Protection from vampires, etc., i. 460

Protest against ethnological distinction from the progeny of Noah, ii. 434

Protestant world still under the imputation of magical commerce with Satan, ii. 503

Protestantism has no rights, i. 27

Protestants in the United States, ii. 1; their bloody statutes against witchcraft, ii. 503

Protevangelium, a parody of the Nicene creed, ii. 473

Protogonos, i. 341

Proto-hippus, i. 411

Protoplasm, i. 223; taught by Seneca, etc., i. 249; doctrine of the Swâbhâvikas, or Hindu pantheists, i. 250

Prunnikos, mother of Ilda-Baoth, the God of the Jews, ii. 187

Psyche, the animal soul, i. 317

Psychic embryos, i. 311; force, i. 45-67; same as ectenic force, i. 113; same as the Akasa, ib.; known to the ancient philosophers, i. 131; propositions of Sergeant Cox, i. 195; a blind force, i. 199

Psychode force, i. 55, 113

Psychography, or writing of messages by spirits, i. 367

Psychological epidemics, ii. 625; powers of certain nuns in Thibet, ii. 609

Psychology, heretofore almost unknown, i. 407; the basis of physiology anciently, but now based by scholars upon physiology, i. 424

Psychomatics of occultism, i. 344

Psychometry, i. 182; Prof. Denton and wife, i. 183; i. 330; practised by the ancients, i. 331

Psychophobia, i. 46

Psylli in Africa, serpent-charmers, i. 381

Pueblos of Mexico still worship the sun, moon, stars, and fire, i. 557

Pulpit of Peter the teaching of the Spirit of God, ii. 8

Punch-and-Judy boxes or Christian mysteries, ii. 119

Punjaub, population hybridized with Asiatic Æthiopians, i. 567

Purana, rules for writing one, ii. 492; the model of the Pentateuch, ib.

Purple, Tyrian, i. 239

Pûttâm, or imps, i. 447

Pyramids, their architecture and symbolism, i. 236; of Egypt, i. 518; their purpose, i. 519; the baptismal font, ib.; the supposed manufacture of the material, ib.; built on the former sea-shore, i. 520

Pyrrho, how to be interpreted, ii. 530

Pythagoras, his philosophy derived from the Brahmans, i. 9; taught the heliocentric system, i. 35, 532; believed in an infinity of worlds, i. 96; Bruno his disciple, i. 96, 98; taught God as the Universal Mind, i. 131; his esoteric system included in the arcane doctrines of wisdom, i. 205; Galileo a student, i. 238; his maxim widely scattered, “Do not stir the fire with a sword,” i. 247; dual signification of his precepts, i. 248; his trinity, i. 262; regard for precious stones and their mystical virtues, i. 265; his doctrine the same as the laws of Manu, i. 271; alleged influence on birds and animals, i. 283; testimony of Thomas Taylor, i. 284; initiated in the Mysteries of Byblos, Tyre, Syria, Egypt and Babylon, ib.; did not teach literal transmigration of the soul, i. 289; taught the Buddhistic doctrines, i. 289-291; held for a clever impostor, i. 307; derived the soul from the world-soul, i. 316; mathematical doctrine of the universe, i. 318; taught the same as Buddha, i. 347; explains imagination as memory, i. 396; copied by Euclid, Archimedes, and Ptolemy, i. 512; learned music in Egypt and taught it in Italy, i. 544; placed the sphere of purification in the sun, ii. 12; subdued wild animals, ii. 77; persuaded a bull not to eat beans, ii. 78; was not a “spirit-medium,” ii. 118; his system of numerals, ii. 300; probably did not understand decimal notation, ib.

Pythagorean pentacle, ii. 451, 452

Pythagorists were probably Buddhists, ii. 491

Pytho, or Ob, i. 355

Pythoness, her powers of seership, ii. 590

Quack, a false name imposed on Paracelsus, ii. 621

Queen of Heaven indebted to Pius IX., ii. 9; the Virgin Mary, Isis, Ishtar, Astarté, Queen Dido, Anna, Anaitis, etc., ii. 96, 446-450

Quetzo-Cohuatl, the serpent-god of Mexican legends, i. 546; wonders wrought by him, ii. 558; his wand, ib.

Quiché cosmogony, i. 549

Quicksilver and sulphur, a magical preparation to give long life, ii. 620

Quotation from Psalms credited by Matthew to Isaiah, ii. 172

Rabbinical chronology, none before the twelfth century, ii. 443

Races, human, many died out before Adam, i. 2; pre-Adamite, i. 305; of men differ in gifts, ii. 588

Radzivil, Prince, detects the impostures of monks, ii. 72

Rahat, or perfect man, ii. 287, 288

Railroads in Upper Egypt, i. 528

Ram, or Aries, the symbol of creative power, i. 262

Ramayana the source and origin of Homer’s inspiration, ii. 278

Ramsay, Count, his story of the Templars, ii. 384

Raspberry-mark produced by longing, i. 391

Rasit, its meaning suppressed, ii. 34; wisdom, ii. 35

Rational soul, every man endowed, ii. 279

Raulica, Father Ventura de, letter on magic, ii. 70

Ravan and Rama, ii. 436

Raven and St. Benedict, ii. 78

Rawho, the demon of Ceylon, ii. 509

Rawlinson, Sir H. C., brings home an engraved stone, i. 240; declares that the Akkadians came from Armenia, i. 263; conjectures respecting the Aryans, ii. 433

Rawson, Prof. A. L., a member of the Druze Brotherhood of Lebanon, ii. 312; account of his initiation, ii. 313

Rays of the Star of Bethlehem preserved as a relic, ii. 71

Razors, superior article in Africa, i. 538

Realm of Amita, legend of, i. 601

Reason, what it is, i. 425; developed at the expense of instinct, i. 433; and instinct, their source, i. 432

Reber, G., shows that there was no apostolic church at Rome, ii. 124

Rebold, Dr., statement concerning the ancient colleges of Egypt, i. 520

Reciprocal influences, i. 314

Red dragon, the Assyrian military symbol, borrowed by Persia, Byzantium, and Rome, ii. 484

Redeemer not promised in the book of Genesis, but by Manu, ii. 50

Red-haired man, repugnance to stepping over his shadow, ii. 610; the magnetism dreaded, ii. 611

Reformation had Paul for leader, ii. 180

Reformers as bloodthirsty as Catholics, ii. 503

Regazzoni, remarkable experiments, i. 142; the mesmerist, feats, i. 283

Regenerated heathendom in the Christian ranks, ii. 80

Regeneration or spiritual birth taught in India, ii. 565

Regulation wardrobe of the Madonna, ii. 9

Reichenbach, described the Od force, i. 146; prepared the way to understand Paracelsus, i. 167; on odic force of pregnant women, i. 394

Reincarnation, its cause, i. 346; its possibility, and impossibility, i. 351

Religion without a God, i. 76; of the future, ib.; of the ancients the religion of the future, i. 613; private or national property, not to be shared with foreigners, i. 581; taught in the oldest Mysteries, i. 567; which dreads the light must be false, ii. 121; of Gautama, propagandism, ii. 608

Religions, ancient, based on indestructibility of matter and force, i. 243; anciently sabaistic, i. 261; derived from one source and tend to one end, ii. 639; Papacy and scientific, i. 403

Religious customs of the Mexicans and Peruvians like those of the Phœnicians, Babylonians, and Egyptians, i. 551; instinct productive of immorality, i. 83; liberty considered as intolerance, ii. 503; reform pure at the beginning, ii. 333; myths have an historical foundation, ii. 431; teachers, ii. 1

Renan, E., described Jesus as a Gallicized rabbi, ii. 562

Repentance possible even in Hades or Gehenna, i. 352

Repercussion, i. 360

Rephaim, i. 133

Resistance, extraordinary, to blows, sharp instruments, etc., i. 375, 376

Resuscitated Buddha, a babe speaking with man’s voice, i. 437

Resuscitations, i. 478, 479, 480; after actual death, impossible, i. 481

Report of French Parliament upon the Jesuits, ii. 353

Resplendent one, ii. 113; the Augoeides, or self-shining vision, ii. 115

Retribution on the Roman Catholic Church, ii. 121

Reuchlin, John, a Kabalist, ii. 20

Revelation, or Apocalypse, its author a Kabalist, ii. 91; his hatred of the Mysteries made him the enemy of Paul, ib.

Revenge of Ilda-Baoth for the transgression of his command, ii. 185

Rib of the Word made flesh preserved as a relic, ii. 71

Rig-Veda, hymns written before Zoroaster, ii. 433

Rio Janeiro, her Madonna with bare limbs, blond hair and chignon, ii. 9; her Christ in dandy evening dress, ii. 10

Rishi Kutsa, i. 11

Rishis, or sages, i. 90

Rite of Swedenborg, a Jesuitical production, ii. 390

Rites and ceremonial dress of Christian clergy like that of Babylonians, etc., ii. 94

Ritual of exorcism, ii. 69; funeral, of the Egyptians, ii. 367

Rituals, Kabalistic and Catholic compared, ii. 85, 86

Rochester Cathedral, its originals, ii. 5; rappings, i. 36

Rock-temples of Ipsambul, i. 542; works of Phœnician cities, i. 570; similar in Egypt and America, i. 571

Rod of Moses, the crux ansata, ii. 455

Roger Bacon, i. 64

Roma, Cambodian traditions, i. 566

Roman Catholic Clergy murdered mediums, i. 26; Church burned sorcerers that were not priests, ii. 58; Church has deprived herself of the key to her own religious mysteries, ii. 121; Church regards dissent, heresy, and witchcraft identical, ii. 503; considers religious liberty as intolerance, ib.

Roman Catholics in the United States, ii. 1; frown at the spiritual phenomena as diabolical, ii. 4; pontiffs arrogate dominion over Greek and Protestant Christians, i. 27

Rome, Church of, put Bruno to death for his doctrines, i. 93; regards the spiritual phenomena as genuine, i. 100; Church of, cursing spiritualists, ii. 6; excommunicating the Bulgarians, Servians, Russians, and Italian liberals, ii. 7

Rosaries of Buddhistic origin, ii. 95

Roscoe, Professor, on iron in the sun, i. 513

Rose, impression of one on Mme. von N., i. 398

Rosicrucians, persecuted and burned, i. 64; their doctrine of creation, i. 258; still a mystery, ii. 380; unknown to its cruelest enemy, the Church, ib.; the aim to support Catholicism, ii. 394; their doctrine of fire, i. 423

Rosie Cross, brothers live only in name, i. 29; mysterious body, i. 64; burned without mercy by the Church, ib.

Round Tower of Bhangulpore, ii. 5

Rousseau, the savant, encounter with a toad, i. 399

Royal Arch word, ii. 293; cipher, ii. 396

Ruc, from New Zealand, i. 603

Rufus of Thessalonica returned to life after dying, i. 365

Rules imposed upon neophytes, ii. 365

Russia, no church-miracles, ii. 17

Russian conquest of Turkey predicted, i. 260

S. P. R. C., the cipher, ii. 395

Sabazian worship Sabbatic, ii. 45

Sabbath, adopted by the Jews from other peoples, ii. 417; Christian, its origin, ii. 419

Sabbatical institution not mentioned in Job, ii. 494

Sabeanism, treated of in Job, ii. 494

Sacerdotal caste in every ancient religion, ii. 99; office, magical evocation, ii. 118

Sacred sleep, i. 357; produced by draughts of soma-juice, ib.; lake, ii. 364; writings of India have a deeper meaning, ii. 430; books of the Jews destroyed, 158 B.C., ii. 470; tree of Kounboum renews its budding in the time of Son-Ka-po, ii. 609

Sacrifice of the hierophant or victim, ii. 42; of blood, ii. 566

Sacrificial worship never approved by the Israelitish prophets, ii. 525

Sacrilege to seek to understand a mystery, ii. 249

Sahara, perhaps once a sea-bed, i. 592

St. Paul’s Cathedral, its double lithoi, ii. 5; Medard, the fanatics, i. 375; John, Knights of, not Masons, ii. 383; persecuted by the Inquisition, ib.

Saints rescued from hell, ii. 517; Buddhistic and Lamaistic, their great sanctity, ii. 608; never washing themselves, ii. 511

Sakti, the active energy of the gods, ii. 276; employed as a vehan, ib.

Sakti-trimurti, or female trinity, ii. 444

Salamander or asbestos, i. 504

Salem, Mass., obsessions occurring there, i. 71; witchcraft, the obeah woman, i. 361; witchcraft, ii. 18

Salsette, the Kanhari caves, the abode of St. Josaphat, ii. 580, 581

Salt regarded as the universal menstruum and one of the chief formative principles, i. 147

Salverte, his philosophy of magic, i. 115; imputes deception to Iamblichus and others, ib.; his account of a soldier protected by an amulet, i. 378; on mechanics and invention in ancient times, i. 516; on the use of electricity, etc., by Numa and Tullus, kings of Rome, i. 527

Samâddi, an exalted spiritual condition, ii. 590

Samael or Satan, the simoon or wind of the desert, ii. 483

Samaritans recognized only the books of Moses and Joshua, ii. 470

Samothrace, a mystery enacted there once every seven years, i. 302; worship of the Kabeiri brought thither by Dardanus, i. 570

Samothracian Mysteries and new life, i. 132; magnetism and electricity, i. 234

Samson, the Hebrew Herakles, a mythical character, ii. 439; represented by the Somona of Ceylon, i. 577

Samuel the prophet, a mythical hero, the doppel of Samson, ii. 439; the Hebrew Ganesa, ib.; his school, i. 26

San Marco at Venice, the original of the Campanila column, ii. 5

Sanchoniathon, on chaos and creation, i. 342

Sanctity of the chair of Peter, its source, ii. 25

Sankhya, the eight faculties of the soul, ii. 592, 593

Sanctuary of the pagodas never entered by a European [except Mr. Ellis--see Higgins’s Apocalypsis--very doubtful], ii. 623

Sannyâsi, a saint of the second degree, ii. 98

Sanscrit, endeavor to show its derivation from the Greek, i. 443; inscriptions, none older than Chandragupta, ii. 436; the vernacular of the Akkadians, ii. 46; appears on the leaves of the magical Koumboum, ib.; books written in presence of a child-medium, i. 368; impressions by a fakir or juggler on leaves, i. 368, 369; manuscripts translated into every Asiatic language, i. 578; language derived from the Rutas, i. 594

Sapphire, sacred to the moon, i. 264; possesses a magical power and produces somnambulic phenomena, ib.; Hindu legend of its first production, i. 265

Sar or Saros, i. 30

Sara-isvati, wife of Brahma, goddess of sacred knowledge, ii. 409

Sarcophagus, porphyry, in the pyramids, i. 519

Sargent, Epes, on spiritual deceptions, i. 220; his arraignment of Tyndall for coquetting with different beliefs, 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, i. 554; the same as Typhon, ii. 482

Seth, his interview with Michael at the gate of Paradise, ii. 520; worshipped by the Hittites, ii. 523; same as El, ii. 524

Sethicnites, disbelieved that Jesus was God, ii. 176

Seven, a sacred Hindu number, ii. 407; among the Chaldeans, ii. 408; potentiality of the number, ii. 417; steps, the descent, i. 353; degrees, old English Templar Rite, ii. 377; vowels chanted as a hymn, i. 514; caverns, i. 552; spirits, i. 300, 301; spirits of the Apocalypse, i. 461; impostor demons, ii. 296; Æons, ib.; rishis, ib.

Seven-headed, serpent, ii. 489

Seventh degree, ii. 365; ray and seven vowel, i. 514; rite, the life transfer, ii. 564

Severus, Alexander, pillaged Egyptian temples for books, i. 406

Sexual element in Christianity, ii. 80; emblems and worship, ii. 445

Shaberon, summoning a lama by spirit-message, ii. 604; his wonderful summons to rescue the author from peril in Mongolia, ii. 628

Shaberons, or Khubilhans, reincarnations of Buddha, ii. 609

Shad-belly coat first worn by Babylonian priests, ii. 458

Shadow, repugnance to stepping across it, ii. 610; magnetic exhalation, ii. 611

Shakers, spiritual phenomena, ii. 18

Shaman, prophesying, ii. 624, 625; prediction of the Crimean war, ii. 625; extraordinary scene with the talismanic stone, ii. 626, 628; “dragged out of his skin,” ii. 628; priests bound to perform their “true rites” but once a year, at the solstice, ii. 624

Shamanism or spirit-worship, the oldest religion of Mongolia, an offshoot of primitive theurgy, ii. 615

Shamans occasionally enjoy divine powers, i. 3, 211; of Siberia, degenerate scions of ancient Shamanism, ii. 616; sometimes only mediums, sometimes magicians, ii. 625; power over psychical epidemics, ii. 626; each one has a talisman, ib.

