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VOLUME
I - SCIENCE
PREFACE
BEFORE THE VEIL
CHAPTER 1
The books of Hermes 3
Limitations of physical science 5
The Pythagorean numerals 7
The heliocentric system Hindu 9
Ancient astronomical calculations 11
The "living soul" of
beasts 13
Protoplasm and the “beyond” 15
The unrecognized but potent adepts
17
The journey of Apollonius 19
Nothing new under the sun 21
The Phrygian dactyls 23
Magic of incalculable antiquity 25
Absurd pretensions of Rome 27
The central spiritual sun 29
The Neroses, yogas and kalpas 31
The period of the great Neros 33
Types and their prototypes 35
Man’s yearning for immortality 37
CHAPTER 2
Where lies the burden of proof 41
The wise Barrachias-Hassan-Oglu 43
Mr. Crookes’s probations 45
Crookes’s choice of theories 47
The obscurum per obscurius 49
The alkahest no fiction 51
Spiritualism drifting churchward 53
New names for an old thing 55
Force against force 57
Schopenhauer’s great
"parerga" 59
The force that moves the atoms 61
The uses of half-soft glue 63
Friar Bacon’s miracles 65
The soulless "Katie king"
67
Materialized spirits not human 69
Elementaries incite to crimes 71
CHAPTER 3
Pretended exposures 75
Comte's religion of the future 77
Positivism but a negation 79
"Artificial fecundation"
81
The "monkeys" of science
83
An epidemic of negation 85
Ultramontanism in science 87
Nostrums and specifics 89
The demiurges 91
The water-lilies of Gabriel 93
The indictment against Bruno 95
Uno a Pythagorean 97
CHAPTER 4
Babinet’s "unconscious
ventriloquism" 101
The devil "the pillar of
faith" 103
Babinet's chat with himself 105
Babinet's meteoric cat 107
Thury against de Gasparin 109
Faradaysiacs and de Gasparin 111
Professor Thury's "ectenic
force" 113
Skepticism from cerebral
malformation 115
Fried grasshoppers versus
immortality 117
The cave-cabinet of Lourdes 119
Huxley defines: what is proof? 121
A Christian journal protests 123
CHAPTER 5
Edison's force and bell’s telephone
127
Whence the word, magnet? 129
Jesus felt loss of power 131
A Scandinavian legend 133
Solomon’s seal of Hindu origin 135
The wave-theory discredited 137
The marvels of the fakir 139
The Hindu plant-growing trick 141
Regazzoni's mesmeric experiments 143
Transmural vision 145
The four beasts of the evangelists
147
The meaning of "coat of
skin" 149
Gods and mortals of the Eddas 151
Aswatha; the mundane-tree 153
The frost-giants of the Voluspa 155
The portal of the silent land 159
What did Thor the thunderer signify?
161
CHAPTER 6
A great chance thrown away 165
Wise words from lactantius 167
Paracelsus the discoverer of
hydrogen 169
The French committee of 1784 171
The Prussian government prize 173
Academicians who were honest 175
Base treatment of professor hare 177
The drowning man's memory 179
Trance-life 181
The quest of the psychometer 183
Pictures on the cosmic canvas 185
The trinity of mystery 187
Water, the universal solvent 189
Alchemical principles 191
Van Helmont no boaster 193
Flammarion’s frank avowal 195
Sergeant Cox's several points 197
Blind force plus intelligence 199
Inspiration, true and false 201
A self-propelling, self-poised
pencil 203
CHAPTER 7
The nose cut from a porter's back
207
Attractions and antipathies in
plants 209
The color-instinct of the cashmere
girls 211
The talapoin of Siam 213
The magical power of music 215
The vampirism of some
healing-mediums 217
The diakka, and porphyry's bad
demons 219
The child-prophets of Cevennes 221
The new god — protoplasm 223
The quenchless lamps of alchemy 225
The wonderful lamp at atteste 227
How to make the unquenchable light
229
The wick of the lamp, asbestos 231
Do flying guitars unconsciously
cerebrate? 233
The lost key to the theurgic arcana 235
The honest master of Baliol College
237
The unfading colors of Luxor 239
Is this the century of discovery?
241
Force-correlation the A B C of
occultism 243
Ghosts, goblins, and night-crowing
cocks 245
Currents in the astral light 247
The national quarterly upon modern
scientists 249
Epicurus the discoverer of
mutton-protoplasm 251
CHAPTER 8
An invisible earth 255
Evolution taught by Hermes Trismegistus
257
Do the stars rule our destinies? 259
The strange prophecy of Nostradamus
261
Kronos, Baal, and Siva identical 263
Secret, virtues of precious stones
265
Cloud-encompassed bel 267
Chance, a word void of sense 269
The sun not incandescent 271
Does the moon influence vegetation?
