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Aaron, prophet in Exodus, 200
Abraham: Sanskrit epithet, 169 (179) sacrifices Isaac, 169 (179) and Hagar, 267 fn.
Abraxas, solar cock of, 374
Absolute: anthropomorphizing, the, 232 succinct teachings about, 234 abyss between, and the infinite, 342
Thought is inscrutable, 411 Light & its “south pole,” Life, 629
Acervulus cerebri, of Pineal gland, 618
Acts, 348 on Simon Magus, 552
Adam-Kadmon, or Jahve, androgynous, 313
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719), Cato, q. 444
Adept (s): and Bodhisattvas, 31 would not precipitate himself before sending letter, 32 Right or Left Path, 191 may attain status of Deva, 202 self-styled, of profane world, 315 and candidates for adeptship, 316 —mystics scattered in Himalayas and India, 345 fn. of Gupta-Vidya, 346 rarity of, 451 training for a White, 491 motive in seeking powers of, 491 “becomes” & is not made, 496 sometimes desert their bodies, 684 and projection of mayávi-rüpa, 707
Adeptship: must be achieved before becoming a Mahatma, 634 attainment of, 691, 696
Adhemar, Countess Gaston d’, manager of Revue Théosophique, 300
Adi-buddha, primeval Wisdom, 537
“Admirable Crichtones,” of today, 42
Adonay, 534-35
Adultery, Jesus on, 385
Advaita:
interpreted by Samkaráchárya, 344 fn.
influenced by Budhism, 345 manuscripts of, 345 fn.
Adyar Library:
founded by Col. Olcott, 300
palm leaf MSS. in, 300
holdings of, 300
prediction on the, 301
Aeons:
of Simon Magus, 552
our Dhyani-Chohans, 553
similar to Devas, 570
Agastya, Rishi, & immigration to
Chaldea, 169(179)
{{Page aside|788}}
Age(s):
each, has its martyrs, saints, heroes, 22
of human race, 28
Miocene, 28
hypocrisy and social corruption of our, 34, 40, 242
gold is god of our “uncivilized,” 44
“Divine,” concept of Aryan races, 50
current, not conductive to moral courage, 139, 242, 310
our, inferior in Wisdom, 310 ff moral cruelty of our, 310 process related to a bacillus, 389
cure for old-, 389
Agliato, Marquis, betrayed Cagliostro, 81
Agnishvattas, or Solar Lhas, 644 & fn.
Agnostic, “Saladin” on Church attitude to women, 269
Agnostics, in T.S., 341 fn.
Ahamkara:
the personal “I-creating” faculty, 631, 633
and Chitta, 633 fn.
as related to Antaskarana, 634 must be crushed out, 634
Ahriman, and hosts of Darkness, 49
Ahura-Mazdha, or Universal Light, 49
Aitareya Brahmana, 169 (178)
Ajigarta (or Rishika):
Holy Man of Pushkara Lake, 172 (182)
father of Sunahsepa, 172 (182)
Ajmere:
pilgrimage to, 173 (183) fn., 176 (186)
Lake Pushkara in, 176 (186) sacred crocodiles of, 176 (186)
Àkâsa:
sound is substratum of, 361
permeable & interpenetrating, 408
lowest form of, is Ether of
Space, 408
not “hypothetical agent” of Science, 408
sound as the only attribute of, 611
nature of, outlined, 611
astral vision cutting rays of, 678
Àkâsa-tattva:
or vital essence, 215
the one chief agent in mesmerism, 215
Akkadians, and symbolism of Khargak-Kurra, 543
Alaya:
“World-Soul,” 55
great Self, as eternal Harmony, 114
Universal Soul, 630, 635
and Mahat, 635
Alaya-Mahat:
as Universal Soul, 313, 371
Intelligence of the Universe, 313 reflected in the personal mind, 371
Albertini, Dr., on color blindness, 90
Alchemist:
symbolic expressions of, 52-55, 85-86
occult meaning of transmutation, 53
stone of, 53
and spiritual help of women, 533
Alchemy:
“three sisters” symbolism in, 85-86
occult chemistry in, 86
Alcohol, reason why forbidden to students of occultism, 698
Aletheia, Truth of the Mysteries, 570
All-Being, or Svabhavat, 543
{{Page aside|789}}
Althotas, Hermetic Sage and Cagliostro, 79-80
Altruism, will one day rule if Brotherhood of T.S. accepted, 302
Amazon, circle dance of Mysteries, 278
Ambarisha:
King of Ayodhya, 169 (179), 172 (182) fn.
disconsolate over lack of heirs, 170 (180)
Ambrosia, and the gods, 187 fn.
Amen, and Amen, numerical value of, 534
America:
religious decay in, 90 forerunners of new sub-race appearing in, 154
American:
self-proclaimed Christs, 78 social life, 90
audacity in criticizing Russia, 279-81
treatment of Red-Indians, 28586
on freedom of speech & press in, 388
American Free Methodist Church, Firebrand, q. 55-56
Amerindians, dying of exposure and starvation in America, 281, 286
Amitabha, and Padmapani, 518, 519.
Analytical:
method of exact science, 359 decomposition of chemical elements 359
Ancient(s):
Mysteries and Hierophants, 1516
accused of fetishism, 16
Races, 382
“Ancient, The,” of Job, 313
or the “first-born,” 313 called Sophia, Buddhi-Manas or
Christos, 313
light from the, 320
Anderson, Dr. Jerome (18471903),
on spiritual monad, 58 –Remarks, etc., 557 fn.
Androgyne, or Hermaphrodite Humanity, 700, 702.
Angel(s):
and archangel, 50-52
Spirits and, 190, 200, 210 between the living & the dead, 190
Fall of, 192
“men of a superior kind,” 200 Angilini, Luigi, on death of Cagliostro, 87-88.
Anima Mundi:
Universal Soul or Mind, 413
Life originates in, 413
one of the “four faces of Brahma,” 413
Animal(s):
why do they suffer, 238
and transmigration, 238
Karma and undeserved suffering
of, 238
almost immediately reincarnated, 239
origin of red-blooded & coldblooded, 708
Animalism, not same as “animism,” 351 fn.
Animalists:
will not prevail, 2, 141
apostles of negation, 141
invade realm of Occultists, 351-52
Animism:
as applied to Lower Races, 351 fn.
and other related terms, 351 fn. Animus, and animism, 351 fn. Answers to Correspondence, on doubles & ex-doubles, 712-13
Antaskarana:
meaning, 54, 710 destruction of, causes lunacy, 408 {{Page aside|790}}link between personal & Divine Man, 623, 632-34
between Ego and human intelligence, 624
as bridge between divine & human Egos, 631
during sleep & after death, 633
called “Path,” 633
on atrophy of, 633-634
exoteric version of, in RajaYoga, 633 fn.
premature destruction of, in exoteric Vedanta, 634
slain after Divine warrior
reaches Absolute Oneness, 634
and Lokas, 672
Manas, 697
and fate of incarnation, 710
Antichrist, idealist branded as, 48. Anu, or atom in the Kosmic trinity of Hindus, 149.
Allen, Grant (1848-1899):
on age of human race, 28-29; founded a “Christo-Theosophical Society,” 131 and “the girl of the future,” 249-55
denies women the intellect of men, 250-51
on women, 251, 254, 255-56
favored eugenics, 252 contrasted to Plato & Comte, 253-54
Anupapadaka, def. 672 fn.
Apas, and violet, color of the Astral Body, 622.
Aphorisms, Oriental, 427-76
Apollonius of Tyana (fl. 1st c. A.D.), delivers young friend from succubus, 197
Apophis: Dragon in Egyptian Ritual, 626 Dragon of second death over soulless men, 635 repelled by sacred name, 639
Apostate, Emperor Julian called, 47-48.
Apostles, modern, & missionaries, 256
Aranyakas:
holy men of the forests, 172
(182)
included Titans or Daityas, 172
(182) . . .
as antediluvian yogins, 172
(182)
Arhan, on becoming an, 505
Archangel:
Fall of, 50
of Victor Hugo the closest to reality,
50
Archons, of Athens, 16
Arhat(s):
on secret teachings Buddha
taught his, 345
noble injunction of, 419
Aristophanes (448?-340? B.C.), describes mesmeric cure, 222
Aristotle (384-322 B.c.), never initiated, 599
Arjuna, as Nara, victor over Devas, 202
Arnold, Sir Edwin (1832-1904), biography, 718-23
–The Light of Asia, q. 426, 436, 461
–The Secret of Death, q. 428, 440, 453, 469
–The Song Celestial, q. 449
Arnould, Arthur, Pres, of T.S., Paris, 300
Artephius (ca. 1130 a.d.), Clavis alchymiae, q. 53
Artificial, fecundation, 254
Arundale, Francesca (18?-1924), and “cyclostyled” copy of Ma- ha-Chohan’s letter, 240-41 fn.
Aryan:
mythology, 50
women compared to modern, 270
our, ancestors foresaw moral state of present, 386
Aryan Press (New York), organization of, & printing of E. S. Instructions, xxiii, 499.
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Aryan Theosophical Society: headquarters for movement in America, 300 tract-mailing scheme of, 300 brings suit against Sun for E. Coues charges, 375-76 new library inaugurated, 376
Aryasahga:
secret schools of, 584
on the seven worlds of man, 625
Aryashtanga Marga, or path to Buddhahood, 505
Aryavarta:
H.P.B.’s Open Letter to, 157-67 ideal of Masters reawakening in, 158
H.P.B. promises to return to, 162
elevation of women in ancient, 270
Asclepieia, healing temple of Aesculapius, 214.
Asiatic:
and testimony about T.S. revival of literature, 307 mystics, 349
Asoka (ca. 272-232 B.C.), noble injunction of King, 419.
Aspects, three, and four basic principles, 607.
Asramas:
secret, in India, have existed for thousands of years, 345 fn.
Assyrians, exoteric teaching of, about planets & their correspondences, 544 (table).
Astral:
plane, distorted, 372 entity & its formation, 609-10 vision & rays of Akasa, 678 atomic quality of, doubles, 712
Astral Body:
and projection, 328
and the Apas Tattva, 622
Astral Doubles. See Linga-sarira.
Astral Light:
not “thought substance” of Universe, 58, 371
reflects every event & thought, 58, 407
lowest element of Ether, 371 impregnates terrestrial mind of medium, 371
odic and magnetic currents of, 373
dual powers at work in, 374 imperishable waves of, 407 as linga-sarira of earth, 613 reverse reflections in, 613, 680 and Ray of Higher Ego, 710
Astrologers, mistaken, 537, 544
Astrology:
difference of exoteric, from genuine Esoteric Philosophy, 548-49 & fn. (table)
errors of Kabalistic, 550 Western, preserved knowledge of Secret Wisdom, 551
Astruc, E. A. (1831-1905), art. in Les Archives Israélites on Judaism and major religions, 27374, 723-24.
Asuras, of Purânic myths, 49.
Atavism, intensifies karmic heritage of Ego, 17.
Àtma-Buddhi:
all principles in man merge into, 54
and microbes, 660, 679
general fountain of, 679
Atman:
has no Will of its own, 32 unconditioned, 32 as Higher Self, 32 God of Man (Ego), 83 as Kosmic Soul, 149 eternal motion or breath, 356 no individual principle, 526 three Hypostases of, Diagram I and Triad, 520-521
as sphere above Buddhi, 623
Antaskarana to, 634
Vedânta & Râja-Yoga teachings on, 634
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Atom(s):
Edison on intelligence of, 134
every, a miniature universe, 134
Leibnitz on, 134
Universal Life composed of, 134, 409-413
Science on verge of comprehending, 134
as emanations from Brahma, 149
or Anu, endowed with consciousness, 149
as “supersensible beings,” 365 each, an independent entity, 365
group to form cells, 365, 368, 412
Occultism on, 365, 398 & in. 410
as related to term for Brahma, 365 fn.
psycho-spiritual units, 368 correlation of, in auric fluid, 396
ethereal element interpenetrates, 406
and Universal mind, 409, 412 as inner principles of molecules and cells, 410, 412
are not matter, 412
an immutable Entity, 412
and geometrical molecular combinations, 412
“crystallized point of divine Energy and Ideation,” 413
as manifested spiritual sparks, 413
every, concretion of crystallized Spirit, 619
physical, controlled by Adepts, 684
and molecules in their occult interrelation, 703-704
Atomic:
origin of electric and magnetic fluids, 398-99
energy & molecular motion, 398-99, 412-13
Augoeides, and Hiranyagarbha, 526.
Aum (or Om):
results of pronouncing it, 534
Pranava as synonym of, 615 protection of mysterious Name, 638-39
a sound rather than a word, 638 found in old papyri, 638 fn. misused by Brothers of Shadow, 639
meaning of its sacred letters, 639
Aura(s):
or Od, 210, 396
coruscations of, familiar to sensitives, 210
denotes state of the gunas, 396 individual, & its seventh aspect, 526, 528
a “god” visible only by its, to Chelas, 560
H.P.B. studying, of applicants, 583
psychic, & colors, 621 example about seer seeing stars in, 678
Aurelianus, Caelius (1st or 2nd c. a.d.), 222
Auric:
fluid in hypnotism, 395 fluid distinguished from light, 396
light or Od oí Reichenbach, 396 emanation of the gunas, 396 fluid & vampirism, 396
not recognized by science, 398
Auric Body:
nature of, 527-28
envelope as emanation of physical
man, 528, 563
as basic principle, 607 tanhic elementáis & gestation, 649 et seq.
envelope same as Prana, 694
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Auric Egg: functions of, defined, 608, 646-47
Microcosm within Macrocosm, 623
and Paramätman, 623
Authority, so-called, of modernday wisdom, 317-19
Authors:
new race of, springing up, 3-4 as fearless apostles of Truth, 7-8
Avatâra, Samkarâchârya as an, 346
Avichi:
no similitude to Christian hell, 622
rf. 625 fn., 626
as annihilation of personal “soul,” 633, 637 earth is, 635, 037 fn.
Myalba, a state of, 637 in terrestrial aura, 637 counterpart of Devachan, 637 fn.
avoiding declivity to , 639-40
Avidyä:
absence of knowledge, 115 and Mäyä hide true Self, 115 matrix of, 503, 640
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Baal, prophets of, 278
Babbitt, Dr. and innate ideas, 602
BahurupaBrdhmana, 169 (178) fn.
Bailly, Jean-Sylvain (1736-1793), biogr., 724-25 proclaimed mesmerism a delusion, 219, 221
Bain, Alexander (1818-1903), Mind and Body, on plurality of souls, 351 fn.
Balsamo, Giuseppe. See Cagliostro
Baphomet, of Templars related to brazen serpent, 373-74
Barbarian, banquet compared to Parisian, 96-97 (103-04)
Basilides, sources of information about, 570, 579-80
Baudelaire, Pierre Charles (1821-1867), on prostitutes, 248
Beal, Samuel (1825-1889), Catena of Chinese Buddhism, 201
“Behold the truth before you, etc.,” 591
Being, as related to mind and substance of brain, 358
Bernard, Claude (1813-1878), on living matter and life, 413
Bert, Paul (1833-1886), biogr. 725
–Catechisme laique (1883), 56
–Manual of Civic Ethics, 55 Bertillon, Alphonse (1853-1914), biogr. 725-20
—Les Races sauvages, on extermination of Tasmanians, 287-88
Besant, Annie (1847-1933):
elected President of Blavatsky
Lodge, xxiv
opposed to inviting fashionable people to T.S. meetings, 59 fn.
H.P.B. welcomes support of, 152 becomes exponent of Theosophy, 152
on Advisory Council, 264
as Secretary of “Inner Group”, 485
as joint Head of E.S., 501 fn.
Beswick, on Cagliostro, 84 fn.
Bethel, stone of Hebrews, 94 (101)
Bethlehem, Star of, 273-74
Bhagavad-Gita:
T.S. re-actified interest in, 307
text of the Pauranika eclectic school, 343 fn.
publication of Judge edition, 376
on fixing mind on Self, 671 fn.
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Bhâgavata-Purâna, Sunahsepa story & its variants, 169 fn.
(178 fn.); 726
Bhâshyâcharya, Pundit N. (1835-1889), on Buddhist literature in Adyar Library, 300, 301 fn.
Bhüta(s):
of the Srâddha ceremony, 170 (181) fn.
and Pisâchas, 201
distinguished from Pitris, 201 fn.
as elements, 667
Bhutâtman, one of Vishnu’s titles, 149
Bichat, Marie François Xavier (1771-1802), biogr., 726
–Traité, etc., on pineal gland, 618
Bigelow, Dr., and Shin-gon Buddhist sect, 301
Bigots, iconoclasts & Grundy-wor- shippers of Theosophy, 320
Binet, Alfred (1857-1911), on forces, 226
Birthday, precepts & axioms, 425-76
Black Magic:
and sexual worship, 520 and innate ideas, 602 and magicians deserting their bodies, 684
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna (1831-1891):
assumes position of Pres, of European Section, xxv
H.P.B. Press installed, xxv
Coues letter to, 26 false accusations of, 29-30 questions Masters,on semi-social events, 59-63
appoints Olcott for Asian E.S., 89
on compassion, 114
message to American T.S., 151-156
welcomes Annie Besant & Herbert Burrows to T.S., 152
Archival letter to Indian T.S. members, 156
N.D. Khandalavala’s statement on, letter to India, 156-157 never took money for Work, 161
kept alive by Master’s help, 161 on Russian Spy theory, 161-162, 163
accused of starting “rival society,” 162
and Dugpa Chela slander, 162 ingratitude towards, 163-164 asked to renounce rights at Adyar, 163-164
founding of Lucifer, 164
founds E.S., 165
comments on “Spirits” of Lava- ter, 208-211
calls spiritualistic communications “flapdoodle,” 212
knew Gen. Yermoloff’s son at Tiflis, 231
esoteric work of, not directed at profane masses, 235
quoted from Maha-Chohan’s letter, 241 fn.
becomes President for T.S. in Europe, 263, 329-330
invented neither Adept-fraternities nor “elementáis,” 301 prediction concerning gravity, 327 fn.
files suit against N.Y. Sun, 333 Russian Review and, 334-335 pen name “Radda-Bai,” 335 accused of inventing Tibetan
Brotherhood, 337 lawsuit against, withdrawn, 377 (380)
remained silent under attacks of S.P.R., 378 (380)
as sower of seeds, 501, 583 receives two letters of reproof from Masters, 582 et seq.
pledged irrevocably, 586 {{Page aside|795}}and the Coulombs, 587-588 and “papal authority,” 588 explains clauses of pledge, 589 et seq.
spirited defense of Judge, 593 et seq.
strikes Keynote of esoteric truths, 601
–Collected Writings:
ref., 240, 479, 567, 570, 621 fn. 622, 631 fn., 638 fn., 639 fn.
–From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostán, on our chief Rajput teacher, 337
–Isis Unveiled:
ref., 219, 326 fn., 337, 401, 622 fn.
on 10 Zodiacal signs, 533 fn.
on soulless men, 625 fn.
on mysterious word in old papyri, 638 fn.
–The Key to Theosophy:
ref., 64, 307, 609 fn., 626 fn.
on Solovyov’s review of, 334349
called “Catechism of NeoBuddhism,” 339
misquoted, 340
not written for Russia, 348
intended for pseudo-Christian countries, 348-349
corrects misconceptions about Theosophy and Asian mystics, 349
–The Secret Doctrine:
a scientist’s accord with, 28
on ozone, 110
great demand for, 129
cited, 139 fn., 201 fn., 202 & 203 fn.
lunar ancestors in, 203
criticism of, countered, 234-237 not intended to dovetail modern Science, 234
too premature for profane masses, 235
indexed by “Two Students of the E.S.,” 235
on Neptune, 292
on Motion as Great Breath, 355 and Isis half-conceal mysteries of occult philosophy, 622
on Vedantic exoteric enumeration, 5261 fn.
on physical senses and sacred planets, 532 fn.
on Third Eye, 545 fn.
on Esoteric school’s two departments, 546 fn.
on Angels, 558 fn.
on the seven transformations of globes, 576 fn.
on Diagram No. 3, 611 fn.
on 12 classes of “creators,” 643
on Silent Watcher, 659
–The Voice of the Silence: on Nirmanakayas, 31 written at Fontainebleau, 64 quoted, 237, 505, 633 terminology in, 633 fn., 638
fn., 640
on Pratyeka-Buddha, 659
on Turiya state, 711
Blavatsky Lodge, London: builds meeting hall, 153 rapid expansion of, 59 et seq. three hundred members in, 298
Blavatsky Theosophical Society (Washington, D.C.) : abolished color line, 23 founded by Prof. Anthony Higgins, 23
legally chartered, 26
H.P.B. defends its officers, 117-19
Blinds:
of ancient writings, 158, 664 true Raja-Yoga employs, 621-22
Blood:
inoculation of animal matter into, 227
Kama is essence of, 699 nature and function of, 699-700 red and white corpuscles of, 700
Boborikin, N., publ. of Russkoye Obozreniye, 335
{{Page aside|796}}
Bodhisattvas:
renounce Nirvana, 31
real spirits or, help humanity invisibly, 31
and Vitala, 665
Body:
physical, called “grave” in Occultism, 55
covering of inner “principles,” 368
cell as, of immaterial atoms, 368 temple of Holy Grail, 369
as Aeolian harp, 369
the Adytum, 369
human, as a vast sounding board, 370
physical, sometimes deserted by Adepts, 684
automatism of, desire and thought, 692 et seq.
and Kamic direction of molecules, 693
has its seven aspects, 694 not a Principle, but an upadhi, 694
Bohme, Jacob (1575-1624): de Saint-Martin on, 83 extremely pure mystic, 371-72
–Seven Forms of Nature, 83
–Three Principles, 83 fn.
Book of Discipline, on the rules & precepts of discipline, 590 et seq.
Book of Rules, writing of the, and role of W. Q. Judge, 482, 484
Book of the Dead, and trial of soul after death, 626
Book of the Discipline and Rules, on admission to E.S., 583
Book of the Golden Precepts, q. 591, 625
Books, of far greater importance than any man, 3
Bottini, Lorenzo Prospero: correspondence with Pietro Cal- andrini, 84-85
questions Cagliostro’s actual death, 88
Bourdois de la Motte, Edme-Joachim (1754-1835): biogr., 726 supports mesmeric phenomena,
224
Bradlaugh, Charles (1833-1891), iconoclastic school of, 296
Brahma:
chamber of, 54 swan symbol of, 105 creator in Hindu trinity, 149,
411
or anu emanates consciousness, 149
term defined, 149 fn.
identical with Mahat, 411 anima mundi as one of the “four faces” of, 413
age of, 629-30
Brahmadanda:
as Sushumna, 616
as spinal column, 701
Brahma-Jnana, also known as Vedanta, 344
Brahma-vidya:
means “Theosophy,” 344 fn., 537
one of the Veda’s names, 344 fn.
Brahman (s):
mystic drink of, 203
full-moon ceremonies of, 203-204
cleanliness of, 276
village, and their gariwalas, 291 and Upanishads, 345 fn.
sought teachings of great Kshatriya kings, 346
future, as prophesied in Pu· ranas, 387
Brahmanas:
initiation of, 701
bamboo rod carried by, 701, 702
thread of, 387
Brahmanas:
supplement Vedas, 346 ceremonialism of, 346 the “Talmud” of Hindus, 346 {{Page aside|797}}Samhitas and Upanishads, 346 fn.
Braid method, mechanical inducement of hypnotic condition, 395
Brain(s):
molecular action of, 355, 357358
Mind not limited to, 365, 411
front door of human mansion, 371
and “brain-tablets,” 406 organ of thought for Universe, 410-411
to be replaced by finer organism, 412
not the only seat of the “sensing” principle, 414
and its glandular bodies, 617 et seq.
shrinks into pasty condition at death, 617
as vehicle of Manas, 624, 635
location of, not confined to the skull, 624 fn.
as vampire of senseless halfconscious soul, 637
thought and desire, 692 the seven, 694, 697 vehicle of Lower Manas enthroned
in Kama-Rupa, 697, 699
filled with Akasa, 697, 699 ventricles and function of the, discussed, 697-98
Breath(s):
as living, 356
of Life, 356 fn.
several meanings of term, 615
practice of the Five, results in deadly injury, 622
Bridge, John Ransome, defends alchemists, 52
Bright, Jacob, probes child abuse, 287
Britain:
pagan customs in modern, 71-72
slow to adopt spiritualism, 123
British Museum [now British Library], and originals of the
Mahatma Letters, 240 fn.
“Brothers of the Shadow:” humanity under sway of, 601 reveal sometime secrets to unworthy persons, 602 impeded by the “Guardian Wall,” 602-03
Brotherhood:
silent, scattered over world, 125 of the Elect of Thought, 125 Universal, first principle of
true Theosophy, 152, 302, 306, 332, 418
held in no Utopian sense, 302, 306
and the T.S. in India, 305 innermost dream of Adept Reformers, 418
Brown-Sequard, Charles Edward (1817-1894): method of, 227 “elixir of life” of, 389 biogr. 727
