Proclus, last Neoplatonician, 44.
Pythagoras, glorified as fit to rank with Christ in miraculous gifts,
40;
believed the universe founded on numbers, 124.
Rain-processions in the Middle Ages, 74.
Reason, darkened by apostacy, 13.
"Recognitiones divi Clementis ad Jacob.," quoted, 165.
Reformation, retains somewhat of the Church-magic, 92.
Relics, their magical use, 66.
Remigius, ascribes witchcraft to Zoroaster, 45.
Renaissance, overthrew the darkness and superstition of the Middle Ages,
222-223.
Saints, intercession of, more effective than that of Seraphim, 17;
not disturbed by misery of the damned, 27;
have control over various diseases, 69.
Satan, the Judaized Ahriman, 35.
Saturn, belonging to the first of the planetary spaces, 2.
Scale of the Holy Tetrad (Table I.), 123.
_Schemhamphoras_, or God's mystical names, 144, 146.
_Scholastici errantes_, 220.
Science the, of the Greeks is rational, originates logic and geometry;
of the Middle Ages is _magic_, 30.
Scotus Erigena, mentioned, 44.
Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones, the first hierarchy, and nearest God, 5.
Simon Magus, legend of his discomfiture by St. Peter, 165.
Sprenger, author of Malleus Malificarum, ascribes the origin of
witchcraft to Zoroaster, 45.
Stedinghs persecuted, 174.
_Summa Theologica_, quoted on the delectation of the redeemed upon
seeing the misery of the damned, 28.
Sun, belonging to the middle space of planetary world, 2.
Superstitious prognostics of disease and death, 212-216.
Synodal decree of Ancyra, 171.
Table of correspondences between microcosmos and things on earth, and
the planets, 127.
Tekfael, name of the demon summoned, 147, 153.
Terrestrial things, images of the celestial, 6;
are composed of the coarsest matter, 6;
are all under the control of special angels, 7;
are also influenced by stars, planets and archetypes, 7.
Theologie der Thatsachen wider die Theologie der Rhetorik (A. F. C. H.
Vilmar, 1857) quoted, 48-50.
Thomas Aquinas, on the acquiescence of the saints in the punishment of
the lost, 28;
on the power of demons, 73.
Universe, a vast lyre, 7;
an unbroken harmony, 9;
divided between Good and Evil, 11.
University of 15th century described, 96-98.
Vampirism, 207.
Venus, path of in planetary world, 2.
Vilmar, Neo-Lutheran, would restore to the clergy their mediæval
prerogatives, 48-50.
Virgil quoted, 205, 216.
Von Görres, attempts to restore the belief in vampirism, 207.
Witch-hammer, contains directions for the judge in witch-trials, 90,
178-195.
Witches' Sabbath, supposed origin of, 170.
Witch-knots, 216.
Zoroaster, the reputed founder of magic science; and by some believed
the author of witchcraft, 45;
his religion allows evil to disappear in course of time, and promises
a final restoration of all things, 46.
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