An analysis of religious belief - viscount John Russell Amberley

"Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch

About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."

But the opposite fate, sometimes still more terrible, that of continuing to live when the joys of life are gone, and its purest happiness is turned into the bitterest pain, will be accepted too. Thus they will be willing, it need be, to remain in a world where their labor is not yet ended, even though that labor be wrought through suffering, despondency, and sorrow; willing also, if need be, to meet the universal lot—even though it strike them in the midst of prosperity, happiness, and hope; bowing in either case to the verdict of fate with unmurmuring resignation and fearless calm.

THE END.

INDEX.

Abhidharma-Pitaka, its metaphysics, [473]-476
Abiogenesis, the theory of, [690];
its destined functions, [702]
Abraham, a Hanyf, [195];
story of, [545]-546
Acts, the book of, its value, [604];
review of, [604]-617
Aditi, the godess, [437]
Africa, burial rites in, [430];
divination in, [114];
ordeals in, [119]
Africans, western, sacrifice among, [42];
drink-offerings among, [47]
Agag hewn in pieces, [598]
Age, a golden, traditions of, [538], [539]
Agni, the god, [430]
Agnosticism allied to mysticism, ii. [489]
Ahab, his troubles, [598]
Ahuna-Vairya, the, [503], [504]
Ahura-Mazda, and Zarathustra, [182], [183];
the god of the Parsees, [185];
ancient worship of, [486], [487];
praise of, [487], [488];
rank and character, [489];
address to, [489], [490];
worship of, [490]-492;
fire and water given by, [493];
questioned by Zarathustra, [497]-504;
things which please and things which displease, [497], [498];
prescribes for medical training, [499];
the same as Ormazd, [505];
throughout the god of the Parsees, [508];
creates the world, [535]
Aischylos, his conception of the commercial relation between gods and men, [38]
Akaba, the vow of the first and second, [188]
Ali, sign at his birth, [226]
Amatongo, sacrifice to the, [40]
Amuzulus, sacrifice among the, [47]
sneezing as an omen among, [111]
Amos, his prophecy and history, [61];
conduct towards Amaziah, [573]
Anâgâmin, the, [478], [479] (note)
Analysis, ultimate metaphysical, [464]
Ananda and the Matangi girl, [285];
and Buddha, [134], [136]
Ananias and his wife, story of, [607]
Ancestors, worship of, in Fiji and among the Kafirs, [650], [651];
in Peru, [651].
Angekoks, the, consecration of, [100], [101]
Apocalypse, the, its author, [634];
its style, [634];
compared with the "Pilgrim's Progress," [634];
its visions, [635], [636]
Apollo, worship of, [38];
his sense of gratitude appealed to, [38];
oracle of the Clarian, [127]
Âranyakas, the, [127]
Arhats, the, rank of, [444], [445], [457], [458]
Asceticism, various degrees of, [89];
in Mexico and Peru, [90]-92;
rules of Chinese, [461]
Ashem-Vohû, the, [503], [504]
Asiti, the Rishi, the child and Buddha, [231]
Asoka, the Buddhist king, [450], [451]
Astrology, [118]
Astrologers in Thibet, [144]
Asvagosha, a Buddhist preacher, [122]
Atharva-Veda-Sanhitâ, the, [426], [427]
Atman, [661]
Atmospheric currents, an illustration, [471]
Automatism, apparent puzzle of, resolved, [464]-466
Australia, burial rites in, [77]
Babel, confusion at, [597]
Balaam, treatment of, [597]
Balaki, the Brahman, [446]
Banshee, the Irish, [114]
Baptism, a general religious rite, [58];
in Fantee, [59];
among the Cherokees, Aztecs, &c., [59];
in Mexico, [59];
in Mongolia and Thibet, [61];
among the Parsees, [61];
in the Christian Church, [61], [62];
meaning of the rite, [62], [63]
Barabbas, [215], [216]
Barnabas, and Paul in Antioch, [611];
taken for Zeus, [611];
separation, [613]
Beatitudes, the, [350], [351]
Beauty and Bands, allegory of, [573]
Beliefs, necessary, vindication of, [678]-680;
conditions of, [680];
example, [695], [696]
Benfey, translation of the Sâma-Veda Sanhitâ, [425]
Bhikshu, a defined, [95]
Bhikshus and Bhikshunîs, the, [479]
Bible, the, though above, yet among the sacred books of the world, [369], [370];
forced interpretations of [379], [380];
mostly anonymous, [386];
style of, [389], [390]
Birth, religious rites at, among savage nations, [57], [58];
in Mexico, [59], [60];
in Mongolia and Thibet, [61]
Bodhisattva, [175]-180;
in the womb, [225];
the nature of, [477], [478];
their sacrifice of Nirvâna, [478]
Bogda, thaumaturgic powers of, [122]
Books, sacred, all civilized nations nearly have, [370], [371];
Greeks and Romans without, [370];
list of, [370];
their external marks—recognized inspiration, [371], [372];
supposed merit of reading or repeating them, [372]-375;
subjection to forced interpretations, [375]-383;
internal marks—transcendental-subject-matter, [382]-384;
authoritativeness, [384], [385];
general anonymity, [23]-26;
formlessness, [385]-389;
of the Chinese, [390]-424;
seldom written by the authors of the religion, [413];
of India, [425]-448;
of the Buddhists, [449]-482;
necessity for, [449];
of the Parsees, [482]-509;
of the Moslems, [500]-520;
of the Jews, [518]-603;
of Christianity, [604]-641
Bo-tree, sanctity of, in Ceylon, [127]
Buddha, under, [180], [181]
Brahma, his incest, [600];
not worshiped, [405], [406];
and Brahm, [406], [407]
Brahman, the caste, [183];
the supreme, [405]
Brâhmanas, the, [379], [425], [426];
their character, [444], [445];
ritualistic appendages to the Vedas, [444], [445];
teaching of apologue, [445];
on a universal soul, [445], [446];
on the future of the soul, [447];
on patience, [447];
references to moral conduct, [448]
Bread and wine in the Eucharist, virtue of, [135]
Buddha, Gautama, a thaumaturgist, [122];
the tooth of, [124], [125];
preparation for his last manifestation, [170];
uncertain data to go upon for his life, [171];
when he lived, [172];
early asceticism, [172], [173];
abolishes caste, his theoretic, [217];
his four truths, [173];
the interpretation of these, [173];
his death, [274];
his chief disciples, [274];
spread of his religion, [274];
essential principles, [174], [175];
his blamelessness, [175];
the mythical twelve periods of his life, i. [176];
resolution to be born, [176];
choice of parents, [176];
his birth, [177];
various names of, [177];
adoration by an old Rishi, [178];
qualifies himself for marriage, [178];
enjoyment of domestic life, [179];
departure from home and assumption of the monastic character, [178];
temptations, [178];
his horse Kantaka, [178];
his penances, [180];
his triumph over the devil, [180];
becomes perfect Buddha, [180], [181];
turns the Wheel of the Law, [180];
his reception by kings, [180];
his first conversions, [180];
founds monastic institutions, [180];
enters Nirvâna, [449];
funeral rites, [181];
relics, [181];
aristocratic descent, [221];
gestation of, [224], [225];
signs at his birth, [226];
infant, recognized Simeon-wise by the Rishi Asita, [231];
his temptations in the wilderness, [231];
and the Matangi girl, [285];
compared with Christ, [242]-344;
and the widow's mite, [342], [343];
and the cup of cold water, [344];
as a fisher of men, [344];
exalts humility and poverty, [345];
on divorce, [345], [346];
and Christ, [362]-365;
his sayings collected, [343];
sects in the Church of [449];
extravagant adoration [458];
painting the picture of, [458], [459];
and the two condemned felons, [136]-139;
central figure of Buddhism, [146];
successive manifestations, [476];
worship of, [477];
training of, [476], [478], [481];
disciples of, [480]
Buddha Sakymuni, leaps into the fire, [58]
Buddhas, the, Pratyeka, [478].