Bruce, Gainsford, urges investigation of child abuse, 286
Brück, on wave of individual life and aging, 391
Bruno, Giordano (1548?-1600): martyr, 30 monument to, unveiled, 41
Büchner’s School, of atheism, 404
Buckle, H. T. (1821-1802) on Egyptian women, 270
Buddba. See Gautama Buddha
Buddhahood, not achieved in one life-time, 505
Buddhi:
or Spirit, 53
vehicle of Ätma, 417
Manas and the brain, 618 vehicle of Universal Spirit, 623 and Manas, as primordial rays of the One Flame, 629 as upädhi or vähana, 629 can only function on this plane
with Manas, 630 {{Page aside|798}}compared to the divine Root-Essence, 630
49 “cognitions” of, 667
Buddhi-Manas:
divine soul, 18
Higher Self or noetic principle, 313
the “Ancient” of Job, 313
is alone eternal, 313
the “first-born” of Alaya-Ma-hat, 313
or Christos, 313
or Spirit, 630-31, 634
Antaskarana to, 634
rapport with Atman, 634
as incarnating Divine Son, 635 gives salvation to smallest men it informs, 635
Buddhism:
as considered by a Jew, 274 defended, 274-75
in Adyar Library, 300-01
Jodo sect presentation, 300-01 purified, in Ceylon, 305
H.P.B.’s unpubl. art, on, 334
Lamaist—, 337
and Budhism, 339
not a school of Indian philosophy, 343
Anatole France’s view on, 393
Buddhist(s):
literature in Adyar Library, 300
Japanese, give Olcott Chinese version of Tripitakas, 300-01
schools in Ceylon, 305
response to T.S. in India, 305
Lamaist—, or Khe-Iangs, 337 India has few, 343 pessimism, 391
Budh (or Budhi), and Mercurios, Hermes or Thoth, govern January 4th, 76
Budhism:
secret teaching of the Buddha, 345
universal system, 345 Buffoon, court, 190-91
Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron (1803-73), q. 67, 214
–Zanoni, 214
Burke, Edmund (1729-97), on manner & civilization, 41
Burq, V. B. (1823-1884), vindicated by Charcot, but discredited by Shiff, 398
Butler, Hiram, 602
Butler, Samuel (1835-1902), on
A. R. Wallace, 317
–“The Deadlock of Darwinism,” 316 fn.
Byron, Lord George (1788-1824), on dreams, 133
–Manfred, Satan in, 48-49
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Caduceus, double serpent of, 373 Caesar, Gaius Julius (100-44
B.C.), disguised the gods of Gaul, 95 (101)
Cagliostro, Alexander, Count de (17437-1795?): name evoked both wonder & contempt, 78 et seq.
posthumous reputation as “Charlatan,” 79
Sicilian who studied under an adept, 79
patronymic, not “Balsamo,” 79-80
accused of spying for Jesuits, 80-81
persecuted and condemned by Jesuits, 81-82
relations with Masonic Lodge of Philalethes, 82-83
Vatican debates, seizure, trial and incarceration of, 85 accused as “Illuminati,” an “Enchanter,” 86
family relics and books burned, 86
Pope alters death sentence of, 87 {{Page aside|799}}in San Leo Castle of imprisonment, 87
rusty nail phenomena concerning, 87
burial uncertain, 87-88 biographical data, 727-730
–Maçonnerie Égyptienne, MS. burned by inquisition, 86 fn.
Cagliostro, Countess Lorenza:
tool of jesuits, 80
charged of heresy, 85, 87
Cain:
as incarnate protest of downtrodden individuality, 49
and Abel as applied to nations, 385
Calandrini, Pietro, correspondence on Cagliostro, 84-85
Calcutta, “Black Hole” of, 281
Calendar:
Julian, 75
ancient & Christian, 536
Caligula, Gaius Caesar, Emperor (12-14 A.D.), received gifts on
New Year’s Day, 93 (100)
Campbell, Lord, and profane discussion in public, 250
Campbell, R. Allen, Phallic Worship, 520, 737
Candler, Ida Garrison, accompanied H.P.B. to France, 64 Cannibals, less cruel than slave holders, 286
Cant:
among hypocrites & pharisees, 35
our age of, 242, 387-88
new form of hypocrisy, 277, 349, 387-88
Capital Punishment:
Dr. F. Hartmann on, 237 juryman becomes accessory in a new murder, 237-38 relic of barbarity, 238
Capricornus, the mysterious Makara, and the incarnation of Kumâras, 76
Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881): q. 33, 120, 383 perpetuated falsehood about Cagliostro, 79 on progress, 268 on the “lexicon” of eternity, 320
Carrington, “Departure of the Fairies,” 199
Castiglione, “Good Brotherhood of,” and Cagliostro, 80
Casuists, medieval, 351
Catholicism:
and its martyrs, 30
and Cagliostro, 80-87
Roman, and women, 268
Celibacy, essential for study of practical occultism, 702
Cell(s): consciousness in, 134, 141-142, 144-145, 148, 415-416 infinitesimal “monads,” 148 lymphatic, and nymphs of
Greek mythology, 148-149 nerve-, related to consciousness, 355, 357
each, endowed with consciousness, 365, 368
composition of, 368 respond to physical & spiritual impulses, 369, 410
ever-changing in brain tissues, 406
partakes in the divine organism, 410
as receivers and conveyors of past impressions, 416
every, and organ has seven components, 693
Cerebellum, corresponds with
Kama, 698, 699
Cerebral:
cortex & the Real Being, 357 and cardial centers relating to mental experience, 367 activity in memory, 368, 407 “reflectors,” 407
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Cerebrum, and cerebellum & groups of faculties, 550
Ceremony (ies), and dead-letter
ritualism of Bràhmanas, 346
Ceres-Demeter, transformation of, patroness of Eleusinia, 214
Ceylon [Lankà]:
T.S. Branches in, 299
T.S. purifies Buddhism in, 305 and Buddha’s birthday as holiday, 305
Sinhalese Buddhists in, 306
Chakras, and plexuses, 619-20 Change:
Tennyson on sweep of, 266
wear & tear of, 538
Chapman, Rev. Hugh B., on cheap religious talk, 112
Charcot, Jean Martin (1825-1893), and Richet vs. illusions of Indian jugglers, 326
Charcotism:
or animal magnetism, 214
Rev. Haweis on, 219
and experiments of Charcot at
the Salpêtrière, 295
Charlatanry, unscientific, 265
Chastity:
Tolstoy on marital, 245
mental & physical, 245
highest ideal of, ridiculed by society, 245
Chela, holds only part of knowledge gained, 618, 696
“Chela’s Daily Life Ledger,” 604
Chenrezi, 518
Chhâyâs:
earliest races of men had ethereal, or “shadows,” 130
Aeonian Evolution of, in poem of The Ring, 130
astral bodies & liiiga-sarira discussed, 705 et seq.
Chicago Tribune:
on Indian fakirism, 321 et seq.
forgery in, 594
Child, and the incarnating Monad, 619
China:
use of chopsticks in, 276-77
elementals known in, 301
Chiromancy, character analysis by, 57
Chohans. See Dhyâni-Chohans & Mahâ-Chohan
Christ, as viewed by Theosophists, 349
Christian College Magazine (Madras), slanders H.P.B., 29
Christian Science:
Mind cure & metaphysical healing, 155
rapid growth of, 155
Christianity:
vs. Churchianity, 27-28
“Kilkenny,” 27, 28
martyrs of, 30
hollow mockery of popular, 35
true, 41
mock-civilization and mock-, 44
Pagan customs in, 71-72
decay of, in American villages, 90
accepting Theosophical ideas under veiled nomenclature, 129
boasts progress of civilization, 266, 314
feudal legislation of, 267
Judean, and women, 268
and Church have oppressed
women, 271
brotherhood not practiced by, 294
has become unadulterated Pharisaism, 385
Christmas:
Pagan origin of exchanging
gifts, etc., 71
use of fruit on, trees, 94 (101)
Christos:
Higher Self, 53, 211
man becomes a, 54
or Buddhi-Manas, 635
Christo-Theosophical Society, and Christianity, 131-32
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Church:
Roman, 16, 205, 210
“Age of the, is past” . . . 20
“Christlike,” impossible in
Christian States today, 20
“grandmother,” 30
State and Society, 34-36
as un-Christian now as ever, 41 teaches that man is sinful, 46-47 regards former “gods” as “demons,” 48
Cagliostro refused to divulge occults secrets to, 80
persecution of Gnostics, 215 uncompromising conservatism of, 268
a dead body, 268
women as chief supporter of, 268, 270
on Serpent-Satan, 270 ungrateful to womanhood, 270 mistreatment of women, 271 of England and Sermon on the
Mount, 316, 317
Churchianity:
Theosophy has no sympathy for, 28
deadliest enemy of Christ’s ethics, 268
has degraded women, 269-70
Chwol’sohn, D. A. (1819-1911), Nabathean Agriculture, on Qu- ta-my evoking lunar Wisdom of Pitris, 204
Cicero, Marcus (106-43 B.C.). Tusculan Disputations, q. 133
Cienkowsky, L., Beitriige, etc., experiments with amoebas, 141-42
Cipher (or nought), symbol of absolute Deity, 77 fn.
Civilization:
and man, 34, 239-240, 393-394 “Christian,” 41, 394
progress of science and, 41, 239, 241 fn.
moral condition of, 239-240, 393 progress and, 266
laws of Christian, 266
Christianity and, 267
“Dead Sea” fruit of Christian, 278
and barbarism are relative terms, 278
ancient and modern practices of, 278
rapid, has doomed the starving masses, 311
Clairaudience, and abnormal seership, 372
Clairvoyance:
natural, of Tyndall, 32
how projected in sleep, 328
and mediumship, 372
and the Pineal Gland, 616-18, 698
psychic, and solar plexus, 701
Clean life, as first step of golden stairs, 596
Clement Alexandrinus (150?-220?):
on nature of woman, 269
and allegories of Bible, 342
on Simon Magus, 571
Clementine Literature, on Simon Magus, 572-73
Clerk-Maxwell, James (1831-1879), and retinal effect of color, 569
Collins, Mabel (1851-1927), Light on the Path, on self-righteousness, 510
Colossians, 625 fn.
Color(s):
blindness accompanied by corresponding deafness, 90
sound and numbers, 519, 535
esoteric nature of, and their correspondences, 548-549 fn.
direct emanations from the seven Hierarchies of Being, 549
and Sounds reveal types of lower gods and spirits, 560
geometrical figures and principles, 563-564
and Hierarchies, 567 {{Page aside|802}}roots of, and Sound, 568 we see are not the true ones, 569
inaudible sound, as perceptible, 620-621 of Auric Egg, 672, 686 and senses discussed, 686
Compassion, the Law of Laws stemming from Alaya, 114
Comte, Auguste (1798-1857): his “woman of the future,” 253
–Catéchisme positiviste, on artificial fecundation, 253-54
Concentration, and meditation, 603-604, 702-03
Conjuring:
by jugglers and fakirs, 321-24 and real mesmerism, 326
Consciousness:
Science on eve of discovery,
135, 138-141
is Universal, 135
Dr. Pirogoff’s investigations of, 135-136, 406-16
phenomena of, in space and
time, 140
mechanical theory of, 140-141, 354-355
German physiologists on, in the
Amoebas, 141-142
in unicellular organisms, 145 vs. molecular theories of “psycho-physiologists,” 353-355
cannot be defined by Materialists, 365
super-, 367
states of, 370, 532, 657, et seq. sensuous, of the lower mind, 407
or “senses internum,” can act through other organs than brain, 414
registers everything, 415-416
seven states of, 532
sense-, its differentiation, 691
Spiritual, and the heart, 694 et seq.
Conservation:
of energy in science & Occultism 355-57
Constantine I, Emperor (288?-337), mother of, and women’s
Karmic heritage, 268
Constantine Nikolayevich, Grand Duke (1827-1892), and Lava- ter’s Letters, 207-08
Contemporary Review, q. 268-69
Conway, Moncure D. (1832-1907), on progress of Christian civilized women, 271
Cooper-Oakley, Isabel (1854-1914):
and T.S. program, 59 fn.
on proposed “Inner Group” Committee, 479
biogr., 730-33
I Corinthians, q. 16, 202, 312, 341, 348
Corpora quadrigemina, corresponds with Kama-Manas, 698, 699
Corpuscles, nature of red & white, in blood, 699-700
Correspondences:
and affinities in theurgy, 216
of sound, color & numbers, 519, 520
and progress of student, 520 true nature of, explained, 544-45
of Tattvas & principles, etc., 614
Coryn, Dr. Herbert A. W. (1863-1927),
appointed to Advisory Council, 264
Cosmos, and Kosmos, 655-56, 677
Coues, Elliott (1842-1899):
Pres., Gnostic Theos. Society, 24
disputes formal expulsion from T.S., 24-26
scandalous article of, against Aryan T.S., xxv, 375-76
expelled from T.S., 378 (381)
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Coulombs, Emma & Alexis: conspiracy of, intended to sow strife in T.S., 160
why Adepts did not interfere in the conspiracy of, 160-61
and Master’s letter about them, 587-88
Courmes, Dominique Albert (1843-1914), biogr., 734-36
Cowl, does not make a monk, 277
Crabbe, George (1754-1832), Tales, etc., on genius, 13
Creation, dates in Jewish, 72-73
Cremation, why Catholic Church opposes, 74
Crime, produced by hypnotic suggestion, 227
Cremieux, F. (1800-1878), biogr. 736 influenced by Talmudic fanaticism, 273
Crocodiles, of Lake Pushkara, 176 (186)
Crookes, Sir William (1832-1919), on truth & accuracy, 196
Crowds, best protection against magnetism of, 535
Crystals, as talismans, 382
Crystalline, life, 134
Cult:
admixture of truth in each, 296
of Freethinkers, 296
Culture(s):
Christian civilization and, 26679
real, is spiritual, 272, 273
dances of various, 278
Custody, of Infants Bill, 283
Cybele:
personified vital essence, 214
daughter of Caelus & Terra. 214
preserved on a mountain, 214
breath of, 215, 219
Cycle(s):
close of present, 1
of 46 & 49 Fires, 54
life—, 58
swan symbol of avataric, 105, 106
of Spiritualism in 19th century, 122, 128-29
occult working of the, 125
mysticism and present, 129
small dark, overlaps the great (1897), 602
and appearance of messengers, 120
and pioneers of modern Theosophy, 123
and spiritual “flood,” 124-25
Czar, H.P.B. gave up allegiance to, 334
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Dactyls, Phrygian priests & magnetic healers, 214
Daityas race of giants & demons, 172 (182)
Damien, Father (1840-1889), Sister Rose Gertrude compared to, 112, 114
Dance:
ancient, of Bacchantes compared to modern ballroom, 278
circle, of modern priestesses of Terpsichore, 278
Daniel, on Jahva, 313
Danse macabre, in travesty of life, 75-76
Darsanas, Schools of Indian philosophy, 343 fn.
Darwin, Charles (1809-1882):
biology of, 219
knell of, 316
Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802),
Zoonomia, definition of idea in, 352 fn.
Davidson, Joshua:
persecuted Communard, 35
Christ-like sketch from real life, 35-36
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Days, division of, in four parts, 535-36
Deafness, related to color blindness, 90
Death:
fear of, and Theosophy, 70
Christian & Jewish approach to, 73
secret of, 428
of selfishness & sin, 599
resulting from Pranayama, 622 real, a limited perception of life, 625
St. Paul on, 625
and immortality, 625
second, soulless men, 625-26, 628
Deism, taught by Dvaita, 344 fn.
Deity, pseudo-science & extra-cosmic, 124
Deleuze, J. P. F. (1753-1835), and mesmerism, 223
Demonology, ancient statutes of European, 191 fn.
Demons, commerce with, 190-91
Desire:
subsequent to thought, 692
and Will essentially the same, 702
Deslon, Charles (?-1786), attests to mesmerism, 218
Deus est daemon inversus, 603
Devachan:
cycle of, 54
Egos of living men may ascend to, 125 fn.
and the Ego, 608-609
as spiritual gestation, 609
mental state, 627
highest bliss in, 627
Christian “Paradise” borrowed from the Egyptian Mysteries, 627
“eclipsed” soul cannot enter, 632
Ego in state of, may be localized anywhere, 678
still an illusion, 691
Devachanls:
cannot descend to our plane, 31
Egos ascend to, in genuine Spiritualistic phenomena, 125 fn.
Devakcha, Divine Eye or Pineal Gland, 619
Devas:
gods & men, 202
Arjuna & Deva-yonis, 202
great varieties of, 203
not our lunar ancestors, 203
“years of the,” 386
Deva-yonis, lower elementáis, 202 Devil:
is matter informed by Kama bereft of soul, 637
as doomed Lower Ego, 637
Devotion, to truth, 236
Devourers, white corpuscles in blood, 700
Dhyani-Buddhas, and Atala, 665
Dhyani-Chohans:
angels or “Living Ones,” 200
“men of a superior kind,” 200 from preceding Manvantaras, 204-05
modus operandi of, 209
same as Aeons, 553
and our principles, 561
classes of, 643 et seq.
Hierarchies of, & Talas, 667
Diagram I, on relation of Macrocosm to Microcosm, explained, 526, 542, 600
Diagram II:
on relation of planets, weekdays, colors & metals, 536-37
explained, 543, 550, 562
Diagram III, on colors & principles, 568
Diagram IV, on states of consciousness, defined & discussed, 657 et seq.
Diagram V:
explanation of, 668 et seq., 680 et seq.
no contradictions in, 681-82
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Diagrams, plates & figures must not be materialized, 600, 678
Dialectical Society (London), gave “M. A. Oxon.” idea for an S.P.R. Society, 294 fn.
Diaus:
god of day & light, 92 (98)
became Dianus (Diana), 92 (99)
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870): born a century too early or late, 6
on Paris & village folk, 272
Differentiation, planes of, 629
Diocesan Conference, on uncharitableness, 27
Diodorus Siculus (fl. 1st c. B.c.), on therapeutic cures in Egypt, 222
Dion Cassius (ca 155-?a.d.), on names of week-days, 535
Disciple(s):
see Teacher as parent, 502, 503
and co-discipleship, 502 true, defends Theosophy, etc., 502-03
Golden Stairs of, 503
Discipline, Esoteric & H.P.B.’s failure at demanding it, 568 et seq.
Discrimination, in unicellular organisms, 145, 146
Diseases:
faith-healing and, 402-03 most, as fruit of our imagination, 403
Disraeli, Isaac (1766-1848), biogr. 737
–Curiosities of Literature, on Queen Bess’ wardrobe, 72
Distiller, Tolstoy’s story about, 10
Divine:
genius as manifestation of, Ego, 15
wisdom not for the unworthy, 15, 314
soul or Buddhi-Manas, 18, 313
Ego and early Christian era, 314
Wisdom or Sapientia, 315
as witness, 640
Dogma:
disdain of, 272
as mental and moral slavery, 272
Dolma, the two virgins & Padmapâni, 518
Donaldson:
Principal of Univ, of St. Andrews, 268
on degradation of woman by Church, 268-69
Dostoyevsky, F. M. (1821-1881): world needs a, 6-7 awakened true spirit of society, 7
Doubles, and ex-doubles, 712-13
Draper, Wm. (1811-1882), Intellectual Development of Europe, q. 271
Dravya, as eternal substance, 631
Dreams:
ascent to Devachanic plane in, 125 fn.
lower Manas asleep in sense, 693
and spiritual consciousness, 696
Drink:
demon of, afflicting Russia, 1013
universal incubus, 10
Drugs:
use of, prohibited by E.S., 496, 685
pernicious action on brain, 496
Druids, and pagan customs in Britain, 72
Dryden, John (1631-1700),
Fables, etc., quoting Ovid, 457
Dugpa:
renounces sexual intercourse, 191 fn.
new moon rites of, 204
Dumas, Alexander (1802-1870), Mémoires d’un Médecin, 84
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Dupotet, Baron J. (1796-1881): founded Journal du Magnétisme, 220 fn.
scientific reputation of, 222 most illustrious disciple of Mesmer, 223
Honorary Fellow of the T.S., 223 fn.
adept of Mesmerism in H.P.B.’s time, 224 fn.
French court admits clairvoyant tracking of murderer via, 224
French academy finally admits phenomena of, 224 last years of, 224-225 describes magnetic healing, 225
Dvaita:
dualism sect founded by Mà- dhavâchàrya, 343-44 fn.
teaches pure Deism, 344 fn. not pantheistic, 344 fn.
“Dweller on the Threshold,” as Kâma-Mânasic spook, 636
Dzyan, antediluvian spirit of, 27
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Earth, the worst Avichi possible, 635
East, spiritual hunger for the, 308 Eastern School of Theosophy. See Esoteric Section.
Edge, Dr. Henry Travers (1867-1946), personal pupil of H.P.B., 499; biogr., 738-46
Edison, Thomas Alva (1847-1931): a Theosophist, 130 believed atoms possess intelligence, 130
criticized as dreamer, 133
Edkins, Joseph (1823-1905), on secret schools in Orient, 345-46
Effluvia, spook-creating, 61
Effort, no, ever lost, 60
Egg, mundane, 521. See Auric Egg.
Eglinton, William (1857-1933), and emerging Chhaya, 705
Ego(s):
All, same in essence, 15 performing artist on physical man, 15
divine, or celestial exile, 17 antecedent experiences of, 17 or Manas, 58
Dr. Pirogoff’s belief in, as “embodiment of a common Universal Mind,” 137, 414-415
Reincarnating, 156, 414-415 terra incognita to science, 227, 232
omniscience of the Immortal, 232
Higher, see entire life-span of personality, 232
“personal” and “impersonal,” 353
the voluntary “sacrificial victim,” 358 fn., 635
lower, & its electro-vital field, 370
shares immortality if united to divine parent, 374
Divine, cut off in lunacy, 408
Duality of man’s 415
Spiritual, and Aum, 520 as Manasaputra, 607 fn. and Devachan, 608-609 divine, 623-624 & fn., 629-630 as a “pure flame,” 624 fn., 629 inexhaustible essence of, 624 & fn.
as Christos and Atman (God), 625
Higher, and its Alter Egos, 627, 630
metaphysical death of Higher, 628
Divine, purified by suffering, 630
as Tree of Life, 630
as fifth principle, 630 {{Page aside|807}}
also seventh, as non-human principle, 630
re-become one in Devachan, 631
Eastern parable of the divine, 632
Divine, and Apophis, 635
seeking refuge in Alaya, 630
Nirvanic interlude of the Divine, 636
reimbodying, and its ray-point, 651-652
relation of Higher & Lower, 709 et seq.
sometimes affected by Astral double of former incarnation, 712-713
Egoism, of personal “I-creating” faculty, 631
Egyptian:
Aryan and, woman compared to modern, 270
ancient Ritual, 626
Egyptian Rite, and Cagliostro, 82-83
Eidolon, 610
Eiffel Tower, and pyramid of Ghizeh, 310
Eight:
dreaded ogdoad, 68 & fn.
postulates equality among men, 68
symbolism of, 68 & fn.
and Cabiri, 68 fn.
principles of Egyptians & Phoenicians, 68 fn.
symbol of Lower Self, 68
Eighteen hundred eighty-nine, events of, recapitulated, 76
Eighteen hundred ninety:
prospects for, 67 et seq., 91 (97)
meaning of number combination of, 68-69
occult future of, 69, 77
fatal year of, 77
compared to Roman Empire age, 95-97 (102-04)
cyclic swan of, 106
mephitic passing of, 383 et seq.
Eighteen hundred ninety-seven, closing cycle of, 1
Eighth Sphere, and moon in Esoteric Buddhism as blinds, 622
Eitel, Ernest J. (1838-1908), on secret schools in Orient, 345-46
Elect:
“Heart” alone can transmute the, 236
the “World’s,” 317-19
Electric:
“lighting craze,” 77, 111
and magnetic fluids, 398
Electricity:
not energy but ether, 265
Lodge’s text on, appropriates occult ideas, 265
heat, light and, as illusions, 359 and magnetism, 398-99
energy of, can transfer to another plane of action, 399
work of mental, upon surrounding matter, 619
Electrobiology, ignorant of Fohat, 146
Electrometer, cannot show fluids of higher plane, 399
Elementals:
on those who “beard” the, 61
kyriology of these semi-divine creatures, 187
appellations in the Puranas, 187
Neo-Platonic & Pagan belief in, 187
Church Fathers on, 188
the “spirits” of “Summerland,” 188, 190-197
satirized, 189
Sylphs, Undines, Gnomes & Salamanders, 190
commerce with, 190-191, 197198, 203
the Deva-yonis of the Hindus, 202 {{Page aside|808}}known in Orient for centuries, 301
and crowds, 535 or Demons in Gnosis, 560 Täntric, 609-10, 649 el seq., 704, 708 highest, and Rasätala, 666, 684 and präkritic consciousness, 679 some, are dangerous to man, 684, 685 present pictures in meditation, 693
