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"Above" and "Below" defined, 211.
Acanthians and Brasidas, Hall of, 152.
Achamoth, Logos, note, 215.
Adamantine pillars of Earth, 204.
Admirals, statues of the, 139.
Ægon of Argos, inscription of his date, 142.
Æolic dialect used in an oracle, 77.
Æschylus quoted, 16.
Ætna, eruptions of, 212.
Agesilaus, oracle given to, 149.
Air, plants living on, 242.
Alastores, 90.
Alcæus, quoted, 73.
Alexander, holding the thunderbolt, 20.
Alyattes, crater-stand of, 130.
Amastris, buries men alive, 274.
"Ammon," whence derived, 8.
Ammon's Oracle, decay of, 76.
Amphiaraus, consulted by Mardonius, 77.
Amulet, worn by Isis, 56.
Amulets, use of, 267.
Anacampsarodes, 242.
Anaxagoras, of the Moon, 188, 218.
Animal-forms assumed by gods, 61.
Animal-worship, source of, 62.
—cause of a recent civil war, ib.
Antigonus, joke of, 20.
"Antiphraxis" of Pythagoras, 36.
Antipodes, ridiculed, 206.
Anubis, son of Nephthys, 38. Apelles and Lysippus, 20.
Apis, conception of, 37.
—the image of the soul of Osiris, 17.
—tomb of, 24.
"Apollo," Changed to Fire, 183.
—a logician, 178.
—generator of the Logos, 184.
"Apollo" for "Unity," 193.
Apollo, one with Sun, 151.
—the same with Sun, 125.
Apollo's titles, true sense of, 193.
—golden top-knot, 165.
—titles, 183.
Archilochus quoted, 177.
Aristarchus, on the Moon's magnitude, 225.
Aristodemus of Ithome, 268.
Argo, the boat of Osiris, 18.
Ark, sacred golden, 34.
Arimanios, god of Ignorance, 40.
Aristagoras, quoted, 203.
Aristarchus, "On Magnitudes and Distances," 209.
Aristotle, on Gravitation, 104.
Aristotle's "Quintessence," 185.
Asbestos of Carystus, 125.
Asp, why sacred, 64.
Ass, type of Typhon, 25.
Astrological interpretations of myths, 38.
Atheism defined, 258.
Atheism and Superstition, 259.
Axe of Tenedos, 150.
Bacchus, identified with Osiris, 29.
—metamorphosis of, 183.
Bacis, oracles of, 148.
Battus, oracle given to, 169.
Beam sawn in two at Earth's centre, 206.
"Bebon," title of Typhon, 43.
Beetle, signet of the military class, 9.
"Blue-eyed Moon," 230.
—glowing coal colour of, ib.
Boats, vehicles of Sun and Moon, 28.
Britain, visited by Demetrius, 73.
British hermits, 94.
Britons, living in the ocean, 200.
Bronze, ancient tempering of, 139.
—blue rust of Delphic, ib.
—native malleable, 125.
Bull's foot, god with the, 29.
Calligraphy of Imperial rescripts, 144.
Cambyses kills Apis, 38.
"Canopus" = a pilot, 18.
Canopus, oracle at, 23.
Carthaginians, their human sacrifices, 273.
Cat, emblem of Moon, 55.
"Centre," doctrine of the, 206.
Centre, theory of the, 105.
Chæremon, quoted, 164.
Chaldean religion, 41.
"Chemeia," pupil of the eye, 28.
Chrysippus," Upon Probabilities," 106.
Cilicia, governor of, 127.
Coretus, discovers the Delphic oracle, 124.
Clea, celebrates the Dionysea at Delphi, 29.
Clearchus, quoted, 56.
Cleombrotus of Lacedæmon, 73.
—his discussion with the Indian hermit, 98.
"Cobre dos labradores," note, 125
Cock, offered to Osiris and Anubis, 52.
Coffin of Osiris, 11.
Coin-types, why chosen, 150.
Contrariety necessary to creation, 213.
Corinthian brass, how discovered, 140.
Counters, game of, 111.
Crates, of Ocean, 240.