Shampooing or tschamping, a magical manipulation, i. 445

Shark-charmers or Kadal-katti, i. 606; paid by the British government, i. 607

Shebang, the Sabbath, ii., 418

Shedim, nature-spirits, or Afrites, i. 313

Shekinah, the veil of the most ancient, ii. 223

Shem, Ham and Japhet, the old gods Samas, Kham and Iapetos, ii. 487

Shemites, Assyrians, i. 576; probably a hybrid of Hamite and Aryan, ib.

Shien-Sien, a blissful state, power of those obtaining it to transport themselves everywhere, ii. 618, 620

Shiloh, daughters, their dance, ii. 45

Shimeon and Patar, ii. 93

Shoëpffer, Prof., teaches that the earth does not revolve, i. 621

Shoel ob, or consulter with familiar spirits, i. 355

Shudâla-Mâdan, the ghoul or graveyard fiend, i. 495

Shu-King, i. 11

Shûla-Mâdan, the furnace-demon, i. 496; helps the juggler with raising trees, ib.

Shu-tukt, a collegiate monastery, having in it over 30,000 monks, ii. 609

Siam, a king in 1670 who sought for the philosopher’s stone, i. 571

Siamese, the power of monks, i. 213, 214; study of the philosopher’s stone, i. 214; believe that some know how to render themselves immortal, ib.

Sidereal force taught by Paracelsus, i. 168

Signature of the fœtus, i. 385

Silver, its aura, the quicksilver of the yogis or alchemists, ii. 620, 621

Silver and green associated in hermetic symbolism, i. 513

Silvery spark in the brain, i. 329

Simeon, the existence of such a tribe denied, i. 368; ben Iochai, compiler of the Zohar, ii. 548; rabbi, author of the Zohar, i. 301, 302; his sons arise and relate what they saw in hell, ii. 519; his prototype in India, ib.

Simon ben Iochai, i. 263; Stylites, lived 36 years atop of a pillar, ii. 77; cured a dragon of a sore eye, ib.

Simon Magus, a personification of the apostle Paul, ii. 89; powers attributed to him, i. 471; his journey through the air, ii. 357; and Peter, ii. 190, 191

Simoun, or the wind of the desert, called Diabolos, ii. 483

Simulacrum of a Roumanian lady conducted by a Shaman to the tent of the author, ii. 627, 628

Sin the necessary cause of the greatest good, ii. 479

Sinai, Mount, metals smelted there, i. 542; story of Moses and the brass seraph, ib.

Singing sands, i. 605

Sins, the five which divide the offender from his associates, ii. 608

Siphra Dzeniouta, i. 1

Sister’s son inheriting a crown, ii. 437

Sistra at the Israelitish festival, ii. 45

Siva, the fire-god, same as Bel and Saturn or Kronos, i. 263; vigil-night, i. 446; represented as sacrificing a rhinoceros instead of his son, i. 577, 578; identical with Baal, Moloch, Saturn and Abraham, i. 578; created Adhima and Heva, ancestors of the present race of mankind, i. 590; hurls fallen angels into Onderah, ii. 11; his paradise, ii. 234; hurls the devils into the bottomless pit, ii. 238; Sabazios and Sabaoth the same divinity, ii. 487; the same as the western chief gods, ii. 524; most intellectual of the gods, ib.

Six principles of man, ii. 367; days of evolution and one of repose, ii. 422; sacred syllables, “aum mani padma houm,” ii. 606; races of men mentioned in laws of Manu, i. 590; thousand years the term of creation, i. 342; thousand infant skulls found in a fish-pond by a convent in Rome, ii. 58

Sixteenth incarnation of Buddha at Urga, ii. 617

Sixth degree, ii. 365

Sixty thousand (60,428) paid religious teachers in the United States, ii. 1

Skepticism a malady, i. 115

Skill displayed in embalming in Thibet, ii. 603, 604

Skulls of infants found at nunneries, ii. 58, 210

Slade, the medium, pretended exposure by Prof. Lankester, i. 118, 224

Slavonian Christians now assailed by the Catholics, ii. 81

Slavonians, the mystic word, ii. 42

Smaragdine, tablet of Hermes, found at Hebron, i. 507

Smith, George, his reading of the Assyrian tablets, ii. 422; his reading of the story of Sargon, ii. 442

Snake-symbol of Phanes, the mundane serpent and mundane year, i. 146, 151, 157

Smyth, Prof. Piazzi, on the corn-bin, i. 519; mathematical description of the great pyramid, i. 520

Snake-skin considered magnetic, ii. 507

Snake’s Hole, the subterranean passage terminating at the root of the heavens, i. 553

Snakes kept in Moslem mosques, ii. 490; reared with children in India, ib.

Snout of a seraph preserved as a relic, ii. 71

Society not certain but that all ends in annihilation, ii. 3

“Society,” British, in India, its supercilious contempt for the Hindus and marvels in Hindustan, ii. 613

Socrates, his demoniac or divine faculty and its service, i. 131; his demon, ii. 283; same as the nous or spirit, ii. 284; opinion of Justin Martyr about his future fate criticised, ii. 8; a medium, and therefore not initiated, ii. 117; why put to death as an atheist, ii. 118

Sod, an arcanum of Mystery, i. 301, 555; the Mysteries of Baal, Adonis and Bacchus, ib.; the secret of Simeon and Levi, ib.; great, of the Kadeshim, ii. 131

Sodales, or priest-colleges, Moses their chief, i. 555

Sodalian oath, i. 409

Sodom and Gomorrah, suffering eternal fire, ii. 12

Sohar, its compilation, ii. 348; its theories like the Hindu, ii. 276

Solar trinity, red, blue and yellow, ii. 417; dynasty in India, the Surga Vansa, ii. 437

Solemn ceremony of the Druzes, ii. 312

Solidarities of Greece and Rome, ii. 389

Solitary Copts, students of ancient lore, ii. 306

Solomon, or Sol-Om-On, ii. 389; i. 19; obtained secret learning, i. 135; seal of Hindu origin, ib.; ships to Ophir or India, i. 136; his seven abominations, ii. 67; learned from Votan the particulars of the products of the occident, i. 546; the builder of temples, ii. 439; revolts against him, ib.; his temple never visited by the prophets, ii. 525; and his temple only allegorical, ii. 391; temple, the brazen columns and bowls to aid in entheastic power, ii. 542

Soma, juice of, produces trance, i. 357

Somona, the Singalese Samson, i. 577

“Son of Man,” ii. 232

Son of God at one with man, ii. 635

Sons of the Serpent-God, i. 553

Son-Ka-po, the Shaberon, or avatar and great reformer, immaculately conceived, and translated without dying into heaven, ii. 609

Sophia or wisdom, ii. 41; the Holy Ghost as a female principle, i. 130; the Gnostic principle of wisdom, the same as Sephira and Metis, i. 263

Sorcerer in Africa, impervious to bullets, i. 379

Sorcerers, burned when not priests, ii. 58

Sorcery, i. 279; misapplied arcane knowledge, ii. 581; few facts better established, i. 366; with blood, ii. 567, 568; practised at the Vatican, ii. 620; approved by Augustine, ii. 20; employed for crime, ii. 633

Sortes Sanctorum, ii. 20, 21

Sortie of Satan into New England, ii. 503

Sortilegium or sorcery, practised by clergy and monks, ii. 6; Gregory of Tours, ii. 20

Sosigenes, reformed the calendar for Cæsar, i. 11

Sosiosh, the tenth avatar and fifth Buddha, ii. 236; a permutation of Vishnu, ii. 237

Sotheran, Charles, letter on Freemasonry, ii. 388

Soul, displays power when the body is asleep, i. 199; the two named by Plato, i. 276; marvellous power, i. 280; passage through the seven planetary chambers, i. 297; spirit wholly distinct, i. 315; dissolves into ether, ib.; possible loss of its distinct being, i. 316, 317; the garment of the spirit, i. 309; exists as preexisting matter, i. 317; doctrine of the Greek and Roman philosophers, i. 429; of Aristotle, Homer, the Jains and Brahmans, ib.; the camera in which facts are fixed, i. 486; escaping temporarily from the body, ii. 105; may dwell in paradise while the body lives in this world, i. 602; punished by union with the body, ii. 112; the Vedic doctrine, ii. 263; universal, when it sleeps, ii. 274; its transmigration does not relate to man’s condition after death, ii. 280; its feminine, ii. 281; a part of it mortal, ii. 283; the doctrine of Pythagoras, ii. 283; Plato’s definition, ii. 285, 286; its paralysis during life, ii. 368; not knit to flesh, ii. 565; sentient, the Ego, inseparable from the brain, ii. 590; raised above inferior good, ii. 591; power to liberate itself and behold things subjectively, ii. 591; its eight faculties, ii. 592; its teachings authoritative, ii. 593; possesses a power of prescience even when in the body, ii. 594; disembodied, meets itself at the gate of Paradise, ii. 635; of the world the archeal universal, “mind,” Sophia the Holy Ghost as a female principle, i. 130; doctrine of Baptista Porta, i. 208; external, i. 276; higher mortal, ib.; the great universal, union with it does not involve loss of individuality, ii. 116

Soul-blind like color-blind, i. 387

Soul-electricity, i. 322

Soul-deaths, ii. 369

Soulless men yet living, ii. 369

Souls, or immortal gods emanate from the triad, i. 348; come to souls and impart to them information, ii. 594

Source of the religious faiths of mankind, ii. 639; double, of every religion, ib.

South Carolina, statutes in force in 1865, imposing the death-penalty for witchcraft, ii. 18

Sparks or old worlds that perished, ii. 421

Speaking images, i. 505

Specialties in medical practice in Egypt, i. 545

Speculative Masons, ii. 392

Spectre of a herdsman in Bavaria, i. 451

Spectroscope, confirmed doctrines of Paracelsus, i. 168, 169

Spell of the evil eye, ii. 633

Spheres, music of, i. 275

Spinoza, his philosophy, i. 93; furnishes a key to the unwritten secret, i. 308

Spirit, its origin, i. 258; not existing, but immortal, i. 291; or spiritus, the soul or anima mundi, the mother, i. 299, 300; progeny of, i. 301; human, an emanation of the eternal spirit, i. 305; never entered wholly into the body, i. 306; is masculine, ii. 281; of man preëxistent, ii. 280; distinct from soul, i. 315; individualization depends upon it, ib.; becomes an angel, i. 316; its preëxistence believed, ib.; alone immortal, ii. 362; leaving an old for a young body, ii. 563; by its vision all things can be known, ii. 588; may abandon the body for specific periods, ii. 589; the sole original unity, ii. 607; the interpreter of God to man, ii. 635; its Protean powers little known by spiritualists, ii. 638

Spirit-ancestor, a serpent, 45, 46

Spirit-form, i. 197

Spirit-voices not articulate, i. 68; audible, i. 220

Spirit-intercourse, 446,000,000 believers, i. 117

Spirit-flowers produced by a Bikshuni, ii. 609

Spiritists of France attacked by the Roman church, ii. 6

Spirits that control mediums, generally human, i. 67; cannot “materialize,” ib.; not attracted by every body alike, i. 69; produce few of the “physical phenomena,” i. 73; the seven, i. 300, 301; not possessed of the same attractions, i. 344; or ghosts, hurt by weapons, i. 363; heard talking in the desert of Lop, and elsewhere, i. 604; three categories of communication, ii. 115; may take possession of bodies in the absence of the soul, ii. 589; bad, compelled Garma-Khian to appear and render an account, ii. 616; city of, ib.

Spiritual phenomena among the Shakers, ii. 18; discountenanced by the clergy, i. 26; chase the scientists, i. 41; Iamblichus forbids the endeavor to procure them, i. 219; sun, i. 29, 32; the magnet of Kircher, i. 208, 209; Gama, Ormazd, the soul of things, God, i. 270; invisible and in the centre of space, i. 302; the supreme deity, ii. 13; death, its cause, i. 318; eyes, i. 145; sight, scientists without it, i. 318; photography, i. 486

Spiritual entity, in man, an ancient doctrine, ii. 593; transferred, ii. 563; limbs, can be made visible, ii. 596; world in proximity to us, ii. 593; state, as unfolded in the Sankhya, a philosophy, ii. 593; numerals, i. 514; crisis of the Shaman, ii. 625; or magical powers exist in every man, ii. 635; circles are constructed on no principle, ii. 638; Self the sole and Supreme God, ii. 566

Spiritualism, drifting, i. 53; efforts of Positivists to uproot, i. 76, 83; pretends only to be a science, i. 83; pronounced a delusion in Russia, i. 118; universally diffused from remote antiquity, i. 205; why it must continue to vegetate, ii. 636; is iconoclastic, not constructed, ii. 637; not scientific, ii. 637, 638; exoteric, too much directed to personal matters, ib.; esoteric, very rare, ib.

Spiritualists, the majority remain in the religious denominations, ii. 2; take no active part in the formation of a system of philosophy, ii. 637; start with a fallacy, ii. 638

Splendor, mighty Lord of, i. 301

Spurious passage in the First Epistle of John, ii. 177

Square hat of the Hierophant, ii. 392

Squirrel materialized, i. 329

Sri-Iantara, or Solomon’s seal, ii. 265

Stainton, Moses, his criticisms of popular spiritualism, ii. 638

Stan-gyour, a work on magic, i. 580

Stanhope, Lady Esther, faints at a Yezidi orgy, ii. 572

Star of Bethlehem, rays carried home by a monk as relics, ii. 71

Starry heaven, worship proposed under Christian names, ii. 450

Stars, ignition, i. 254; influence on fates of men, i. 259; and man have direct affinity, i. 168, 169

Statues, restorative of health, i. 283; possible to animate them, i. 485; endowed with reason, i. 613

Steam-engine, invented by Hero of Alexandria, i. 241

Stedingers, accused and exterminated, ii. 331

Steel, rusts in India and Egypt, i. 211; superior article in India, i. 538; in Egypt, ib.

Steeples, turrets, and domes, phallic symbols, ii. 5

Stephens, believes the key to American hieroglyphs will yet be obtained, i. 546; story of the unknown city of the Mayas, i. 547

Stewart, Prof. Balfour, his tribute to Herakleitus, i. 422; warning to scientists, i. 424; denies perpetual light, i. 510

Stigmata, or birth-marks, i. 384; produced by sorcery of a Jesuit priest, ii. 633

Stone of Memphis, its potency to prevent pain, i. 540; two tables, masculine and feminine, ii. 5; a Shaman’s talisman, “spoke” saving the author’s life, ii. 626

Stonehenge, its gods recognized as the divinities of Delphos and Babylon, i. 550; remarkable statement of Dr. Stukely, i. 572; Hamitic in plan, ib.

