1894.] 



69 



[Brintou. 



ance, of spiritual rappings,do but reiterate under the clear light 

 of the close of the nineteenth century the n\ystical thaumatiirgy 

 with which these children of nature were familiar centuries ago 

 in the New World, and which are recorded of the theosophists 

 and magicians of Egypt, Greece and Rome.* So long as many 

 intelligent and sensible people among ourselves find all explana- 

 tions of these modern phenomena inadequate and unsatisfactory^, 

 we may patiently wait for a complete solution of those of a 

 greater antiquity. 



42. The conclusion to which this study of Nagualism leads 

 is, that it was not merely the belief in a personal guardian spirit, 

 as some have asserted ; not merely a survival of fragments of 

 the ancient heathenism, more or less diluted by Christian teach- 

 ings, as others have maintained ; but that above and beyond 

 these, it was a powerful secret organization, extending over a 

 wide area, including members of different languages and varying 

 culture, bound together b}^ mystic rites, by necromantic powers 

 and occult doctrines ; but, more than all, b^' one intense emo- 

 tion — hatred of the whites— and by one unalterable purpose — 

 that of their destruction, and with them the annihilation of the 

 government and religion which they had introduced. 



Index. 



Kative words explained, in Italics; names of Authors quoted, in small capitals. 



Fage. 



Achiutla 48 



AcosTA, J 17, 42 



A GUiLAU. p. S 40 



Ahnu 43 



Ah Kill 34, 59 



Ah-toc 53 



Aissaousi, the 68 



Alaghom Naom, a goddess 64 



Page. 



Alom, deity 58 



Alva, B. de 16, 54, 55 



Anahuac 66 



Ancona, E 38. 39 



Andagoya, p. de 41 



Andree. R 67 



Antichrist, appealed to . 36 



Apehualco 52 



* In the Notice Prdiminaire to the second part of his work, La Magie et V AMrologie dans 

 r Antiquitc et au Moyen Age, Mr. Alfred Maury admirably sums up the scientific resources 

 at our command for explaining the mystical phenomena of experience, without deny- 

 ing their reality as actual occurrences. 



