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Alexander and Darius' table, 328; in Angels, guardian, in East and West,

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its library, 2.

its philosophy in India, 306.
its trading inhabitants, 194-197.
Alfred king, and Peruvians, 49.
All-souls' day in Mexico, 33.
Almighty, ideas about, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10,
22, 62, 74, 75, 137, 156, 166, 198,
207, 223, 225, 229, 230, 244, 249,
269.

to be pestered, 138.
Almsgiving, 41, 108, 137, 138, 190,

219.

Alonzo the Brave, 371.
Altars, ancient, 27, 40.
"Am I right?" 388.
Amalek, 45, 143.
Ambrose, 175.

America, &c., 21, 24, 26, 27, 30, 40,
54, 60, 64, 67, 71, 227.

Amnon and Tamar, 235.

Amours of Apollo and Zeus, 264.
Amulets in Babylon, 334.

Anacalypsis, 15.

Anahuac, 47.

Ananias and Sapphira, 44.

Ancient and modern virgin mothers,

266.

civilizations, 26, 27.
faiths, 1, 12, 115, 254.

in Palestine, 27.

in peoples, 29, 32, 37.

Anchises and Venus, 271.

Anchorites, 190, 265.

absurd conception of, by artists,

315, 318.

and archangels, 322, 334.
and beetles, 320.

and book-keeping, 329, 330.
and daughters of men, 270, 359.
and demigods, 329, 349.

- and demigods, gods, and saints,
323, 326, 329, 349.

and devils, 319, 328.
and imps, 334.

and Jesus, 349.
and Job, 327.

and phantoms, 322, 323.
and policemen, 330.

and prophets, 319-322.

and their deeds, 334-336.
are chariots, 355.

arms and wings of, 316, 317.
Assyrian notions of, 316, 325.
Babylonian belief in, 316.
badly winged, 317, 319.
bats and, 319.

belief in, implies, 315.
birds and, 315, 316.

Christian ideas of, 314, 324.
Daniel and, 322, 328.

Darius and, 328.

demigods and, 323, 326.

devils and, 319.

Enoch, book of, and, 366.
fallen, 364-366.

for children, 343-what? 362.
forms of, 322, 325.

gods and, 324, 328, 349.

guardian, 330, 334, 343, 349.
Hebrew-their duties, &c., 357,

Andaman islands, 66.

Androgyne deity, 7.

Anecdotes, 64, 71, 340-see also
"Story."

360.

Angels and devils, 129.

history, biblical, of, 357, 360.
ideas associated with, 314, 393.

Angels in ancient Italy, 313, 316.
in Assyria, 316, 324.

326.

349.

334.

in Babylonia, 316, 328, 331.
in Egypt, 320, 323, 324.
in Greece, 313.

in Heaven, 332.

in Hindostan, 313.

in Palestine, 314-316, 333.

in Persia, 325, 326.

in Rome, 329.

of death, 326.

of heirs of salvation, 344.

of hell, 334, 343.

of marriage, 343, 344.

of New Testament, 340.

of the heavens, 329, 330, 336.

of the presente, 332.

of the sun, sea, &c., 350.

INDEX.

of the victualling department,

pictorial representations of, 316,

recorders, 349.

talk with men, 354.

their duties, 314-324, 326, 329,

their gender, 313.

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Apocalypse, 15, 130-seq., 183..
Apocryphal stories in Bible, 235.

Apollo, 94, 302.

and his amours, 264.

angel of the sun, 350.

as a woman, impregnates Leu-
cothöe, 268.

father of Augustus, 270.
Jupiter and incubi, 266.
Apollonius Tyaneus, 304-306.
Apostles, 40, 102, 179.

not celibate, 195.
creed of, 103.

Apotheosis of a ghost, 376.

Apparitions authenticated, 381.

why winged, 312, 313, 315, 322. Apples and love, 289.

wings of, 316, 324.

wishing caps and, 314.

Anger and fools, 218.

Anglicans, 62.

why they become Romans, 402.

Animal versus intellectual, 419.

Animals and man, 155.

without moral law, 159.

Apsaras, Hindoo, angels, female, 96,

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Annas and Caiaphas, 35.

Annihilation, 128-see "Nirvana.”

Annunciation, Buddhist, the, 185.
Anomalies in Mexico and Christen-
dom, 41.

Anquetil du Perron, 252.

Answer, a soft, 212.

Anthony, Saint-his temptation, 96,

191, 287, 372.