Stoics, belief concerning God, i. 317

Stones, their secret virtues, i. 265

Strangers, never admitted into a caste, nor to religion, i. 581

Stukely, Dr., remarks concerning Stonehenge, i. 572

Subjective mediums, i. 311; communication with human god-like spirits, ii. 115

Subsidy paid by the East India Company to maintain worship at the pagodas, ii. 624

Subterranean passages in Peru, i. 595, 597

Subtile influence emanated from every man’s body, ii. 610

Suetonius knew nothing of Christians, ii. 535, 536

Suez Canal, i. 516, 517; that of Necho, i. 517

Sufis, their idea of one universal creed, ii. 306

Suicide and insanity caused by Elementaries, ii. 7

Suicides and murderers, i. 344

Sulanuth, i. 325

Sulphur, the secret fire or spirit of the alchemists, i. 309; and quicksilver, a preparation to promote longevity, ii. 620, 621

Summary of Koheleth, ii. 476

Sun, an emblem of the sun-god, i. 270; only a magnet or reflector, i. 271; has no more heat in it than the moon, ib.; represented under the image of a dragon, i. 552; made the location of hell, ii. 12; view of Pythagoras, ib.; increases the magnetic exhalations, ii. 611; and serpent-worship, the religion of the Phœnicians and Mosaic Israelites, i. 555

Sun-worship once contemplated by Catholics, ii. 450

Sun-worshippers always regarded the sun as an emblem of the spiritual sun, i. 270

Sunrise and sunset as taught by the Shastras, i. 10

Supersentient soul, ii. 590

“Superstitions” in regard to drowned persons, ii. 611

Supreme Being denied by modern science, i. 16; by the positivists, i. 71; never rejected by Buddhistical philosophy, i. 292; Essence, ii. 213, 214; the Swayambhuva and En-Soph, ii. 218; mystery of the holy syllable, ii. 114

Surgery of Yogis and Talapoins, ii. 621

Surnden, Rev. T., on locality of hell, ii. 12

Sutrantika, the sect having secret Buddhistic religion, ii. 607

Suttee, or burning of widows, not practised when the Code of Manu was compiled, i. 588

Swâbhâvikas, Hindu pantheists, the teachers of protoplasm, i. 250; their views of Essence, ii. 262

Swayambhuva, the unrevealed Deity, ii. 39; the unity of three trinities, making with himself two prajapatis, ii. 39, 40; the Supreme Essence the same as En-Soph, ii. 214

Swearing forbidden by Jesus, ii. 273

Sweat of St. Michael, a phial of it preserved, ii. 71

Swedenborg personated by a Diakka, i. 219; on speech of spirits, i. 220; Heavenly Arcana, i. 306; a natural-born magician, but not an adept, ib.; made Thomas Vaughan his model, ib.; doctrine of correspondences, or hermetic symbolism, ib.; believed in possibility of losing individual existence, i. 317; miraculous cures by his father, i. 464; indicates the lost word, i. 580; rite of, a Jesuitical product, ii. 390

Swedenborgians believe in possible obliteration of the human personality, i. 317; believe that the soul may abandon the body for specific periods, ii. 319

Swedish system of Freemasonry, ii. 381

Syllabus and Koran, a great affinity acknowledged, ii. 82

Sylvester II., Pope, a sorcerer, ii. 56; his “oracular head,” ii. 56

Symbol, its use, ii. 93

Symbols, i. 21; Christian, and phallism, ii. 5

Sympathy, mysterious, between plants and human beings, i. 246; the offspring of light, i. 309

Synagogue, “deposited its inheritance in the hands of Christ,” ii. 477; has not expired, ib.

Synesius, belief in metempsychosis, i. 12; his quotation from the book of stone at Memphis, i. 257; believed the spirit preëxisted from eternity as a distinct being, i. 316; bishop of Cyrene, his letter to Hypatia, ii. 53; adhered to the Platonic doctrines, ii. 198

Systems, Indian, Chaldean and Ophite compared, ii. 170

Tabernacles or ingatherings, feast of, ii. 44; regarded as Bacchic rites, ib.

Table, no demons enclosed, i. 322

Table-turning, i. 99, 105

Tainting of Souls, i. 321

Talapoins, of Siam, power over wild beasts, i. 213; have incombustible cloth, i. 231; have the Kabala, Bible, and other allegories in their manuscripts, i. 577; Jesuits disguised as, ii. 371; their secrets of medicine, ii. 621

Tale of the Two Brothers of Central America, i. 550

Talisman, i. 462; ii. 636

Talismans of Apollonius, testimony of Justin Martyr, ii. 97

Talmage, Rev. Dr., description of Martha, ii. 102

Talmud, i. 17

Tamil-Hindus worship Kutti-Satan, perhaps Seth or Satan, i. 567

Tamti, the same as Belita, ii. 444; the sea, ii. 445

Tanaim, the four who entered the garden, ii. 119; the Kabalistic, ii. 470

Tarchon, an Etruscan priest and his bryony-hedge, i. 527

Tartar robber detected by a Koordian sorcerer, ii. 631

Tartary, magic, i. 599; spiritualism, i. 600; planchette-writing, ib.; happy and heathen, ii. 240

Tau and astronomical cross of Egypt found at the palace of Palenque, i. 572; the handled cross, a symbol of Eternal life, ii. 254; the signet or name of God, ib.; the hierophantic investiture, ii. 365

Taylor, Thomas, his testimony concerning Pythagoras, i. 284; is unceremonious with the Mosaic God, i. 288

Taylor, Robert, his amended Credo, ii. 522

Tcharaka, a Hindu physician of 5,000 years ago, i. 560

Tcherno-Bog, or Bogy, the ancient deity of the Russians, ii. 572

Teaching of the soul, the highest method of knowledge, ii. 595

Tear of Brahma, the hottest, becoming a sapphire, i. 265

Telegraphy, neurological, i. 324

Telephone, i. 126; some such mode of communication possessed by the Egyptian priests, i. 127

Telescope in the light-house of Alexandria, i. 528

Templar rite, old English, of seven degrees, ii. 377

Templarism is Jesuitism, ii. 390

Templars, the founding of the ancient order, ii. 381, 382; did not believe in Christ, ii. 382; succeeded by the Jesuits, ii. 383; the pseudo-order invented to obviate the imputation of Jesuitism, ii. 384

Temple of the Holy Molecule, i. 413; had possession of Eastern mysteries, ii. 380; of the perpetual fire, ii. 632; at Jerusalem, not so ancient as was pretended, ii. 389; of Solomon, not esteemed by any Hebrew prophet, ii. 525

Temples, anciently the repositories of science, i. 25

Ten, the Pythagorean, ii. 171; virtues of initiation, ii. 98

Teraphim, Kabeiri-gods, i. 570; identical with Seraphim, ib.; serpent-images, ib.; received by Dardanus as a dowry and carried to Samothrace and Troy, ib.

Teratology, named by Geoffroi St. Hilaire, i. 390

Terrestrial elementary spirits, i. 319; circulation, i. 503; immortality, ii. 620

Tertullian, i. 46; on devils, i. 159; believed the soul corporeal, i. 317; desires to see all philosophers in the Gehenna-fire, ii. 250; his intolerance, ii. 329

Tetractys, i. 9; the One, the Chaos, wisdom and reason, ii. 36; i. 507

Tetragram, i. 506, 507

Thales, believed water the primordial substance, i. 134, 189; said to have discovered the electric properties of amber, i. 234; his belief concerning water and the Divine Mind, ii. 458

Thaumaturgist, his power of becoming invisible, or appearing in two or more forms, ii. 588

Thaumaturgists, use the force known as Akasa, i. 113; declared by Salverte to be knaves, i. 115

Thebes, or Th-aba, ii. 448; ancient, i. 523; its prodigious ruins, i. 523, 524; the Twelve Tortures, ii. 364

Themura, ii. 298

Theocletus, Grand Pontiff of the Order of the Temple, initiated the original Knight Templars, ii. 382

Theology, comparative, and two-edged weapon, ii. 531; Christian, subversive rather than promotive of spirituality and good morals, ii. 634

Theologies, ancient, all agree, ii. 39

Theon of Smyrna, his explanation of the five grades in the Mysteries, ii. 101

Theomania of the Cevennois imputed to hysteria and epilepsy, i. 371

Theophrastus, legatee of Aristotle, i. 320

Theopœa, the art of endowing figures with life, i. 615, 616; testimony of Jacolliot, i. 616, 617

Theosophists, their confederations in Germany, ii. 20

Theosophy, disfigured by theology, i. 13

Therapeutæ, a branch of the Essenes, ii. 144

Therapeutists probably Buddhists, ii. 491

Thermuthis, the name of Pharaoh’s daughter and of the sacred asp, i. 556

Thespesius, apparently dead for three days, i. 484

Thessalian sorceresses evoked shadows with blood, ii. 568

Theurgic Mystery, ii. 563-575

Theurgists, i. 205-219; knew occult properties of magnetism and electricity, i. 234; not “spirit-mediums,” ii. 118; persecuted by the Christians, ii. 34

Theurgy, its phenomena produced by magnetic powers, i. 23; the devil at its head, i. 161

Thevetat, the “Dragon” of the Atlantis, i. 593; his seduction of the people, ib.

Thing, the one, of the Smaragdine Tablet, i. 507, 508; named by Hermetic philosophy, i. 508

Third emanation produces the universe of physical matter, and, finally, “Darkness and the Bad,” i. 302; race of men in Hesiod, i. 558; in Popul-Vuh, ib.; race of men, the Nephilim, i. 559

Thirteen Mexican Serpent-Gods, i. 572

This book, its object, ii. 98, 99

Thomas, St., in Malabar, ii. 534; Aquinas, ii. 20; Taylor, an expositor of Plato’s meaning, ii. 108, 109

Thomson, Sir William, declares science bound to face every problem, i. 223

Thompson, Hon. R. W., denounced by a Catholic priest, ii. 378

Thor, his electric hammer, i. 160

Thought affects the matter of another universe, i. 310

Thought-communication effected by a Shaman with his stone, ii. 627

Thoughts guided by spiritual being, i. 366; human, projected upon the universal ether, i. 395; ii. 636

Thrætaona, the Persian Michael, contending with Zohak, ii. 486

Three degrees of the pleroma, i. 302; tricks exhibited, i. 73; degrees of communication with spirits, ii. 115; emanations, i. 302; kabalistic forces, ib.; Gods, or archial principles, First Cause, Logos, and World-soul, ii. 33; Saviours, ii. 536; legends concerning them, ii. 537-539; enumeration of their followers, ii. 539; births of man, ii. 568; three hundred million Buddhists seeking Nirvana, ii. 533; mothers, i. 257

Three-sided prism of man’s nature, ii. 634

Throwing spells by aid of the wind, ii. 632

Thrum-stone, i. 231

Thummim, i. 536, 537

Θυμος, thumos, the astral soul, i. 429

Thury, Prof., on levitation, cited by de Gasparin, i. 99, 109; his theory of spiritual phenomena, i. 110; imputes them to the action of wills not human, i. 112; psychode and ectenic force, i. 113

Tiara, papal, the coiffure of the Assyrian gods, ii. 94

Tickets to Heaven, ii. 243

Tiffereau, Theodore, assertion that he had made gold, i. 509

Tiger mesmerized, i. 467

Tigress, bereft of her cubs, mesmerized by a fakir, ii. 623

Tikkun, the first born, the Heavenly Man, ii. 276

Tillemont, declares all illustrious pagans condemned to the eternal torments of hell, ii. 8

Timæus, cannot be understood except by an initiate, ii. 39

Time and space no obstacles to the inner man, ii. 588

Tir-thankara, the preceptor of Gautama, ii. 322

Tissu, the spiritual teacher of Kublai-Khan, his great holiness, ii. 608; reforms religion, ii. 609

To Ον, of Plato, ii. 38

Tobo, liberator of the soul of Adam, ii. 517

Todas, a strange people discovered in Southern Hindustan fifty years ago, ii. 613; revered and maintained by the Badagas, ii. 614; an order and not a race, ib.

Tolticas, said to be descended from the house of Israel, i. 552

Tooth, Navel and less comely relics of Jesus, ii. 71

Tophet, a place in the valley of Gehenna, where a fire was kept and children immolated, ii. 11; not a place of endless woe, ii. 502

Torquemeda, Tomas de, his prodigious cruelty, ii. 59; burned Hebrew Bibles, ii. 430

Torralva and his demon Zequiel, ii. 60

Torturing people by means of Simulacra, ii. 55

Toulouse, the Bishop of, his falsehoods about Protestants and Spiritualists of America, ii. 7

Townshend, Colonel, remarkable power of suspending animation, i. 483

Traditions, ancient, belong to India, ii. 259

Tragedy of Human Life, its plot ever the same, ii. 640

Trance-life, i. 181

Transformation of the ancient ideas, ii. 491

Transmigration, dreaded by the Hindu, i. 346; of the soul, does not relate to man’s condition after death, ii. 280

Transmural Vision, i. 145

Transmutation of metal, the actual fact asserted, i. 503, 504; Dr. Wilder’s opinion, i. 505; salt, sulpher, and mercury thrice combined in azoth, ib.

Transubstantiation, an arcane utterance perverted, ii. 560

Travancore, perpetual lamp, i. 225

Tree, Yggdrasill, i. 133, 151; Zampun, i. 152; Aswatha, ib.; symbol of universal life, ib.; the pyramid, i. 154; Gogard, i. 297; serpent dwells in its branches, i. 298; the microcosmic and macrocosmic, i. 297; tziti, the third race of men, i. 558; of knowledge, ii. 184; or pippala, ii. 412

Triad, the Intelligible, i. 212; from the duad, i. 348

Triads, or trinities, Babylonian, Phœnician and Hindu, ii. 48; Persian and Egyptian, ii. 49

Tribes of Israel, what evidence before Ezra, i. 508; no tribe of Simeon, ib.

Trigonocephali, their bite kills like a flash of lighting, ii. 622

Trimurti, i. 92; their habitation, ii. 234

Trinities, three, in one unity, making ten Sephiroth or Prajâpatis, ii. 39, 40; Hindu, Egyptian and Christian, ii. 227

Trinity, the first, i. 341; of Egyptians, i. 160; three Sephiroth or emanations, ii. 36; the doctrine revealed to Sesostris, ii. 51; the word first found in the Gospel of Nicodemus, ii. 522; listening for the answer of Mary, ii. 173; kabalistic, ii. 222; of workers in the cosmogony, ii. 420; of nature the lock of magic, ii. 635

Triple Trimurti, ii. 39

Trithemius, ii. 20

Trizna or feast of the dead in Moldavia, ii. 569, 570

Trojan war a counterpart of that of the Ramâyana, i. 566

Troy, worship of the Kabeiri brought by Dardanus, i. 570

True Adamic Earth, i. 51; doctrine Λόγος Αληθής of Celsus, a copy still in existence, ii. 52; faith the embodiment of divine charity, ii. 640

Truth, religions but vari-colored fragments of its beam, ii. 639

Tschuddi, Dr., his story of the train of llama, and treasure, i. 546

Tullia, daughter of Cicero, lamp found burning in her tomb, i. 224

Tullus Hostilius, King of Rome, struck by lightning, i. 527

Tum, devotees of, ii. 387

Tunnel from Cusco to Lima and Bolivia, i. 597; entrance, ib.; dangers of its exploration, i. 598

Turkey, wars with Russia and final conquest, i. 261

Turanian, should have been applied to the Assyrians, i. 576; evidently applied to the nomadic Caucasian, progenitor of the Hamite or Æthiopian, ib.

Turner, his account of an interview with a young lama or reincarnated Buddha, ii. 598

Turrets, the reproduction of the lithos, ii. 5

Tutelar genius who hardened the heart of Pharaoh, etc., ii. 639

Twelve houses, the fable, i. 267; tables, a compilation, i. 588; labors of Hercules depicted on the chair of Peter, ii. 25; disciples sent by Jehosaphat to preach, ii. 517; great gods, ii. 448; minor gods, Dii minores, ii. 451; tortures, ii. 351; of Theban initiation, ii. 364; thousand years employed in creation, i. 342

Twenty-nine witch-burnings, ii. 62

Two souls taught by the philosophers, i. 12, 317; idols of monotheistic Christianity, ii. 9; primeval principles, i. 341; principles, the Jews brought the doctrine from Persia, ii. 500, 501; diagrams explained, ii. 266, 271; “old ones,” ii. 350; brothers of the Bible, the good and evil principles, ii. 489; religions in each old faith, ii. 607

Two-headed serpents, i. 393

Tycho-Brahe, vision of the star, i. 441, 442

Tyndall confesses science powerless, i. 14; views of consciousness, i. 86; displays forms as of living plants and animals in an experimental tube, i. 127; his avoidance to investigate spiritual phenomena, i. 176; his Belfast Address, i. 314; his judgment of cowards, i. 418; declares spiritualism a degrading belief, ib.; confesses that the evolution hypothesis does not solve the last mystery, i. 419; his experiments on sound, ii. 606; his definition of science, ii. 637

Typhon once worshipped in Egypt, and then changed to an evil demon, ii. 487; Plutarch’s explanation, ii. 483; father of Ierosolumos and Ioudaios, ii. 484; separated from his androgyne, ii. 524

Tyrian worship introduced into Israel by Ahab, ii. 525

Tyrrhenian cosmogony, i. 342

Udayna or Pashai (Peshawer) the classic land of sorcery, i. 599; statement of Hiouen-Thsang, ib.

