INDEX.
Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition
Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
Vyse, Col., found a piece of iron in the pyramid of Cheops, i. 542
Wagner, Prof. Nicholas, on heat and psychical force, i. 497;
on mediumistic phenomena, i. 499
Walking above the ground, i. 472;
the faculty sought by devotees, and attained by a King of Siam, ii. 618
Wallace, A. R., on cycles, i. 155;
belief in spiritualism and mesmerism, i. 177;
theory of human development, i. 294
War of Michael and the dragon, an old myth, ii. 486
Warrior, slain and resuscitated, but without a soul, ii. 564
War-chariots, ancient, lighter than modern artillery-wagons, i. 530;
had metallic springs, ib.
Water, of Phtha, i. 64;
the first principle of things, i. 133;
an universal solvent, i. 133, 189;
of mercury, the soul or psychical substance, i. 309;
the first-created element, ii. 458
Waters turned to blood, i. 413, 415
Washing of images, ii. 138
Wave-theory of light not accepted by Prof. Cooke, i. 137
Weapons, dæmons afraid of, i. 362
Weekman, reputed the first investigator of spirit-phenomena in America, i. 105
Weeks of seven days used in the East, ii. 418
Weird cries of the Gobi, i. 604
Weninger, Father F. X., a Jesuit priest, his denunciation of Secretary Thompson, ii. 378, 379
Wesermann, power to influence the dreams of others, and to appear double, i. 477
White-skinned people not often able to acquire magical powers, ii. 635
White stone of initiation, ii. 351
Whitney, Prof. W. D., his criticism of Max Müller, ii. 47;
denunciation of Jacolliot, ib.;
his translation of a Vedic hymn, ii. 534
Widow-burning, or suttee, practised 2,500 years, but not when the Code of Manu was compiled, i. 588;
sustained by the Brahmans from a forged verse of the Rig-Veda, i. 589
Widows burned without pain by the Brahmans, i. 540
Wild beasts will not attack Buddhistic nuns, ii. 609
Wilder, A., on possibility of transmutation, i. 505;
suggestion of another classification of the Assyrians and Mongols, i. 575;
notes in regard to America, the Atlantic continent, Lemuria, and the deserts of Africa and Asia, i. 592;
on skeptics, and respect for earnest convictions, i. 437;
on Paul and Plato, ii. 90;