Buddhism, ascetic nature and rules of, [93]-95;
fathers of, miracle workers, [121], [122];
goal of, [120];
its sacred canon, [449]-451;
ten commandments of, [467];
boundless charity of, [468];
regard for personal purity, [469]-471;
its four truths, [473];
Buddha its central figure, [476];
gods of, [476];
grades in, [478], [479];
morality of, [480]-483;
five commandments of, [550];
not without a god, ii. [655]-657.
Buddhists, [93]-95;
antecedent to Buddhism, [95];
in India, [96], [97];
of Visvamitra, [96], [97]
Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" compared with the Apocalypse, [366], [367]
Caaba, the, [188]-190.
Carlyle, Thomas, forestalled by Confucius, [167];
his "Everlasting No." [186];
on Mahomet, [192]
Cause, the notion of, [484];
the known. See Power.
Ceylon, religious observance in, [51];
festivals in, [53];
marriage in, [75], [76];
burial rites in, [78];
omens in, [112], [113];
divination in, [117];
the Bo-tree, [127].
Child, myth of the dangerous, [227]-230
China, Emperor of, praying for rain, [36];
sacrifice in, [42];
divination in, [117], [118];
in the days of Confucius, [159];
official creed of, [391];
sacred writings of, [39];
authentic history of, remote, [403];
fate of the early Emperors of, as good or bad,
403-406;
its sages and kings, [405]-407;
the "religiones licitæ" of, [413]
Chinese, the, sacred books once nearly destroyed, [391];
their political doctrines, [394];
their ethics, [395], [396];
their loyalty to the heroes as heaven-appointed, [398], [399]
Christ, Jesus, conceived necessity of his death, [47];
his appeal to miracles, [123];
divinity of, not found in the New Testament, [326], [327];
Mahomet's view of, [513], [514];
worship of, [665].
See Jesus.
Christians, the early, communists, [607];
first breach among, [608];
severe discipline of, [614]
Christianity, fundamental conception of, [48], [49];
festivals of, [52];
ascetic spirit of early, [97];
ascetic development of, [98], [99];
powerless over the Jews since the death of Christ, [314], [315];
originally Judaic, [334];
its worship of Christ, [308];
its treatment of the Father and the Spirit, [309], [310]
Christmas, a pagan festival, [53].
Church, the, necessary infallibility of, [152]
Choo He, his criticism of preface to Chinese odes, [380], [381]
Chow, the Duke of, on the favor of heaven, [406]
Ch'un Ts'ëw, the, forced interpretation applied to, [376]-378, [411];
its subject matter and authorship, [411]-413;
opinions of Dr. Legge, [411]-413,
of Mang, [411], [412];
extract, [412];
topics, [412]
Chung Yung, the, authorship of, [394];
its doctrine of the "Mean," [394], [395];
its doctrine of virtue and heaven, [395], [396]
Cicero on immortality, [688].
Circumcision, wide-spread practice of, [63];
among the Jews, [64];
of women among the Suzees and Mandingoes, [73], [74]
Clement, quotation from, on second coming, [338], [339]
Clergy, secular and regular, [100]
Cobbe, Frances Power, [641]
Coming, the second, apostolic doctrine on, [334]-339.
Confucius, neither an ascetic recluse
nor a religious enthusiast, [158], [159];
regard for ritual, [159]-201;
birth and early life, [159];
as a teacher, [159];
subject of his doctrines, [160];
refuses state endowments, [160];
chief magistrate of Loo, [160];
resignation [160];
death, [161];
character, [162];
wanting in the bold originality of the other reformers of religion, [162];
charge of insincerity, [162];
his purity, [163];
his courteous manners, [164];
formal deportment, [165];
relations with his disciples, [165];
four virtues of which he was master, [166];
sense of a mission, [166], [167];
pain at being misunderstood, [167];
had no theological beliefs, [167];
lays all stress upon terrestrial virtues, [168];
had an esoteric doctrine, [169];
subjects on which he did not talk, [170];
minds not things too high for him, but is silent, [170];
summary of moral duties, [171];
moral perfection, [171];
doctrine of reciprocity, [172];
some of his sayings, [172], [173];
Carlylean utterances, [173];
Tsge-Kung's admiration for him, [173];
interview with and opinion of Laò-tsé, [174], [175];
ante-natal signs, [225];
his teachings similar to Christ's, [342];
doctrine of recompense, [354]-357;
idea of perfect virtue, [361];
and Christ, [362]-365;
on unseen spiritual beings, [395], [396];
left writings, [414]
Confucianism the official creed in China, [391]
Consciousness, its rise unaccounted for by material evolution, [705];
necessarily of spiritual evolution, [706], [707];
not by creation, nor from nothing, [707]
Consecration, power of, among the Mongolians, [86];
among the Catholics, [86];
differs from sacrifice, [86];
permanence of, [87]
Consecrated objects in Sierra Leone, [84];
among the Tartars, [84];
in Ceylon, [86];
value of, [86]
Cornelius, conversion of, [328], [610]
Creation of the universe, Hebrew account of [531]-533;
account, of the Quichés, [533],
of the Mixtecs, [533], [534],
of the Buddhists, [534],
of the Parsees, [534], [535];
of the Rig-Veda, [535], [536];
of animals and man, Hebrew account, [536]-538,
Fijian account, [538];
impossible, [707]
Creeds, the error of, [709], [710]
Cylinders, rotary, in Thibet, with sacred texts, [373], [374]
Dakhmas, the, [79], [80]
Daniel, the book of, [586], [587];
the prophet, [587], [588], [590]
Darwinism, an epoch, [705]
Death, rites at, in New South Wales, [77];
in Western Africa, [77], [78];
in Polynesia, [77];
in Mexico, [78];
in Ceylon, [77];
in Thibet, [88];
among Christians, [89], [90]
Death-watch, the, in Scotland, [114]
Debt a disqualification in Buddhism, [460]
Delphi, oracle at, [126]
Deluge, the, Hebrew account of, [541], [542];
other traditions, [243], [244];
Indian tradition, [244], [245];
the judgment by, [597]
Demoniac possession in the days of Christ, [210], [211];
in Judea, Abyssinia, Polynesia, and Ceylon, [245], [246]
Design, argument from, [711], [712]
Destruction, impossible, [706]
Devadatta, [481]
Devas, the worship of, renounced by the Parsees, [490]
Didron, M., on the Scriptural proof of the Trinity, [379];
on mediæval representations of the Father and the Son in the Trinity, [665], [666]
Disciples, the, rebuked by Christ for not casting out a devil, [244];
and Judaism, [328]-341, [345]
Disease, moral theory of, [141]
Disease-makers in Tanna, [140]
Divination a profession, [115];
in South Africa, [115];
from sticks and bones, [115], [116];
by familiar spirits, [116], [117];
among the American Indians, [117], [118];
among the Ostiacks, [118];
in China, [118], [119];
in Ceylon, [119];
by the stars, [120]
Diviners, methods of, in Sierra Leone, [143];
in Mexico, [143];
among the Jews, [145]
Divorce, Christ's doctrine of, [304];
Paul's doctrine of, [632]
Dogs, Parsee respect for, [409], [500]
Drake, Sir Francis, and his men, divine honors paid to, [256], [257]
Dreams, presumed supernatural origin of, [106];
theory of, [107];
interpretation of, [107];
Jewish ceremony against bad, [107], [108];
in Scripture, [108], [109];
in Homer, [110];
horn and ivory gates of, [110]
Dreams, Joseph's, as a main proof of the incarnation, [108]
Dress, Buddhist rule for nuns, [467]
Duty, Chinese definition of, [395]
Easter, [55]
Ebionite, the, a sect apart, [333];
their fate, [334]
Ecclesiastes, the work of a cynic, [568];
account of, [569]
Eddas, the Norse, [388]
Ego, consciousness of the, [700]
Elisha, an Amazulu, [556]
Elohim, the, [663], [664]
Epistles, the, of the New Testament, general burden of, [618], [619]
Equilibrium of soul, Chinese definition of, [395]
Essenes, the, [96]
Essence, the ultimate, of Brahminism, [661], [662]
Evil, origin of, Hebrew account of; [537], [538];
Buddhist account, [539], [540]
Evolution theory, its dark spot, [705];
its great triumph, [706]
Existence the course of evil, [474], [475];
at bottom, what? [702]
Exorcism among the Jews, [212];
among the disciples of Christ, [213]
Experience as a test of truth, [678], [679]
Ezekiel the prophet and his prophecies, [582], [584]
Faith and belief distinguished, [23];
and works, Scripture controversy on, [618], [619];
and belief, relations of, [709]-711
Fasting as a religious rite, [55]
Festivals, idea of, [52];
natural seasons of, [52];
in Guinea, China, &c., [53];
New Year's day in China, [53];
Christmas, [54];
among the Jews, [55];
three kinds of, [54], [55];
of Peruvians, [56]
Fetish, idea of a, [132];
power to
charm, [133],
priests as healers, [141]
Fire a sacred symbol, [56];
invocation of, [489];
Parsee worship, [494], [495]
Force, persistence of, [672]-677;
Herbert Spencer on, [677], [705];
the notion of, [717]
Frashaostra, [183], [184]
Fravashis, the, [493]
Gadarene demoniac, the, i. [243]
Gâthâ, the fifth, i. [182];
account of the first, ii. [487], [488];
the second, ii. [485], [486];
third, ii. [486], [487];
fourth and fifth, ii. [487], [488]
Gâthâs, the five, antiquity of, ii. [484];
account of, ii. [485]-490
Gentleness, Laò-tsé on, ii. [419]
Ghost, the Holy, the Christian art, ii. [666], [667];
generally unworshiped, [668]
God, personality of, not an essential element in religious belief, [719];
loss of personality of, a gain, [720]
God of Israel, the, his imperious attitude, [590];
arbitrary conduct towards man in Paradise, [591], [592];
his command to Abraham, [592];
a Bramanical contrast, [592];
his favoritism for Abel, [593],
for Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, [594];
partizanship in delivering the Israelites from Egypt, [594],
and giving them Canaan, [594];
exacting and "jealous," [594];
anger and the calf idolaters, [595];
treatment of the Israelites in the wilderness, [594], [595];
capriciousness, [595], [596],
in the punishment by deluge, [596],
towards the builders of Babel, [596];
in regard to Balaam, ii. [596],
Nadab and Abihu, ii. [597],
the man that touched the ark, ii. [597],
his rejection of Saul, ii. [598];
preference for Samuel, [598];
treatment of Ahab, ii. [598];
his treatment of alien nations, [599];
his legislation, [600],
in regard to the Sabbath, [600],
idolatry, [600],
filial impiety, [600];
anthropomorphic conceptions of, [602], [603];
better elements in the ideal, [603], [604]
God of Christendom, the, differs from the God of Israel, [636];
his worst action, [637];
the change accounted for, [637], [638];
no longer the God of a race, [638];
one blot on his character, makes punishment eternal, [638], [639];
step toward a milder view, Purgatory, [640];
recent still milder conceptions, [641]
God the Father in mediæval art, [665], [666]
God, belief in, as Father, [682];
as Son, [682], [683]; as Spirit, [683]
God among the Fijians, [650], [651];
the Negroes, [653], [654];
the Greenlanders, [654];
original Americans, [654], [655];
the great religions of the world, [655];
of Buddhism, and [653]-657;
interior superior, [657]
God, the highest, recognized amidst inferior, worshiped gods, in Guinea, [657];
among the Kafirs, [657];
in Sierra Leone, [658];
in Dahomey, [658];
among the Ashantees, [658], [659];
in Mexico and Peru, [659];
in Sabaeism, [659];
among the Hindus, [659]-664;
in Judaism, [664], [665];
in Christianity, [664]-666;
various explanations of the idea of, [669],
of common realism, [670], [698],
of metaphysical realism, [671], [672], [698];
comparative estimate of these theories, [672], [673];
of moderate idealism, [673], [676], [698];
philosophical conclusion, [476], [477]
Gods appealed to as men, [39], [40]
Goethe, quotation, [415]
Gopa, wife of Buddha, [177]-179
Gospels, the, [199];
criticism of the narratives, [199]-204;
discrepancies in regard to the genealogies, [218]-220;
accounts of Christ's birth, [221], [222];
discrepancies regarding Christ's habitation, [239];
regarding the calling of his first disciples, [230], [231];
discrepancies about the sermon on the Mount, [243];
hopelessness of chronology, [243];
account of Christ's entry into Jerusalem, [253];
account of the fig-tree, [254];
accounts of Christ's annointing, [225];
accounts of Christ's betrayal by Judas, [240], [241];
accounts of Christ's last passover, [258], [259];
account of Christ's passion, [260], [261];
account of Christ's arrest, [261], [262],
of Jesus before the Sanhedrim, [262], [263],
of Jesus before Pilate, [263]-265,
of the crucifixion, [265]-267,
of the resurrection, [269]-275;
account of Christ's lineage and birthplace, [295]-298
Greece, gods of, [386]
Groves, sacred, Africa and the South seas, [127]
Habakkuk, the prophet, [579]
Haggai, his prophecy, [585]
Hanyfites, [550]
Haoma, the plant, [46], [47]
Harischandra, legend of, [246]-249
Harmony, Chinese spiritual, [395]
Haug, Dr, on the ages of the Vedas, [428], [429];
his translation of the Gâthâs, [482]
Hea, decrees against the King of, [404], [405]
Heaven and hell, Mahometan, [516], [517]
Heaven, Chinese definition of, ii. [396]
Hebrews, the, its teachings, as contrasted with that of James, [618]-620
Hegira, the, [189]
Here's conception of Hephaistos, [223]
Hermits, Indian, [195]
Herod and the birth of Christ, [227]-229
Herod the Tetrarch, fate of, [611]
Heu Hing, political economy of, [400]
Hezekiah, and Isaiah, [550];
divine favor to, [557];
inglorious reign of, [558]
Hilkiah, and his associates, and Josiah, [523]-525
Hindus, ritual among the, [51];
festivals among the, [52]-54
Hodgson, his discovery in Nepaul, [451]
Homa, the god, [506]-508
Homa-Yasht, the, [506]
Homer, poems of, [388], [389]
Horace, quotation, [418]
Hosea, the prophet, [573]
How-tseih, miraculous birth of, [224]
Huran, prayer of a, [33]
Hymns, Vedic, of cursing, [565], [566]
Hysteria in Judea in the days of Christ, [210], [211]
Ibos, sacrifice among the, [42]
Idealism, its forms, [673];
moderate,
as a solution, [677]-676;
extreme, [676]
Idolatry, the crime of, among the Jews, [600]
Immortality of the soul, not an article in either the Buddhist or Jewish creed, [687];
the Greek and Roman philosophers on, [687], [688]
Incas, the worship of, by images, [651]
Indian, Nootka, prayer of, [32]
Indra, his praises, [433];
his soma-drinking, [433];
the Indian Zeus, [433]
Infallibility of the clergy, [153]
Inspiration of sacred books, [311], [372];
among the Chinese, [380], [381]
Instruction, Chinese definition of, [305]
Interpretation, forced, of sacred books, [375]-383
Isaac, the sacrifice of, an Indian parallel to, [545]-548
Isaiah quoted to prove Messiahship of Christ, [297]-299;
[53]d as a prophecy of Christ, [299];
his rank as a prophet, [517];
dates of his prophecies, [518];
earliest stratum of his prophecies, [518];
contrast with Joel, [519];
on the Jerusalem ladies, [519];
second part, [519];
accepts the divine call, [520];
third part, [520];
fourth part, [520], [521];
fifth, sixth, and seventh parts, [521];
vision of the future, [521]
Jacob, his bargain with Jehovah, [39];
his conduct to Esau, [594]
Jahveh, the holy name, [664]
James, the Epistle of, its teaching contrasted with that of the Hebrews, [619], [620]
Jehovah, his praises in the Psalms, [38];
and Adonia, [663], [664]
Jeremiah, the prophet, [579];
his call [579], [580];
denunciatory prophecies, ii. [580], [581];
and Pashur, [581];
analysis of his prophecies, ii. [581], [582];
lamentations of, [583]
Jesus Christ, the historical (see Christ), difficulties in regard to materials for his life, [199];
compared with the mythical, and the ideal, [200];
his sayings credibly reported, [201];
criticism of his doings, [202];
further tests applied, [202]-204;
his parents and family, [204]-206;
his mother, [205];
birth at Nazareth, [206];
originally a carpenter, [207];
influence of John the Baptist, [206], [207];
comes forth a Messiah, [207];
boldly asserts his claim, [207];
his early disciples, the three most intimate, [207], [208];
female followers, [209];
his own family and neighbors unfriendly to his mission, [208], [209];
his public teaching, [209];
state of Judea at the time, [209], [210];
casts out devils, [210], [211];
his sermons and parables, [212];
authority as a teacher, [212], [213];
offends the Jews by forgiving sin, [213];
disregard of Sabbatical customs, [213];
claiming Messiahship, [213], [214];
abusing his enemies, [214];
violent conduct in the Temple, [214];
his betrayal and apprehension, [214];
accusation and trial, [215], [216];
the witnesses and his defense, [215], [216];
his condemnation, [216];
before Pilate, [216];
crucifixion, [216];
interment, [216]
Jesus, of the Gospels, indifference to alleged lineage and birthplace, [294];
believed to be of Nazareth, [296];
misapplies a prophecy to himself, [298], [299];
and the Jewish Sabbath, [301], [302];
offense taken at the company he kept and free living, [302];
his neglect of the tradition of the elders, [303];
views of divorce, [304];
on paying tribute, [304], [305];
and the Sadducees in regard to the future state, [305]-307;
two chief commandments, [307];
on the denunciation of the Scribes, [408], [409];
provokes opposition, [409];
expulsion of the money-changers, [409], [410];
defense of his conduct, [410], [411];
gives offense to the Sanhedrim, [312];
before the Sanhedrim, [312];
before Pilate, [313];
his faith in his Messiahship, [316];
conscious of being son of God, [316], [317];
comparative modesty of the claim, [317];
asserted inferiority to the Father, [318];
his relation to the law, [319], [320];
his mission confined to the Jews, [320], [321];
his idea of his mission his one thought, [321]-326;
his warning to his disciples to be ready, [321]-323;
his idea of his kingdom, [323];
his one qualification for admission, [324];
his kingdom to be on earth, [325];
Peter's confession of, [327];
doctrine of his divinity not found in the New Testament, [327];
not thought to have a design of subverting the Mosaic law, [328];
modern laudation of, [339];
materials for criticism, [339], [340];
his fondness for contrasts, [340], [341];
his resemblance to Laò-tsé, [344];
aversion to wealth and wealthy men, [446], [447];
his doctrine in regard to invitations to feasts, [448];
parable of the laborers in in the vineyard, [449];
his assertion of eternal punishment, [350];
his false estimate of the power of prayer, [349];
his sermon on the Mount, [450]-462;
his doctrine of murder, adultery, and perjury, [451], [452];
of resisting evil by doing good, [452], [453];
his model prayer, [356], [358];
on the superiority of heavenly to temporal interests, [358]-461;
founder of scientific ethics, [360];
as a prophet, compared with Buddha and Confucius, [362]-364;
compared with Socrates, [464], [465];
his transcendent moral grandeur, [366];
as a man of sorrows, [366]-368
Jesus Christ, Mahomet's view of, [513], [514]
Jesus, the ideal, of St. John, peculiarities of the narrative, [277]-288;
improbabilities, [288];
raising Lazarus, [288]-291;
at the marriage feast, [279], [280];
heals by a word, [282];
at the pool of Bethesda, [282];
interviews with Nathaniel, &c., [280], [281], [283];
symbolic teachings, [281]-283;
last discourse to his disciples, [283];
as the Logos, [283], [284];
Oneness with God, as his father, [284];
last days and moments, [286], [287]
Jesus, the mythical, the accounts of, [216], [217];
variety of these, [217];
the genealogies, [217]-221;
conception and nativity, [221]-223;
mythological parallels, [223]-226;
mediæval painting of, in the womb, [225];
recognition by the shepherds, [226], [227];
by the Magi, [227];
and Herod, [227], [228];
a dangerous child, [228]-230;
circumcision, [230];
recognized by Simeon, [231];
by Anna, [231];
in the Temple, [232]-233;
called a Nazarene, [234];
his baptism, [234], [236];
message from John the Baptist, [236];
temptation, [237];
comes to Capernaum, [238];
reasons for leaving Nazareth [238], [239];
reception in Nazareth as a preacher, [239];
has an abode, [239];
no ascetic, [240];
in comfortable circumstances, [240];
collects followers, [240], [241];
calls Peter, [241];
calls Matthew, [241];
appoints twelve, [241];
his four select, [241], [242];
works miracles, [242];
sermon on the Mount, [242], [243];
heals the Gadarene demoniac, [243];
expels a devil, and rebukes his disciples for their want of faith, [244];
heals the Syrophenician damsel, [244], [245];
heals a leper, [246];
a paralytic, [246];
raises Jarius' daughter, [246], [248];
heals a woman with an issue of blood, [248];
the centurion's servant, [248], [249];
heals a deaf mute, [250];
heals a blind man, [250],
ten lepers, [250];
raises the widow's son, [250];
miraculously feeds a multitude, [250];
walks on the water, [251];
stills the storm, [251];
his transfiguration, [251], [252];
foretells his crucifixion and resurrection, [253];
triumphal entry into Jerusalem, [253], [254];
blasts the fig-tree, [254];
purges the temple, [254];
last anointing, [254];
betrayal by Judas, [257];
keeps his last passover, [258];
institutes the supper, [259];
washes his disciples' feet, [260];
in Gethsemane, [260];
arrest, [261];
before the Sanhedrim, [261], [262];
before Pilate, [262]-265;
before Herod, [264];
mockery, [265];
crucifixion, [265]-267;
last words, [267];
wonders accompanying his death, [267];
his burial, [268], [269];
resurrection, [269]-273;
ascension, [275]
Jews, sacrifices among the, [42]-44;
prayers, [50];
festivals of, [52], [53];
passover among, [55];
rite of circumcision among, [64];
historical result of their rejection of Christ, [287], [288];
unjust treatment, [289];
consideration in extenuation, [289];
their provocations, [290], [291];
credulity
of skepticism in regard to Messianic pretensions, [292];
justification of their Messianic expectations, [293]-294;
excusable ignorance as to Christ's lineage, [295], [296];
and their own prophecies, [296]-299;
treatment of Christ's miracles, [299];
their esteem for the Sabbath law, [300], [301];
their offense at Christ for his disregard of ceremonial observance, [300]-303;
their right to interrogate Christ, [303];
question to Jesus about tribute, [304], [305];
just offense, as monotheists, at Christ, [313];
and Christianity, [314]-316;
justification of their rejection of Christ, [315];
identified with their Bible, [162];
settlement in Judea, [162], [163];
under kings, [163];
in captivity, [163];
epoch in their history, [163];
their national god, [164]-166;
early creed not monotheistic, [166];
idolatry, [167];
not Jehovistic, only the priests, [167], [169];
effects of the captivity, [170]-172;
under the Maccabees, [173];
their pride and intolerance, [133], [173];
under the Asmoneans and the Herods, [173];
under the Romans, [174];
in Christendom, [175];
their toughness, [175].
