{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/plu/pte/pte11.htm","path":"cla/plu/pte/pte11.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/plu/pte/pte11.htm","text":"Plutarch's Morals: Theosophical Essays, tr. by Charles William King, [1908]\n\"Above\" and \"Below\" defined, 211.\nAcanthians and Brasidas, Hall of, 152.\nAchamoth, Logos, note, 215.\nAdamantine pillars of Earth, 204.\nAdmirals, statues of the, 139.\n\u00c6gon of Argos, inscription of his date, 142.\n\u00c6olic dialect used in an oracle, 77.\n\u00c6schylus quoted, 16.\n\u00c6tna, eruptions of, 212.\nAgesilaus, oracle given to, 149.\nAir, plants living on, 242.\nAlastores, 90.\nAlc\u00e6us, quoted, 73.\nAlexander, holding the thunderbolt, 20.\nAlyattes, crater-stand of, 130.\nAmastris, buries men alive, 274.\n\"Ammon,\" whence derived, 8.\nAmmon's Oracle, decay of, 76.\nAmphiaraus, consulted by Mardonius, 77.\nAmulet, worn by Isis, 56.\nAmulets, use of, 267.\nAnacampsarodes, 242.\nAnaxagoras, of the Moon, 188, 218.\nAnimal-forms assumed by gods, 61.\nAnimal-worship, source of, 62.\n\u2014cause of a recent civil war, ib.\nAntigonus, joke of, 20.\n\"Antiphraxis\" of Pythagoras, 36.\nAntipodes, ridiculed, 206.\nAnubis, son of Nephthys, 38. Apelles and Lysippus, 20.\nApis, conception of, 37.\n\u2014the image of the soul of Osiris, 17.\n\u2014tomb of, 24.\n\"Apollo,\" Changed to Fire, 183.\n\u2014a logician, 178.\n\u2014generator of the Logos, 184.\n\"Apollo\" for \"Unity,\" 193.\nApollo, one with Sun, 151.\n\u2014the same with Sun, 125.\nApollo's titles, true sense of, 193.\n\u2014golden top-knot, 165.\n\u2014titles, 183.\nArchilochus quoted, 177.\nAristarchus, on the Moon's magnitude, 225.\nAristodemus of Ithome, 268.\nArgo, the boat of Osiris, 18.\nArk, sacred golden, 34.\nArimanios, god of Ignorance, 40.\nAristagoras, quoted, 203.\nAristarchus, \"On Magnitudes and Distances,\" 209.\nAristotle, on Gravitation, 104.\nAristotle's \"Quintessence,\" 185.\nAsbestos of Carystus, 125.\nAsp, why sacred, 64.\nAss, type of Typhon, 25.\nAstrological interpretations of myths, 38.\nAtheism defined, 258.\nAtheism and Superstition, 259.\nAxe of Tenedos, 150.\nBacchus, identified with Osiris, 29.\n\u2014metamorphosis of, 183.\nBacis, oracles of, 148.\nBattus, oracle given to, 169.\nBeam sawn in two at Earth's centre, 206.\n\"Bebon,\" title of Typhon, 43.\nBeetle, signet of the military class, 9.\n\"Blue-eyed Moon,\" 230.\n\u2014glowing coal colour of, ib.\nBoats, vehicles of Sun and Moon, 28.\nBritain, visited by Demetrius, 73.\nBritish hermits, 94.\nBritons, living in the ocean, 200.\nBronze, ancient tempering of, 139.\n\u2014blue rust of Delphic, ib.\n\u2014native malleable, 125.\nBull's foot, god with the, 29.\nCalligraphy of Imperial rescripts, 144.\nCambyses kills Apis, 38.\n\"Canopus\" = a pilot, 18.\nCanopus, oracle at, 23.\nCarthaginians, their human sacrifices, 273.\nCat, emblem of Moon, 55.\n\"Centre,\" doctrine of the, 206.\nCentre, theory of the, 105.\nCh\u00e6remon, quoted, 164.\nChaldean religion, 41.\n\"Chemeia,\" pupil of the eye, 28.