Element(s):
atomic structure of, endowed with consciousness, 149
as emanations of superior deity in Hinduism, 149
Elementaries, genii, demons, lares confused with “spirits,” 197
Elephant, worship of, in India, 382
Eleusinian Mysteries, Ceres-Demeter as patroness of, 214
“Elixir of Life”: as real ozone, 110 as Cyelë, 214 and Brown-Séquard, 389 as ultimate essence of everything, 603
Elliotson, Dr. John (1791-1868): founder of Mesmeric Hospital, 224 denounced for oration on mesmerism, 224
Ellmore, Fred. S., report of, on Indian fakirs, etc., 321-26
Elpay:
“Scientific Letters” of, 358
on physico-biologists & psychic reality, 361
Elphinstone, Mountstuart (1779-1859), biogr., 746
–The History of India:
on Vedanta, 344 fn.
on spirit of Upanishads, 346 fn.
Emanations:
every crowd has. 61
in Simon Magus’ teachings, 553 et seq.
from the one identical principle, 570
Embryology:
and the seven parts of embryo; 522-23
human, compared to cosmic process, 523-24
and foetal circulation, 557 fn.
Empedocles (fl, ca. 444 b.c.), influence of Eastern philosophy in 347
Empiricism, of science, 414
Enchantment, fascination & glamor in hypnotism, 395-96
En-Dor, “wise woman” of, 312
Endosmosis:
transmission of vital aura in healing, 396
physiologist quoted on, 144-45, 146
shows discrimination of cells, 145-46
chemical laws cannot explain, 146
Energy, conservation of, & psychic activity, 355
Engelmann, Th. W. (1843-1909): experiments on Arcellae, 142-43 admits some “psychic process” in protoplasm, 143
–Beitrage, etc., 142 fn., 143
England:
export of slaves from, 267 fn. hypocritical cant of, 279-88, 290
T.S. in, 298
cost of justice in, 387
on freedom of speech & press in, 387
reluctant to recognize foreign merit, 405
Enthusiasm, can lead to credulity, 196
Entity: man a double-faced, 369 as divine propeller, 369 the “sensing principle” as an, 414
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Epidemics, history & dispersal of, 107-08
Epinoia, or Divine Thought, 558-59, 570
Epiphanius, St. (ca. 315-402), on Simon Magus, 572
Epiphany, Christian celebration of, 72
Epoch(s). See Age(s)
Epoptai, and Mystai, 532
Esoteric:
teachings not meant for world at large, 235
Sciences, 311
“so-called,” 350 & fn.
cosmogony, anthropology, metaphysics,
etc., 350
nothing published is really, 542 discipline, defined and discussed
at length, 584 et seq.
Keynote of, truths, 601 unveiled, truths will never be given out in public print, 604 Esoteric Catechism, on That, 525
Esoteric Science:
first requisites of, 519 as knowledge of our relations
with & in divine magic, 551
Esoteric Section (or Eastern School of Theosophy):
Col. Olcott is T.S. repr. of, in
Asia, 89
London activities of, 89 requirements for admission, 89 H.P.B. founded the, 165 Pledge, 166
preliminary papers drawn up in
London, 479
Circular “By Master’s Direction,” 480 fn.
The Book of Rules, 482, 484, 494-98
no official connection with T.S., 481, 485
probationary degree, 488
real Head of the, 488 concerns study of Râja-Yoga, 488
as attempt to redeem the T.S., 491
not for purpose of learning “magic arts,” 491
not concerned with psychic progress, business or personal affairs, 495
outer form of an Inner School, 511
two departments of, 546
treachery in, 581 et seq.
motto of, 599
Suggestion and Aids, 485 fn.
Esotericism, sun-orb of, 308
Esotericists. shortcomings & weaknesses of, 597-98
Essence:
or arcana of things & practical Initiate, 602
Universal, one and the same everywhere, 603
omnipresent in countless differentiations, 629
Buddhi as vehicle of, 629
Eternal, within we are, 156
Ether, of Space & Akasa, 408
Ethereal:
“Powers” in Milton’s poem, 350
element recognized by Pirogov, 406
impervious to organic changes, 406
Eternity, lexicon of, 320
Europe:
T.S. work in, 306, 329-32
emigration from, foreseen, 387
European Section, T.S.:
H.P.B. accepts presidency of, 263, 329
Col. Olcott’s letter to, 330
Organizations of, 330-31
Eusebius, P. (ca. 260-ca. 340),
Hist. Eccles., on Menander, 559
Eve, if, had not listened to serpent, 270
Events, forcing the current of, 60
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Evil:
root of, 6
good and, & angel “Liberty,” 50
“sublime paternity” of, 50
Buddha & Christ on, 393 coeval with matter rent from spirit, 637
spiritual, 638
“Evil eye,” unconscious greeting of an, 67
Evolution, zoological, 56
Exodus:
quoted, 199-200 fn.
on seeing the Voices, 545
Exosmosic, and endosmosic processes, 396
Exoteric, and Esoteric requirements of Theosophy, 235
Eye:
vital functions of, unknown to physiology, 147
Doctrine, 236
most occult organ of all, 395
direct gaze of, in hypnosis, 397 Third, deep sleep & the heart, 696
Eyraeneus Philaletha Cosmopolita (fl. ca. 1660), biogr., 746-47
–Secrets Revealed, etc., q. 52
–Commentary, etc., 53
Ezekiel’s Wheel, 568
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Fa, as keynote & Nädis, 616
Fact, tribunal of, 221
Fairies, disarm science through spiritualism, 199
Faith:
healing & imagination, 403
Paracelsus on, in magic, 403
and intuition, 407
Fakirs:
Ellmore on Indian, 321-22
phenomena, 322-24 not jugglers, 325
are Yogis or Moslem devotees, 325
“Father,” in Heaven & personal God idea, 533-34
Fatigue, reason for, 703-04
Fauns, and Satyrs of “Summerland,” 194 fn.
Fecundation, Grant Allen on artificial, 250-54
Feliciani, Lorenza. See Cagliostro, Countess
Félix, Father, Le Mystère et la Science, challenging science, 135
Feltham, Owen (1602-1668), q. 383; biogr. 747
Fénelon, François de Salignac (1651-1715), as “Swan of Cambrai,” 105
Fielding, Henry (1707-1754), q. 22
Figuaniere, Vicomte de: on Unmanifested Being, 119 on gravitation & will, 119
Fire(s) :
Heavenly, 54
cycle of 46 & 49, symbolical, 54
of Alaya, 55
in Simon Magus, 552-53
as Principle of everything, 554 the 49, 613, 693
Firmament, and crystalline, 544
Five Years of Theosophy: “Elixir of Life” article, 202 fn. story of Nahusa in, 202 fn. on Mineral Monad, 567 fn.
Flowers, and minerals can pass through solids, 328
Fludd, Robert (1574-1637), healed with magnets, 216
Fluids:
“electric,” discredited, 398 molecular motion and, 398 magnetic or electric, & atomic energy, 398-99
Fohat: and its too active progeny, 111 explains electrobiology, 146 {{Page aside|811}}sons of, & personified forces, 620 and Saktis, 620 energy of, in blood, 700
Fontainebleau, H.P.B. in, 64
Fools, or buffoons, 190-91, 262
Force(s):
Nature’s Finer, 356-60 correlation of, 360, 413 psychic, & faculties, 360-62 psycho-molecular, 368 noëtic, or spiritual-dynamical, 368
Life—, 410, 412-13 creative, at work, 550 seven, in nature, 610 the 49, 620 and states of consciousness, 657 et seq.
Foresight, faculty denied in this dark cycle, 69-70
Forgiveness, Luke on, 392
Fork, as “weapon” adopted in Europe, 277
Fouquier, P.-É. (1776-7850), attests to mesmerism, 224; biogr. 747
Framji Cowasji Institute, first Bombay T.S. Convention at, 305
France:
swept by spiritual tide from America, 123
table manners in Bourbon, 275 hypnotism investigation in, 295
France, Anatole (1844-1924), on Buddhism, 393
Franck, A. (1809-1893), wrote to
Les Archives Israélites, 273
Frankenstein, monster & “Dweller on the Threshold,” 637
Franklin, Alfred (1830-1917), La
Vie privée, etc., on French etiquette, and cutlery, 275-77; biogr. 747
Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790), investigates mesmerism, 218-19
Freedom:
restoring reign of, 52
as angel “Liberty,” 52
of speech in England & America, 388
Freethinkers, Col. Ingersoll, Chas. Bradlaugh & Annie Besant, 296
Free Will:
Science on, 357-02
necessitates a “Free-Wilier,”
362
of cells, 365
French Academy:
skepticism in, 120
denounces mesmerism, 217-19
acknowledges mesmerism, 224
Future:
rises from the past, 70
womb of the, 77
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Galatians, 342
Galen (ca. 130-200 a.d.), mentions hypnotic cures in ancient Memphis, 222
Galton, Francis (1822-1911), eugenic practices of, 252; biogr. 748
–Nature and Nurture, on color & sound, 549, 621
Gandha-Devas, and Patala, 666
Gardener, Helen H.:
on women in N.T., 269
on pagan law on wife’s equality, 271
Gariwala, bullock cart drivers, 290-91
Gaul, gods of, & Caesar, 95 (101-102)
Gautama Buddha: symbolism of his lotus seat, 168 (178) and Christ uttered truths, 392-93 on harmlessness, 392 {{Page aside|812}} and Western temperament, 393 how led to Buddhaship, 389-90 and Buddhahood, 505
Gems, and crystals as amulets, 382
Generative Organs:
navel, liver & stomach, 699
none at end of Sixth & Seventh Races, 700
spinal cord puts into communication the brain and the, 702
Genesis:
on stone “Bethel,” 94 (101), 391
full of allegories, 342
on nephesh, 364
Old Serpent of, 373
on “breath of life,” 545
first three ch. occult, 556
Genius:
appearance of, and cause, 13-14 neither Divine gift nor accident, 14
as tutelar deity, 14
Egos of, compared to idiots or fools, 15
the light of the real, Inner man, 15
and Karma, 15
as blooming of Ego, 17
sui generis, 17-18
fate of artificial, 18
light of Manasaputras, 18
true, cannot die, 19
rare in our historical cycle, 20 every man a vehicle for, 21 proves immortal Ego, 22
Geometrical, figures, colors & principles (table), 563-64
Gerzen, A. A. See Herzen.
Gestation, functions of auric egg in, 649 et seq.
Gihier, Dr. Paul, on inertness of matter, 413
Gichtel, John G. (1638-1710), occult phraseology of, 83; biogr. 748
Girton, and paedopoietics, 250 Glamor:
in conjurers’ illusions, 326
not supernatural, 326-27
influences hypnotism, 395-96
Gnomes:
and Salamanders, 190, 192
ceased to be mortal if exposed to humans, 192
Gnosis:
in the Book of the Dead, 626
and Tree of Life, 630
Gnostic Theosophical Society, false claims exposed, 25-26
Gnosticism:
spiritualism & revival of occult, 123
persecution of, 215
influenced by Eastern philosophy, 347 fn.
Hyle of, 374
God:
denial of, & materialism, 124
mental slavery to personal, 124 as petty tailor, 200 & fn.
exZra-Kosmic, is absurd, 200
incorporeal principle, 200
personal, as a term, 534
no personal, in esotericism, 569
Goddess, of Moisture & ancient
nymphs, 149
Gods:
allowed gifts from mortals, 94 (100-101)
and goddesses of Hindus, Greeks and Latins compared, 149
“superstitions” related to, 149
elements as emanations from
minor, and goddesses, 149
Monads and Atoms, 200-201
key to Hindu, 201
Devas and men, 202
mystic gems or “tears of the,” 382
and the one Divinity, 569
various classes of, 643 et seq.
Goethe, Johann (1749-1832):
Mephisto of, 48-49, 405
“The Great Kophta” of, 79
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Golden Legend, gods of Julian as saints in, 102
Golden Stairs, of discipleship, 503, 591
Good: “sublime paternity” of, & evil, 50 deeds as well as bad intensified in pledged disciples, 503
Goonib: last stronghold of Circassians, 230 fn. and Yermolov’s monument, 230 fn.
Gougenot des Mousseaux, H. R. (1805-1878), Les Hauts Phénomènes, etc., 135 fn.
–Moeurs et pratiques des demons, 270 fn.
Grabianca, Count, and Cagliostro, 84 fn.
Gossip, and slander, 494
Gravitation:
and will, 119
other force than, suspected, 327 fn.
“Great Breath,” or Universal Deity, 139
“Great Tone,” or Kung, 550
Grébaut, Eugène (1846-1915), Papyrus Orbinay, 570, 748
Greding, J. E. (1718-1775), Adversaria, etc., on pineal gland, 619, 748-49
Greek, philosophy & Plotinus, 347
Green, Thomas, on Mead’s revision of E.S. material, 500
Gregory, Pope, transformed pagan gods into saints, 95 (102)
Gregory Thaumaturgus(ca. 213-ca. 270), on purity of women, 269
Grundy, Mrs., 241, 320
“Guardian Wall,” human stones of, 603
Guersant, Paul-Louis-Benoit (1800-1869), supports French Academy on mesmerism, 224; biog., 749
Gunas: auric light shows state of the, 396 discussed, 540-41
Günz, J. G. (1714-1754), Pro- lusio, etc., on pineal gland, 619, 749
Gupta Mâyâ: secret illusion & fakirs, 321 practiced by conjurers in India, 320
Gupta-Vidyâ: or esoteric knowledge, 149 unravels mysteries of superstitions, 149 secret science, 346
compared to scientific guesswork, 351
Guru: as adjuster, 496 as chela’s benefactor, 593
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Haeckel, Ernst (1834-1919), and Haeckelians, 219
Hall, Fitzedward (1825-1901), and Vishnu-Purana, 386-87
Hallam,’H. H. (1777-1859), View of the State, etc., 267 fn.
Hamilton, Sir Wm. (1788-1856), on term “empirical,” 414
Hargrove, E. T. (?-1939): and Judge’s draft of Book of Rules, 483 on Mead’s explanation of revision, 500
Harischandra, in legend, 169 (179)
Harmonic Societies, and therapeutic magnetism, 223
Harmony:
essence of eternal, 49
in motion, 119
nature of Divine, 409
the law of life, 450
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Harper s Magazine:
q. Edison on atom, 130
Mrs. Parsons Lathrop’s account, 133
Harris, Thomas Lake (1823-1906): community of spiritualists, 194 poem on “Womanhood” by, 259-60 “affinity” theories of, 260 biogr., 749-50
Hartmann, Dr. Franz (1838-1912), on capital punishment, 237
Hate:
cannot smother divine love, 50
of Spirit creates soulless humanity, 124
Hatha-Yoga: practices of, warned against, 604 fn., 613 difference between, and Raja-Yoga, 615, 616 and celibacy, 702
Haweis, Rev.: on Charcot, 219 on Mesmer, etc., 221-22 on scientific ingratitude, 221-22 on rediscovery of occult sciences, 222-23
Head(s):
as symbol, 69
and “Heart” involved in capital punishment, 237-38
psycho-intellectual man dwells in 694, 695
Healing:
misuse to gain livelihood, 155
when becomes black magic, 155 faith, 402-03
imagination in, 403
Heart:
chamber of Brahma, 54
Doctrine, 236
organ for Higher Ego, 370
organ of spiritual consciousness, 694 et seq.
represent Higher Triad, 694 the only manifested God, 695 Purusha in the, 696
Heat, light & electricity, 359
Heathenism, 40, 314
Heaven:
conventional, & Hell, 70
of a Theosophist, 71 doorkeeper of, 77 (93)
Helena:
of Simon Magus, occult meaning of, 557
as Sakti of inner man, 559
Hell, no other, than earth-life, 637 fn.
Helmont, Jean B. van (1577- 1644), on the hand in disease, 223: biogr., 750-51
Heretics, diabolical cruelty to, 75
Hermaphrodite, or androgyne humanity at end of 5th Round, 545, 700
Hermes, included in Roman Catholic calendar, 76 fn.
Hermes Trismegistus, Books of, 15, 345
“Hermès,” T.S. of Paris, 300
Hero worship, 16, 17
Herschel, Sir John F. W. (1792- 1871), on truth, 196, 293
Herzen, A. A. (1839-1906), General physiology of the Soul, on psychic action vs. free will, 354, 357-60; biogr., 751
Hierarchies:
of Beings, 410
and origin of human principles, 549
and sevenfold gradation of Rays, 567
seven, & their sub-divisions, 568-569 (table)
Hierophants, all ancient nations had, 15, 215
Higgins, Anthony, founded Blavatsky Theos. Society, 23
Higher Ego, the immortal entity, 409
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Higher Manas:
corresponds to indigo color, 53
soul, 53
mind of Ego, 367
Higher Self:
Christos or Krishna, 53
Atma-Buddhi, the, 54
radiance of, in Man, 54, 313
the “God” dwelling in man, 82, 313
real pledge is to, 166
and the Mahatmic aspect, 166
and its Astral Prophet, 233
an integral part of Universe, 313, 367
as the noetic Principle at one with Buddhi, 313
or Ego, cannot act directly on the body, 366-367
essence and omniscience of the, 367
as divine Witness to pledge, 503 harmony with the, 505 invocation to the, 506-507 betrayal of the, 507
connected with the Monad, 507
is “Aum,” 639
cannot be invoked with impunity, 640
association with the, intensifies both good & evil, 640
Hillel, acknowledged allegories in Bible, 342
Hindu (s):
festival of Siva by, Yogis, 94
(101)
accused of personifying bodily organs, 143-144
superstitions compared to modern scientific “facts,” 144, 145
Trinity, meaning, 149 & fn.
Pantheon, 149
customs and cleanliness, 276
six systems of philosophy, or Darsanas, 343
Pantheistic speculation of, and Eastern philosophy, 347 fn. endow cells with consciousness, 365
Hippolitus Romanus (3rd c. a.d.), biogr., 751
–PhUosophumena: on Simon Magus, 552 et seq. data about, 573
Hiranyagarbha:
“golden egg” of Brahma, or celestial lotus, 168 (177), 521, 607
as luminous egg, 526 & fn.
and Augoeides, 526
Hirsh, August (1817-1894), on influenza, 108
Hofmeister, F. (1808-1878), Untersuhungen, etc., on cellular absorption, 146; biogr., 751
Hokhmâh, Hebrew equivalent to wisdom, 311
Holden, Prof., and matter of nebulae, 327 fn.
Hope, without action is barren, 383
Houen, vitality of the ghost, 201 fn.
Hubilkhans, and Hutuktus, as “incarnations,” 337
Hue, Abbé É. R. (1813-1860), 337
Huen, Chinese female spirit, 192 fn.
Hugo, Victor (1802-1885), on mysteries of the world, 116
–La Fin de Satan, quoted & discussed, 46-50
Humanity: aspirations of poor, suffering, 4-5
the last terrestrial offspring of the “First-Born,” 49
Asuras hurled to earth when defeated by the Gods, 49 Love for, is Satan’s divine spark, 51
every man a component of, 60 “soulless,” 124 {{Page aside|816}}H.P.B. urges work for, 156 the “Great Orphan,” 308 hermaphrodite at end of Fifth Round, 700
Hume, Allan Octavian (1829-1912), unfounded pride in science, 241 fn.
Humility, taught by Buddha & Christ, 392
Hutuktus, and Hubilkhans, as “incarnations,” 337
Hyle, of Gnostics, 374
Hymn to Amon-Ra, 510
Hypathia (killed 415 a.d.), 30
Hyper-physics, 542
Hypnotism:
modern term for animal and Therapeutic magnetism, 214, 219-220, 222
Ben. Franklin investigates, 218 et seq
physicians and, 219, 222 branch of mesmerism, 219-220, 395
explanation of, 220, 394-396, 397-403
“Psychopathic Massage” appropriated from Mesmer, 221-222
paralyzes free will of subject, 222, 400-401
Investigations in Paris, 295 difference of mesmerism and, 326, 394-3961 scientific explanation lacking for, 394, 399
as form of “fascination” and “enchantment,” 394, 395-396, 399
Braid method of inducing, 395 when induced by “suggestion,” 395-396
use of “will-vibrations” in, 395-396
black magic in, 397
and metallotherapy generate rapid molecular oscillations, 399
nervous system in, 399-400 cerebral and nervous centers involved
in, 400-401 difference between direct & mechanically induced, 400 two conditions requisite in, 400-401
motion & will in, 400-01
the operator’s will in, 401, 402
on curing diseases by, 401 motive of operator in, 402 key to, and magnetism, 568 why opposed, 685
Hypocrites, 280 et seq.
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lamblichus (225?-ca. 333 a.d.), De mysteriis, etc., on Magic & Theurgy, 559-60, 751
Ida, Sushumna & Pingala, 616, 701-02
Idealism, Carlyle quoted on, 33
Ideals: decay of, 34-43 spirtual regenerators of, 43 perfection of, as man progresses, prophetic vision of departing, 48 world—will never die out, 122
Ideas, innate, as vibrations of primitive truths, 602
Ideation, Divine, as Word, 611
Idiots:
not soulless, 364
consciousness of, on astral instinctual
plane, 662, 679
Ilangakoon, Mrs. Dias, donated Pali version of Tripitakas to Adyar Library, 300
Illusion:
or Maya, 58
of the “I” and “not I,” 411
Imagination: “scientific,” 133, 134 {{Page aside|817}}places man above brutes, 133-34 faith and, 403
involved in magic & healing, 403
Immortality:
proved in spiritualism, 122, 124-25
personal, is conditional, 622, 632
of gods during Mahámanvantara, 629
Impersonality, positive strength needed for, 508
Impressions, physical, psychic or mental, 370
Inanimate, nature, 139, 140
Incantations, through simulacrum is black magic, 32
Incarnations, or Kumáras under Sign of Capricornus or Makara, 76
Incubus:
and succubus, 194 & fn.
on corporeity of, 194 fn.
dark, of iniquity, 204
from dark side of moon, 204
India:
on H.P.B.’s Open Letter to, 156157
Bertram Keightley carries
H.P.B.’s Open Letter to, 157 or Áryávarta compared to West, 157-158
lacking courage to avow its belief in Masters, 158
Master’s influence seen in, 159
and “elementáis,” 301
golden web of brotherhood in, 305
fakirs at Gaya, 321-324
Simla, etc., 321-324
Buddhism not regarded as a school in, 343
secret Asramas of, 345 fn.
Indian(s):
revolting treatment of native, by whites, 285
literary centers of, 306 six systems of, philosophy, 343 See also Amerindians
Indian National Congress: and patriotism related to advent of T.S., 304 modelled upon T.S. lines, 305
Individuality:
vs. personality, 353, 357, 366, 415
man as manasic & not psychic. 357
divine ego, 415
Inertia, Figuaniere on, 119
Indriyas, centers of sensation, 661
Infant(s):
Custody Bill, 283
and fakir’s illusion, 323
Infinity, abyss between, & the absolute, 342
Influenza:
levels European royalty, 106
causes of, unknown, 107, 108-09, 110
Zedekauer on its tie with cholera, 107
epidemic nature of, 109
cosmical source of, 109 ozone in relation to, 109-10
Ingersoll, Col. Robert Green (1833-1899), iconoclastic influence of, 296
Ingratitude, crime in occultism, 593
Initiate(s):
ancient nations had, 15
Paul as an, 15-16 secret language of, 16 practical, & arcana of things, 602
“Inner Group:”
petition of London Lodge, 479 attempt through Subba Row & Damodar, 479
appeal of W. Q. Judge for an, 479
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Inoculation, Brown-Sequard method of, 227
Inquisition:
and modern civilization, 41
abolished, 41, 75
burning of heretics, 73-74
Vatican archives on, 74 on predestination and “damned,”74-75
Instruction No. III:
Keightley on revision of, 500501
and restored omissions, 501
Preliminary Memorandum to, 501-11
Instructions, Compiler’s Note on later, 653
Intellectuality, not genius, 19-20
Intelligible, of Plato, 553
Intra-Mercurial, planet became invisible at close of 3rd RootRace, 549 fn.
Intuition:
divine, 407
compared to faith, 407 developing faculty of, 492-93, 495
Ireland, and slave-trade, 267 fn.
Irenaeus (1307-202?), biogr., 752
–Adversus Haereses: on Menander,557 on Simon Magus, 571
Isis: patroness of Lutetia, 75, 96 (103) baptized “Geneviève” by Christendom, 75 Egyptian virgin-mother, 96 (103)
Islamism, compared with Judaism, 274
Itard, Jean-Marie-Gaspard (1775-1858), affirmed belief in mesmerism, 224; biogr. 752
Iyer, S. Ramaswami, to receive “Inner Group” teachings for London Lodge, 479
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Jacob: bargained with God, 94(100) life of pilgrimage of, 391
Jacolliot, Louis (1837-1890), on Jewish origins in So. India, 167-70 (179-80)
Jádüwálá, Indian sorcerer, 325
Jáh-Haváh, meaning of, 534 fn.


