### INDEX
abhisambhava 154
Albigensians 71
alchemical 118 n2, 169, 239 n3
alchemists 9 n4
alchemy 255–56, 258–62
Alexandrian epoch 255, 257
Al-Ghazālī 261 n13
Al-Hallāj 209 n11
Allah 293
Anglican church 52 n7
Anglo-Saxon countries 83
Anti-christ 102 n11
Arab(ic) 48 n1, 68 n2, 183, 209 n11, 231 n1, 241 n9, 255–56, 292
Ark of the Covenant 161
Avatara(s) 297–99
baptism 51 n5, 108 n8, 156–157, 170
Beigson, Henri 9–11
bhakti 230
Bochme, Jacob 65 n6
Brahmin(s) 94, 246, 251–52, 258
Brotherhood/Brothers of the Rose-Cross 33–34, 64, 171 n2, 171 n1, 232–33, 235, 237–43, 255
Buddhist terminology 249 n11
Carbonari(sm) 79
Cartesian 93, 200
Catholic(ism) 16 n4, 99, 108 n8, 281 n4, 283 n6&7
chakras 299
Chaldea 33
China 14, 256
Christ 120 n5
Christendom 239 n5, 245 n4, 289 n9
Christianity 10, 20 n4, 51, 67 n1, 153, 243
Christian esoterism 20 n4, 238–39, 257
Christian Hermeticists(ism) 34 n6, 238, 243, 255
Christian rite 170
Christian Rosenkreutz 238
Christian tradition 168 n1
Compagnonnage 34 n6, 79, 96, 189 n6
Confucianism 82 n5
Coomaraswamy, A.K. 154, 230
Crusades 34 n6
Dante 71, 245
De Monarchia 245 n4
dhikr 164, 295 n16
diksha 154–155
d'Olivet, Fabre 67 n1, 288 n8
Druids 296 n18
Durkheim, Emile 11 n7
dvija 156
Egypt 33, 184, 255 n2, 262 n16
Egyptian(s) 117, 255–57, 295 n18
Elohim 27 n9
Emmerich, Anne-Catherine 16 n5
England 34 n6, 224
English 7 [1], 34 [6], 89 [3], 98, 109 [10], 159 [11], 187 [1]
Europe(an) 239 [5], 255
Fedeli d'Amore 71, 218 [5]
Fischel, Bro. Peter 34 [6]
Flamel, Nicholas 239 [3]
France 34 [6], 76, 80
Frazer James G. 11 [7]
Freemasonry 34 [6]
French 89 [3], 98, 99 [9], 118 [2], 133 [4], 159 [1]
Gabriel 52 [9]
Germany 34 [6], 80
Great Architect of the Universe 63 [3], 202, 248, 288
Greece 184
Greek(s) 10, 67 [1], 115, 117–121, 154 [1], 184, 190 [8], 244, 256
guru 54–55, 204 [9], 226–27, 230
Hamsa 24 [6]
Hassidism 10 [6]
Hermes 256
Hermeticism 239 [3], 255–63, 266, 293 [6]
Hermetic(ists) 118 [2], 171, 173 [1], 260
Hindu tradition 24 [6], 43, 90 [4], 54, 90 [4], 111, 114 [10], 119, 152, 155, 164–65, 202 [6], 204 [9], 218 [5], 230, 241, 291, 293 [6], 295, 298
Hiranyagarbha 293–94, 296 [18], 298
Holy Grail 180 [4]
Illuminati of Bavaria 79–80
India 10, 14, 40 [2], 54, 256, 266 [7]
Islam 20, 40 [2], 243
Islamic esoterism 7 [1], 20 [4], 233, 239, 255 [1], 257, 262, 294 [13]
Islamic initiation 241
