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INDEX
[In the alphabetical arrangement of sub-entries of various chief headings, the word “and” has been disregarded. References to definitions of terms are in italics. References to pages above 562 are to Biographical and Bibliographical information.]
Abraham, as a Chaldean, 516 (539).
Abraxas, derived from India, 242 (278).
Absolute: as Ain-Soph, 221 (257) fn.; consciousness is absolute unconsciousness, 415; deprived of all qualities, 242 (278); Principle as container of all, 240 (276) et seq.; Soul, and human soul, 219 (255); surveyors of the, 199.
Action, is real self-development on esoteric lines, 469.
Acts: 81; on Simon and money, 523 (546).
Acts, clerical and lay, etc. See Baronius.
Adamic, earth, 507 (530).
Adams, on hermits, 219 (254).
Addison, J., on censure and persecution, 294.
Adepts, 158, 170 (178) et seq.
Adeptship: a logical necessity, 399; woman can reach, 301. d’Adhemar: Count, and T.S. aga- pae, 203; Countess, 167 & fn.
Advertisements, of bogus magi, 305.
Adyar: account of Mme. Zhelihov- sky in, Archives, 364 fn.; Oriental Library of, and Mrs. Ilan- gakoon, 445; supposed loyalty to, discussed, 380 et seq.
Aeneid. See Virgil.
Aeschylus, pledged initiate, 90. ------, Choephorae, on doxa, 490. ------, Prometheus Bound, 90. Agapae; 92, 99; Theosophical, 203-04.
Agnostic Journal: art. by “Saladin” on Spurgeon, 192-93; on Blavatsky Lodge, 371.
Agoge manteia (άγωγ^ μαντεία), ecstatic illumination of Plotinus and Porphyry, 233 (270).
Agrippa, C., on alchemy, 520 (543).
Agyrmos, 99.
Ahura Mazda, 17.
Ain Soph: 23, 26, 27, 241 (277); as Absolute, 221 (257) fn.; as Parabrahman, 246 (276), 257.
Aish, and Jesus, 495.
Aja, as Lamb of God, 490, 494.
Ajnana, 474-75, 476.
Akasa: 501; two aspects of, 490.
Alba vestis, 77. Alchemist (s): key to jargon of, found in Orient alone, 527 (549); and philologist, as occult terms, 230 (267); some illustrious, 510 (533).
600 Alchemy: and China, 514 (537) ; Chinese, compared with Hermetic sciences, 515 (538) et seq.; European, originated in Far East, 516 (539), 525 (548) ; jargon of, has many meanings, 510 (533) ; known to Moses, 44; and kriyâsakti, 506 (529) ; origin of, discussed, 511 (534) et seq.; principal object of, 518 (541) ; three objects of true, 515 (538) et seq.; works on, underground, 514 (537) ; writings on, purposely veiled, 522 (544-45), 526 ( 549).
Alexandria, philosophers of, not understood, 227 (265).
Alilat, 97.
Alipili, Centrum naturae, etc., on macro- and microcosm, 519 (542), 563.
Alkahest, 512 (535), 517 (540), 518 (541).
All: Great, and loss of self, 105; indivisible, and Ego of man, 246 (283) ; the, includes totality of consciousness, 416; the, and Nothing, 114 (128).
Allen, Grant, and evolution, 190, 201.
Altars: High- and the pyx, 83; of pagan worship, 78 et seq.
Altruism : cure for difficulties, 164 ; rara avis among Theosophists, 215 (251) ; real Theosophy is, 202; theoretical and practical, 427 ; and Theosophy, 219 (255). Amagandha Sutta, 471, 563.
Ambarvales, festivals of Ceres, 100. Amélineau,M.E., «Essai sur le gnosticisme égyptien», 240 (276), 564.
America: favorable conditions in, for Theosophy, 162; should lift high torch of liberty of the Soul of Truth, 162.
American Antiquarian, on Hebraic Theosophy, 32.
Ammonius Saccas: 92; ambition of, identical to that of Theosophists, 228 (264) ; and Mystery-Language, 236-37(270-73) ; on practical wisdom, 228 (265) ; the theodidaktos, 214 (250).
Amritsar, and secret Masonic MSS., 176 (184).
Anacalypsis. See Higgins, G.
Anaximenes, and nature of matter, 234 (270).
Ancient Fragments. See Cory.
Anderson, Dr. James, The Book of Constitutions, etc., 183.
Angelic. See Oxley.
Animal : nature as discord and hate, 150; passions and rational man, 427.
Animals, and humans, their respective evolutions, 138 fn.
Annals. See Baronius.
Annals. See Kullûka.
Annals. See Tod.
Annunciation, pagan origin of, 65.
Anoint, Homeric term, 100.
Anstey, F., A Fallen Idol, has done much good, 50.
Antaskarana, 493.
Antiquités. See Fauchet.
Apis, Bull, 74.
Apocalypsis, very ancient, 75 fn.
Apollo, as the Sun, 97.
Apollonius of Tyana, 214 (250).
Apollonius Rhodius, 484, 564.
Apuleius, L., Metamorpho ses (Golden Ass) : on degradation of Mysticism, 88; on initiation, 177 (185) & fn.
Aratus Solensis: Phainomena, on Zeus, 67; biogr., 564.
601 Archangels, derived from pagan lore, 74.
Arche (¿pxij), esoteric meaning of, 484.
Archon (*Apx<ov), or Pater innatus, 242 (278).
Aristides: Fragments, on Mysteries, 86; hiog., 564.
Aristogeiton, degrades Eleusinia, 87.
Aristophanes, The Frogs, divulges some secrets, 90-91.
Aristotle: on criticism, 436; on man, 451; on philos. stone, 518 (541).
–, Metaphysics, on gods, 110 (124).
Armies, and fleets as wasted effort, 156.
Arnold, Edwin, Light of Asia, 205, 208, 348.
Arrian, Anabasis, on Nysa and Dionysos, 94 fn., 565.
Art Magic. See Hardinge-Britten.
Arte Poetica. See Roscommon.
Aryan (s): and Egyptians from same stock, 338; philosophy deepest of all, 143.
Ascetic: life, in midst of world, 471; life, and life as hermit, 346.
rAsclepieion. See Girard.
Ashmole, Elias: and esoteric Masonry, 175 (183); real founder of modern Masonry, 178 (184); biogr., 565-66.
Asklepieia, and ex-votos, 243(279) fn.
Asklepios, 243 (279).
Asoka, reforms of, 196.
Astarte, and Isis, 96-97.
Astral: body and residues from other lives, 136; light, 490, 501.
Astrolatry, Chaldean, 194-95.
Astrology, no longer pure divine science, 525 (548).
Atheism: Bacon on, and philosophy, 439; and blasphemy, 190; and Bradlaugh, 335, 373; discussed, 372 et seq., 409; and infidelity, 62-63; and Shelley, 199.
Atheism. See Shelley.
Atheists: at liberty to join T.S., 375; Theosophists no, 239(276), 372 et seq., 409.
Athenagoras, 272, 566.
Atlantis, and Ireland, 304.
Atma-Buddhi, 489, 490, 494.
Atoms: endless subdivision of, 158; of chemistry exist only in imagination, 119 (133).
Attius, Philoctetes, 86.
Augustine, St., Contra Epistolam Manichaei, etc., 35, 566.
Authority, never believe on mere, 139.
Avatâra(s): 58, 61; and Divine Dynasties, 228 ( 264) ; as first dynasties of divine Rulers, 85; Kalki, 48 ; personal, of historical heroes, 139-40.
Avichi : 57 ; self-created, 446 fn.
Avidyâ, and Theos, work, 353.
Azoth, and creative principle, 506 (529).
Bacchus, nature and origin of, 9394 fn.
Bacon, F., on atheism and philosophy, 439.
Bacon, Roger, Treatise on the Admirable Force, etc., on secret cryptography, 524 (547), 566.
602 Baptism, of John, 493-94, 497.
Baronius, Card.: old book excerpted from the Annals of, 360, 563; biogr., 566.
–, Annals, on pagan worship, 79.
Basilides, “God-Nothing” of, 240 (276) et seq.; system of, similar to Vedanta, 242 (278).
Bastian, A.: and fakirs, 289; biogr., 567.
Bathell, 303.
Bath Koi, and Joannes, 492.
Beacon-light(s): as Divine Wisdom, 219 (255); beyond the sea of Theosophic sciences, 247 (283); true and false, 212-13 (248-49).
Being, and existence, 240 (27677).
Bellarmin, Card. R. F. R.: De Eccles. Triumphante, on vigil, 91; biogr., 567.
Berthelot, M. P. E., La Synthese chimique, on alchemists, 509 (532), 567.
Besant, Annie: 397, 427; alleged conversion of, from atheism, 406 et seq.; embodiment of brotherhood, 374, 376; joined T.S. of own free will, 333, 419 et seq.; not pressured by H.P.B. to join T.S., 420-21; on God idea, 410; on objects of T.S., 334.
–“Why I became a Theoso- phist, 408.
Bhagavad-Gita, 488.
Bhaskara, symbol of Sun, 68.
Bible: adultery, polygamy & polyandry in, 35 et seq.; and letter J, 497; misinterpreted, 525 (547); stolen by fanatical Christians, 42.
Biblical, allegories unreliable, 14.
Birds, as symbols of Buddhi & Manas, 44.
Blake, Dr. C. Carter, 303, 304.
Blasphemy, and ridicule, 189-90 et seq.
Blasphemy Laws: and Foote, 423; repealed, 188-89, 191.
Blavatsky, H. P. : accepts as authority only esoteric teachings of Masters, 465; allegedly bamboozling people, 46; allegedly psychologized people, 55; alone responsible for members of E.S., 380 ; appeals for support of Lucifer, 453-55; attacked and ridiculed, 289; brought up among Buddhists, 429; and H. E. Butler, 159-60; called “snuffy old woman,” 369; can teach if she has Knowledge, 307 et seq.; denounced by Coues, 297-98; discusses Foote’s accusations, 423 et seq.; either truthful, or old fraud, 309, 560; experts’ opinion on alleged forged handwriting, 405-06 ; gave only fragmentary account of travels, 363 ; has no secrets and nothing to dread from truth, 306; her sister’s account of her life, 364 fn.; in France & on Jersey, 355; and Lane, 551 et seq.; and Letter C, 322; loyal to death to Theos. Cause & Teachers, 380, 559; misrepresented, 401 et seq., 55960; never “enthroned,” 390; never practiced as spiritist medium or gave séances, 423; normal state of being penniless, 559; not “loyal to Adyar,” 38081 ; and Olcott karmically responsible for T.S., 382; on some moves and travels, 364 ; owes no allegiance to Council, 382; personal background & Lord Ripon, 422; powerful appeal to mystics & crisis which is preparing, 110 603(123) et seq.; praises Olcott, 380-81; prepared for martyrdom, 559; prevented from seeking redress, 388-89; relation to T.S., 381; refuses to teach Mabel Collins, 319; and “Russian Spy” scare, 157, 460-61; and Dr. Scharlieb, 388; voluntary hard labor of, 421 fn.; whereabouts of, and authorship of Light on the Path, 284 et seq., 315 et seq., 326-27; will fight for T.S. till last breath, 559.
– Instructions, 310.
– The Key to Theosophy: 425; explains what Esoteric Theosophy believes in or rejects, 399; purpose of, 339; when published, 365.