Ultramontanes accused in France of siding with the Mahometans, ii. 82

Ulysses frightens phantoms with his sword, i. 362

Umbilical cord ruptured and healed, i. 386

Umbilicus, represented by the ark, ii. 444

Umbra, or shade, i. 37

Unavoidable cycle, Mysteries, i. 553

Unconscious cerebration, i. 55, 232; ventriloquism, i. 101

Urdar, the fountain of life, i. 151, 162

Underworld, i. 37

Undines, i. 67

Union to the Deity, ii. 591

Unity of three trinities, ii. 39; the Sephiroth or prajapatis, ib.

Universal soul, or mind, i. 56; the doctrine underlying all philosophies, Buddhism, Brahmanism, and Christianity, i. 289; relation to the reasoning and the animal soul, i. 316; solvent, i. 50, 137, 189

Universals to particulars, i. 288

Universe, or Kosmos, the body of the invisible sun, i. 302; doubt, i. 324; how came it, i. 341; the concrete image of the ideal abstraction, i. 342; existed from eternity, ib.; passes through four ages, ii. 421; a musical instrument, i. 514

Unknown presence, when witnessed, ii. 164; the future self of man, ii. 165

Unregulated mediums punished, i. 489

Unrevealed God, i. 160

Unseen Universe, or all things there recorded, ii. 588; spiritual universe, its existence demonstrated, ii. 15

Untrained mediumship illustrated by Socrates and his daimonion, ii. 117

Untenable dogmas of science, i. 501

Upasakes and Upasakis, Buddhistic semi-monastics, ii. 608

Uper-Ouranoi, i. 312

Vach, or sacred speech, ii. 409

Vaivaswata, the Hindu Noah, ii. 425

Valachian lady, her simulacrum brought to the author in her tent in Mongolia, ii. 627, 628

Vampirism, a terrible case in Russia, i. 454

Vampire-governor, and his widow, i. 454, 455

Vampires, i. 319; shedim, etc., i. 449; magnetic, i. 462; ghouls and, wandering about, ii. 564

Van Helmont, i. 50, 57; on magnetism and will, i. 170; on transmutation of earth into water, i. 190; testimony of Deleuze, i. 194; a Pythagorean, i. 205; theory of man, i. 213; remarkable account of a child born headless immediately after an execution, i. 386; on the power of woman’s imagination, i. 399; testimony of Dr. Fournier, i. 400; ridiculed for his directions for production of animals, i. 414

Vari-colored fragments of the beam of Divine Truth, ii. 639

Vasitva, power of mesmerizing, also of restraining the passions, i. 393

Vasaki, the great dragon, ii. 490

Vast inland sea of middle Asia, and its island, i. 589

Vatican, black magic practised there, ii. 6; secret libraries, ii. 16, 19; clergy, how an access, ii. 18

Vatou, or candidate, for initiation, ii. 98; sensitive to spiritual influences, ii. 118

Vaughan, Thomas, anecdote of his attempted sale of gold, i. 504

Vedas, antedate the Bible, i. 91; contain no such immodesty as the Bible, ii. 80; older than the flood, ii. 427

Vedic words, the controversies of Sanscrit scholars, ii. 47; peoples not all Aryans, ii. 413

Vedic Pitris, their worship fast becoming the worship of the spiritual portion of mankind, ii. 639

Vegetation, influence of the moon, i. 273; influenced by musical tones, i. 514

Vehicle of life, ii. 418

Venerable “Mah,” ii. 388

Ventriloquists or pythiæ, i. 355

Ventura de Raulica, his letter asserting the existence of Satan as a fundamental dogma of the Church, ii. 14

Vesica Piscis, a Zodiacal sign, ii. 255

Vicarious atonement, a ridiculous idea, i. 316

Vicarious atonement, ii. 542; obliterates no wrong, ii. 545; not known by Peter, ii. 546

Vigil-night of Siva, i. 446

Vincent, Frank, his description of the ruins of Nagkon-Wat, i. 562, 565

Vine, the symbol of blood and life, ii. 244; Jesus, ii. 561; his “Father” not God, but the hierophant, ib.

Viracocha, the Peruvian deity, ii. 259

Viradji, the Son of God, his origin, ii. 111

Virgin, celestial, milk of, i. 64; of the sea, crushes the dragon under her feet, ii. 446; of the Zodiac, rises above the horizon, Dec. 25th, ii. 490; Blessed, thrashing a demoniac, ii. 76; Mary, declaring all pagans condemned to eternal torments, over her own signature, ii. 8; succeeded to the titles, symbols and rites of Isis, ii. 95; on the crescent moon, like pagan goddesses, ii. 96; queen of heaven, ii. ib.; mother without a husband, positivist, i. 81; of the Avatar, Son-Ka-po, ii. 589

Virgin-mothers, Hindu, Egyptian, and Catholic, their epithets, ii. 209

Vishnu, takes the form of a fish, ii. 257; same as Oannes, ib.; the Adam Kadmon of the kabalists, ii. 259; his ten avatars, ii. 274; symbolize evolution, ii. 275; the expression of the whole universe, ii. 277

Vishnu-flower, ii. 467

Visible universe from Brahma-Prajapati, i. 348

Visions witnessed by initiates, ii. 113; produced by sorcery, ii. 633

Visit to the Ladakh in Thibet, ii. 598

Visiting and leaving the body at home, ii. 604, 605

Vistaspa, a king of Bactriana, ii. 141

Visvamitra, his escape in the ark, ii. 257; Egypt colonized in his reign, i. 627

Vital force, speculations of men of science, i. 466

Viti, Sancti, Chorœa, or St. Vitus’ Dance, ii. 625

Voices of spirits and goblins heard in the desert, i. 604

Volatile salts obnoxious to devils, i. 356

Volney, mistook ancient worship, i. 24; his doctrine of God, i. 268

Voltaire, on the being of God, i. 268

Voluntary withdrawal of the spirit from the body, ii. 588

Votan, his admission to the snake’s hole as a son of the snakes, i. 553; supposed by de Bourbourg to be descended from Ham and Canaan, i. 554; the hero of the Mexicans, i. 545; probably identical with Quetzel-coatl, ib.; intercourse with King Solomon, ib.; the navigating serpent, ib.

Voodo orgy in Cuba, ii. 573

Vourdalak or vampires of Servia, i. 451, ii. 368

Vowels, the seven, chanted as a hymn to Serapis, i. 514

Vridda Manava, or laws of Manu, i. 585

Vril, Bulwer-Lytton’s designation of the one primal force, i. 64, 125

Vril-ya, the coming race, i. 296

Vulcan, Phta, or Hephaistos, represented at Nakyon-Wat, i. 565, 566

Vulgar magic in India, ii. 20

Vyasa, a positivist, i. 621; denied a First Cause, ii. 261

Vyse, Col., found a piece of iron in the pyramid of Cheops, i. 542

Wagner, Prof. Nicholas, on heat and psychical force, i. 497; on mediumistic phenomena, i. 499

Walking above the ground, i. 472; the faculty sought by devotees, and attained by a King of Siam, ii. 618

Wallace, A. R., on cycles, i. 155; belief in spiritualism and mesmerism, i. 177; theory of human development, i. 294

War of Michael and the dragon, an old myth, ii. 486

Warrior, slain and resuscitated, but without a soul, ii. 564

War-chariots, ancient, lighter than modern artillery-wagons, i. 530; had metallic springs, ib.

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

706 BROADWAY, New York, March, 1878.

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INDEX.

PAGE Æsop’s Fables, illustrated, 19 Amberley, Religious Beliefs, 6 Anacalypsis, Higgins, 3 Antiquities of Long Island, 15 Archæology, Westropp’s Hand-Book, 25 Archie Armstrong’s Jests, 29 Avesta, Bleeck, 25

Behn’s Dram. Works, 15 Bible of Humanity, 3 Blake, Swinburne’s Essay, 23 Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 21 Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled, 3 Boccaccio, Decameron, illustrated, 19 Brome’s Dram. Works, 15 Burns’ Complete Works, 6

Catalogue, Wilson Colln. of Paintings, 19 Caxton’s Dictes and Sayinges, 5 Statutes of Henry VIII., 30 Centlivre’s Dram. Works, 15 Champney, Quiet Corner of England, 25 Chapman’s Dram. Works, 15 Chinese Classics, 23 Cokain’s Dram. Works, 18 Costume, Lacroix, XVIII. Siècle, 17 Planché, 8 Historique, Racinet, 11 Crowne’s Dram. Works, 18 Cruikshank, Illustrations of Time, 24 Phrenological Illus., 24

Davenant’s Dram. Works, 18 Dekker’s Dram. Works, 15 Diary of Am. Revolution, 24 Dibdin’s Bibliomania, 29 Douglas’ Poetical Works, 29 Dramatic Works of Tourneur, 6 Dramatists, Early English, 15 of the Restoration, 18 Duyckinck’s Cyclopædia of Am. Literature, 27

Edwards’ Founders of Brit. Museum, 23 Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, 14 English Rogue, 22 Engravings, Willshire’s Guide, 31 Erasmus’ Apophthegms, 5 Etchings, Chapters on Painting, 12 Contemporary Art, 4 Examples of Modern, 11, 12 after Frans Hals, 32 “L’Art”, 33 from National Gallery, 12 The Portfolio, 34 Unger’s Works, 32 Wilson Catalogue, 19 Examples of Contemporary Art, 4

Fine Arts, Æsop’s Fables, illus., 19 Bible Plates, 5 Bell’s Anatomy of Expression, 20 Blake, Etchings, 4 Blake, Heaven and Hell, 21 Chapters on Painting, 12 Contemporary Art, 4 Costume, Racinet, 11 Cruikshank’s “Time”, 24 “Phrenological Illus., 24 Dürer’s Little Passion, 19 Etchings from National Gallery, 12 French Artists, &c., 12 Works of Hals, 32 Holbein, 23 Jeanne d’Arc, 17 Jésus-Christ, 17 Jones’ Alhambra, 30 Jones’ Gram. of Ornmt., 28 Keramic Art, Japan, 7 Lacroix, 4 Lacroix, XVIII. Siècle, vol. 1, 17 “L’Art.”, 33 Lundy, 9 Mod. Etchings, 11, 12 Planché, Costume, 8 Polychromatic Ornament, 7 The Portfolio, 34 Quiet Corner of Eng., 25 Textile Fabrics, 31 Turner Gallery, 10 Wright’s Womankind, 26 Wilson’s Catalogue, 19 Willshire on Prints, 31 Works of Wm. Unger, 32 Freemasonry, Hyneman’s Register, 27 Mackenzie, Cyclo., 7 Paton, Symbols, 25 French Artists of Present Day, 12 Furman’s Long Island, 15

Gesta Romanorum, 28 Glapthorne’s Dram. Works, 15 Grammar of Ornament, Jones, 28 Racinet, 7 Greville Memoirs, 29

Halliwell’s Hist. of Stratford on Avon, 24 Hamerton’s Examples of Mod. Etchings, 12 Heywood’s Dram. Works, 15 Higgins’ Anacalypsis, 3 Holbein, by Woltman, 23

Inman’s Ancient Faith embodied in Ancient Names, 2 v., 14 Ancient Faiths & Modern, 13 Anc. Pagan Symbolism, 16 Ireland, Shak. Forgeries, 26 Isis Unveiled, 3

Jeanne d’Arc, Wallon, 17

Keramic Art of Japan, Fr., 7 King’s Gnostics, 25 Knight’s Ancient Art and Mythology, 13 Worship of Priapus, 28

Lacroix, XVIII. Siècle, Costume, &c., 17 XVIII. Siècle., vol. 2. Sciences, 4 Lacy’s Dram. Works, 18 L’Art. Art Magazine, 33 Lee’s Life, &c., of De Foe, 26 Legge’s Chinese Classics, 23 Leland, Fu Sang, 16 Littré Dictionnaire de la Langue Française, 24 Lundy’s Monumental Christianity, 9

Mackay’s Lost Beauties of the English Language, 16 Markland’s Lady de Osorio, 23 Marmion’s Dram. Works, 18 Masonic Register, Hyneman’s, 27 Memoirs of Sanson Family, 25 Mexico, Geiger, 22 Michelet, Bible of Humanity, 3 Moore’s Epicurean, 9 Musical Instruments, &c., 5

Nares’ Glossary Early Eng., 29

Original Lists of Emigrants, &c., 21 Ornamental Textile Fabrics, 31 Owen Jones, Alhambra, 30

“Passio Christi.” See Dürer, 19 Paton’s Symbolism of Masonry, 25 Phallic Worship, Anacalypsis, 3 Isis Unveiled, 3 Knight, 28 Inman, 14, 16 Westropp and Wake, 14 “Portfolio,” an Artistic Periodical, 34 Prostitution. Dufour, Hist., 31

Rambosson, Harmonies du Son, 5 Religions. Amberley, 6 Avesta, 25 Ancient Art & Mythology, 13 Ancient Faiths & Modern, 14 Ancient Pagan Symbols, 16 Ancient Symbol Worship, 14 Chinese Classics, 23 Gnostics, etc., 25 Higgins, Anacalypsis, 3 Isis Unveiled, 3 Inman, Ancient Faiths, 13 Knight’s Priapus, 28 Lundy, Monum. Christ’y, 9 Michelet’s Bible of Humanity, 3 Rosicrucians, 27 Serpent and Siva Worship, 3 Taylor, Eleusinian Mysteries, 14 Wheeler’s India, 13 Yarker’s Mysteries, 27 Rump Songs, &c., 22

Serpent and Siva Worship, 3 Shakespeare, Facsimile of 1st fol., 18 Forgeries, Ireland, 26 School of, 4 Songs, &c. Museum Deliciarum, 20 Ballads, D’Urfey’s Pills, 20 and Ballads, The Rump, 22 Westminster Drolleries, 22 Story of the Stick, 21 Symbolism. Anacalypsis, 3 of Freemasonry, 25 Gnostics, &c., 25 Inman, 16 Inman’s Anc. Faiths, &c., 14 Knight’s Priapus, 28 Lundy, 9 Rosicrucians, 27 Serpent Worship, 3 Westropp, &c., 14 Yarker, 27

Turner Gallery, 10 Tourneur’s Plays 6

Unger, Frans Hals, 32 Works, 32

Veuillot. Jésus-Christ, 17 Violin and its Makers, Hart, 18

Walford’s County Families, 30 Westminster Drolleries, 22 Westropp, Handbook of Archæology, 25 Wheeler’s History of India, 13 Willshire on Prints, 31 Wilson’s Dram. Works, 18 Ornithology, 8 Wright’s Womankind, 26

Yarker, Scientific and Religious Mysteries, 27

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The Epicurean;

A Tale, and ALCIPHRON; a Poem. By THOMAS MOORE. With vignette illustrations on steel, by J. M. W. TURNER, R.A. 1 vol. 12mo. Handsomely printed on toned paper. Cloth, extra, gilt top, $2.00. Tree calf extra, gilt edges, $4.50.

“Our sense of the beauties of this tale may be appreciated by the acknowledgment that for insight into human nature, for poetical thought, for grace, refinement, intellect, pathos, and sublimity, we prize the Epicurean even above any other of the author’s works. Indeed, although written in prose, this is a masterly poem, and will forever rank as one of the most exquisite productions in English literature.”--Literary Gazette.

The Turner Gallery,

A SERIES OF SIXTY ENGRAVINGS, from the Works of J. M. W. TURNER, R.A. With Biographical Sketch and Descriptive Text by RALPH N. WORNUM, Keeper and Secretary of the National Gallery, London. One volume, folio, INDIA PROOFS. Elegantly bound in half Levant morocco, extra, gilt edges, $50.00. Full Levant morocco, extra, very elegant, $75.00.

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THE TURNER GALLERY is already so well known to lovers of art and to students of Turner, that, in announcing a reissue of a limited number of copies of this important National Work, little need be said by way of comment or introduction. The Original Engravings have, for the first time, been employed, instead of the electrotype plates hitherto used, thus securing impressions of more genuineness and brilliancy than have yet been offered to the public. Of the high-class character of the Engravings themselves, and of the skill and excellence with which they are executed, such well-known names as JEENS, ARMYTAGE, WILLMORE, E. GOODALL, BRANDARD, WALLIS, COUSENS, and MILLER, will be a sufficient guarantee.