Creation, Plato's theory of, 50.
Crœsus’ baker, statue of, 154.
Crocodile, eating of, 44.
—sagacity of, 65.
—type of Typhon, 43.
"Crow" guides the Delians to Tagyræ, 78.
Crown of the Chalcidians, 146.
Cube, properties of the, 111.
—type of Rest, 113.
Cubical dimensions of altar, to double, 178.
Cups of gold, for money, 249.
Continent, the Great, 246.
Cumæ, destruction of, 147.
Curse, engraved on column, 7.
Cydnus, swords tempered in, 123.
Cypselus, Hall of, 152.
"Dæmon," for Evil Principle, 40.
"Daemons clothed in mist," Hesiod's, 119.
—Greek legends about, 97.
—punished for sin, 22.
—raised to gods, 22.
—rites connected with, 90.
—seeking for human bodies, 89.
—spirits separated from the body, 120.
—subject to mortality, 92.
—their extinction attended with storms, 94.
—their origin in the Moon, 255.
—theories concerning, 20.
—tormented in the Moon, 245.
—waiting on Saturn, 248.
Death, the Second, 250.
Delphi, density of air at, 141.
Delphi, rebuilt by the Romans, 171.
Delphic donaria coined by the tyrants, 154.
Delphic guides, 142.
—oracle, how discovered, 124.
—procession, 90.
—prophetesses, their number, 82.
Demeter, lunar deity, 250.
Demetrius of Tarsus, 73.
—visits the Holy Isle, 93.
Depopulation of Greece, 81.
Dew, daughter of Jove, 243.
"Dairy of Bœotia," 171.
Dice, thrown at Delphi, 189.
Dictys, foster-father of Isis, 6.
Didymus the Cynic, 79.
Dioscuri, stars of the, 145.
"Discord" of Empedocles, 212.
Dog, emblem of Hermes, 9.
"Dog," title of Anubis, 38.
"Doors of Osiris," 24.
Double-meaning of oracles, cause of, 178.
Dragon haunting Tegyrae, 81.
Dreams, people without, 135.
—the averting of, 261.
Druidical seminary (?), 248.
E, for "Thou Art," 190.
EI, true sound of E, 177.
E of Delphi, the numeral Five, 180.
E, why dedicated at Delphi, 174.
Earless Jupiter, 65.
Earth, a living creature, 215.
—and Water, image of, 34.
—and Water, Temple of, 156.
—viewed from the Moon, 244.
Earth's position, changes in, 75.
—revolution taught, 203.
—shadow, a cone, 226.
Earthquakes, unknown in Gaul, 260.
Eclipse, cause of, 219.
—how produced, 204.
—poetical descriptions of, 224.
Egypt, once sea, 34.
Egypt visited by the Greek philosophers, 8.
Electrum gold in fashion, 140.
Elements, how separated and distributed, 118.
Elements, Plato's symbols of, 110.
Emblems, explained, 9.
Empedocles’ Discord and Amity, 213.
—quoted, 90.
—of dye-stuffs, 123.
—of the tortoise, 215.
—on dæmons, 22.
—on eclipses, 219.
—on the light of Sun and Moon, 198.
—on the punishment of dæmons, 22.
—on the substance of the Moon, 202.
Epimenides, quoted, 72.
Epitherses, his strange story, 92.
Erica, overgrows the coffin of Osiris, 13.
Etesian winds, 33.
Eudoxus, quoted, 54.
—visits Egypt, 8.
Euripides’ Cyclops, 128.
—lines to Archelaus, 173.
Euripides, of sacrifices, 195.
—on Good and Evil, 39.
Evemerus, his theory, 19.
Exhalation, Delphic, sometimes fatal in its action, 135.
—affecting oracles, 126.
—the Delphic, its nature and action, 134.
Exile of gods explained, 89.
Existence, defined, 192.
Eyes inserted in statues, 145.
"Eyes of Horus," festival, 45.
"Face in the Moon," caused by cavities in her surface, 234.
—terrifies the wicked souls, 254.
—various theories about the, 198.
