But they shall scarcely succeed in this, as long as freedom of thought and scientific independence are guarded as the foremost conditions of the spiritual health of mankind; and they shall utterly fail when an all-extended intelligence has taught the people that the premises of the devil-dogma, if they could be again inoculated into the popular mind, would show anew the same results which have been depicted above, and lead us back to the terrible times of the inquisition and the burning of witches. This, no doubt, even the orthodox defenders of belief in an impersonated evil principle do not desire; but they do not observe that history acts more consistently than they, and cures general errors only by making long generations draw from them the last consequences and suffer their full effect. THE END. INDEX. Adam's sin, brings countless woes on man, 12. Agnus Dei, 63; its power, 64. Ahriman, affirmed to have been Judaized in "Satan," 35; repelled at Marathon, 36; his power over man limited, 47; author of _black_ magic, 54. Alexander, conquers Asia, but helps the triumph of dualism, 37. Ammonius Sacca, tries to restore Neoplatonism, 40. Amulets employed in Church-magic, 62, 63. Angels, belong to the lowest hierarchy, 5; have the care of mortals, 6. Appolonius of Tyana, deemed the peer of Christ in gift of miracles, 40, 163. Archangels, part of the lowest hierarchy, 5; protect religion, 6. Archetypes, world of, _i. e._, the Empyrean, 1; all celestial things are in the Empyrean; are immaterial, 6. Aristotle's method revives science, 44. Astrology, introduction to (Table II. of correspondences), 127. Atmosphere of earth situate next below space of the moon, 2. Augustine, a Manicheian, 43; last of the fathers educated in philosophy, 44; quoted on baptism, 57; quoted on the existence of fauns, satyrs, etc., 162; believes in the existence of were-wolves, 206. Baptism, copied, in anticipation, in the Mithras mysteries, 57. Baptismal water, its various efficacy, 58. Bartholomeus Chassaneus, instructs how to proceed in the courts against common pests, 78. Benoit de Montferrand, bishop of Lausanne, excommunicates may-bugs, 75, 76. _Bereshit_, its mystic meaning, 144. Bethesda, the efficacy of the water in its pool inferior to that of baptism, 57. Bishop Gerhard, converts the heretics of Arras, 60. Boethius, on the basis of creation, 124. Borrichius (Olaf Borch) cited, 115. Bunsen's Gott in der Geschichte, quoted, 93, 94, 175. Cabalists' method of searching out the inner meaning of the Bible, 144; discover the seventy-two mystical names of God, 146. Christian fathers, one of, doubts if his way of attaining perfection is the only one, 32; one of, declares every thing in heathen thought to be of the devil, 42.