273
The music of the spheres 275
"A physician's problems"
277
What causes epidemics? 279
Levi's sidereal phantom 281
Calling an eagle from the clouds 283
Dwellers of the threshold 285
What man was, is, and may be 287
God, the universal mind 289
Nirvana, the final bliss 291
CHAPTER 9
The cave-men of les Eyzies 295
Fruits of the man-tree 297
Hercules, the faithful titan 299
The mighty lord of splendor 301
Remains of a race of giants 303
Pre-adamite races 305
The alchemist's "Dew from
heaven" 307
The fire-philosophers 309
The powers of the air 311
Making man a clock-work automaton
313
The fall into generation, 315
Swedenborgians on soul-death 317
The "brothers of the
shadow" 319
What are tainted souls? 321
A curious letter 323
A ministering angel 325
The astral body of the ape 327
The silvery spark in the brain 329
The future of psychometry 331
Bad spirits only love darkness 333
The dawn of new discoveries 335
CHAPTER 10
Pere Felix, of Notre Dame 337
An abyss in a grain of sand 339
A fragment of Hermias 341
The book of life 343
Apuleius on the soul 345
Speculations of Dupuis and Volney 347
Cannes, the man-fish 349
Is reincarnation possible? 351
When annihilation is possible 353
Witches and wizards 355
The sacred sleep of ♦♦♦ 357
Professor Pepper's ghosts 359
Salem witchcraft 361
Bad spirits fear the sword 363
The thrilling tale of Philonaea 365
Mediumistic powers defined 367
A trial of magical skill 369
French spoken by babes at the breast
371
The miracles of M. de Paris 373
Curious properties of biarriage! 375
A liberal offer 377
CHAPTER 11
Robert Houdin in Algeria 379
Serpent and beast taming 381
Fakirs and crocodiles 383
Various teratological phenomena 385
Imagination of the mother 387
Pre-natal conditions 389
Mother’s marks 391
Professor Armor's theory 393
An explanation ventured 395
Parrot-headed squabs 397
Ancient cases of teratology 399
The extreme limits of nature 401
Professor Corson on the invasion of
science 403
The growing body of truth 405
Groping in the dark 407
The Sodalian oath 409
Our pedactyl ancestor 411
The submerged Atlantis 413
Turning water to blood 415
CHAPTER 12
The physical basis of life 419
What shocks Professor Huxley's
common sense 421
The trinity of fire 423
What instinct is: what reason 425
Are the poor beasts immortal? 427
Aristotle on dreams 429
Lempriere's inconsistency 431
Adam, Eve, and Lilith 433
Intuition supports our faith in god
435
The reincarnation of Buddha 437
The little prophet of Saar-Louis 439
The magical moon of Tibet 441
Ammonius, the "god-taught"
philosopher 443
The friar's crucial test 445
Driving away bad spirits 447
Is vampirism a fact? 449
The Serbian vourdalak 451
Absorbing the strength of the living
453
The vampire-governor of Tchernigov
455
Bengalese conjurers and jugglers 457
Medieval incubus and succubus 459
CHAPTER 13
Photographing in colors by
will-power 463
The homunculus and mandragora 465
A magical séance in Bengal 467
Feats of magic – black and white 469
Turning a corpse into gold 471
The acme of illusion 473
Life intensely active in death 475
The burial and resuscitation of
fakirs 477
When are the ''dead" dead? 479
Nature shuts the door behind us 481
Suspended animation 483
Making statues walk and talk 485
The heavenly nimbus 487
The mystic password of Proclus 489
King Pharaoh’s magicians 491
What spirits love fresh-spilt blood
493
A Siamese priest walks the air 495
What lifts the adept, and what the
medium? 497
Professor Nicholas Wagner's views
499
The fascination of a precipice 501
Philosophy of the elixir vitae 503
The "pre-adamite earth"
505
The sacred tetragram 507
Count Cagliostro's alchemical
diamonds 509
Hermetic gold the outflow of
sunbeams 511
Printing in Tibetan lamaseries 513
CHAPTER 14
Proofs of old Egypt’s grandeur 517
Transportation of monoliths 519
Greece owed all to Egypt 521
Glorious Thebes and mighty Karnak
523
Who were the monument-builders? 525
A vine that averts lightning-strokes 527
What the Ebers papyrus contains 529
Egyptian arts of war and peace 531
The three stages of scientific
growth 533
Ours the age of "brass"
535
Marvelous Chinese glass 537
Copper-tempering, mummy-wrapping,
Anaesthesia 539
The chemistry of colors 541
Automata, glass-making, artificial
gems 543
The earliest navigators of the globe
545
A mysterious city in the cordilleras
547
Quiche and other cosmogonies 549
Who Were The American Aborigines?