False ideas of God, their evils, 264.
Fates, places of the Three, 257.
Fig-leaf, like a crow's-foot, 74.
Fish, emblem of hatred, 27.
Five children at a birth, 116.
—gods born of Rhea, 116.
—how generated, 114.
—properties of the numeral, 180-181.
—worlds, the, 100.
"Fives, counting by," 115.
Flax, why sacred, 4.
Flute, original use of, 195.
"Four," Pythagorean oath, 66.
Forbidden meats, 5.
Frogs and snakes, emblems of spring, 150.
Geld, Hiero, and Thrasybulus, 158.
"Generation," length of a, 85.
Generative power typified, 30.
Geometrical figures dedicated to gods, 26.
Geometrical figures symbols of the Elements, 110.
God, the true idea of, 68.
Gods, deified men, 19.
Good and Evil, duration of their struggle, 41.
—origin of, 39.
Gradovo, exhalation at, note, 134.
Grammatical problems, 79.
Gravitation, theory of, 104.
Greek names for Egyptian gods, 53.
Guides to the Delphic donaria, 139.
"Hades," derived by Plato, 274.
—the body imprisoning the soul, 23.
—whence named, 25.
Human first-fruits dedicated to Apollo, 155.
—sacrifices, 274.
Harpocrates, birth of, 16.
Hawk, type of God, 27.
"He that is," title of Apollo, 124.
Head of victim cursed, 26.
Heat, generated by motion, 202.
Hecatæus, quoted, 5.
Hegesianax, on the Face in the Moon, 198, 199.
Hell, description of, 263.
Heraclitus, his "Harmony," 41.
—of Identity, 191.
—of the Final Cause, 182.
Hercules directs the Sun, 35.
—knocks down Logic, 179.
Hermes directs the Moon, 35.
—Earthly and Heavenly, 251.
Hermolaus, Alexander's physician, 272.
Hesiod, on the office of dæmons, 120.
—on dæmons, 21.
—on the Elements, 49.
—on the duration of life, 84.
Hiero's column at Delphi, 145.
Hieroglyphic types explained, 27.
Hierosolymus and Judæus, sons of Typhon, 26.
Hipparchus, quoted, 200.
Homer's limited notions of God, 108.
Homer, of Past, Present, and Future, 179.
—of Tartarus, 245.
—proofs of usages derived from, 74.
—on dæmons, 21.
Horus and Typhon, group of, 48.
—birthday of, 46.
—his answers to Osiris, 15.
—image of the Intelligible World, 47.
Ibis, why sacred, 65.
Ichneumon, why sacred, 64.
Idæi Dactyli, good dæmons, 255.
Idolatry, source of, 61.
Impious piety, 271.
Impudence, emblem of, 27.
Incense, varieties of, 68.
Indian hermit, by the Red Sea, 96.
Infinity of worlds, 101.
Inspiration, double source of, 132.
—theory of verbal, 150.
Instruments, fitting, chosen for Divine ends, 162.
"Intelligible," and "Sensible" Creation, 112.
Interpreter of oracles, official, 136
Inundation, Nilar, heights of, 37.
Invocations in barbarian tongues, 261.
Ion, quoted, 127.
Isiacists, funeral robes of, 3.
Isis and Osiris = Earth and Nile, 27.
"Isis," derivation of, 2.
—principle of Nature, 46
—proceeding out of self," 53.
—searches after the body of Osiris, 12.
"Isis-hair," sea-weed, 242.
Isosceles triangle, type of the universe, 49.
Ivy, the "plant of Osiris," 31.
Jewish notions, alluded to, 97.
Jews, their observance of the Sabbath, 269.
Justice, figured without hands, 9.
"Kaimis," title of Horus, 49.
"Knemosiris," ivy, 31.
Kneph, sole god of the Thebaid, 18.
Knowledge, prime attribute of God, 1.
"Know thyself," Delphic motto, 170.
Kyphi, how composed, 68.
Lamp, of Ammon, 73.
Legs grown into one, Jupiter's, 54.
Life, duration of, 84.
Life, stages of human, 191.