–The Secret Doctrine, doctrine barely sketched in, 112 (126).
– The Voice of the Silence: 470; on action & inaction, 469; where written, 355 fn.
– Theosophical Glossary, 365. Blavatsky Lodge, and devoted Theosophists, 556.
“Bloods,” same as “lives,” 489.
Bodhisattvas, renounce Nirvana, 348-49.
Bodhism, esoteric, is Buddhism, 473.
Boerhaave, H., 510(533), 568.
Book of Dzyan, 85.
Book of Numbers, Chaldean, 244 (281), 495; hardly any copy left, 526(549), 568.
Book of the Dead, and Thoth, 229 (265).
Book of the Golden Precepts, 319. Books, prohibited in Russia, 461. Books of Thoth, 228 (265).
Booth, Gen., and Grant Allen, 201.
Borrichius, Olaus; and alchemy, 511 (534); biogr., 568.
Boston Globe, 51, 60.
Bowen, Prof. F., on reincarnation, 142.
Bradlaugh, Chas.: 406, 407, 409, 411; as mesmeric healer, 334, 336; misrepresents Theosophy, 333; praised and his objections to Theosophy discussed, 334 et seq.
Brahma: days and nights of, 241 (278) fn., 466; Vedas out of mouth of, 257.
Brahma Prabhavapyaya, 257.
Brahma-Vidya, is Theosophy, 235 (271).
Brahmacharins, 221 (256).
Brahmanas, on soma juice, 235 (272).
Brahmanism, in Babylonia, 277 (263).
Brahmins, opposed to doctrines of Theosophy, 432.
Brain, capacity of, and higher consciousness, 451.
Bread, and wine, 69, 93 et seq., 100.
Bridge, J. Ransom, 159.
Brotherhood: and altruism, 164, 166; ignored, 111(125); and object of T.S., 377; spiritual, of man, 410; T.S. as tree of, 245-46 (282-83); Universal, as touchstone of progress, 151, 156; and work of T.S. in Orient, 393 et seq.
Brown-Sequard, Dr., and elixir of life, 459.
Brugsch-Bey, H. K.: on Egyptian Gods, 227 (264); biogr., 568-69.
Buddha, Gautama: asceticism of, for seven years, 346-47; as pio-604neer socialist, 374; divine man par excellence, 205; and dried boar’s flesh, 207; esoteric teaching of, 345, 347, 473; reform of, and Theosophy, 226 (262); Samadhi of, 347; truths taught by, and intellectual thinkers of West, 208.
Buddhas of Confession, 349.
Buddhi: and Elias, 492; and phos, 486.
Buddhism: and Budhism, 432-33; distorted, 207; and esoteric Bodhism, 373; in Japan, 29899; real Eastern, 352; and work of T.S. in Ceylon, 395, 397 et seq.
Buddhism. See Monier-Williams.
Buddhism. See Schlagintweit.
Buddhist, significance of, flag, 395. Buddhist (Colombo), on women, 444-45.
Buddhist Catechism. See Olcott.
Budha, means wisdom, 257.
Bull, symbolic meaning of, 43-44, 502.
Bunsen, Baron, 227 (263).
Burgoyne, T.H., 386, 417, 569.
Burritt, Elihu; on man’s influence, 56-57; biogr., 569.
Busiris, of Oxley, 302.
Butler, Hiram E.: and H.P.B., 159-60, 341-42; and Light of Egypt, 385.
Byron, G. G. B., Don Juan, on dinner bell, 203.
– The Island, on swearing, 437.
Caena, and mass, 79, 98.
Caine, Wm. S.: Letters from India, on failure of missionaries, 102, 403; biogr., 569-70.
Calasiris, 77.
Caligula, wish of, 245 (282).
Calvin: on Hell & infants’ skulls, 68-69; and predestination, 141. Cana, marriage in, esoteric meaning of, 499 et seq.
Carne. See Tertullian.
Caste, race and money, 150-51.
Cause: disloyalty to the, and H.P.B.’s views on it, 380-81, 384 ; T.S. represents the, 380-81.
Celibacy, and vegetarianism not enforced in T.S. or E.S., 428.
Censure, and persecution, 294.
Centrum. See Alipili.
Century, our, boastful and cruel, 187.
Ceres: festivals of, 100; or Demeter, 94.
Ceres Eleusina, as Earth, 69.
Ceylon: condition in, before T.S. and after, 393 et seq.; women in, 440, 444.
Chaho, J. A.: Philosophie des religions, etc., on Sun & devs, 83; biogr., 570.
Chain, or worlds and evolution of man & animals, 138 fn.
Chaos: 485; and Plêrôma, 491.
Charaka, 243 (279).
Charis (yapis), grace, 490.
Charity: in true Theosophists and no reprisals, 306 ; true, and false munificence, 196.
Chasuble, 77.
Chelaship: as state of mind, 300; opposed to mediumistic sensitiveness, 50; unselfishness as first necessity in, 301. Chemistry, birth of, 506 (529).
Chevreul, M.-E.; had library on alchemy, 509 (532) ; biogr., 570.
Chhâyâs, shades, 488.
605 Chidakasa, and pralaya, 476.
Child, no devachan for, dying before age of reason, 140.
China: antiquity of Empire of, 14 et seq.; “Heaven” of, 17; language of, 16; and origin of Alchemy, 512 (535), 514 (537).
Chinese: alchemy compared with Hermetic Sciences, 515 ((538) et seq.; orders of nobility of, and philosophical mind, 18.
Chinese Buddhism. See Edkins.
Chinmatra, and Pralaya, 476.
Choephorae. See Aeschylus.
Chrestos, on trial, 90, 495.
Chris (xpcs), chrio (xpito), anointed, 100.
Christian, seekers often quite reasonable, 138.
Christian College Magazine, 102, 321.
Christian Commonwealth, on Mrs. Besant & Theosophy, 457.
Christianity: advocated for Japan, 106 et seq.; Church, severe condemnation of, 72; copied from Pagan symbology and Gnosticism, 376; fall & decadence of, impending, 106; mock, and degradation of men, 108; no temples in early, 66; and political exigency, 106; powers of, violent, 245 (282); practical, and Church Fathers’ ideals, 84; and religion of Christos, the Logos, 377; sprang from ancient Masonry, 84, 92; very near its end, 32.
Christians, as primitive Theoso- phists, 80.
Christos: 492; 494; mystic religion of, the Logos, 377.
Church: almost every, once a pagan temple, 78; appropriates Masonic rituals, 173 (181); papers of, misrepresent Theosophy, A. Besant, etc., 401 et seq.; relation of, to early philosophers, 71; rites, vestments, etc., of pagan origin, 76 et seq.; sentenced to yield its place to religion and die, 226 (262); severe condemnation of, Christianity, 72.
Church Chronicle, 81.
Church Reformer, The, 374-75, 401, 411.
Cicero, De divinatione, on foreseeing, 356.
–De legibus: on degradation of Mysteries, 91; on religious observances, 193.
–De natura, etc., on Eleusis, 86.
–Oratio pro Flacco, on Jews, 38.
Circle, triangle & quaternary, 506 (529).
City, as symbol of public cult, 89. Civilization: Christian, its symptoms, 10-11; degraded by Church Christianity, 108; evils of, 193-94; higher, where there are no “poor,” 105; may sink into a sea of horror, 202; modem, profligate impostor, 200; Western, as heir to Eastern, 338.
Classes, lower, and contempt by the higher, 11.
Clemens Alexandrinus, pagan at heart, 73.
–Stromateis, on Mysteries, 87, 570.
Coleman, W. Emmette, 298.
“Colenso,” on “Koothoomi Dethroned,” 378, 387-88.
Coleridge, 226 (262).
606 Collins, Mabel: meets H.P.B., 284 et seq.; sides with Cones in attacks, 310.
–Idyll of the White Lotus, 284, 316, 318, 325, 326.
–The Blossom and the Fruit, and Fleta, 301.
–Through the Gates of Gold, 286, 318.
Colossians, on lies, 401.
Colors, symbology of, 213 (249) fn.
Commentary. See Proclus.
Conceit, and vanity, 197, 198, 201.
Conditions, required to reach a higher state, 122 (135).
Conscience, as supreme guide, 122 (135).
Consciousness: absolute and unconsciousness, 415; highest and lowest states of, and memory of the dying, 453; and Pralaya, 476; psychic and spiritual, and memory at death, 451.
Constantine, heathen who established state religion, 106.
Constitutions. See Anderson, Dr. J. Contemporary Review: 58; Donaldson’s views on woman’s position in early Christianity, 441-43.
Conversations Lexicon, 199.
Converts, fooled, 195.
Cook, Mrs. See Collins, Mabel.
Cooper-Oakley, Mrs. I., and H.P.B.’s health in 1885, 388.
1 Corinthians, 81.
Corpuscles, spherical, 158.
Correspondences, and interdependence, 230 (267).
Cory, I. P., Ancient Fragments, 17, 571.
Coryn, Dr. Herbert A. W., 300, 571.
Cosmogony, and theogony, 473. Cosmopolita. See Eyraeneus. Cosmos: as “God” of Theosophists, 409; in Gospel of John, 489. See also Kosmos.
Coues, Elliott: and authorship of Light on the Path, 284 et seq., 313 et seq.; confused on dates, 284-85; denounces H.P.B., 29798; and E.S., 295, 308 et seq., 341-42; expelled, 463, 504; and forged letters from K.H., 21011; praised, 160, 164; tries to intimidate H.P.B., 329, 553.
–Kuthumi, etc., 315 fn.
Coulombs: themselves cheated, 417, 423; Gen. Morgan & H.P.B., 388-89.
Crawford, J. M. See Kalevala.
Creation(s) :and manvantaras, 241 (278) fn.; mysteries of, divulged by divine Rulers, 85.
Creation. See Quinet.
Crisis, intellectual and psychic preparing, 117 (131) et seq.
Criticism: Aristotle on, 436; two methods of, 223 (259).
Crookes, Sir Wm.: and Advaita, 399; and idea of transmutation, 508 (531); intuition of, and radiant matter, 234 (270).
Crypts, and initiation, 90.
Cube, and Masonry, 174 (182) & fn.
Cullavagga, 346, 571.
Cycle(s): as spirals, 151; closing, and its characteristics, 201; new, and true Theosophists, 202; our, and the next, 186 et seq.; repeat themselves, 186; return of, mystical thought in Europe, 116 (130) et seq.
Cynocephalus, 74.
Cyril of Alexandria, 73.
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Dan, tribe of, 495-96.
Dana, Chas., misrepresents H.P.B., 368-69.
Darkness, skotos, 486-87. Darstellung. See Hegel. David Rafon of Corfu, Rabbi, 30. Death: life after, created by man himself, 304; panoramic vision at, 446-47 et seq.
Decharme, P., Mythologie de la Grèce antique, 513 (536) fn., 571.
Deity, of Theosophy, 410.
Deluge, aproaching, 117 (130).
Demeter, or Ceres, female productive principle of Earth, 93-94.
Demigods, antediluvian, 117(130). Dendera, Zodiac of, 7.
Desire, for material things, 105. Deuteronomy, on word, 521 (544). Devachan: created by man himself, 304, 446 fn. ; error in defining term, 449 & fn.; length of, 139; and memory of dying, 446 fn., 447 ; no, for child dying before reason, 140.