From the London Art Journal.

“A series of engravings from Turner’s finest pictures, and of a size and equality commensurate with their importance, has not till now been offered to the public.

“In selecting the subjects, the publisher has chosen judiciously. Many of his grandest productions are in this series of Engravings, and the ablest landscape engravers of the day have been employed on the plates, among which are some that, we feel assured, Turner himself would have been delighted to see. These proof impressions constitute a volume of exceeding beauty, which deserves to find a place in the library of every man of taste. The number of copies printed is too limited for a wide circulation, but, on that account, the rarity of the publication makes it the more valuable.

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_AN ENTIRELY NEW WORK ON COSTUME BY M. RACINET, AUTHOR OF “POLYCHROMATIC ORNAMENT,” ETC._

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Each part will contain 25 plates, 15 in colors and 10 in tinted Lithography. Parts 1, 2, and 3 are now ready for delivery. Upon completion of the work, the price will be raised 25 per cent.

“The Messrs. Firmin Didot & Co., of Paris, a firm that disputes with the house of Hachette & Co. the honor of supplying France and the world with the most beautiful books at the cheapest rates compatible with the greatest excellence in editing and ‘making,’ have recently published the beginning of a work which, by making its appeal chiefly to the eye, is sure of a welcome in this picture-loving age of ours. This is the HISTORY OF COSTUME, by A. Racinet, well-known already to that portion of our public which is interested in the decorative art by his illustrated work on ornament. L’Ornement Polychrome.--Racinet gives the word ‘costume’ almost as wide a sweep of meaning as Viollet-le-Duc gives to furniture in his now famous Dictionnaire du Mobilier. * * * * The field surveyed consists not only of costumes proper, but of arms, armor, drinking vessels, objects used in the service of the church, modes of transport, harness, head-gear and modes of dressing the hair, domestic interiors, and furniture in the ordinary acceptation of the term. Each plate is to be accompanied with an explanatory text, and there will be added an historical study, so that little will be wanting to make this one of the completest encyclopædias of the sort that has ever appeared. * * * * A charming taste has presided over the selection of the subject, and the abundant learning that has been brought to bear in the collection of illustrations, from so wide a field of human action, is made to seem like play, so lightly is it handled. * * * * No scientific arrangement is observed in the order in which the subjects are presented. We have ancient Egypt, Assyria, Rome, Greece, India, Europe in the middle ages, and from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Japan, Turkey, Syria, Russia, and Poland, mixed up for the present, as if the work were an illustrated report of a fancy ball; and, to most of us, the gay parade as it rolls along is none the less pleasant for this want of order.”--Scribner’s Monthly.

“The name of Firmin Didot & Co., of Paris, is such a guarantee of mechanical execution in a book, that it is sufficient to state that Le Costume Historique is fully on a par with any of the former publications of this distinguished house. In addition to its other features, this work has numerous illustrations, giving restorations of Roman, Greek, and Egyptian interiors. In fact the work is conceived on a large plan, and will be found most useful to the artist. With such a book as a reference, some of the glaring inconsistencies we still see from time to time on the stage, where periods as to costume, some hundreds of years apart, are terribly mixed up, might be prevented, and the unities saved. The publishers have had the excellent idea of reducing the size of the illustrations, so as to bring the price of this picture-cyclopædia of the costume of the world within the means of the most prudent book-buyer.”--N. Y. Daily Times.

“A new work on costume, most expensive to the publishers and cheap to the subscribers. Parts I., II., and III., with twenty-five pictures in each, are ready. We have minutely examined them, and find them worthy of great praise, both for general excellences of execution and for the recondite and curious sources drawn upon--the latter characteristic making the collector master of a great many pictorial facts and illustrations whose original sources are hard even to see and impossible to become possessed of.”--Nation.

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Edited, with notes, by PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON, Editor of the “Portfolio.” Twenty Plates, by Balfourier, Bodmer, Bracquemond, Chattock, Flameng, Feyen-Perrin, Seymour Haden, Hamerton, Hesseltine, Laguillermie, Lalanne, Legros, Lucas, Palmer, Rajon, Veyrassat, etc. The text beautifully printed on heavy paper. Folio, tastefully bound in cloth, full gilt, $10.00.

Among the contents of this choice volume, may be mentioned “The Laughing Portrait of Rembrandt,” by Flameng; Twickenham Church, by Seymour Haden; Aged Spaniard, by Legros; The Hare--A Misty Morning, by Bracquemond; The Thames at Richmond, by Lalanne; The Ferryboat, by Veyrassat, etc.

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To admirers of Etchings, the present volume offers several of the most notable of recently executed plates, among others the Portrait of Rembrandt, by Waltner; The Parish Clerk, after Gainsborough, by the same etcher; The Burial of Wilkie, after Turner, by Brunet-Debaines; Portrait of a Youth, after Masaccio, by Léopold Flameng, etc.

French Artists of the Present Day.

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Chapters on Painting.

By RENÉ MÉNARD (Editor of “Gazette des Beaux-Arts”). Translated under the superintendence of Philip Gilbert Hamerton. Illustrated with a series of forty superb etchings, by Flameng, Coutry, Masson, Le Rat, Jacquemart, Chauvel, etc., the text beautifully printed by Claye, of Paris. Royal 4to, paper, uncut, $25.00. Half polished levant mor., gilt top, $30.00.

Ancient Art and Mythology.

The Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology. An Inquiry. By RICHARD PAYNE KNIGHT, author of “Worship of Priapus.” A new edition, with Introduction, Notes translated into English, and a new and complete Index. By ALEXANDER WILDER, M.D. 1 vol. 8vo, cloth, handsomely printed, $3.00.

“Not only do these explanations afford a key to the religion and mythology of the ancients, but they also enable a more thorough understanding of the canons and principles of art. It is well known that the latter was closely allied to the other; so that the symbolism of which the religious emblems and furniture consisted likewise constituted the essentials of architectural style and decoration, textile embellishments, as well as the arts of sculpture, painting, and engraving. Mr. Knight has treated the subject with rare erudition and ingenuity, and with such success that the labor of those who come after him rather add to the results of his investigations than replace them in important particulars. The labors of Champollion, Bunsen, Layard, Bonomi, the Rawlinsons, and others, comprise his deductions so remarkably as to dissipate whatever of his assertions that appeared fanciful. Not only are the writings of Greek and Roman authors now more easy to comprehend, but additional light has been afforded to a correct understanding of the canon of the Holy Scripture.”--Extract from Editor’s Preface.

A SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME TO “ANCIENT FAITHS.”

Ancient Faiths and Modern.

A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends, and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, before the Christian Era. Showing their Relations to Religious Customs as they now exist. By THOMAS INMAN, M.D., author of “Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names,” etc., etc. 1 vol. 8vo, cloth, $5.00.

This work is most aptly expressed by the title, and the author, who is one of our most learned and accomplished modern writers, has done ample justice to his subject. He pries boldly into Bluebeard’s closet, little recking whether he shall find a ghost, skeleton, or a living being; and he tells us very bluntly and explicitly what he has witnessed. Several years since he gave to the learned world his treatise on Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names, in which were disclosed the ideas underlying the old-world religions, and the nature of hieroglyphical symbols employed in the East. The present volume complements that work, elaborates more perfectly the ideas there set forth, and traces their relations to the faiths, worship, and religious dogmas of modern time. We are astonished to find resemblances where it would be supposed that none would exist, betraying either a similar origin or analogous modes of thinking and reasoning among nations and peoples widely apart in race, country, and period of history. The author is bold and often strong in his expressions, from the intensity of his convictions, but this serves to deepen the interest in his subject. Those who have read his former works with advantage will greet this volume with a cordial welcome; and all who desire to understand the original religions of mankind, the ideas which lie back of the revelations of Holy Scripture, and particularly, those who are not easily shocked when they come in contact with sentiments with which they have not been familiar, will find this book full of entertainment as well as of instruction. Dr. Inman is working up a new mine of thought, and the lover of knowledge will give his labor a welcome which few of our modern authors receive.

Wheeler’s India.

History of India. By J. TALBOYS WHEELER, Assistant Secretary to the Government of India, in the Foreign Department, Secretary of the Record Commission, Author of the “Geography of Herodotus.”

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Dr. Inman’s Ancient Faiths.

Embodied in Ancient Names; or, an Attempt to trace the Religious Belief, Sacred Rites, and Holy Emblems of certain Nations, by an Interpretation of the Names given to Children by Priestly Authority, or assumed by Prophets, Kings, and Hierarchs. By THOMAS INMAN, M.D. Profusely illustrated with Engravings on Wood. 2 vols., 8vo, cloth, $20.00.

“Dr. Inman’s present attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations, has opened up to him many hitherto unexplored fields of research, or, at least, fields that have not been over-cultivated, and the result is a most curious and miscellaneous harvest of facts. The ideas on priapism developed in a former volume receive further extension in this. Dr. Inman, as will be seen, does not fear to touch subjects usually considered sacred in an independent manner, and some of the results at which he has arrived are such as will undoubtedly startle, if not shock, the orthodox. But this is what the author expects, and for this he has thoroughly prepared himself. In illustration of his peculiar views he has ransacked a vast variety of historical storehouses, and with great trouble and at a considerable cost, he places the conclusions at which he has arrived before the world. With the arguments employed, the majority of readers will, we expect, disagree; even when the facts adduced will remain undisputed, their application is frequently inconsequent. In showing the absurdity of a narrative or an event in which he disbelieves, the Doctor is powerful. No expense has been spared on the work, which is well and fully illustrated, and contains a good index.”--Bookseller.

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Ancient Symbol Worship.

Influence of the Phallic Idea in the Religions of Antiquity. By HODDER M. WESTROPP and C. STANILAND WAKE. With an Introduction, additional Notes, and Appendix, by ALEXANDER WILDER, M.D. New Edition, with eleven full-page Illustrations. 1 vol. 8vo, cloth, $3.00.

The favor with which this treatise has been received has induced the publisher to bring out a new edition. It makes a valuable addition to our knowledge, enabling us to acquire a more accurate perception of the ancient-world religions. We may now understand Phallism, not as a subject of ribaldry and leering pruriency, but as a matter of veneration and respect. The Biblical student, desirous to understand the nature and character of the idolatry of the Israelites during the Commonwealth and Monarchy, the missionary to heathen lands fitting for his work, and the classic scholar endeavoring to comprehend the ideas and principles which underlie Mythology, will find their curiosity gratified; and they will be enabled at the same time to perceive how not only many of our modern systems of religion, but our arts and architecture, are to be traced to the same archaic source. The books examined and quoted by the authors constitute a library by themselves, and their writers are among the ripest scholars of their time. Science is rending asunder the veil that conceals the adytum of every temple, and revealing to men the sanctities revered so confidingly during the world’s childhood. With these disclosures, there may be somewhat of the awe removed with which we have regarded the symbols, mysteries, and usages of that period; but the true mind will not be vulgarized by the spectacle.

The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries.

A Dissertation, by THOMAS TAYLOR, Translator of “Plato,” “Plotinus,” “Porphyry,” “Iamblichus,” “Proclus,” “Aristotle,” etc., etc. Third edition. Edited, with Introduction, Notes, Emendations, and Glossary, by ALEXANDER WILDER, M.D. 1 vol. 8vo, cloth, $3.00.

In the Mysteries, the dramas acted at Eleusis and other sacred places, were embodied the deeper thoughts and religious sentiment of the archaic world. The men and women initiated into them were believed to be thenceforth under special care of God, for this life and the future. So holy and interior were the doctrines considered which had been learned in the Sanctuary from the two tablets of stone, that it was not lawful to utter them to another. What was seen and learned elsewhere might be admirable; but the exercises of Eleusis and Olympia had in them the something divine, and those who observed them were “the children of God,” and imaging Him in wisdom, intuitive discernment, and love.

The reader desirous of getting the kernel of the doctrines of Plato, Orpheus, Eumolpas, and their fellow-laborers, as well as of the Alexandrian Eclectics, will obtain invaluable aid from this treatise.

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Antiquities of Long Island.

By GABRIEL FURMAN. With a Bibliography by Henry Onderdonk, Jr. To which is added Notes, Geographical and Historical, relating to the town of Brooklyn, in Kings County, on Long Island. 1 vol. large 12mo, cloth, $3.00.

Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism.

By THOMAS INMAN, M.D., author of “Ancient Faiths Embodied in Ancient Names,” etc. Second edition, revised and enlarged, with an Essay on Baal Worship, on “the Assyrian Sacred Grove,” and other allied symbols. By JOHN NEWTON, M.R.C.S.E., etc. Profusely illustrated. 1 vol. cloth, $3.00.

This book contains in a nutshell the essence of Dr. Inman’s other publications, and for the reader of limited means is just what he requires. The subject of symbolism is as deep as human thought and as broad in its scope as humanity itself. The erudite thinker finds it not only worthy of his best energies, but capable of taxing them to the utmost. Many pens have been employed upon it, and it has never grown old. Dr. Inman’s views are somewhat peculiar; he has concentrated his attention to the ideas which he believes to underlie the symbolism of the most ancient periods, and can be traced through the autonomy of the Christian Church. He finds the relation which exists, and the antiquarian likewise, between Asshur and Jehovah, the Baal of Syria and the God whom Christians worship; and the mysteries of the Sacred Grove, of which the Old Testament says so much, are unfolded and made sensible to the common intellect. Scholars will welcome this volume, and the religious reader will peruse its pages with the profoundest interest. The symbols which characterize worship constitute a study which will never lose its interest, so long as learning and art have admirers.

The Lost Beauties of the English Language.

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Words change as well as men, sometimes from no longer meeting the new wants of the people, but oftener from the attraction of novelty which impels everybody to change. A dictionary of obsolete words, and terms becoming obsolete, is a valuable reminder of the treasures which we are parting with; not always wisely, for in them are comprised a wealth of expression, idiom, and even history, which the new words cannot acquire. Dr. Mackay has placed a host of such on record, with quotations to illustrate how they were read by the classical writers of the English language, not many centuries ago, and enables us to read those authors more understandingly. If he could induce us to recall some of them back to life, it would be a great boon to literature; but hard as it might have been for Cæsar to add a new word to his native Latin language, it would have been infinitely more difficult to resuscitate an obsolete one, however more expressive and desirable. Many of the terms embalmed in this treatise are not dead as yet: and others of them belong to that prolific department of our spoken language that does not get into dictionaries. But we all need to know them; and they really are more homogeneous to our people than their successors, the stilted foreign-born and alien English, that “the Best” is laboring to naturalize into our language. The old words, like old shoes and well-worn apparel, sit most comfortably.

Fu-Sang;

Or, the Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century. Containing a Translation of Professor Carl Neumann’s work on the subject, made under supervision of the Author; a letter by Colonel Barclay Kennon, late of the U. S. North Coast Pacific Survey, on the Possibility of an Easy Passage from China to California; and a Résumé of the Arguments of De Guigues, Klaproth, Gustave D’Eichthal, and Dr. Bretschneider on the Narrative of Hoei-Shin, with other Contributions and Comments, by CHARLES G. LELAND, 1 vol. 12mo, cloth, $1.75.

FRANCE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

Lacroix.

(BIBLIOPHILE JACOB) XVIIIᵐᵉ SIÈCLE, INSTITUTIONS, USAGES, ET COSTUMES, France, 1700-1789. Illustrated with twenty-one large and beautifully executed chromo-lithographs, and upwards of three hundred and fifty engravings on wood after Watteau, Vanloo, Boucher, Lancret, Chardin, Bouchardin, Saint-Aubin, Eisen, Moreau, etc. 1 vol. thick Imperial 8vo, half red morocco, extra gilt leaves, $13.50.

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Jésus-Christ.

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Jeanne D’Arc.

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Contents: An account of the arms and military dresses of the period, accompanied by descriptive figures taken from the seals of the Archives; a map of feudal France, by M. Aug. Longnon, a new work of the highest importance to the history of the 15th century; a study of the worship shown to Joan of Arc in the French and Foreign literatures (it is known that during the lifetime of Joan, her wonderful mission was represented on the stage); fac-similes of letters of Joan, etc., etc.

