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defined, 166; the works of God, 167 ; God and miracles, 339 Grand Grimoire, 147 Grandier, Urban, 23, 85, 122, 127, 145 Great Arcanum, partly divined by (Edipus, 16 ; the secret of directing the Astral Light, 53 ; on what it depends, ib. ; characteristics of, 57 ; occult name of, 161 ; symbolical representation of, 162 ; the astral movement and the Great Arcanum, 167 ; first principles of, 200 ; revelation of, 266 ; royalty of its possessor, 335 ; the Great Arcanum and the " Manual " of Paracelsus, 336 ; see also 231 Great Magic Agent, see Astral Light Great Work, see Magnum Opus Grimoire of Honorius, 303 Gyges, Ring of, 284 Hermanubis, 40, 289, 294, 339 'Hermes, 5, 14, 28, 30, 34, 42, 43, 53, 86, 87, 89, 106, 107, 152, 197, 263, 336 ^Hermetic Axiom, the sole doctrine of ^\magic, 35 ; trinity and unity of, 37, 44 ; the sole dogma of univers>l religion, 56 ; the HermetiQjtxibm and divination, 8f"|~pToves the reality of evocations, 207 ; consequences of, 384 ; see also 53, 106, 204, 259 Hiram, 188 Hod, 95 Holy Spirit, 42, 46, 81 Homer, 15, 16 Hyle, 50, 229 Imagination, 35, 60, 124, 223, 349, 350 Immortality, 56 Incommunicable Axiom, 53 Initiation, 88, 251 Inri, 52, 54, 156 Insufflation, 342 Intelligible Worlds, 44 Jacob and the angel, 40 Jacques de Molay, 9 Jakin and Bohas, 38, 75, 153, 167, 259, 357, 372 Jesod, 95 Jettatura, 149 Jetzirah, 50, 259, 372 Jod, 38, 40, 51, 94, 96

Jod He Vau He, 37, 52, 77, 91, 356 ; see also Tetragram Julian the Apostate, 7, 22, 30, 47, 101, 118, 183, 205, 266, 294 Jupiter (the planet), 79, 141, 236, 237, 249 Kabbalah, symbols containing its secrets, 5 ; reconciliation of reason and faith through the Kabbalah, 6 ; Dante and the Kabbalah, 18 ; its admirable doctrine, 19 ; elements of, 20 ; literature of, ib. ; Enoch, father of the Kabbalah, 43 ; fundamental principle of, 49 ; key of, 50 ; sole dogma of, 52, 137 ; kabbalistic elements, 57, 58 ; the kabbalistic pentagram, 65 ; kabbalistic equilibrium, 74 ; kabbalistic angelology, 76 ; the Kabbalah and the primeval book, 89 ; kabbalistic groundwork of religion and science, 90 ; kabbalistic Sephiroth, 91 ; The Tarot and Kabbalah, 93-97; kabbalistic pneumatology, 124 ; kabbalistic symbolism, 139 ; the Kabbalah and the law of nature, 156 ; the Kabbalah and the key of occult science, 169 ; Lucifer in the Kabbalah, 177 ; magnetism and the Kabbalah, 201 ; kabbalistic scapegoat, 209 ; the practical Kabbalah, 211 ; the Kabbalah and the apocalypse, 259 ; the sacred book of the Kabbalah, 266 ; the four beasts of, 268 Kether, 49, 59, 67, 90, 95 Khunrath, Henry, 98, 107, 247, 266, 269 Kircher, Father, 2 Labarum, 261 Lamennais, Abbe, 27 Lavater, 237 Liberty, 74, 87, 107 Lingam, 58, 79 Lion hieroglyph, 57, 167, 355 Logos, 43, 73, 80, 2] 2 ; see Word Loudun. Devils of, 122 Love, 17 Lucifer, burning sceptre of, 17 ; a name of the Great Magical Agent, 53, 71 ; the kabbalistic Lucifer, 177 ; the gnostic Lucifer, 179 ; signature of, 189 ; restitution of, 228 Lucifuge, 71

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INDEX

Lully, Raymond, 10, 88, 98, 106, 194, 265, 266, 269, 336, 370 Lycanthropy, 120 Macrocosm, 36, 40, 44, 67 Macroprosopus, 57 Magi, Three, 5, 227 Magic, its early history, 3, 4 ; science the basis of, 5 ; the Church and magic, 7 ; power and reality of, 11 ; alone imparts true science, 28 ; divine arid infernal magic, 29 ; differs from mysticism, 80 ; the sacerdotal and royal art, 87 ; operation of, 195 ; ceremonial magic, 205 ; see also Black Magic Magical Instruments, 205, 245 et seq. Magic Chain, 99, 260 et seq. Magic Rod, 69 Magic Squares, 360-363 Magnes, interior, 134, 335 Magnesia, 97, 106 Magnetic Fluid, 53 Magnetism, 63, 64, 69, 70, 201, 232, 285, 344, 386 Magnum Opus, the doctrine underlying alchemical symbols, 3 ; alchemical elements, 57 ; definition of the great work, 106 ; prophets of alchemy, 107 ; necessary instruments, 108 ; alchemical sun and moon, 154 ; alchemical name of the Great Arcanum, 162 ; poverty the protection of the Magnum Opus, 192 ; secrets of, 264 ; the Magnum Opus a magical operation, 268 ; mandragore of the alchemists, 312 ; definition of the stone, 335 ; alchemical gold, 337 Malchuth, 49, 50, 90, 91, 95, 399 Man Hieroglyph, 57, 335 Mandragore, 312 Manes, 3 Manichseanism, 291 Mars (planet), 76, 141, 236, 237, 249 Mary the Egyptian, 107 Medicine, occult, 339 et seq. Mendes, 32, 227 Mercavah, 96 Mercury, the element, 57, 265, 266, 335 ; the planet, 76, 78, 236, 237, 249 Mesmer, 13, 99 Metempsychosis, 283 Michael, 40, 76, 81, 236, 316, 353 Microcosm, 36, 67, 68, 202 Microprosopus, 30, 57, 225

Minerva Mundi, 107 Miracles, 192, 339 Mirville, Comte de, 127, 131, 229, 302, 385 Monad, 40, 45, 46, 387 Moon, 76, 141, 236, 237, 249, 319

3, 182,

Mopses, 295, 296 Moses, 10, 14, 18, 21, 27, 257 Mysteries, 80, 109, 123