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Padma Asana +

A posture prescribed to and practised by some Yogis for developing concentration. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Padma Kalpa +

The name of the last Kalpa or the preceding Manvantara, which was a year of Brahmâ. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Padma Purana +

Four-volume edition by Visvanatha Narayana Mandalika, published at Poona by the Anandasrama Press in 1893-1894; de Zirkoff lists no translation. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#426|6:426]][[SMW::on]]). +

Padma Yoni +

A title of Brahmâ (also called ''Abjayoni''), or the “lotus‐born”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Padshah, Sorabji Jamaspji +

A Parsi writer and editor of the ''Indian Spectator''. An early member of the Theosophical Society in Bombay, he served as assistant recording secretary and shared responsibility for its library. He contributed poetry and articles to ''The Theosophist''; his younger brother was Burjorji J. Padshah. Helped revise the rules of the Prayag Theosophical Society in November 1881 and met [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] at Bareilly before the formation of the Rohilkhand branch. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.3)|BCW 3:xxvi]]) +

Paean +

A hymn of rejoicing and praise in honour of the sun‐god Apollo or Helios. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pagan +

Meaning at first no worse than a dweller in the country or the woods; one far removed from the city‐ temples, and therefore unacquainted with the state religion and ceremonies. The word “heathen” has a similar significance, meaning one who lives on the heaths and in the country. Now, however, both come to mean ''idolaters.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pagan Gods +

The term is erroneously understood to mean idols. The philosophical idea attached to them was never that of something objective or anthropomorphic, but in each case an abstract potency, a virtue, or quality in nature. There are gods who are divine planetary spirits (Dhyan Chohans) or Devas, among which are also our Egos. With this exception, and especially whenever represented by an idol or in anthropomorphic form, the gods represent symbolically in the Hindu, Egyptian, or Chaldean Pantheons — formless spiritual Potencies of the “Unseen Kosmos”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Page, Elliott B. +

American Theosophist, president of the American Board of Control of the Theosophical Society in 1884. +

Pahans +

Village priests. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Paine, Thomas +

The bibliography lists The Age of Reason (1794-1795). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#539|2:539]][[SMW::on]]). +

Paja +

An offering; worship and divine honours offered to an idol or something sacred. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Paksham +

An astronomical calculation; one half of the lunar month or 14 days; two ''paksham'' (or ''paccham'') making a month of mortals, but only a day of the ''Pitar '' ''devata'' or the “father‐gods”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Paladin, Andrew +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol1|vol. 1]] (1879–1880). +

Palaeolithic +

A newly‐coined term meaning in geology “ancient stone” age, as a contrast to the term ''neolithic,'' the “newer” or later stone age. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Palasa Tree +

Called also Kanaka (''butea frondosa'') a tree with red flowers of very occult properties. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Paley, William +

English churchman (1743-1805), lecturer at Cambridge and archdeacon of Carlisle. His works include ''Horae Paulinae'' (1790) and the influential apologetic compilation ''A View of the Evidences of Christianity'' (1794). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#517|3:517]][[SMW::on]]). The bibliography cites ''A View of the Evidences of Christianity'' (1794). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#662|4:662]][[SMW::on]]). +

Pali +

The ancient language of Magadha, one that preceded the more refined Sanskrit. The Buddhist Scriptures are all written in this language. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pali Text Society Publications +

Publications of the Pali Text Society, issued in London from 1882 in text and translation series; abbreviated PTS. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#362|5:362]][[SMW::on]]). London publications of the Pali Text Society, begun in 1882 and divided into text and translation series. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#424|6:424]][[SMW::on]]). +

Palingenesis +

Transformation; or new birth. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +