M.

_Madonna_, the, and child, worshiped by all nations of Antiquity, 326.

_Magi_, the religion of, adopted by the Jews, 109.

_Magic_, Jesus learned, in Egypt, 272.

_Magician_, Jesus accused of being a, 273.

_Mahabharata_, the, quotations from, 415-417.

_Mahomet_, the miracles of, 269.

_Maia_, the mother of Mercury, 125; the same name as Mary, 332.

_Man_, the Fall of, 4; parallels to, 4-16; the antiquity of, 29.

_Manco_ Capac, a god of the Peruvians, 130.

_Manes_, believed himself to be the "Christ," 429; the word, has the meaning of "Comforter" or "Saviour," 429.

_Manetho_, an Egyptian priest, gives an account of the sojourn of the Israelites in Egypt, 53.

_Manicheans_, the, transferred pure souls to the Galaxy, 45; their doctrine of the divinity of Christ Jesus, 511.

_Manu_, quotations from, 415.

_March_ 25th, the primitive Easter solemnized on, 225, 495; celebrated throughout the ancient world in honor of the "Mother of God," 335; appointed to the honor of the Christian Virgin, 335.

_Maria_, the name, same as Mary, 332.

_Mark_, the Gospel according to, 456.

_Matangi girl_, the, and Ananda, the disciple of Buddha, 294.

_Martianus Capella_, his ode to the Sun, 507.

_Martyr_ (Justin), compares Christianity with Paganism, 124.

_Mary_, the mother of Jesus, 111; same name as Maya, Maria, &c., 332; called the "Mother of God," 398.

_Masons' Marks_, conspicuous among Christian symbols, 358.

_Mass_, the, of Good Friday, of Pagan origin, 226.

_Mastodon_, the remains of, found in America, 19.

_Mathura_, the birth-place of Crishna, 113.

_Matthew_, the "Gospel according to," 455.

_May_, the month of, dedicated to the Heathen Virgin Mothers, 335; is now the month of Mary, 335.

_Maya_, the same name as Mary, 332.

_Mayus_, the, of Yucatan, worship a Virgin-born god, 130.

_May-pole_, the, of moderns, is the "Ashera" of the ancients, 47; an emblem of the male organ of generation, 47; the Linga of the Hindoos, 47.

_Mecca_, the Mohammedans' Jerusalem, 296.

_Mediator_, the title of, applied to Virgin-born gods before the time of Jesus, 195.

_Melchizedek_, the Kenite King of Righteousness, brought out _bread_ and _wine_ as a sign or symbol of worship, 307.

_Menander_, called the "Wonder Worker," performed miracles, 266; believed himself to be the Christ, 429.

_Mendicants_, among the Buddhists in China, 400-403.

_Menes_, the first king of Egypt, 122; considered divine, 122.

_Menu_, Satyavrata the Seventh, 25.

_Mercury_, the Son of Jupiter and a mortal mother, 125; called "God's Messenger," 195.

_Meru_ (Mount), the Hindoo Paradise, out of which went four rivers, 13.

_Messiahs_, many, before the time of Jesus, 196, 519, 521, 522.

_Metempsychosis_, or transmigration of souls, 42; the doctrine taught by all the Heathen nations of antiquity, 43; by the Jews and Christians, 43.

_Mexicans_, the, had their semi-fish gods, 83; practiced circumcision, 86; compared with the inhabitants of the old world, 533.

_Mexico_, the architecture of, compared with that of the old world, 538.

_Michabou_, a god of the Algonquins, 131.

_Michael_, the angel, the story of, borrowed from Chaldean sources, 109; fought with his angels against the dragon, 386.

_Miletus_, the crucified god of, 191.

_Millennium_, doctrine of the, 239.

_Minos_, the Lawgiver of the Cretans, 60; receives the Laws from Zeus, 60.

_Minutius Felix_, on the crucified man, 197.