Dramatists of the Restoration.

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The First Edition of Shakespeare.

Mr. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the True Original Copies. London. Printed by ISAAC IAGGARD and ED. BLOUNT. 1623. An exact reproduction of the extremely rare original, in reduced fac-simile by a photographic process, ensuring the strictest accuracy in every detail. Post 8vo, half mor., gilt top, $3.00.

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The Violin.

Its famous makers and their imitators. By GEORGE HART. In the above-mentioned work the author treats of the Origin, History, Development of this, the greatest of musical instruments, and gives interesting details concerning those ingenious makers who brought it to its present state of perfection.

It is illustrated by upwards of forty first-class Wood Engravings from Photographs, which represent the exact Outlines and Proportions of the masterpieces of ANTONIUS STRADIUARIUS, AMATI, BERGONZI, and others, including the celebrated violin by JOSEPH GUARNERIUS, on which PAGANINI achieved his marvellous success. 1 vol. post 8vo, cloth, $4.00.

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∵ Already out of print and scarce.

This charming catalogue was gotten up at the expense of the generous owner of the collection, and the money received from its sale donated to the fund for the relief of the poor of the city. The edition consisted of 1,000 copies. It was immediately exhausted.

The Catalogue is a model of its kind. The notices are in most instances accompanied with a fac-simile of the artist’s signature to the picture; a biographical sketch of the artist; notices of the engraved examples, if any; and critical notes on each picture.

The graphic department is, however, the great feature of this Catalogue, embracing, as it does, upwards of sixty examples of the best etchers of the present day, including Greux, Chauvel, Martial, Rajon, Gaucherel, Jacquemart, Hédouin, Lemaire, Duclos, Masson, Flameng, Lalanne, Gilbert, etc., etc.

Dürer’s “Little Passion.”

Passio Christi. A complete set of the Thirty-seven Woodcuts, by Albert Dürer. Reproduced in fac-simile. Edited by W. C. Prime. One volume, Royal 4to (13 × 10½ inches). Printed on heavy glazed paper, half vellum, $10.00. Morocco antique, $15.00.

The Little Passion of Albert Dürer, consisting of thirty-seven woodcuts, has long been regarded as one of the most remarkable collections of illustrations known to the world. Complete sets of the entire series are excessively rare. The editions which have been published in modern times in Europe are defective, lacking more or less of the Plates, and are of an inferior and unsatisfactory class of workmanship.

Æsop’s Fables.

With 56 illustrations, from designs by Henry L. Stephens. Royal 4to, cloth extra, gilt leaves, $10.00.

Mr. Stephens has no superior in the peculiar style of illustration which is most effective in bringing out the spirit of Æsop’s Fables, and in this volume he has given us fifty-six full page cartoons, brimming with droll humor, reciting the Fables over again, and enforcing their morals just as effectively as was done by the words of Æsop himself. The illustrations are among the finest specimens of art ever produced in this country, and the volume as a whole is most creditable to American artistic skill.

Boccaccio’s Decameron;

Or, Ten Days’ Entertainment. Now fully translated into English, with Introduction by THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq., M.A., F.S.A. Illustrated by STOTHARD’S Engravings on Steel, and the 12 unique plates from the rare Milan Edition. One volume, thick 12mo, cloth extra, $3.50, or handsomely bound in half polished Levant morocco, gilt top, $5.50.

The most complete translation, containing many passages not hitherto translated into English.

Bell’s Anatomy and Philosophy of Expression,

As connected with the Fine Arts. Profusely illustrated Royal 8vo, cloth, uncut, $4.50.

Tom D’Urfey’s “Pills to Purge Melancholy.”

Being a collection of Merry Ballads and Songs, old and new, fitted to all humors, having each its proper tune for voice and instrument. An exact and beautiful reprint of this very scarce work. Small paper, 6 vols., crown 8vo, bds., uncut, $15.00. Large paper, 6 vols. crown 4to. Only a few printed. Bds., uncut, $24.00.

“But what obtained Mr. D’Urfey his greatest reputation was a peculiarly happy knack he possessed in the writing of satires and irregular odes. Many of these were upon temporary occasions, and were of no little service to the party in whose cause he wrote; which, together with his natural vivacity and good humor, obtained him the favor of great numbers, of all ranks and conditions, monarchs themselves not excluded. He was strongly attached to the Tory interest, and in the latter part of Queen Anne’s reign had frequently the honor of diverting that princess with witty catches and songs of humor suited to the spirit of the times, written by himself, and which he sang in a lively and entertaining manner. And the author of the Guardian, who, in No. 67. has given a very humorous account of Mr. D’Urfey, with a view to recommend him to the public notice for a benefit play, tells us that he remembered King Charles II. leaning on Tom D’Urfey’s shoulder more than once, and humming over a song with him.

“He appears to have been a diverting companion, and a cheerful, honest, good-natured man; so that he was the delight of the most polite companies in conversations, from the beginning of Charles II.’s to the latter part of King George I.’s reign; and many an honest gentleman got a reputation in his country by pretending to have been in company with Tom D’Urfey.”--Chalmers.

UNIFORM WITH “TOM D’URFEY’S PILLS.”

Musarum Deliciæ;

Or, The Muses’ Recreation, 1656; Wit Restor’d, 1658; and Wit’s Recreation, 1640. The whole compared with the originals; with all the Wood Engravings, Plates, Memoirs, and Notes. A new edition, in 2 volumes, post 8vo, beautifully printed on antique laid paper, and bound in antique boards, $4.00.

A FEW LARGE PAPER COPIES have been prepared. 2 vols. 4to, $7.50.

∵ Of the Poets of the Restoration, there are none whose works are more rare than those of Sir John Mennis and Dr. James Smith. The small volume entitled “Musarum Deliciæ; or, The Muses’ Recreation,” which contains the production of these two friends, was not accessible to Mr. Freeman when he compiled his “Kentish Poets,” and has since become so rare that it is only found in the cabinets of the curious. A reprint of the “Musarum Deliciæ,” together with several other kindred pieces of the period, appeared in 1817, forming two volumes of Facetiæ, edited by Mr. E. Dubois, author of “The Wreath,” etc. These volumes having in turn become exceedingly scarce, the Publishers venture to put forth the present new edition, in which, while nothing has been omitted, no pains have been spared to render it more complete and elegant than any that has yet appeared. The type, plates, and woodcuts of the originals have been accurately followed; the Notes of the editor of 1817 are considerably augmented, and indexes have been added, together with a portrait of Sir John Mennis, from a painting by Vandyke in Lord Clarendon’s Collection.

The Story of the Stick

In all Ages and all Lands. A Philosophical History and Lively Chronicle of the Stick as the Friend and Foe of Man. Its Uses and Abuses. As Sceptre and as Crook. As the Warrior’s Weapon, and the Wizard’s Wand. As Stay, as Stimulus, and as Scourge. Translated and adapted from the French of ANTONY RÉAL (Fernand Michel). 1 vol., 12mo, extra cloth, red edges, $1.50.

“Wrought for a Staff, wrought for a Rod.” SWINBURNE.--Atalanta in Calydon.

The above work condenses in a lively narrative form a most astonishing mass of curious and recondite information in regard to the subject of which it treats. From the bludgeon of Cain to the truncheon of the Marshals of France, from the budding rod of Aaron to the blazing cane of M. de Balzac, the stick, in all its relations with man since first he meddled with the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, is shown here to have played a far greater part in history than is commonly imagined. It has been the instrument of justice, it has been the tool also of luxury. It has ministered to man, its maker, pleasure as well as pain, and has served for his support as well as for his subjugation. The mysteries in which it has figured are some of them revealed and others of them hinted in these most entertaining and instructive pages, for between the days of the society of Assassins in the East and those of the society of the Aphrodites in the West, the Stick has been made the pivot of many secret associations, all of them interesting to the student of human morals, but not all of them wisely to be treated of before the general public. The late Mr. Buckle especially collected on this subject some most astounding particulars of social history, which he did not live to handle in his own inimitable way, but of which an adequate inkling is here afforded to the serious and intelligent reader.

OUR EMIGRANT ANCESTORS.

Original Lists of Persons of Quality.

Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving-men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700. With their Ages, the Localities where they formerly Lived in the Mother Country, Names of the Ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars. From MSS. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty’s Public Record Office, England. Edited by JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN. A very handsome volume, crown 4to, 700 pages, elegantly bound in half Roxburghe morocco, gilt top, $10.00.

A few Large Paper copies have been printed, small folio, $17.50.

Blake’s (Wm.) Marriage of Heaven and Hell:

A reproduction and facsimile of this marvelous work, printed in colors, on paper made expressly for the work. 4to, hf. Roxburghe morocco, uncut, $10.00. 1790 (1868).

∵ A very few copies remaining.

“The most curious and significant, while it is certainly the most daring in conception and gorgeous in illustration of all Blake’s works.”--Gilchrist’s Life of Blake.

A NEW AND ATTRACTIVE BOOK ON MEXICO

A Peep at Mexico:

Narrative of a Journey Across the Republic, from the Pacific to the Gulf, in December, 1873, and January, 1874. By J. L. GEIGER, F.R.G.S. Demy 8vo, pp. 368, with 4 Maps and 45 original Photographs. Cloth, $8.50.

The English Rogue.

Described in the Life of MERITON LATROON, and other Extravagants, comprehending the most Eminent Cheats of both Sexes. By RICHARD HEAD and FRANCIS KIRKMAN. A fac-simile reprint of the rare Original Edition (1665-1672), with Frontispiece, Fac-similes of the 12 copper-plates, and Portraits of the authors. In Four Volumes, post 8vo, beautifully printed on antique laid paper, made expressly, and bound in antique boards, $6.00, or LARGE PAPER COPIES, 4 vols. 8vo, $10.00.

∵ This singularly entertaining work may be described as the first English novel, properly so-called. The same air of reality pervades it as that which gives such a charm to stories written by DeFoe half a century later. The interest never flags for a moment, from the first chapter to the last.

As a picture of the manners of the period, two hundred years ago, in England, among the various grades of society through which the hero passes in the course of his extraordinary adventures, and among gypsies, beggars, thieves, etc., the book is invaluable to students.

The Rump;

Or, An Exact Collection of the choicest POEMS and SONGS relating to the late Times, and continued by the most eminent Wits; from Anno 1639 to 1661. A Fac-simile Reprint of the rare Original edition (London, 1662), with Frontispiece and Engraved Title-page. In 2 vols. post 8vo, printed on antique laid paper, and bound in antique boards, $4.00; or Large Paper Copies, $6.00.

∵ A very rare and extraordinary collection of some two hundred Popular Ballads and Cavalier Songs, on all the principal incidents of the great Civil War, the Trial of Strafford, the Martyrdom of King Charles, the Commonwealth, Cromwell, Pym, the Roundheads, etc. It was from such materials that Lord Macaulay was enabled to produce his vivid pictures of England in the sixteenth century. To historical students and antiquaries, and to the general reader, these volumes will be found full of interest.

Westminster Drolleries.

Ebsworth’s (J. Woodfall) Westminster Drolleries, with an introduction on the Literature of the Drolleries, and Copious Notes, Illustrations, and Emendations of Text. 2 vols. 12mo, cloth, uncut, $8.00. Boston (Eng.), 1875.

∵ Only a small Edition; privately printed.

Swinburne’s William Blake;

A Critical Essay. With Illustrations from Blake’s Designs in Fac-simile, some colored. 8vo, cloth, $3.00.

A valuable contribution to our knowledge of a most remarkable man, whose originality and genius are now beginning to be generally recognized.

Holbein and His Times.

By DR. ALFRED WOLTMANN, translated by F. A. BUNNETT. With portraits and nearly 60 fine engravings from the works of this wonderful artist. Royal 8vo, cloth extra, gilt leaves, $5.00.

Memoir of the Lady Ana De Osorio,

Countess of Chinchon, and Vice-Queen of Peru, A.D. 1629-39. With a Plea for the Correct Spelling of the Chinchona Genus. By CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, C.B., Member of the Imperial Academy Naturæ Curiosorum, with the Cognomen of CHINCHON. Small 4to, with Illustrations, $7.50.

FOUNDERS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

Lives of the Founders, Augmenters, and other Benefactors of the British Museum.

1570 to 1870. Based on new researches at the Rolls House; in the Department of MSS. of the British Museum; in the Privy Council Office, and in other Collections, Public and Private. By EDWARD EDWARDS. 1 vol. 8vo, large and beautiful type, cloth, $4.00. LARGE PAPER, ROYAL 8vo (only 60 copies printed), cloth, $10.00.

∵ By a special arrangement with the English publishers, Messrs. Trübner & Co., the above is offered at the greatly reduced price mentioned.

Legge’s Chinese Classics.

Translated into English, with Preliminary Essays and Explanatory Notes. Vol. I., THE LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF CONFUCIUS. Vol. II., THE LIFE AND WORKS OF MENCIUS. Vol. III., THE SHE KING; OR, THE BOOK OF POETRY. Together 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, $10.00.

Diary of the American Revolution.

By FRANK MOORE, from Newspapers and Original Documents. Handsomely printed on heavy laid paper, and Illustrated with a fine series of steel-plate portraits, INDIA PROOFS. 2 vols. impl. 8vo, paper uncut, $8.00. New York, printed privately, 1865.

∴ Large Paper. Only a Limited Impression. Published at $20.00 per copy.

Littré’s French Dictionary.

Dictionnaire de la Langue Française. Par E. LITTRÉ, de l’Institut (Académie Française et Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres). Four large vols. royal quarto, new half morocco, $40.00.

“No language that we have ever studied, or attempted to study, possesses a Dictionary so rich in the history of words as this great work which M. Littré has fortunately lived long enough to complete.”--Saturday Review.

UNIFORM WITH THE LARGE FOLIO SHAKSPEARE EDITED BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

Halliwell’s New Place.

An Historical Account of the New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, the last residence of Shakspeare. Folio, cloth (uniform in size with the edition of Shakspeare’s Works edited by the Author), elegantly printed on super-fine paper, and illustrated by upwards of sixty woodcuts, comprising views, antiquities, fac-similes of deeds, etc. By JAMES O. HALLIWELL, F.R.S. $10.00.

This is a most important work for the Shakspearian student. The great researches of the author have enabled him to bring to light many facts hitherto unknown in reference to the “great bard.” All the documents possessing any real claim to importance are inserted at full length, and many of them are now printed for the first time. With respect to the illustrations, which have been executed by J. T. Blight, Esq., F. W. Fairholt, Esq., E. W. Ashbee, Esq., and J. H. Rimbault, Esq., no endeavors have been spared to attain the strictest accuracy.

REISSUE OF CRUIKSHANK’S ETCHINGS.

Cruikshank’s Illustrations of Time.

A series of 35 Etchings. By GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Oblong quarto, paper, carefully printed from the original plates. $2.00. 1874 ----The Same. COLORED. $3.00. 1874

Cruikshank’s Phrenological Illustrations;

or, An Artist’s View of the Craniological System of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim. By GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. A series of _33 Etchings, illustrative of the various Organs of the Brain_. Oblong quarto, paper, $2.00. ----The Same. COLORED. $3.00.

∵ This reissue, of which only a limited impression has been made, is printed from the original coppers.

“Have we not before us, at this very moment, a print--one of the admirable ‘Illustrations of Phrenology’--which entire work was purchased by a joint-stock company of boys--each drawing lots afterwards for the separate prints, and taking his choice in rotation? The writer of this, too, had the honor of drawing the first lot, and seized immediately upon ‘Philoprogenitiveness’--a marvellous print, indeed--full of ingenuity and fine, jovial humor.”--WM. M. THACKERAY.

SEVEN GENERATIONS OF EXECUTIONERS.

Memoirs of the Sanson Family.

Compiled from Private Documents in the possession of the Family (1688 to 1847), by HENRI SANSON. Translated from the French, with an Introduction by CAMILLE BARRÈRE. Two vols. post 8vo, cloth, $5.50; or half calf, extra, $7.50.

“A faithful translation of this curious work, which will certainly repay perusal, not on the ground of its being full of horrors--for the original author seems to be rather ashamed of the technical aspect of his profession, and is commendably reticent as to its details--but because it contains a lucid account of the most notable causes célèbres from the time of Louis XIV. to a period within the memory of persons still living.... The memoirs, if not particularly instructive, can scarcely fail to be extremely entertaining.”--Daily Telegraph.

