INDEX.
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Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
and the Gnostics, their contests, ii. 51;
believed the soul corporeal, i. 317;
attempted to establish a new doctrine on the basis of Plato, i. 289;
found guilty of falsehood, ii. 327
Irenæus Philaletha, explanation of the peculiar style of Hermetic writers, i. 628
Ireland visited by Buddhist missionaries, ii. 290, 291
Iron in the sun, i. 513;
found in the Pyramid of Cheops, i. 542.
Isaiah the prophet, his vision of seraphs, i. 358;
terminated the direct line of David, ii. 440;
celebrates the new chief, Hezekiah, ib.
Isarim or Essenean initiates, ii. 42;
found the Smaragdine Tablet at Hebron, i. 507
Isernia, worship of the limbs of Saints Cosmo and Damiano, and traffic in phallic ex-votos, ii. 5
Ishmonia, the petrified city, traditions of books and magic literature, ii. 29
Isis, the name of a medicine, i. 532;
the Virgin Mother of Egypt, ii. 10;
queen of Heaven, ii. 50;
immaculate, her titles applied to the Virgin Mary, ii. 95;
anthropomorphised into Mary, ii. 41;
the “woman clothed with the sun,” ii. 489
Isitwa, the divine power, ii. 593
Islam, the minarets, ii. 5
Islamism, the outgrowth of the Nestorian controversy, ii. 54
Island of Middle Asia, inhabited by Elohim, i. 589;
empire of the Pacific Ocean, i. 592
Israel, what the name means, ii. 401;
the enumeration of 12 tribes supposed to be purely mythical, i. 568
Israelites, intermarried perpetually with the other nations of Palestine, i. 568;
why their language was Semitic, ib.;
their symbols relate to sun-worship, ii. 401;
the plebeian were Canaanites and Phœnicians, ii. 134;
worshipped Baal or Bacchus and the Serpent, ii. 523;
their prophets disapproved of sacrificial worship, ii. 525;
offered human sacrifices, ii. 524;
their prophetesses, ib.
Israelitish Tabernacle, elegant workmanship, i. 536
Istar, Astoreth, the same as Venus, Queen of Heaven, ii. 444
Isvara, a psychological condition, ii. 591
“Itself” met by the disembodied soul at the gates of Paradise, ii. 635