Lion, tumbled out of the Moon, 238.
Livia dedicates the Golden E, 176.
"Logos," Reason, 178.
—whence derived, 118.
Love-affairs, ruled by Isis, 55.
Love, fable of the birth of, 50.
Lunar inhabitants, diet of, 244.
Lyre, used by the Pythagoreans, 70.
Lysander, slain by a dragon, 169.
—statue of, 145.
Man, "a celestial plant," 151.
"Maneros," explained, 14.
Manes, king of Phrygia, 19.
Mardonius, answer of oracle to, 77.
"Marriage," the numeral Five, 181.
Moon, atmosphere of, 241.
Matter, Plato's "Poverty," 50.
"Meadow of Hades," 252.
"Measuring the lion by his talon," 73.
Megasthenes, quoted, 239.
Memory, nature of, 121.
Metamorphosis of deities, 183.
Mithras, intermediate principle, 40.
Metrodorus’ theory of Creation, 126.
Mimnermus, quoted, 224.
Minerva of Sais, 8.
Mirrors, concave, effect of, 236.
—reflection of rays in, 221.
Mithidoes, shrub, 17.
Moisture, typified by Osiris, 30.
Molds, without a head, 89.
Months, Egyptian names of, 45.
—feast-days of the, 10.
Moon, abode of Hermes, 35.
—cavities in surface of, 233.
—a feminine star, 228.
—a fiery body, 229.
—apparent diameter of, 233.
—composed of air and fire, 203.
—her colours during an eclipse, 229.
—her utility to man, 240.
—how illuminated, 218.
—how supported in space, 205.
—of what composed, 201.
—possibly inhabited? 237.
Moon's actual surface of various bright colours, 232.
—atmosphere, fiery, 238.
—distance from Earth, 209.
—magnitude, 225.
—nature heterogeneous, 127.
—natural colour, 230.
Mopsuestia, Oracle at, how tested, 127.
"More Worlds than One," 102.
Motto, put up at Delphi, 170.
Muses, Temple of the, 156.
Music, why given to Apollo, 195.
Musical notation, 184.
Mnevis, king, 7.
Nails, not to be cut on holy days, 4.
Names, taken at random, 98.
Nature, typified by Isis, 46.
Natural properties modified by position, 215.
"Natural Science" charlatans, 127.
Nephthys and Typhon, their legend explained, 33.
Nephthys, wife of Typhon, 12.
Nicias, superstition of, 268.
Nick-names of celebrated persons, 153.
Nile, inundations of, 37.
—its connection with Osiris, 32.
Nocturnal and mournful rites explained, 59.
Number, a form of Matter, 114.
Numerals expressing deities, 8.
Nymphs, duration of life, 84.
Ocean, origin of all things, 240.
—reflected on the Moon, 199.
Ochus, "The Ass," 26.
"The Sword," 9.
Octahedron, for air, 111.
Ogygia, island, 245.
Olympian altar of ashes, 123.
Omens, derived from children's cries, 12.
—given by donaria, 145.
"Omphalos," at Delphi, 72.
"Ompis," title of Osiris, 36.
"One," and "Now," God, 193.
Optical theories, 223.
Opuntians, send back the coined donaria, 154.
Oracle given by the Sibyl, 147.
—given to Agesilaus, 149.
—to Philip V., ib.
Oracles, affected by natural causes, 123.
—extinguished together with
their presiding dæmons, 91.
—formerly numerous in Greece, 77.
—given in prose, 158.
—in verse, collections of, 159.
—only hint at the Future, 161.
—verified by the event, 158.
Oromazes, god of Light, 40.
"Osiris" = a general, 18.
Osiris and Typhon = Moisture and Drought, 28.
—the Two Principles, 43.
Osiris, hieroglyph of, 44.
—Isis, &c., true nature of, 55.
—his body torn in 14 pieces by Typhon, 14.
—history of, 11.
—how entrapped by Typhon, ib.
—"Many-eyed," 9.
"Overturning the altar of Earth," 203.
"Owl-faced" Moon, 219.
Oxyrinchus, 5.