Islamic tradition 29 [2], 63 [3], 93 [2], 164–65, 204 [9], 209 [11], 233, 294 [13], 165, 204 [9], 209 [11], 245 [3], 262 [16], 273 [11], 292, 295 [15], 298 [3]
Italian 131 [1]
Jewish 10 [6], 90 [4]
Joan of Arc 11 [7]
Jousse, Marcel 113 [9]
Judaism 10
Kabbalah 57, 256, 293 [7]
Kali-Yuga 24, 253
karma 114 [11], 163 [7]
Kneph 295 [18]
Knights Templars 34 [6]
Kshatriya(s) 94, 219 [5], 246–47, 251–53, 258–59
Kundalini 224–226, 295 [18]
Latin 34 [6], 89 [3], 115, 118, 163 [7], 182 [2], 184, 190 [7], 286 [4]
Leibnitz 237 [1]
Liberal Catholic church 52 [7]
Loisy, Alfred 11 [7]
longevity 233 [1], 263, 265–67
mantra(s) 54, 111, 135, 164, 291 [2], 295
Manvantaras 266 [7]
Masonic 98, 105 [2], 218 [1]
Masonic initiation 63 [3], 97, 100, 187, 213, 218 [1]
Masonic Lodges 34 [6], 54 [14]
Masonic organizations 80, 291 [1]
Masonic rite 128 n4, 273 n10
Masonic symbolism 174 n3, 288 n7
Masonry 34 n6, 35 n7, 64, 79–80, 96–99, 111 n2, 112 n7, 188–89, n5, 247 n9, 253 n5, 273 n8, 286
Mason(s) 17 n1, 54 n14, 109 n10, 116 n1, 187–189
McLean, Adam 118 n2
Messiah 298 n3
Metatron 293 n7
Middle Ages 34 n6, 64 n5, 71, 129 n7, 169, 184, 185 n6, 218, 247 n8, 255, 257–58
Mithraic/Mithraism 218 n5
Moses 151
mudrās 114 n10
Muhammad 292
Muhyi' d-Din ibn al-'Arabī 233
mutasawwuf (in) 241, 243
Mutus Liber 118 n2
Nicholson R. A. 7 n1
Order of the Temple 239
Pernėty, A. J. 260
Pharaoh's magicians 151
Plato 119, 165, 185, 208
prana 54
Prester John 239 n6
Prophet 52 n9
Protestant churches 52 n7
Pythagorean(s) 89, 113 n8, 122 n7, 178
Renaissance 253 n6, 258 n9
Roman(s) 67 n1, 131 n1, 218 n5
Rose-Cross 237–243
Rosicrucian(s) 33, 61 n2, 234–235, 237–243, 255, 263, 267
Rosicrucianism 242–43, 255 n7
Saint-Martin, Louis-Claude de 15 n2
samskāra(s) 153–156
Sanskrit 48 n1, 114 n11, 129 n6, 132, 145 n2, 154 n1, 163 n7, 205, 286 n4
Scottish Masonry 286, 289 n9
Shakespeare 180 n4
shaykh 204 n9, 226 n3
Siddhas 266 n7
Saint Ignatius of Loyola 8 n3
Saint Thomas Aquinas 127
Sufi(s) 165, 241–43
Swedenborg, Emmanuel 21 n7
Tantric 90 n4, 103 n12, 225
Tao(ism) 82 n5, 203 n7, 241 n8, 245 n3
Taoist 64 n4, 82, 290 n10, 299 n8
tasawwuf 7 n1, 40 n2, 243, 256 n3
Temple of Solomon 161
Tetragrammaton 90 n4
Theosophists 52 n7, 220
Theosophy 38, 216
Thoth 256
Tibet 14, 256
transformation 265, 267
transmutation 154, 265, 267
Universal Man 164–65
Unknown Superiors 64
upanayana rite 152, 155–156
Vaishyas 246–47
Vishnu-Purana 253 n8
Westphalia, treaties of 239 n5
yantra(s) 111, 112 n7
Yogi(s) 165, 241