Job, story of the book of, [563], [564]
"Jocelyn," Lamartine's, [102], [103]
Joel, his prophecy, [571];
Isaiah, [575]
John, Baptist, asceticism of, [96], [206], [207];
baptizes Christ, [235];
message from prison to Christ, [336];
Christ's estimate of, [336]
John, Gospel of, silence about miraculous conception, [221];
account of Christ's baptism, [235];
account of the crucifixion, [268];
on Christ's Divinity, [327], [328];
its value in evidence, [328]
John, the apostle, the beloved disciple, [281];
his Gospel, its fondness for symbolic speech, [281], [282];
for obscure theological questions, [383], [384];
doctrine of the Logos, [384], [385];
his Gospel as regards Christ's birthplace and lineage, [294], [295]
John, the three epistles of, [620], [621]
Jonah, book and story of, [586], [587]
Jongleurs, the, in New France, installation of, [601]
Jordan, crossing the, an Indian parallel, [553]
Joseph, the father of Jesus, [204], [218], [221], [229], [233]
Josiah, Jehovistic coup d'état under, [523], [525]
Judas, his betrayal of Jesus, [214];
slander against, [255];
betrays Christ, [263];
myth of his unhappy end, [257], [258];
charged with his intended crime at the last supper, [258], [259];
arrest of Christ, [261], [263]
Judaism, antagonism to asceticism, [96];
of John the Baptist, [97];
tendency of Christianity to encourage, [97];
idea of, [98];
Protestant disregard of, [99];
and Christianity, [328];
and the apostle Paul, [330], [331];
and the early Church, [334]
Kafirs, prayer of, [34];
sacrifice among the, [42], [43];
sneezing an omen among, [110];
other omens among, [112]
Kama, burning of, [55];
invoked to curse, [566]
Kantaka, horse of Buddha, [179]
Karma, the, of Buddhist ethics, [481]
Kava-Vistaspa, [183], [184]
Keightley, data from, on saint worship in England, [668]
Khadija, the first wife of Mahomet, [187];
her relations with the prophet, [187];
her death, [180]
Khorda-Avesta, the, [502]-509;
its use, [502];
subject-matter and date, [503]
King, the meaning of the term, [391];
the five, [391], [392]
Kingdom of heaven, Christ's idea of, [321]-324;
Paul's, [335];
Peter's [336]
Koran, style of, [194], [378]-389;
the staple of, [198];
the single authorship and unity of, [510];
apology for its style, [510];
translations, [510];
origin and formation of, [510];
original copy, [511];
arrangement, [511];
themes, [511], [512];
specimens, [512];
its paradise, [517];
its hell, [517]
Korosi, his discovery, [451]
Kosti, investure with the, [74]
Kronos, his dread of his children, [229]
Kunâla, legend of, [481]
Kyros, a dangerous child, [230]
Lady, a pious, [460]
Laò-tsé, probable date of birth, [168];
admonition to Confucius, [168];
account of himself, [168];
resembled Plato's philosopher, [169];
his style similar to Christ's, [340];
the Christianity of, [353];
left writings, [413];
description of Tao, [414];
conception of goodness, [418];
on gentleness, [419];
against luxury, [419];
has three cardinal virtues, [420];
mysticism, [420];
conception of God, [421], [422];
his character and teaching, [422]
Lazarus, story of, peculiar to John's Gospel, [255];
his resurrection, [347], [348]
Lazarus and Dives, [344], [347], [350]
Legge, Dr. James, his Chinese classics, [390];
his opinion of the authorship of Ch'un' Tsew, [59]
Legislation, Hebrew, [600]-603
Libations in sacrifice, [47];
in Tartary, Samoa, Thibet, &c., [47]
Life, vital forces, Indian apologue, [445], [446]
Linga, the, worship of, [54]
Lucretius on immortality, [688]
Luke, his genealogy of Jesus, [218]-221;
account of miraculous conception and birth, [222], [223];
account of the shepherds, [226], [227];
account of Christ's infancy, [230];
discrepancies with Matthew, [233]-236;
his free spirit, [232];
account of the call of Peter, [241];
version of the sermon on the Mount, [243];
account of lunatic boy, [244];
his partiality for angels, [252];
accompanies Paul, [257]
Lun Yu, the, date of, [392];
subject matter, [392];
its Boswellian minuteness of detail, [392]
Luxury, Laò-tsé on, [419]
Magi and the birth of Christ, [228]-230
Mahomet, pretensions of, to the supernatural, [122];
the last of the great prophets, [186];
his religion self-derived, [187];
his parents and birth, [187];
his original social position, [187];
marries Khadija, [187];
his first revelation, [187];
passes through the period of the "Everlasting No." [187];
Gabriel his guardian angel, [187];
first disciples,
187;
his doctrines provoke persecution, [187];
his momentary relapse into idolatry and repentance, [188];
persecution of his family, [188];
binds by a vow pilgrims from Medina, [188];
his flight to Medina, [189];
success there, [189];
war with Mecca, [189];
truce with the Meccans, [190];
summons crowned heads to submit to his religion, [190];
first pilgrimage to Mecca, [190];
enters Mecca in triumph, [191];
proclamation to the inhabitants, [192];
final triumph and death, [191];
his character an open question, [192];
his sincerity, [193]-195;
sense of inspiration, [193];
time-serving withal, [193];
inspired poetic style, [193];
his predecessors, [195];
his sources of information, [195];
takes to the sword, [195];
conduct to the Jews, [195], [196];
his weak point, [196], [197];
his harem, [197];
his marriages, [198];
his jealousy, [198];
triumph of his religion, [199], [200];
aristocratic descent, [221];
ante-natal intimations of his greatness, [226];
the infant recognized by his grandfather, [231];
his awe under the new revelation, [512];
his stock-in-trade, [513];
view of his prophetic function, [513];
prophets acknowledged by, [514];
views of Christ, [514], [515];
of himself, [516], [517];
address of God to, [516]
Malachi on sacrifices to God, [44];
prophecies of, [586], [587]
Man, the wise and the fool, chapter from, [468]
Mang, on high-mindedness, his teaching similar to Christ's, [341];
a disciple of Confucius, [396];
his works, [396], [397];
late introduction to the canon, [397], [398];
his democratic philosophy, [398];
his view how heaven makes known its will, [399], [400];
notions of good government, [399], [400];
a political economist, [401];
his regard for propriety, [401], [402];
his faith in human nature, [402], [403];
his moral tone, [403]
Manu, code of, on legal and illegal forms of marriage, [76], [77];
the typical ancestors of men, [447];
and the deluge, [543], [544]
Mark, Gospel of, its credibility, [203];
omits miraculous conception, [221];
account of Christ's baptism, [235];
reference to Christ's temptation, [237]
Marriage, rites at, peculiar to civilized nations, [75];
in Ceylon, [75];
in Thibet, [76];
according to the code of Manu, [76];
among Parsees, Jews, and Christians, [77];
with strangers, among the Jews, [600]
Marriage-tie, the, Christ on, [345]
Maruts, the, prayer to, [35], [38];
their nature, [434]
Mary, the mother of Jesus, [204], [205], [218], [221]-223, [233], [234];
at the cross, [267]
Masses for the dead, [80]
Materialism, unphilosophic, [694]
Matthew, his genealogy of Jesus, [218]-221;
account of miraculous conception, and birth, [221], [222];
account of the Magi, [227];
reticence about infancy of Christ, [230];
discrepancies with Luke, [233]-236;
call of, [241];
version of sermon on the Mount, [243];
his misappropriation of prophecy, [297], [298]
Maya Devi, her dream, [176];
her pregnancy, [176];
delivery of a son, [177];
death thereafter, [177]
Maya, her gestation-time, [225]
Mean, the, Chinese doctrine of, [394], [395]
Mencius. See Mang
Messiah, the, the term, [292], [293];
Jewish ideas of, [292], [293];
these ideas not responded to by Christ, [293];
presumptuous Christian interpretations, [293], [294];
predictions as to lineage and birth, [294]-296;
as son of David, [295];
predictions of his birth from a virgin, [297], [298];
