Triple composition of fire 423 Instinct and reason defined 425 Philosophy of the Hindu Jaïns 429 Deliberate misrepresentations of Lemprière 431 Man’s astral soul not immortal 432 The reïncarnation of Buddha 437 Magical sun and moon pictures of Thibet 441 Vampirism—its phenomena explained 449 Bengalese jugglery 457 CHAPTER XIII. REALITIES AND ILLUSION. The rationale of talismans 462 Unexplained mysteries 466 Magical experiment in Bengal 467 Chibh Chondor’s surprising feats 471 The Indian tape-climbing trick an illusion 473 Resuscitation of buried fakirs 477 Limits of suspended animation 481 Mediumship totally antagonistic to adeptship 487 What are “materialized spirits”? 493 The _Shudâla Mâdan_ 495 Philosophy of levitation 497 The elixir and alkahest 503 CHAPTER XIV. EGYPTIAN WISDOM. Origin of the Egyptians 515 Their mighty engineering works 517 The ancient land of the Pharaohs 521 Antiquity of the Nilotic monuments 529 Arts of war and peace 531 Mexican myths and ruins 545 Resemblances to the Egyptian 551 Moses a priest of Osiris 555 The lessons taught by the ruins of Siam 563 The Egyptian Tau at Palenque 573 CHAPTER XV. INDIA THE CRADLE OF THE RACE. Acquisition of the “secret doctrine” 575 Two relics owned by a Pali scholar 577 Jealous exclusiveness of the Hindus 581 Lydia Maria Child on Phallic symbolism 583 The age of the Vedas and Manu 587