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of communication between soul and body, 233 Astral Intoxication, 133 Astral Light, a force more powerful than steam, 13 ; the soul of the world, 41; manifested by four phenomena, 52 ; secret of its direction, 53 ; the glass of vision, 61 ; mother of forms, 62 ; governed by human will, 64; the astral light and magnetism, 69 ; laws which rule it, 70 ; the universal seducer, 71 ; the astral light and the fire of hell, 72 ; the book of consciences, 73 ; impression of the Fall of Adam thereon, 80 ; the body of the Holy Ghost, 81 ; transformed at conception into human light, 82 ; its dual movement, 101 ; explains spirit phenomena, 104 ; application to the Translucid, 112 ; gives warning of coming influences, 132 ; preserves impressions of all visible things, 137 ; the astral light and the doctrine of signatures, 139 ; the soul's purgation in the astral light, 143 ; identical 'with the old serpent, 182 ; transmits the memory of forms, 208 ; how it is projected by man, 233 ; the agent of alchemy, 265 ; the great book of divinations, 348 Astrology, 137 et seq. Athanor, 54, 67, 108, 269 Atziluth, 50, 259, 372 Azot and Azoth, the God of the sages, 16 ; the word which contains all, 17 ; a name of the Astral Light, 53, 97 ; contains the Incommunicable Axiom, 54 ; an alchemical element, 57 ; transmutation and Azoth, 161 ; how composed, 265 ; the fire of the philosophers, 337 ; identical with the word Tarot, 360; see also 153, 156, 226, 230 Baphomet, 14, 229, 288, 296 Belot, Jean, 322

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Bereschith, 96, 315 Bewitchment, 129 et seq., 307 et seq. Binah, 59, 67, 90, 95 Black Magic, 126, 209, 279, 288 et seq. Black Sabbath, 8, 14, 72, 113, 127, 209, 261, 291 et seq.

Blazing Star, 36 Bodin, demonologist, 131 Bohme, Jacob, 20 Briah, 50, 259, 372 Bull Hieroglyph, 57, 167, 355 ; see also Cherub and Sphinx Cadmus, 89, 372 Caduceus, 79, 110, 387 Cain and Abel, 41, 132, 257 Cainites, 181 Cagliostro, Count, 89, 125, 145, 233, 248 Cardan, Jerome, 7, 98, 141, 142, 245, 248, 263 Cartomancy, 315 Cato, 7 Cazotte, Jacques, 89, 145, 214 Chateaubriand, 101 Cherub, 77, 257 ; see Sphinx and Bull Chesed, 49, 50, 59, 90, 95, 290 Chiromancy, 140 Chochmah, 59, 67, 90, 95, 396 Christ, 46, 81, 185 Clavicles of Solomon, 235 Convulsionaries, 105 Cortices, 47, 60 Cross, 52, 56, 67, 183, 222, 227, 260 Cynocephalus, 79 Dante, 18 Death, as change, 31 ; always preceded by sleep, 69 ; no death for the sage, 158 ; its terrors the daughters of ignorance, 176 ; there is no death, 270 Dionysius the Areopagite, 7, 18 Descartes, 27 Devil, 92, 126, 148, 288, 297 ; see also Satan and Lucifer Diaphane, 34, 64, 82 Divination, 87, 160 et seq., 223, 346 Divine Names, 92 Dragon, 79 ; see Serpent Dreams, 61, 63, 124 Duad, 38, 41, 42, 51, 291, 387, 397 Duchentau, 66, 152, 203, 235, 256 Duodenary, 263 Dupuis, 22, 167, 258, 379. Eagle Hieroglyph, 57, 167, 355 Edenic Mystery, 97

Elagabalus, 152 Elder of the Kabbalah, 91 Elementary Spirits, 57, 59, 125, 215 Elias, 47, 273 Eliphas Levi, 65, 111 Embryonic, 73, 112 Emerald Table, 28, 43, 153, 265, 336 Enchiridion, 246, 303 Enoch, 5, 43, 77, 89, 139, 263, 372 Epaminondas, 7 Equilibrium, 74, 81, 138, 165, 200r 203, 236, 309, 397 Eros and Anteros, 40, 257 Ether, 53 Etteilla, 96, 108, 110, 164, 357, 358 Eve, 17, 37, 51, 156 Evocations, 276, 297 Extreme Unction, 345 Ezekiel, 5, 6, 10, 22, 56, 96, 150, 167,. 240, 249, 257, 315, 353, 360 Fabre d'Olivet, 182 Faith, basis of, 153 ; reason and faith, 165 ; professions of faith, 166 ; faith as aspiration and desire, 382 Fascination, 285 Faust, 21, 31 Fifty Gates, 96 First Cause, 46, 49, 52 First Matter, 264, 339 Fixed and Volatile, 58, 107, 337 Flamel, Nicholas, 106, 162, 194, 265. 266, 269 Fohi, 38, 45 Four Ages, 59 Four Elements, 57 Gabriel, 76, 236 Gaffarel, 96, 139, 316, 322, 356, 371 Galatinus, 20 Gaufridi, 123 Gebelin, Court de, 96, 108, 110, 211, 359 Geburah, 49, 50, 59, 90, 95, 96, 290, 357 Gematria, 96, 211 Genesis of Enoch, 18 ; see Tarot. Geomancy, 349 Gilles de Laval, 305 Girard, Father, 123, 127 Gnosis, 37, 39, 50, 227 God, the Azot of the Sages, 16 ; necessity and liberty in God, 40 ; divine unity and triplicity, 41, 45 ; tetradic name of God, 51 ; secret of God, 55 ; essential idea of God, 58 'r God and faith, 155 : how God is.

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