INDEX

Aksakoff 114 Antoine, Louis, see 'Father Antoine' Antoinism 108, 292, 294-306, 311 Aristotle 68n5, 99 Barrau, Caroline de 74n10 Barthe, Anatole 166, 329 Bellemare, Alexandre 107n1 Bénézech, Alfred 265n14 Bergson, Henri 76, 130, 299 Besant, Annie 22-23, 61-62, 140 Béziat, Jean 251-2, 287-9, 312-13 Blavatsky, Madame 52, 57, 74, 82, 168, 185, 254n1, 325, 334 Boirac, Emile 75n14 Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne 121n5 Boulenger, Herman 273, 275 Bouvier, M.A. 290 Brahmin(s) 41-42, 74, 99 Britten, Emma Hardinge 19, 25 Buddhism 41n7, 80, 178n17 Burgoyne, T. H. 251n1 Burnouf 74n10 Cartesian... 12, 125 Catholic(s) 44, 50, 79, 123, 186-187, 253, 270, 273-274, 343 chandalas (pariahs) 42 Christ 108, 186-187, 196, 202, 259, 274-275, 283-285 Christianity 108, 198n17, 256, 283 'Christian Science' 108, 289, 296, 306 Comte, Auguste 75n12, 323 Couredon, Mlle. 283n15 Crookes, William 70, 74 Curie, Mme 72 Dechambre, Dr 32n4, 34 De Figanières, Louis Michel 280, 282 Delanne, Gabriel 111, 125n1, 148, 201, 204n23, 217n6, 241, 246 Denis, Léon 111, 138, 148, 169, 203-204, 215, 217, 240, 284, 286, 309-311, 313, 329n6, 335 De Rochas, Colonel 77, 85, 217-218, 226-227, 230 Descartes, René 11-12, 181, 238 Druids 99, 184 Edison 76 Elijah 98, 188-189 Enoch 98, 188n34, 256 'Father Antoine' 291, 294-302, 305, 315 Faure, Sébastien 289-290 Fauvety, Charles 74 Fénelon 121n5, 317 Flammarion, Camille 32-33, 40, 74, 88, 92, 179n18, 217n6, 225, 243, 248 Flournoy, Professor 216 Fourier 34, 37, 236 Fox family/sisters 16, 18, 24, 334 Gaboriau, F.-K. 266 Ghostland 25, 183 Gibier, Dr Paul 40-41, 43, 73-74, 80-81, 83, 85, 325, 327, 337 Godard, Charles 44n12 Grange, Madame Lucie (Hab) 282-284 Guénon, René 1-2, 41n7, 178n17, 180, 281

'H B of L', (Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor) 19, 25, 82, 183, 185, 191, 197n13 Hegel 257 Hindu(s) 44-45, 95, 97, 99, 168, 184n23, 228 Home, Dunglas 30, 65n1, 91, 123n19, 151-152, 166, 192, 329, 331, 334 Hugo, Victor 33, 121-123, 193 Hydesville 16, 20-24

incubi and succubi 149, 269-270 'Institute for Psychic Research' 229, 319-320

Jacob the zouave 291-293, 297 Jacolliot, Louis 40-44, 74n10, 198n17 James, William 75-76, 257-258, 316n16 Jobard 144, 280 John the Baptist 188-189 Jounet, Albert 320, 322-323 'Julia Bureau' 316, 318-320

Kabbalah 52, 83-84 Kant 159 Kardec, Allan (Hippolyte Rivail) 1n1, 18n2, 29-35, 53, 108, 111, 134, 138, 147-148, 150-151, 166-174, 187-189, 192, 196n11, 203-204, 231-241, 246, 255, 259n8, 283, 294, 307 Kardecism 111, 119, 290 Koot-Hoomi 44n12 Krauss, Dr Theodor (Saturnus) 291n29

Lacroix, Henry 123n8, 141, 147, 152, 197 Ladeuze, Msgr 275 Lancelin, Charles 217-218, 227, 255, 319 Lapponi, Dr 332 Leadbeater, Charles 140-141, 151, 191, 272 Le Clément de Saint-Marcq 111n6, 270-276, 290 Leibnitz 82, 172, 183n22, 209 Lefranc, L. 217, 221, 319 Lenin 120n4 Leroux, Pierre 34, 37 Lévi, Éliphas (Alphonse-Louis Constant) 52-54, 56, 89, 91, 328 Lodge, Sir Oliver 72, 315 Lucifer(ians) 254-256

MacNab, Donald 92, 96, 141 manes 20, 42, 47 Mason(s/ic) 25, 34, 52, 144, 273 Masonry 24, 37, 120, 144, 273, 296 Mormons 118, 251, 257 Moses 98, 188n34, 214 Moses, Rev. Stainton (M.A. Oxon) 317 Moutin, Dr L. 122 Myers 69n6, 74, 323

Neoplatonists 34, 50 Nietzsche 179 ob 47-48, 95, 101 od 85 Origen 186 Papus (Dr Gérard Encausse) 53- 61, 82-85, 89, 91, 110, 123, 141, 149, 168, 170, 174-175, 186, 188- 189, 192, 194-198, 201-202, 204, 211, 214, 267, 280, 290-291, 320 n25, 328 Paracelsus 49 Petit, Abbé J.-A. 187, 274 Quaker(s) 17-18 Randolph, Pashal Beverley 19 Raupert J. Godfrey 333 Reichenbach 85 Reuss, Theodore 272-273 Richet, Dr Charles 68, 70, 73-74, 267 Rosicrucian(s/ism) 22, 112-113, 278 n5, 291 Russia 121 n4 Saltzman 291 Satan(ism) 251-252, 255-256, 259, 276 socialist(s) 28, 33-34, 119-120, 169, 235, 296 Society for Psychical Research, (London) 69 n6, 74, 323, 333 sorcery 21, 51, 80, 93, 100, 259 n9, 262, 269 n25 Spinoza 257 Stead, W.T. 316-318 Summerland 140 Swedenborg 149, 280-281 Taxil, Léo 253-254 Theosophical Society 19, 32, 52-53, 73-74, 141, 218 n8, 266, 290-291, 317 n19 Theosophist(s) 9, 36, 49, 52-53, 58, 61, 73, 80, 82-85, 113, 118, 140-141, 144-145, 167-168, 170, 191, 194, 198-199, 204, 238, 255, 272, 296, 299, 304, 312, 317 Theosophy 2-3, 22, 38, 53-55, 57, 66 n3, 167, 272-273, 334 Vintras 259, 283 Wolff, Mlle Marguerite 195, 250 n22 Yézidi sect 254