Anthropophagi, 354.

Arcana, 11.

Arch, a stable one, 2.

Archangel like a beryl, 322.
Michael, 332.

Archons, 380.
Arctic dangers, 21.

Ares had no father, 264.

Argument shunned, when and why,

431.

Arguments between Buddhists and

Christians, 166.

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Aristotle, 64, 269; his baneful influ- Assyrians, &c., 8, 21, 34, 51, 72, 200,

ence, 426.

Armageddon, 230.

Armenian soothsayers in Rome, 338.
Arms and wings, 320.

buried with the dead-why? 28.
of a dead man churned to pro-
duce babies, 280.

to be tested by warriors, 4.
Arnobius, 288, 345, 350.
Arsenic, 340.

Art in putting things, 83.
Artaxerxes, 177.
Arthur, king, 245.
Articles of faith, 406.

Aryans, 72.

and Greeks, 258.

and Hebrews, 76, 249.

have Marâ Satan, 249.

invade Hindostan, 53, 85.
mythology of, 246.

religion and hymns of, 73, 74.
Ascension, feast of, 276.

Ascetic Sramana and Buddha, 110.
Asceticism, 110, 111, 153, 154, 181,
190, 194, 217, 383, 285, 287.
Asdarta, 336.

Ashantees, 7.

Asher, 34.

Ashtaroth, 7.

Asia, 48, 142, 179, 181, 206 260.

Asoka, 93, 123, 141, 177, 178, 189,
197, 205.

323, 325.

Athanasian Creed, 8, 324.
Athanasius, 174.
Atheists, 62.

always abused, 405.

Unitarians, and Christians, 395.
Athenæum and Faraday, 203.
Athenian curiosity, 102, 196, 352.
Athor and attendants, 324.
Atonement, the, ideas about, 37.
Attributes of God voted to man! 161.
Atys, his strange conception, 239.
Augur's staff-the crozier, 351.
Augustine, Saint-his credulity, 264,
345.

Augustus, 177, 270.

Auramazda, 255.

Aurora, 350.

Austerities, 39.

power of, 287.
Australia, 17, 65, 67, 71.
Austria and Spain, 52.

and the Papacy, 397,
as a theocracy, 417.
Jesuits in, 456.
Authorities appraised, 42.

on Buddhism, 84.

Author's change of plan, 16.

difficulties, 12.

Avebury, 27.

Avesta, the Zend, 246-254, 258, 260,
326.

Avesta, where silent, 260,

"Awakened, the," 214.

Baptism in Mexico, 33, 35.
Baptist, John, the, 118.

Ayonija-his strange conception, 281- Baptists, 398.

283.

Barachiel, 336.

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BAAL, 61, 124.

Barbarians, 20.

Barbarism and civilization, 63, 66.

Barbarity of Christians, 13.

Barber's doll, a fetish, 68.

Barcochab, or Barcochba, 115, 116.

Babies come from God, and other- Barthelemy, St. Hilaire, 84-seq.

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remarks on the retardation of

science, 424, 425.

Bactrian prophet, the,

"Zoroaster.'

252-see

Bad and good, after death, 54, 213,
214.

language, Buddha on, 112.
spirits, names of, 334-336.
thoughts to be controlled, 209,

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Bartholomew's day, 44, 173, 227.
Bashan-in Palestine, 27.
Basis for laws, 420,

Bastards not punished! 229.
Bathsheba and David, 235.
Batiel, 335.

Bats and their wings, 319.
Beads and rosaries, 239.
Beal's oriental works, 184.
Beasts and birds, 227.

and men, 155, 412.
Beautiful-but unsound, 2.
Beetles and angels, 320.
Beginning, Aryan idea of the, 74.

Behistun, inscription at, 255.

Belief, articles of, 406, 407.

in a Creator general, 6.

in God, 124.

in silly legends general, 308.

in silly stories degrades men, 263.
in the impossible, 291.

Beliefs current, origin of, 311.

held in common, 369.

Belus in Babylon, and pretty wo-
man, 269.

Ben Panther Jesus, 98.
Bernadotte, 327.
Bernard, a saint, 99.
Beryl and Archangel, 322.
Bethiail, or Bethuel, 335.
Betty going to heaven, 71.
Beziers, Christian ferocity at, 44.
Bhrigu, 280.

Bible, a bloody record, 45.

and Dr Gutzlaff, 166, 167.
and Faraday, 203.

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