551
Votan, the Mexican demi-God 553
Serpent worship of Israel 555
Nagualism and voodoo worship 557
Religion of the ancient Mexicans 559
Three glorious relics of a mighty
past 561
Who built Nagkon-Wat? 563
Was it the lost tribes of Israel?
565
Who were the Jews? 567
Hebron, city of the giants 569
''The land of the white
elephant" 571
The riddles of the sphinxes 573
CHAPTER 15
The Eden of the Bible And of fact
575
Two remarkable Singhalese relics 577
Genesis a copy of the Chaldean
Kabala 579
Hidden meaning of Sanskrit words 581
The sects of Siva and Vishnu 583
A Pennsylvania pundit 585
How old is the World? 587
A once mighty Trans-Himalayan sea
589
The true origin of the name America
591
What ruined the Atlantis-race 593
Subterranean Passages in Peru 595
A secret now first told 597
The priceless reward of
Hiouen-Thsang 599
A pretty Chinese legend 601
The tricky goblins of the desert 603
The musical sand of California 605
The shark-charmers of Ceylon 607
A magical soiree in Paris 609
Beethoven's spirit reincarnate 611
Liquefaction of blood at Naples and
Nargercoil 613
The awful science of Theopcea 615
Pope Sixtus V, on talismans 617
The achievements of old India 619
Littre's positivism 11,000 years old
621
Shoepfer reaffirms the geocentric
system. 623
The divine Pimander 625
The Egyptian Menes identified 627
VOLUME
II - RELIGION
PREFACE TO PART II
CHAPTER 1
“The Church! Where is it?” 3
Pagan phallism in Christian symbols 5
Examples of papal vituperation 7
Catholic blasphemy against heaven 9
The hells of various nations 11
Augustine's geocentric hell 13
The biographers of the devil 15
Why there are no miracles in Russia
17
The physico-psychological American type
19
Episcopal divination by the “lot” 21
Miracles by the laity 23
History of the chair of Peter 25
What was saved from the Bruckion 27
The hidden library at Ishmonia 29
Origin of the papal tiara and keys
31
The ancient of days 33
Orphean views of ether 35
The first emanation of En-Soph 37
Plato’s prudent reserve 39
Mary-Virgin only Isis rechristened
41
The sorcerer's terrifying death-bed
43
The Hebrew Kadeshim 45
Is Jacolliot an unmitigated Humbug?
47
The trinities of various religions
49
Pagan rites and dogmas adopted by
Christians 51
A saint butchered, and butchers
sainted 53
CHAPTER 2
Popes, bishops, and priests as
sorcerers 57
The bloody record of Torquemada 59
Witch-burnings at Bamberg and Wurzburg 61
A record of fiendish cruelty 63
The horrid total 65
Solomon’s seven abominations 67
A papal bull against spiritualism 69
A museum of astonishing relics 71
A deceiving clergy and lying spirits
73
Dominick’s dialogue with the devils
75
Half-converted dragons and wolves 77
The indecency of the “golden legend”
79
The pope fraternizing with Islam 81
A letter from Mary Virgin 83
Pagan origin of Catholic ritual 85
The sign of the cross Kabalistic 87
Was “Simon Magus” St. Paul? 89
Peter’s hatred of Paul 91
The true interpretation of “petrum”
93
Catholic bells from the Buddhist
pagodas 95
Justin martyr’s confession about
theurgic amulets 97
The whispered secrets of initiation
99
The mysteries ennobling in tendency
101
The Hindu demi-gods of the third
degree 103
The living spectre of a Brahman 105
What the pitris are and are not 107
Deserved praise of Thomas Taylor 109
The Virgin Mary on the car of
juggernaut 111
The sublimest part of the Epopteia
113
How human spirits can be conferred
with 115
The visions of seers not provoked by
drugs 117
The four Tanaim of the Talmud 119
The Romish church self-doomed 121
CHAPTER 3
The fiction of apostolic succession 125
Who and what was Peter? 127
The Aristaeus-Eurydiké fable
explained 129
The Nazars and Nazireates 131
Blunders of the Old and New
Testaments 133
Various modes of baptism 135
Jesus a reforming Nazaria 137
Adonis worship at Bethlehem 139
What philology proves about
Zoroaster 141
Zarathustra and the Zoroastrians 143
The Pythagorean utterances of Jesus
145
The Kabalism of the Apocalypse 147
Jesus in the garb of a magician 149
The long-haired Nazarenes 151
When a "God” becomes incarnate
153
Basilides, the bright sun of Gnosticism
155
Gnosticism highly reverential toward
the deity 157
Marcion, the noble heresiarch 159
The two factions in the primitive
church 161
Jesus ignores Jehovah 163
Jehovah identified with Bacchus 165
CHAPTER 4
The Indian, Chaldean, and Ophite
Trinities 169
Various “only-begotten” sons 171
The “Trinity listen for Mary's
answer” 173
The first groups of Christians 175
Christ’s “descent into hell” 177
Nihilistic doctrines of the
Sadducees 179
Jesus' own relatives Ebionites 181
The craft of St. Jerome 183
The revenge of Ilda-Baoth 185
The real Ophite theogony 187
Tertullian’s abuse of Basilides 189
Proof that Jesus taught esoterically
191
He never claimed to be god 193
The source of Christ’s inspiration
195
The ancient and modern Nabatheans
197
Real meaning of Herod’s
“infant-massacre” 199
The Hebrew traditions about Jesus
201
What Jesus brother says of him 203
Vast antiquity of borrowed Christian
terms 205
“Dignities,” “Powers,” “Dominions,”
etc., explained 207
Apostrophes to three virgin-mothers
compared 209
The fourth gospel not written by
John 211
CHAPTER 5
The Supreme Essence not the Creator
213
All world-religions fundamentally
identical 215
The Babylonian legend of Xisuthrus
217
Meaning of the Gnostic Aeon 219
Zoroastrian cosmogony and its
derivatives 221
The Kabalistic Shekinah 223
Gnostic Ophite, and Nazarene ideas
225
Comparison with Hindu myths 227
An Apocalyptic allegory explained
229
What are the Cherubim and Seraphim?