Palm-tree of the Athenians, 146.
—of the Corinthians, 150.
Pamylia, Phallic festival, 30.
"Pan, the great, is dead," 93.
Parmenides, of the Moon, 218.
—quoted, 213.
Parturition, Moon's influence on, 243.
Pausanias, oracle concerning, 157.
—Philip's guard, 272.
Pauson's reversible horse, 143.
Persephone, office of, 251.
Persea, sacred tree, 58.
Phagrus, fish, 6.
Phallus, origin of the, 15, 31.
Pharos, once an island, 35.
Pharsalia the Dancer, 146.
Philip V. oracle given to, 149.
Philosophers, respective ages of, 95.
Phryne, golden statue of, 153.
—origin of name, ib. Phylacteries of the Jews, 269.
Pindar, of Apollo, 80.
—of the Sun, 71.
Planets, their relative distances, 208.
Plato, of Efficient and Final Causes, 130.
—of Music, 264.
—of the Elements, 110.
—of the Moon, 240.
—on the Two Principles, 42.
Plato's amatory verses, 164.
—"auspicious idols," 92.
—"Cratylus," quoted, 188.
—doctrine of Providence, 109.
—Marriage Scheme, 49.
—nomenclature of the Principles, 48.
—"One" and "Other," 118.
—plurality of worlds, 98, 185.
—"True World," 231.
Platonist explanation of Egyptian Myths, 51.
"Plough with a silver share," 158.
Plurality of Providences necessitated by plurality of Worlds, 107.
Polygnotus, his picture at Delphi, 131.
"Pool of the Spring," 156.
Pottery, burning of, 201.
Praxiteles’ mistress, statue of, 154.
Principles, the Two, 42.
"Prison of Hecate," 254.
Prophecy, mere guess-work, 122.
—its fulfilment explained, 148.
Prophetic power of departing souls, 121.
Purgatory in the Middle Space, 252.
Pyramid, for Fire, 110.
Pythagoras, of worship, 270.
—scholar of Onyphis, 8.
Pythagorean maxims derived from Egypt, ib.
—names for the Two Principles, 42.
—symbols, 66.
Pythia, character of the, 163.
—the instrument of the Oracle, 161.
Python, a dæmon, 97.
Qualities of Nature, the Five, 117.
Quarterings of the Moon explained, 220.
Queries begin with If," 177.
Questions, trivial, put to the Oracle, 167.
"Quintessence," the Fifth Element, 185.
Quintuple division of all Nature, 187.
Rationalistic explanations, 56.
Razors, known to Homer, 74.
"Reason, He that rules by," 216.
"Reason," Logos, typified by Osiris, 52.
—of the Stoics, 38.
Red-hair, typical of Typhon, 25.
Red Sea, vegetation in, 242.
Reflection of rays on the Moon, 235.
Resin, work of Sun and Moon, 70.
Rhodope, iron spits of, 152.
Rites, absurd, reason for, 89.
Ritualistic contortions, 261.
River-horse, type of impudence, 27.
Sabbath-keeping by Greeks, 261.
Salt, why forbidden, 4.
"Same and Different," Plato's, 113.
"Satiety," vacation of the Oracle, 184.
Saturn, enchanted slumber of, 94.
—Greeks deputed to, 247.
—prison of, 247.
Saturn's prophetic dreams, 247.
Scythinus, quoted. 155.
"Sea of Saturn," 246.
—the seed of Saturn, 27.
—various colours of, 231.
Seasons, alteration in the, 75.
"Seeking for Osiris," festival, 45.
Senses, compared to the Elements, 186.
Serapis, how brought into Egypt, 23.
"Serapis" = Osiris and Apis, 24.
Serapis, theories concerning, 23.
Serpent of Pallas, 65.
"Seth," name of Typhon, 53.
Seven, virtues of the numeral, 176.
Shield-device, dragon, 169.
Sibyl, Rock of the, 147.
—becomes the Face in the Moon, ib.
Signet-type of the "Sealer," 26.
Silence of the Oracles explained, 118.
Sistrum, type of creation, 54.
