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Panday, Shankar Dyal +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol5|vol. 5]] (1883–1884). +

Pande, Nand +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol3|vol. 3]] (1881–1882). +

Pandiah, R. Sivasankara +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol5|vol. 5]] (1883–1884). +

Pandit, Ramji Mall +

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

Pandit, Shankar Pandurang +

An Indian Sanskrit scholar. He contributed a series on the Veda and the history of religion to ''The Theosophist''. The honorific Rao Bahadur is abbreviated R. B. in the reference index. +

Pandora +

A beautiful woman created by the gods under the orders of Zeus to be sent to Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus; she had charge of a casket in which all the evils, passions and plagues which torment humanity were locked up. This casket Pandora, led by curiosity, opened, and thus set free all the ills which prey on mankind. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pandu +

“The Pale”, literally; the father of the Pandavas Princes, the foes of the ''Kurava ''in the ''Mahâbhârata.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pandurang Gopal +

A physician credited as Dr. Pandurang Gopal in the contributor index of ''The Theosophist''. He wrote the series “East Indian Materia Medica” in its first volume, discussing medicinal substances used in India. +

Panini +

A celebrated grammarian, author of the famous work called Pâninîyama; a Rishi, supposed to have received his work from the god Siva. Ignorant of the epoch at which he lived, the Orientalists place his date between 600 B.C. and 300 A.D. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). Ancient Indian grammarian, author of the ''Ashtadhyayi''. Zirkoff tentatively places him in north-western India around the middle of the fourth century BCE, explicitly noting the uncertainty of the date. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#379|5:379]][[SMW::on]]). +

Pannasara, Rambupola +

Buddhist monk in Ceylon whose letter to Henry Steel Olcott reported observations of luminous phenomena at the Badulla dagoba on May 6, 1887. +

Pantacle +

The same as Pentalpha; the triple triangle of Pythagoras or the five‐pointed star. It was given the name because it reproduces the letter '''A''' (alpha) on the five sides of it or in five different positions — its number, moreover, being composed of the first odd ( and the first even (2) numbers. It is very occult. In Occultism and the Kabala it stands for man or the Microcosm, the “Heavenly Man”, and as such it was a powerful talisman for keeping at bay evil spirits or the Elementals. In Christian theology it refers to the five wounds of Christ; its interpreters failing, however, to add that these “five wounds” were themselves symbolical of the Microcosm, or the “Little Universe”, or again, Humanity, this symbol pointing out the fall of pure Spirit (Christos) into matter (Iassous, “life”, or man). In esoteric philosophy the Pentalpha, or five‐pointed star, is the symbol of the EGO or the Higher Manas. Masons use it, referring to it as the five‐pointed star, and connecting it with their own fanciful interpretation. (See the word “Pentacle” for its difference in meaning from “Pantacle”.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pantheist +

One who identifies God with Nature and vice versa. Pantheism is often objected to by people and regarded as reprehensible. But how can a philosopher regard Deity as infinite, omnipresent and eternal unless Nature is an aspect of IT, and IT informs every atom in Nature? [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Panther +

According to the ''Sepher Toldosh Jeshu'', one of the so‐called Apocryphal Jewish Gospels, Jesus was the son of Joseph Panther and Mary, hence Ben Panther. Tradition makes of Panther a Roman soldier. [w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pantulu, J. Purnaya +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol5|vol. 5]] (1883–1884). +

Papa‐purusha +

Lit., “Man of Sin”: the personification in a human form of every wickedness and sin. Esoterically, one who is reborn, or reincarnated from the state of ''Avitchi'' — hence, “Soulless”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Papus +

French mystic and occult writer. His father was a French chemist, Louis Encausse, and his mother a Spanish lady (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#446|9:446-447]][[SMW::on]]). Elected corresponding secretary of the Paris Hermes Branch in September 1888. Around October he began publishing L’Initiation, which became the branch’s organ. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev (BCW vol.10)#xxv|BCW 10:xxv,xxvii]]) +

Papus - Traité élémentaire de science occulte +

A work by Papus published in Paris by Georges Carré in 1888. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] tentatively attributes the February 1888 Lucifer review to [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Traite Elementaire de Science Occulte (review)#44|BCW 9:44]]) +

Papyrus Rollin +

Papyrus cited as held in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris, with the designation C. 1188. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#388|7:388]][[SMW::on]]). [[Chabas, François-Joseph|F. J. Chabas]] transcribed three surviving pages and discussed the account of magical practices in Le Papyrus magique Harris, pp. 169–173. [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] used this material through J. E. de Mirville; it concerns a different papyrus, not the Harris Magical Papyrus itself. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (2)#128|BCW 7:128-130]]) +

Para +

“Infinite” and “supreme” in philosophy — the final limit. '''Param''' is the end and goal of existence; '''Parâpara''' is the boundary of boundaries. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Parabrahm +

“Beyond Brahmâ”, literally. The Supreme Infinite Brahma, “Absolute” — the attributeless, the secondless reality. The impersonal and nameless universal Principle. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +