INDEX A. E. (George Russell), 45, 152,195,275 Adwaita, 139 Aesop, 97 Africa, 56, 101 Agastya, 281 Agni, 9, 247 Ajanta, 136, 179 Akbar, 93, 394 Alexander, 208, 394 Allies, the, 75, 88, 89 America, 56, 72, 81, 87, 89, 91, 103-4, 111, 119, 209 Amitabha, 273 Anarchism, 112 Anaxagoras, 326 Angst, 377 Anselm, 150 Apollo, 177,220 Aquinas, Thomas, 150 Aristotle, 128, 182,219,322 Arjuna, 60, 188-9,384-5, 391 Arminius, 88 Arnold, Matthew, 68, 192, 240, 272 Artemis, 195 Asia, 16, 48, 70, 101, 148, 152-3, 240, 245 Asoka,93,195 Asura, 18

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