231
The Indian Meru-Gods, Sephiroth 233
The Evangelist John describes Siva
235
Tile Persian Sosiosh in the
Apocalypse 237
Jesus only claims to be man 239
The raising of Kalavatti 241
Episcopal passports to heaven 243
The coming of king messiah 245
Who was Gabriel legatus 247
Self-confessed infamy of Epiphanius
249
CHAPTER 6
Why Hypatia was murdered 253
Lady Ellenborough’s talisman 255
The Hindu Noachian legend 257
The fish-avatar of Vishnu 259
Darwin compared with Vyasa 261
Vedic views upon soul 263
Our universe one of a series 265
Diagrams of Hindu and Chaldean
systems 267
Diagrams continued 269
Diagrams continued 271
The night of Brahma 273
Diagram of the Avatars 275
The fall of Adam 277
Tender Humanity of the Jains 279
Paul on the trine human entity 281
Ideas of the Greek philosophers 283
Irenaeus and origin on man’s soul
285
St. Hilaire's definition of Dhyana
287
CHAPTER 7
Secret Christian and other sects 291
The Ophites, Nazareans, and Druzes
293
Two cosmogonies compared 295
Neither David nor Solomon mosaic
Jews 297
Iao, the trilateral name 299
The “Lord God” of the Hebrews 301
Vishnu the life-giver 303
Who taught Jesus about God? 305
The Hermetic Brothers of Egypt 307
The Brotherhood of Luxor 309
The Druzes of Mount Lebanon 311
A letter from an Initiate 313
The “Mother Lodge” and its branches
315
Initiation among the Bektash
Dervishes 317
The esoteric doctrine of Buddhism
319
The strict chastity of Eastern
Mystics 321
Missionary vandalism in India 323
Origin of the miraculous-conception
myth 325
Eusebius’ convicted of falsification
327
Tertullian, the patristic fire-brand
329
St. Augustine’s “holy kisses”
unorthodox 331
Christian slanders refuted 333
Jesus totally unknown to his century
335
A poor compliment to the deity 337
The mythical Christ copied from
Buddha 339
Buddha, Jesus, and Apollonius
compared 341
Laboulaye and St. Hilaire on the two
Christs 343
Reward of the poor Abbé Huc 345
Garibaldi’s opinion of priests 347
CHAPTER 8
The great Sohar of rabbi Simeon 349
Job and revelation initiation
allegories 351
French Parliamentary report upon Jesuits
353
Horrifying principles of the order 355
Murder, adultery, perjury condoned 357
Jesuits may idolatrize for Jesuitism
359
The prophecy of Hermes fulfilled 361
Adulterous priests may kill husbands
363
Indecent Christian festivals 365
The Egyptian funeral ritual 367
Living soulless men and women 369
Jesuits disguised as talapoins 371
Jesuit Father Mariana approves
poisoning 373
Does Freemasonry inherit the Secret
Wisdom? 375
Is Masonry Jehovistic or pagan? 377
Impertinence of the Jesuit Weninger
379
Masonic Templarism hatched in a Jesuit
College 381
The spurious Order of Malta 383
The last real Templar prince
poisoned 385
The “word” of adepts not possessed
by Masons 387
A high Mason’s strictures upon Masonry
389
Solomon’s Temple only an allegory 391
The “cable tow” of Lamas and
Brahman-Sannyasi 393
Secret ciphers exposed 395
Jesuit cryptography 397
The priest behind the veil 399
The double sex of Jehovah 401
Adepts in Paris and elsewhere 403
CHAPTER 9
The mystery of the number seven 407
The Brahmanas interpret the Rig-Veda