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Jahve, androgynous Adam-Kad-mon, 313
 
James: on wisdom & mercy, 312, 320, 339 applied to Theosophists, 339, 364
 
Jánaka, great Kshatriya king, 346 fn.
 
January: sacred to Janus, 75, 92(98) 4th of, as Esoteric New Year,76 under Makara or Capricorn, 76
 
Janus: double-faced, 76, 77, 91 (98) door-keeper to Heaven, 77, 93 (99) became St. Peter, 77, 93 (99)
sainted patron of Naples, 92 (98) called Diana in “youth,” 92 (98)
 
Japan, Buddhism in, & belief in elementáis, 301
 
Jehovah: jealous god, 200 anthropomorphic, of Church, 313
 
Jennings, Hargrave (1817?-1890),
 
–Phallicism, 520
 
Jeremiah, q. 556
 
Jerome, St. (3407-420), on Simon Magus, 572
 
Jersey Island, H.P.B.’s visit to, 64
 
Jesuits: modern “Synagogue” of, 44 and Cagliostro, 80 chapter of Clermont, France, 81
 
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Jesus:
“Man of Sorrow,” 30
moral teachings of, & Buddha, 392
 
Jewish:
Scriptures & Christian chronology, 72
Rosh-ha-Shanah, 72
Talmudic calendar, 72 chronology of creation of world, 72-73
 
Jews:
ancient Chandalas, 169(179) immigrated to Chaldea from India 169 (179) Jacolliot on, 170(179) French, 273 Astruc on the, 273-74 religious tolerance of, 340-41 devout, among Theosophists, 341
 
Jinarajadasa, C. (1875-1953), Letters from the Masters, etc., Ma- ha-Chohan’s letter in, 240-41 fn.
 
Jinns, commerce with, & demons, 190-91
 
Jiva, and Prana, 607 fn., 672, 707-08
 
Jivanmukta: cannot hold communications with world, 159 on becoming a, 634
 
Jnana, different modes of acquiring, 634
 
Jnanendriyas, organs of sense, 667
 
Joan of Are (1412-1431), martyr, 30
 
Job:
quoted, 30, 313
allegory of initiation, 312
pre-Mosaic meaning, 313
 
Jodo, Japanese Buddhist sect, 300-01
 
John, quoted, 38, 46, 53, 348
 
John Chrysostom, St. (345-407), on woman, 269
 
Joshua, son of Sirah, on life as a wave of sorrow, 391
 
Journal du magnétisme (Paris), on hypnotic suggestion, 220 fn.
 
Jolies, Adolf (1864-?), on influenza, 107
 
Judean, Christianity & women, 268
 
Judge, William Quan (1851-1896): attacked by Dr. Coues, 26 excerpted Mahâ-Chohan’s letter in Path magazine, 241 fn. as publisher, 300
charges against, in N.Y. Sun, libel suit against Elliott Coues by, and Aryan T.S., 375-376
Oriental Department of, 419 appeal of, to H.P.B. for E.S. quoted, 479
helps draw up rules for E.S., 480
visits Dublin Lodge, 480 as a founder pledged directly to
Masters, 480
H.P.B.’s sole representative for E.S. in America, 481 a chela of “thirteen years’ standing,” 482
his handwriting draft of E.S. Rules in Pasadena T.S. Archives, 482
The Book of Rules written by, under Master M. and H.P.B., 482, 484
the Aryan Press and, 499 spirited defense of, by H.P.B., 499-500
attacked by enemies, 582, 594 one of the three founders of
T.S., 593
Resuscitator of Theosophy in the U.S., 594
defended by Master, 594 & fn.
refused to defend himself, 595
 
Judgement: Way or “Yom ha-Din,” 73 refraining from, 349
 
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Julian, Emperor (ca. 331-363): gentle pagan, 94-95 (101-02) called “Apostate,” 47, 95 (101-02)
New Year’s celebration of, compared to present one, 96 (102).
 
Jupiter, avataric cycle of, 105
 
Jussieu, Dr. Antoine Laurent de (1748-1836): defends mesmerism, 218 carried on Mesmer’s work, 223 biogr., 752
 
Justice, and wealth, 387
 
Justin Martyr (100?-165), on Simon Magus, 571
 
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Kabalism: and Elementarles, 189 no matter for jest, 190 and occult statutes on women, 191 fn. beliefs of ancient, 192 on Elementáis, 192 on term “ancient,” 313
 
Kabalists: Jewish & the Nergal, 192 fn. elementarles of the, 189, 194 discredit “spirits,” 198 meaning of Logos (Dabar), 313
 
Kabalah, Kabbalah: and unity of mankind, 340 needs a key, 341 of the Tannanims, 345 source of, 347 fn.
Adam-Kadmon in, 410
 
Kali-Yuga: and the Theos. Movement, 158 on close of first 5,000 years of, 384, 418 the “Black Age,” 384 and divine years, 386 fn. sub-cycles in, 386 fn. Egiptian darkness in, 418 restrictions of, 492 first, cycle (1897) & Brothers of Shadow, 602
 
Kama: love born from Lakshmi, 168 (178) exoteric representation of, 623 animal desire & egoism, 631 and molecules of body, 693, 707-08 corresponds with liver & stomach, 698, 708 relation of, to Kama-rupa, 708-09 sexual instinct as acme of, 708 should be directed by Manasic will, 709
 
Kama-loka:
soulless corpses move in, 372-73 deceives spiritualists & mediums, 373
Kama-rupa disintegrates in, 374
as portrayed in Book of the
Dead, 626, 027
dragon of flesh in, 627
on immediate rebirth from, 632
normal length of period in, 708
 
Kama-Manas:
psychic element, 353
common to both animal & man, 353
influenced by matter, 366
and the Tanmatras, 631
bereft of soul is reborn in Myalba, 637
nature & function of, outlined, 709 et seq.
 
Kama-rupa:
corresponds to red colour, 54, 54-55
consumed in Kama-Loka, 374 as starting-point on our plane, 562
not the fifth principle, 608 fn. materializes in seances, 609 fn. survival of, and Skandhas, 609 fn. {{Page aside|821}}and Kama, relations between them, 708-709 as vehicle of the Lower Manas, 629 fn. the “remains” of Antaskarana after death, 663 mistaken for “Spirits of the Departed,” 633 gradually annihilated in “second death,” 635 remains of, go into animals, 708
 
Kames, Lord Henry Home (16961782), on genius, 19; biogr., 752
 
Kamic:
organs, 367, 369
principle transfused into thinking principle, 630
 
Kanada, atomic system of, 343 fn.
 
Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804), years needed to study philosophy of, 235
 
Kapila, and his pantheistic school, 343 fn., 605
 
Karma:
of genius, 15
in world of maya, 30
“King,” 71
occult law of, & Nidanas, 161, 385
no Adept will interfere with, 161
greatest of Yogis cannot divert, 161
of new diseases from misuse of hypnotism, 226-227
of undeserved suffering in animals, 238
of remorse from inflicting pain, 239
law of ethical causation, 302 double-edged sword, 385 racial, national and family, 385 of disease, and hypnotism, 401 divine justice of, 503 squaring the account of, 503 and the “Matrix of Avidya,” 503
affects even Manvantaric life of Divine Beings, 629
 
Karmëndriyas, organs of action, 661, 667
 
Karmic: Seal, 125 retribution for public exhibition of hypnotism, 226 life as just schoolmaster, 314
 
Kärya-rüpa, finite nature of Manas when linked with Kâma, 631
 
Kate Field’s Washington, on Tolsstoy’s works, 243
 
Kathopanishad: metaphor of charioteer, 363 quoted, 428, 440, 453, 469
 
Keely, John W. (1837-1898), and innate ideas, 602
 
Keightley, Dr. Archibald (1859-1930): visits Dublin Lodge with Judge, 480 attest to Judge’s draft of Preliminary Memorandum & Rules, 482-84 on Mead’s revision of E.S.T. material, 500-01 on “The Meaning of a Pledge,” 506-11
 
Keightley, Bertram (1860-1945): carries H.P.B.’s Open Letter to India, 157 elected Gen. Sec’y, Indian Section, 157 appointed H.P.B.’s representative in India & Ceylon, 309
 
Kennan, George (1845-1923), criticizes Russian oppression, 281; biogr., 753
 
Khandalavala, N. D., on H.P.B.’s letter to Indian Members, 156-57
 
Khargak-kurra, World-Mountain, 543
 
Khe-langs, Mongolian Lamaist-Buddhists, 337
 
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Kingsland, William (1855-1936), on H.P.B.’s Advisory Council, 264
 
Kislingbury, Emily, appointed treasurer of European Section, 331
 
Knowledge: Tree of, is One, 234 ways of acquiring, 236 Secret, of Esoteric Sciences, 311 blind faith and, 311 true, is of Spirit, 537
 
Kobo-dai-shi, adept-founder of Shin-gon sect, 301
 
Koch, Dr. Robert (1843-1910), on aging process, 388-89; biogr., 753
 
Koldun, Russian term for sorcerer, 192 fn.
 
Koot-Humi (or Koot Hoomi): precipitates letter in Olcott’s hand, 240 fn. forwarded Maha-Chohan’s letter to Sinnett, 240 fn. purpose in writing “The Mahatma Letters,” 241 fn. on meditation & knowledge of Higher Self, 696
 
Korf, Baron Modest Andreyevich (1800-76), discovered Lavater’s letters to Empress Mariya Fyodorovna, 205
 
Kosas, 526
 
Kosmos: and Kosmic motion, 355 an Entity, 410 or Adam-Kadmon, 410 Universal, 542 produced geometrically, 547 and Cosmos, 655-56, 677
 
Krishna, as Higher Self, 53
 
Kriyasakti: or creative will, 57 Third Root-Race created by, 533 and emanations, 554 power of producing forms on objective plane, 556 adepts produce pictures by, 672 and projection of Máyávi-rüpa, 706-07
 
Kronos, sun-dial of Father—, 383
 
Kshatriya (s): higher than Brahmans in their knowledge of Upanishads, 346 fn. kings were teachers, 346 fn.
 
Kshetra, and Kshetrajña, 329
 
Kshetrajña: Higher Ego or embodied Spirit, 329, 358 fn. informs our Kshetra, 329 as “Silent Spectator,” 358 fn. occult axiom on, 363
 
Kshirábdhi-tanayá, daughter of the Ocean of Milk, 168 (178)
 
Kullüka-Bhatta, the historian, 169 (178) fn.
 
Kumaras: incarnated under 10th Zodiacal Sign or Makara, 76 appear as Avataras at the beginning of every human Race, 600-01 not human egos, 608 defined, 045
 
Kundalini: vital, & electric fluid, 620 illumines brain glands, 697, 699
 
Kung, or “Great Tone,” 550
 
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Lactantius (ca. 260-ca. 340), on wisdom, 311
 
Ladd, George T. (1842-1921), Elements of Physiological Psychology, quoted on various subjects, 350, 353, 357-58, 361, 365, 308-69; biogr., 753
 
Lakshmi, compared to VenusAphrodite, 168 (178)
 
Lane, M. A., treachery of, 582
 
Lanoo, or disciple, 505
 
Larva, or spook as káma-rüpa, 609 fn.
 
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Lavater, J. C. (1741-1801): on genius, 19 opposed to Swiss Revolution, 206 discovery of letters by, 206-07 spiritualistic tendencies of, 207-08 carried Mesmer’s system to Germany, 223
 
–Physiognomische Fragmente, 206; biogr., 753
 
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (1743-1794), opposed to mesmerism, 219
 
Law(s): abuses of, 34, 36-38, 43 modern higher courts of, 43 Christian, based on Mosaic Code, 266 of the Inquisition, 266 property, in Russia & England, 283 immutable, of the occult, 515-16 of the Mayavic world, 537
 
Lawrence, Sir William (1783-1867): eminent surgeon, 359 criticizes psycho-physiology, 360 biogr., 753-54
 
–Lectures, etc., q. 359
 
Laws of Manu: on Sunahsepa, 169 (178), 173 (183) fn. elevation of women in, 270
 
Laya, esoteric axiom on, state, 133
 
Leadbeater, Charles W. (1854-1934), held copy of Maha-Cho-han’s letter, 240-41 fn.
 
Lecky, William E. H. (1838-1903): on pagan woman status, 267 on feudal legislation, 267 on Roman women, 271
 
Lee, Anne (1736-1784), upheld ideal of purity, 257, 754
 
Leibnitz, Gottfried W. (16461716), on monad, 134
 
Leicester, Diocesan Conference, 27
 
Lenclos, Ninon de (1615-1705), 389
 
Le Piongeon, Alice D., art. on “Ancient Races” noted, 382
 
Lermontoff, M. Y. (1814-1841), “Sonnet to A. O. Smirnova,” 287
 
Lessing, George, and Ellmore on fakir phenomena, 321-26
 
Levi, Eliphas (1810-1875), Dogme et Rituel, etc., on magnetic currents of Astral Light, 373-74
 
–“Letters on Magic,” and H.P.B.’s footnotes to, 622 & fn.
 
Leviticus, Code of, in Protestant countries, 267
 
Lhas, solar, 644
 
Liberation, longing for, 505
 
Liberty, a cunning synonym, 52
 
Lick Observatory, and nebulous matter beyond force of gravity, 327 fn.
 