in [53]d of Isaiah, [279]
Metaphysics, Buddhist, [473], [474]
Mexico, human and other sacrifices in, [41], [42], [43];
worship in, [51];
burial rites in, [78];
monasticism in, [91], [93]
Mexican festival for rain, [35]
Micah, the prophecy of, [578]
Mill, J. S., a metaphysical realist, [676]
Mind, not resolvable in matter, or physical cause, [689]-692
Miracles as credentials of the divine, [120], [121];
of Buddhism, [121];
among the Mongols, [122];
among the Moslems, [122];
of Christianity, [123];
in the early Church, [123], [124];
of the Mormons, [124], [125];
insufficiency of the evidence in the case of Christ, [299], [300]
Mite, the widow's, [342], [343]
Mithra, the god, [467], [471], [493]
Mitra, [435]
Moments, four sacred, [57]
Monasticism in Mexico and Peru, [89], [92];
among the Buddhists, [93]-95;
in Siam, [96];
in Nepaul, [97];
in Christianity, [104]
Monk, Buddhist, condemned, to monkeyhood, [556]
Monotheism, fate of, [312]
Monteçuma and human sacrifice, [41]
Mormons, the, claim to supernatural gifts, [124], [125]
Moses, a dangerous Child, [229];
address of God to, [515];
the ten commandments of, [549], [550];
commandments of the tables of stone given to, [595], [596];
mercifulness, [239];
divine manifestations to, [602]
Moslems, prayer among the, [51]
Muir, Dr., Sanskrit texts, [425]
Müller, Max, translator of Rig-Veda-Sanhitâ, [425];
account, of the Vedas, [427], [428];
on the supreme god of the Hindus, [662], [663]
Myths, three classes of, about Jesus, [217];
instance of first order, [221], [222], [224];
of the dangerous child, [227];
Perseus's birth, [229];
of Oidipous, [229];
of Christ's baptism, [352];
illustration of the growth of, [234]
Nagardjuna, thaumaturgic powers of, [122]
Nahum, the prophet, and his prophecy, [578]
Nathaniel, [280]-285
Nature, Chinese definition of, [395]
Nausikaa, a Chinese, [409]
Nazareth, Christ's reputed birthplace, [296]
Nazarites, the, [96]
Neander on the Judaism of the early Church, [333], [334]
Newman, Francis W., [640]
Nicodemus, [267], [280], [282], [283], [285]
Nidânas, the twelve, [473]-475
Nirvâna, theory of, [474], [475];
sacrifice of, [478]
Obadiah, prophecy of, [577]
Objects, holy, in Peru, [133];
trees as, [134];
animals as, [134];
serpents as, [134];
images as, [135]
Odes, Chinese, traditional interpretation of, [379]-381
Offerings, religious, in Sierra Leone, [84];
in Tartary, [85]
Oidipous, [229]
Omar, his conversion to Mahometanism, [188]
Omens, divine, [106];
in dreams, [106];
in sneezing, [109]-110;
interpretation of, [111];
from flight of eagles, [111];
from a horse turning back, [111];
from bleating of a sheep, [111];
among the Kafirs and Chinese, [112];
in Ceylon, [112], [113];
in the heavens, [113];
in Tacitus, [113], [114];
in Ireland and Scotland, [114];
at birth of great men, [114], [115]
Ophites, the, their worship, [134]
Ordeals, as a moral test, [119];
in Western Africa, [119];
among the Hebrews, [120];
among the Negroes, [120];
among the Ostiacks, [121]
Orders, holy, in the Church of England, [102], [103];
Buddhist monastic rules, [104]-106
Ormazd. See Ahura-Mazda
Pachacamac, or the universal soul, [658]
Palestine, state of, in days of Christ, [209], [210]
Parker, Theodore, [641]
Parsees, sacrifices among the, [44];
prayers, [50];
festivals of, [53];
baptism among, [61], [62];
burial rites, [78], [80]
Parseeism, rise of, [484];
reformers' hymn, [483];
religious zeal of, [486];
objects of worship, [489];
fire-worship, [490], [491];
confession of faith, [490], [491];
new divinities, [491], [493];
respect for dogs, [499], [500];
later respect for purity, [500], [501];
times of, [507], [508];
eight commandments of, [550], [551]
Passover, the Jewish, [55]
Patets, the Parsees, [506], [507]
Patria Potestas, the, in Judea and Rome, [600], [601]
Paul, his independence and concession to Jewish prejudices, [330], [331];
his views of the Mosaic law, [332], [333];
idea of the coming of Christ, [334], [335];
as a persecutor, [608];
accounts of his conversion, [608]-610;
his consecration, [611];
at Paphos, [611];
in Antioch, [611];
at Lystra, taken for Hermes, [611];
for a god, [611];
parallel in the case of Sir Francis Drake, [612], [613];
stoned, [614];
parts with Barnabas, [614];
chooses Silas, [614];
at Phillippi, [614];
at Athens, [614];
at Corinth, [614];
at Ephesus, [614], [615];
at Troas, [616];
at Jerusalem, [616], [617];
appeal to Cæsar, [616];
in Rome, [617];
his equal apostleship, [621], [622];
his epistles, their style and spirit, [623];
his reasoning powers, [623], [624];
his exclusive regard for essential principles, [623], [624];
denunciation of cohabitation with a stepmother, [626];
against prostitution, [626];
views on matrimony, [628], [629], [630], [632];
rules affecting widows, [629];
preference for celibacy, [630];
allows bishops and deacons to marry, [630];
on divorce, [632];
on the resurrection of the dead, [632]-634;
on brotherly love, [634];
other maxims, [634]
Perseus, myth of his birth, [229]
Persia, power of, [482]
Peru, monasticism in, [91], [92]
Peruvians, festivals of, [55];
baptism among, [58]
Peter, call of, [240];
his denial of Christ, [262];
his confession, [327];
his vision, [328];
and Judaism, [329], [330];
idea of kingdom of heaven, [335], [336];
conduct towards Ananias and Sapphira, [606], [607];
deliverance by an angel, [608];
scandal caused by, [610];
his epistles, [619]
Pharisee, the, and publican, [344]
Pharisees, and Christ, [300], [305];
denounced by Christ, [308], [309]
Phinehas and the Midianitish woman, [597]
Pilate, as governor of Judea, [262], [263];
treatment of Christ, [263], [265];
Christ before, [313]
"Pilgrim's Progress," [635], [636]. See Bunyan
Places, holy, [82], [83];
special haunts
of the divine, [126], [127];
in Africa and South Seas, [127];
in Ceylon, (the Bo-tree), [127];
graves as, [127], [128];
in history, [128];
oracles, [128];
by consecration—the temple, [128], [129];
holy of holies, [130]
Plato, his description of a philosopher in his "Theætetus," [170]
Polynesia, burial rites in, [78]
Positivism, weak point in, [157]
Pourutschista, St., [183], [184]
Power, the Unknown, not a suggestion of sense, [696], or of reason, [696], [697], but of religious sentiment, [697], [698];
idea of, unaccounted for by Realism, common and metaphysical, [698];
moderate and extreme Idealism, [698];
neither one nor many, but all, [699], [700];
sense of, an intuition, [700], [701];
of kin to mind, as in man, [701], [702];
includes consciousness, [702];
includes our nature, [702];
the universal solvent, [703], [704];
fountain of all reservoirs of force, [705];
allows nothing to be a law to itself, [705];
our knowledge of, no riddle, [707];
illustrations, [708]-712;
the denial of, an affirmation, [717];
faith in, the foundation of religious faith, [718];
answer to charge of vagueness, [719], [720];
not a father, not a judge, [720];
harmony of the idea of, with deep religious feeling, [721]
Praise conjoined with prayer, [32]-37;
part of worship, [37], [38];
Christian and heathen compared, [38]
Prajapati, [535]
Prayer, its influence, [32];
its concomitant, praise, [32];
its primitive form and purpose, [33];
specimens of primitive, [33];
of Indians, preparing for war, [33];
of a Huron, [33];
of Kafirs, [34];
of Caribbean Islanders, [34];
of the Samoans, [34];
Polynesian, [34];
Vedic, [35]-37;
Solomon's, [35];
special, [35];
efficacy, [35];
for rain and other physical benefits, [36];
for Thebes, [38];
specimens of, [38]-40;
and sacrifice, [39];
forms of, [50];
Christ's doctrine of, [350];
the Lord's, [356]-358
Pre-Adamites, Buddhist, [460]
Priests, special function of, [99];
in relation to the monastic order,
99, [100];
consecration of, in Greenland, [100];
among the American tribes, [100];