\nChrysippus,\" Upon Probabilities,\" 106.\nCilicia, governor of, 127.\nCoretus, discovers the Delphic oracle, 124.\nClea, celebrates the Dionysea at Delphi, 29.\nClearchus, quoted, 56.\nCleombrotus of Laced\u00e6mon, 73.\n\u2014his discussion with the Indian hermit, 98.\n\"Cobre dos labradores,\" note, 125\nCock, offered to Osiris and Anubis, 52.\nCoffin of Osiris, 11.\nCoin-types, why chosen, 150.\nContrariety necessary to creation, 213.\nCorinthian brass, how discovered, 140.\nCounters, game of, 111.\nCrates, of Ocean, 240.\nCreation, Plato's theory of, 50.\nCr\u0153sus\u2019 baker, statue of, 154.\nCrocodile, eating of, 44.\n\u2014sagacity of, 65.\n\u2014type of Typhon, 43.\n\"Crow\" guides the Delians to Tagyr\u00e6, 78.\nCrown of the Chalcidians, 146.\nCube, properties of the, 111.\n\u2014type of Rest, 113.\nCubical dimensions of altar, to double, 178.\nCups of gold, for money, 249.\nContinent, the Great, 246.\nCum\u00e6, destruction of, 147.\nCurse, engraved on column, 7.\nCydnus, swords tempered in, 123.\nCypselus, Hall of, 152.\n\"D\u00e6mon,\" for Evil Principle, 40.\n\"Daemons clothed in mist,\" Hesiod's, 119.\n\u2014Greek legends about, 97.\n\u2014punished for sin, 22.\n\u2014raised to gods, 22.\n\u2014rites connected with, 90.\n\u2014seeking for human bodies, 89.\n\u2014spirits separated from the body, 120.\n\u2014subject to mortality, 92.\n\u2014their extinction attended with storms, 94.\n\u2014their origin in the Moon, 255.\n\u2014theories concerning, 20.\n\u2014tormented in the Moon, 245.\n\u2014waiting on Saturn, 248.\nDeath, the Second, 250.\nDelphi, density of air at, 141.\nDelphi, rebuilt by the Romans, 171.\nDelphic donaria coined by the tyrants, 154.\nDelphic guides, 142.\n\u2014oracle, how discovered, 124.\n\u2014procession, 90.\n\u2014prophetesses, their number, 82.\nDemeter, lunar deity, 250.\nDemetrius of Tarsus, 73.\n\u2014visits the Holy Isle, 93.\nDepopulation of Greece, 81.\nDew, daughter of Jove, 243.\n\"Dairy of B\u0153otia,\" 171.\nDice, thrown at Delphi, 189.\nDictys, foster-father of Isis, 6.\nDidymus the Cynic, 79.\nDioscuri, stars of the, 145.\n\"Discord\" of Empedocles, 212.\nDog, emblem of Hermes, 9.\n\"Dog,\" title of Anubis, 38.\n\"Doors of Osiris,\" 24.\nDouble-meaning of oracles, cause of, 178.\nDragon haunting Tegyrae, 81.\nDreams, people without, 135.\n\u2014the averting of, 261.\nDruidical seminary (?), 248.\nE, for \"Thou Art,\" 190.\nEI, true sound of E, 177.\nE of Delphi, the numeral Five, 180.\nE, why dedicated at Delphi, 174.\nEarless Jupiter, 65.\nEarth, a living creature, 215.\n\u2014and Water, image of, 34.\n\u2014and Water, Temple of, 156.\n\u2014viewed from the Moon, 244.\nEarth's position, changes in, 75.\n\u2014revolution taught, 203.\n\u2014shadow, a cone, 226.\nEarthquakes, unknown in Gaul, 260.\nEclipse, cause of, 219.\n\u2014how produced, 204.\n\u2014poetical descriptions of, 224.\nEgypt, once sea, 34.\nEgypt visited by the Greek philosophers, 8.\nElectrum gold in fashion, 140.\nElements, how separated and distributed, 118.\nElements, Plato's symbols of, 110.\nEmblems, explained, 9.\nEmpedocles\u2019 Discord and Amity, 213.\n\u2014quoted, 90.\n\u2014of dye-stuffs, 123.\n\u2014of the tortoise, 215.\n\u2014on d\u00e6mons, 22.\n\u2014on eclipses, 219.\n\u2014on the light of Sun and Moon, 198.\n\u2014on the punishment of d\u00e6mons, 22.\n\u2014on the substance of the Moon, 202.\nEpimenides, quoted, 72.\nEpitherses, his strange story, 92.\nErica, overgrows the coffin of Osiris, 13.\nEtesian winds, 33.\nEudoxus, quoted, 54.\n\u2014visits Egypt, 8.\nEuripides\u2019 Cyclops, 128.\n\u2014lines to Archelaus, 173.\nEuripides, of sacrifices, 195.\n\u2014on Good and Evil, 39.\nEvemerus, his theory, 19.\nExhalation, Delphic, sometimes fatal in its action, 135.\n\u2014affecting oracles, 126.\n\u2014the Delphic, its nature and action, 134.\nExile of gods explained, 89.\nExistence, defined, 192.\nEyes inserted in statues, 145.\n\"Eyes of Horus,\" festival, 45.\n\"Face in the Moon,\" caused by cavities in her surface, 234.\n\u2014terrifies the wicked souls, 254.\n\u2014various theories about the, 198.\nFalse ideas of God, their evils, 264.\nFates, places of the Three, 257.\nFig-leaf, like a crow's-foot, 74.\nFish, emblem of hatred, 27.\nFive children at a birth, 116.\n\u2014gods born of Rhea, 116.\n\u2014how generated, 114.\n\u2014properties of the numeral, 180-181.\n\u2014worlds, the, 100.\n\"Fives, counting by,\" 115.\nFlax, why sacred, 4.\nFlute, original use of, 195.\n\"Four,\" Pythagorean oath, 66.\nForbidden meats, 5.\nFrogs and snakes, emblems of spring, 150.\nGeld, Hiero, and Thrasybulus, 158.\n\"Generation,\" length of a, 85.\nGenerative power typified, 30.\nGeometrical figures dedicated to gods, 26.\nGeometrical figures symbols of the Elements, 110.\nGod, the true idea of, 68.\nGods, deified men, 19.\nGood and Evil, duration of their struggle, 41.\n\u2014origin of, 39.\nGradovo, exhalation at, note, 134.\nGrammatical problems, 79.\nGravitation, theory of, 104.\nGreek names for Egyptian gods, 53.\nGuides to the Delphic donaria, 139.\n\"Hades,\" derived by Plato, 274.\n\u2014the body imprisoning the soul, 23.\n\u2014whence named, 25.\nHuman first-fruits dedicated to Apollo, 155.\n\u2014sacrifices, 274.\nHarpocrates, birth of, 16.\nHawk, type of God, 27.\n\"He that is,\" title of Apollo, 124.\nHead of victim cursed, 26.\nHeat, generated by motion, 202.\nHecat\u00e6us, quoted, 5.\nHegesianax, on the Face in the Moon, 198, 199.\nHell, description of, 263.\nHeraclitus, his \"Harmony,\" 41.\n\u2014of Identity, 191.\n\u2014of the Final Cause, 182.\nHercules directs the Sun, 35.\n\u2014knocks down Logic, 179.\nHermes directs the Moon, 35.\n\u2014Earthly and Heavenly, 251.\nHermolaus, Alexander's physician, 272.\nHesiod, on the office of d\u00e6mons, 120.\n\u2014on d\u00e6mons, 21.\n\u2014on the Elements, 49.\n\u2014on the duration of life, 84.\nHiero's column at Delphi, 145.\nHieroglyphic types explained, 27.\nHierosolymus and Jud\u00e6us, sons of Typhon, 26.\nHipparchus, quoted, 200.\nHomer's limited notions of God, 108.\nHomer, of Past, Present, and Future, 179.\n\u2014of Tartarus, 245.\n\u2014proofs of usages derived from, 74.\nHorus and Typhon, group of, 48.\n\u2014birthday of, 46.\n\u2014his answers to Osiris, 15.\n\u2014image of the Intelligible World, 47.\nIbis, why sacred, 65.\nIchneumon, why sacred, 64.\nId\u00e6i Dactyli, good d\u00e6mons, 255.\nIdolatry, source of, 61.\nImpious piety, 271.\nImpudence, emblem of, 27.\nIncense, varieties of, 68.\nIndian hermit, by the Red Sea, 96.\nInfinity of worlds, 101.\nInspiration, double source of, 132.\n\u2014theory of verbal, 150.\nInstruments, fitting, chosen for Divine ends, 162.\n\"Intelligible,\" and \"Sensible\" Creation, 112.\nInterpreter of oracles, official, 136\nInundation, Nilar, heights of, 37.\nInvocations in barbarian tongues, 261.\nIon, quoted, 127.\nIsiacists, funeral robes of, 3.\nIsis and Osiris = Earth and Nile, 27.\n\"Isis,\" derivation of, 2.\n\u2014principle of Nature, 46\n\u2014proceeding out of self,\" 53.\n\u2014searches after the body of Osiris, 12.\n\"Isis-hair,\" sea-weed, 242.\nIsosceles triangle, type of the universe, 49.\nIvy, the \"plant of Osiris,\" 31.\nJewish notions, alluded to, 97.\nJews, their observance of the Sabbath, 269.\nJustice, figured without hands, 9.\n\"Kaimis,\" title of Horus, 49.\n\"Knemosiris,\" ivy, 31.\nKneph, sole god of the Thebaid, 18.\nKnowledge, prime attribute of God, 1.\n\"Know thyself,\" Delphic motto, 170.\nKyphi, how composed, 68.\nLamp, of Ammon, 73.\nLegs grown into one, Jupiter's, 54.\nLife, duration of, 84.\nLife, stages of human, 191.\nLion, tumbled out of the Moon, 238.\nLivia dedicates the Golden E, 176.\n\"Logos,\" Reason, 178.\n\u2014whence derived, 118.\nLove-affairs, ruled by Isis, 55.\nLove, fable of the birth of, 50.\nLunar inhabitants, diet of, 244.\nLyre, used by the Pythagoreans, 70.\nLysander, slain by a dragon, 169.\n\u2014statue of, 145.\nMan, \"a celestial plant,\" 151.\n\"Maneros,\" explained, 14.\nManes, king of Phrygia, 19.\nMardonius, answer of oracle to, 77.\n\"Marriage,\" the numeral Five, 181.\nMoon, atmosphere of, 241.\nMatter, Plato's \"Poverty,\" 50.\n\"Meadow of Hades,\" 252.\n\"Measuring the lion by his talon,\" 73.\nMegasthenes, quoted, 239.\nMemory, nature of, 121.\nMetamorphosis of deities, 183.\nMithras, intermediate principle, 40.\nMetrodorus\u2019 theory of Creation, 126.\nMimnermus, quoted, 224.\nMinerva of Sais, 8.\nMirrors, concave, effect of, 236.\n\u2014reflection of rays in, 221.\nMithidoes, shrub, 17.\nMoisture, typified by Osiris, 30.\nMolds, without a head, 89.\nMonths, Egyptian names of, 45.\n\u2014feast-days of the, 10.\nMoon, abode of Hermes, 35.\n\u2014cavities in surface of, 233.\n\u2014a feminine star, 228.\n\u2014a fiery body, 229.\n\u2014apparent diameter of, 233.\n\u2014composed of air and fire, 203.\n\u2014her colours during an eclipse, 229.\n\u2014her utility to man, 240.\n\u2014how illuminated, 218.\n\u2014how supported in space, 205.\n\u2014of what composed, 201.\n\u2014possibly inhabited? 237.\nMoon's actual surface of various bright colours, 232.\n\u2014atmosphere, fiery, 238.\n\u2014distance from Earth, 209.\n\u2014magnitude, 225.\n\u2014nature heterogeneous, 127.