“A book of great though somewhat ghastly interest.... Something much above a mere chapter of horrors.”--Graphic.

Avesta.

THE RELIGIOUS BOOKS OF THE PARSEES. From Professor SPIEGEL’S German Translation of the Original Manuscripts, by A. H. BLEECK. 3 vols. in 1, 8vo, cloth, $7.50.

English scholars who wish to become acquainted with the “Bible of the Parsees,” now for the first time published in English, should secure this copy. To thinkers the “Avesta” will be a most valuable work; they will now have an opportunity to compare its TRUTHS with those of the BIBLE, the KORAN, and the VEDAS.

Freemasonry.

PATON’S (CHARLES I.) FREEMASONRY, ITS SYMBOLISM, RELIGIOUS NATURE, AND LAW OF PERFECTION. Thick 8vo, new cloth, uncut, $3.50.

Hand-Book of Archæology.

Egyptian--Greek--Etruscan--Roman. By H. M. WESTROPP. Profusely Illustrated with Engravings on Wood. 8vo, new cloth, uncut, $3.00.

The Gnostics

AND THEIR REMAINS, ANCIENT AND MEDIÆVAL. By C. W. KING. Profusely Illustrated. 8vo, new cloth, gilt, $7.50.

∴ The only English work on the subject. Out of print and scarce.

Champneys’ Quiet Corner of England.

Studies of Landscape and Architecture in Winchelsea, Rye, and Romney Marsh. With thirty-one Illustrations by ALFRED DAWSON. Imperial 8vo, cloth, gilt, gilt leaves, $5.00.

“Mr. Champneys is an architect who takes the liberty to think for himself--a man of much original genius and sincere culture, young, and with an enthusiastic contempt for conventionality, which I hope he may never outgrow.”--New York Tribune, Letter from London Correspondent.

Ireland’s Shakspeare Forgeries.

The Confessions of William Henry Ireland, containing the Particulars of his Fabrication of the Shakspeare Manuscripts; together with Anecdotes and Opinions of many distinguished Persons in the Literary, Political, and Theatrical World. A new edition, with additional Fac-similes, and an Introduction by RICHARD GRANT WHITE. 1 volume, 12mo, vellum cloth, uncut edges, $2.00; or, on Large and Thick paper, 8vo, $3.50. Edition limited to 300 copies.

Enthusiasts are easily duped, and of all enthusiasts, excepting the religious, those who give themselves up to the worship of some great poet or artist are the easiest prey of the impostor. To them, a book, a letter, the least scrap or relic which is connected directly, or it would seem indirectly, with their idol, is an inestimable treasure, and they are uneasy until it is in their possession, or removed hopelessly beyond their reach. Of all these enthusiasts the “Shakspearians” are, and for a hundred years have been, at once the most numerous, and the most easily, because the most willingly, deceived. To their craving and their greed we owe the “Ireland Forgeries,” which were merely an impudent attempt to supply a demand--an attempt made by a clever, ignorant young scamp, who succeeded in deluding the whole body of them in England two generations ago. His “Confessions” are the simply told story of this stupendous imposture: and the book--long out of print and scarce--is one the most naïf and amusing of its kind in the whole history of literature. His exhibition of the “gulls,” whom he made his victims, is equally delightful and instructive; and chiefly so, because of his simplicity and frankness. He conceals nothing, palliates nothing; tells the whole story of his ridiculous iniquity, and leaves a lasting lesson to the whole tribe of credulous collectors, Shakspearian and others.

“It has frequently afforded me a matter of astonishment to think how this literary fraud could have so long duped the world, and involved in its deceptious vortex such personages as Parr, Wharton, and Sheridan, not omitting Jemmy Boswell, of Johnsonian renown; nor can I ever refrain from smiling whensoever the volumes of Malone and Chalmers, together with the pamphlets of Boaden, Waldron, Wyatt, and Philalethes, otherwise, ---- Webb, Esq., chance to fall in my way.”--W. H. IRELAND’S “Chalcographimania.”

Womankind in Western Europe,

From the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century. Illuminated Title, 10 CHROMO-LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES, and numerous Woodcuts. Small 4to, cloth, extra gilt, $4.50. 1869.

This work is something more than a drawing-room ornament. It is an elaborate and careful summary of all that one of our most learned antiquaries, after years of pleasant labor on a very pleasant subject, has been able to learn as to the condition of women from the earliest times.

DeFoe’s Life and Works,

Life and Newly-Discovered Writings of Daniel DeFoe. Comprising Several Hundred Important Essays, Pamphlets, and other Writings, now first brought to light, after many years’ diligent search. By WILLIAM LEE, Esq. With Facsimiles and Illustrations. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, $6.00. Or in tree calf, extra, $15.00.

Vol. I.--A NEW MEMOIR OF DEFOE. Vols. II. and III.--HITHERTO UNKNOWN WRITINGS.

A most valuable contribution to English history and English literature.

For many years it has been well known in literary circles that the gentleman to whom the public is indebted for this valuable addition to the knowledge of DeFoe’s Life and Works has been an indefatigable collector of everything relating to the subject, and that such collection had reference to a more full and correct Memoir than had yet been given to the world.

World’s Masonic Register:

Containing Name, Number, Location, and Time of Meeting of every Masonic Lodge in the World, etc., also every Chapter, Council, and Commandery in the United States and Canada, Date of Organization, etc., and Statistics of each Masonic Jurisdiction, etc. By Leon Hyneman. Portrait, thick 8vo, pp. 566, cloth, $2.00.

The Rosicrucians;

Their Rites and Mysteries. With chapters on the Ancient Fire and Serpent-Worshippers, and Explanations of the Mystic Symbols represented in the Monuments and Talismans of the primeval Philosophers. By HARGRAVE JENNINGS. Crown 8vo, 316 wood engravings, $3.

∴ A volume of startling facts and opinions upon this very mysterious subject.

Scientific and Religious Mysteries of Antiquity:

The Gnosis and Secret Schools of the Middle Ages, Modern Rosicrucianism, and Free and Accepted Masonry. By John Yarker. 12mo, new cloth, $2.00.

∴ “The sublime depths of the mysteries of antiquity have been sounded but by few minds in the lapse of ages, and those who have leisure to follow upon their tracks will meet with an ample reward.”

ONLY ONE HUNDRED COPIES PRINTED.

Duyckinck’s Cyclopædia of American Literature.

Printed by Alvord, on a hand-press, and on tinted paper of extra weight and finish, prepared expressly for the work. For the convenience of persons desirous of illustrating the work, for which purpose it is admirably adapted, it has been issued in five parts, with separate rubricated titles, each of the two original volumes being divided into two parts, of about three hundred and fifty pages each, and the new Supplement forming the fifth. A finely engraved portrait printed on India paper is given with each part. The subjects of these portraits are Benjamin Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, William Hickling Prescott, and, with the Supplement, a portrait of the late George L. Duyckinck, newly engraved in line, by Burt, after an original painting by Duggan. 5 vols. 4to, uncut, $25.00. Half morocco, gilt top, $50.00.

Only thirteen sets of this edition now remain.

Payne Knight’s Worship of Priapus.

A discourse on the Worship of Priapus, and its connection with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients. By RICHARD PAYNE KNIGHT, Esq. A new edition. To which is added an essay on the worship of the generative powers during the middle ages of Western Europe. Illustrated with 138 engravings (many of which are full-page), from Ancient Gems, Coins, Medals, Bronzes, Sculpture, Egyptian Figures, Ornaments, Monuments, etc. Printed on heavy toned paper, at the Chiswick Press, 1 vol. 4to, half Roxburghe morocco, gilt top, $35.00.

“R. P. Knight, the writer of the first ‘Essay,’ was a Fellow of the Royal Society, a member of the British Parliament, and one of the most learned antiquaries of his time. His museum of Phallic objects is now most carefully preserved in the London British Museum. The second ‘Essay,’ bringing our knowledge of the worship of Priapus down to the present time, so as to include the more recent discoveries throwing any light upon the matter, is said to be by one of the most distinguished English antiquaries--the author of numerous works which are held in high esteem. He was assisted it is understood, by two prominent Fellows of the Royal Society, one of whom has recently presented a wonderful collection of Phallic objects to the British Museum authorities.”

Gesta Romanorum.

Or, Entertaining Moral Stories. Invented by the Monks as a fireside recreation; and commonly applied to their Discourses from the Pulpit, whence the most celebrated of our Poets and others, from the earliest times, have extracted their Plots. Translated from the Latin, with Preliminary Observations and Copious Notes, by the Rev. CHARLES SWAN. New edition, with an Introduction by THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq., M.A., F.S.A. 2 vols. 8vo, vellum cloth, uncut, printed on large and heavy paper, $10.00. Full calf, extra, $17.50.

A limited edition only was printed, of which now only 14 copies remain.

“They” (the Monks) “might be disposed occasionally to recreate their minds with subjects of a light and amusing nature; and what could be more innocent or delightful than the stories of the GESTA ROMANORUM!”--Douce’s Illustrations to Shakespeare.

Jones’ (Owen) Grammar of Ornament.

A Series of 112 exquisitely colored Plates, executed in Chromolithography, comprising 3000 examples of the Decoration of all Ages and Nations, with Descriptive Letterpress, illustrated with Woodcuts. Folio, cloth, extra, gilt edges. $30.00.

This new edition is a reproduction of the larger work on a smaller scale; a few of the plates which could not be reduced have been printed on a larger scale, and the same artistic matter has been extended from 100 to 112 plates.

Dibdin’s Bibliomania;

Or, Book-Madness: A Bibliographical Romance. With numerous Illustrations. A new Edition, with a Supplement, including a Key to the Assumed Characters in the Drama. 8vo, half-Roxburghe, $6.00; a few Large Paper copies, Imp. 8vo, half-Roxburghe, the edges altogether uncut, $12.00.

“I have not yet recovered from the delightful delirium into which your ‘Bibliomania’ has completely thrown me. Your book, to my taste, is one of the most extraordinary gratifications I have enjoyed for many years.”--ISAAC DISRAELI.

Greville’s Memoirs.

Journal of the Reign of King George IV. and King William IV. By the late Charles C. F. Greville, Esq. Edited by Henry Reeve. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, $7.50.

No equally important contribution to the political history of the last generation has been made by any previous writer. As a man of rank and fashion, Mr. Greville associated, on terms of equality, with all the statesmen of his time, and his long tenure of a permanent office immediately outside of the circle of politics compelled him to observe a neutrality which was probably congenial to his character and inclination.--Saturday Review.

Archie Armstrong’s Banquet of Jests.

Reprinted from the original edition, together with ARCHIE’S DREAM (1641), handsomely printed in antique style, with red line borders. Square 12mo, new vellum cloth, uncut, $6.50.

The same, printed on Whatman’s paper (limited to 25 copies). Square 12mo, new cloth, $9.00.

∴ The edition (of all kinds) was limited to 252 copies. It is completely exhausted, and copies are now difficult to obtain.

“A more amusing budget of odd stories, clever witticisms, and laughter-moving tales, is not to be found in Jester’s Library.”

Nares’ Glossary.

Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to Customs, Proverbs, etc., which have been thought to require Illustration in the Works of English Authors, particularly Shakespeare and his contemporaries. NEW EDITION, with additions, etc., by J. O. Halliwell and Thomas Wright. 2 vols. 8vo, new cloth, $6.50.

Gavin Douglas’ Poetical Works.

With Memoir, Notes and Glossary, by J. Small, M.A., F.S.A. Illustrated by specimens of the Manuscripts, and the title-pages and woodcuts of the early editions in facsimile. Handsomely printed in 4 vols. post 8vo, cloth. $18.00. 1874.

----The same, LARGE PAPER. Fifty copies only printed. 4 handsome demy 8vo vols. cloth, $25.00. (Published @ £6.6.0.)

The distinguished poets, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, and Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, form a trio of whom Scotland has every reason to be proud; but, as the Works of the second of these have not hitherto been collected, an Edition of them has long been a desideratum in Scottish Literature.

Walford’s County Families.

The County Families of the United Kingdom; or, Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. Containing a Brief Notice of the Descent, Birth, Marriage, Education, and Appointments of each person; his Heir Apparent or Presumptive; as also a Record of the Offices which he has hitherto held, with his Town Address and Country Residence. By EDWARD WALFORD, M.A. 1 vol. thick imperial octavo. Cloth, gilt edges. 1,200 pages, $8.00.

Caxton’s Statutes of Henry VII., 1489.

Edited, with Notes and Introduction, by JOHN RAE, Esq., Fellow of the Royal Institution. The earliest known volume of Printed Statutes, and remarkable as being in English. It contains some very curious and primitive Legislation on Trade and Domestic Matters. In remarkable fac-simile, from the rare original. Small folio, half morocco, uncut, $7.50.

Owen Jones’ Alhambra.

Plans, Elevations, and Sections of the Alhambra, with the elaborate details of this beautiful specimen of Moorish Architecture, minutely displayed in 100 beautifully engraved plates, 67 of which are highly finished in gold and colors, from Drawings taken on the spot by JULES GOURY and OWEN JONES, with a complete translation of the Arabic Inscriptions, and an Historical Notice of the Kings of Granada, by PASCUAL DE GAYANGOS. 2 vols. imperial folio (pub. at £24), elegantly half bound morocco, gilt edges, full gilt backs. $100.

The same work on Large Paper, 2 vols. atlas folio, 100 plates, 67 of them in gold and colors, the engraved plates on India paper (pub. at £36), half bound morocco, gilt edges. $125.

For practical purposes, to architects the small paper copies will suffice; but gentlemen desirous of adding a noble book in its finest appearance to their library, must have a Large Paper copy.

“In spite of earthquakes, mines and counter-mines--spite of Spanish convicts, French soldiers, Spanish bigotry, and Flemish barbarism of thieves and gipsys, contrabandists and brigands, paupers, charcoal-burners and snow-gatherers, the Alhambra still exists--one of the most recent of European ruins. It is the most perfect in repair and the richest in design; it has suffered less from man, or the elements, and has fallen more gently into decay. It was not molten like Nineveh in an hour, or buried in a day like Pompeii; it was not smitten down at a blow like Corinth, or sapped for centuries like Athens. Though it has been alternately a barrack, a prison, a tea garden, and an almshouse--though its harem has been a hen-house, its prisons pens for sheep; the Alhambra is still one of the most wonderful productions of Eastern splendor, lingering in Europe long after the Moslem waves have rolled back into Asia, like a golden cup dropped on the sand, or like the last tent of some dead Arab, still standing, when the rest of his tribe have long since taken up their spears, untethered their camels, and sought their new homes in the far desert.”

Prostitution.

DUFOUR (PIERRE). Histoire de la Prostitution chez tous les peuples du Monde, depuis l’antiquité la plus reculée jusqu’à nos jours. Illustrated with numerous fine engravings on steel. 6 vols. in 3, 8vo, hf. cf. gilt tops. Scarce. $18.00. 6 vols. 8vo, cloth, $13.50.

ORIGINAL and ONLY GENUINE EDITION.

In this learned work--the best that we have on the subject--many of the chapters are devoted to dissertations on matters of general interest to students of literature. We instance Chap. XXIV., containing a treatise on the Obscenity of the French language, the Jargon of Argot, its Origin, etc.; also in Chap. XXXII., a highly interesting bibliographical account of the Aretin plates by Marc Antonio, etc., etc.

The author was threatened with criminal prosecution, and pledged himself never to reproduce the work; it has now become scarce.

NEW AND MAGNIFICENT WORK ON TEXTILE FABRICS.

Ornamental Textile Fabrics

Of all Ages and Nations. A practical Collection of Specimens. Illustrated with Fifty Plates in Gold, Silver, and Colors, Comprising upwards of 1,000 various styles of Ancient, Mediæval and Modern Ornamental Designs of Textile Fabrics, with Explanatory Description and a General Introduction. By M. DUMONT-AUBERVILLE. 1 vol. folio, cloth, gilt, extra. $25.00.

The Editor of this work, M. Dupont-Auberville, is known as one of the most distinguished archæologists of modern France, and Textile Art is the department of archæology to which he has devoted the best years of his life. His collection of specimens of textile fabrics embraces models taken from all ages and from all countries, and is admitted by all artists to be unique in every respect.

