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Phala +

Retribution; the fruit or result of causes. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Phalguna +

A name of Arjuna; also of a month. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Phallic +

Anything belonging to sexual worship; or of a sexual character externally, such as the Hindu ''lingham '' and ''yoni'' — the emblems of the male and female generative power — which have none of the unclean significance attributed to it by the Western mind. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Phanes +

One of the Orphic triad — ''Phanes'', ''Chaos'' and ''Chronos''. It was also the trinity of the Western people in the pre‐Christian period. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Phantasms of the Living +

A two-volume work by [[Gurney, Edmund|E. Gurney]], [[Myers, Frederick William Henry|F. W. H. Myers]] and F. Podmore (London, Trübner, 1886), examining evidence for telepathy and apparitions of living persons, particularly during crises. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (1)#263|BCW 5:263-264]]) +

Phelon, Mira Morse +

American teacher and theosophist, associated with the Chicago and Ramayana branches of the Theosophical Society. With her husband, William Pike Phelon, edited ''The Hermetist''. +

Phelon, William Pike +

English-American physician and occultist. Joined the Theosophical Society in 1884 and served as Corresponding Secretary of its Chicago Branch. Helped establish the Ramayana Theosophical Society and edited ''The Hermetist''. +

Phenomenon +

In reality “an appearance”, something previously unseen, and puzzling when the cause of it is unknown. Leaving aside various kinds of phenomena, such as cosmic, electrical, chemical, etc., and holding merely to the phenomena of spiritism, let it be remembered that theosophically and esoterically every “miracle” — from the biblical to the theumaturgic — is simply a phenomenon, but that no phenomenon is ever a miracle, ''i.e.'', something supernatural or outside of the laws of nature, as all such are impossibilities in nature. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Philadelphia Press +

Periodical title listed by de Zirkoff without definite bibliographical information. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#451|6:451]][[SMW::on]]). +

Philae +

An island in Upper Egypt where a famous temple of that name was situated, the ruins of which may be seen to this day by travellers. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Philaletheans +

Lit., “the lovers of truth”; the name is given to the Alexandrian Neo‐Platonists, also called Analogeticists and Theosophists. (See ''Key to Theosophy,'' p. 1, ''et seq.'') The school was founded by Ammonius Saccas early in the third century, and lasted until the fifth. The greatest philosophers and sages of the day belonged to it. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Philalethes, Eugenius +

The Rosicrucian name assumed by one Thomas Vaughan, a mediæval English Occultist and Fire Philosopher. He was a great Alchemist. [w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Philastrius - De Haeresibus +

The opening chapter is listed by [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] among sources on Simon Magus. Editions include Patres Quarti Ecclesiae Saeculi (Paris, 1842) and F. Oehler’s Corpus Haeresiologicum (Berlin, 1859–1861). ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - EI. Instruction No.2#572|BCW 12:572]]) +

Philippus of Thessalonica +

Greek epigrammatic poet who, besides composing a large number of epigrams himself, compiled one of the ancient Greek Anthologies (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#585|11:585-586]][[SMW::on]]). +

Philips, Francis Charles +

Bibliographical references include: The Strange Adventures of Lucy Smith. London: Sonnenschein & Co. 1887. 2 vols. 8vo (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#471|8:471]][[SMW::on]]). +

Phillips, Wendell +

American orator, writer and reformer. Early became identified with the anti-slavery movement; at the age of twenty-six took his place in the front rank of the movement after his speech at Faneuil Hall in 1837. Also advocated prohibition, reform in penal methods, votes for women, and the labor movement. Among his many orations, "The Lost Arts," which he delivered more than two thousand times, was a speech H.P.B. thought very highly of and quoted on numerous occasions. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#522|1:522-523]][[SMW::on]]). +

Philo Judaeus +

A Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, and a very famous historian and writer; born about 30 B.C, died about 45 A.D. He ought thus to have been well acquainted with the greatest event of the 1st century of our era, and the facts about Jesus, his life, and the drama of the Crucifixion. And yet he is absolutely silent upon the subject, both in his careful enumeration of the then existing Sects and Brotherhoods in Palestine and in his accounts of the Jerusalem of his day. He was a great mystic and his works abound with metaphysics and noble ideas, while in esoteric knowledge he had no rival for several ages among the best writers. [ under “Philo Judæus” in the Glossary of the ''Key to Theosophy.''] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). The bibliography cites ''De specialibus legibus'' in the Loeb Classical Library and refers to pages 217-218 for discussion of ''Biblical Antiquities''. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#388|7:388]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Questiones et solutiones in Genesin. Loeb Class. Library (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#586|11:586]][[SMW::on]]). +

Philo of Byblus +

The appendix refers readers to page 95 of the volume for information about his writings. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#388|7:388]][[SMW::on]]). +

Philopatris +

A dialogue traditionally included among Lucian’s writings, of disputed authorship. The answer of Triephon concerning Chrest cited by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] occurs in section 17; the text is included in C. Jacobitz’s edition, volume III, p. 419. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (4)#226|BCW 8:226]]) +

Philosopher’s Stone +

Called also the “Powder of Projection”. It is the ''Magnum Opus'' of the Alchemists, an object to be attained by them at all costs, a substance possessing the power of transmuting the baser metals into pure gold. Mystically, however, the Philosopher’s Stone symbolises the transmutation of the lower animal nature of man into the highest and divine. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +