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Index

Please note: the terms are indexed where they are first cited in the work; subsequent citations (in most cases) are not listed.  Spelling in some case is idiosyncratic to Spengler and German of 1918; this is especially true of Chinese names.

A

Aglaure, 406

Albert of Saxony, 381

Alcibiades, 411

Alexander, 405

Alexandrianism, 424

Anaxagoras, 386, 392, 394, 411

Archimedes, 380, 386, 414, 415, 425

Aristotle, 386, 389, 390, 392, 409,411, 424

Arthur, 400

Athens, 386

Augustine, 402

Aurelian, 406

Avalon, 401

Avesta, 393

Avicenna, 381

 

B

Baal, 401, of Palmyra, of Carthage, 406

Bach, 395

Bacon, 381, 392

Baldur, 401

Baroque, 424

Beethoven, 409

Berkeley, 416

Bernard, 400

Bogomils, 383

Bohr Niels, 385, atomic structure, 419

Boscovich, 415

Boyle, 384

Brothers of Sincerity, 381

Bruno, 417

Buddhism, 409

Buridan, 381

 

C

Cabeo, 414, 415

Calvin, 394

Caracalla, 407

Carneades, 393

Cauchy, 418

Columbus, 380

Constantine, 405

Copernicus, 380

 

D

D'Alembert, 412

Dalton, 385

Dante, 394

Della Porta, 395

Democritus, 385, 386,389, 392, 393, 394

Descartes, 387, 413

Diagoras, 411

Dietrich, 400

Diocletian, 405, 406

Diophantus, 383

Doliche, 407

Doric age, 408

 

E

Eddas, 400

Edessa, 381

Egyptians, 399

Eleatics, 388, 390

Eleusinian mysteries, 410

Empedocles, 383, 384, 386

Eratosthenes, 425

Erechtheum, 406

Eschenbach, Wolfram, von 397

 

F

Faraday, 378, 416

Frau Holle, 401

Fresnel, 418

Frigga, 401

 

G

Galen, 425

Galileo, 386, 390, 396, 412, 415

Gauss, 418, 424

Gethsemane, 402

Giotto, 395

Gnostics, 401

Goethe, 389, 394, 411, 412, 413, 417, 422, 423

Golgotha, 402

Gospel, 393

Gothic, 380, age, 408

Grail Templers, 401

Gudrun, 400

 

H

Haydn, 409

Hel, 400

Heliland, 401

Helios, 402

Helmholtz, 377, 386, 424

Heraclitus, 409

Hermae, Propyleaus, 406, 410

Hermes Trismegistus, 383,

Hertz, 378, 391, 414, 416, 418, 419

Horselberg, 403

Humbolt, 424

 

I

Ibn-al-Haitan, 381

Il Gesu, 395

Ionic, 424

Isis, 401, of Alexandrian, 406

 

J

Jansenist, 394

Jews, 399

Julius Caesar, 407

Jupiter, Capitolinus, Dolichenus, Feretrius, 406

 

K

Kant, 379, 388, 393, 413

Kelvin (Lord), 418

Kepler, 415

Kirchhoff, 388

Kyffhauser, 403

 

L

Laplace, 413

Latium, 397

Lavoisier, 384, 426

Leibnitz, 385, 386, 394, 413, 415, 416

Leonardo, 414

Lessing, 411

Leucippus , 385, 386

Licinius, 407

Livy, 405

Lochner, 395

Lorentz 419

Loyola, 394, 395, 412

Luther, 394, 395

Lysander, 405

Lysippus, 425

 

M

Maderna, 395

Manichean, 401

Mantegna, 414

Maulbronn, 396

Maxwell, 418, 419

Mayer, 378, 393, 412, 417

Meister Eckart, 409

Michelangelo, 395, 415

Michelozzo, 415

Michelson, 419

Mill, 416

Minkowski 419

Mithras, 401, 406

Monophysite, 383

Muspilli, 400, 423

 

N

Nestorian, 383

Newton, 390, 391, 393, 396, 412, 413, 415, 416, 417, 418

Nietzsche, 386, 409

Niflheim, 403

Occamists, 381, 389

Odilia, 400

Olympian, 423

Oresme, 381

 

P

Palestrina, 395

Palladio, 414

Palmyra, 407

Paracelsus, 384

Parmenides, 387

Pascal, 394

Pessinus, 405

Petra, 407

Planck, 385, 419

Plato, 394

Pliny, 425

Plotinus, 383, 393

Pombaditha, 381

Porphyry, 381

Posidonius, 425

Protagoras, 392, 411

Ptolemy, 425

Pythagoras, 394

 

Q

Quantum theory419

Quesney, 417

 

R

Ragnarok, 400, 423

Raphael, 415

Relativity theory, 419

Resaina, 381

Riemann, 418

Riemer, 412

Roland, 400

Roma, 405

Romanesque, 380, 408

Rousseau, 409

Rubens, 414

Rutherford , 385, 419

 

S

Saint Francis of Assisi, 395, 400

Saint Gallen, 396

Saint Roch, 400

Saint Sebald, 400

Schutz, 395

Selene, 402

Serapis, 406

Shakespeare, 395

Siegfried, 400

Signorelli, 414

Sistine Chapel, 395

Smith, Adam 417

Socialism, 409

Socialist theory, 417

Socrates, 409

Sol Invictus, 406

Sophist, 410

Sophocles, 386, 405

Spinoza, 382, 413, 414

Stahl, 384

Stoic, 411

Stoicism, 409

 

T

Talmud, 393

Terentius Varro, 394

Thales, 381

Thomas Aquinas, 394

Tiberius, 411

Turgot, 417

 

U

Urbs, 405

 

V

Valhalla, 400

Valkyries, 403

Varro, page 402

Vignola, 412, 415

Vikings, 380

Voluspa, 423

 

W

Wagner, 425

Wayland, 400

 

Y

Yahweh, 402

Yggdrasil, 396

 

Z

Zoroaster, 402

Decline of the West, Chapter XI:  Faustian & Apollonian Nature-Knowledge 
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