\n\u2014natural colour, 230.\nMopsuestia, Oracle at, how tested, 127.\n\"More Worlds than One,\" 102.\nMotto, put up at Delphi, 170.\nMuses, Temple of the, 156.\nMusic, why given to Apollo, 195.\nMusical notation, 184.\nMnevis, king, 7.\nNails, not to be cut on holy days, 4.\nNames, taken at random, 98.\nNature, typified by Isis, 46.\nNatural properties modified by position, 215.\n\"Natural Science\" charlatans, 127.\nNephthys and Typhon, their legend explained, 33.\nNephthys, wife of Typhon, 12.\nNicias, superstition of, 268.\nNick-names of celebrated persons, 153.\nNile, inundations of, 37.\n\u2014its connection with Osiris, 32.\nNocturnal and mournful rites explained, 59.\nNumber, a form of Matter, 114.\nNumerals expressing deities, 8.\nNymphs, duration of life, 84.\nOcean, origin of all things, 240.\n\u2014reflected on the Moon, 199.\nOchus, \"The Ass,\" 26.\n\"The Sword,\" 9.\nOctahedron, for air, 111.\nOgygia, island, 245.\nOlympian altar of ashes, 123.\nOmens, derived from children's cries, 12.\n\u2014given by donaria, 145.\n\"Omphalos,\" at Delphi, 72.\n\"Ompis,\" title of Osiris, 36.\n\"One,\" and \"Now,\" God, 193.\nOptical theories, 223.\nOpuntians, send back the coined donaria, 154.\nOracle given by the Sibyl, 147.\n\u2014given to Agesilaus, 149.\n\u2014to Philip V., ib.\nOracles, affected by natural causes, 123.\n\u2014extinguished together with\ntheir presiding d\u00e6mons, 91.\n\u2014formerly numerous in Greece, 77.\n\u2014given in prose, 158.\n\u2014in verse, collections of, 159.\n\u2014only hint at the Future, 161.\n\u2014verified by the event, 158.\nOromazes, god of Light, 40.\n\"Osiris\" = a general, 18.\nOsiris and Typhon = Moisture and Drought, 28.\n\u2014the Two Principles, 43.\nOsiris, hieroglyph of, 44.\n\u2014Isis, &c., true nature of, 55.\n\u2014his body torn in 14 pieces by Typhon, 14.\n\u2014history of, 11.\n\u2014how entrapped by Typhon, ib.\n\u2014\"Many-eyed,\" 9.\n\"Overturning the altar of Earth,\" 203.\n\"Owl-faced\" Moon, 219.\nOxyrinchus, 5.\nPalm-tree of the Athenians, 146.\n\u2014of the Corinthians, 150.\nPamylia, Phallic festival, 30.\n\"Pan, the great, is dead,\" 93.\nParmenides, of the Moon, 218.\n\u2014quoted, 213.\nParturition, Moon's influence on, 243.\nPausanias, oracle concerning, 157.\n\u2014Philip's guard, 272.\nPauson's reversible horse, 143.\nPersephone, office of, 251.\nPersea, sacred tree, 58.\nPhagrus, fish, 6.\nPhallus, origin of the, 15, 31.\nPharos, once an island, 35.\nPharsalia the Dancer, 146.\nPhilip V. oracle given to, 149.\nPhilosophers, respective ages of, 95.\nPhryne, golden statue of, 153.\n\u2014origin of name, ib. Phylacteries of the Jews, 269.\nPindar, of Apollo, 80.\n\u2014of the Sun, 71.\nPlanets, their relative distances, 208.\nPlato, of Efficient and Final Causes, 130.\n\u2014of Music, 264.\n\u2014of the Elements, 110.\n\u2014of the Moon, 240.\n\u2014on the Two Principles, 42.\nPlato's amatory verses, 164.\n\u2014\"auspicious idols,\" 92.\n\u2014\"Cratylus,\" quoted, 188.\n\u2014doctrine of Providence, 109.\n\u2014Marriage Scheme, 49.