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INDEX
All page numbers are refer to the print edition of this title.
Abraham (biblical figure), 62, 172,
180, 258, 269, 284–85
Adam (biblical figure), 30, 108n,
109n, 195, 201, 231–32, 341
Adams, Mark, 299
alchemy, 310–12, 310n, 313–14
“astronomical theology,” 316–17
Boyle, 308, 309, 315, 319–20, 321–23
Cooper, 305–7, 309
currencies, 273n, 307–8, 308n
decomposition, 303–4, 313
Emerald Tablet, 313, 412–13
Hartlib, 309
as legal/illegal, 307–10
Locke, 309, 321–23
as love/worship of God, 319
Needham, 311, 314, 320–21
the Net, 315–17, 316n
Newman, 315, 316, 317–18, 323–24
Newton, 273n, 307–10, 312–13,
314–15, 316–19, 321–24, 363, 373
papacy, 308
Philosophers’ (Angels’) Stone,
273n, 308, 312, 315, 317, 319,
322, 326, 327
Principe, 315–16, 317, 322
Principia (Newton), 319
prisca sapientia, 316–17
as secret of life, 307, 317–18, 324
Starkey, 318–19
vegetative spirit, 304–5, 307,
324
Alexander of Alexandria, 69, 70–71,
88, 89, 92, 93
Alexander of Constantinople, 69, 79,
81, 83, 88, 89–90
Alexander the Great, 40, 68, 90, 92,
93, 212, 252–53
Alsted, Johann Heinrich, 178
Amichai, Yehuda, 172
Amihay, Aryeh, 208, 209
Anaxagoras of Clazomene, 337–41,
341n
Anthony (saint)
and Athanasius, 69–70, 119, 121,
123–25, 126, 127, 129
death of, 305
Flaubert on, 120–21
idolatry/religious relics, 119, 124,
126–27
literacy, 127–28
Newton on, 70, 120, 121–28
supernatural experiences, 122,
124–25, 126
Antichrist, 22, 23, 28, 128, 154, 161,
176, 183
Antigonus Gonatas, 278–80, 281
Antiochus IV Epiphanes, 40–41,
187
anti-Trinitarianism, 47–48
Arius, 22, 60–61, 69, 71, 75, 78, 79,
83, 88, 89
corruptions of Scripture, 46,
48–49, 55–56
Jews, 64, 182
and love/worship of God, 387–88
Snobelen, 48, 58
Apion, Peter, 243
Apocalypse, 21, 22, 23, 29, 134–35,
136, 137–38, 144–48, 154–55,
175, 177, 224, 385–87
Apocalypse in 2060, 15–16, 148, 162,
166, 167, 168–70, 169
Aratus, 278, 279, 280–84, 282n
Archimedes, 280, 333, 360, 363, 377,
378–80
Arianism
Anthanius, 82, 84–85
Constantius, 82, 114–15
Melitius, 88
Newton, 10, 60, 225, 227, 236,
308
Whiston, 236
Aristarchus of Samos, 330, 331–36,
335n, 360
Aristotle, 8, 220, 302, 338, 339,
347–48, 353, 360
Arius, 60
anti-Trinitarianism, 22, 60–61, 69,
71, 75, 78, 79, 83, 88
Council of Nicaea, 74–75, 77,
80–81, 89
death in boghouse as mythical, 77,
79–81, 83, 113, 114, 119
excommunication/admittance back
into church, 75, 78–79, 98, 109
Ark of the Covenant, 34, 172–73,
176
Armageddon, 154, 162–63, 169, 171,
175, 176
Arsenius, 85, 95, 101–4, 105, 111–12,
113–14, 119
Aspasia, 339, 340, 341, 342
astronomy
Anaxagoras, 337–38
Aristarchus, 330
“astronomical theology,” 204,
316–17, 388
celestial bodies, 229–30, 338, 348,
349–50, 354
central fire, 344, 347–49
constellations, 272–73, 278, 279,
283–84, 285–87, 326–27
day-equals-year formula, 185
earthquakes, 249, 276
equinoxes, 276–78
Flamsteed, 220