Dexiphanes, causeway of, 356.
Dhammapada, quoted, 343, 350, 470, 471.
Dhyâna, 290.
Diamond Heart (magic), 230 (267).
Diana, 97.
Dick, Frederick J., 571-72.
Dickens, Chas. J., Martin Chuzzlewit, 187.
Dikastery, of Athens & Socrates, 438.
Diet, of rich & poor, 153 et seq. Dina-kara, symbol of Sun, 68. Dinner-bell, Byron on, 203.
Diocletian, burns Egyptian books on alchemy, 513 (536), 526 (549).
Disciples, victorious, in T.S., 239 (275).
Discourses. See Epictetus.
Diseases, “talked away” in Russia, 210.
Divinatione. See Cicero.
Divine: as union & love, 150; union with, 215 (251).
Don Juan. See Byron.
Donaldson, on woman in early Christianity, 441-43.
Dove, 496, 497, 502.
Doxa (8ofa), 490.
Drach, Chevalier: converted Rabbi, 244 (281); and Kabala, 525 (548).
Dreams, reasoning paralyzed in, 224 (260).
Drones, 121 (135).
Duchoul, G.: Discours, etc., 76, 77; biogr., 572.
Dues, abolished, 12, 116 (129).
Dvija, twice-born, same as initiate, 177 (185).
Dyaus, and Surya, 67-68, 69.
Dyaus-Pitar, 68.
Dyava-Prithivi, 68.
Dzyan, as Theosophy, 235 (271).
Eagle, as symbol of Sun, 75 fn.
Earth: as Demeter or Ceres, 9394; and Moon interchangeable, 70 fn.; Slavonian legend about, and the Jews, 361.
Earthquakes, possible, 356.
East, as symbol, 83.
608 Easter, origin of, 70.
Eben Shetiyyah, perfect cube, 174 (182).
Eccl. Triumph. See Bellarmine. Echo (London), confused, 19-20. Eclectics, of Alexandria, 92. Editors, plight of, 368 et seq.
Edkins, Rev. J., Chinese Buddhism, on esoteric doctrine of Buddha, 345, 572.
“Egg-born,” 489.
Ego: Divine, and higher senses, 233 (270), 468; Egyptian teachings about, 8; Higher, almost omniscient in its immortal nature, 448; incarnated, superior to Intelligences awaiting incarnation, 64; and indivisible All, 246 (283); lives over whole life at death, 447; never recedes into animal kingdom, 138 fn.; passes through every animal form, 138 fn.; reflection of Higher, 492 fn.; reincarnating, is Karana Sarira, 476; and reincarnation, 137; Spiritual, & materialism, 118 (131); Spiritual, & Planetary Spirits, 63. Egoism: and labor for others, 469; and mediocrity, 217 (253); of Yogis, 218 (254).
Egypt: ancestors of, and of Aryans sprang from same stock, 338; and Dravidians from India, 227 (263) ; initiated priests of, 6 fn., 512 (534); possible earthquake in, 356; Pyramid of Cheops, 359; treasures of, at Paris Exhibition, 358.
Eiffel Tower: 194, 198; fungi of commercial enterprise, 355.
Eighteen eighty-nine, potentiality of digits in, 119 (133).
Electra. See Sophocles.
Elements: and meta—, 508 (531); mystic meaning of term, 117 (130).
Eleusinia: 86-87, 493; degraded, 87; survived longer, 93.
Elias : as Buddhi, 492; and John, 492-93.
Elixir (s): two, in alchemy, 515 (538); vitae, 517 (540).
Elohim, 24, 27.
El-Shaddai, 362.
Emotionalism, nervous disease, 201.
Encheiridion of Alchemists, on philosophers’ stone, 520 (543).
Encyclopaedia, on philosophy, 434.
Enemies: and calumniators, as scavengers of T.S., 303; discussed at length, 306 et seq.; and Lane, 555 et seq.; of T.S., 163, 165, 168; the one, of T.S. is Roman Catholicism, 339.
English Cyclopaedia. See Knight, Chas.
Ephod, 77.
Epictetus, advice of, 47.
–Discourses, on Mysteries, 87, 573.
Ephesians, 486.
Epidarus, rotunda of, at Cos, 243 (279).
Epistles. See Pope.
Epistola. See Hieronymous.
Epoptae (Epoptes), 85, 88, 171 (179), 172 (180).
Error, and prejudice, 330 et seq.
Esoteric Section: and Coues, 295, 341-42; fund of, supported by the few, 558; H.P.B. alone responsible for members of, 380; and R. Harte, 379 et seq.; methods of, 234 (271); organization of, purpose, and enemies of, 167-68, 307 et seq.; relation to 609Judge, 329; and term philologist, 230 (267); and T.S.; 33839, 380, 381.
Esotericism, Schools of, international, 221 (256).
Espagnet, Jean d’; on alchemical writings, 521 (544); hiogr., 573.
Esprits. See Mirville.
Essence: of Logos, 488; divine, unconnected with matter, 64; the One, 515 (538); universal, 109 (123).
Eternity: and mäyä, 475; and the One Wisdom, 490.
Ethics, more needed than psychic facts, 162.
Ethiopians, of the East its Dravidians, 227 (263).
Eucharist, pagan in origin, 94.
European, nations & their level of morality, 108.
Eusebius, Josephus, and Bish. Lardner, 404-05.
–Life of Constantine, on adoption of pagan rites, 70, 573.
Evening Express (Liverpool), abuses Paracelsus, 458-59.
Evening Standard, on Egyptian Mysteries, 5 et seq.
Evening Star (Washington), and Coues, 341.
Evolution: as blood of Humanity, 225 (262); forces of, and New Idea, 119 (133); of human consciousness, 149; proceeds spirally, 151; same order of, for man and animals on Chain, 138 fn.; wave of mystical, and psychic evolution, 118 (132).
Exhibition, Paris, 357-58.
Exodus, 44, 189, 227 (264).
Eyraeneus Philaletha Cosmopolita, Secrets Revealed, on alchemy, 519 ( 542), 573.
Facts, and opinions, 331 et seq.
Fa-hua-Ching, contains esoteric teachings, 345, 573-74.
Fakirs: long trances of, and Yogis, 290; Mussulman devotees, 289.
“Fallen Angels,” repudiated by Theosophy, 228 (264).
Fallen Idol. See Anstey.
Fathers, of Church as executioners of Heresies, 242 (278).
Fauchet, C.: Les Antiquités, etc., on pagan ceremonies, 79 ; biogr., 574.
Felix, M. Minucius, Octavius, on temples and altars, 80.
Female, occult, element, 40.
Ferré, Dr., on memory in the dying, 448.
Fichte, J. G., on interrelation of past and future, 186, 198.
Figulus, P. Nigidius: on dove, egg & fish, 496; biogr., 574.
Finch, visits H.P.B., 286.
Fire(s) : as symbol, 49, 503; solar, symbol of creative powers, 6465.
First Principles. See Spencer. Fish, waters and initiation, 495. Five Years of Theosophy, 94 fn. Flag, Buddhist, esoteric significance of, 395.
Flamin es, 76.
Fleta, picture of black magician, 301.
“Fool,” idea of, erroneous, 473 et seq.
Foote, G. W., 408, 411, 457.
–Mrs. Besant’s Theosophy. 402, 411-12 fn.; analysed, exposed, 419 et seq.
Force(s) : creative, from the un-610known, 120 (134); mystic, rising from beyond & cannot be stopped, 118 (131) ; of evolution and New Idea, 119 (133); two moral, in supreme contest, 118 (132).
Founders, false accusations against, 13.
Fragments. See Aristides.
Franck, A.; La Kabbale, on Ain- Soph, 241 (277); biogr., 575.
Frederick. See Haywood.
Freedom, of thought, 119 (133). Freethinker: 402, 418 et seq.; policy of, 407-08 fn.
Freethought: bigoted and vindictive, 407; T.S. owes a great deal to, 411.
Frogs. See Aristophanes.
Galatians: 145; on Sarah, 511 (534) fn.
Galignani Messenger, on Abbé Roca, 60.
Galli, 77.
Geber: and alchemy, 515 (538), 517 (540) ; biogr., 575-76.
Gebhard, Arthur, 285.
Genesis, 511 (534).
Geography. See Strabo.
Geschichte. See Kopp.
Girard, Paul, L’ Asclepieion, etc., 243 (279) fn., 576.
Globe (London), 456.
Gnosis: exoteric and esoteric, 220 (256) ; influence of, in later centuries, 215 (251) ; Pythagorean, 87, 214 (250) ; Theosophy as direct descendant of Universal, 227(264); and Vidyâ, 235 (271) fn.
Gnostics: Jewish, and secrets of initiation, 73; no Polytheists, 239(276); slandered by Church Fathers, 71.
Gnostics. See King.
God: and atheism, 62-63; attributes of, unphilosophical, 209; extra-cosmic, rejected, 373, 416; limitations of term, 24, 27, 67 et seq.; no personal, outside of man himself, 239 (276); of Theosophy is Cosmos itself, 409; Olcott & Blavatsky do not believe in a personal, 335; personal, as collectivity of spiritual hosts, 64; personal, of Theists, 416; personal, and Theosophists, 414; personal, unphilosophical, 143-44, 414 et seq.
“God-Nothing,” of Basilides, 240 (276) et seq.
Gods: ancient, adopted by Christians, 70; as First Principles, 110 (124) ; foretaste of knowledge of the, 118 (132); fourfaced, 80; Hindu, as signs and symbols, 64; of same essence as Higher Self of man, 64; stories about, either allegories or fables, 236 (272-73); stories of, and Goddesses and human principles, 502; and universal essence, 110 (124).
Godwin, Wm., 512 (535).
–Lives of the Necromancers: on Diocletian burning alchemical books, 514 (537); on elixir vitae, 518 (541); 576.
Goethe, 41, 43, 186.
Golden Age, conditions for, 202. Golden Ass. See Apuleius.
Golden Fleece, & Caucasian races, 513 (536).
Golden Year. See Tennyson. Goupillon, 77.
611 Grammarian, as occult term, 230 (267).
“Great Renunciation,” 63.
Greek, terms in Gospel of John, analyzed, 483 et seq.
Greek, terms in, letters, 36, 87, 88, 89 fn., 99, 100, 171, 172, 179, 180, 214, 220, 229, 233, 236, 240, 242, 250, 256, 265, 270, 273, 277, 278, 513, 535.
Greeks, ignorant of Hermetic sciences up to Neo-Platonism, 513 (536).
Gregory I: command of, to monks, 79; and worship of Mary, 95; biogr., 577-78.
Groups, of uneven numbers for occult study, 230(266), 238(275).
Gubematis, A. de, Zoological Mythology, on Golden Fleece, 513 (536) fn., 577.
Gupta-Vidya: Catechism of the, quoted on studies of Lanoos, 230 (267) ; Gnosis as continuation of, 215 (251); only for the few, 220 (256) ; secret science and its dangers, 212 (248).
Giitzlaff, Carl F. A., History of China, on porcelain Tower of Nankin, 359; 577.
Guyon, Madame Jeanne: 215 (251); biogr., 577.
Gymnosophists, 508 (531).
Hadês: 89 et seq., 93-94 fn., 97, 100; and initiation, 495, 499.
Half-castes, production of European ethics, 200.
Hall, R., on atheism, 63.
Hamilton, Sir Wm., on philosophy, 434, 435.
Hammond, Dr. Wm. A., art. of, 459 fn., 577.
Ha - Nephesh hah -hokhmah. See Moses de Leon.
Handwriting, allegedly forged by H. P. B. and experts’ opinion, 405-06.
Happiness, material and spiritual, 105.
Hardinge-Britten, E., Art Magic, etc., and Lord Rosse’s telescope, 363.
Hardy, R. Spence, Manual of Buddhism, 346, 578.
Harlotry, 155.
Harmony, Universal, and Karma, 145.
Harris, Lake, 58.
Harte, Richard: misrepresents facts in the Journal, 378 et seq., 38788; and The Theosophist, 481-82.
Hartmann, Dr. Franz, in error, 472.
–“The Talking Image of Urur,” why published, 45 et seq.
Harvest, and mass, 98-99.
Hawk, sacred to Sun, 44.
Hawk, on SD and the S.P.R., 157.
Haywood, Eliza, Frederick, etc., on censure, 438.
“H. B. of L.,” and other pseudoesoteric bodies, 47, 51 et seq., 165, 385, 417.
Headlam, Rev. Stewart D., on Theos, and A. Besant, 374-76.
Healing art, and ancient legends, 243 (279).
Hebrew, and Greek texts & difficulties in translating, 482-83.
Hebrews: robbed of Mosaic Books and avenged, 42.
Hecate, 97.
612 Hegel, Darstellung, etc., 435.
Hell, descent into, meaning of, 89 et seq.
Hellas. See Shelley.
Help, we owe to man, 465.
Hermes: canons of, 236 (272); generic title, 511 (534); god of esoteric wisdom, 257. See also Thoth.
Hermetic: fragments purposely distorted by Latin authors, 526 (549); Smaragdine Tablet, as fragment of real, Books, 526 (549).
Hermit, selfish life of a, 218 (254), 343-44, 346, 471.
Herodotus, an initiate, 5.
Heroism, ancient and modem, 197.
Hershel, Sir. Wm., and John Hershel & sunspots, 232 (268).
Hesiod, poetic fancy of, 69.
Hesychius, on agyrmos, 99 fn., 578.
Heriocoraces, loose robe of Mith- raic priests, 76.
Hieronymous, Epistola XIV, on trampling mother’s body, 84; 579.
Hierophant, 172 (180).
Higgins, Anthony, and incorporation of T.S. Branch, 384.
Higgins, Godfrey, Anacalypsis, on arche, 484, 578.
High Priest, consecration words of, 101.
Higher Self: essentially same as the Gods, 64; and initiation, 94, 501; key to all success, 398; and marriage at Cana, 499; only eternal Now for, 105; or divine ego, 468. See also Self.
Himalayas, keys to true symbolism is beyond, 245 (281).
Hippolytus, Philosophumena, 214 (250), 242 (278), 578.
Hiram Abif: 79, 101; and Worm Shermah-Samis, 174 (182).
Historia. See Zosimus.
History. See Gutzlaff.
History. See Lewes.
History. See Ueberweg.
Hood, missionary, 512 (535).
Horus, Sun & Moon, 96.
Hostiae, hostes, hostage, 98, 99.
Hiibbe-Schleiden, Dr. Wm.: on Buddhism & the Buddha, 341 et seq.; on helping others, etc., 464 et seq.
Hughes, 391.
Hugo, Victor, on the 20th century, 202.
Humanity: as embodiment of collective spirit of life, 469; of manu-bearing globes, 466; need of assimilating all, 213 (248) fn.; new archway called, 117 (131) ; service of, 106; spiritual progress through the bulk of, 105; sympathy for, 350.
Hypatia, 73.
Hypnotism, as Black Magic, 164, 508 (531).
Hypocrisy: and lies, 187-88; and popularity, 2 et seq.
Hyponoia, 109 (123).
Hysteria, and dreams, 224 (260).
lamblichus, De mysteriis: 214 (250); on intuition, 217-18 (253); 578.
lao (Ιαώ), 492.
Ibn Gebirol (Avicebron): and Ka- balah, 28 et seq.; biogr., 578-79.
613 I Ching, 29, 579.
Ichthus, fish, as a nickname, 495. Idea, New, and forces of evolution, 119 (133).
Ideal, everyone can create an, and follow it, 121 (135).
Idolatry, 66.
Ignorance: about Theosophy, 462; and inner knowledge, 452.
Ilangakoon, Mrs. C. D., and Olcott’s Buddhist Catechism and Adyar Oriental Library, 445.
Illuminati, 171 (179).
Illusion (s): of material atoms, 119 (133) ; psychological, and physical phenomena, 336.
Immortality: conscious, in spirit & alchemy, 515 (538); and philosophers’ stone, 520 (543).
Impudence, and lies, 291. Incidents. See Sinnett.
India: condition in, before T.S. and after, 393 et seq.; Nat’l Congress of, 394.
Individualism, and self, 151.
Individuality: collective, 212(248) and personality, 197, 246 (283).
Inferences, of science, 303.
Infinite: cannot be known to reason, 222 (258); and Finite, 414.
Ingersoll, Col. R.: 191; on Jehovah & Brahma, 68.
Initiate(s) : become renegades to serve secrets of Initiation, 73-74; defined, 758, 170 (178) et seq.; recognize each other by aura, 497; sacramental words of, 101; struggle of, with Synagogue, 491; treatises written by real, exist in national libraries, 527 (549).
Initiation: as birth into a new life, 177 (185); as rebuilding the temple, 89; derivation of term, 172 (180); and descent into Hades, 90 et seq.; final, allegorized in 2nd chapter of John, 498 et seq.; grades of, 493; had its cradle in India, 177 (185); and letter J in Bible, 497; New Testament as allegorical representation of cycle of, 495; secrets of, saved by Initiates, 73; wrong views about, 363.
Injustice, and cruelty, 10-11.
Inman, Dr. Thos.: 484; biogr., 579.
Innocents, as ritualistic expression, 101.
Intelligences, awaiting incarnation, 64.
Interdependence, and universal correspondences, 230 (267).
Intolerance: and dogmatism, 48182; effects of, 32.
Intuition: nature and action of, 217 (253), 232 (258); no infallible, 466.
Joannes, John, Dagon, Vishnu, 488. Ireland, once abode of Atlantean emigrants, 304.
Irenaeus Philalethes, on macrocosm, 518-19 (541).
–Ripley Revived, on alchemical writings, 521 (544).
Isi, Issi, Isis, 495.
Isis Myrionymus, 97.
Islam, powerful coherence of, 194. Island. See Byron.
Israel, Sons of, 362.
Israelites: and black magic, 44; bloodthirsty and sensual, 37.
Isvara, 476.
J, names in Bible beginning with, 497.
614 Jagad-yoni; and arche, 484; and Pleroma, 491.
Jah-hovah, 496.
Jahveh, 221 (257) fn.
Japan: advised to embrace Christianity, 106 et seq., 161-62; and Col. Olcott’s work, 395.
Jehovah, “Holy of Holies” of, unlawfully carried off by Christians, 362.
Jerdan, on error, 330; 579.
Jerome. See Hieronymous.
Jesus: as pioneer socialist, 374; and Bishop Lardner, 404-05; derivation of term, 495; never anointed, 100. See also Nazarene.
Jews: a wonder of the Christian era, 361; and Colossus of Rhodes, 360; European potentates in debt to, 361-62; plunderous, 40; sensual, 37.
Jiva(s), and Nirvana, 468.
Jivanmukta(s), 468, 474.
Jivatman, and jivas, 468.
Jnana, 474.
Jnana-Vidya, is Theosophy, 235 (271).
Job, 175 (183), 357.
John, the Evangelist, and John of Apocalypsis, 74-75.
John, Joannes, Dagon, Vishnu, 488, 492, 496.
John, 89, 94, 143-44.
John, Gospel of: opening chapters discussed and analyzed, 483 et seq.; second chapter deals with final Initiation, 498 et seq.
Johnson, on perseverance, 391.
Jonah, whale of, 496.
Jordan, Jar-ed, 495-96.
Josaphat, St., 208.
Josephus, Eusebius & Bishop Lardner, 404-05.
Joy, and bliss as results of expanding selflessness, 149.
Judge, Wm. Q.: and E. S., 329; and Lane, 552, 557; and Light on the Path, 326-28.
Justice, and charity, 192.
Justin, St., on agapae, 99.
Juvenal, on pride, 197. -VIth Satire, 77, 579.
Kabalah: altered, distorted to suit Christian ends, 244 (281) ; discussed, 21 et seq.; modem, and Roman Catholicism, 525 ( 548); originated in Aryan thought, 28, 31.
Kabalists: confused, 243 (280); ignorant, 225 (261); mutually inimical, 238 (274).
Kabbale. See Frank.
Kadeshim, 77.
Kalevala, on Mariatta and babe, 65-66, 571.
Kali, lower aspect of Akasa, 490. Kaliya, great serpent, 212 (248). Kali-yuga: first great cycle within, is at an end, 245 (281) ; and Mahatmas, 293.
Kama-Ioka, 486.
Kama-Manas, 492 fn.
Kamarupa, 476, 499.
Kant, and identity of sun and planets, 233 (269).
Karana-Sarira, reincarnating ego, 476.
Kardecists, or reincamationists, 139.
615 Karma: a Master on, 168-69; as absolute equity, 145; as action and law of retribution, 143, 144; and fall of Christianity, 106; for hindering the force of the T.S., 166; free will and influencing others, 56; much of, cannot be relieved, 349; Naidu on three kings of, 144; national and individual, 352; of children and effects on parents, 140; of European Potentates, 361-62; and reincarnation discussed, 136 et seq., 202; and social reform, 246 (283).
Keely, corroborates occult sciences, 158.
Keightley, Dr. Archibald, on Light on the Path, 326-28; 579.
Keightley, Bertram: bungled up report on, 383, 400; letter of, 379 et seq., 400; on Mabel Collins & Light on the Path, 323; supports Lucijer, 559 fn.; 579.
Kennedy, Col. Vans, Researches, etc., 264, 580.
Keystone, of Arch of Masonry is broken, 173 (181).
Khanak, royal abode, 499.
King, C. W., Gnostics, etc.: 28-29; on missa, 98; 580.
II Kings, 77.
Kissos, 94 fn.
Knight, Chas., The English Cyclopaedia, on Chinese works, 16; 580.
Koot-humi, term found in Vishnu- Purana, 20.
Kopp, Dr. H.: Geschichte dec Chemie, on microcosm, 518 (541); biogr., 580.
Kosmocratores, 27.
Kosmos, 485.
Krishna: 520 (543); as witness, 488; and Bacchus, 94 fn.; and Kaliya, 212 (248).
Kriyasakti: 489; and alchemy, 517 (540) ; conducts creative Quintessence and may kill, 506 ( 529).
Kulluka-Bhatta, Annals, on ancient Egypt, 227 (263).
Kumaras, 40.
Kundalini, can kill if misused, 488.
“Kyrielle,” 74.
Kuthumi. See Coues, E.
Labor, and resources, 153 et seq. Lactantius, on lamps and sun, 82. Lamps, as symbols of sun, 82.
Lancaster Evening Post, on “The Talking Image, etc.,” 46.
Lane, M. A., facts concerning his association with T.S. and treachery, 551 et seq.
Lanka (Ceylon), and Egyptians, 227 (263).