_Miracles_, the, of Jesus, 252; of Crishna, 253; of Buddha, 254, 255; of Zoroaster, 256; Bochia, 256; Horus, 256; Osiris, 256; Serapis, 257; Marduk, 257; Bacchus, 257; Æsculapius, 257; Apollonius, 261; Simon Magus, 264; Menander, 266; Vespasian, 268.

_Miraculous Conception_, the, of, Jesus, 111; parallels to, 112-131.

_Mithras_, a "Mediator between God and Man," 194; called the "Saviour," and the "Logos," 194; is put to death, and rises again to life, 223; a personification of the Sun, 507.

_Mohammed_ (see Mahomet).

_Molech_, the god, worshiped by the Heathen nations, and the children of Israel, 108.

_Monad_, a, in the Egyptian Trinity, 373.

_Monasteries_, among Heathen nations, 400.

_Monasticism_, a vast and powerful institution in Buddhist countries, 403.

_Monks_, were common among Heathen nations before the Christian era, 400-404.

_Montanus_, believed himself an Angel-Messiah, 428.

_Months_, the twelve, compared with the Apostles, 500.

_Moon_, the, was personified among ancient nations, and called the "Queen of Heaven," 478.

_Moral Sentiments_, the, of the New Testament, compared with those from Heathen Bibles, 415.

_Mosaic_ history, the so-called, a myth, 17.

_Moses_, divides the Red Sea, 50; is thrown into the Nile, 89.

_Mother_, the, of God, worshiped among the ancients, 326.

_Mother Night_, the 24th of December called, 365.

_Mother of the Gods_, the, Aditi called, 475.

_Mount Meru_, the Hindoo paradise on, 13.

_Mummy_, a cross on the breast of an Egyptian, in the British Museum, 341.

_Muscovites_, the, worshiped a virgin and child, 333; worshiped a Trinity, 378.

_Mylitta_, the goddess, worshiped by the Hebrews, 108.

_Myrrha_, the mother of Bacchus, 332; same as Mary, 332.

_Myth_, a, the theology of Christendom built upon, 17.

_Mythology_, all religions founded upon, 563.

_Mythos_, the universal, 505.

N.

_Nganu_, the Africans of Lake, had a similar story to the "Confusion of Tongues," 36.

_Nakshatias_, the, of the Indian Zodiac, are regarded as deities, 142.

_Nanda_, the foster-father of Crishna, 158.

_Nared_, a great prophet and astrologer, 143; pointed out Crishna's stars, 143.

_Nazarenes_, the, saw in Jesus nothing more than a mere man, 135.

_Nebuchadnezzar_, repaired the tower of Babel, 85.

_Necromancer_, Jesus represented as a, 273.

_Nehush-tan_, the Sun worshiped under the name of, 491.

_Neith_, the mother of Osiris, 364; called the "Holy Virgin," 364; the "Mother of the Gods," and "Mother of the Sun," 476; a personification of the dawn, 476.

_Nepaul_, the crucified God found in, 187.

_Nicaragua_, the inhabitants of, called their principal God Thomathoyo, 130.

_Nice_, the Council of, 381; anathematized those who say that there was a time when the Son of God was not, 381.

_Nile_, the temples on the north bank of the river dedicated to the kings of Egypt, 122; a sacred river, 318.

_Nimrod_, built the tower of Babel, 34.

_Ninevah_, Jonah goes to, 81; cylinders discovered on the site of, contained the legend of the flood, 101.

_Niparaga_, the Supreme Creator of the Endes of California, 131.

_Nisan_, the angel, borrowed from the Chaldeans, 109.

_Noah_, the ark of, 119.

_Noel_, Christmas in French called, 365.

_Nut_, a personification of Heaven, 477.

_Nutar Nutra_, the, of the Egyptians, corresponds to the Hebrew El-Shaddai, 49.

O.

_Oannes_, Chaldean fish-god, 82; the same as Jonah, 83.

_Odin_, the Supreme God of the Scandinavians, 479; a personification of the Heavens, 479.

