Part 10

Contrast between state of Society in Middle Ages and Hellenic and later European civilizations due to different theories of the universe, 29.

Cosmic Philosophy of Middle Ages, 1-28.

Cyprianus and others enter into league with Satan, 165.

Delrio, ascribes the origin of witchcraft to Zoroaster, 45.

Demonianism, cured by the Church, 70.

Demons, fallen intelligences of the middle hierarchy, 11; war against the good angels; cause storms and drouth; pervade the elements, 12; entice man, 13; able to take full possession of men, 25.

Deutsche Theologie, quoted on the nature of evil, 26.

Differences between the dualism of Zoroaster and the Christian, 46-48.

Dissection prohibited, 71.

Dominion, order of angels, receives the commands of God, 5.

Dualism, of the Middle Ages affirmed to have been derived from Persia, 34; its conflict with the unitarian notions of Greece the sum of history between Cyrus and Constantine; wins a flank-position on the Mediterranean upon the return of the Jews from captivity; its demon-belief testified to by the many demoniacs in the time of Christ, 35; magic and belief upon authority its necessary consequences, 36; derived from Zoroaster, 38; spreads over the Roman provinces, 39; advances against Europe, as Manicheism, 43; is finally absolute and brings on the Dark Ages, 44; is intensified after entering Christianity, 46, and undergoes changes, 47, 48; attacks the inner authority, 92.

Earth, encompassed by ten heavens, 1; made a paradise for man; explains symbolically man's destiny, 8.

Egidius, opposes fire-worship, 171.

Electrum magicum, 138.

Elements, four prime in the constitution of all things, 3.

Eleusinian mysteries, fragments of, preserved in magic of the learned, 117.

Empire, third order of angels, ward off all hindrances, 5.

Empyrean, the heaven of fire; world of archetypes, 1; remains after the final conflagration, 26.

Europe, belief, of in Middle Ages, 1; defeats dualism, 36; goes into the enemy's country, 37.

Eucharist, perennial source of power and sanctification, 59.

Faust, quoted, 98, 109.

Faust-legend, at first proposed to employ H. C. Agrippa as its chief character, 221.

Field-rats prosecuted, 78-80.

Formula against bloody-flux, 215; against epilepsy, 215.

Formulary of malediction used by priests, 81, 82.

Gnosticism springs up, 38.

God, enthroned in the Empyrean, 1; associates with man, 8-9.

Gregory IX. exhorts to a crusade against the Stedinghs, 174.