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Psychological Review, The +

A British occult-spiritualist journal. Founded in April 1878 in London by William White — biographer of Emanuel Swedenborg and an adherent of New Church ideas; it was published first quarterly, then monthly. J.S. Farmer later became co-editor. From 1881 the journal was simultaneously issued in several cities — London, Chicago, and Melbourne (and earlier also Glasgow). It ceased publication in February 1883. London periodical listed by Zirkoff in six volumes, published in 1878-83. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#386|5:386]][[SMW::on]]). +

Psychology +

The Science of Soul, in days of old: a Science which served as the unavoidable basis for physiology. Whereas in our modern day, it is psychology that is being based (by our ''great'' scientists) upon physiology. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Psychometry +

Lit., “Soul‐measuring”; reading or seeing, not with the physical eyes, but with the soul or inner Sight. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Psychophobia +

Lit., “Soul‐fear,” applied to materialists and certain atheists, who become struck with madness at the very mention of Soul or Spirit. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Psylli +

Serpent‐charmers of Africa and Egypt. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Ptah +

The son of Kneph in the Egyptian Pantheon. He is the Principle of Light and Life through which “creation” or rather evolution took place. The Egyptian logos and creator, the Demiurgos. A very old deity, as, according to Herodotus, he had a temple erected to him by Menes, the first king of Egypt. He is “giver of life” and the self‐born, and the father of Apis, the sacred bull, conceived through a ray from the Sun. Ptah is thus the prototype of Osiris, a later deity. Herodotus makes him the father of the Kabiri, the mystery‐gods; and the ''Targum of Jerusalem ''says: “Egyptians called the wisdom of the First Intellect Ptah”; hence he is ''Mahat ''the “divine wisdom”; though from another aspect he is ''Swabhâvat'', the self‐created substance, as a prayer addressed to him in the ''Ritual of the Dead'' says, after calling Ptah “father of fathers and of all gods, generator of all men produced from his substance”: “Thou art without father, being. engendered by thy own will; thou art without mother, ''being born by the'' ''renewal of '' ''thine own substance from whom proceeds substance''”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pulastya +

One of the seven “mind‐born sons” of Brahmâ; the reputed father of the'' Nâgas'' (serpents, also ''Initiates'') and other symbolical creatures. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pulsford, John +

The bibliography lists Morgenröthe: A Book of the Age, for the Children of the Age, a supplement to The Supremacy of Man, in London editions of 1881 and 1883 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#449|9:449]][[SMW::on]]). +

Pums +

Spirit, supreme Purusha, Man. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Punarjanma +

The power of evolving objective manifestations; motion of forms ; also, re‐birth. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pundarik‐aksha +

Lit., “lotus‐eyed”, a title of Vishnu. “Supreme and imperishable glory”, as translated by some Orientalists. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Punjab Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical Society +

The presidential order dissolving the Lahore society appeared in the same supplement to The Theosophist as [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s The Shylocks of Lahore. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Shylocks of Lahore#478|BCW 4:478]]) +

Puraka +

Inbreathing process; a way of breathing as regulated according to the prescribed rules of Hatha ‘yoga. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Puranas +

Lit., “ancient”. A collection of symbolical and allegorical writings — eighteen in number now — supposed to have been composed by Vyâsa, the author of ''Mahâbhârata''. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Puranik, Pandurang Janardan +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol6|vol. 6]] (1884–1885). +

Purchas, Samuel +

English compiler of accounts of travel and discovery and rector of St Martin's, Ludgate. His largest collection was the four-volume ''Hakluytus Posthumus'' (1625). De Zirkoff notes the unique historical value of some accounts while cautioning that his information is not always accurate. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#518|3:518]][[SMW::on]]). +

Purmeshu Dass +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol9|vol. 9]] (1887–1888). +

Purohitas +

Family priests; Brahmans. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Purucker G. de - Fountain-Source of Occultism +

Excerpts from the Theosophical University Press edition (Pasadena, 1974) are included by [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] in the commentary to [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Esoteric Instructions, concerning the senses, Gnostic aeons, colours and sounds, manasaputras, vitality and tanhic elementals. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - EI. Instruction No.1#532|BCW 12:532]], [[Zirkoff B. - EI. Instruction No.2#574|BCW 12:574-579]], [[Zirkoff B. - EI. Instruction No.3#640|BCW 12:640-652]]) +

Purucker G. de - The Esoteric Tradition +

In I, pp. 72-75, G. de Purucker offers an esoteric interpretation of the words of the crucified Christ discussed by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Crucifixion of Man#273|BCW 9:273]]) +