Greenwich Observatory, 220–21
historical records, 275–76, 278
music/music of the spheres, 353–54
orbital velocities, 193, 241, 332, 354
prophetic hieroglyphs, 317
star globe, 272, 274, 276, 278, 280,
283–84, 285, 286–87
Athanasius, 70, 92–93
and Anthony (saint), 69–70, 119,
121, 123–25, 126, 127, 129
as Antichrist, 22
as Archbishop of Alexandria, 71,
92–95, 97–106, 109–10, 115–17
and Arius’s mythical death, 81, 83
and Arsenius’s death, 85, 95, 102,
103–4, 105, 111–12, 113–14, 119
and Constantius, 115–17
corruptions of Scripture, 50, 69
Council at Alexandria, 93, 112–13
Council of Nicaea, 70–71, 74–75,
88, 89, 116
Council of Tyre, 97–106, 109–10,
113, 119
exile of, 81–83, 111, 114, 118, 123–24
forged letters by, 93, 105–6,
111–12, 113–14, 119
Great Apostasy, 85, 138–39, 151, 156
idolatry/religious relics, 85, 119,
124, 126–27
lies, 127, 128, 129
Melitians versus, 95–96
monasticism, 122
severed hand myth, 85, 101–2, 104,
111, 114
supernatural experiences, 122,
124–25
Trinitarianism, 22, 55, 60–61, 63,
65, 69, 70–71, 75, 83, 94, 117–18,
138, 156
Whore of Babylon, 129
Atlantis
Aristotle, 302
Chronology (Newton), 289, 293,
294, 295–96, 300–302
chronology, global, 293
Egerton Sykes Collection, 289–90
flood, Ogygian, 289, 294–95
Luce on, 293–94
Maltese archipelago, 289, 296–99,
302
Ogygia/Gozo island, 289, 294–95,
296, 297, 298, 299–300
Plato, 290, 292, 293, 294, 295–96,
298, 299, 302
Solon, 290, 291–92, 293–94, 302
atomic bomb, 384–85
Augustine, 127
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 136, 381
Bacon, Francis, 375–76, 377
Bacon, Roger, 305, 318, 327
Barrow, Isaac, 8, 9, 303
Basil of Caesarea, 95
Bedford, Arthur, 178
Belisarius, Flavius, 158
Bentley, Richard, 29, 49, 321
Bible code, 18, 23–26, 153
Blake, William, 223, 232, 331, 344
Bondi, Hermann, 2
Book of Daniel, 38
day-equals-year formula, 42, 167,
186–87, 188, 190
divine plan, 35–36, 41
Great Apostasy, 163–64, 166, 186,
187
Judgment Day, 179
prophetic hieroglyphs, 33–37, 144,
163–64
return of the Jews, 171, 184, 189,
190, 191
studies of, 28–36, 38–41
synchronistical necessity, 38, 41–42
visions in, 39–40, 375
Book of Revelation, 18–19, 20,
21–22, 23, 129
Apocalypse, 21, 22, 29, 134–35,
136, 137–38, 144–47, 148,
169–70
channeled texts, 62, 136–38, 143,
146, 148, 149, 155, 160
Christianity and Constantine, 76
corruptions of Scripture, 140
day-equals-year formula, 42,
168–69, 184
divine plan, 32, 35–36, 37, 387
earthquakes, 22, 149, 150
flood of fire/diluvium ignis, 155,
158–59
future history, 42–43, 140–41,
143, 149–50, 156, 159–60,
169–71
Great Apostasy, 139, 139n, 143,
148, 161, 162–63, 164, 387
Judgment Day, 152–53
proof of existence of God, 26, 43
prophetic hieroglyphs, 33–37,
143–44, 146, 148, 149–50,
155–61
return of the Jews, 162–63
scholarship, 28–38, 29, 42–43,
139n
surrealist images in, 20–21, 33, 147
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