Lardner, Bishop, nine reasons of, and Eusebius, 404-05.
Lavater: on honesty, 45; on hypocrisy, 3.
Laws, and their application, 188 et seq.
Leeds Mercury, on Burgoyne, 417.
Legibus. See Cicero.
Leo X, Pope, on fable of Christ, 81.
Letters. See Caine.
Letters. See Sinnett.
Levi, Eliphas: never received right to initiate others, 523 (546); received annuity, 522 (545).
Leviticus, 45.
616 Lewes, G. H., The History of Philosophy, 435, 580.
Lexicon. See Suidas.
Lhamayin, elementals, 500.
Liar, St. Paul on, 103.
Lies: and calumnies, 296-97, 31112; and deceptions, as product of our civilization, 287-88; and impudence, 291; more readily accepted than truth, 290; public accustomed to, 366 et seq.
Life, human, as collective spirit of, 469.
Life of Constantine. See Eusebius. Light, as phos (</>«■;), 486 et seq. Light (London), 297.
Light of Egypt, etc.: 417; discussed and exposed, 385-86.
Light of the World, 407, 410, 411, 420.
Light on the Path: authorship of, 284 et seq., 313 et seq., 324-25; priceless treatise, 310.
Limits. See Mansell.
Literary World, distorts Buddhism, 207.
“Lives,” as elemental centers of force, 489.
Locke, John, 431.
Lodge, origin of term, 98.
Logos: as only begotten Son, 491; in Gospel of John, 483 et seq.; mystic religion of Christos, the, 377; or “Second God,”241 (27778); unmanifested, same as Parabrahman, 483.
Loka, Lodge, 98.
Lokas, as seven globes of our Chain, 340.
London, center of vice, 11.
Lotus, 167.
Love, free of material molecules, 119 (133).
Lucifer: boycotted in England, 460; deficits of, borne by two devoted Fellows, 454, 559 fn.; needs a public fund, 454-55; policy of, 407-08 fn.
Luke, 95, 486.
Luperci, 294.
Lustration, and ablution, 77-78.
Lysippus, 359, 580.
Macauley, Lord, 188.
MacKenzie, K. R. H., The Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia, on alchemists, 510 (533); 580.
Mackey, A. G., Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, on MS. of N. Stone, 183; 580.
Magia. See Porta.
Magic: black, 56; black, & hypnotism, 164; black, and Theosophical studies, 229 (266); and magism, 516 (539); secret of, cannot be revealed to our race, 523 (546); and theurgy not understood, 234 (271); true, identical with Gnosis of Pythagoras, 214 (250).
Magna Mater, 70, 97.
Maguvius, and Colossus of Rhodes, 360.
Mahamaya, and human life, 475.
Mahatma, as a title, 458. Mahatma Letters. See Sinnett.
Mahayana: condemns self-torture, solitude, 348; on fundamental laws to escape rebirth, 348.
Maleville, de, on litanies of Virgin & Jesus, 96.
Malherbe, F. de, Consolation a Duperier, 231 (268); 580.
Malunkya Sutta, 346.
617 Man: as composite being, 505 (528) ; creates his own future, 304; dies without ever facing his soul, 242 (278) ; every, has responsive chord to kindness & truth, 353 ; inner, and occultism, 307, offspring of gods, 410; temple of his own personal god, 239 (276).
Manas: corresponds to Manomaya Kosa, 476; higher, 492; lower, sports in astral waves, 501; and phos, 487.
Mânasaputra, 502.
Mankind, unity of, and spiritual growth, 105.
Manomaya Kosa, corresponds to Manas, 476.
Mansel, H. L., The Limits, etc., 415, 581.
Manual of Buddhism. See Hardy. Manu-bearing, Globes, 466.
Manuscripts, secret, destroyed, 175 (183) &fn.
Manvantara, planetary and cosmic, 466.
Marcion: Gnosticism of, its moral effect, 108; on the God of hate, 69.
Marriage, divorce, discussed, 34 et seq.; at Cana, 499 et seq.
Martin, Rev. Wm. A. P., and alchemy in China, 512 (535), 516 (539), 581.
Martin. See Dickens.
Mashalim, on Wisdom, 221-22 (257-58) ; 581.
Masonry: Ashmole as real founder of modem, 176 (184) ; and Christian religion travestied copies of Paganism, 75; offspring of Mysteries, 84; originally archaic Gnosticism, 71 ; originated by Mystae, 88; secrets of symbolic, lost, 173 (181) et seq.; split, 72 fn.
Masons: misuse terms of the Mysteries, 172 (180); and Principe Createur, 24 et seq.; should study Theosophy to understand secrets, 76; and terminology of temples, 89.
Masoretic, points, 483, 495.
Mass, messis, liturgy, 69, 74, 98 et seq.
Massinger, P., on malice, 418; 581.
Masters: as living ideals, 293; believed in by millions in India, 292; genuine & pseudo, 54; hoaxes about, 293-94; letter from a, on Karma & Theoso- phists, 168-69; mortal men with abnormal powers, 159; names of, desecrated by public and would- be chelas, 211, 293; and Teachers, and their relation to H.P.B., 309-310; versed in original teachings revealed by divine men, 467.
Master Hilarion: 320; implied only, 316.
Master K. H.: 314-15, 430; and alleged “forged” letters, 405 et seq.; has not communicated with anyone since 1885, except H.P.B., 210; nonsense about, 378, 387; on panoramic vision at death, 446-47.
Materialism: as spiritual blindness, 505 (528) ; brutal struggle between, and mysticism approaching, 117 (131); scientific, 408; and Secularism, 409 fn., 439; T.S. as ark against deluge of, 246 (282); will not gain the upper hand, 117 (131).
Matter: real, or substance, 506 (529); roots of, do not exist, but are eternally, 119 (133); 618and Spirit distinct only as a maya, 336.
Matthew·. 81, 84, 197, 486; on mysteries, 237 (273); on pearls and swine, 221 (257), 293.
Mavalankar, Damodar K., 552.
Maya: deceits of, 198; and everlasting eternity, 475; light as, 487; and nature of sun, 232 (268) ; and Parabrahman, 476; world as, 346, 349.
Mead, G. R. S., and Blavatsky Lodge, 482.
Meat-eating, injurious, 153.
Mediumism: dangers of, 164; and hatred and desire for revenge, 318; opposed to chelaship, 50.
Medwin, Thos., 199, 581.
Memory: in the dying, 446 et seq.; of the Soul, 451.
Men: divine, revealed oral teachings, 467; knowledge of, and cosmogony, 473.
Menander: 214 ( 249) ; biogr., 581-82.
Menstruum universale, 515 (538).
Meron, thigh, 93-94 fn.
Meru: Mount, and Bacchus, 93 fn.; seven circles of, 17.
Merkabah, 220 (256).
Messe. See Ragon.
Messiah, origin of term, 99 et seq. Metamorphoses. See Apuleius.
Metamorphoses. See Ovid.
Metaphysics, 233 (269).
Metaphysics. See Aristotle.
Metempsychosis: distinct from Reincarnation, 137; and Reincarnation discussed in Pioneer, 145-46.
Methodist Times: lies about T.S., 402 et seq.; misrepresents H.P.B., 102.
Millennium, real meaning of, 8.
Miracles, Theosophists do not believe in, 337.
Mirror, 437 fn.
Mirville, E. de, Des Esprits, etc., 450 fn., 583.
Miscellanies, See Swift.
Missionaries: as blasphemers, 189; and Coulombs, 417; degrade natives, 195; “genus” of, 205; lying, 102-03; work of, in Ceylon, 444-45.
Mithra: as symbol of spiritual, liberated man, 44; and the Bull, 43-44.
Money: evils of, and moneyed classes, 152 et seq.; and occult sciences, 523 (546).
Monier-Williams, Sir Monier, Buddhism, etc., and his scholarship discussed, 205 et seq.; 583.
–Mystical Buddhism, 207.
Monism, Secularistic and Theosophical, 336.
Montague, Mrs., on hypocrisy, 2.
Monthyon: Prizes of, 223 (259); biogr., 583.
Moon: and Earth, interchangeable, 70; Sun, Horus & Astarte, 96.
Morgan, Gen. Henry Rhodes, and Coulombs, 388.
Moscow, old book of Baronius, 360.
Moses, uses alchemical language, 44.
Moses de Leon: accused by enemies, 29-31; and Zohar, 244 (280), 526 (548).
–Sepher has-sodoth, 30.
–Ha-Nephesh ha-hokhmah,50.
Mosheim, J. L. von, on Zohar, 526 (548); 583.
Moskvitinoff, Barbara, queries of, on real knowledge, work for others & service, 103-04.
619 Motion, absolute, 340.
Mount Athos, selfish hermits of, 218 (254).
Mount Carmel: Essenes of, 221 (256); and Pythagoras, 221 (257).
Mulaprakriti: and Logos, 484; and Parabrahman, 490, 491; and the Word, 487-88.
Myer, Isaac, Qabbalah: as masterpiece and boon, 33; reviewed and discussed, 21 et seq.; turned down by timid publishers, 31-32; 583.
Mylitta, 97.
Mystae (Mva-Tai), originated modem Masonry, 88, 172 (180). Mystagogos, 172(180).
Mysteries: as heirloom of archaic wisdom, 85 et seq.; degraded and corrupted, 85-86, 87-88, 91; Lesser and Greater, nature of, 220 (256), 237 (275), 493-94; terms used in, 171 (179) etseq.; three and four days in, 499.
Mystery-language: and Ammonius Saccas, 236 (272); essential for study of occultism, 235 (272) et seq.; and numerical value of letters, 237 (273).
Mystery-numbers, 499.
Mysticism: as veil of translucency, 117 (131); straggle of, with materialism, 117 (131).
Mystics: bogus opportunities offered to, 304-05; words addressed to, on crises, 119 (133).
Mvthologie. See Decharme.
Nabi, and Nazars. 220 (256).
Nahash, 512 (535).
Naidu, P. L, on three kinds of Karma, 144.
Naimittika, Pralaya, 467, 468. Name, incommunicable, 174(182). Nankin, Porcelain Tower of, 359. Nasmyth, and sunspots, 232 (268). Nastika, 372, 427.
National Congress, of India & T.S., 394.
National Rejormer: 336, 339, 409 fn., 412; A. Besant on Theosophy, 334; Bradlaugh on Theosophy, 333.
Natura. See Cicero.
Nature: and illusion of senses, 213 (249); Mother-, and Virgin Goddesses, 97; outer skin of, deceives fools, 507 (530).
Nautchis (Nachnis), and Galli, 77.
Nazarene, intended to restore ancient wisdom, 236 (272).
Nazareth, Nazars, 498.
Nazars, and Nabi, 221 (256).
Nebo, god of esoteric wisdom, 257. Nebi’im, of Judaea, 220 (256). Neomenia, sacred to Diana, 70. Neo-Platonism: in essence Theosophy, 438, 459; not understood, 227 (263).
Nestorius: Council condemns, 97; biogr., 583-84.
Netherclift, and “forged” letters, 405.
New Platonism. See Wilder.
New Testament, allegorical representation of Cycle of Initiation, 495.
New York Sun, 190.
Nigidius. See Figulus, P. Nigidius. Nineteenth Century: cruel, boastful & wicked, 200; sacrilegious & hypocritical, 187 et seq.; the most criminal, 121 (134).
620 Nirmanakayas, 63, 349, 470.
Nirvana: and alchemy, 515 (538); as refuge against reincarnation, 218 (254); is but does not exist, 240 (277); and jivas, 468; real nature of, 470; renunciation of, 348-49; when reached, 345.
Noah, progeny of, 15.
Nork, F. K., on Jesus, 100; 584.
North, American Review, art. by Dr. Hammond, 459 fn.
Northern Whig (Belfast), on H.P.B., 371.
Notaricon, and Kabalah, 244 (281).
Notes. See Row, T. Subba.
Nothing, the All and, 114 (128).
No-thing, of Basilides and Kabalah, 240 (276) et seq.
Number, and numbers, 212 (248). Numerical, value of letters and mystery-language, 237 (273).
Nutt, Joseph N., on women and Masonry, 527 (550).
Nysa, Mount, and Dionysos, 94 fn.
Oannes, and Gnostics, 75 fn.
Objects, Three, of the T.S. & their accomplishments in Orient, 391 et seq.
Oblong squares, 78.
Occult: key to, sciences cannot be divulged, 523 (546) ; knowledge unrelated to money, 523 (546) ; science must be conquered, 523 (546); science practically verified, 399; study in special groups, 230 (266); writings on, science purposely veiled, 522 (544-45).
Occultism: as one of the sciences of Theosophy, 433; as universal solvent, 229 (266); can accomplish needed reform, 121 (134); concerned with inner man, 301; must be prudently acquired, 159; and study of cosmology, 473; true, is destruction of idea of Self, 105.
Octavius. See Felix, M. M. Oeaohoo, or sound, 489.
Olcott, Col. H. S.: defense of, 12; does not exercise papal powers, 382; doing special work in Japan, 299; and H.P.B. karmically responsible for T.S., 382; praised highly, 161-62, 380-81, 394.
–Buddhist Catechism: 397; paid for by Mrs. Ilangakoon, 445.
–Old Diary Leaves, 363 fn.
Oliphant, Laurence, on Lake Harris, 58.
One: perfect circle becomes, 506 (529); the, Life & Humanity, 469; the, Unknown, 64.
Oral, unbroken, teaching revealed by divine men, 467.
Orient, door of the, 78.
Oriental, literature & T.S., 396-97.
Orientalists, mistranslate Scriptures, 344-45.
Orpheus, from India, 94 fn.
Orphnos (op^>vos), 94 fn.
Osiris: and Isis as Spirit-Matter, 65; and Oseth, 96.
Ouden (oi8e'v), 244 (277).
Ovid, Metamorphoses, on Hades, 89.
Oxley, Wm., petty spite of, 302.
–Angelic Revelations, 302.
–Philosophy of Spirit, 302, 585.
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Paganism, Masonry & Theology as historical trinity, 101.
Pall, worn by Pope, 101.
Pall Mall Gazette: Donaldson on women, 441 et seq.; on books prohibited in Russia, 461; on customs, 188.
Pan, as “All-Nature,” 293.
Panoramic, vision at death, discussed, 446 et seq.
Panta, and zoe, 485.
Pantheism, real Theosophy is, 333, 409-10, 414.
Pantheon, of India and stars, 242 (279) fn.
Papus, on adepts & initiates, 170 (178), 177 (185).
Parabrahman: and Ain-Soph, 240 (276), 257; defined, 414, 468, 476; same as Unmanifested Logos, 483, 488.
Paracelsus: harbinger of modem chemistry, 524 (546); not a “quack,” 459.
Paranirvana: and alchemy, 515 (538); when reached, 345, 466.
Parsis, no needy people among, 196.
Passingham, C. A., on Light on the Path, 320.
Passions, human, personified in mythology, 90 fn.
Passwords, of Mason, 75-76.
Pater innatus, as Archon, 242 (278).
Path: entrance to the, and E. S., 310; leading to divine truth, 120 (134).
Paul, St., on prostitution, 39.
Pausanias, Periegesis: on Bacchus, 93 fn.; On Eos, 243 (279).
Pentateuch, made fantastic by Ma- soretie points, 524 (547), Periegesis. See Pausanias.
Perrault, Chas; fairy tale of, 507 (530); biogr., 585.
Perseverance, force of, 391.
Persian, proverb, 366, 389.
Personality: illusion of, 213 (248) fn.; and individuality, 246 (283).
2 Peter, 486.
Petrie, Sir Wm. M. Flinders, 358, 585.
Phaedo. See Plato.
Phaedras. See Plato.
Phainomena. See Aratus.
Phenomena: dangerous desire for, 165; natural, and result of years of study, 337; not supernatural, 425; physical, as psychological illusions, 336.
Phenomenalists, 164.
Phidias, 357.
Philaletheians: lovers of truth, 214 (250); noble ethics of, 227 (263); of Alexandria, 92.
Philippus of Thessalonica, 357, 585-86.
Philo Judaeus, Quaest. et Solut., on “Second God,” 241 (277).
Philoctetes. See Attius.
Philosophers’ Stone, 515 (538), 518 (541), 520 (543).
Philosophicules, 439.
Philosophic Inquirer (Madras), 409 fn.
Philosophic. See Chaho.
Philosophie.See Ravaisson-Mollien.
Philosophism, modem, 439.
Philosophumena. See Hippolytus.
Philosophy: defined by various scholars, 434-35; requisite of tree, 439; Theosophy as highest, 622435, 436; true, sneered at, 438-39.
Philosophy. See Oxley.
Philostratus, on Ammonius, 228 (265).
Phlegethon, river, and initiation, 90.
Phoebe, 97.
Phoebus, 97.
Phos (φώς): as Atma-Buddhi, 488; as Manas, 487; light & exoteric teachings, 486.
Phosphoros, Lucifer and Jesus,497.
Photos (φωτός), of lamblichus, 233 (270).
Pioneer, on metempsychosis, 145-46.
Piscinas, 78.
Pistis-Sophia·. 486, 489; on Elias & John, 492-93.
Planetary, Spirits, 63.
Platino, B. de, Vitae Pontificum, 79 fn., 586.
Plato, an initiate, 5.
–Phaedo: on initiates and gods, 170 (178); on object of Mysteries, 87.
–Phaedras, 218 (254).
–Theaetetus, 218 (254).
Pledge, in E.S., 329.
Pleroma (πλήρωμα), 491.
Plotinus: 215 (251); ecstatic illumination of, 233 (270).
Pluto, 97.
Pobedonostsev, K. P., as censor, 460.
Poe, Edgar, and delirium tremens, 198.
Poimandres: 526 (549); altered, 244 (280).
Policy, of Theosophical journals, 49.
Polycarp, St., Epistle to the Phi- lippians, 41, 586.
Pope, A., on thoughts, 453.
–Epistles, etc., 330, 586.
Popularity, how acquired, 2 et seq. Porphyry, ecstatic illumination of, 233 (270).
Porta, G. de la, Magia Naturalis, on alchemy, 517 (540), 586.
Poverty: condemned by rich, 10; and wealth, 196.
Powers, magical, for selfish ends, 165.
Praetextatus, on Great Mysteries, 73; 586.
Prajna, and Pralaya, 476.
Prakriti: and Mulaprakriti, 399, 490; and Purusha, 507 (530).
Prakritika, Pralaya, 467, 468.
Pralaya(s): and condition of consciousness, 476; and end of sun, 159; and paranirvana, 345; various kinds of, 467, 468.
Predestination, and Calvin, 141.
Prejudice: force of, discussed, 330 et seq.; T.S. free of, 338.
Presence, Divine, 114 (128).
Present, the One, 453.
Pride, evils of, 197.
Principle, impersonal and absolute, 239 (276), 335, 340, 410.
Principles: interrelation of, and mythological tales, 502; must be rearranged after “second birth,” 499 fn.; symbolized by disciples, 500; three, and four aspects, 505 (528).
Probation, confused with initiation, 362.
Proclus, Comm, on Timaeus, on sun and the heavens, 17; 586.
Profane, 69 fn., 76, 81, 213 (249), 488.
623 Progress, path of right, 151-52. Prometheus, Hermes addresses, 90. Prometheus Bound. See Aeschylus. Prometheus Unbound. See Shelley. Prophecy, cultivated by Essenes, 228 (265).
Prophets, initiates, 37.
Proserpine, 97.
Proteus, impalpable, omnipresent, as Universal Essence, 114 (128).
Protyle, and Crookes, 234 (270). Proverb, Eastern, on mud thrown at people, 418.
Proverbs, 84.
Providence, 145.
Prudence, Milton on, 33.
Psalms, 83.
Pseudo-adepts, charlatans, etc., 48 et seq.
Pseudonyms, wrong motive for, 368.
Psychic: phenomena, dangers of, 163, 164 ; powers and dangers of ambition or curiosity, 335 ; science, real students of, 164; untrained, faculties contain strange surprises, 318.
Psychism, and Old Testament, 495. Psychologization, evil karmic effects of, 56-57.
Public Opinion, 1 et seq.
Purusha, and Prakriti, 507 (530). Pyramid, of Cheops, 358-59. Pythagoras: Gnosis of, 87, 214 (250), 220 (256); knowledge of, from India, 229 (265).
Pyx, and High-Altar, 83.
Qabbalah. See Myer, I.
Quaest. et Solut. See Philo Judaeus.
Queen Mab. See Shelley. Questions, often insincere, 136.
Quinet, E.,La Création, on thoughts and the invisible, 452; 586.
Quintus, Curtius Rufus, on Bacchus birth, 93 fn., 587.
Race: balance of, cycle, 150; consciousness, 149; moral standards at, —level, 149; white, its stages of unfoldment, 148 et seq.
Radiant Matter, and Crookes, 234 (270).
Ragon, J.-B.-M.: caution as to his language, 235 (272) ; destroyed volumes of, 78 ; may have known de Saint-Germain, 176 (184) ; on cradle of initiation in India, 177 (185); on Deity, 25; on Masonic salutation; 93; on Masonry & liturgy, 71 ; on the Sun & Son, 96; biography, 587-88.
–Cours philosophique, etc., 95, 176 (184).
–La Messe et ses Mystères: 77 fn.; on Sun and lamp, 82.
–Tuileur général, etc., 176 (184).
Râja-Yogis, more accessible than one thinks, 235 (271).
Ram Mohun Roy, 458.
Ravaisson-Mollien, F., La Philosophie en France, etc., on memory in the dying, 451 ; 588.
Raven, symbol of longevity and will, 44-45.
Rays, science of occult, 231 (267). Real, and unreal, 242(278).
Reality, offered man today, 119 (132), 121 (135).
624 Reason: and higher senses, 223 (270).
Reforms: must be bloodless, 246 (283); social, needed, 152, et seq.
Reincarnation: doctrine as old as the world, 426; doctrine of justice, 142; and Karma, 145, 202; laws to escape, 348; and metempsychosis, 137-38; objections to, discussed, 139; proofs of, 14041; taught by Jesus, 58, 61.
Reincarnation. See Walker.
Religion (s): derivation of term, 72; dying in England, 192; and future of Church, 226 (262); same essence in all, 226 (262); and T.S., 110 (124).
Religio-Philosophical Journal: on Butler, 159-60; on Coues and Light on the Path, 297 et seq., 308, 313 et seq., 321-22; falls very low editorially, 370-71.
Reporters: hungry for promotion, 223 (259-60), misrepresent Theos, work & H.P.B., 367 et seq.
Researches. See Kennedy.
Residues, from other lives and astral body, 136.
Resurrection, and new life at initiation, 90 et seq.
Revelation: 403 fn., 496-97; on Lucifer, 97 et seq.
Revue Theosophique, 167, 170 (178), 204, 559.
Rhemata (ρήματα), arcane utterances, 94-95.
Rhodes, Colossus of, and its sorry fate, 360 et seq.
Richard, Ap: book by, discussed, 34 et seq.; sensual bestiality of book by, 41.
Ripon, Lord, and H.P.B.’s personal background, 422.
Rishis, Seven, and Iokas, 340.
Rites, vestments of Church, etc., originate in pagan worship, 76 et seq.
Ritualism: as exoteric paganism, 71; descended from initiated Gnostics, 75; in Church and Masonry, discussed, 62 et seq.
Roca, Abbe: came to grief, 59-60; defrocked, 59; works of, 59 fn.; 588.
Roman Catholicism: as the one enemy of T.S., 339; and modern Kabalah, 525 ( 548); religion of, pagan in origin, 64 et seq.
Romans, 366, 484.
Root-Races, and Chinese nobility, 18.
Rootless Root, and creative principle, 506 (529).
Roscommon, Earl of: De Arte Poe- tica, etc., 92; biogr., 589-90.
Rosenroth, Knorr von: 244 (281); biogr., 589.
Ross, W. S. (“Saladin”), and his works, praised, 190 & fn., 193; 589.
Rosse, telescope of Lord, 363.
Rousseau, 198.
Routine, slaves of, 198.
Row, T. Subba, an Advaita, 415; 589.
–Notes on the Bhagavad-Gita, 415, 416, 491.
Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia. See MacKenzie.
Ruins. See Volney.
Rules, divine, of Fifth Race, 85.
Rumour, 2 et seq.
Russian: medicine-men ‘talk away’ ailments, 210; proverb, 389.
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Saddharma Pundarika, 347.
St. Georges, 193-94.
Saint-Germain, Count de, and secret MSS., 175 (184).
Saints, greatest & ascetics, 219 (255).
Samadhi: 214(250) fn.,222(258) ; witnesses to, 214-15 (250-51).
Sambhogakaya, nature of, 349.
Samis, worm & Solomon’s Temple, 173 (181) fn., 174 (182).
Samyutta-Nikaya, 346, 589.
Sand, George: 198, 589; on rebirth, 141-42.
San-kiea-yi-su, on Buddha’s asceticism, 346-47.
Saracens, and alchemy, 514 (538). Sarah, allegorical term, 511 (534) fn.
Sarat Chandra Das, 430.
Saturday Review, 437 fn.
Savior(s), 229 (265).
Scharlieb, Dr., and H.P.B.’s health, 388.
Schlagintweit, Emil: Buddhism in Tibet, on Kadampa Sect, 430; biogr., 589-90.
Schütze, Ernst, and “forged” letters, 405-06.
Schwartz, F.L.W., Ursprung, etc., 513 (536) fn., 590.
Science(s): deals in inferences, 303; enriches wealthy at disadvantage of poor, 234 (270); every, has three aspects, 509-10 (532-33); exoteric & esoteric, 220 (256); Gupta-Vidyä, as secret, 212 (248); hypotheses of, 231-32 (267-68) ; and mosquitoes’ proboscis, 331; occult, based on original oral teachings, 467; occult, dangerous, 230 (266); of true Rája-Yogis, and offshoots, 235 (271); poisonous gas of Western, 393; Sacred, universal, 174 (181); some mysteries may become open to, tomorrow, 339; syllogisms & deductions of, 209; universal, & cyclic return of ideas, 117 (130).
Scorpio, and reproductive functions, 44.
“Secret Doctrine:” as term for Eternal Verity, 398; and processes of the Infinite, 435.
Secrets. See Cosmopolita.
Secularists, discussed, 332 et seq., 410, 439.
Selene, 97.
Self: betrayal of divine, its effects, 119 (132); and individualism, 151-52; no happiness for one who thinks of, alone, 169; the One, and our self, 104-05. See also Higher Self.
Self-abnegation, to whom possible, 50.
Self-sacrifice, spirit of love, 149, 154-55.
Selfishness: degrees of, in evolving man, 149; must be conquered, 105; of nineteenth century, 121 (134); of personality, 197; of Yogis & hermits, 218(254), 343- 44, 346, 350, 351 fn.; and prejudice, 466.
Senses: interrelation of, 212-13 (249); physical, and higher perceptions, 233 (270); seven, 213 (249) fn., 233 (270).
Separateness, an illusion, 104, 212 (248).
Sepher has-sodoth. See Moses de Leon.
Sephiróth, 27 et seq.
626 Seven: persons forming group for occult study, 231 (267); and six in symbolism, 17.
Shakespeare, Wm.: 287.
–Henry IV, on rumor, 1.
–Henry VI, on deceit, 1.
–Henry VIII, 296, 311.
–The Merchant of Venice, 47.
–The Winters Tale, 136.
Shamji Krishnavarma, & Monier- Williams, 206, 208.
Shan Hai Ching, 16, 590.
Shang Dynasty, 16, 18.
Sheep, typify passions, 502.
Shekhinah, as veil, 489-90.
Shelley, P. B.: posthumously slandered, 199.
–Hellas, 186.
–Necessity of Atheism, 199.
–Prometheus Unbound, 186.
–Queen Mab, 199.
Shem, age of, 200.
Shermah, insect of Masonry, 173 (181), 174 (182).
Shimon ben-Yohai, 28, 244 (280), 525 (548), 590.
Sibbold, A. T., on Chinese Empire, 14 et seq.
Simon the Magician, 214 (249).
Sinnett, A. P., Esoteric Buddhism, 298, 432, 433, 458 ; 590.
–Incidents, etc., dates in, about H.P.B., 364 & fn.; testimony of E. Schütze on handwriting, 40506; 590.
–Letters of H.P.B., 364, 590.
–The Mahatma Letters, on mental state of dying man, 446-47 &fn.; 590.
Siva, noose of, and passions, 503.
Six, and seven in symbolism, 17.
Skinner, J. R., Source of Measures, on two Messiahs, 100, 590.
Skotos, skotia (otcotos, okotIo.), darkness as symbol of esoteric teachings, 486.
Slavery, supported by clergy, 37.
Slippers, of King-Priest of Babylon, 76.
Smaragdine Tablet; fragment of Hermetic Books, 526 (549) ; legend of 511 (534).
Socialists, two, in T.S., 478.
Society, evil of present-day, 2 et seq.
Society for Psychical Research (SPR) : Report of, and Methodist Times, 403 et seq.; ridiculed by Hawk, 157 ; sorry descendant of Henry More, 337 ; and the “Russian Spy” ideas, 422; tried to build its reputation on downfall of Theosophy, 54.
Socrates, condemned to death, 438. Soda, and alcohol, 507 (530).
Sol, Deus, 70, 74, 76, 232 (268).
Solar Fire, as symbol of Creative Power, 64-65.
Solicoles, 76.
Solidarity: among Fellows of T.S. needed, 163; in nature, 114 (128).
Solomon’s Temple, allegorical symbol, 173 (181) fn.
Solus, the One, 73, 76.
Soma: as Water of Life Eternal, 501; juice, 235 (272).
Sons, luminous, of manvantaric dawn & Logos, 485.
Sophia-Akhamôth : feminine Wisdom, 221 (257) ; symbolism of, 499, 500.
Sophocles, Electra, on Athens, 89.
Sostratus the Cnidian, 356, 590.
627 Soter (^wrr/p'), as Savior-God, 229 (265).
Soul, memory of, 451.
Source. See Skinner.
Spectaculis. See Tertullian.
Spencer, H., First Principles, on Knowledge, 431; 591.
Sphinx, 352, 474.
Spirit, and Matter distinct only as maya, 336.
Spirits, Planetary, 63.
Spiritual: growth precludes submission to another, 105; perfection & desire for material things, 105.
Spiritualists, some blind, some enlightened, 164.
Sphericity, of earth denied by Church Fathers, 140.
Spurgeon, 190, 192.
Sri Ramanujacharya, 467.
Star, morning, 97.
Stillborn, child & Summerland, 140.
Stone, Nicholas, secret MS. of, 175 (183) & fn.
Strabo, Geography: on Cos, 243 (279) ; on Mysteries, 85; 591.
Stromateis. See Clement Alexan- drinus.
Struggle: between the god and animal in man, 148; for existence, a magic formula, 147.
Styx, and Jordan, 496.
Subjective, spheres, millions of years in, 105-06.
Succussatore, 356.
Suidas, Greek Lexicon, on Golden Fleece, 513 (535-36); 591.
Sukshma, 475.
Sumangala, true Theosophist, 373, 398.
Summerland, absurd beliefs about, 140.
Sun: as Divinity, 17, 97; astrological significance of, 44; Kant on, and planets, 233 (269); real nature of, and its veil, 159; scientific theories about, and sunspots, 231-32 (268); shorn of its rays, 100; symbol of Creative Deity, 81 et seq.
Sun (New York), and Dana, 368.
Sunday, a day of the Sun, 76, 99.
Sunspots, theories about, 232 (268).
Sutra of Forty-Two Sections, 401, 591.
Sutra of the Lotus of the Good Law. See Fa-hua-Ching.
Sutta-N ipata, 343, 591.
Svabhavat: 113 (127) ; as “FatherMother,” 490; and arche, 484.
“Sweat-born,” 489.
Swedenborg, E., on lost Word & Tibet, 245 (281).
Swift, J., Miscellanies, 287, 296, 311, 591.
Symbolical, methods used in Mysteries, 85.
Symbols: and ideographs, universal, 32-33; key to true, beyond Himalayas, 245 (281); language of universal, 230 (267); more than one meaning in, 510(533) ; referring to “building a city,” etc., 235 (272).
Synaxis (owa£is), 98.
Synesius, remains pagan, 73.
Synthese. See Berthelot.
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Tail, early man had a, 209.
Talent, and genius from other lives, 198.
Talents, parable of, 219 (255).
Talmadge, farce-pantomime of, 191.
Tannaim: 244 (281); disciplina arcana of, 28.
Tantras, as ceremonial black magic, 29.
T ar gum of Jerusalem, on berêshîth, 484; 591.
Tartarus, and initiation, 90.
Tattvas, macrocosmic, 489.
Teaching, unbroken oral, revealed by divine men, 467.
Temple (s): lower and upper, 88, 90, 93, 95; man as the one, of God, 81 ; of Sacred Science is One, 174 (182) ; pagan and Christian, 80 ; symbology of, 502, 503; term for the esoteric doctrine, 89.
Temple, Sir Richard, 396, 591.
Tennyson, Lord, The Golden Year, 186.
Termini, and origin of altars, 80. Ternary, connected with Church ritual, 101.
Terremotos, 356.
Tertullian, on woman, 441.
–De Carne Christi, and his motto, 199.
–De Spectaculis, on hell-fire, 84.
Tetragrammaton: and cube, 174 (182) ; or Jahveh, 221 (257) fn.
Thackeray, W. M., on memory and soul, 453.
Thales, on knowing oneself, 45.
Theaetetus. See Plato.
Theocracy, had its day, 225 (261). Theodidaktos, 214 (250), 228 (265).