_OEdipus_, the history of, resembles that of Samson and Hercules, 72; tears out his eyes, 72; is a dangerous child, 170; cheered in his last hours by Antigone, 493; a personification of the Sun, 493.

_Offerings_ (Votive) made to the Heathen deities, 259.

_Olympus_, the, of the Pagans, restored, 398.

_O. M._, or _A. U. M._, a sacred name among the Hindoos, 372; an emblem of the Trinity, 352.

_Omphale_, the amours of Hercules with, 71.

_One_, the myths of the crucified gods melt into, 492.

_One God_, worshiped by the ancestors of our race, 384.

_Only Begotten Son_, common before the Christian era, 193.

_Oort, Prof._, on the sacred laws of ancient nations, 61.

_Ophites_, the, worshiped serpents as emblems of Christ, 355.

_Orders_, religious among all nations of antiquity, 400-404.

_Origen_, declared the story of creation and fall of man to be allegorical, 100.

_Original_ Sin, the doctrine of, of great antiquity, 184; the Indians no strangers to, 189.

_Ormuzd_, the Supreme God of the Persians, 7; divided the work of creation into six parts, 7.

_Orontes_, the river, divided by Bacchus, 81.

_Osiris_, confined in a chest and thrown into the Nile, 90; a Virgin-born God, 190; suffers death, 190; rose from the dead, 222; the judge of the dead, 245; performed miracles, 256; the worship of, of great antiquity, 452; a personification of the Sun, 484.

_Oude_, the crucified God Bal-li worshiped at, 188.

_Ovid_, describes the doctrine of Metempsychosis, 43.

P.

_Pagan Religion_, the, adopted by the Christians, 384; was typical of Christianity, 501.

_Pan_, had a flute of seven pipes, 81.

_Pandora_, the first woman, in Grecian mythology, 10.

_Pantheon_, the, a niche always ready in, of the ancients, for a new divinity, 123.

_Paraclete_, Simon Magus claimed to be the, 164.

_Paradise_, all nations believed in a, 389, 390.

_Parsees_, the, direct descendants of the Persians, 25; say that man was once destroyed by a deluge, 25.

_Parnassus_, Mount, the ark of Deucalion rested on, 26.

_Parthenon_, the, at Athens, sacred to Minerva, 333.

_Passover_, the, celebrated by the Jews on the same day that the Heathens celebrated the resurrections of their Gods, 226; the Jews used eggs in the feast of, 228.

_Patriarchs_, the, all stories of, unhistorical, 54.

_Paul, St._, a minister of the Gospel which had been preached to every creature under heaven, 514.

_Pentateuch_, the, never ascribed to Moses in the inscriptions of Hebrew manuscripts, 92; ascribed to Moses after the Babylonian captivity, 92; origin of, 93, 96.

_Perictione_, a Virgin mother, 127.

_Perseus_, shut up in a chest, and cast into the sea, 89; the son of Jupiter by the Virgin Danae, 124; a temple erected to him in Athens, 124; a dangerous child, 169.

_Persia_, pre-Christian crosses found in, 343, 344.

_Persians_, the, denominate the first man Adama, 7; had a legend of creation corresponding with the Hebrew, 8; had a legend of the war in heaven, 387.

_Peru_, crosses found in, 349; worship of a Trinity found in, 378.

_Peruvians_, the, adored the cross, 349; worshiped a Trinity, 378.

_Peter, St._, has the keys of Janus, 399.

_Phallic tree_, the, is introduced into the narrative in Genesis, 47.

_Phallic worship_, the story of Jacob setting up a pillar alludes to, 46; practiced by the nations of antiquity, 46, 47.

_Phallic Emblems_, in Christian churches, 358.

_Phallus_, the, a "Hermes," set up on the road-side, was the symbol of, 46.

_Pamphylian Sea_, the, divided by Alexander, 55.

_Pharaoh_, his dreams, 88; parallel to, 89.

_Phenician deity_, the principal, was El, 484.

