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Parker T. - Autobiography Poems and Prayers +

This Boston collection edited by R. Leighton contains the poem used by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] as an epigraph. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] gives no publication date. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Last Song of the Swan#104|BCW 12:104]]) +

Parkhurst, John +

Bibliographical references include: An Hebrew and English Lexicon, without points, etc. With an Hebrew and Chaldean Grammar. 1st ed. 1762; 2nd ed. 1778; 4th enl. ed. London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1799; 5th ed. 1807; 7th ed. 1813 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#471|8:471]][[SMW::on]]). +

Paroksha +

Intellectual apprehension of a truth. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Paropamisus +

An ancient name for a mountainous region between the Kohistan mountains in the west and the Himalayas; [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] relates it to the Hindu Kush and the ancient designation Caucasus Indicus. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (1)#273|BCW 5:273]]) +

Parsees +

Written also Parsis. The followers of Zoroaster. This is the name given to the remnant of the once‐ powerful Iranian nation, which remained true to the religion ‘of its forefathers — the fire‐worship. This remnant now dwells in India, some 50,000 strong, mostly in Bombay and Guzerat. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Parsons, George Frederic +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol4|vol. 4]] (1882–1883). +

Pasa +

The crucifixion noose of Siva, the noose held in his right hand in some of his representations. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pascal, Blaise +

De Zirkoff lists ''Pensées'', first published in Paris in 1670 and subsequently reissued many times. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#443|6:443]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Provinciales (Provincial Letters), Paris, 1656; many translations (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#447|9:447]][[SMW::on]]). +

Paschalis, Martinez +

A very learned man, a mystic and occultist. Born about 1700, in Portugal. He travelled extensively, acquiring knowledge wherever he could in the East, in Turkey, Palestine, Arabia, and Central Asia. He was a great Kabbalist. He was the teacher of the Initiator of the Marquis de St. Martin, who founded the mystical Martinistic School and Lodges. Paschalis is reported to have died in St. Domingo about 1779, leaving several excellent works behind him. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pashkov, Countess Lydia Alexandrovna de +

Russian woman-writer and traveller of the middle 19th century, ''née'' Glinsky. Travelled extensively in Egypt, Palestine and Syria, and was at one time correspondent of the Paris ''Figaro''. Met H.P.B. and her caravan while travelling between Baalbek and the river Orontes, probably around 1872; they camped together near Deir Mar Maroon, and various curious phenomena took place at the command of H.P.B. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#521|1:521-522]][[SMW::on]]). +

Pasht +

The cat‐headed goddess, the Moon, called also Sekhet. Her statues and representations are seen in great numbers at the British Museum. She is the wife or female aspect of Ptah (the son of Kneph), the creative principle, or the Egyptian Demiurgus. She is also called ''Beset'' or ''Bubastis,'' being then both the re‐uniting and the separating principle. Her motto is: “punish the guilty and remove defilement”, and one of her emblems is the cat. According to Viscount Rouge, her worship is extremely ancient (B.c. 3000), and she is the mother of the Asiatic race, the race that settled in Northern Egypt. As such she is called Ouato. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pashut +

“Literal interpretation.” One of the four modes of interpreting the Bible used by the Jews. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pashyanti +

The second of the four degrees (Parâ, Pashyantî, Madhyamâ and Vaikharî), in which sound is divided according to its differentiation. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pass not, The Ring +

The circle within which are confined all those who still labour under the delusion of separateness. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Passing of the River +

This phrase may be met with in works referring to mediæval magic: it is the name given to a cypher alphabet used by Kabbalistic Rabbis at an early date ; the river alluded to is the Chebar — the name will also be found in Latin authors as Literæ Transitus. [w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pastophori +

A certain class of candidates for initiation, those who bore in public processions (and also in the temples) the sacred coffin or funeral couch of the Sun‐gods — killed and resurrected, of Osiris, Tammuz (or Adonis), of Atys and others. The Christians adopted their coffin from the pagans of antiquity. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Patala +

The nether world, the antipodes; hence in popular superstition the infernal regions, and philosophically the two Americas, which are antipodal to India. Also, the South Pole as standing opposite to Meru, the North Pole. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pataliputra +

The ancient capital of Magadha, a kingdom of Eastern India, now identified with Patna. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Patanjala +

The Yoga philosophy; one of the six ''Darshanas'' or Schools of India. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Patanjali +

The founder of the Yoga philosophy. The date assigned to him by the Orientalists is 200 B.C.; and by the Occultists nearer to 700 than 600 B.C. At any rate he was a contemporary of Pânini. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). The bibliography surveys editions and translations of the Yoga Sutras, including those associated with Tookaram Tatya (1882 and 1885), William Q. Judge and James H. Connelly (1889), Manilal N. Dvivedi (1890), and James H. Woods (1914). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#539|2:539]][[SMW::on]]). De Zirkoff lists the ''Yoga Sutra'' under his name and refers to ''Collected Writings'', volume V, pages 368-369. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#517|3:517]][[SMW::on]]). +