409
Relative antiquity of the Vedas and
Bible 411
Masks without an actor, beings
without names 413
Great value of the “Atharva Veda”
415
Disdain of European for Hindu savants
417
Modern origin of the Christian
Sabbath 419
The “Days” of Genesis, “Days” of
Brahma 421
Curious interpretation of Noah 423
Hindu accounts of the Deluge 425
The silence of the Vedas highly
significant 427
Antiquity of the Mahabharata 429
The mosaic laws copied from Manu 431
Thoughts upon the Aryans 433
Legends of two Indian dynasties 435
Khamism and the Eastern Ethiopians
437
David, the Israelitish King Arthur
439
Hezekiah the expected Messiah 441
George Smith’s views of Sargon 443
Eve-Lilith and Eve 445
The Egyptian Orante 447
Adam the prototype of Noah 449
The Jewish Adonai and Hindu Adanari
451
Enoch the type of dual man 453
A discussion of the zodiac 455
The sign Libra invented by the Greeks
457
The Bible patriarchs only zodiacal
signs 459
Ezekiel’s wheel fully explained 461
Libra identical with Enoch and
Hermes 463
Aries the Adam of dust 465
The Dynasties of the Pradjapatis 467
Archetypal man a spheroid 469
The real Hebrew Bible a secret
volume 471
CHAPTER 10
The Devil in all his aspects 475
A personal Devil involves polytheism
477
“No Devil, No Christ!” 479
The tempting serpent of Eden 481
Samael and Typhoon are Satan 483
The temptations of Job and Jesus 485
The great red dragon 487
A necessary and long-deferred
explanation 489
The mysteries of Demeter and Mithras
491
Job explained by the “Book of the
Dead” 493
Perversions of the text and
interpolations 495
Job a symbolical poem upon
initiation 497
The neophyte is brought to light 499
Oriental and Christian Satanism
unlike 501
Various sorties of Satan 503
The secret of Persephone 505
Python and Typhoon shadows of the
light 507
The Singhalese Demon Rawho 509
The Mephistopheles of Goethe 511
The cup of the Agathodaemon 513
"The Prince of Hell” and “King of
Glory” 515
Satan’s Waterloo! 517
What two ghosts witnessed in Hell
519
Debate between Satan and “The Prince
of Hell” 521
Robert Taylor’s Credo 523
Human sacrifices among the Jews 525
Real meaning of the letters I. H. S.
527
CHAPTER 11
Comparative theology a two-edged
weapon 531
High-caste and low-caste
Christianity 533
Prof. W.D. Whitney's important
discovery 535
The legends of three saviors 537
Numerical strength of three
religions 539
The wheel of the law 541
The dogma of the atonement analyzed
543
Power to loose and bind souls
impossible 545
The cruel doctrines of Calvin 547
Peter Cooper’s practical
Christianity 549
The samaritan woman’s story
Buddhistic 551
Missionary Judson’s antagonist 553
More Christian pilferings from
Buddhism 555
The crucifixion of Wittoba 557
“The lama of Jehovah” 559
Wine and bread in the mysteries 561
Christna’s maxims to Arjuna 563
The expression “born again”
interpreted 565
Magical properties of blood 567
Blood-evocations in Bulgaria and Moldavia
569
A tribe of real sorcerers 571
The incantations of the Voodoo 573
Mahomet never a God to Moslems 575
No book less authenticated than the Bible
577
Buddha transformed into a Catholic Saint!