Life: Jewish view of, and death, 73 gloomy masquerade, 75-76 phenomena of, unfathomable by mechanical theory, 141, 413 riddle of, 147 and activity, the key to problems of science, 147 fn., 354, 355, 413 or Be-ness, 355 —wave, 355-356 for most, is undesirable, 391 series of hard trials for the Soul, 391 the “One,” 409 —Force, 410, 413 not a property of matter, 413 and death, as illusions, 625
 
Light, heat & electricity as illusions, 359
 
Light (Washington, D.C.), on reincarnation & karma, 194-95
 
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Linga-Sarira:
corresponds to violet colour, 52 may become extinct, 629 born in realm of illusion, 629 molecular, like the body, 694 curled up in spleen, 699 vehicle of Prana, 699
nature’s function of, described, 704-705
and sharp instruments, 706 survives sometimes and affects next incarnation, 712-713
 
Linton, Mrs. Eliza Lynn (1822-1898), 34
 
Lister, Joseph, First Baron (1827-1912), anaesthetic use of mesmerism, 224
 
Literature, Theosophical, needed, 6
 
Liver: passional organ, 367 cells subservient to our “personal” mind, 370
 
Livermore, Mary A., q. 269
 
Lodge, Sir Oliver J. (1851-1940), Nature Series, teaches doctrine once scorned by scientists, 265
 
Logos (Logoi): Word acc. to Kabalists, 313 or triple manifested Deity, 409 manifested & un-manifested, 526 seven rays of the, & chakras, 620
 
Lokas: Talas & states of consciousness, 664 et seq. divine & infernal, 668 (table), 670-72, 680 et seq.
 
London: squalid population in, 278 Trafalgar Square floggings, 281 fn.
 
London Lodge T.S., and petition to Masters for an “Inner Group,” 479
 
Longfellow, Henry W. (1807-1882), Santa Filomena, 1
 
Lotus: as symbol of universe, 167 (177) Celestial, 168 (177) Buddha seated upon, 168 (178) Vedic legend of, retold, 170-76 (180-86)
 
Lotus Bleu, Le (Paris), aim of journal, 170 (186), 300
 
Love: free, advocates, 255, 257-59 free, is slavery, 259 and “affinity” theories of T. L. Harris, 259-60
 
Lucifer (London), quoted and appraised, 152, 235, 268, 299, 319, 319-20, 602 fn.
 
Luke, q. 392
 
Lumholtz, Carl Sofus (1851-1922), Au pays des Cannibales, on atrocities of colonists in Tasmania, etc., 289-90; biogr., 754-55
 
Lunacy: Pirogoff on, 407 paralysis of man in his animal portion, 408 Kamic mind functions on astral plane in, 408
 
Lust, can never be satisfied, 392
 
Lymphatic: cells, 145, 148 inoculation to prevent aging, 389
 
Lytton, Edward George Bulwer—(1803-1873), Zanoni, idea of “Dweller on the Threshold,” 636
 
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“M. A. Oxon.” See W. Stainton Moses
 
Machell, Reginald Willoughby (1854-1927), biography of, 756-57
 
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MacKenzie, Kenneth R. H. (?- 1886), Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia: on occult fraternities, 79 on Cagliostro, 80 et seq.
 
Macrocosm: and Microcosm, 410 Diagram I, 656-57
 
Mâdhavâchârya (XIV century): worshipper of Vishnu, 343 founder of Dvaita sect, 343
 
–Sarvadarsana-samgraha, includes Buddhism, 343
 
Magendie, François (1783-1855), Physiologie Humaine, q. 219; biogr., 757
 
Magi, Zoroastrian, 72
 
Magia, as a term, 551 fn.
 
Magic:
spell and fascination in gaze of
Indian conjurer, 326
black, in vampirism, 396 motive determines whether hypnotism is black, 397
co-equal with 3rd Root-Race, 533
true nature of, 551 et seq.
same as Theosophia, 557 and Theurgy, 559-560 main difference between white
& black, 604
terrible Karmic results of the dabbler in, 606
terrestrial mysteries of white & black, 626
 
Magicians, Pharaoh’s 311
 
Magnetism: animal, in theurgic mysteries, 214, 395 applied in sleep, 214 now called Hypnotism, 214, 395 Jussieu & Deslon support, 219 “therapeutic,” 222, 395 key to, & hypnotism, 568
 
Mahabharata, victory of Arjuna over Devas in, 202
 
Mahâbhütic, faculty of the finite Self, 631
 
Maha-Buddhi: Universal Soul & Mahat, 413 as Divine Ideation, 629
 
Maha-Chohan: Superior to Masters, 239, 240 fn. Letter from, quoted, 239, 241 fn.
 
Mahamanvantara, life-cycle of the, 629-30
 
Mahamaya, or Guptamaya, and Indian mesmerizers, 326
 
Mahapralaya, period of rest, 58
 
Maharajas, the Four, 546
 
Mahat:
Alaya-akasa or, 371
Universal Cosmic Mind, 411, 413
identical with Brahma, 411
or Divine Ideation, 629
Universal Intelligent Soul, 629, 630
 
Mahatma(s):
compared to Jivanmuktas, 159, 634
concern for civilized races, 239 and our spiritual objectives, 241 and Mongolian Khe-langs, 337
 
Mahayogin, 346
 
Maheshwara, the Great Power, 356 fn.
 
Maimonides, and Biblical allegories, 342
 
Maine, Sir Henry (1822-1888), Ancient Law, quoted on Roman laws protecting women, 271; biogr., 757-58
 
Makara, or Capricornus & the incarnation of Kumaras, 76
 
Malkhuth, or lower Prakriti, 516
 
Malmesbury, William of (1095?-1143?), accuses Anglo-Saxon nobility of slave-trade, 267 fn.
 
Mammon, Temple of, 386
 
Mammoth, worship in America, 382
 
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Man (men):
divine nature and future, 4, 410 life of, inseparable from Mankind, 5, 46
genius depends on ensouling ego, 15
ever changes, 46
vehicle of a dual spirit, 46
transformation in Alchemy, 52-55
Spiritual, the heavenly Power, 55
outwardly a creature of but a day, 156
hypocrisy, 241, 247-249, 317-320
interbreeding of, 251-253
Carlyle on the wisest, 320
Milton’s Paradise Lost on, 350 as seer, 367 the Microcosm of the Macrocosm, 410 as oval sphere, 521
as incarnation of his God, 533 possesses potentially all the attributes of higher Aeons, 555-56
spiritual, free during sleep, 565 as perfect number Ten, 578 as complete unit, 607 androgynous as far as his head is concerned, 698
on the irrevocably materialistic, 625
 
Manas:
upper, in alchemy, is indigo, 53, 54
lower, or “philosophical vine” of alchemy, 54
green represents the lower or Animal Soul, 54
higher, purifies the lower, 54 as “individual” Ego, 58 in sleep and clairvoyance, 328-329
dual aspect of, 353 et seq.
Kama-, 353, 358, 371
is both psychic and manasic, 353, 358, 364, 371
term preferred to Nous, 353 fn. higher, or “Ego,” 358 fn., 406-411
and the phrenic terrestrial element, 371
personal “Ego” or lower, 407, 411
relation of Astral light to, 407
lower, ever gravitating to Kama-Rupa, 598
Buddhi and the brain, 618
lower and Vayu, 622
Higher, incarnates in human at seven years, 623
upper and lower, bound within Spiritual Ego, 623-624
its agent is the physical brain, 623-624
duality of, 624, 628, 631
Animal Soul or Lower, 628
as vehicle of Mahat, 629
Higher, and its reflection, 630 Spiritual Self-Consciousness, 630
Divine when united with Buddhi, 630
and the winning of independent existence, 631
both eternal and non-eternal, 631
future of lower after “second death,” 636
impulse of animal life on lower, 636
specialized, for each man, 679 lower, leads flesh into temptation, 692
asleep in sense dreams, 693
relation of Higher & lower explained, 709 et seq.
Higher, a Kumara, 709
 
Manas-Manu, the Divine Man, alone reincarnates, 623
 
Manasaputra(s): Sons of Wisdom, 18 {{Page aside|827}} genius as direct light from, 18-19 rays of the Universal Mind, 365, 411 Sons of Mahat, 411 as our Egos, 607 fn. defined, 644-45 & fn.
 
Mânasasarovara, Yogis assemble at Lake, 701
 
Mânasic: as well as Kâmic organs in man, 369 inner constitution of man is, 371 Ray & its mission, 371
 
Manchester Guardian, q. 286
 
Mankind: collective life of, to be studied to know individual life, 4 Book of Life of, 5 to rebecome a race of gods, 46
 
Manteia, or Samadhi, 560
 
Manu. See Laws of Manu.
 
Manu. See Manas-Manu.
 
Mânushya-Buddhas, and Sutala, 665
 
Manvantara(s): period between two, 54 Spiritual Monad lasts one, 58
 
Mara, armies of, 392
 
Marey, E. J. (1830-1904), La Machine animale, q. on motion, 356; biogr., 758
 
Mariya Fyodorovna (1847-1928), Empress of Russia & Lavater’s Letters, 205
 
Marriage: Tolstoy on evil of, 244 continence and, 244 as licensed vice, 244-46 and property, 283, 284 H. Spencer on, 284
 
Martinists, described, 82 fn.
 
Martyrs, for truth vilified, 30
 
Mary Magdalene, Karma of women and, 268
 
Marylebone, Hospital, founded by Elliotson, 224
 
Maskelyne & Cook, Western jugglers, 325
 
Masonry: Cagliostro on true, 83 on lost documents of Savalette de Lange, 84 fn. and the E.S., 497
 
Masons: and Cagliostro, 79-80, 82-84 persecuted by Vatican, 80 rite of Loge des Amis Réunis, 82, 84 fn.
 
Masses:
resurrection of human spirit in the, 3-41, 121-22
sense intuitionally a “great soul,” 20
profane, & occult teachings, 235, 320
wretchedness of starving, 311
 
Master(s): and receptions for fashionable society, 60-63 require only that we work unitedly, 154
conviction in, strong in Europe and America, 158 H.P.B.’s oath concerning, 158 learned in Gupta-Vidyà, 158 on Siddhis of the, 158 H.P.B. a Chela to, 158 fanciful ideas of Hindus on, 159 Mahatmas and Jivanmuktas, 159 their chief desire, 159 their name alone has done much for India, 159-61 Karma, not the, punishes the guilty, 161 will not interfere with Karma, 161 Col. Olcott maintained belief in, despite S.P.R. charges, 163 “banished from Adyar,” 164 K.H. precipitates letter in Olcott’s hand, 240 fn. counteract intellectual grasp of Sinnett & Hume, 241 fn. {{Page aside|828}}of the Eastern wisdom, 308 do not communicate directly on this plane, 492 reverence for the, 492 we must rise to them, 492 letters purport from, 494 doubt in the existence of, 496 letters of reproof from, received by 582 et seq. See also Koot-Hoomi.
 
Materialism: brutal foot of, 1-2 age of crass, passing away, 2, 121-22 and mediumistic phenomena, 122
vs. spiritualism, 124-25 of science, 133-35, 144-45 breakdown of, 140-41, 146, 148
 
Materialism, Agnosticism and Theosophy, on Prof. Holden & nebulae, 327 fn.
 
Materializations, nature and types of, 706
 
Mathas (monasteries), of Vedan-tists, 345 fn.
 
Mathematicians, on dimensions of space, 411
 
Matter: chasm between mind and, 409, 413 Claude Bernard on, 413 life is not a property of, 413 as substance is eternal, 556
 
Matthew, q. 210, 279, 291, 393
 
Mavalankar,DamodarK.(1857-?): called by Masters, 158 has prospect of Adeptship, 159-60 on weakening of Masters’ influence at Adyar, 163 urges H.P.B. to return to India, 163 and London “Inner Group,” 479
 
Maya: or Sea of Illusion, 58 and Avidya hide true Self, 114-15 “Doctrine of the Eye” is, 236 of physical suffering, 239 how to transcend world of, 538
 
Máyávi-Rüpa: nature of, 526, 608, 705 projection of, 706-07 a Manasic body, 707
 
Mead, G. R. S., (1863-1933): translated Pistis-Sophia, 150 on H.P.B.’s Advisory Council, 264 appointed Sec’y European Section, 331 and “Preliminary Explanations,” 499-500
 
Medical, abuse of Hypocratic oath, 226
 
Meditation:
for E.S. members, 496
and concentration as opposed to “sitting for yoga,” 603-04
and mediumship, 612
and pictures presented by elementáis, 693
and the heart, 696
and picture of Master as a living man within us, 696
and concentration, 702-03
 
Medium (s):
“spirit” wives and husbands, 193-194
Fauns, Satyrs, Incubi and Succubi of, 194 & fn.
disintegration of, body denied, 328
what is a, 372-73
unable to discern true from false waves of astral plane, 372
are self-deceived victims, 373-374
infected by “Old Terrestrial Serpent,” 373, 374
attracted by central and eternal fire of the Astral Light, 374 {{Page aside|829}} see three categories of entities, 560-61 and nature of materialization, 706
 
Mediumship: contrasted to seership, 371-72 as abnormal nervous disease, 372 defined, 372 dangers of, 372-73 terrestrial elements absorbed in, 374
 
Medula oblongata: and the Nadis, 616 and Trideni, 700
 
Memory:
labyrinth of our, 227 in every bodily organ, 365, 368, 414
two sources of, 366
of the nervous system, 368 and the “brain-tablets,” 406-07 impressed on Astral Light, 407, 415
and the Skandhic record, 415 cells are only conveyors of, 416 loss of, 416
 
Menander (early 2nd cent, a.d.): great magician, 557, 576 on the emanations of Ennoia, 559
 
–Monosticha, on dying young, 390
 
Mental:
faculties, 358, 364-68 behavior, 358
guided by Manas when free of Kama, 358
superconscious experiences, 367
 
Mercury-Budha, January 4th is sacred to, 76
 
Mercy:
God of, in Jewish theology, 73 divine, of Jesus is Buddha-like, 385
 
Mesmer, Franz Anton (1733-1815):
and magnetism, 82, 216-17
was a Mason, 84 fn.
hooted from scientific arena, 121, 216-19, 221, 223-24
applied magnets to cure disease, 216
alchemical doctrine of, 216 theories of, appropriated by science, 222
eventually acknowledged by French Academy, 224
 
Mesmerism:
mysteries of antediluvian, 215 denied by scientists of French Academy, 218-219, 221-222 now known as hypnotism, 219, 221-222, 395
ancient cures of, 222 “harmonic societies” of, in
France, 223
finally acknowledged by French Academy, 224
Hospital of Dr. Elliotson devoted to practice of, 224 used as anaesthetic, 224 replaced by electro-biology, therapeutic magnetism and hypnotism, 224, 395 differences in hypnotism and, 394-395
 
Messalina, 255
 
Messiah (s):
rash of pseudo—, 256, 257, 260, 262, 348
true, never dream of posing as such, 262
 
Metal, rings or talismans, 382
 
Metals, and their correspondences with planets, colors, etc., Diagram II
 
Metallotherapy: influence on nervous system, 398
experiments discredited by Shiff, 398
Dr. V. B. Burq, as discoverer of, 398
 
Metamorphosis, of pagan divinities into gods of Church, 95 (102)
 
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Methodist Times: accuses H.P.B., 29 compared to The Theosophist, 117
 
Microbes, and Atma-Buddhi, 600, 679
 
Microcosm:
Man as a, 410
and Macrocosm, 600, 656-57
 
Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873),
Logic, on E. Darwin’s materialism, 351-52 fn.
 
Miller, Mrs. F. Fenwick:
address to National Liberal
Club, 282 & fn.
on unjust laws against women, 284
 
Milton, John (1608-1674), anthropomorphized
Satan, 48
 
–Paradise Lost, q. 350
 
Mimamsa, Schools of & Vedanta, 344
 
Mind:
Universal, 136-137, 365, 409-412
as a real being, 350, 362-63
is both psychic and noetic, 353, 364
personal as well as impersonal, 353
evolving in relation to the brain, 362, 410
psychic·, as transformer, 362
or pneuma, distinct from soul, 364
not limited to brain, 365, 410-412
Divine, or Nous, 366
as Higher Manas, 366-367
Kamic aspect of, 366
-Ego of Prof. Ladd, 368
Universal, and its human reflection,
371, 409-412
absolute or “No-Mind,” 412
 
“Mind Curers,” & Christian Scientists on the wrong track, 603
 
Minerals, and plants can pass through “solids,” 328
 
Minerva-Athene, January 3rd consecrated to, & Isis, 75
 
Miocene, period as source of human race, 28
 
Miracle, Masters laugh at word, 558
 
Mirville, Eudes de (1802-1873), devil of, 374
 
Missionary, movement of modern day, 256
 
Mistletoe, and holly, once used at New Year, 72
 
Mitford, Godolphin (pseud, as Murad Ali Beg), “The Elixir of Life,” 202 fn.
 
Mitra, Peary Chand, on supremacy of women in Aryavarta, 270
 
Mlechchha Yavana, as outcast foreigner, 176 (186)
 
Moksha, must be won by own merit, 161
 
Molecular:
motion, 355-57, 359
vibrations analyzed, 359, 39596, 398-400
 
Molecule(s):
a figment of illusion in occult philosophy, 412
atom informs the, 412 geometrical combinations with, 412
every, as mirror of universe, 412, 699, 703
occult interrelations of, & atoms, 703-04
and Kama, 707-08
 
Moleschott, Jacob (1822-1893), 137
 
Moliere (Jean Baptiste Poquelin, 1622-1673), comedy on hypocrisy, 281
 
Monad (s): Spiritual, persistence of, 58 of Leibnitz, 201 as Jiva connected with each man’s Higher Self, 507 {{Page aside|831}}and principles tabulated, 531 interacting, in man, 647-648 generic term for Egos before incarnation, 629 Divine Beings or Gods, compared to our terrestrial Egos, 629 immortal throughout this Maha- manvantara, 629 the triune, 630 manifested by the incarnating Ego, 630 “Tree of Life Eternal,” 632 become duads and triads on differentiated planes, 634
 
Monasticism: favored by Tolstoy, 244 not just a matter of “cowl,” 277
 
Monotheism: rests on abstraction, 199 compared with Polytheism, 199-200, 201 Christian, just as idolatrous as Pagan & Oriental, 201
 
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem (1533-1592), Essais, on biting his fingers, 277
 
Moon: Soma in Sanskrit, 203 energy from bright side of, 203 influences earth in both helpful & lethal ways, 203-04 ceremonials of sorcerers at new, 204 dark side of, 204 astral substitute for an invisible planet, 546 effect on man is chiefly Kama-Manasic, 711
 
Moral(s):
regeneration of cultured but degraded classes, 5-6
of today compared with those of older days, 42-43
torture of higher courts of law, 43
fluctuation of, 45-46
 
Morgagni, Giovanni Battista (1682-1771), De sedibus, etc., on Pineal Gland, 619; biogr., 758
 
Morning Post:
on electricity disasters in early period, 111
on Sister Rose Gertrude, 112
 
Moses:
and Pharaoh, 200
our laws based on those of, 266, 267
laws of, & Talmudic laws, 272 brazen serpent of, 373
 
Moses, William Stainton (1839- 1892):
as founder of S.P.R., 294 fn.
Editor of Light & T.S. member, 294 fn.
 
Motion:
vibratory, 139
as viewed by science & Occultism, 130-140, 355, 356
as “Great Breath,” 355-56 fn.
Kosmic, 355
everything subject to, 356 space, time and, 414
 
Mülaprakriti:
as vehicle of Parabrahman in Vedänta, 630
manvantaric aspect of, & Parabrahman, 710 (table)
 
Müller, F. Max (1823-1900): on common Aryan ancestry of Indian & Englishman, 294 praised T.S. for translation of Sanskrit works, 299
 
Muses, or Greek nymphs of the poets, 148-149
 
“Music of the Spheres,” or Harmony, 55
 
Musical Notes: correspondences of, with colors, metals, etc., Diagram II; also 562 (table) chromatic scale, 621
 
Myalba, state of Avichi on earth, 637, 638
 
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Mystai, and Epoptai, 532
 
Mysteries, impenetrable, unapproached by science, 135
 
Mysticism:
in death struggle with materialism, 2
mystics & Theosophy, 303
Oriental, & First Object of T.S., 304
and lore of gems & crystals, 382
 
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Nädis: and medula oblongata, acc. to Täntrikas & Trans-Himälayan Schools, 616 and spinal column, 701
 
Naljor, or sinless man, 634
 
Napoleon I:
ablutions of, 276
downfall as event in fate of nations, 384-85
 
Narayana, undifferentiated Space, 555
 
Narcotics, and drugs prevent function of third eye, 496
 
Nationalist Movement, an application of Theosophy, 155-156
 
Nations, altered by small as large events, 384-385
 
Natural Selection, Grant Allen on, 251
 
Nature: ever struggling towards perfectibility, 583 co-workers with, for destruction, 638
 
Navel: centre of Kämic consciousness, 695 and generative organs, 699
 
Neander, Johann A. W. (1789-1850), on woman, 271
 
Nebulae, show forces other than gravity at work, 327 fn.
 
Necromancy, and unconscious black magic, 32
 
Negroes, oppression of, in the U.S., 281
 
Neo-Platonism, compared with Pantheistic speculations, 347 fn.
 
Nephesh, 353 fn., 364, 374
 
Neptune, mayavic link of, with our solar system, 292
 
Nergal, female companion to Ka- balistic practice, 192 fn.
 
Nerves: anesthesized under hypnosis, 220 and nervous centers, 355 psychic activity produced through, 355
fibers & cells, 357 involved in hypnotism, 394-95, 399-400
 
Nervous System, and sound, 621
 
New Testament: on angels, 202 degradation of women in, 269
 
New Year: warnings on, 67 et seq. pagan festival, 71, 91-92 (98) and Christ’s circumcision, 72 Jewish, compared to Pagan, 72-73 sacrifices of old, 94 (101) compared to time of Julian, 96 (102)
 
New York Herald, reviews Tolstoy, 243
 
New York Sun, libel suit against, 332-34
 
Newman, Cardinal John Henry (1801-1890), among world’s “Elect,” 317
 
Nicastro, Ottavio, and Cagliostro, 81
 
Nidana: occult aspect of an attitude, 63 Concatenation of causes & effects, 385 & fn.
 