Theodoret. Bishop: 214 (250); biogr., 592.
Theodosius, a murderer, 93.
Theologians, and dead-letter dogma, 22-23.
Theosophia: 235; shamefully treated, 225 (261); true wisdom of the gods, 213 (249).
Theosophical: books prohibited in Russia, 461; purpose of a, Journal, 116 (130); terminology, 176 (185).
Theosophical Society: a Republic of Conscience, 115 (129); 239 (276) fn.; as ark against deluge of materialism, 246 (282); as tree of Brotherhood, 245-46 (281-82); autonomy of various bodies in, and no Parent Society, 381; condition of eligibility to membership in, 335; dissentions and rivalries in, 238 (274) et seq.; dues in, abolished, 12; enemies of, as scavengers, 303; false prophets in, 47-48; finances of, 13; free from intolerance, dogmatism and prejudice, 338- 39: founded on model of U.S.A. Constitution, 115 (128); great expansion of, 111 (125) et seq.; growth of, 167; has victorious disciples, 239 (275); incorporation of Branches, 384; international & universal, 372; karma for hindering the force of, 166; karma of, and help given, 354; and Lane, 551 et seq.; many enemies of, 163,165, 306 et seq.; misrepresented, 216 (252), 366 et seq.; motto of, 112 (126) ; and mystic religion of Christos, the Logos, 377; no place for fanatics in, 113 (127); no set beliefs in, 629110 (124); not school of promiscuous Theurgic rites, 165; offers subjects of study for all, 242 (279); opposition to, in London & sacrifice of a few; 455; owes much to Freethinkers, 411; Roman Catholicism as the one enemy of, 339; Rules, etc., 431-32; rules of, give freedom of belief, 425; should not grow too fast, 163; survey of accomplishments in Orient, 392 et seq.; termites of the 217(252); third object of, 215(251); threefold objects of, 53, 391 et seq.; to fight those misusing it to obtain magical powers, 165; triple wish of the, as Utopia, 246 (282); unsectarian nucleus of men devoted to search after truth, 334; where permanent record will be, 292.
Theosophist, The: becoming a laughing stock, 383; and R. Harte, 378 et seq., 481-82.
Theosophists: are philosophers, 439; chief concern of, is search after Truth, 339; defined, 113 (127) et seq.; defined by a Master, 169; destined to save survivors of deluge of materialism, 246 (282); do not believe in personal God, 414; duties of, 247 (283); first historical, 459; frustrated & their behavior, 29192; misjudged & abused, 43637; must work for others and strive for freedom of human thought, 115 (129); often misrepresented, 111 (125), 367 et seq.; often set on methods of work, 165-66; ridiculed, laughed at & boycotted, 224-25 (260-61), 367 et seq.; role of true, and the new cycle, 202; should master outline of our metaphysical system, 104; should show charity and no reprisal, 306; struggle for which, must be prepared, 115 (129); true and false, 216 (252), 219 (255); true, and their work, 239 (275), 556-57; true, and useless ones, 122 (136); who turn away from T.S., 167.
Theosophy: alone can save the world from despair, 226 (262); and America, 162 et seq.; as quintessence of highest philosophy; 435; as science of Truth, 110 (124); as untrammelled liberty of thought, 410; as vital factor in life, 163; as Wisdom, 220-22 (256-58); and atheism, 372 et seq.; can accomplish needed reform of thought, 121 (134) ; defined, 410; direct descendant of Universal Gnosis, 228 (264); emulation in, not rivalry, is required, 239 (275); essence of philosophical research, 110 (124); examines reverse side of every apparent truth, 232 (268); highest transcendental philosophy, 436; ill-defined by Webster, 234 (271); in essence Neo-Platonism , 438; is altruism, 202; and metaphysics, 233 (26970); misconstrued, 432-33; misused by insidious foes, 165; monistic, 339; most transcendental ethics, 437; not a religion, 375, 435; of the Neo-Platonists, 215 (251); opposed by Brahmins, 432; origin of term, 372; Pseudo—, 45 et seq.; real, is Pantheism, 333, 414; seeds of, find good ground but in a few, 168; synonymous of Jnana- Vidya, 235 (271); to be philosophy of the future, 222 (258); and unfettered liberty to investigate Nature, 113 (127); unsectarian, 110 (124); 630wisdom of the gods, 109 (123); work for, is entrance to the Inner Life, 166.
Thersites, of Freethought, 418, 437.
Theurgic, rites, 165.
Theurgy: as continuation of Egyptian Mysteries, 215 (251); and Neo-Platonists, 228 (265); not understood, 234 (271).
Thoth: god of esoteric wisdom, 257; —Hermes and key to its secrets, 515 (538); 525 (548); meaning of term, 228(265), 511 (534); real Books of Egyptian, 244 (280).
Thoughts, last, at dying, 446-47 et seq.
Times (New York): and Coues, 465; and Bertram Keithtley’s letter, 383.
Tod, Col. James, Annals, etc., on heroism, 197; 592.
Tonsure, and priests of Anubis, 77.
Transmutation: black magic in some cases, 523 ( 546); possibility of, 508 (531); 510 (533).
Treatise. See Bacon, Roger.
Triangle: bisected isosceles, and Masonry, 174 (182) fn.; circle & cosmic activity, 506 (530).
Tribune (Chicago), forgery in, 210-11.
Trikaya, real meaning of, 470.
Trinity: and alchemical agents, 517 (540); historical, 101; and trimurti, 517 (540).
Truth: as Beacon-light, 213 (249), 226 (262) ; can never die, 293; cannot be given to public, 521 (544) ; divine, fragmented, 243 (280); heroism & self-abnegation, 193; not always wise to tell, 111 (125); not as sensational as falsehood, 366; path leading to divine, 120 (134) ; religion of Theosophists, 228 (264); the One, as heart of universe, 225 (262); the One, and unity, 237 (274); and Theosophy, 110 (124); Theosophy as way leading to, 229 (266); unwelcome, 331 et seq.; whenever told, is not forgiven, 291.
Tsin Dynasty, 15.
Tuileur. See Ragon.
Two Worlds, and bogus advertisement, 304-05.
Tyndall, John, on metaphysics, 224 (261).
Ueberweg, F., A History of Philosophy, 435, 592.
Ugyen Gyats’ho, learned Lama, 430 fn.
Ultramontanism, 225 (261).
Unity: Divine, and colors, 213 (249) fn.; essential for occult progress, 237 (274) et seq.; of humanity, 158; of purpose is strength in our work, 166, 168; strength in, 230 (266).
Universal Brotherhood: and altruism, 164, 166; as touchstone of progress, 151, 156; ignored, 111 (125) ; we shall conquer under its flag, 168; and work of T.S. in India & Ceylon, 393 et seq.
Universe, as shadow of the Real, 242 (278).
“Unknowable,” 24.
Unselfishness, and chelaship, 301. Upanishads, on thin arteries, astral body & residues from other lives, 136.
Upas, tree, dangerous, 198. Ursprung. See Schwartz.
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Vach, 43.
Valentinus, and Marcion, 108.
Vanity, and conceit, 198.
Vaulted, ceilings of churches, 78.
Vedanta, various schools of, 467 et seq.
Venus, female form of Lucifer, 496.
Vidya, defined, 235(271) fn.
Vigilantius, on lamps and Sun, 82.
Vigils, of early Christians, 91.
Virgil, Aeneid: on descent into Hades, 91; on returning to bodies, 8.
Virgin, Virgin-Mothers, goddesses of pagans, 96-97.
Virgin Mary: litanies of, 95-96; and Moon, 97.
Virgin-Substance, or Adamic earth, 507 (530).
Virginity, 40.
Virgins, symbol of female Nature, 65.
Virgo Paritura, 70.
Virus, poisonous effect on future generations, 455.
Vishnu-Purana, on Koot-hoomis, 20.
Vitae. See Platino.
Volney, Ruins, etc., on dove and Venus, 496; 592.
Voltaire: on Egyptian resurrection, 8; on judging men, 136.
Vox populi, seldom wrong, 214 (250).
Wade, Sir Claude, & fakir trances, 290; 592.
Walker, E. D., Reincarnation, etc., 142; 592.
War-Cry, 412, 455.
Washington Post, on Coues, 321.
Water, and wine as symbols, 500-01.
Wealth, and impunity, 10.
Weekly Times and Echo, 456.
Wesleyan Mission, Report of, on women in Ceylon, 443.
Wheeler, Mazzini: 419, 420, 426; ignorance of, 429-30.
Whitechapel, and soulless animals, 11.
Whole, individual as part of the, 105.
Why I became a Theosophist. See Besant, A.
Wilder, Dr. Alexander: on instinct and omniscience, 217 (253).
–New Platonism, etc.: on dialect of symbols, 520 (543); on Eclectics, 92; on Geber, 517 (540) ; on the One Supreme Essence & Neo-Platonists, 236 (273) ; quoting Espagnet, 521 (544) ; 592-93.
Wilson, Dr. H. H„ 227 (263).
Wine: and bread, 69, 93 et seq., 100; used by members of inner circle when sick, 428; and water, 498 et seq.
Winter Solstice, and reborn Sun, 70.
Winter s Tale. See Shakespeare.
Wisdom: archaic, and its offshoots, 235 (271); “barbarous,” of inferior races will be appreciated, 247 (283); Buddha as meaning, 257; Divine, as Beaconlight, 219 (255); Divine, and true Theosophists, 169; double system of, universal, 219 (255); gods of esoteric, 257; is one, but paths to it are many, 121 (134); 632personified, 257: — Religion, 165; “Second God” as, of the One God, 241 (277); the One, 490; treasures hidden by original interpreters of divine, 245 (281).
Wisdom-Religion: 433; and pagan religions, 376; source of religions, 432.
Wisdom of Jaseus, 221 (257), 593.
Wisdom of Solomon, 221 (257), 593.
Woman, and marriage, 34 et seq.
Women: can reach adeptship, 301; degraded by Bible, 301; in Ceylon, 440; in Roman society, 442; Masonic Lodge for, 527 (550); Oriental School and, 527 (550); position of, in early Christianity, 441-43; reforms advocated for, 155; symbol of lower quaternary, 500.
Wonders, seven, of ancients, 356 et seq.
Word: and Logos, 487 et seq.; lost, and Swedenborg, 245 (281); Moses on, 521 (544); Sacred, 74.
Words, sacramental, 101.
Word and Work, on Theosophy, 332.
Wright, Claude Falls: and Lane, 553; biogr., 593-94.
Yavanächärya, identical with Pythagoras, 229 (265).
Yogächära School, regards the yogi’s life as selfish, 347.
Yogis, and hermits, accomplished egoists, 218 (254), 343-44.
Young, E., on so-called charities, 195.
Yuhasin, 31, 594.
Zagovarivat’, to “talk away” diseases, 210.
Zander, Dr. Jonas G. W., biogr., 595-96.
Zhelihovsky, Vera P. de, Pravda, etc., on H.P.B.’s life, 364 fn.
Ziggurat, of Borsippa, 194.
Zodiac, of Dendera and 75,000 years, 7.
Zohar: 23 et seq., 238 (274); 596; distorted meaning by modern Kabalists, 525 (548); how compiled, 244 (280) fn., 525 (548-49).
Zoological Mythology. See Gubernatis.
Zosimus, Historia Romana: on Initiates, 86; biogr., 596.
Zulu, educated, 194.