\n\u2014nomenclature of the Principles, 48.\n\u2014\"One\" and \"Other,\" 118.\n\u2014plurality of worlds, 98, 185.\n\u2014\"True World,\" 231.\nPlatonist explanation of Egyptian Myths, 51.\n\"Plough with a silver share,\" 158.\nPlurality of Providences necessitated by plurality of Worlds, 107.\nPolygnotus, his picture at Delphi, 131.\n\"Pool of the Spring,\" 156.\nPottery, burning of, 201.\nPraxiteles\u2019 mistress, statue of, 154.\nPrinciples, the Two, 42.\n\"Prison of Hecate,\" 254.\nProphecy, mere guess-work, 122.\n\u2014its fulfilment explained, 148.\nProphetic power of departing souls, 121.\nPurgatory in the Middle Space, 252.\nPyramid, for Fire, 110.\nPythagoras, of worship, 270.\n\u2014scholar of Onyphis, 8.\nPythagorean maxims derived from Egypt, ib.\n\u2014names for the Two Principles, 42.\n\u2014symbols, 66.\nPythia, character of the, 163.\n\u2014the instrument of the Oracle, 161.\nPython, a d\u00e6mon, 97.\nQualities of Nature, the Five, 117.\nQuarterings of the Moon explained, 220.\nQueries begin with If,\" 177.\nQuestions, trivial, put to the Oracle, 167.\n\"Quintessence,\" the Fifth Element, 185.\nQuintuple division of all Nature, 187.\nRationalistic explanations, 56.\nRazors, known to Homer, 74.\n\"Reason, He that rules by,\" 216.\n\"Reason,\" Logos, typified by Osiris, 52.\n\u2014of the Stoics, 38.\nRed-hair, typical of Typhon, 25.\nRed Sea, vegetation in, 242.\nReflection of rays on the Moon, 235.\nResin, work of Sun and Moon, 70.\nRhodope, iron spits of, 152.\nRites, absurd, reason for, 89.\nRitualistic contortions, 261.\nRiver-horse, type of impudence, 27.\nSabbath-keeping by Greeks, 261.\nSalt, why forbidden, 4.\n\"Same and Different,\" Plato's, 113.\n\"Satiety,\" vacation of the Oracle, 184.\nSaturn, enchanted slumber of, 94.\n\u2014Greeks deputed to, 247.\n\u2014prison of, 247.\nSaturn's prophetic dreams, 247.\nScythinus, quoted. 155.\n\"Sea of Saturn,\" 246.\n\u2014the seed of Saturn, 27.\n\u2014various colours of, 231.\nSeasons, alteration in the, 75.\n\"Seeking for Osiris,\" festival, 45.\nSenses, compared to the Elements, 186.\nSerapis, how brought into Egypt, 23.\n\"Serapis\" = Osiris and Apis, 24.\nSerapis, theories concerning, 23.\nSerpent of Pallas, 65.\n\"Seth,\" name of Typhon, 53.\nSeven, virtues of the numeral, 176.\nShield-device, dragon, 169.\nSibyl, Rock of the, 147.\n\u2014becomes the Face in the Moon, ib.\nSignet-type of the \"Sealer,\" 26.\nSilence of the Oracles explained, 118.\nSistrum, type of creation, 54.\nSlaves, their privilege of changing masters, 262.\n\"Sleep, sweet balm of,\" 260.\nSmoke, Indians living on, 239.\nSolar eclipse, phenomena of a recent, 225.\n\u2014light, transmission of, 222.\nSophocles\u2019 \"Admetus\" quoted, 89.\n\u2014of physicians, 206.\nSothis, the Dog-star, 18.\nSouls, fly up to the Moon, 252.\nSoul, how dissolved into its components, 256.\n\u2014its composition and dissolution, 251.\nSoul's nature like that of the Moon, 257.\nSouls, their occupation in the Moon, 253.\n\"Speculative\" philosophy, 67.\nSpiders, abundance of, 74.\nStandards in the shape of animals, 62.