_Philo_, considered the fictions of Genesis allegories, 100; says nothing about Jesus, or the Christians, 564.

_Philosophers_, the, of ancient Greece, called Christians, 409.

_Philosophy_, the Christian religion called a, 567.

_Phoedrus_, the river, dried up by Isis, 55.

_Phoenicians_, the, offered the fairest of their children to the gods, 41.

_Phoenix_, the, lived 600 years, 426.

_Phrygians_, the, worshiped the god Atys, 190.

_Pilate_, pillaged the temple treasury, 521; crucified Jesus, 526.

_Pillars_ of Hercules, the, 79.

_Pious Frauds_, 231.

_Pisces_, the sign of, applied to Christ Jesus, 355-504.

_Plato_, believed to have been the son of a pure virgin, 127.

_Platonists_, the, believed in a Trinity, 375.

_Pole, or Pillar_, a, worshiped by the ancients, 46, 47.

_Polynesian Mythology_, in, a fish is emblematic of the earth, 80.

_Pontius Pilate_ (see Pilate).

_Poo-ta-la_, the name of a Buddhist monastery found in China, 401.

_Pope_, the, thrusts out his foot to be kissed as the Roman Emperors were in the habit of doing, 400.

_Portuguese_, the, call the mountain in Ceylon, Pico d' Adama, 13.

_Porus_, the troops of, carried on their standards the figure of a man, 198.

_Prayers_, for the dead, made by Buddhist priests, 401.

_Priests_, the Buddhist, have fasting, prayers for the dead, holy water, rosaries of beads, the worship of relics, and a monastic habit resembling the Franciscans, 401.

_Priestesses_, among the ancients, similar to the modern nuns, 403, 404.

_Primeval male_, the, offered himself a sacrifice for the gods, 181.

_Prithivi_, the Earth worshiped under the name of, by the Hindoos, 477.

_Prometheus_, a deity who united the divine and human nature in one person, 124; a crucified Saviour, 192; an earthquake happened at the time of the death of, 207; the story of the crucifixion of, allegorical, 484; a title of the Sun, 484.

_Prophet_, the, of the Beatitudes, does but repeat the words of others, 526.

_Protogenia_, mother of Aethlius, 125.

_Ptolemy_ (Soter), believed to have been of divine origin, 127.

_Puranas_, the, 451.

_Purgatory_, the doctrine of, of pre-Christian origin, 389.

_Purim_, the feast of, 44; the book of Esther written for the purpose of describing, 44.

_Pyrrha_, the wife of Deucalion, 26; was saved from the Deluge by entering an ark with her husband, 26.

_Pythagoras_, taught that souls dwelt in the Galaxy, 45; had divine honors paid to him, 128; his mother impregnated through a spectre, 128.

Q.

_Quetzalcoatle_, the Virgin-born Saviour, 129; was tempted and fasted, 178; was crucified, 199; rose from the dead, 225; will come again, 239; is a personification of the Sun, 489.

_Queen of Heaven_, the, was worshiped by all nations of antiquity before the Christian era, 326-336.

_Quirinius_, a name of Romulus, 126; educated among shepherds, 208; torn to pieces at his death, 208; ascended into heaven, 208; the Sun darkened at his death, 208.

R.

_Râ_, the Egyptian God, born from the side of his mother, 122.

_Raam-ses_, king of Egypt, 123; means "Son of the Sun," 123.

_Rabbis_, the, taught the allegorical interpretation of Scripture, 100; performed miracles, 267; taught the mystery of the Trinity, 376.

_Rakshasas_, the, of our Aryan ancestors, the originals of all giants, ogres or demons, 19; are personifications of the dark clouds, 19; fought desperate battles with Indrea, and his spirits of light, 387.

_Ram_ or _Lamb_, the, used as a symbol of Christ Jesus, 202; a symbol of the Sun, 503, 504.

_Rama_, an incarnation of Vishnu, 143; a star at his birth, 143; is hailed by aged saints, 152.

