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Preaching of Peter +

The bibliography refers the reader to pp. 221-222 of BCW volume 8 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#472|8:472]][[SMW::on]]). +

Preamble and By-Laws of The Theosophical Society +

*Pamphlet dated October 30, 1875, and printed in New York. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#523|1:523]][[SMW::on]]). +

Prel, Carl du +

Author of ''Die Planetenbewohner und die Nebularhypothese'' (Leipzig, 1880), a study of the development of the universe. De Zirkoff also lists ''Das Janus-Gesicht des Menschen'' and ''Die Weltstellung des Menschen'', which he could not trace. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#444|6:444]][[SMW::on]]). His Philosophy of Mysticism appeared in Leipzig in 1884; C. C. Massey's English translation was published in two volumes in London in 1889 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#426|10:426]][[SMW::on]]). [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] annotated a review of his Die Weltstellung des Menschen and Das Janus-Gesicht des Menschen, discussing the dependence of perception on the constitution of the perceiver. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Miscellaneous Notes (30)#155|BCW 6:155-156]]) +

Preller L. - Griechische Mythologie +

A two-volume work by [[Preller, Ludwig|L. Preller]] (Leipzig, 1854). The passage identifying Phaethon with Phosphoros, cited by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] through P. Decharme, is in the second edition of 1860–1861, volume II, p. 335. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The History of a Planet#16|BCW 8:16-17]]) +

Preller, Ludwig +

German scholar of mythology and antiquities who studied philology at Leipzig and Berlin (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#472|8:472]][[SMW::on]]). +

Prescott, William Hickling +

The bibliography lists his History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#540|2:540]][[SMW::on]]). +

Press, The +

The paper was founded by John Weiss Forney. Charles Emory Smith was editor and owned a stake in the paper from 1880 until his death in 1908. In 1920, it was purchased by Cyrus H. K. Curtis, who merged the Press into the Public Ledger. [[Category: CTD info from Wikipedia]] (WP) +

Pretas +

“Hungry demons in popular folk‐lore. “ Shells”, of the avaricious and selfish man after death; “ Elementaries” reborn as Prêtas, in Kâma‐loka, according to the esoteric teachings; [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pre‐existence +

The term used to denote that we have lived before. The same as reincarnation in the past. The idea is derided by some, rejected by others, called absurd and inconsistent by the third yet it is the oldest and the most universally accepted belief from an immemorial antiquity. And if this belief was universally accepted by the most subtle philosophical minds of the pre‐Christian world, surely it is not amiss that some of our modern intellectual men should also believe in it, or at least give the doctrine the benefit of the doubt. Even the Bible hints at it more than once, St. John the Baptist being regarded as the reincarnation of Elijah, and the Disciples asking whether the blind man ''was born blind because of his'' ''sins,'' which is equal to saying that he had ''lived and sinned before '' ''being born blind.'' As Mr. Bonwick well says: it was “the work of spiritual progression and soul discipline. The pampered sensualist returned a beggar; the proud oppressor, a slave ; the selfish woman of fashion, a seamstress. A turn of the wheel gave a chance for the development of neglected or abused intelligence and feeling, hence the popularity of reincarnation in all climes and times. . . . thus the expurgation of evil was . . . gradually but certainly accomplished.” Verily “an evil act follows a man, passing through one hundred thousand transmigrations” (''Panchatantra''). “All souls have a subtle vehicle, image of the body, which carries the passive soul from one material dwelling to another” says Kapila; while Basnage explains of the Jews: “By this second death is not considered hell, but that which happens when a soul has a second time animated a body”. Herodotus tells his readers, that the Egyptians “are the earliest who have spoken of this doctrine, according to which the soul of man is immortal, and after the destruction of the body, ''enters into a newly born being''. When, say they, it has passed through all the animals of the earth and sea, and all the birds, it will re‐enter the body of a new born man.” This is'' '' ''Pre‐existence''. Deveria showed that the funeral books of the Egyptians say plainly “that'' resurrection'' was, in reality, but a renovation, leading to a new infancy, and a new youth. (See [[Reincarnation]].) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG).

Pribitkov, Victor +

Editor of Rebus who was sympathetic to [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] and published her contributions; recipient of her letter published in no. 37 of the journal in 1885. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - From a Letter to the Editor of Rebus#73|BCW 6:73]], [[Zirkoff B. - Letter from H.P. Blavatsky to the Editor of Rebus#406|BCW 6:406-407]]) +

Prichard, James Cowles +

English physician and ethnologist (1786-1848), an advocate of the common origin of humanity. Studied Celtic languages and their Indo-European affinities; his principal works include ''The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations'' and ''Researches into the Physical History of Mankind''. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#379|5:379]][[SMW::on]]). +

Prideaux, Humphrey +

English churchman and Oriental scholar (1648-1724), Hebrew lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford, and Dean of Norwich. His principal work was ''The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews'' (1716). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#518|3:518]][[SMW::on]]). +

Priestesses +

Every ancient religion had its priestesses in the temples. In Egypt they were called the '''Sâ''' and served the altar of Isis and in the temples of other goddesses. ''Canephorœ'' was the name given by the Greeks to those consecrated priestesses who bore the baskets of the gods during the public festivals of the Eleusinian Mysteries. There were female prophets in Israel as in Egypt, diviners of dreams and oracles; and Herodotus mentions the ''Hierodules'', the virgins or nuns dedicated to the Theban Jove, who were generally the Pharaohs’ daughters and other Princesses of the Royal House. Orientalists speak of the wife of Cephrenes, the builder of the so‐called second Pyramid, who was a priestess of Thoth. (See [[Nuns]].) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Primordial Light +

In Occultism, the light which is born in, and through the preternatural darkness of chaos, which contains “the all in all”, the seven rays that become later the seven Principles in Nature. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Principles +

The Elements or original essences, the basic differentiations upon and of which all things are built up. We use the term to denote the seven individual and fundamental aspects of the One Universal Reality in Kosmos and in man. Hence also the seven aspects in the anifestation in the human being — divine, spiritual, psychic, astral, physiological and simply physical. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Principles of Zoology +

[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] checked the passage quoted by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] against the revised edition of 1851, p. 237, suggesting that her reference to pp. 205–206 may refer to the first Boston edition, Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1848. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (1)#267|BCW 5:267]]) Textbook by L. Agassiz and A. A. Gould; its first part concerns comparative physiology. ([https://field.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/1795 Biodiversity Heritage Library: авторы и издание 1848 года]; [https://darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pdf/1848_AgassizPrinciples_CUL-DAR.LIB.8.pdf Оригинал 1848 года: Darwin Online]) +

Principles of the Jesuits +

Principles of the Jesuits, London, 1860 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#447|9:447]][[SMW::on]]). +

Priyavrata +

The name of the son of Swâyambhûva Manu in exoteric Hinduism. The occult designation of one of the primeval races in Occultism. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London +

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Zirkoff’s bibliography lists volumes 1-75 with the dates 1800-1905. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#386|5:386]][[SMW::on]]). +

Proceedings of the Second Annual Convention of the Theosophical Society, American Section (1888) +

Proceedings of the second annual convention of the American Section of the Theosophical Society, held in Chicago on 22-23 April 1888 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#449|9:449]][[SMW::on]]). First publication of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s letter to the Second Annual Convention of the American Section of the Theosophical Society. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Letter from H. P. Blavatsky to the Second American Convention#241|BCW 9:241]]) +