Niemand, Jasper (Mrs. Archibald Keightley (?-1915) Letters, etc., H.P.B. on Judge in Master’s letter, 594 fn.
 
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Nine:
digit dreaded by ancients, 68 symbol of cosmic & social change, 68
as corporisation acc. to Pythagoras, 68
natural depravity of, 69 sacred to the spheres, 69
 
Nineteen Avenue Road (London), inaugurated, xxiv
 
Nineteenth Century: compared to ancient times, 42 “royal lions” of, 42 fatal, now in decline, 69 artificiality of, 95-97 (102-04)
 
Nirmanakäyas:
Bodhisattvas or “late” Adepts, 31
can save a man’s life only if useful to Humanity, 31 modus operandi of, 209 defined, 560
Humanity guarded by, 601
 
Nirvana, on reaching, 407
 
Nizida, The Astral Light, 58
 
Noetic:
psychic and, aspect of mind, 353 et seq.
seership, 371 action of the Double-Faced God, 374
Mind or Reincarnating Ego, 411
 
Nomenclature, problems of, 655-656, 677
 
“Nonagous envelope,” of the Pythagoreans, 68 fn.
 
North-American Review (New York), 348 fn.
 
Notation, reversed, 561-562
 
Nous:
in Greek terminology, 353 fn.
Divine mind or, 366
 
Novoye Vremya (St. Petersburg): quoted, 110, 274-75 on Dr. Pirogov, 136 & fn. defence of Buddhism in, 274
reviews Liimholtz’s work, 289
 
Numbers, occult combination of, 67
 
Nyaya, 343 fn.
 
Nymph (s):
or inferior goddess, 148
term lympha derived from, 148
inspire poets & seers, 149
immortalizing Sylphs and, 192-93
 
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Occult:
science re-affirmed today, 222 psychology an important branch of ancient science, 225
forces & their abuse, 225-26
phenomena cannot be proved, in court, 333
teaching about memory, 368
selflessness as prerequisite for, training, 491
two main divisions of, students, 537-38
philosophy based on ubiquitous presence of Absolute Deity, 569
 
Occult Aphorisms, on nature of linga-sarira, 712
 
Occult Primer, on eternal truths, 601
 
Occultism:
on Universal Life and Deity, 134, 139, 407-411
scientific discoveries verge into, 139-140, 222, 410
sine qua non of practical, 191
rediscovery of ancient, 222
omniscience and timelessness of
Immortal Ego taught in, 232
candidates for, 315
admits no miracles, 328
disintegration of living creatures
denied in, 328
will remain despite attacks, 333
opposed to promiscuous hypnotic
suggestion, 402
on atoms, 406, 408
Noetic Mind of, 411 {{Page aside|834}}proceeds from Universals to Particulars, 599 practical, and celibacy, 702
 
Occultists:
and Theosophists revere the unknown mysteries, 115-116, 134 go beyond the five senses, 115, 139, 315
on “ancient,” in East, 313 true, conceal rather than reveal their knowledge, 314-315
fewer each century, 315 know power of “Gupta-Maya,” 321 and legitimate science, 351, 354 411
postulate a seven-dimensional universe, 411 should avoid crowds, 535
 
Od, the aura of Reichenbach’s investigations, 210
 
Ogdoad, meaning of the gnostic, 68 fn.
 
Olcott, Col. Henry S.( 1832-1907): South Place Institute lecture of, 27
appointed by H.P.B. to represent E.S. in Asia, 89, 484
British Section and, 116 lectures in England and Ireland, 153
beloved colleague and “President-Founder,” 153, 263
H.P.B. implored, to permit her return to Adyar, 163
K.H. precipitates letter in hand of, 240 fn.
H.P.B. on scope of his presidential powers, 263-264
turns over presidency of European section to H.P.B., 330, 378 (381)
expelled Dr. Coues from T.S., 378 (381)
letters to Francesca Arundale on London “Inner Group,” 479 fn.
issues statement on autonomy of E,S. within the corporate T.S., 481
last visit with H.P.B., 484
and Master “K.H.”, 594
 
–Old Diary Leaves, on appointment of, as confidential agent for E.S. in Asia, 484
 
Old, Walter R. wrote Preface to Gems from the East, 427
 
Old Testament, reverence for, 341
 
Oliphant, Laurence (1829-1888), on Churchianity, 28; biogr., 758
 
–Scientific Religion, and Genesis, 258
 
Olympus, Gods of, and Parnassus, 95 (102)
 
Om Mani Padme Hum:
nature & potentialities of, 51718, 519, 561
relation of, to numbers, 517 seven results upon intonation, 517
and Aum, 520
geometrical equivalent of, 567
 
One Life:
and Second World of Simon
Magus, 554
as Root of All, 611 fn.
 
Oneida Community:
“mystic coupling” of the, 253
spiritualistic dangers in, 258
 
Opinion, public and popular prejudices, 317-318
 
Orbiney, Papyrus, on Ani, 570, 759
 
Orders, direct, are rare, 63
 
Organ (s):
every human, has its own memory, 368
Manasic and Kamic, 369
desires of the, issue as electrovital sparks, 370
every, has its distinct thinking apparatus, 624 fn.
 
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Oriental:
literature in Adyar Library, 300-01
T.S. revived, literature in India,
Ceylon, etc., 306
Sanskrit pandit-schools, 306
centres, 306
Department proposed by Judge, 419-20
 
Orifices:
the ten, of human body, Diagram I; also 532-33
and hermaphrodite man, 532
 
Origen (1857-254?):
and allegories of Bible, 342
on Simon Magus, 572
 
–Contra Celsum, on planetary rulers, 546 fn.
 
Oscillations, molecules, involved in hypnotism, 400
 
Ouida (pseud, of Louise de la Ramee, 1839-1908), 248
 
Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D.),Metamorphoses, q. 457
 
Owen, R. D. (1801-1877), on the brain, 617
 
Oxygen, from Hermetic, occult standpoint, 110
 
Ozone:
exuberance in air can cause influenza, 109-10
and nervous system, 110
and “Elixir of Life,” 110
 
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Padmapani, real nature of, 518, 520, 578-579
 
Padma-yoni, “bosom of the lotus,” 168 (177)
 
Pagan(s):
rites of ancient, 16-17, 278
deities of, 71, 95, 149, 200
festivals of, & Christianity, 7172, 91-92 (98-99)
plurality of, gods, 200-01
loved virtue, 240
meaning of, Circle Dances, 278
etiquette of, 270-71, 276-77, 278
 
Pall Mall Gazette (London), 27
 
Pantheism, 148, 344 fn., 347 fn.
 
Parabrahman:
universal divinity, 344, 624
and Mulaprakriti, 630
Manvantaric aspect of Mulaprakriti, 710 (table)
 
Paracelsus (1493-1541):
principium vitae of, scoffed at, 139
greatest alchemist of the age, 215
and magnets for healing, 215-16 considered a quack, 215
had secret of magnetism, 223
on Faith & Imagination, 403
 
Paradise, abode of Christ-Sun, 93 (99)
 
Para-manu-rupa, atomic nature of Manas, 631
 
Paramatman:
the “Supreme,” 149
a title of Vishnu, 149
Spiritual Sun, 623
beyond the Auric Egg, 623
cause of every principle, 623 the only eternal, living reality, 624
the ever-existing Root-Essence, 624
and Parabrahman, 624
 
Paramitas:
for all who would enter the
“Path,” 598, 603
Masters alone have perfected the, 504
Voice of the Silence on, 505
transcendental virtues, 505 fn.
 
Parent Brotherhood, and esoteric truths, 601
 
Paris:
patroness of, 96(103)
T.S. Lodge “I’Hermies” in, 300
 
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Parker, Theodore (1810-1860), Autobiography, q. 104; biogr., 759-60
 
Passions:
must be “burnt out,” 31 and passional organs, 367 as sole bond in sexual union, 386
on destroying, 392
 
Past, sorrows of, and “Promethean Vultures,” 70
 
Patanjali:
T.S. helped revive interest in, 307
Yoga School of, 343 fn.
 
Pater Aether, 619
 
Path:
not engineered for comfort, 236 real esoteric, 236
easier to poor & single of heart, 596
 
Path, The (New York): Mahä-Chohan’s Letter, q. 241 fn.
and libel against N.Y. Sun, 332-33
ought to be supported, 596
 
“Patterson Correspondence,” and H.P.B., 29-30
 
“Pelican Club,” vicarious prizefights of the, 36-39
 
Paul, St.: an Initiate, 15-16, 312 quoted, 16, 202, 312 and eternal gnosis, 312 on Biblical allegories, 342
 
Paul Petrovich, Grand Duke travelled incognito (as Count Severni) to Ziirich, 207
 
Pauränika, eclectic school, 343 fn.
 
Pentacle, of black magician, 623
 
Pentateuch, full of allegories, 342
 
People’s Advocate (Washington, D.C.), non-sectarian journal & the Blavatsky T.S., 23
 
Perception:
and self-observation, 147
and will, 147
 
Perfection, ideal human, is no dream, 46
 
Personal:
vs. individual consciousness, 353, 357, 366
Mind as temporary “principle”, 371
Mind as ray from the “Son of Universal Mind,” 371
 
Personality:
exiled God within the, 16
provides experiences for Ego, or real man, 17, 353
should be neither exalted nor neglected, 62
vs. Individuality, 353, 366, 415, 626
deals with passional organs, 367
after death is Kama-rupa, 374 lower, is the animal man, 415 grafted to triune Monad becomes immortal, 630
as tabernacle of the “Parent-Spirit,” 636
new, of incarnating Ego, and former astral Double, 712-13
 
Peter, as symbol of link between Soul & Spirit, 210-11
 
Peterborough, Bishop of: quoted, 27, 28, 349 fn. and Joshua Davidson, 35-36
 
Phallicism, 519-520
 
Pharisees, denounced Jesus, 30
 
Phenomena:
unfathomable by current physiology, 141, 148, 351-352
vital, goes beyond external senses, 147-148
cannot see essence of, 148 morphology, anatomy & histology can never unriddle, 148, 352
the essence of “supernatural,” 215
of mesmerism affirmed by French Academy, 224 various classes of, 307, 322-329 photographic testing of, 327 {{Page aside|837}}scientific meddling into mental and Occult, 351-352 every, has its genesis in motion, 354-355 molecular nature of psychic, 354-357 of human consciousness, 357 mental, 357-358
 
Philalethes, Lodge of: based on Martinism, 82 grievance with Cagliostro, 82-83 and Count Grabianca, 84
 
Philanthropy, true, expresses aspirations of trampled masses, 4-5
 
Philastrius (Bishop of Brixia or Brescia, later part of 4th century), on Simon Magus, 572
 
Philo Judaeus (20 or 10 B.C.-45 a.d.), knew Bible to be allegorical, 342
 
Philosophical “Vine,” meaning in alchemy, 54
 
Philosophy:
ancient esoteric, a vital necessity to the West, 295, 308
deductive or metaphysical, 308 unshakable foundation of religious,
308, 347
India, 343, 347 fn.
Eastern, & Pantheistic speculation, 347 fn., 407
 
Physiology:
progress of, 138
and vitalism, 139
destined handmaiden of Occult
truths, 139
overstepping its limits, 351-53
 
Pineal Gland:
pernicious action of drugs upon, 496
nature & function of, 616 et seq., 695-90, 697
corresponds with uterus, 698 and Kundalini, 699
 
Pingala, Ida & Sushumna, 616, 701-02
 
Pinto, and Cagliostro, 80
 
“Pipelets,” Great army of, 93 (100 fn.)
 
Pirogov, Dr. N. I. (1810-1881): surgeon and pathologist, 135, 403
held alchemical belief in Vital Force and Life-Principle, 135-136, 404
believed in Universal Mind, 135-137, 404
on the non-material nature of the ego, 137
his Memoirs imbued with scientific mysticism & Theosophy, 138, 405
had been regarded as an “Agnostic” by ex-colleagues, 404
at University of Dorpat, 405
a follower of Goethe in his
youth, 405
Mephisto influences, 405 declines to intimate beliefs in
God, 405
Diary shows opposition only to ritualism, not religious ideals, 405
foot operation named for him, 405 fn.
biogr. of, 760
 
–Memoirs: quoted, 136-37, 138 selections of, to appear in Lucifer, 404 on lower self, 406
belief in subtle ethereal element, 406 on existence, 407 speculations on lunacy, 407
on atoms, 408 on nature and composition of Universe, 409-411 discussed possibility of fifth dimension, 411
on space, time and motion, 414 “empiricism” as used by, 414 on consciousness and brain, 414 profoundly intuitional nature of, 415
 
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Pisâcha, or bhuta, 170 (181) fn., 201
 
Pitris:
Lunar, not equated with “spirits,” 203
collective wisdom of, 203, 204
invoked by Qu-ta-my, 204 influence bright side of moon, 204
 
Pituitary Body, nature & function of, 616 et seq. 697
 
Pius VI (Giovanni Angelo Braschi, 1717-1799; as Pope: 1775-99), commutes Cagliostro’s death sentence, 81, 87
 
Plane(s) :
seven sub—, on every plane, 399
our, one of reflection, reverses notations, 561
and sub-planes of consciousness, 657 et seq.
segregated by mind & consciousness 679
lower, of consciousness & striving up higher, 687
 
Planetary Spirits, mission of, to strike keynote of Truth, 601
 
Planet (s):
influence talismans, 382
seven sacred, & our senses, 532
and week-days, 535 order of, & correspondences, Diagram II; also 536-37
Assyrian correspondences of, metals & week-days, 544 (table)
the seven physical, as lower Sephîrôth, 546
and their correspondences, 548 (table)
and colors, 548-49 fn.
intra-Mercurial, became invisible at close of 3rd Root-Race, 549 fn.
exoteric order of, 551
 
Plants, have nerves, sensation & instinct, 134
 
Plate I, colored, described, 529, 546-47
 
Plate II, colors & geometrical figures of, 563
 
Plate III, colored, prismatic circles & source of principles, 567-68
 
Plato (4277-347 b.c.):
selective breeding as old as, 253 on women, 254
age of, contrasted to current age, 310
 
–Phaedrus, compared to Upanishads, 347 fn.
 
–Republic, on marriage & race improvement, 254
 
Pledge:
taken by H.P.B. never to reveal whole truth about Masters, 158
of Esoteric Section, 166
real, is to Higher Self, 166 withdrawing, to E.S., 488, 504-05
no interference with family duties, 488
binding nature of, 501
aim of, not adeptship, 501
of Probationers, 506 meaning of, 500-11
and faith in Higher Self, 583 certain clauses of, discussed, 589-90
awful sacredness of, 601
 
Pledge-fever, 586, 588 fn. Pleroma, as Space of occult philosophy, 570
 
Plexuses:
and Nadis, acc. to Hatha-Yoga, 616
and Chakras, 619-20
Solar, of sympathetic system, 701
 
Plotinus (205-270 a.d.), aimed to emancipate Greek philosophy from Oriental influences, 347 fn.
 
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Poisons, dual nature of, 602, 603
 
Pollok, Robert (1798-1827), on hypocrisy, 40; biogr., 760
 
Polygamy, practiced by Mormons, 257
 
Polytheism:
vindicated by belief in “spirits,” 199
vs. Monotheism, 199-202
 
Poor:
regeneration of the, classes, 5-6 need help while the rich need pity, 61
 
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), Moral Essays, q. 390
 
Porphyry (233-305?), and his Tree, 546 fn.
 
Positivism:
Comte’s ideas on, 253, 254
kind of insane mysticism, 254
 
Potto, V. A. (1836-1912), The War in Caucasus, on last years of Yermolov, 228-30
 
Powell, Charles F., death of, & tribute to by H.P.B., 153
 
“Pozdnisheff,” character invented by Tolstoy to satirize morals of society, 243-47
 
Pradhana, Diagram I
 
Pradhanatman, title of Vishnu, 149
 
Prakrita, as order of creation, 187
 
Prakritic Plane:
sub-planes of, 661 et seq.
objective, consciousness, 661-62, 679
astral, consciousness, 662-63
 
Prakritis, seven & their correspondence to Tattvas, 605
 
Pralaya, and exhaustion of Karma before, 629
 
Prana:
lower use of in so-called mind cures, 155
and Jiva, 607 fn., 672, 694, 707-08
macrocosmic pentacle of Life, 623
dual representation in Auric
Egg diagram explained, 623
 
Pranava, synonym of Aum, 615
 
Pranayama, dangers of, 615, 622
 
Prayer, and command, 535
 
Predestination, doctrine of, 74
 
Prejudices, pandering to popular, 318
 
Preliminary Memorandum, 485, 488 et seq., 501-11
 
Present: the eternal, 70
 
Prestidigitation, of so-called “juggler,” 324
 
Principle (s):
are intermediary spiritual
beings in true Masonry, 83
of astro-Spiritual Man, 83
“three sisters” in Alchemy, 85-86
inner, of cells are “atoms,” 410 man’s “Higher,” 411-412
the seven, Diagram I
and Esoteric Buddhism, 526, 562
two ways of tabulating, 530-531 and colors, Plate I
elude enumeration, 543, 546-547, 672
exoteric and esoteric enumeration of, 546. 547
originate in Hierarchies, 549, 561
colors & geometric figures, 563-564, 567-68
Four basic, and Three aspects, 607, 645 et seq.
which reincarnates, 607 fn.
at death, 645 et seq.
every, has seven aspects, 693 correspondence of, with parts
of Body (table), 699 every, a differentiation of Jiva,
707
life-motion in each, is Prâna, 707
 
Prithivi, or earth, & taste, 685, 686
 
Probationary Degrees, 654
 
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Probationers, subject to immutable law in the occult, 515-16
 
Progress:
and Christian civilization, 266-77
“living movement” of Carlyle, 268
 
Projection, of Astral bodies, should not be attempted, 706, 707
 
Prophecy:
mystic, 1
fallen off in grace, 385
about Kali-Yuga, 386-87
 
Protests, against Russian oppressors, 279-88
 
Protestantism, and women, 268
 
Pryse, James Morgan (1859-1942):
printer at Aryan and H.P.B. Presses, 499
and revision of text of “Preliminary Explanations,” 500 biography, 761-65
 
Psyche, distinguished from Mind (pneuma), 364
 
Psychic:
and spiritual changes in man, 1
and noetic aspects of mind, 353 el seq.
activity, motion & free will, 355, 357-59
individuality, 357
planes & psychometer, 360
mind transforms energy of the “unit-being,” 362
on pretended possession of, powers, 495
vision, 698
 
Psychics, see colors of aura, 621
 
Psychological, tricks vs. conjuring, 321-327
 
Psychology:
once called “animal magnetism,” 214
ancient, 225
dawn of modern, 308
basis of, 352
and psychism, 364
synonym of psychiatry to some, 364
physiological, 365-66
cannot dictate to metaphysics, 366
 
Psychometry:
demonstrates conservation of energy, 360
acts on psychic planes as well, 360
 
Psycho-physiologists:
challenged to define consciousness, 353
cannot solve mystery of mind’s duality, 353-54
repudiate free will, 354, 357
criticism of, 360 et seq.
 
Ptolemaic, Geocentric system, 544
 
Puranas:
Asuras of the, 49
prophesied moral decay of present era, 386-87
 
Puritans, Roundheads & Vandals, 4
 
Purity, bodily, essential, 597
 
Purucker, Dr. Gottfried de (1874-1942), biography, 765-70
 
–ountain-Source of Occultism:
on human senses, present & future, 538-41
on gunas, 540-41
on Gnosticism, Simon’s Aeons & evolutionary stages of planetary chain, 574-75
on 12 classes of beings, 643 et seq.
on principles, morals, etc., 645-48
on process of reincarnation, 649 et seq.
on sound, color & number, 577-78
on color of stars, 578
on Svabhavas, 579
 
–Occult Glossary, on Kumaras, 645 fn.
 
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Purva Mimamsa, 343 fn.
 
Pushkara Lake:
favorite locale for Lakshmipadma, 173 (183) fn.
carpeted with white lotus, 173 (183) fn.
 
Puysegur, Armand M. J. de Chas- tenet, Marquis de (1752-1825): healed with magnets, 216 scientific reputation, 222, 224 spread Mesmer’s system in Provence, 223
 
Pyramid, of Ghizeh vs. Eiffel Tower, 310
 
Pythagoras (6th cent, b.c.): on corporisation of 3 x 3, 68 & fn. on matter & elements, 68 fn.
magnetic cures of, 222 era of Plato and, 312 influence of Eastern philosophy seen in, 347 fn.
 
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Quadrangle, reduced to Circle, 53
 
Quaternary:
purification of lower, 53 lower, & Higher Triad, 692-93 liver & spleen represent the, 694
 
Quilter, Harry (1851-1907), Editor of Universal Review, shows fervor for oppressed, 281
 
Qu-ta-my, invokes esoterically the lunar Wisdom of Pitris, 204
 
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Rabbis, fanaticism of bigoted, 273 274
 
“Radda-Bai” (or Radha-Bai), H.P.B.’s pen name, 335
 
Ragon de Bettignies, Jean-B.-M. (1781-1862), on Gnostic og-doad and cubic stone, 68 fn.
 
–Notice, etc., 536 fn., 771
 
Raja-Yoga: true science of, 559 difference between, and Hatha-Yoga, 615, 616 what makes it possible, 694
no principle can be ignored in, 634
 
Raja-Yogins, Brahmanas & Himalayan ascetics, 337
 
Rajputs, belong to Kshatriya caste, 337
 
Rama Prasad, Nature’s Finer Forces: on svara, 356 discussed, 604 et seq., 611, 612-13, 621
on Tattvas & Svara, 615
 
Ransom, Josephine (1879-?), A Slwrt History of the T.S., 479 fn.
 
Raskolniki, Tolstoy visited, 127
 
Ray (s): seven, of Logos & Chakras, 620 emitted by Higher Ego, 709-10 of Higher Ego clothes itself in Astral Light, 710
 
Reade, Amye, Ruby, etc., q. 286
 
Reality:
of mind & atom, 409
the One, eternal, 412
 
Rebirth, needed to arrive at final wisdom, 314
 
Red, corresponds to Sol of musical scale, 90
 
Reformer(s):
true, holds to no crown or sceptre, 261
and Theosophy, 261
practical, 262
do not alter human nature, 394
 
Reichenbach, Baron K. von (17881819), and Odic fluid, 210, 396, 526 fn.
 
