dual and bisexual. The male part of it is purely divine and spiritual; it is the Wisdom; while the female portion (the spiritus of the Nazarenes) is tainted, in one sense, with matter, and therefore is evil already. It is the life-principle of every living creature, and furnishes the astral soul, the fluidic perisprit to men, animals, fowls of the air, and everything living. Animals have only the germ of the highest immortal soul as a third principle. It will develop but through a series of countless evolutions; the doctrine of which evolution is contained in the kabalistic axiom: "A stone becomes a plant; a plant a beast; a beast a man; a man a spirit; and the spirit a god."

301:****Sod means a religious Mystery. Cicero mentions thesod, as constituting a portion of the Idean Mysteries. "The members of the Priest-Colleges were called Sodales,"says Dunlap, quoting Freund's "Latin Lexicon," iv. 448.

302:* The author of the "Sohar," the great kabalistic work of the first century B.C.

322:* From the Latin word mensa--table. This curious letter is copied in full in "La Science des Esprits," by Eliphas Levi.

325:* The Sulanuth is described in chap. lxxx., vers. 19, 20, of "Jasher."

325:** "And when the Egyptians hid themselves on account of the swarm" (one of the plagues alleged to have been brought on by Moses) ". . . they locked their doors after them, and God ordered the Sulanuth . . ." (a sea-monster, naively explains the translator, in a foot-note) "which was then in the sea, to come up