The works of ancient textile art, both in the East and the West, are done full justice to, but at the same time the framer of “Ornamental Textile Fabrics” has drawn more amply from the extensive stock of models belonging to more recent periods. From his immense collection of specimens taken from the Renaissance and the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he has selected those subjects which are most worthy of the attention both of the amateur and the manufacturer. In this manner the work now submitted to the public is not a mere ornamental one, but at the same time it possesses a practical usefulness which must cause it to be valued by all who make a study of taste in manufacturing industry in general, and the art of weaving in particular.

AN ENTIRELY NEW AND REVISED EDITION.

Old Print Collectors’ Guide:

An Introduction to the Study and Collection of Ancient Prints. Frontispiece, plates of monograms, and illustrations. By WM. H. WILLSHIRE. Handsomely printed. 2 large vols. demy 8vo, half morocco, gilt top, $11.00.

∴ This new edition entirely supersedes the previous one, having, in addition to much new matter, full lists of Monograms and marks of celebrated collectors and amateurs. A work indispensable to the Print Collector, being a concentration in one volume of all the varied information relative to the History of Engraving and of Ancient Prints.

CONTENTS.--I. Engraving in Ancient Times. II. Engraving in General, from the beginning of the 13th to the 15th Century. III. On the Various Processes or kinds of Engraving. IV. Advice on the Study and Collection of Prints. V. The Various Schools of Engraving. VI. The Northern Schools to the time of Dürer. VII. Northern Schools from Dürer to the 17th Century. VIII. The Southern Schools of Wood Engraving. IX. The Masters of “Chiaro oscuro.” X. Metal Engraving. Masters of 1446, etc. XI. Dutch and Flemish Schools. XII. French and English Schools. XIII. Chief Etchers of the Northern Schools. XIV. On Engraving in the “Dotted Manner.” XV. The Southern Schools of Engraving on Metal. Nielli. XVI. Italian Schools. XVII. School of Marc Antonio. XVIII. Chief Etchers of the Italian Schools. XIX. Mezzotinto Engravings and Engravers. XX. On the Examination and Purchase of Ancient Prints. XXI. On the Conservation and Arrangement of Prints. Appendix.--British Museum Collection, Douce Collection, Oxford, Polytypage, Cliché, Mezzotinto Engraving, High-priced Books, Varia Bibliography, Monograms, indexes, etc., etc.

The Works of William Unger.

=A Series of Seventy-two Etchings after the Old Masters.= With Critical and Descriptive Notes by C. VOSMAER. Comprising the most celebrated paintings of the following artists: TINTORETTO, RUYSDAEL, REMBRANDT, GUIDO, POUSSIN, RUBENS, OSTADE, JAN STEEN, VAN DYCK, WOUVERMANS, PAUL POTTER, FRANS HALS, VERONESE, JORDAENS, VAN DER VELDE, BROUWER, etc., etc.

Ten parts folio, 16 × 22 inches, printed on heavy Dutch paper, $60.00. Or half morocco, extra gilt top, elegant and substantial, $80.00.

“No engraver who ever lived has so completely identified himself with painters he had to interpret as Professor Unger in the seventy-two plates which compose his ‘Works.’ He can adopt at will the most opposite styles, and work on each with ease, a fluency such as other men can only attain in one manner--their own--and after half a lifetime. Indeed, one would not be going far wrong to describe Professor Unger as an art critic of very uncommon insight, who explains the sentiment and execution of great painters with an etching needle instead of a pen.

“It has been said of engraving that it is an unintellectual occupation, because it is simply copyism; but such engraving as this is not unintellectual, for it proves a delicacy and keenness of understanding which are both rare among artists and critics. Unger has not the narrowness of the ordinary artist, for he can enter into the most opposite styles; nor has he the technical ignorance of the ordinary critic, for he can draw--I will not say like a great master, but like twenty different great masters.

“Mr. Vosmaer, the now well-known Dutch critic, who writes in English and French as well as in his own language, has much increased the interest in Unger’s etchings by accompanying them with a valuable biographic essay of his own, much superior to the ordinary ‘letter-press,’ which publishers in general appear to consider as a necessary companion to engraving.

“The seventy-two etchings before us are, on the whole, the most remarkable set of studies from old masters which has been issued by the enterprise of our modern publishers, and they can hardly fail to make fine work better appreciated both by artists and amateurs.

“A few words of praise are due to the spirited publisher, Mr. Sijthoff, of Leyden, for the manner in which these etchings of Unger have been published. They are printed on fine Dutch paper, and mounted (pasted by the upper edge only) on sufficiently good boards in such a manner as to enter into the most carefully arranged collections without further change. They are accompanied by a text printed with the greatest taste, on very fine Dutch paper. This series is printed in one class of proof only, and issued at a price that is most reasonable, and Mr. Sijthoff deserves our thanks for placing works of real art, thoroughly well got up, within the reach of cultivated people who have limited incomes.

“We recommend them strongly to all artists and lovers of art as a valuable means of art education and a source of enduring pleasure.”--HAMERTON in the International Review for Jan., 1876.

Etchings after Frans Hals.

A Series of 20 beautifully executed Etchings. By WILLIAM UNGER. With an Essay on the Life and Works of the artist, by C. Vosmaer. Two parts, complete, royal folio. Impressions on India paper, $25.00. Selected proofs, before letters, on India paper, $40.00. Artist proofs on India paper, $60.00. Or elegantly bound in half Levant morocco, extra, gilt top, $15.00 additional to the above prices. Uniform with Unger’s works.

“They who know the Dutch painter Hals only through the few portraits by him which have reached this country have but a slight comparative acquaintance with his works. ‘A stranger to all academical lore, to all literary co-operation,’ writes Mr. Vosmaer, ‘Frans Hals appeared merely as a portrait-painter, like most of the modern artists of his youth ... true to life, but also excelling by naturalness and masterly handling. Subsequently he portrayed the joyous popular life of the streets and the tavern; at last those phases of national social life, which have at once their image and memorial in the pictures of the arquebusiers and the civic governors.’”--London Art Journal, Aug. 1873.

THE NEW FRENCH ART JOURNAL.

L’Art.

Revue Hebdomadaire Illustrée. (M. Eugène Véron et Chas. Tardieu, rédacteurs.) Handsomely printed on heavy toned paper, and illustrated with several hundred engravings on wood from drawings and pictures by celebrated cotemporary artists, examples of antique and modern sculpture, objects of Art Industry in all branches, and a series of superbly executed etchings by the best living etchers, executed expressly for this work; being principally from the more noticeable pictures exhibited in the Salons of Europe, carefully printed on Holland paper. Forming four volumes a year. Royal folio (17½ × 12 in.) of about 500 pp. each, with nearly 200 woodcuts, facsimiles, etc., and upwards of twenty etchings in each volume. 4 vols., folio. Stitched, paper covers, uncut, $36.00. In cloth, gilt top, uncut edges, $45.00. Handsomely bound in half red morocco (Jansen style), gilt tops, uncut edges, $65.00.

ANOTHER EDITION, printed throughout on heavy Holland paper, in the most careful manner. The etchings in two states, Artist proof on Japan paper, and ordinary print on Holland paper. The edition is strictly limited to one hundred copies, numbered. Forming 4 thick volumes, folio. Price, $125.00.

∵ N. B.--Payments to be made on delivery of each quarterly volume.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

“Nowhere but in Paris could such a Review be produced every week as L’Art, so magnificent in every respect, paper, typography, illustrations, and above all, so many sided in its view of art, and so abundant and interesting in its information. It has now been brought to the fourth year of its life, with every sign of assured and increasing vigor, and we are glad to learn, from the report of the editor to the subscribers, that something more substantial than the succès d’estime has rewarded the experiment of such a costly venture.... It is simply the cheapest and the best thing of its kind. M. Véron seems, at any rate, to have solved the problem of combining excellence with cheapness. We find, besides numerous little facsimiles of sketches, and autograph letters of eminent artists, musicians, and dramatists, no less than seventy fine etchings by such men as Flameng, Courtry, Desbrosses, Lançon, etc., and woodcuts of Claude’s and Turner’s pictures, with a series of very remarkable copies of the famous tapestries at Madrid, from the designs of Albrecht Dürer and Van Eyck, by Edmond Yon, Perrichon, and C. Maurand, as well as singularly fine examples of wood engraving. Supposing the reading matter of the Review were as ephemeral and trivial in its purpose as the cheapest of the cheap instead of being, as it is, rich and racy, with the native style of all French pens, thoughtful and often profoundly suggestive, and generally complete, in reference to detail, the two etchings by Flameng, from pictures by Frans Hals and Nicholas Maas, alone would be really most valuable and acceptable to the print-collector.... While L’Art is conducted in this style the editor may feel quite secure that France will not lose that artistic supremacy she has long held.”--London Times.

“It would be easy and pleasant to go on discoursing about the pictures in L’Art, a paper which is so full of good, sober, and just criticisms, trustworthy news about art, and designs not otherwise to be obtained by most people.”--Saturday Review.

“The new volume of L’Art sufficiently manifests the success of a very valuable and interesting publication.... There is no other journal in existence which so happily and skilfully combines the labors of artists and authors which does not subordinate art to letters, or letters to art, but permits them to go ‘hand in hand, not one before another.’... In brief, this grand folio volume of L’Art abounds in matters of interest to all readers and students of æsthetic and cultivated taste.”--The World (London).

“There is some monotony in praising each successive portion of a periodical as it appears with an absolutely equal cordiality; but the evenness of merit in L’Art makes this uniformity of commendation a duty.”--The Nation.

“America is so destitute of illustrated works which can at all compare with L’Art that she cannot do better than study and enjoy this French publication. Certainly there is no other means by which so many valuable pictures can be obtained at so small a price.”--The Christian Union.

“Sumptuous in paper and type, lavish in illustrations, and with critical and explanatory text of singular merit; the most famous of modern art journals.”--N. Y. Times.

The Portfolio:

An Artistic Periodical, edited by PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON. Illustrated with Etchings, Autotypes, Woodcuts, Facsimiles, Engravings, Heliogravures, etc. Published monthly.

Subscription reduced to TEN DOLLARS per annum.

∴ Sent, Postage free, to any part of the United States, on receipt of the Subscription price.

“The chief intention of ‘The Portfolio’ is to supply to its subscribers, at a lower cost than would be possible without the certain sale of a regular periodical circulation, Works of Art of various kinds, but always such as are likely to interest a cultivated public; and to accompany them with literature by writers of proved ability, superior to mere letter-press, and more readable than pure criticism or cataloguing.” Among the artists who have furnished original etchings are Bracquemond, Lalanne, Rajon, Legros, and Leopold Flameng, who has given some noble specimens of his skill, especially in the reproduction of “The Laughing Portrait of Rembrandt,” in his particular province as a reviver of the works of that artist. The subjects in all cases are chosen for their worth and rarity, and in these respects the “Portfolio” fairly rivals its great contemporary, one of the noblest fine-art periodicals ever issued, the Parisian “Gazette des Beaux-Arts.” It has the same finish in execution in the minutest details of paper and print, and is in every way a thoroughly artistic production, far ahead in this way of anything of the class heretofore issued in England.

There are numerous single illustrations in the “Portfolio,” worth the price of the volume, suitable for framing.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

“Of the PORTFOLIO altogether it is to be said, that not only is it the first periodical in the English language devoted to fine-art, but that it leads all others by a very great distance, whatever the second and third of such publications may be taken to be.

“We warmly commend it to the notice of all who would cultivate in themselves and their families an appreciation of the beautiful in nature and art. The illustrations are largely of sylvan scenery, and etchings from the finest paintings are given, with letter-press descriptions, and the best articles from the highest authorities, so that the monthly paper itself, an illustration of what is taught, becomes a complete magazine of the science of art. We would regard the introduction of such a journal into the family as a good educator, while it will prove a source of exquisite pleasure to those who have already a taste for the beautiful.”--N. Y. Observer.

“We look for the PORTFOLIO as for the only serial published, in which works of art of a certain kind and of peculiar merit are to be found. Etching is not as popular, perhaps, as it should be, but if anything is likely to bring its merits before the public, it is such examples as are to be had here. Their effect is striking, and in execution they are little short of perfect; at any rate they exhibit this kind of work in the highest degree of perfection to which it has attained.”--N. Y. Daily Times.

“Mr. Hamerton’s PORTFOLIO is easily chief among English art periodicals, and has the advantage of being written by men who are not only familiar with the literature of art and the works of artists, but are artists by profession, and so know the feelings, aims, and technicalities of artists. The editor is probably better acquainted with continental artists and their work than most of the insular fellows, and his art theories and criticisms are proportionately more catholic and valuable. The PORTFOLIO, instead of being a magazine of current gossip about artists and their doings, is a work of permanent value, apart from its excellent illustrations, as a collection of able essays, critical, historical, technical, and personal, very free from narrowness and professional or national prejudice. It is the glory of the Portfolio that it is in a way cosmopolitan, free from the prejudices of nations and schools.”--Atlantic Monthly.

“The Portfolio is very charming. An Art periodical far superior to anything which has hitherto appeared.”--Guardian.

“From the first it has stood nearly alone as really ‘an artistic periodical.’ An hour spent over the Portfolio is one of refreshment, encouragement, and unalloyed delight.”--Spectator.

“Of the Etchings the merits are unquestionable: indeed, the work is enriched with some of the finest examples. The literary part is generally worthy of praise for being scholarly, graceful, and interesting.”--Athenæum.

“Dealing with artistic subjects generally, and always in a spirit of intelligence and refinement.”--Graphic.

“To the portfolio is unanimously accorded the first place as an artistic periodical.”--Cambridge Chronicle.

Back volumes for 1870, ’71, ’72, ’73, ’74, ’75, ’76, and ’77 may still be had on application. Any volume sold separately. Price, in blue cloth, gilt leaves, $14.00 each.

Transcriber’s Note:

Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, like this. Those in bold are surrounded by equal signs, =like this=. Footnotes were renumbered sequentially and were moved to precede the index. Printing errors, such reversed order, or partially printed letters, diacriticals, and punctuation, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. Except as noted below for Greek and Hebrew, misspelled words and irregular use of quotation marks were not changed. Footnote 608 has two anchors.

Τhree-column texts in the original were reformatted as blockquotes to improve display in handheld devices. The “pigpen” cipher is illustrated on lines 17308 through 17340.

In the index, punctuation was standardized and a few page number references were adjusted to match book pages. Some entries are not in alphabetical order; these were left as printed. Term indexed as “spirit-ancestor” does not appear in either Volume 1 or Volume 2.

Corrections to Greek:

TEXT: line 4162, from Επὶ ὸπτομαι to Επι οπτομαι line 9998, from καθολὶκὰ πνεὺματα to καθολικὰ πνεύματα line 12258, from παλινθρομοῡσι to παλινδρομοῦσι line 13192, from Ιαο to Ιαω line 14205, from Υαχινθε to Υακινθε line 15053, from αχοιμητω σροφαλιγγι to ακοιμητω στροφαλιγγι FOOTNOTES: FN [561] from γρωτογονος to πρωτογονος INDEX: line 33587, from ανθροπος to ανθροπως line 37599, from Λογος Αληθης to Λόγος Αληθής line 41224, from Λογος Αληθης to Λόγος Αληθής

Corrections to Hebrew:

TEXT: line 7560, from חכטות to חכמות line 8031, from בויצ to בויץ line 9250, from בתר to כתר line 9269, from תפא־ת to תפארת line 9277, from שבינה to שכינה line 9387, from שמ to שם line 9433, from עולמ to עולם line 9552, from חכמות־נסתדה to חכמות־נסתרה line 11531, from אין to עין line 11595, from עצחיומ to עצחיום line 11652, from אפּוַימ to אפּוַים line 13015, from וה to יה line 13227, from יח to יה line 20155, from קיך to קין line 20218, from תבל to הבל line 20226, from קיון to קינן line 20245, from אוד to ארד line 20248, from לםך to למך line 21151, from יבת to יכח FOOTNOTES: [878] from כחכות עור to כתנות עור [912] from הוי to חוי INDEX: line 34848, from יהוה אלהימ to יהוה אלהים

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