\nStars, the souls of great men, 18.\nStoic doctrine about gods and daemons, 94.\n\u2014explanation of the gods, 35.\n\u2014theory of the Moon, 202.\nSun, nourished by moisture, 150.\n\u2014the sensible type of God, 193.\n\u2014confounded with Apollo, 193.\n\u2014wars against Jupiter, 31.\nSun's distance from Earth, 209.\n\"Sun's Walking-stick,\" festival, 45.\nSunset, cause of, 227.\nSuperstition defined, 258.\nSwallow, Isis becomes a, 13.\nSweet smells, virtue of, 69.\nSwine, why unclean, 7.\nSwords, of native bronze, 125.\nSyene, climate of, 241.\n\u2014gnomon at, 75.\nSylla's story, 245.\nSymbolism, dangerous results of, 57.\nSyrian Goddess, 272.\nTagyrae, Apollo's birthplace, 77.\nTenedos, the axe of, 150.\nThales, the \"Astronomy\" of, 157.\nTheophrastus, on d\u00e6mons, 95.\nThera, eruption at, 149.\n\"Thou art,\" addressed to Apollo, 190.\n\"Thou art,\" and \"Know thyself,\" meaning of, 196.\nTisaphernes, 267.\nTiberius, examines the story of Thamus, 93.\nTides, produced by the Moon, 243.\nTimanthes, 271.\nTime, dispersion of, 192.\n\u2014predicates of, 192.\nTityi and Typhones, 256.\n\"Tomb of Osiris,\" city, 17.\nTongue, offered to Fortune, 58.\nTonsure, reason of, 3.\nTortoise of Venus, 65.\nTrident, meaning of the, 65.\nTriangle, equilateral, symbol of Minerva, 66.\nTriangle, sacred to Pluto, 26.\nTrifles prove great things, 74.\nTriple nature of the Good Principle, 48.\nTrophies inscribed at Delphi, 153.\n\"Truth, the Plain of,\" 99.\nTyndarid\u00e6, assist mariners, 108.\nTyphon, animals sacred to, 43.\n\u2014customs relating to, 25.\nTyphon's soul divided amongst his sacred animals, 63.\nUnity of God, 193.\nUnity, symbol of Apollo, 66.\nUniverse, governed by Reason, 39.\n\"Unlucky days,\" belong to d\u00e6mons, 21.\n\"Upwards,\" and \"Downwards,\" 207.\nVacuum, the Final Cause, 258.\nVeil, black, when used, 33.\nVerse, ancient universal use of, 165.\n\u2014oracles in, discontinued, 145.\nVersification of Oracles, argument against inspiration, 143.\nVersification of Oracles, its badness, 142.\nVestments of Isis, their symbolism, 67.\nVesuvius, eruption of, 147.\nVictim, signs given by the, 129.\nViolet, the antique, 231.\n\"Voice, a true,\" amulet, 58.\n\"Wailing, Doors of,\" 24.\nWallowing in mud, religious, 261.\n\"Water-carrier of Isis,'' title of Sirius, 32.\nWeasel, type of Reason, 64.\nWine, forbidden the priests, 5.\n\"Wise Men,\" their true number, 175.\n\"Woman-hater,\" title of Hercules, 159.\n\u2014his priest bound to chastity, ib.\nWooden E of the Wise Men, 176.\n\"Word,\" Logos, is Osiris, 52.\n\"Words that walked,\" 146.\nWorlds, Plurality of, 99.\n\u2014plurality of, objections against, 107.\nXenocrates on daemons, 20.\nXenophanes joke of, 60.\nXenophon, quoted, 163.\nYear, shortening of the, 73.\nYellow complexion of Phryne, 153.\n\"Ysiris\" for \"Osiris,\" 29.\n\"Zagreus,\" title of Bacchus, 183.\nZoroaster, doctrine of, 40.\n____________________________________________________________________________\n CHISWICK PRESS:\u2014C. 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