Part 9

Ammonius Sacca, tries to restore Neoplatonism, 40.

Amulets employed in Church-magic, 62, 63.

Angels, belong to the lowest hierarchy, 5; have the care of mortals, 6.

Appolonius of Tyana, deemed the peer of Christ in gift of miracles, 40, 163.

Archangels, part of the lowest hierarchy, 5; protect religion, 6.

Archetypes, world of, i. e., the Empyrean, 1; all celestial things are in the Empyrean; are immaterial, 6.

Aristotle's method revives science, 44.

Astrology, introduction to (Table II. of correspondences), 127.

Atmosphere of earth situate next below space of the moon, 2.

Augustine, a Manicheian, 43; last of the fathers educated in philosophy, 44; quoted on baptism, 57; quoted on the existence of fauns, satyrs, etc., 162; believes in the existence of were-wolves, 206.

Baptism, copied, in anticipation, in the Mithras mysteries, 57.

Baptismal water, its various efficacy, 58.

Bartholomeus Chassaneus, instructs how to proceed in the courts against common pests, 78.

Benoit de Montferrand, bishop of Lausanne, excommunicates may-bugs, 75, 76.

Bereshit, its mystic meaning, 144.

Bethesda, the efficacy of the water in its pool inferior to that of baptism, 57.

Bishop Gerhard, converts the heretics of Arras, 60.

Boethius, on the basis of creation, 124.

Borrichius (Olaf Borch) cited, 115.

Bunsen's Gott in der Geschichte, quoted, 93, 94, 175.

Cabalists' method of searching out the inner meaning of the Bible, 144; discover the seventy-two mystical names of God, 146.

Christian fathers, one of, doubts if his way of attaining perfection is the only one, 32; one of, declares every thing in heathen thought to be of the devil, 42.

Church the, prepared for by election of the Jews, and founded by Christ, 14; is one body; accumulates a wealth of supererogatory works, and grants remission of guilt also to dead, 15; a mole against the tide of sin, 16; the kingdom of God on earth; her destiny universal extension, 18; can not check the growth of sin; her emblem an ark, 22; the only legitimate bodily physician, 68; forbids at several councils the secular practice of medicine, 72.

Church bells, their power against the demons, 74.

Clemens of Alexandria, fights for the union of belief and thought, 41; quoted on the mission of philosophy, 42; rejects the doctrine of eternal punishment, 43.

Colquhoun quoted, 200.

Conception-billets described, 64-66.

"Conjurer of Hell," 148.