Magician, the learned of the 15th century, 100; his apartments described, 105, 108, 110; explains his science, 112-129; performs an incantation, 129-155. Malice of the devil, causes unforeseen accidents, 24, 25. Man, a microcosm; must dwell on earth, 7; at first happy, 8. Mandrake, superstitions concerning, 201. Manicheism, new form of dualism; advances against Europe; finds a follower in Augustine, 43. Marathon, Salamis and Platæa really battle-fields of a religious war, 35. Mars, situate in the third of the planetary spaces, 2. Matter, devoid of force and all quality, 3. May-bugs excommunicated, 75. Men are often terrified into an alliance with the devil, 25. Mercury, path of in planetary world, 2. Middle Ages, Cosmic Philosophy of, 1-28; historical origin of, 28-55, 94. Miracles, defined, 4. Mithras mysteries, contain a copy, by anticipation, of the sacrament of baptism, 57; imitate other mysteries of the Church, 58, 60. Moon, path of, 2. "_Mus exenteratus_," etc., quoted, 60. Native spirits popularly believed to inhabit land, air and water, 202. Nature, knowledge of, same as a knowledge of the angels, 5. Neoplatonism arises, 40. Nine revolving heavens, 1. Nork's "Sitten und Gebräuche der Deutschen," etc., quoted, 202. Number 72, its significance, 143, 144; number 488, 147. Origen, attempts to unite belief and thought, 41; rejects the doctrine of eternal punishment, 43. Origin of the names of the days of the week, 135, 136. Ormuzd and Ahriman, are the real adversaries repelled at Marathon, 36; author of _white_ magic, 54. Pentecost, its gifts transmitted, 91. Peter de Abano, author of an important question, 97. _Perpetuum mobile naturæ_, method of producing, 130, 131. Pierre Delancre complains against witch-knots, 216. Philosophy, system of possible within the Church, 20; adherents of the scholastic may use Aristotle's dialectics, 21. Planetary world, next beneath that of fixed stars, 2; consisting of seven heavens, 2. Planets guided by angels, 3; influence the elements and man, 134, 135. Plotinus, tries to restore Neoplatonism, 40. Pope, feudal lord of emperors, 18; determines the true inductions of philosophy, 21; Sergius III., 63; Urban Vitus, 65. Pope John XXII., complains that his life is endangered by sorcerers, 177. Pope Innocent VIII., puts forth a bull against the spread of sorcery, 178. Popular maxims of superstition, 208-211. Power, from a spiritual source only, 3; communicated to the heavens and the earth by angels, 3. Power, order of angels, guide the stars and planets, 5. Principalities, Archangels, and Angels, the third and lowest hierarchy, hold supremacy over terrestrial things, 5, 6. Principalities, part of the lowest hierarchy of angels, guardian spirits of nations, 6.