INDEX.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
eagerness of spirits for it, i. 344;
its circulation understood by the Egyptians, i. 544;
liquefied at Naples and Nargercoil, in India, i. 613;
its emanations serve spirits with material for their apparitions, ii. 567;
the universal Proteus and arcanum of life, ib.;
-demons, i. 353;
-evocation by the Yakuts, Bulgarians and Moldavians, ii. 569, 570
Bloody legislation of Protestant countries against witchcraft, ii. 503;
rites in Hayti, ii. 572
Blue, held in aversion as the symbol of evil, ii. 446;
ray, i. 137, 264;
-violet, the seventh ray, most responsive of all, i. 514
Body, the sepulchre of the soul, ii. 112;
how long it may be kept alive, ii. 563;
of Moses, a symbol for Palestine, ii. 482;
may be obsessed by spirits during the temporary absence of the soul, ii. 589
Boismont, de, Brierre, on hallucinations, i. 144
Boodhasp, the founder of Sabism or baptism, ii. 290, 291
Book of the Dead, Egyptian, i. 517, 518;
quoted in the Gospel according to Matthew, ii. 548;
older than Menes, ii. 361;
of Jasher, i. 549;
of Jasher, the Old Testament condensed, ii. 399;
of Numbers, Chaldean, i. 32
Books lost and destroyed, i. 24;
of Hermes, i. 33;
of Hermes, attested by the Champollions, i. 625
Births, feast of, supposed to be Bacchic, ii. 44, 45
Bosheth, Israelites consecrated, ii. 130
Both-al, Batylos, and Beth-el, i. 550
Bourbourg, Brasseur de, publishes Popol Vuh, i. 2
Boussingault on table-turning, i. 60
Bozrah, the convent there the place where the seed of Islam was sown, ii. 54
Brachmans in Greece, ii. 321
Brahm, i. 291
Brahma, a secondary deity, like Jehovah, the demiurgos, i. 91;
evolved himself, and then brought nature from himself, i. 93;
creates Lomus, i. 133;
produces spiritual beings, then daints or giants, and, finally, the castes of men, i. 148;
the name of the universal germ, ii. 261;