INDEX.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Testament, no real history in it, ii. 441;
universes evolved before the present, ii. 421
Olympic gods, their biographies relate to physics and chemistry, i. 261;
women climbing perpendicular walls, i. 374
Onderah, the Hindu abyss of darkness, only an intermediate state, ii. 11
One only good, ii. 238;
in three, i. 258
Only-begotten sons, ii. 191
Operative masons, ii. 392
Ophiomorphos and Ophis Christos, ii. 449
Ophion called also Dominus, ii. 512
Ophiozenes in Cyprus, power over venomous reptiles, i. 381
Ophis, the same as Chnuphis or Kneph, ii. 187;
or the agathodaimon, ii. 293, 295
Ophism and heliolatry imputed to Hermes, i. 55i
Ophite Gnostics rejected the Old Testament, ii. 147;
Theogony correctly given, ii. 187;
worship transmuted into Christian symbolism, ii. 505;
or serpent-worshipping Christians, their scheme, ii. 292;
seven planetary genii, ii. 296;
rejected the Mosaic writings, ii. 168;
taught the doctrine of emanations, ii. 169;
and Nazarenes compared, ii. 174;
denounced by Peter and Jude, ii. 205;
accused of licentiousness, ii. 325
Optical instruments of ancient times, i. 240
Oracle of the bleeding head consulted by Queen Catherine of Medicis, ii. 56
Oracles obtained during the sacred sleep, i. 357
Oracular head, made by Pope Sylvester II., ii. 56;
by Albertus Magnus destroyed by Thomas Aquinas, ib.
Orcus, i. 298, 299
Oriental philosophy, fundamental propositions, ii. 587
Orientals, their senses more acute, i. 211;
ascribe a human figure to the soul, i. 214;
believe certain persons have made gold and lived for ages, ib.
Orientalists have shown similarities between religions, ii. 49
Origen, believed in metempsychosis, i. 12;
an Alexandrian Platonist, i. 25;
secret doctrines of Moses, i. 26;
believed the spirit preëxistent from eternity, i. 316;