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Adam 145 n4 agnosticism 103, 126 n2 animism 179–181 Antichrist 270–273, 277 Aristotle 12–14, 16–17 astrology 72 Atlantis 132 atom(ism) 8, 21, 32 n2, 48, 76, 96, 122, 126 atomic 49, 167 Avatāra 254 n2, 270 n3 awliyā' al-Shayṭān 263–264, 271 n4 awliyā' al-Raḥmān 263 n4 Basil Valentine 140 n9 Bentham, Jeremy 111 n4 Bergson(ian) 92–94, 115, 220–227, 240 black magic 206 Blake, William 30 n10 Brahma 13 n2 Buddhist 63 Cain and Abel 144–151, 160 Cartesian 21, 31, 33, 77, 90, 92, 96, 98, 103, 121, 180, 202 n1, 235 castes 62–63, 146 n5 Celts 107–108 Chakravarti 270 China 140 n10 Chinese 8, 41 n2, 174 Christ 270 n3, 272 n6 Christian 56, 63, 100, 131, 258, 270 n3 Christianity 257 clairvoyants 115, 126, 247 Compagnonnage 65 n3 Coomaraswamy, A.K. 24–27, 30 n10, 63 n2, 67 n5, 110 n2, 146 n6, 182 n2 dajjal 271 democracy 51, 79, 82, 87, 199 Democritus 96 Descartes 20–21, 25, 31–32, 38, 50, 89–91, 96–99, 166, 180, 194 devil worshippers 183 d'Olivet, Fabre 138 n4, 147 n8 Druids 108 dualism 77, 96, 98, 202 n1, 235, 267, 277 Duquet, Roger 256 n8 Eckhart 67 n5 egalitarian(ism) 51, 66, 86, 91, 199, 271 Egypt 186 n1, 250, 257 Egyptian(s) 250, 257 Einstein 227 n1 empiricism 70 Epicurus 96 evolutionism 221, 276–277 fetishism 181 Fu Hsi 140 n9, 174 fourth dimension 126–127, 160–161 Freud, Sigmund 227–228, 232 Gog and Magog 173, 175 Golden Dawn, Order of 224 n4 Granet, Marcel 41 n2 Great Pyramid 256–258 Great Triad 140 n10 Great White Lodge 249 Greek(s) 12 n1, 27, 30, 92

al-Hallāj 272 n6 Hebrew 28, 75 n2, 147, 152–153, 258 n10 Hermetic 139–140 Hermetism 168 Hindu: doctrine 11, 15, 57, 66, 140 tradition 1, 12, 25, 28, 30 n10, 139 n7, 142, 148 n10, 160 n1, 172–3, 270 Holy Empire 270 humanism 103, 193, 197, 212 hypergeometry 126

individualism 8, 62, 90 immanentism 239 Iran 146 Islamic: civilization 56 doctrine 242 n1 esoterism 263, 271 n4 rites 157 n9 tradition 139 ns 6 and 7, 160 n1, 173 Israel 147, 153, 257–258

James, William 220, 222, 226 Jerusalem 147, 153 Jews 145 n2, 227 n1 Judaism 257 Judeo-Christian 257–258

Ka'bah 139 n7 Kabbalah 28, 139 n7, 157 n10, 168 n2, 248 Kabires 154–155, 157

Kali-Yuga 1, 84, 132, 174 Kant 36, 126 n2 Kether 139 n7

Leibnitz 30, 34 n4, 50–51, 76 n3, 96–97, 121 Locke 92 Lokāloka 172 n1, 232 n6 Louis XVII 254 n4 lycanthropy 183

MacGregor Mathers, S. S. L. 224 n4 magic(ian) 153, 168, 181–183, 185–187, 206, 223–226, 234, 263 magnetism 125, 169 Mahdi 254 n2 Manicheans 267 mantra(s) 148 n10, 206 Manvantara(s) 3, 42, 128, 132, 143, 168 n2, 263, 275–276 materialism 20–21, 96–101, 103–104, 106, 113, 117–118, 124, 149 n12, 165, 169–171, 173, 180, 194–195, 197, 201, 215, 217, 219, 221, 260 Melchizedek 150 n14 metapsychic(s) 170, 217–219, 229, 268 Metatron 272 n7 Moksha 64 Montsalvat 160 n2 Muhyi'd-Din ibn al-Arabī 63 n1, 265 n7 mūla 16 n1 mūlādhāra 139 n7 Myers 229 n3

nāma 12, 66 nāma-rūpa 24, 63 naturalism 239 naturism 199 necromancy 190 Neoplatonic 27 neo-spiritualism: see spiritualism Nirvana 64 Niu-Koua 174 nomadism 144–151, 227 [^n1] Nostradamus 255 [^n5] occultism 124, 127 Om 28 ordo 27 [^n4] pantheism 239 paradesha 163 Pardes 163 Pascal 80 Philip the Fair 108 [^n1] Plato 6, 14, 24 [^n2], 29, 59 Platonic 14, 27, 53, 59 Pliny 135 [^n1] positivism 103, 117 pragmatism 105 Prakriti 11, 15–16, 24, 140, 150 Préau, André 233 [^n8] Protestant(ism) 77, 89, 193, 212, 258 Protestants 222 Psychoanalysis 227–234 Purusha 11, 24, 140, 150 Pythagorean(s) 20, 29, 143 [^n18] Pythagorean numbers 5, 14 Pythagorism 29 radiaesthesia 125, 231 Ramakrishna 158 [^n12] Rationalism 89–95 Rebis 140 [^n9] Renaissance 193 Rg-Veda 30 rita 27, 57 Romans 92 Rosicrucian 249–250 ar-Rūh 139 [^n6] rūpa 12, 66 Saint Thomas Aquinas 14, 19–20, 75 [^n2] Satan 4, 198, 241–242, 263 [^n4], 267 satanism 183, 239, 262 scholastic(s) 12–13, 15–18, 21, 23, 45–47, 50, 67, 74–75, 91 [^n3] scholasticism 46, 75 [^n1] Schuon, Frithjof 146 [^n6] sedentarism 144–151 serpent-worship 205 Shayțān 188 [^n2], 242 [^n1] shaman(ism) 177–184, 188 Soma 150 [^n14] sorcery 153, 177–184, 206, 234 spiritualism 123–125, 169, 215–219, 226, 229, 235, 237, 241, 268–269 statistics 68–73, 144 superstitions 144 [^n1], 178, 223, 226 svadharma 57 swastika 203 [^n3] syncretism 245, 247–248 Taoist 233 Tarot 255 Templars 108 [^n1] Tetraktys 143 [^n18] Theosophist(s) 124, 126, 223, 247, 249 Torah 146 totemism 182, 232 [^n7] Tubalcain 148, 154 [^n6] United States, seal of 258 [^n10] Vedānta 84–85 Vedic rites 150 [^n14], 182 Vishnu 28 Vishvakarma 30 n10 Vulcan 154 n6

Wagner 160 n2 Waite, A. E. 224 n4

Yama 160 n1

yantra(s) 6, 148 n10 Yeats, W. B. 224 n4 Yoga 229, 233, 236 Yugas 42, 143 n18, 159

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