Reincarnation:
web of, on loom of time, 15
beginning to be accepted among liberal Christians, 130 {{Page aside|842}} will one day be generally accepted, 130 lessons of, 314 process of, & function of auric egg, 649 et seq. and occasional survival of astral double, 712-13
 
Religion:
spirit of, in European age, 41
Brotherhood of, in India, 305
Theosophy as a, of reason, 347
Wisdom—, 347
once united entire human race, 347
no, higher than truth, 419, 428
 
Religio-Philosophical Journal (Chicago): and W. E. Coleman’s comments on H.P.B.’s Open Letter, 157 publishes private material, 592
 
Renan, Ernest (1823-1892), on women & Judean Christianity, 268
 
Reproduction, nine as symbol of, 68, 69
 
Resistance, passive, recommended, 591
 
Resurrection, of the Dead in Catholic theology, 74
 
Revelation: primitive by Kumaras transmitted by Adepts, 601 as innate ideas, 602
 
Revelation, on death & hell, 74
 
Review of Reviews (London): on Edison, 133 on Russian & English convict systems, 282
 
Revue Theosophique (Paris), 300
 
Rig-Veda: sacred mantras of, compelled the gods, 174 (184) freedom of thought in, 346 fn.
 
Ripley, Sir George (middle of 15th cent.), Compound of Alchymy, etc., 53; biogr., 771
 
Rod, bamboo, of Brâhmanas, 701
 
Rohan, Louis René Édouard, Cardinal de (Prince de Rohan-Guéménée—1734-1803), favored Cagliostro, 80
 
Rohel, on futurity, 70
 
Rohita, surnamed Devarâta, 171 (181), 175 (185), 176 (186)
 
Roman Empire: New Year celebrations in, 91 (97), 93 (100) false noses of divinities in, 94-95 (101)
decadence of, no worse than today, 240 laws, of, on freedom of married women, 271
 
Root-Races, evolution of physical body corresponds to, 700-01
 
Rose Gertrude, Sister, a “spiritual mystery,” 113-14
 
Rosecroix, mediaeval, concealed his knowledge, 314
 
Rosny, Léon Louis Lucien Prunel de (1837-1914), lectures reviewed, 393
 
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882), q. 114
 
Roundheads, modern, 4
 
Royal Asiatic Society, theological predilections of, 294
 
Royal College of Physicians: and world opinion, 221 deny both magnetism and hypnotism, 225
 
Russell, George William (1867-1935), biography, 771 et seq.
 
Russia: drinking in, 10 H.P.B. accused of spying for, 161 British condemnation of, 279-88
and Key to Theosophy, 348 Christ ideal still preserved in, 348
 
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Russkoye Obozreniye (Russian Review): edited in Moscow by Prince Tserteleff, 335 H.P.B. was associated with, 335 and Vlad. S. Solovyov, 335 et seq.
 
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Sabaean, festivals, 278
 
Sabbath, and lunar division of week, 536
 
Sacrifice, of individual to the whole, 450
 
Saints: as beatified pagan Roman divinities, 95 (102) true status of, 261
 
St. Anthony (ca. 250-350 a.d.), quoted, 269
 
St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), on women, 269
 
St. Bonaventura (John of Fidouza, 1221-1274), on women, 269
 
St. Cyprian, called Thascius (ca. 200-258), on women as devil’s instrument, 269
 
Saint-Germain, Count'de, belonged to Lodge of the Philalethes, 84 fn.
 
St. Gregory the Great (ca. 540-604), quoted about women, 270
 
St. Jerome (or Hieronymus, ca. 340-420), on women, 194, 269
 
St. John Damascene (d. before 754), on women, 269
 
Saint-Martin, Louis Claude de (1743-1803): disciple of Jacob Bohme, 120 thought Cagliostro to be a charlatan, 120
 
St. Nicanor, derivation of the term, 76 fn.
 
St. Peter, as double-faced Janus, 92-93 (98-99)
 
Sainte Geneviève, as rebaptized Isis, 96 (103)
 
Saivâgama: Tantric in nature, 604 fn., 605, 615 and Tattvas, 611 fn.
 
Saktis, synonymous with “Sons of Fohat,” 620
 
Sala, George Augustus Henry (1828-1895), on Promethean Vultures, 70; biogr., 778
 
Salamanders: fire elementals, 190 alliance with man needed for immortality, 192
 
Salpêtrière, experiments of Charcot in, 295
 
Salvation Army, 348
 
Samadhi: or Manteia, 560 and life-currents of Jiva, 616
 
Samkarâchârya:
as Teacher, 344
not founder of Vedanta, 344 & fn.
interpreter of Upanishads, 344 fn., 346
nicknamed “disguised Buddhist.” 345
considered an incarnation of Siva, 346
 
Sand, of Pineal Gland, 618-619
 
Sanhedrin, 35, 385
 
Samhilâs, and Brâhmanas compared to Upanishads, 346 fn.
 
Sânkhya, 343 fn.
 
San Leo, Castle of, & Cagliostro, 87
 
Sant’ Angelo, Castle, & Cagliostro, 88
 
Sanskrit, literature pandit-schools, 306
 
Sapta Dvipas, or Seven Sacred Islands, 173(183) fn.
 
Saptaparna, and the seven brains, 694
 
Saracens, and slave trade, 266-67 & fn.
 
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Satan:
rebellious angel, 47
both, & God in man himself, 47 grandiose, of Milton, Byron & Victor Hugo, 47 et seq.
anthropomorphized by Milton, 48
as “adversary,” 48, 49
called the “Great Disinherited” by Michelet, 48
“The Mephisto” of Goethe & Ahriman of Byron, 48-49
as Chaotic matter, 49
as Cosmic Anarchist, 50 salvation of, in his abyss of despair, 50
the ideal synthesis of discord, 51
divine spark in, 51
incarnate Protest, 51
Host of, according to Roman Church, 205
“Horns” of, in Kabalistic symbolism, 623
“immortal in,” meaning, 637 coalescing with, 639-640
 
Sattva, Rajas, Tamas, Diagram I
 
Saturday Review, and maltreatment of circus children, 286
 
Saturninus (end of 1st cent.), 570-579
 
Satyrs, and Fauns of “Summerland,” 194 fn.
 
Savages, sparks of truth in fetishism of, 347
 
Savalette de Lange (d. 1788): treasurer of Lodge of Philalethes, 82 left MSS. to Masons, 84 fn. biogr., 778
 
Saviours, never dream of posing as Messiahs, 262
 
Schiller, J. C. Friedrich von (1759-1805), admired Cagliostro, 79
 
Schweinfurt, Rev. Missionary, 348
 
Science:
progress of, 29, 41, 115, 217-219, 315-316, 388
Natural, on God & Universe, 56-57, 352
truths accepted by, 56, 124, 350
the Didymi of, 111, 354
conceit of exact, 111, 217-219, 352, 359, 388
self-doomed by acceptance of only five senses, 115, 135
dogmatism of, 123, 133
true vs. pseudo, 124
Materialistic, and Spiritualism, 124-125, 198
needs more “scientific imagination,” 133
rejects idea of life-principle, 134, 355, 410
ignorant of how matter is formed, 135, 354-358
and superstitions of the Hindus, 143-144
“Wand of,” 199
uses theurgic magic under new names, 214
considers Paracelsus a “quack,” 215
French Academy of, condemns Mesmerism, 218
charlatanry in modern, 219
and The Secret Doctrine, 234, 265
on electricity, light & heat, 265 marriage of, and religion, 307 Theosophy and modern, 350 et
seq.
overstepping its legitimate realm, 350-351
analytical method of, 359-360
pre-Christian compared to modern, 390
research of applied, 390
on atoms, 410
 
Scientific:
charlatans, 219, 225-26, 265
abuse of Nature’s forces, 226
claims, 317 {{Page aside|845}}speculations on fakirs, 321-27 and gravity, 327 fn.
 
Scot’s Observer, on Tolstoy, 243, 245, 249
 
Secrecy, why required, 600 et seq.
 
Secret knowledge, Eastern, and XXth century, 596
 
Secularism, and Annie Besant, 296
 
Sedecla, witch or wise-woman, 312
 
Seer(s): Higher Ego is the, 367 noëtic & terrestrial, 371 how to become a true, 371-72 seeing stars in aura, 678
 
Seeress of Prevorst (act. Friederike Hauffe, 1801-1829), visions of the, 372
 
Seership: not mediumship, 371 condition of true, 371-72
 
Self:
personal I or, 47, 367
sacrifice of one’s, for others, 61-62, 450
as Master of the body, 62
Alaya’s, 114
permanence of the Higher, 296, 365
lower, imagines itself the only, 366
Higher, & its alter ego, 367
—knowledge, 450
 
Self-consciousness:
as embodiment of universal mind, 137, 365
no physical basis for, 353
Ladd on unifying actus of, 353 proceeds from higher Manas, 353
and will, 357
or Vikära, 630
 
Selfishness:
a conventional conspiracy, 34
rebel against Nature, 68
cause of all sin & sorrow, 538
 
Semiramis, hanging gardens of, 310
 
Senses:
limitations of, 115, 135, 139 vibratory motions of, 139, 399 sixth & seventh to be developed, 412, 618
consciousness is independent of, 414 spiritual, 528 seven physical, & their correspondences, 532
every, pervades every other, 672 and colors discussed, 686 differentiation of, 691
 
Sensible, of Plato, 553
 
Separateness, heresy of, 366, 407
 
Sephiroth: as Voices, 545 the seven physical planets as lower, 546
 
Sermon on the Mount: talk & theory, 294 practical application of, 316 a Utopia, 349
 
Serpent:
—Satan as Church dogma, 270 and Adept’s will, 373-74 brazen, of Moses, 373
as dual current of earth’s astral fire, 373-74
of caduceus & tau, 373
as generative lihga, 374
 
Seven: mysterious number, 68 and sphere of fixed stars, 68 sacred islands, 173 (183) fn.
 
Sevenfold, classification of colors and rays, 567
 
Sevigne, Marie, born de Rebutin-Chantal, Marquise de (1626-1696), mediumistic authoress, 193
 
Sexual: Grant Allen on, selection, 251-55 selection essential bestial, 254 exaltation is man’s ruin, 258 {{Page aside|846}}freedom & spiritualistic affinities, 258 serfdom, 282-83 worship as degradation of ancient symbolism, 519-20 organs evolved to perform sex functions, 520 creative power not natural, 700 action & celibacy, 702
 
Sforza, Count Giovanni (1846-1922), published fragments about last years of Cagliostro, 84 & fn.; biogr., 778
 
el-Shaddai, the Almighty, 73
 
Shad-Darsana, the six schools of Indian philosophy, 343 fn.
 
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), Henry VI, on genius, 14
 
–Macbeth, on life’s emptiness, 391
 
Shamil, and Gen. Yermolov’s actions, 228, 230 & fn.
 
Shelley, Percy B. (1792-1822), Queen Mab, q. 465
 
Sheol, in Jewish theology, 73
 
Shiloh, daughters of, 278
 
Shin-gon, sect of Japanese Buddhism, 301
 
Siberia, political prisoners in, 279, 281 fn.
 
Siddhis, of Yogi, 325
 
Side, light and dark, in everything, 603
 
Sight-Devas, and Rasâtala, 666, 684
 
Silent Watcher, 659
 
Simon Magus: teachings of, examined, 552 et seq. available sources concerning (Compiler’s Note), 571-73
 
–The Great Revelation, q. 554 et seq., 573
 
Simonin, A. E. (1822-?), Solution du problème de la suggestion, etc;, on hypnotism & magnetism, 220 & fn.
 
Sinistrari, Father, 194 fn.
 
Sinnett, Alfred Percy (1840-1921): intellectual grasp of teachings, 241 fn. on H.P.B.’s Advisory Council, 264
 
Pres. London Lodge, 264
 
–Esoteric Buddhism: and the seven principles, 526, 546 incomplete hypotheses in, 622 should be compared to E.S. Instructions for clarification, 622 rf., 28, 633 fn.
 
–The Mahatma Letters: originals in British Library, 240 fn. Mahâ-Chohan’s Letter not included in, 240 fn.
on London “Inner Group,” 479 fn. on light & sound, 578 fn.
 
–The Occult World, rf. 633
 
Siva:
exoteric rite borrowed by Israelites, 94 (101)
God of destruction, 94 (101), 149
term defined, 149 fn.
and Hindu Trinity, 149-50
as Mahâyogin of India, 346
Samkarâchârya as avatâra of, 346
“Eye” of, 496
 
Skandhas:
nothing can be lost from record of the, 415
and survival of Kâma-rüpa, 609 fn.
 
Skepticism:
compared to superstition, 21
swept 18th century, 120
 
Slaves, Slavery:
not peculiar to Venice, 267 fn. exportation to Ireland, 267 fn. {{Page aside|847}} of wives to husbands, 283-85 of blacks to whites, 286 to things & social vices, 311
 
Smith, Adolphe, on exiles, 281
 
Smith, Joseph (1805-1844), zeal of, 257
 
Smith, Sydney (1771-1845), Popish ritualism described by, 319
 
Smollett, Tobias (1721-71), quoted, 78
 
Société Théosophique (Paris), conspirators amidst, 377-79 (379-81)
 
Society: abasement & corruption of, 34-43 code of our pharisaical, 384
 
Society for Psychical Research (London): false charges of, & their impact, 163 treachery of, 294
sycophancy of, to science, 294 attacks H.P.B., 378 (380)
 
Socrates (469?-399 B.c.): as a martyr, 30 and concealed wisdom, 314
 
Sol, or sun, 54
 
Solomon, depicts life as trial, 391
 
Solovyov, Vladimir S. (1853-1900): reviews The Key, 334 distorts Theosophy, 335-49 on Vedânta, 344
 
Solovyov, Vsevolod S. (1849-1903): attacks H.P.B.’s character, 334-35
 
Soma, Soma-drinker & the moon, 203
 
Soma pneumatikon, spiritual body, 202
 
Soma psychikon, astral body, 202
 
Sommering, S. T. von (1755-1830), De acervulo cerebri, on pineal gland, 618, 779
 
Soothsayers, are no longer believed in, 385-386
 
Sophia: applied both to abstract & concrete things, 311 noetic, 312 divine, vs. modern science, 320
 
Sophists, of modern era, 312
 
Sophocles (ca. 496-406 B.C.), Oedipus at Colonus, on man’s fate, 390
 
Sorcerers:
and female jinni of Mussulman, 192 fn.
new moon rites of, 204
amateur hypnotists becoming, 222, 225
 
Sorcery, ancient psychology on, 225
 
Soul (s):
“tidal wave of deeper,” 1
must rise above passion, 31-32 immortality of, witnessed by Spiritualists, 124-125
and modern physiologists, 351-352
cannot be discovered in dissecting room, 359
Mind distinguished from, 364 and nephesh or sentient life, 364
idiot is not. less, 364
Higher noetic, of man, 365
Dynamics, 374
alone perceives itself, 453
possibility of loosing one’s, 599
the “awful doctrine” of annihilation of, 622
“second death” of the, 625-626, 628
“harvest of life” impressed on higher Ego after death, 626 triumphs over Dragon of Flesh, 627
term applies either to Human or “Animal.” 628, 629
Universal Intelligence or Mahat, 629 {{Page aside|848}}“—eclipse”, 632-633 Jiva or Lingadeha in exoteric Raja-Yoga, 633 in.
 
Soulless:
immediate incarnation for the debauched, 635
men & women, 606 definition of term, 628-33 and mind as half-animal principle, 637
two kinds of, beings, 638
last appeal of the, 638
avoiding the path of the, 639-41
 
Sound:
substratum of Kosmic Motion, 355
and Universal Àkâsa, 361 color & number & Tetraktys, 519
in visible world awakens sound in invisible realms, 535
roots of, & color, 568
the only attribute of Akâsa, 611 audible, as subjective color, 620-21
 
Southcote, Joanna (1750-1814), hallucination of, 257; biogr., 779
 
Space:
time & motion as extensions of consciousness, 140-41
absolute, 168 (177)
limitless, time & motion, 414
same as Plërôma, 570 plastic, though invisible, sound & color, 620
 
Sparsa-Devas, and Karatala, 665
 
Speech:
right, a condition of Practical Theosophy, 213
freedom of, 388
 
Spell, cast or transmitted in hypnotism, 395-396
 
Spencer, Herbert (1820-1903): on public whipping of women, 284 the Unknowable of, 295 scientific philosophy of, 351
 
Spinal column, and symbolism of knotted Brahman rods, 701
 
Spinal Cord (s):
and memory, 368
spiritual ideas & brain action, 369
two, in next Round, 700
two merge into one in 7th RootRace, 700
puts into connection the brain & generative organs, 702
 
Spinoza, Baruch (1632-1677), requires years of study, 235
 
Spirit:
awakening in man, 1-4, 121-22
long-exiled, 4, 16, 122
genius lit by, 14
divine, imprisoned, 16, 54
regeneration of, in alchemy, 53-54
vs. matter, 122
 
Spirits:
earthly affinities of, 193-94
empty, senseless shells, 195 fn.
so-called wisdom of, 195-96
and spiritists, 196, 208
real holy, do not visit séances, 198, 307
and spirit letters, 208-11
 
Spiritual:
change in century’s closing cycle, 1-3
monad, 58
Hosts of intra-Kosmic beings, 200
faculties of the soul, 364
twelve classes of, beings in solar system, 643, et seq.
consciousness & the heart, 694 et seq.
 
Spiritualism:
vs. materialism, 122
revival of, in 19th century, 123
as revival of Demonology & witchcraft, 197
unwritten history of, 258
 
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Spiritualists:
higher classes become ardent, 122
rebellion of, against science, 123
eminent men who were, 124 fn.
Roman Church and, 205, 210 mistake Kama-Rupa for “spirits of the departed,” 633
 
Spleen:
cells of, subservient to the “personal” mind, 370
related to lihga-sarira, 693, 699 and liver represent Quaternary, 694
liver & stomach, 699 medium & vehicle of Prana, 699
 
Sraddha, ceremony of, described, 170 (180) fn.
 
Srotapanna, must avoid premature slaying of Antaskarana, 634
 
Stallo, John Bernhard (1823-1900), Concepts of Modern Science, 411
 
Stanton, Mrs., on priesthood and women, 269
 
Stars:
as “tears of the gods,” 382
seen by seers in aura, 678
 
States:
interblending, & occult facts, 677
higher, should be striven for, 687
 
Stead, William Thomas (1849-1912), q. 281
 
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894), Strange Case, etc., as allegory of the “Dweller,” 636
 
Stewart, Dugald (1753-1828), on imagination, 133-134
 
Sthula-sarira, nature of, 694, 703-704
 
Stomach:
passional organ, 367
memory of the, 370
liver & spleen, 699
 
Stone:
allegorical in alchemy, 54
of Siva, 101
phallic ceremony pouring oil on, 94 (101)
“Bethel,” of Hebrews, 94 (101) talismans made of, 382
 
Strabo (63? B.c.-after 21 a.d.): on therapeutic cures of Serapis, 222
 
Sturdy, Edward Toronto (1860-1957), selected for H.P.B.’s Advisory Council, 264
 
Subba Row, T. (1856-1890): criticism by, & its meaning, 526 took advantage of H.P.B.’s enforced silence, 605 proposed Committee to transmit È.S. teachings to London Lodge, 479
 
Substance, inconceivable without force, 413
 
Succubus:
and incubus, 194 & fn., 197
Apollonius delivers friend from a, 197
 
Sue, Marie Joseph, called Eugène (1804-1857), Mystères de
Paris, on the habits of the French portier, 100 fn.
 
Süfïism, source of Mohammedan, 347 fn.
 