_Rayme_, a Mexican festival held in the month of, answering to our Christmas celebration, 366.

_Rays_ of glory, surround the heads of all the Gods, 505.

_Real Presence_, the, in the Eucharist, borrowed from Paganism, 305-312.

_Red Riding-Hood_, the story of, explained, 80.

_Red Sea_, the, divided by Moses, 50; divided by Bacchus, 51.

_Religion_, the, of Paganism, compared with Christianity, 384.

_Religions_, the, of all nations, formerly a worship of the sun, moon, stars and elements, 544.

_Resurrection_, the, of Jesus, 215; parallels to, 216, 226.

_Rhea-Sylvia_, the Virgin mother of Romulus, 126.

_Rivers_, divided by the command of Bacchus, 51.

_Rivers_ (sacred), 318.

_Romans_, the, deified their emperors, 125.

_Rome_, the Pantheon of, dedicated to "Jove and all the Gods," and reconsecrated to "the Mother of God and all the Saints," 396.

_Romulus_, son of the Virgin Rhea-Sylvia, 126; called Quirinius, 126; a dangerous child, 172; put to death, 308; the sun darkened at time of his death, 208.

_Rosary_, the Buddhist priests count their prayers with a, 401; found on an ancient medal of the Phenicians, 504.

_Rose_, the, of Sharon, Jesus called, 487.

_Rosicrucians_, the, jewel of, a crucified rose, 487.

_Ruffinus_, the "Apostles' creed" first known in the days of, 385.

_Russia_, adherents of the old religion of, persecuted, 444.

S.

_Sabbath_, the, kept holy by the ancients, 392, 393.

_Sacrament_, the, of the Lord's Supper instituted many centuries before the Christian era, 305-312.

_Sacred Books_, among heathen nations, 61.

_Sacred Heart_, the, a great mystery among the ancients, 404.

_Sacrifices_, or offerings to the Gods, at one time, almost universal, 40, 41; human, for atonement, was general, 182.

_Saints_, the, of the Christians, are Pagan Gods worshiped under other names, 398, 399.

_Sais_, the "Feast of Lamps," held at, 392.

_Saktideva_, swallowed by a fish and came out unhurt, 77.

_Sakya-Muni_, a name of Buddha, 300.

_Salivahana_, the ancient inhabitants of Cape Comorin worshiped a Virgin-born Saviour called, 118, 119.

_Salvation_, from the death of another, of great antiquity, 181; by faith, existed among the Hindoos, 184.

_Sammael_, the proper name of Satan according to the Talmud, 386.

_Samothracian_ mysteries, in the Heaven and Earth were worshiped, 479.

_Samson_, his exploits, 62-66; compared with Hercules, 60-70; a solar god, 71-73.

_Satan_, the proper name of, is Sammael, 386; a personification of storm-clouds and darkness, 482.

_Saturday_, or the seventh day, kept holy by the ancients, 393.

_Saturn_, worshiped by the ancients, 393.

_Saturnalia_, the, of the ancient Romans, 365.

_Satyavrata_, saved from the deluge in an ark, according to the Hindoo legend, 24,25.

_Scandinavians_, the, worshiped a "Beneficent Saviour," called Baldur, 129; the heaven of, described, 390; consecrated one day in the week to Odin, 393; worshiped Frey, the deity of the Sun, 489.

_Scriptures_, the, of the Essenes, the ground work of the gospels, 443-460.

_Seb_, a personification of the Earth, 477.

_Second Coming_, the, of Jesus, 233; of Vishnu, 236; of Buddha, 237; of Bacchus, 238; of Kalewipoeg, 238; of Arthur, 238; of Quetzalcoatle, 239.

_Seed of the Woman_, the, bruised the head of the Serpent, according to the mythology of all nations, 482.

_Semele_, the mother of Bacchus, 124

_Semi-ramis_, the Supreme Dove crucified, 486.

_Senators_, the Cardinals of Roman Christianity wear the robes once worn by Romans, 400.