Slaves, their privilege of changing masters, 262.
"Sleep, sweet balm of," 260.
Smoke, Indians living on, 239.
Solar eclipse, phenomena of a recent, 225.
—light, transmission of, 222.
Sophocles’ "Admetus" quoted, 89.
—of physicians, 206.
Sothis, the Dog-star, 18.
Souls, fly up to the Moon, 252.
Soul, how dissolved into its components, 256.
—its composition and dissolution, 251.
Soul's nature like that of the Moon, 257.
Souls, their occupation in the Moon, 253.
"Speculative" philosophy, 67.
Spiders, abundance of, 74.
Standards in the shape of animals, 62.
Stars, the souls of great men, 18.
Stoic doctrine about gods and daemons, 94.
—explanation of the gods, 35.
—theory of the Moon, 202.
Sun, nourished by moisture, 150.
—the sensible type of God, 193.
—confounded with Apollo, 193.
—wars against Jupiter, 31.
Sun's distance from Earth, 209.
"Sun's Walking-stick," festival, 45.
Sunset, cause of, 227.
Superstition defined, 258.
Swallow, Isis becomes a, 13.
Sweet smells, virtue of, 69.
Swine, why unclean, 7.
Swords, of native bronze, 125.
Syene, climate of, 241.
—gnomon at, 75.
Sylla's story, 245.
Symbolism, dangerous results of, 57.
Syrian Goddess, 272.
Tagyrae, Apollo's birthplace, 77.
Tenedos, the axe of, 150.
Thales, the "Astronomy" of, 157.
Theophrastus, on dæmons, 95.
Thera, eruption at, 149.
"Thou art," addressed to Apollo, 190.
"Thou art," and "Know thyself," meaning of, 196.
Tisaphernes, 267.
Tiberius, examines the story of Thamus, 93.
Tides, produced by the Moon, 243.
Timanthes, 271.
Time, dispersion of, 192.
—predicates of, 192.
Tityi and Typhones, 256.
"Tomb of Osiris," city, 17.
Tongue, offered to Fortune, 58.
Tonsure, reason of, 3.
Tortoise of Venus, 65.
Trident, meaning of the, 65.
Triangle, equilateral, symbol of Minerva, 66.
Triangle, sacred to Pluto, 26.
Trifles prove great things, 74.
Triple nature of the Good Principle, 48.
Trophies inscribed at Delphi, 153.
"Truth, the Plain of," 99.
Tyndaridæ, assist mariners, 108.
Typhon, animals sacred to, 43.
—customs relating to, 25.
Typhon's soul divided amongst his sacred animals, 63.
Unity of God, 193.
Unity, symbol of Apollo, 66.
Universe, governed by Reason, 39.
"Unlucky days," belong to dæmons, 21.
"Upwards," and "Downwards," 207.
Vacuum, the Final Cause, 258.
Veil, black, when used, 33.
Verse, ancient universal use of, 165.
—oracles in, discontinued, 145.
Versification of Oracles, argument against inspiration, 143.
Versification of Oracles, its badness, 142.
Vestments of Isis, their symbolism, 67.
Vesuvius, eruption of, 147.
Victim, signs given by the, 129.
Violet, the antique, 231.
"Voice, a true," amulet, 58.
"Wailing, Doors of," 24.
Wallowing in mud, religious, 261.
"Water-carrier of Isis,'' title of Sirius, 32.
Weasel, type of Reason, 64.
Wine, forbidden the priests, 5.
"Wise Men," their true number, 175.
"Woman-hater," title of Hercules, 159.
—his priest bound to chastity, ib.
Wooden E of the Wise Men, 176.
"Word," Logos, is Osiris, 52.
"Words that walked," 146.
Worlds, Plurality of, 99.
—plurality of, objections against, 107.
Xenocrates on daemons, 20.
Xenophanes joke of, 60.
Xenophon, quoted, 163.
Year, shortening of the, 73.
Yellow complexion of Phryne, 153.
"Ysiris" for "Osiris," 29.
"Zagreus," title of Bacchus, 183.
Zoroaster, doctrine of, 40.
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