INDEX

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

zodiac 41 n1, 142
Zoroastrian(ism) 154 n5
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