579
The Adepts of Kublai-Khan 581
True mendicants and genuine beggars 583
CHAPTER 12
A summary of the principles of magic
589
True seer ship compared with
clairvoyance 591
The psychology of the Aryas 593
Philosophy of the “spirit-land” 595
The flight of the astral body 597
An adventure with Thibetan Bikshu
599
An Adept’s soul in an infant body 601
Withdrawing the astral soul from
one’s ashes 603
Catching the spirit of sound 605
The sensitive flame of the Bikshu
607
An evocation of the souls of flowers
609
The magnetism of red-haired people 611
The truth about the Hindu Todas 613
The features of Shamanism and
Lamaism 615
The great Mongolian College 617
Permissible deductions prom recent
discoveries 619
Marvelous curative remedies of the
yogis 621
A fakir tames a jengal tigress 623
Recollections of the Siberian shamans
625
A magical seance in a Tartar Yourta
627
Feats of jugglery in India 629
Consulting the mirror of a Kurdish seer
631
The sorcery of Father Girard and
others 633
White men almost incapable of magic 635
The weakness and needs of
spiritualism 637
The one universal truth 639
INDEX
End
THE TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE FOLLOWING
PUBLICATIONS
In later
editions a table of contents was added. I do not know
from when, but in the publication of 1891 it already appears and is the
following:
VOLUME FIRST
THE "INFALLIBILITY" OF MODERN SCIENCE
PREFACE
pages v - viii
BEFORE THE VEIL
Dogmatic assumptions of modern science and theology ix
The Platonic philosophy affords the only middle ground xi
Review of the ancient philosophical systems xv
A Syriac manuscript on Simon Magus xxiii
Glossary of terms used in this book xxiii
Chapter 1
OLD THINGS WITH NEW NAMES
The Oriental Kabala 1
Ancient traditions supported by modern research 3
The progress of mankind marked by cycles 5
Ancient cryptic science 7
Priceless value of the Vedas 12
Mutilations of the Jewish sacred books in translation 13
Magic always regarded as a divine science 25
Achievements of its adepts and hypotheses of their modern detractors 25
Man's yearning for immortality 37
Chapter 2
PHENOMENA AND FORCES
The servility of society 39
Prejudice and bigotry of men of science 40
They are chased by psychical phenomena 41
Lost arts 49
The human will the master-force of forces 57
Superficial generalizations of the French savants 60
Mediumistic phenomena, to what attributable 67
Their relation to crime 71
Chapter 3
BLIND LEADERS OF THE BLIND
Huxley's derivation from the Orohippus 74
Comte, his system and disciples 75
The London materialists 85
Borrowed robes 89
Emanation of the objective universe from the subjective 92
Chapter 4
THEORIES RESPECTING PSYCHIC
PHENOMENA
Theory of de Gasparin 100
Theory of Thury 100
Theory of des Mousseaux, de Mirville 100
Theory of Babinet 101
Theory of Houdin 101
Theory of MM. Royer and Jobart de Lamballe 102
The twins "unconscious cerebration" and "unconscious
ventriloquism" 105
Theory of Crookes 112
Theory of Faraday 116
Theory of Chevreuil 116
The Mendeleyeff commission of 1876 117
Soul blindness 121
Chapter 5
THE ETHER, OR "ASTRAL LIGHT"
One primal force, but many correlations 126
Tyndall narrowly escapes a great discovery 127
The impossibility of miracle 128
Nature of the primordial substance 133
Interpretation of certain ancient myths 133
Experiments of the fakirs 139
Evolution in Hindu allegory 153
Chapter 6
PSYCHO-PHYSICAL PHENOMENA
The debt we owe to Paracelsus 163
Mesmerism – its parentage, reception, potentiality 165
"Psychometry" 183
Time, space, eternity 184
Transfer of energy from the visible to the invisible universe 186
The Crookes experiments and Cox theory 195
Chapter 7
THE ELEMENTS, ELEMENTALS, AND
ELEMENTARIES
Attraction and repulsion universal in all the kingdoms of nature 206
Psychical phenomena depend on physical surroundings 211
Observations in Siam 214
Music in nervous disorders 215
The "world-soul" and its potentialities 216
Healing by touch, and healers 217
"Diakka" and Porphyry's bad demons 219
The quenchless lamp 224
Modern ignorance of vital force 237
Antiquity of the theory of force-correlation 241
Universality of belief in magic 247
Chapter 8
SOME MYSTERIES OF NATURE
Do the planets affect human destiny? 253
Very curious passage from Hermes 254
The restlessness of matter 257
Prophecy of Nostradamus fulfilled 260
Sympathies between planets and plants 264
Hindu knowledge of the properties of colors 265
"Coincidences" the panacea of modern science 268
The moon and the tides 273
Epidemic mental and moral disorders 274
The gods of the Pantheons only natural forces 280
Proofs of the magical powers of Pythagoras 283
The viewless races of ethereal space 284
The "four truths" of Buddhism 291
Chapter 9
CYCLIC PHENOMENA
Meaning of the expression "coats of skin" 293
Natural selection and its results 295
The Egyptian "circle of necessity" 296
Pre-Adamite races 299
Descent of spirit into matter 302