Suggestion:
once termed animal magnetism, 214
experiments in, 227 spoken, contrasted to thought, 402
dangers of, 402
applied to bad habits, 402
 
Sun:
central Spiritual, 45 transcendent red of the, 53 day of the “conquering” 76 fn. Janus as janitor to the, 93 (99) {{Page aside|850}}dances misconstrued as phallic, 278 and Neptune, 292 heliocentric system of, &
Lactantius, 311 as astrological substitute for intra-Mercurial planet, 546 triple physical, whose reflection only we see, 546 true color of, is blue, 548 fn. corresponds to Higher Ego, 709 effect of, on man connected with Kama-Prana, 711
 
Sunahsepa: legends about, 169 (178) et seq. reborn into Solar Race of Ayodhya, 176 (186)
 
Superconscious, mental experience, 367
 
Supersensible, worlds of man’s spiritual and rational faculties, 364
 
Superstition:
discussed, 21-22
and skepticism, 22
soothsaying now considered, 385
 
Surya, the Sun, 175 (185)
 
Suryavansa, descendant of Solar Race, 170 (180)
 
Sushumna, Ida and Pingala, 616, 701-702
 
Suspicion, dangerous guest to harbour, 510
 
Svabhavas, as solar forces, 579
 
Svabhavat, as All-Being on manifested plane, 543
 
Swami Bhaskara Hand Sarasvati, “Some Customs of Aryavarta,” 419
 
Swans:
great men compared to, 105
symbol of Brahm & cycles, 105-06
 
Svara:
Hindu occult dictum on, 355
is spirit itself, 355
current of the life-wave is, 356
Râma Prasad on, 356 & fn.
or Maheshwara, 356 fn.
defined, 615
 
Svizzero, Father, monk condemned as conspirator with Cagliostro, 85, 87
 
Swedenborg, Emmanuel (1688-1772), visions tainted by theological conceptions, 211
 
Sylphs, become immortal if wedded to a sage, 192-93
 
Sympathetic System: discussed, 700-01 played on by Tântrikas, 701
 
Syzygies, of Simon Magus, 553
 
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Tad (That), as Rootless Root, 524-25
 
Talas:
Lokas & states of consciousness, 664 et seq., 670-72,680 etseq.
and human senses, 666-67
 
Talismans, possessing virtues of ruling planets, 382
 
Talmud:
calendar of, and Roman calendar, 72
month of Tishri in, 72
Judaism & fanaticism, 273 ritualism of, 274-75
 
Tânhim, Elementals, 609-10, 649
et seq., 704, 708
 
Tanmâtras:
rudimentary atoms, 631 & fn.
lower manas must paralyze the, 631
 
Tannaims, initiates, 345, 534
 
Tântras:
and Râma Prasad’s book, 604
should be read esoterically, 605 606
dangerous when used selfishly, 606
 
Tântrikas, mystic beliefs of, &
Yogis, 144, 145 , 616
 
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Taraka-Raja-Yogins:
and lost Upanishads, 345 in.
and Nadis, 701
 
Tattvas:
physical senses and, 19 seven, & correspondences to the seven Prakritis, 605
doctrine of seven, forgotten in India, 605
H.P.B. ordered to teach doctrine of seven, exoterically, 605
correlation & nature of, discussed, 611 et seq.
esoteric Tantric table of, 614, 621
 
Teacher:
office of, defined, 593
mission of esoteric, 601
 
Tejas, only Tattva colored correctly in Tantric studies, 622
 
Telepathic, impact of the S.P.R., 324
 
Templars, Baphomet of the, 374
 
Temple, Sir Richard (1826-1902), probing child abuse, 287
 
Temptations, role of Lower Manas in, 692
 
Tennyson, Alfred Lord (1809-1892), Theosophical inspiration in poems of, 130-31
 
–Demeter, etc., quoting from The Ring, 130
 
–In Memoriam, q. 432, 473
 
–Locksley Hall, q. 120, 266
 
Tertullian, Quintus S. F. (160?-230?) denounces women, 269 on Simon Magus, 571
 
Teste, Dr. A., on compromising truth, 226
 
Tetraktys:
and musical scale, 519
and Aum, 520
 
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863), born between two tidal waves of human thought, 6
 
Theodoretus, Bishop of Cyrrhus (ca. 386-453 a.d.), on Simon Magus, 572
 
Theophany, obliterated by Church persecution, 215
 
Theosophia, or Wisdom, 320
 
Theosophical Forum, The (Point Loma, Calif.), art. by J. H. Fussell on later E.S. Instructions, 653
 
Theosophical Movement: open to all classes, 60 sacrifice for the, 61 and Spiritualism, 128 forces impeding the, 158 a necessity of the age, 295
 
Theosophical Publishing Society (London), 299
 
Theosophical Siftings, art. by Dr. F. Hartmann, 237
 
Theosophical Society:
advent of, an imperious necessity, 33
motto at Headquarters, 61, 351
British Section, convention greetings, 116
ushered in by Spiritualistic movement, 127
the “Christo—”, 131-132 H.P.B. urges unity & solidarity in, 154
work is for Humanity, 156 strife & intrigue against H.P.B.
by Adyar, 158-164 founded in New York & transplanted
to India, 160, 303 not in vain, 159-160, 293, 299 formation of Esoteric Section in, 165
rules of the European Headquarters, 212-213, 331
H.P.B. proclaimed president of European, 263, 330-331
scope of Presidential functions in, 263-264
on the three objects of, 293-294, 302-308 {{Page aside|852}}Irving Place coterie of founders, 293 called the Royal Asiatic Soc. plus philanthropy, 294 denunciation of, by Spiritualists, 297 chartered branches in the U.S., 297 fn. growth is worldwide, despite S.P.R. attacks, 298 Publication Fund, 299 Stockholm branch, 299 Madras headquarters, 299 annual convention of 1882, 305 National Congress (India) modelled upon, conventions, 305 influence in Ceylon, 305 revitalized interest in Samkaracharya, 307 British Section, 330 contributions remain voluntary, 331 vindication for founders of the, 375-376 letter to members in French, 377-79 (379-81) placing, on safe side of spiritual current, 418 in France, 377-79(379-81)
and the E.S., 479-480 Preliminary Memorandums for the E.S., 488-511 has failed to achieve “Universal Brotherhood,” 489 a call on the “elect,” to restore the, to original lines, 490 no earthly forces can destroy the, 587-588 results of possible fall of, in America, 596
 
Theosophist(s):
definition of a, 28, 303, 319-320, 508
does not hate Christianity, 28, 385
nicknamed “sevening lunatics,” 75
and search for truths, 90, 115, 235, 261, 303, 317, 319 compared to Scientist, 115, 317, 350
Silent Brotherhood of truth seekers and, 125-126
H.P.B. urges, to support President-Founder, 167
Neo-Platonic & medieval, attest to Elementáis, 197
earnest, devoted to unveiling the “Secret” teachings, 235
becomes the most humble, silent and guarded of men, 262
seeks after divine wisdom, 303-304, 312
cannot be bigots, 304, 317 values freedom of thought, 317-319
and glamour phenomena, 326-327
H.P.B.’s letter to European, 329-330
misrepresented as “Atheists” and “Neo-Buddhists,” 336 defended by H.P.B., 338-341, 348
may be Christians, Jews, Brahmans, Buddhists, Parsis, Mussulmans, even Atheists, 341, 349
on, who favor subservience to Science, 350
should refuse to pander to physical science, 351
Judases amidst, 379 (381) called infidels and “wretched atheists,” 385
true, must be an altruist, 417, 508
duties of a, 418
 
Theosophist, The (Adyar):
on H.P.B.’s appointment of H.
S. Olcott as Asian E.S. representative, 89
harsh aspersions protested, 117-119 {{Page aside|853}} founder-editor clarifies delegation of Col. Olcott’s authority for, 117-119
“The Elixir of Life,” in, 202 fn.
on Adyar library, 301 fn.
referred to, 604 & fn., 607 fn., 615 fn., 622 fn.
“Fragments of Occult Truth” in, 622 fn., 639
“The Real and the Unreal,” 631 fn.
on Occult Doctrine of the “Dweller,” 637-638
Notes on Éliphas Lévi’s “Death and Satan” in, 638 fn.
 
Theosophy:
esoteric interpretation of, 21
on the “race track,” 23
and Christianity, 27-28, 295296
living power, 28
divine teaching of all ages, 39
fear of death and, 71
ideals of, distorted, 77, 339
revival of pre-historic, 123
renaissance of ancient Spiritualism, 123
provided rationale of mediumistic phenomena, 127-128
accused of adoring monsters and chimaeras, 128
ethics of, more valuable than psychism, 156
Rules of Practical, 213
explains Yermoloff’s vision, 232-233
true reformer and deliverer of our time, 261
declares Christ within, 261 not an ephemeron, 292-293, 298-299
travesties and triumphs of, 293 interest in, shows despair of
Christendom, 295
aims at uniting religious quest for Higher Self, 296
“the blood of the martyrs is the seed of,” 299
literary growth of, 299 universal solvent, 308 goal of, 308
cannot be uprooted, 320
is not “Neo-Buddhism,” 339 has no man-made dogmas, 341 fn.
as Wisdom-Religion, 347
Pledge to actively engage in, 506, 510-511
permits no aggressive defense, 595
demands active interest in welfare of a brother, 595 popularization of, by cheap publications, 596
as Divine Science, 599
 
Theurgy: of archaic tradition, 214-15 and antediluvian mesmerism, 215, 216 mesmerism as a secret of, 216-17 and magic, 559-60
 
Third Eye: or “Eye of Siva,” 496 nature of, 545
 
Thory, C. A. (1757-1827), Acta Latomorum, etc., 82
 
Thoth-Hermes, January 4th sacred to, 76
 
Thought: “substance,” not the Astral Light, 58 supersensuous, 367 every, recorded, 415 arises before desire, 692
 
Time: spacial extension and, 140-41 abstract motion in, 414
 
Tindall, A. F., occult investigator on Adepts, 31
 
Tishri: historical data about, 72-73 Day of Judgement on, 73
 
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Tobacco: moderate use not prohibited in E.S. 496, 685
 
Throwing, outward of everything latent in the Probationer, 515
 
Tols, pandit-schools of Sanskrit literature, 306
 
Tolstoy, Count Leo (1828-1910): no foreign translator can do justice to, 9
religious mysticism of his tales, 9-10
a “sign of the times,” 126 psycho-spiritual evolution of, 126-127
satirized Spiritualism, 127
a mystic rather than Orthodox Christian, 127
visited Raskolniki (dissenters) and religious hermitages, 127
denounced by English and American press, 243, 244 greatest psychologist of this century, 243
criticized for views on marriage, 245-246
 
–Wherein is Love, etc., 9
 
–God is in Right, etc., 9-10
 
–How a Devil’s Imp Redeemed his loaf, etc., trans., 10-13
 
–Cossacks & Family Happiness, 126-127
 
–Anna Karenina, 126-127, 243
 
–Confessions, 126-127
 
–The Kreutzer Sonata: called a purient book, 243, 255 quoted, 243, 245, 246, 247, 387
 
–Death of Ivan llyitch, 243
 
Tract Mailing Scheme, praised by H.P.B., 152
 
Trance: Gen. Yermolov’s, 231-33 condition & colors, 565 difference between self-induced & hypnotic state, 565
 
Trans-Himalayan School, and the Nadis, 616
 
Transmigration, no reason for cruelty to animals, 238
 
Transmission, of auric fluid in hypnotism, 395-96
 
Tree:
of Knowledge is One, 234
of Life as the eternal Monad, 630
symbolism of, 702
 
Triad:
in the Book of the Dead, 626
Higher, & lower Quaternary, 691-92
 
Tridandas, triple-knotted bamboo rod, 701
 
Trideni, medula oblongata, Ida and Pingala, 700
 
Trimurti:
as a symbol of material Universe, 149-50
creative aspect of, 411
 
Tripitakas, 341
 
Truth(s):
tempered by enthusiasm, 196 as Tree of Knowledge, 234 source of early religions, 234 contempt for, in our age, 310 no religion higher than, 419, 428
pursuit of, for its own sake, 315, 316
Universal, 247
enemies to be defeated by, alone, 595
 
Tserteleff, Prince D. N., 335
 
“Try,” as the battle-cry, 505
 
Tukaram Tatya, priceless work of, 159, 299
 
Turiya, state, def., 711
 
Tylor, Sir Edward Burnett (1832-1917), on animism, 351 fn., biogr., 780
 
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Tyndall, John (1820-1893): and scientific imagination, 134 confused about metaphysics, 134
and the “Unknowable,” 295,409 on chasm between mind &
matter, 409
 
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“Umbilical Cord, has nothing to do with soul, 328
 
Unconscious, cerebration, 416
 
Undines:
and elementáis, 190
immortality of, through man, 192
 
“Unitarianism,” of the Adwaita school, 344 fn.
 
Unity, and solidarity can carry Theosophy into next century, 154
 
Universal:
Mind needs no organ of transmission, 137, 414-15
Deity or Divine Ideation, 137
Mind, or Atman, 149
Brotherhood & practice thereof, 152, 332, 418-19
Theosophy is, 156
Soul, or Alaya-Mahat, 313
pure ray of, principle, 347
Ego, the only real “I,” 407
Mind, returns to its parentsource, 415
memory, 415-16
Brotherhood, the innermost goal of T.S., 418-19
 
Universal Review:
quoted, 249, 250-51, 252, 254, 255, 316 fn.
circular to M.P.’s, 282
 
Universal Spirit, the shadow of Paramatman, 623
 
Universe:
no separate “I” in, 407, 409-11 atomic composition of, 409
negative & positive poles of, 409
or Macrocosm, 410
as illusion, 411
 
University of Jena, and Letters of Lavater, 207
 
Upadhi, def., 692 & fn.
 
Upanishads:
and Darsanas preserved in spite of assaults, 159
need a key for understanding, 341, 342, 345
and Samkaracharya, 344 & fn.
esoteric doctrine of, 345
once numbered one-hundred & fifty, 345 fn.
concealed by Brahmanas, 345 fn.
Vedanta provides key to, 345 fn.
lead to spiritual liberation, 346
compared to Kabbalah, 346
no Brahmanical exclusiveness in, 346 fn.
all the secret sciences are within, 347
compared to Phaedrus, 347 fn.
exact science in the, 363
 
Uranus, discovery of Neptune related to, 292
 
Urdhvasrotas, variety of beings stemming from the third creation, 187 & fn.
 
Uterus:
and universal matrix, 521-24
potent object in Black Magic, 524 fn.
 
Utopia, cannot occur under our modern Levites, 52
 
Uttara Mimamsa, School of Vyasa later became Vedanta, 343 & fn. 343 fn.
 
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Vahan, The (London), meaning & scope, 417
 
Vaikrita, or Padma creation, 187
 
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Vairajas, fiery Egos from other manvantaras, 672
 
Vaiseshika, 343 fn.
 
Vaivasvata, of Solar Race, founder of Ayodhya, 170 (180)
 
Vakya Sudha, term in Raja Yoga, 54
 
Valentinus, and sources of information about, 570, 580
 
Vampire: —bride, or succubus, 197 may be conscious or not of being a, 396
 
Vampirism: and auric fluid, 396 blind & mechanical process, 396 as black magic, 396-97
 
Vandals, Roundheads & Puritans, 4
 
Vanity Fair, considered Tolstoy an extremist, 243-44
 
Varuna: meaning of & comparison with Greek Ouranos and Zeus, 170 (180) fn. and Ambarisha, 171 (181) cannot harm an Aranyaka, 172 (182) and Varuni, 173 (184) & fn.
 
Vatican, the non-possumus of, 221
 
Vates, soothsayer & theurgy, 559
 
Vayu, corresponds to Lower Manas, 622
 
Vedanta:
gives key to Upanishads, 342, 344, 345 fn.
Dvaita dualistic school of, 343 and Madhavacharya, 343 stems from Uttara Mimamsa misrepresented by Solovyov, 343-44
definition of, 344
hidden MSS, in asramas of India, 345 fn.
on Absolute Mind & its rays as Universal Mind, 412
teaching of, on Parabrahman, 630
compared to Râja-Yoga, 634
 
Vedas: gods of, 201-02 key to the crores of gods in, 202 same eternal truths as in Bible, 341
and Vedânta, 344 derivation of term, 344 fn. Rig—, ascribed to a god, 344 fn.
 
Vegetarian, diet and occultism, 496
 
Venice, slave trade in, 267 & fn.
 
Ventura di Raulica, Cardinal Gioacchino (1792-1861), on Serpent-Satan dogma of Church, 270
 
Venus, doves of, 95 (101)
 
Vibrations:
of molecules analyzed, 359, 399-400
harmony of, 360, 399
effects of operator’s in hypnotism, 395-400
and enduced hypnosis, 400 rate of, in metals, woods, crystals, etc., 400
cerebral molecules change their rate in hypnotism, 400-401
“sensitive flame” experiment in, 401
shattering of glass via tonal, 401
septenary and limited gradations, 563
as wave-lengths of various colors,566 (table)
 
Vikâra, or Self-Consciousness, 630
 
Villars, Abbé Nicolas P. H.
de Montfaucon de (1635-1673), Le Comte de Gabalis, etc., satirized elementáis & asserted existence of rational creatures besides men, 189 et seq., 190-91, 711, 780
 
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Virgil (70-19 b.c.), Aeneid, q. 197 & in.
 
Virtue:
for virtue’s sake, 240
of mental & moral chastity, 245
of purity in all Messiahs, 260
 
Visishtadwaita, sect of Vedanta, 344 fn.
 
Vishnu:
term defined, 749 fn.
part of Hindu Trinity, 149-50, 168
five fundamental titles of, 149-50
during Nights of Brahma, 168 (177)
worshipped by Madhavacharya, 343
 
Vishnu-Parana:
version of “The Blue Lotus” legend in, 169 (178) fn.
on the ambrosia of the Gods, 187 fn.
on future moral decay, 386 describes evils of Kali-Yuga, 386 fn.
on women becoming mere objects, 387
on Meru, 521
on Prakritis, 605
 
Visions:
Higher Ego as Seer of, 367
noetic compared to psychic, 371 mystic, through yogic state, 372 due to extreme exhaustion, 372 in astral light often deceptive, 528
 
Visvamitra, and Sunahsepa, 173-75 (184-86)
 
Vivisection:
soulless, of both animals & men, 222
sorcery of, & hypnotism, 225
 
Vitality:
drawn by osmosis in vampirism, 396
of operator in mesmerism, 396, 397
too much, can kill, 397
 
Voices, as Sephïrôth, 545
 
Voodoo, sexual restrictions of, 191 fn.
 
Vyâsa (ca. 1400 B.C.), the Vedas & the Vedanta, 343 fn., 344 fn.
 
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Wachtmeister, Countess Constance (1838-1910): programs arranged by, 59-63 and the Theosophical Publishing Society, 59 fn.
 
Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913). predicts the knell of Darwinism, 316-317
 
Ward, Artemas (1727-1800), on public tastes & prejudices, 318
 
Warning, about strange law in occultism, 515-16
 
Wealth, alone confers rank today, 386, 387
 
Watts, Isaac (1674-1748), on censorious nature of the dogmatist, 272
 
Week, days of, & rulership of planets, 535, 536-37, Diagram II
 
Weichselbaum, Anton (18451920), and influenza, 107
 
Weismann, August (1834-1914), not far from truth, 704
 
Wengel, Dr., on pineal gland sand, 619
 
Western:
culture compared with Eastern, 266-79
and Aryan esoteric doctrines, 295
Orientalists, 303
 
Wilkinson, Sir John Gardner (1797-1875), on status of Egyptain women, 270
 
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Will:
no exterior, recognized in outside “Being,” 32
manifested and latent, 119 observation of our, by inner sense, 147, 352
key to consciousness, 147, 352
wrong to compel another’s, 210 free, and conservation of energy, 357-358
on “illusion of free will,” 361362
and the invisible Free-Wilier, 362
animalistic to view, as an hallucination, 363
 
—vibrations in hypnotism, 395 use of, in healing compared to vampirism, 396
and desire, 451, 452, 702
and Astral Body, 617, 619
Manasic, and Kama, 709
behind consciousness, 712
 
Wilson, H. H., See Vishnu-Purana.
 
Wine, prohibited for esotericist, 496
 
Wisdom:
Divine, or Amun, 15-16, 315, 369
hidden,, 16, 315
“Religion” of early mankind, 234
of antiquity, not inferior to today’s, 309-320
Hokhmah or Sophia equivalents to, 311
both divine and terrestrial, 311, 314, 319
Western world accepts only psychic, 314
profane and sacred, 314-315 and truth are synonymous, 316 “terrestrial, psychic, devilish,”
317, 339, 366, 369
vs. worldly policy, 317-318 light of the “ancient,” 320 or Theosophia, 320
Bodhi and Sophia are synonymous, 339 dual aspects of, 364-369 alone satisfies man, 392
 
Witches:
sexual renunciation of, 191 fn. burning of, 266
 
Witchcraft, and Demonology revived by modern Spiritualism, 197
 
Wittgenstein, Prince Emile (1824-1878), New York Sun libels, & H.P.B., 333
 
Wizards:
renounce marital rights, 191 fn.
of the North compared with Indian jugglers, 325
 
Woman, role of, in alchemy & ancient Egypt, 533, See also Women.
 
Woman’s Franchise League: and women’s rights, 268, 272, 282
 
Womb:
of woman & of nature & their correspondences, 523-24
symbolically interpreted by Simon Magus, 557
and foetal circulation, 557 fn.
 
Women(’s):
carnal commerce with, renounced by sages, 191
views of Tolstoy on fallen, 247 transformation of, a fashion, 248
freedom of choice for, 248-249 protest against breeding of, 253, 255
Positivism on artificial fecundation of, 254
disability laws in England, 267
Christian compared to “heathen,” 267
Karma in our era, 268 priest-ridden and church-going, 268
degradation of, from pulpit, 268, 271 {{Page aside|859}}of Ancient Egypt, 270 rights of, in ancient Greece
and Rome, 271 enfranchisement of, 282 property and child custody laws in Russia, 283 treated as goods and chattels in England, 284-285, 378 prophecy from Puranas about, 387
 
Woodhull, Victoria Claflin (18381927), opposed to woman’s enthrallment, 257; biogr., 781
 
Word: made flesh, 366 and Divine Ideation, 611
 
Wordsworth, Wm. (1770-1850),
 
–“Toussaint,” 262
 
Working-Women’s Club, founded by T.S. in London, 306
 
World:
—faiths & their kinship, 296 Elect of, 317-19
hypocritical, 320
 
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Yamabushi, fraternity, 301
 
Yermolov,Gen. Alexey Petrovich (1772-1861): last years of, 228-33 obituary notice q., 228-29 prediction about his life & death, 229-30
monumental tomb at Orel, 230
H.P.B. knew family of, 231 not approached by a “disembodied spirit,” 231-32 explanation of apparition & death prophecy, 231-33
 
Yoga:
of Patanjali, 343 fn.
“sitting for,” 604, 612-13
 
Yogi(s):
Hindu & Tantrikas, 144, 145
Eastern, to be vindicated, 148
cannot arrest Karma, 161 antediluvian, 172 (182) or saintly devotees, 306, 325 jugglers imitate Siddhis of, 325 powers of, not hypnotism, 326-27
and Samkaracharya, 344-45 contemporary, & Asramas, 345 seven-knotted wand of, 701
 
Young, Brigham (1801-1877), zeal & martyrdom of, 257
 
Young, Edward (1683-1765), on angels as “men of a superior kind,” 200
 
Yugas, the Puranas on the, 386 fn.
 
Zend-Avesta, 341
 
Zhelihovsky, Vera Petrovna de (1835-1896), and H.P.B.’s article for Russian Review, 334
 
Zodiac: Twelve Signs of, & their correspondences with the ten orifices of the human body, 532
why ten Signs only, 533
 
Zohar:
and Shimon ben-Yohai, 345 Bibliography of, 782-83
 
Zola, Emile (1840-1902): castigates vices of lower classes, 8, 242
works of, banned from England, 242
biogr., 784
 
–Nana, 242
 
–La Bete Humaine, 242
 
–La Terre, 242
 
Zoological, evolution explained, 56
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