_Serapis_, the god, worshiped in Alexandria in Egypt, 342; a cross found in the temple of, 342.

_Serpent_, the, seduced the first woman, 3; in Eden, an Aryan story, 99; an emblem of Christ Jesus, 355; Moses set up, as an object of worship, 355; worshiped by the Christians, 355; symbolized the Sun, 490; called the Word, or Divine Wisdom, 490.

_Seven_, the number, sacred among all nations of antiquity, 31.

_Seventh-day_, the, kept sacred by the ancients, 392, 393.

_Seventy-two_, Confucius had, disciples, 121.

"_Shams-on_," the Sun in Arabic, 73.

_Sharon_, the Rose of, Jesus called, 486.

_Shepherds_, the infant Jesus worshiped by, 150.

_Shoo-king_, the, a sacred book of the Chinese, 25; speaks of the deluge, 25.

_Siamese_, the, had a virgin-born god, 118.

_Simon Magus_, believed to be a god, 129; his picture placed among the gods in Rome, 129; professed to be the "Word of God," the "Paraclete," or "Comforter," 164; performed great miracles, 125.

_Sin-Bearer_, the, Bacchus called, 193.

_Sin, Original_, the doctrine of, believed in by Heathen nations, 181, 184.

_Siva_, the third god in the Hindoo Trinity, 369; the Hindoos held a festival in honor of, 392.

_Skylla delivers_ Nisos into the power of his enemies, 72; a Solar Myth, 72.

_Slaughter_, the, of the innocents at the time of Jesus, 165; parallels to, 166-172.

_Sochiquetzal_, mother of Quetzalcoatle, 129; a Virgin Mother, 129; called the "Queen of Heaven," 129.

_Socrates_, visited at his birth by Wise Men, and presented with gifts, 152.

_Sol_, crucified in the heavens, 484.

_Soma_, a god of the Hindoos, 306; gave his body and blood to man, 306.

_Sommona Codom_ (see Codom).

_Son of a Star_ (see Bar-Cochba).

_Son of God_, the Heathen worshiped a mediating deity who had the title of, 111-129.

_Son of the Sun_, the name Raam-ses means, 123.

"_Sons of Heaven_," the virgin-born men of China called, 122.

_Song_, the, of the Heavenly Host, 147; parallels to, 148-150.

_Soul_, the, immortality of, believed in by nations of antiquity, 385.

_Sosiosh_, the virgin-born Messiah, 146; yet to come, 146.

_Space_, crucifixion in, 488.

_Spanish monks_, the first, who went to Mexico were surprised to find the crucifix there, 199.

_Spirit_, the Hebrew word for, of feminine gender, 134.

_Standards_, the, of the ancient Romans, wore crosses gilt and beautiful, 345.

_Star_, the, of Bethlehem, 140; parallels to, 142-145.

_Staurobates_, the King by whom Semiramis was overpowered, 486.

_Stone pillars_, set up by the Hebrews were emblems of the Phallus, 46.

"_Strong Rama_," the, of the Hindoos, a counterpart of Samson, 73.

_Suddho-dana_, the dreams of, compared with Pharaoh's two dreams, 88.

_Sun_, the, nearly all the Pagan deities were personifications of, 467; Christ Jesus said to have been born on the birth-day of, 473; Christ Jesus a personification of, 500; universally worshiped, 507.

_Sun-day_, a pagan holiday adopted by the Christians, 394-396.

_Sun-gods_, Samson and Hercules are, 71-73.

_Sun-myth_, the, added to the histories of Jesus of Nazareth, Buddha, Cyrus, Alexandria and others, 506.

_Sweden_, the famous temple at Upsal in, dedicated to a triune deity, 377.

_Symbolical_, the history of the gods, 466.

_Synoptic Gospels_, the discrepancies between the fourth and the, numerous, 457.

T.

_Tacitus_, the allusion to Jesus in, a forgery, 566-568.