among certain Negroes, [100];
in Mexico, [101];
among the Jews, [101], [102];
in the Christian Church, [102], [103];
sanctity of, [136];
authority of, [136]-138;
grades of, [137];
prophets versus, [138];
privileges of, [138];
primitive, [138];
formation as a separate class, as medical practitioners, [139], [140];
disease-making, [140];
as doctors in Australia, Africa, &c., [141];
as healers among the Negroes, [140], [141];
as mediators for the sick, [142];
irregular, [142];
miscellaneous functions, [142];
in North America as soothsayers, [144];
as fortune-tellers, &c., in Thibet, [145];
claim to inspiration, [145];
Jewish high, claims and powers of, [146];
protected by heaven, [146];
repute of Brahminical, [147];
functions of, [147];
as rain makers, &c., [148];
power and sanctity of, [148], [149];
in Ceylon and Siam, [149];
reward of, [149];
tithes to, [149];
the duty and privilege of offering, [152];
privileges of, [150];
hereditary, [151];
internally called, [152];
a demand for, [152];
infallibility, [153]
Priestesses in Guinea, [148], [149]
Prophet, anonymous, [574];
another, [578];
the anonymous, his rank among the prophets, [583];
his prophecies, [584];
the prophet of consolation, [584], [585]
Prophets of the world, the, [154];
their ultimate authority, [155];
mystically invested with superhuman endowment, [155];
their absolute consciousness, [155], [156];
their conservative spirit, [156];
the Hebrew, civil standing, [554], [555];
Elijah and Elisha, [555];
the most powerful, [570]
Prophecy, Hebrew, originally oral, then written, [570];
constant theme of, [570], [571];
minor topics, [571]
Prosperity, national or royal, Jewish, Chinese, and Thibetan theories of, [558], [559]
Protestantism and asceticism, [98]
Proverbs, the, a criticism, [568]
Psalms, the, their character, [564], [565];
of cursing (cx. and cix.), [565];
Vedic parallels, [565], [566]
Psalmists, the, their praises of Jehovah, [38]
Puberty, rites of, cruel and mysterious, [64], [65];
meaning of the rites, [65], [66];
Catlin's account of the rite among the Mandans, [66], [67];
Schoolcraft's account, [68];
rite in New South Wales, [68]-70;
and in other parts of Australia, [70], [71];
of a Phallic nature in Africa, [71]-73;
in South Seas, [73];
among the Hindus, [72], [73];
among the Parsees, [74];
among Jews and Christians, [74]
Punishment, eternal, doctrine of, [350];
in the Christian system, [638]-640
Purgatory, a merciful suggestion, [640]
Pûrna, the Christianity of, [354];
the legend of, [452]-458
Purusha Sûkta, the, a universal essence, [438], [439]
Rain, prayer for, [35], [36]
Rays of Buddha, [113]
Realism, common, in relation to God, [670], [671];
metaphysical, do., [671], [672];
comparative estimate, [672], [673];
and Idealism, unable to solve the religious problem, [698], [699]
Reality, the one, [701]
Reason, the process of, [696]
Relations, the, of time and space to mind and matter, [691], [692]
Religion, interest and importance of the subject, [19], [20];
fallacious evidences, [20], [21];
method of inquiry, [22], [23];
universality and varied phases, [22], [23];
substance and form, [22];
its root principle, [27];
craving after, [28];
twofold aspect and function, [29];
analysis of treatment of the subject in these volumes, [28]-30;
two distinct questions regarding, [645], [646];
these resolved into three, [646];
essential assumption, [647];
three fundamental postulates, [648];
two kinds of proof, [649];
universal, [649], [650];
meagre among the Australians, [650];
in Kamtschatka, [650];
the permanent in, [668], [669];
question suggested by, as regards God, [669];
conclusion of science, [677], [678];
tendency to limit itself in theology, [679], [680];
historical progress of, [681], [682];
the great truth in, offered to philosophy, [683];
involves a faith in the soul, [684]-694;
final postulate, [695];
conclusion of, neither from sense nor reason, but sentiment, [696];
conclusion of, necessary, [696];
a pervading error and a general truth in, [709];
real difficulty about, [711];
denial of its truth emotional as well as the affirmation, [712];
objections met, [710], [725];
the one universal foundation of, [718]
Religions, founders of new, [154];
their comparison, [645]
Resurrection, of Christ, accounts of the, [269];
the germ of these in Mark, [269], [270];
Matthew's, [269], [270];
Luke's, [270];
John's, [271], [272];
Paul's, [272], [273];
summary of accounts, [272], [273];
psychological explanation of the myth, [275], [277];
of Lazarus, [278], [279]
Reverend, the title of, [149]
Review, general, [643]-645
Rig Veda, the, [426], [427], [429]
Rig-Veda, Sanhitâ, its contents, [430], [435];
its praise of Agni, [431];
of Indra and the Soma, [431]-434;
of the Maruts, [434];
of Ushas, the dawn, [434];
of Varuna, [435], [436];
consciousness of one God, [437], [438];
speculative element, [440];
on the Purusha Sûkta, [438], [439];
personification of abstractions, [439], [440];
general estimate of, [440], [441];
interest to the mythologist, [441];
elementary religious ideas, [442], [443]
Ritual, early, universal development of a fixed, [49], [50];
in prayer, [50];
in worship, [51];
in Mexican and other worships, [51];
Griggories, charms in Sierra Leone, [133]
Rome, Church of, and Paganism, [56]
Rudrayana, legend of his conversion to Buddhism, [458], [459]
Sabaeism, god of, [659]
Sabbath, the Jewish, Christ's treatment of, [309]-302
Sacrament, the Christian, [46], [47]
Sacrifice, idea and origin of, [39], [40], [42], [43], [48];
motive to and duty of, [49], [50];
to the Amatongo, [40];
object of, [41], [44];
in Kamtschatka, [42];
human, [41];
animal, among the Kafirs and in Western Africa, [42];
among the American Indians, [42];
in China, [42];
among the Jews, [42], [46];
the Ibos, [42];
in South Sea Islands, [43];
among the Mexicans, Peruvians, Incas, [43];
among the Hindus, [43];
among the Parsees, [44];
Malachi on, [45];
among the Buddhists, [45];
a requirement of the religious sentiment, [45];
part of, the priests' and worshipers', [46];
among the Tembus, [46];
by libation, [46];
supposed effects on the deity, [47];
theory of, among the Hindus, [47];
idea of, fundamental to Christianity, [48], [49]
Sadducees, the, and Christ, [305], [308]
Saints, worship of, [310], [311]
Sakyamuni. See Buddha
Saleh, the legend of the prophet, [512]-514
Sâma Veda, the, [427], [429]
Sâmaria, the woman of, [281]-284
Samoans, prayer of the, [34];
drink-offerings of, [47]
Samson, the Jewish Hercules, [553]
Samudra, the legend of, [588], [589]
Samuel, government of, [553], [554]
Sanhitâs, the, what? [425], [426]
Satan in the book of Job, [563], [564]
Saturday, holy, in the Catholic Church, [55]
Scala Santa, the, [128]
Sect, Johannine, trace of a, [616]
Self-consecration common to all religions, [88];
its nature, [89];
its elements, [89]
Sennacherib, legend of, [556], [557]
Sermon on the Mount, [350], [351]
Shakers, the, [98]
She King, the, slight religious interest of, [407];
popularity of its songs, [408];
varied themes of these, [407];
the widow's protest, [408];
young lady's request to her lover, [408];
ode of filial piety, [410];
theory of kingly success, [560];
ode similar to one of psalmist David's, [567]
Ship adrift, a parallel, [718], [719]
Shoo, the four, [391]
Shoo King, the, its antiquity, [403];
doctrine of imperial duties and rights, [403], [404];
respect for the
popular mind, [404];
on the house of Hea, [404], [405];
on the house of Yin, [406];
counsels of the Duke of Chow, [406];
of the Duke of Ts'in, [406]
Shun, heaven's choice of, as king, [399], [400], [402], [406]
Simeon, his recognition of the infant Christ, [231]-235
Sin, supposed physical effects of, [36]
Sincerity, a Chinese virtue, [395]
Sneeze, a famous, in Xenophon, [111]