The triune nature of man 309
The lowest creatures in the scale of being 310
Elementals specifically described 311
Proclus on the beings of the air 312
Various names for elementals 313
Swedenborgian views on soul-death 317
Earth-bound human souls 319
Impure mediums and their "guides" 325
Psychometry an aid to scientific research 333
Chapter 10
THE INNER AND OUTER MAN
Pere Felix arraigns the scientists 338
The "Unknowable" 340
Danger of evocations by tyros 342
Lares and Lemures 345
Secrets of Hindu temples 350
Reincarnation 351
Witchcraft and witches 353
The sacred soma trance 357
Vulnerability of certain "shadows" 363
Experiment of Clearchus on a sleeping boy 365
The author witnesses a trial of magic in India 369
Case of the Cevennois 371
Chapter 11
PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL MARVELS
Invulnerability attainable by man 379
Projecting the force of the will 380
Insensibility to snake-poison 381
Charming serpents by music 383
Teratological phenomena discussed 385
The psychological domain confessedly unexplored 407
Despairing regrets of Berzelius 411
Turning a river into blood a vegetable phenomenon 413
Chapter 12
THE "IMPASSABLE CHASM"
Confessions of ignorance by men of science 417
The Pantheon of nihilism 421
Triple composition of fire 423
Instinct and reason defined 425
Philosophy of the Hindu Jains 429
Deliberate misrepresentations of Lempriere 431
Man's astral soul not immortal 432
The reincarnation of Buddha 437
Magical sun and moon pictures of Thibet 441
Vampirism – its phenomena explained 449
Bengalese jugglery 457
Chapter 13
REALITIES AND ILLUSION
The rationale of talismans 462
Unexplained mysteries 466
Magical experiment in Bengal 467
Chibh Chondor's surprising feats 471
The Indian tape-climbing trick an illusion 473
Resuscitation of buried fakirs 477
Limits of suspended animation 481
Mediumship totally antagonistic to Adeptship 487
What are "materialized spirits"? 493
The Shudala Madan 495
Philosophy of levitation 497
The elixir and alkahest 503
Chapter 14
EGYPTIAN WISDOM
Origin of the Egyptians 515
Their mighty engineering works 517
The ancient land of the Pharaohs 521
Antiquity of the Nilotic monuments 529
Arts of war and peace 531
Mexican myths and ruins 545
Resemblances to the Egyptian 551
Moses a priest of Osiris 555
The lessons taught by the ruins of Siam 563
The Egyptian Tau at Palenque 573
Chapter 15
INDIA THE CRADLE OF THE RACE
Acquisition of the "secret doctrine" 575
Two relics owned by a Pali scholar 577
Jealous exclusiveness of the Hindus 581
Lydia Maria Child on Phallic symbolism 583
The age of the Vedas and Manu 587
Traditions of pre-diluvian races 589
Atlantis and its peoples 593
Peruvian relics 597
The Gobi desert and its secrets 599
Tibetan and Chinese legends 600
The magician aids, not impedes, nature 617
Philosophy, religion, arts and sciences bequeathed by Mother India to
posterity 618
VOLUME SECOND
THE "INFALLIBILITY" OF MODERN RELIGION
PREFACE TO SECOND PART
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson and
Baroness Burdett-Coutts
Chapter 1
THE CHURCH: WHERE IS IT?
Church statistics 1
Catholic "miracles" and
spiritualistic "phenomena" 4
Christian and Pagan beliefs
compared 10
Magic and sorcery practiced by
Christian clergy 20
Comparative theology a new
science 25
Eastern traditions as to
Alexandrian Library 27
Roman pontiffs imitators of the
Hindu Brahm-âtma 30
Christian dogmas derived from
heathen philosophy 33
Doctrine of the Trinity of Pagan origin
45
Disputes between Gnostics and
Church Fathers 51
Bloody records of Christianity 53
Chapter 2
CHRISTIAN CRIMES AND HEATHEN VIRTUES
Sorceries of Catherine of Medicis
55
Occult arts practiced by the
clergy 59
Witch-burnings and auto-da-fe of
little children 62
Lying Catholic saints 74
Pretensions of missionaries in
India and China 79
Sacrilegious tricks of Catholic
clergy 82
Paul a kabalist 91
Peter not the founder of Roman
church 91
Strict lives of Pagan hierophants
98
High character of ancient
"mysteries" 101
Jacolliot's account of Hindu
fakirs 103
Christian symbolism derived from
Phallic worship 109
Hindu doctrine of the Pitris 114
Brahminic spirit-communion 115
Dangers of untrained mediumship 117
Chapter 3
DIVISIONS AMONGST THE EARLY CHRISTIANS
Resemblance between early Christianity
and Buddhism 123
Peter never in Rome 124
Meanings of "Nazar" and
"Nazarene" 129
Baptism a derived right 134
Is Zoroaster a generic name? 141
Pythagorean teachings of Jesus
147
The Apocalypse kabalistic 147
Jesus considered an adept by some
Pagan philosophers and early Christians 150
Doctrine of permutation 152
The meaning of God-Incarnate 153
Dogmas of the Gnostics 155
Ideas of Marcion, the
"heresiarch" 159
Precepts of Manu 163
Jehovah identical with Bacchus
165
Chapter 4
ORIENTAL COSMOGONIES AND BIBLE RECORDS
Discrepancies in the Pentateuch
167
Indian, Chaldean and Ophite
systems compared 170
Who were the first Christians?
