Eucharist, perennial source of power and sanctification, 59.
Faust, quoted, 98, 109.
Faust-legend, at first proposed to employ H. C. Agrippa as its chief
character, 221.
Field-rats prosecuted, 78-80.
Formula against bloody-flux, 215;
against epilepsy, 215.
Formulary of malediction used by priests, 81, 82.
Gnosticism springs up, 38.
God, enthroned in the Empyrean, 1;
associates with man, 8-9.
Gregory IX. exhorts to a crusade against the Stedinghs, 174.
Gregory the Great, mentioned, 44, 60;
forbade the abrogation of pagan festivities, 160.
Heaven of crystal, next beneath Empyrean,--_primum mobile_; of fixed
stars, devoid of weight, 2.
Hell, becomes a place of punishment, 11;
remains after final conflagration, 26.
Henricus Cornelius Agrippa ab Nettesheim, on God as the source of all
power, 3, 4;
is not chosen to represent the magician in the Faust-legend, 221.
Heretics of Arras, their belief, 60.
Hermes Trismegistus, transmuted whatever he chose to gold, 115.
Hincmar, archb. of Rheims, propounds a remedy against witch-knots, 216.
Hippocrates, mentioned, 71, 72.
Historical development of Middle-age Cosmic Philosophy, 28-51.
History, a spiritual comedy, 23.
_Homunculus philosophicus_, how produced, 132, 133.
Horst's Demonomagie quoted, 199.
Houses of the planets, 134.
"Hubertus-bands" and "Hubertus-keys," 69.
Images, their miraculous properties, 67, 68.
Incense appropriate for Mars, 139.
"_Incubi_" and "_succubi_," 167.
Inevitable causation, not admitted in the Middle Age Cosmic philosophy,
4.
Isis, secrets of entrusted to the sons of Ham, 114.
Jacob's ladder, structure of the universe likened to, 6.
Jamblichus, practices secret arts, to outrival Christian magi, 40.
Jean Bodin, ascribes witchcraft to Zoroaster, 45.
John of Salisbury upon witch-festivals, 173.
Judaico-Alexandrian philosophy blooms, 38.
Jupiter belonging to the second of the planetary spaces, 2.
Knowledge of highest truths revealed to man, 20.
Lucifer, prince of Seraphim, 9;
revolts, and wars with Michael, 10;
is conquered, is permitted to tempt man, 10;
transformed into an angel of light, 12;
triumphs, 14.
Luther, on Satanic malice as the cause of accidents, 24, 25;
esteems highly "Deutsche Theologie," 26;
Tischreden quoted, 168;
referred to, 199.
Lycanthropy of the Middle Ages, 205-207.
"Magia Divina," quoted 130-133.
Magic, of the Church, 51-94;
what enters into all employment of it, 53, 54;
white and black magic, celestial and diabolical, 54;
of the Church defined, 92.
--Magic of the Learned, 95-158;
is derived from various sources, 116;
first principle of, 128.
--Magic of the People, 158-224;
black magic and devil worship, 164.
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