_Artemisia vulgaris_, 212 Artemidorus, 356, 357 Ashmole, Elias, 167 Assher, 289, 300 Asteria, 106, 107 Astral stones, 321, 338-363 fixed stars controlling, 351, 352 images of constellations on, 352-355 influence of stars on, 338, 339 Athene of Phidias, 167 Aubrey, John, 196 Augustine, St., 126, 282 Augustus, 342 Auto-suggestion, 3 Aventurine, 48 Axinite, 48 Azchalias of Babylon, 80 “Azoth” of Paracelsus, 6 Azur-malachite, from Arizona, 364 B Babylonian axe-head, 233, 234 cylinders, 121-123, 204 Bacchus and Amethyst, 58, 59 Baccio, Andrea, 158 Bacon, Roger, 182, 183 Baelz, Dr. Erwin, 265 Balas-ruby, 64, 349 Ball, Dr. Valentine, 76 Baltic Coast, amber of the, 56 _Bareketh_, stone of breastplate, 291, 292 Barium sulphate, 9 Bartolomæus Anglicus, 91, 94, 104, 150 Basalt, 227 Basilides, 126, 129 Basilidian gems, 126-130 Batman, Stephen, 150 Bela IV of Hungary, emerald in ring of, 77, 78 Belgium, jet in cave deposits of, 92 Belisarius, 283 Belucci collection of worked jade at Perugia, 264 Belucci, Prof. Giuseppe, vii Benitoite, from California, 364 Benjamin, 289, 297 Benoni, Rabbi, 72 Berenice, mother of Ptolemy II, 67 Berlin Museum, 36 Berthelot, Pierre Eugène Marcellin, 174 Beryl, 39, 59, 60, 119, 133, 134, 234, 236, 237, 299, 303, 305, 313, 320, 336 as symbol of St. Thomas, 312 gem of the moon, 348 of Scorpio, 347 in breastplate, 276 Bes, god, image of, 36 Bejazet II, 154 Bezoar, 340 Birth-stones, see _Natal Stones_ Black, Christian symbolism of, 273 in occult ritual, 336 symbolism of, 32 Black opal of New South Wales, 152 Blake, W. W., vii Blessington, Countess of, verses on opal, 143 Bloodstone, 133 causing tempests, 60 checking hemorrhages, 28 figuring blood of Christ, 267 gem of Aries, 345 in Leyden papyrus, 61 therapeutic effect of, 370, 390, 391 Blue, Christian symbolism of, 273 gems in dreams, 357 significance of, 31 silver, worn in Siam for Friday; dark for Saturday, 335 Bologna stone, 168 Bondaroy, Jean de la Taille de, 5 Book of the Dead, 38, 86, 225, 227, 228, 229, 290, 297 Book of Wings, Ragiel’s, 132 Boot, Anselmus de, 56, 65, 106, 109, 110, 271 Borgia, Card. Stefano, 234 Borneo, breeding pearls in, 42 Boyle, Robert, 169, 170, 171, 391 Braddock, Dr. Charles, vii Breastplate of high-priest, 16, 120, 231, 307, 308, 309, 310, 319 stones of, 275-302 names of, in ancient lists, 301 probable modern names of, 301 Breastplate of Judgment, 16 Buddha, 238 Buddhabhatta, 71, 73 Budge, Dr. Ernest A. Wallis, vii, 227 Burgh, Hubert de, 44 Burke, Capt. John G., 202 Burma, amulets of, 266 Burton, Sir Richard Francis, star-sapphire of, 106 C Cæsar, Julius, 341 Cagliostro (Giuseppe Balsamo), 198 Cairo Museum, 38, 201, 297