Sneezing, an omen, [110];
exclamations connected with, in Polynesia, Germany, Africa, &c., [110];
as an omen in Germany, [111]
Socrates, and Christ, his superior gift, [364], [366];
a Chinese, [417]
Solomon, prayer of, [35];
dedication of Temple, [83];
an Indian, [554]
Soma, a god as well as a juice, [431]
Son, the, in the Trinity, [682], [683]
Song of Solomon, traditional interpretation of, [379];
dramatic character of, [569], [570];
brief account of, [570]
Sophocles, prayer to Apollo, [39]
Soul, Indian conception of a universal, [445], [446];
Indian idea of the future of the, [446];
the universal, of the Veda, [659], [661];
faith in, involved in every religion, [684];
in Kamtschatka, Tartary, America, [685];
the Kafirs, the Ashantees, [686];
immateriality of, [687];
faith in its immortality not universal, [687], [688]
Space and time as elements, [691]
Spiegel, Dr., translation of the Zend-Avesta, [483]
Spirit, the, in the Trinity, [683]
Spirits, familiar, divination by, [108], [109]
Spiritualism, [724]
Sramana, a, defined, [94]
Srotâpanna, the, [479] (note)
Suddhodana and his queen worthy to produce Buddha, [176]
Sunday, Jewish notions of, [301]
Serpent, worship of the, [133], [134]
Suras, showing how Mahomet was possessed by his idea, [512];
the opening of the Koran, [512];
of the prophet's maturity, [513]
Sûtras, the Buddhistic, the interpretation of, [378];
tediousness, [389];
the simple and developed, [450];
diffuseness and supernatural gear, [472];
the simple, [472]
Sûtra, Prâtimoksha, the, monastic rules of, [94];
its subject, [463];
antiquity, [463];
monastic rules of, [464]-466
Sûtra-Pitaka, the, [467], [468];
stories from, [467], [468];
contents of, [468]
Svetaketu, the ill-educated young Brahman, [446]
Syrophœnicia, woman of, [244], [245]
Swimming, mixed, [460]
Tables of stone, commandments of, [551], [552]
T'ae-k'ang, the Shoo King on, [403]
Ta Hëo, the, its doctrinal character, [293];
the original text, [393], [394];
Tsang's commentary, [394];
its politico-practical character, [394]
Talapoins, the, [148], [149]
Tantras, the, [476]
Tao, description of, [414], [417];
his character, [421]
Taò-tĕ-Kīng, book of the Taò-sse, [413];
European translations, [413];
authenticity of, [414];
meaning of the title, [414];
its principal subjects, [414];
on Tao, [416], [417];
its ideal man, [417], [419];
moral doctrines, [417], [418];
most philosophical of sacred books, [414];
a perplexing study, [414];
its conception of God, [421], [422];
extract in French and German, [423], [424]
Tao-tsé, the sect, [413]
Tartars, drink-offerings among the, [47]
Tathâgata, the, [477]
Temple, rudest form of, known, [83];
Solomon's, its dedication, [83];
usual splendor of such structures, [82];
the Jewish, as a holy place, [129];
Fijian, [129], [130];
in Mexico and Peru, [130], [131]
Testament, the Old, the sum of the literary activity of the Jews, [518];
historical books, [530], [563];
doctrine of creation of the universe, [531], [532];
of animals and man, [535]-538;
account of the deluge, [542], [543];
of Abraham, [545], [546];
of the Jews in Egypt and their deliverance, [548], [549];
of the law, [549];
of the laws of the stone tablets, [552];
of settlement in Palestine, [554];
of the kings, [554], [555];
of the schism, [555];
of the captivity, [563]
Testament, New, its contents, [604]
Theologians, royal, [445]-447
Theology and religion, [681]
Theology, misconception of, [709]
Therapeutæ, the, [95]
Thibet, marriage in, [76];
death rites in, [79]
Thread, investiture with the, among the Hindus, [73], [74]
Tombs, sacred, [127]
Tongues, the gift of, at Pentecost, [605], [606];
Paul's view of, [606], [607]
Tree, the Ruminal, [113]
Trees, holy, [127], [133], [134]
Tribute, Christ on paying, [304]-306
Trinity, Scripture proof of the doctrine, [379];
rationally viewed, [681], [682]
Tripitaka, the, translations of, [449];
its origin, [450];
its divisions and their authorship, [450];
second and third editions called for, [450];
real antiquity, [451];
discoveries connected with, [451];
theology and ethics of, [476]
Tsang, commentary of, [393]
Ts'in on the choice of rulers, [406]
Tsze-Kung, hero-worship of, [168]
Unkulunkulu, the Great-great of the Kafirs, [651], [652]
Upagupta and the courtesan, [469], [470]
Upanishad, the, [444], [445]
Upâsakas, [479], [480]
Ushas, the Indian aurora, [434]
Utikxo, a greater than the Great-great, [653]
Utilitarianism sanctioned by Christ, [360]
Utshaka, his prayer for rain, [35]
Varuna, his power and attributes, [435], [436]
Veda, the, merit of studying, [373];
forced interpretation of, [377], [378];
its inspiration, [429]
Vedas, the, meaning of the term, [425];
subdivisions, literature, and versions, [425], [426];
the Sanhitâ portion, [425];
the Brâhmana, [425];
origin of the four, [427];
arrangement, [427], [428];
antiquity, [427]-429;
four epochs of development, [427];
theories of them, [428], [429];
division into Sruti and Smriti, [429];
the study of, [430]
Vedic hymns, prayer and praise in, [37], [38];
the style of, [39]
Vendidad, the, a legislative code, [497], [502];
on agriculture, [498], [499];
on penalties, [499];
on surgical training, [499]
Vinaya-Pitaka, the date, [451], [452];
specimen legend of Pûrna, [452], [458];
immediate subject of, [460], [461];
monastic rules, [461]-463
Virgin, the term in Scripture, [297]
Vishnu, the unknowable of Spencer, [659], [660]
Visvamitra, his merits and trials as an ascetic, [95], [96];
an Indian Joshua, [553]
Vocabulary, Pentaglot Buddhist, rules, [461], [462]
Voice, the still small, [603]
Volsunga-Saga, [388], [399]
Water, holy, [55];
virtues of, [135]
Wilson, H. H., translation of first five Ashtakas, [425];
on the age of the Vedas, [428]
Wisdom, Indian hymn to, [440];
worship a universal necessity, [31];
its elements, [31];
its grades, [32];
efficacy of, [32];
often selfish, [37];
considered as pleasing to deity, [37];
matter of commerce, [38];
of Zeus and Apollo, [39];
ritual in, [122]
Woo, King, legend of, [557], [558]
Xenophon, encouraged by a sneeze, [111]
Yaçna, the, of seven chapters, antiquity, [488];
theme of, [488]-490;
chapter xi., [490], [491];
the younger, [491], [496];
hymn of, in praise of the good creation, [495]
Yajur-Veda, the, [426], [427], [428]
Yaou, the Emperor, and Shun, [398], [399];
a great man, [400];
a model ruler, [403]
Yashts, the, [582], [583];
nature of, [585]
Yin, the house of, fate of, [405], [406], [559], [560]
Yu, the great, [397]
Zacharias and Elizabeth, story of, [222], [232], [297]
Zarathustra, absence of documents, [182];
fragment of biography, [182];
his daughter a disciple and apostle of his faith, [183];
his disciples, [183];
the opponents of, [183];
without honor in his own country, [184];
rejected and despised, [185];
chief article of his creed, [185];
faith in Ahura-Mazda as the one god, [185];
high descent of, [221];
his temptation, [238];
interrogates Ahura-Mazda, [479]-502;
the favors he asks from Homa, [506]
Zayd, a forerunner of Mahomet, [195]
Zealand, a preternatural birth in, [223], [224]
Zechariah, prophecies of, [229]
Zend-Avesta, the interpretation of, [378], [379];
style, [389];
translation of, [483];
chronology of, [483];
ethics of, [509];
theology, [509]
Zephaniah, the prophecy of, [578], [579]
Zeus, worship of, [38], [39]
Zoroaster. See Zarathustra

FOOTNOTES:

[1] This prayer, which is too long to quote, may be found in Aglio, A. M., v. 372, and in Sahagun, C. N. E., book vi. chap. 8. According to Sahagun, it contains "muy delicada materia."

[2] Lewis, The Bible, &c., p. 496. For a full account of the ceremonies on Holy Saturday at Rome, see A. M. Baggs, D. D., The Ceremonies of Holy Week, p. 96.

[3] A. M., vol. v. p. 90 (Spanish), and vol. vi. p. 45 (English).