178
Christos and Sophia-Achamoth 183
Secret doctrine taught by Jesus
191
Jesus never claimed to be God 193
New Testament narratives and
Hindu legends 199
Antiquity of the
"Logos" and "Christ" 205
Comparative Virgin-worship 209
Chapter 5
MYSTERIES OF THE KABALA
En-Soph and the Sephiroth 212
The primitive wisdom-religion 216
The book of Genesis a compilation
of Old World legends 217
The Trinity of the Kabala 222
Gnostic and Nazarene systems
contrasted with Hindu myths 225
Kabalism in the book of Ezekiel
232
Story of the resurrection of
Jairus's daughter found in the history of Christna 241
Untrustworthy teachings of the
early Fathers 248
Their persecuting spirit 249
Chapter 6
ESOTERIC DOCTRINES OF BUDDHISM PARODIED IN
CHRISTIANITY
Decisions of Nicean Council, how
arrived at 251
Murder of Hypatia 252
Origin of the fish-symbol of
Vishnu 256
Kabalistic doctrine of the
Cosmogony 264
Diagrams of Hindu and Chaldeo-Jewish
systems 265
Ten mythical Avatars of Vishnu
274
Trinity of man taught by Paul 281
Socrates and Plato on soul and
spirit 283
True Buddhism, what it is? 288
Chapter 7
EARLY CHRISTIAN HERESIES AND SECRET SOCIETIES
Nazareans, Ophites, and modern
Druzes 291
Etymology of IAO 298
"Hermetic Brothers" of
Egypt 307
True meaning of Nirvana 319
The Jayna sect 321
Christians and Chrestians 323
The Gnostics and their detractors
325
Buddha, Jesus, and Apollonius of
Tyana 341
Chapter 8
JESUITRY AND MASONRY
The Sohar and Rabbi Simeon 348
The Order of Jesuits and its
relation to some of the Masonic orders 352
Crimes permitted to its members 355
Principles of Jesuitry compared
with those of Pagan moralists 364
Trinity of man in Egyptian Book of the Dead 367
Freemasonry no longer esoteric
372
Persecution of Templars by the
Church 381
Secret Masonic ciphers 395
Jehovah not the "Ineffable
Name" 398
Chapter 9
THE VEDAS AND THE BIBLE
Nearly
every myth based on some great truth 405
Whence the
Christian Sabbath 406
Antiquity
of the Vedas 410
Pythagorean
doctrine of the potentialities of numbers 417
"Days"
of Genesis and "Days"
of Brahma 422
Fall of
man and the Deluge in the Hindu books 425
Antiquity
of the Mahabharata 429
Were
the ancient Egyptians of the Aryan race? 434
Samuel,
David, and Solomon mythical personages 439
Symbolism
of Noah's Ark 447
The
Patriarchs identical with zodiacal signs 459
All
Bible legends belong to universal history 469
Chapter 10
THE DEVIL-MYTH
The
devil officially recognized by the Church 477
Satan
the mainstay of sacerdotalism 480
Identity
of Satan with the Egyptian Typhon 483
His
relation to serpent-worship 489
The
Book of Job and the Book of the Dead 493
The
Hindu devil a metaphysical abstraction 501
Satan
and the Prince of Hell in the Gospel of Nicodemus 515
Chapter 11
COMPARATIVE RESULTS OF BUDDHISM AND
CHRISTIANITY
The age of philosophy produced no
atheists 530
The legends of three Saviors 537
Christian doctrine of the
Atonement illogical 542
Cause of the failure of
missionaries to convert Buddhists and Brahmanists 553
Neither Buddha nor Jesus left
written records 559
The grandest mysteries of
religion in the Bhagavad-Gita 562
The meaning of regeneration
explained in the Satapa-Brâhmana 565
The sacrifice of blood
interpreted 566
Demoralization of British India
by Christian missionaries 573
The Bible less authenticated than
any other sacred book 577
Knowledge of chemistry and
physics displayed by Indian jugglers 583
Chapter 12
CONCLUSIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Recapitulation
of fundamental propositions 587
Seership
of the soul and of the spirit 590
The phenomenon of the so-called
spirit-hand 594
Difference between mediums and
adepts 595
Interview of an English
ambassador with a reincarnated Buddha 598
Flight of a lama’s astral body
related by Abbé Huc 604
Schools of magic in Buddhist
lamaseries 609
The unknown race of Hindu Todas
613
Will-power of fakirs and yogis
617
Taming of wild beasts by fakirs
622
Evocation of a living spirit by a
Shaman, witnessed by the writer 626
Sorcery by the breath of a Jesuit
Father 633
Why the study of magic is almost
impracticable in Europe 635
Conclusion 635
INDEX
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