prayer, or only to employ a little of it, and to throw away the rest. No, wholly must we use it; and above all things must they practise it who desire to unite themselves sincerely with God." (Sect. v. c. 26.) These new-Platonic doctrines, of which I have quoted here as much as concerns our topic, have, through all ages, found defenders and followers: amongst the later ones, Gale, Cudworth, and especially Henry More, being the most celebrated. Akin to this school, and drawing from the same well, are the Theosophists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These practised chemistry, by which they asserted that they could explore the profoundest secrets of nature. As they strove, above all earthly knowledge, after the divine, and sought the divine light and fire, through which all men can acquire the true wisdom, they were called the Fire Philosophers (philosophi per ignem). The most distinguished of these are Theophrastus, Paracelsus, Adam von Boden, Oswald Croll; and later, Valentine Weigel, Robert Fludd, Jacob Böhmen, Peter Poiret, etc. In the next chapter I shall turn back to notice several things, that I may not pass over what is most remarkable and instructive in magnetism. INDEX. ABGARUS, Prince of Edessa, i. 315. Abodes of the Sibyls, i. 429. Abraxes, or carved stones of the early Abuse of magic by the Romans, i. 435. Accusations of the witch-hammerers, Aconite, Van Helmont's experiment Esculapius, miracles performed by, i. -, staff of, i. 362. temples of, i. 363. - on the nature of matter, ii. 254. Allusions in the Bible to magnetism and somnambulism, i. 251. Ancient Germans, magic of the, ii. 85. priests of Egypt, i. 240. Angel, meaning of the word in the as defined by considered, ii. 329. Antidotes, Kircher's, against poisonous Antoinette Bourignon, apparitions of, Antiquity of the English deasil, ii. 182. Apollonius of Tyana, miraculous cures -, philosophy of, i. 407. his distinction between magic and Apostles, miracles of the, i. 317. Königsberg professor, the, ii. 341. Story of Sir Charles Lee's daughter, Dorothy Dingley, apparition of, ii. 358. Two apparitions to Mr. William Mr. Booty and the ship's crew, ii. 373. Apparition of Dr. Donne's wife, ii. 387. his mention of divine sleep, i. 366. Arrows, divination by means of, ii. 453. BABYLON, dreams first cultivated in Bacchus, significance of the mythic, Balaam, visions and prophecies of, i. 288. Baptista Van Helmont, extracts from sorcerers in the British Isles, ii. 103. oppose witchcraft, ii. 191. Bed, Graham's magnetic, ii. 260. Bells and bowls mentioned in the Bible, magnetic records in the, i. 281. on the Divine manifestation, &c. on the constellations, ii. 316. on the four elements, ii. 318-320. on the new man, ii. 299. Arras, witch prosecutions at, ii. 176- Book of the Secret, the, on the means 178. of producing visions, i. 205. Books of Numa, destruction of the, Compass, origin of the discovery of ii. 11. Brahma-Atma, i. 205. CABBALAH, or Jewish philosophy, , teachings of the, respecting women, Cats, infernal magical sacrifice of, ii. Celebrated oracles amongst the Fathers Cellini's vision during a fever, i. 77. Chinese, magic among the, i. 211. Christianity and Germanity, ii. 75. the, ii. 331. Constantine the Great's speech on the Countess M., magnetic experiments Count Cagliostro's magnetic experi- Creation, Mosaic account of the, i. 275. Creuzer on symbolic poetry, ii. 6. of Apollonius of Tyana, i. 405. performed by Graterakes, ii. 261. DACTYLS, the wonder-working, iì. 65. Deasil, antiquity of the, ii. 182. -, anthropological digression regard-Death foretold by an apparition, ii. 366. ing, i. 324-335. De la Harpe's account of a singular Delphian temple, inscriptions on the Clairvoyance the highest state of som-Devs, the, of ancient Persia, i. 222. nambulism, i. 28. Claudian's idyls on the magnet, ii. 27. Cock, divination by means of a, 453. Dietary regulations of the Greek priest- Diodorus on the dreams of Isis, i. 231. Disciples of Paracelsus, ii. 271-273. |