_Tables of Stone_, the, of Moses, 58; of Bacchus, 59.

_Talmud_, the books containing Jewish tradition, 95; in the, Jesus is called the "hanged one," 516.

_Tammuz_, the Saviour, after being put to death, rose from the dead, 217; worshiped in the temple of the Lord at Jerusalem, 222.

_Tanga-tanga_, the "Three in One, and One in Three," or the Trinity of the ancient Peruvians, 378.

_Tao_, the "one god" supreme, worshiped by Lao-Kiun, the Chinese sage, 120.

_Tao-tse_, the, or "Sect of Reason," formed by Lao-Kiun, 120.

_Tau_, the cross, worshiped by the Egyptians, 341.

_Temples_, all the oldest were in caves, 286.

_Temptation_, the, of Jesus, 175; of Buddha, 176; of Zoroaster, 177; of Quetzalcoatle, 177; meaning of, 482.

_Temples_, Pagan, changed into Christian churches, 396, 397.

_Ten Commandments_, the, of Moses, 59; of Buddha, 59.

_Ten_, the, Zodiac gods of the Chaldeans, 102.

_Tenth_, the, Xisuthrus, King of the Chaldeans, 23; Noah, patriarch, 23.

_Tezcatlipoca_, the Supreme God of the Mexicans, 60.

_Testament_, the New, written many years later than generally supposed, 454.

_Therapeutæ_, the, and Essenes the same, 423.

_Thor_, a Scandinavian god, 75; considered the "Defender" and "Avenger," 75; the Hercules of the Northern nations, 76; the Sun personified, 76; compared with David, 90, 91; the son of Odin, 129.

_Thoth_, the deity itself, speaks and reveals to his elect among men the will of God, 60.

_Thibet_, the religion of, similar to Christianity, 400.

_Three_, a sacred number among all nations of antiquity, 368-378.

_Thursday_, sacred to the Scandinavian god, Thor, 32.

_Tibet_, the religion of, similar to Roman Christianity, 400.

_Tien_, the name of the Supreme Power among the Chinese, 476.

_Titans_, the, struggled against Jupiter, 388.

_Tombs_, the, of persons who never lived in the flesh were to be seen at different places, 510.

_Tower_, the, of Babel, 33; parallels to, 35-37; story of, borrowed from Chaldean sources, 102; nowhere alluded to outside of Genesis, 103.

_Transmigration of Souls_, the, represented on Egyptian sculptures, 45; taught by all nations of antiquity, 42-45.

_Transubstantiation_, the Heathen doctrine of, became a tenet of the Christian faith, 313, 314.

_Tree_, the, of Knowledge, 2, 3; parallels to, 3-16; a Phallic tree, 101; Zoroaster hung upon the, 195.

_Trefoil_, the, a sacred plant among the Druids of Britain, 353.

_Trimurti_, the, of the Hindoos, 369; the same as the Christian Trinity, 369, 370.

_Trinity_, the, doctrine of, the most mysterious of the Christian church, 368; adored by the Brahmins of India, 369; the inhabitants of China and Japan, 371; the Egyptians, 373; and many other nations of antiquity, 373-378; can be explained by allegory only, 561.

_Twelve_, the number which applies to the twelve signs of the Zodiac, to be found in all religions of antiquity, 498.

_Twins_, the Mexican Eve the mother of, 15.

_Types_ of Christ Jesus, Crishna, Buddha, Bacchus, Hercules, Adonis, Osiris, Horus, &c., all of them were, 408; all the sun-gods of Paganism were, 500.

_Typhon_, the destroying principle in the Egyptian Trinity, corresponding to the Siva of the Hindoos, 561.

U.

_Upright Emblem_, the, or the "Ashera," stood in the temple at Jerusalem, 47.

_Uriel_, the angel, borrowed from Chaldean sources, 109.

_Ushas_, the flame-red chariot of, compared to the fiery chariot of Elijah, 90.

_Utsthala_, the island of, 78.