INDEX.
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Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
persecuted by the Inquisition, ib.
Saints rescued from hell, ii. 517;
Buddhistic and Lamaistic, their great sanctity, ii. 608;
never washing themselves, ii. 511
Sakti, the active energy of the gods, ii. 276;
employed as a vehan, ib.
Sakti-trimurti, or female trinity, ii. 444
Salamander or asbestos, i. 504
Salem, Mass., obsessions occurring there, i. 71;
witchcraft, the obeah woman, i. 361;
witchcraft, ii. 18
Salsette, the Kanhari caves, the abode of St. Josaphat, ii. 580, 581
Salt regarded as the universal menstruum and one of the chief formative principles, i. 147
Salverte, his philosophy of magic, i. 115;
imputes deception to Iamblichus and others, ib.;
his account of a soldier protected by an amulet, i. 378;
on mechanics and invention in ancient times, i. 516;
on the use of electricity, etc., by Numa and Tullus, kings of Rome, i. 527
Samâddi, an exalted spiritual condition, ii. 590
Samael or Satan, the simoon or wind of the desert, ii. 483
Samaritans recognized only the books of Moses and Joshua, ii. 470
Samothrace, a mystery enacted there once every seven years, i. 302;
worship of the Kabeiri brought thither by Dardanus, i. 570
Samothracian Mysteries and new life, i. 132;
magnetism and electricity, i. 234
Samson, the Hebrew Herakles, a mythical character, ii. 439;
represented by the Somona of Ceylon, i. 577
Samuel the prophet, a mythical hero, the doppel of Samson, ii. 439;
the Hebrew Ganesa, ib.;
his school, i. 26
San Marco at Venice, the original of the Campanila column, ii. 5
Sanchoniathon, on chaos and creation, i. 342
Sanctity of the chair of Peter, its source, ii. 25
Sankhya, the eight faculties of the soul, ii. 592, 593
Sanctuary of the pagodas never entered by a European [except Mr. Ellis—see Higgins’s Apocalypsis—very doubtful], ii. 623
Sannyâsi, a saint of the second degree, ii. 98
Sanscrit, endeavor to show its derivation from the Greek, i. 443;
inscriptions, none older than Chandragupta, ii. 436;
the vernacular of the Akkadians, ii. 46;
appears on the leaves of the magical Koumboum, ib.;