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Pippalada +

A magic school wherein ''Atharva Veda'' is explained founded by an Adept of that name. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pirani, Frederick Joy +

Born in Birmingham in 1850 and died in Melbourne in 1881; taught physics and logic. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#662|4:662]][[SMW::on]]). +

Pirogov N.I. - Life Problems. Diary of an Old Physician +

The diary covers 5 November 1879 to 22 October 1881, Old Style. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] cites an 1887 edition and its inclusion in volume VIII of the 1962 collected works; the manuscript was held by the Military Medical Museum. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Kosmic Mind#135|BCW 12:135]]) +

Pisachas +

In the ''Purânas'', goblins or demons created by Brahmâ. In the southern Indian folk‐lore, ghosts, demons, larvæ and vampires — generally female — who haunt men. Fading remnants of human beings in ''Kâmaloka'', as shells and Elementaries. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pistis Sophia +

“Knowledge‐Wisdom.” A sacred book of the early Gnostics or the primitive Christians. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). The bibliography refers the reader to pp. 238-239 in BCW volume 8 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#472|8:472]][[SMW::on]]). [[Mead, George Robert Stow|G. R. S. Mead]]’s translation from M. G. Schwartze’s Latin version ran in Lucifer from April 1890 to May 1891 with unsigned commentaries by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]. Mead’s book translation of 1896, revised against É. Amélineau’s French translation, omits these commentaries. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (4)#238|BCW 8:238-239]]) The serialization of [[Mead, George Robert Stow|G. R. S. Mead]]’s translation remained unfinished. In May 1891 a six-month suspension was announced. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Note by the Compiler#150|BCW 12:150]]) M. G. Schwartze’s Latin translation was published posthumously by J. H. Petermann in 1851. [[Mead, George Robert Stow|G. R. S. Mead]] substantially revised his English translation in 1921. G. Horner’s 1924 translation was made directly from Coptic, with an introduction by F. Legge. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Introductory Notes to H.P.B.s Commentary on the Pistis Sophia#1|BCW 13:1-5]]) Note. The date of composition should be distinguished from the surviving manuscript: the [https://searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/032-002738266 British Library catalogue] dates the Askew Codex to 301–699 and gives 178 folios (356 pages), differing from the manuscript description in BCW.

Pitale, Bal Nilaji +

Indian Theosophist elected secretary and treasurer of the Bombay Theosophical Society in March 1882. +

Pitar Devata +

The “Father‐Gods”, the lunar ancestors of mankind. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pitaras +

Fathers, Ancestors. The fathers of the human races. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pitris +

The ancestors, or creators of mankind. They are of seven classes, three of which are incorporeal, ''arupa,'' and four corporeal. In popular theology they are said to be created from Brahmâ’s side. They are variously genealogized, but in esoteric philosophy they are as given in the ''Secret Doctrine''. In ''Isis Unveiled ''it is said of them “It is generally believed that the Hindu term means the spirits of our ancestors, of disembodied people, hence the argument of some Spiritualists that fakirs (and yogis) and other Eastern wonder‐workers, are ''mediums''. This is in more than one sense erroneous. The Pitris are not the ancestors of the present living men, but those of the human kind, or Adamic races; the spirits of human races, which on the great scale of descending evolution'' preceded '' ''our races'' of men, and they ''were'' ''physically, as well as '' ''spiritually'', ''far superior'' to our modern pigmies. In ''Mânava '' ''Dharma Shâstra'' they are called the'' Lunar Ancestors''.” The ''Secret Doctrine ''has now explained that which was cautiously put forward in the earlier Theosophical volumes. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pius IV, Pope +

Giovanni Angelo Medici (31 March 1499-9 December 1565), pope. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] records the transfer of his remains from St Peter’s to Santa Maria degli Angeli on 4 June 1583. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Star-Angel Worship in the Roman Catholic Church#24|BCW 10:24]]) +

Pius IX +

Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti (1792-1878), elected pope on 16 June 1846. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (5)#308|BCW 9:308]]) +

Pius V, Pope +

Michele Ghislieri (17 January 1504-1 May 1572), elected pope on 7 January 1566 as successor to Pius IV. Canonized by Clement XI in 1712. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Star-Angel Worship in the Roman Catholic Church#29|BCW 10:29]]) +

Pius VII, Pope +

Bull: Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum . . See Barberi’s work (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#448|9:448]][[SMW::on]]). Permitted restoration of the Jesuits in northern Russia in 1801 and in the Two Sicilies in 1804; restored the order in 1814 by the bull Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Compilers Notes (5)#313|BCW 9:313]]) +

Piyadasi +

“The beautiful”, a title of King Chandragupta (the “Sandracottus” of the Greeks) and of Asoka the Buddhist king, his grandson. They both reigned in Central India between the fourth and third centuries B.C., called also Devânâmpiya, “the beloved of the gods”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Plain Dealer, The +

The newspaper was established in January 1842 when two brothers, Joseph William Gray and Admiral Nelson Gray, took over The Cleveland Advertiser and changed its name to The Plain Dealer. When the Gray brothers began publishing their newspaper in 1842, they wrote an explanation of their choice of name; after a discussion of several other possible names, they wrote, "but our democracy and modesty suggest the only name that befits the occasion, the PLAIN DEALER." The phrase means "someone who interacts or does business straightforwardly and honestly". [[Category: CTD info from Wikipedia]] (WP) +

Plaksha +

One of the seven ''Dwipas ''(continents or islands) in the Indian Pantheon and the ''Purânas.'' [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Plane +

From the Latin ''planus'' (level, flat) an extension of space or of something in it, whether physical or metaphysical, ''e.g.'', a “plane of consciousness”. As used in Occultism, the term denotes the range or extent of some state of consciousness, or of the perceptive power of a particular set of senses, or the action of a particular force, or the state of matter corresponding to any of the above. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Planetary Spirits +

Primarily the rulers or governors of the planets. As our earth has its hierarchy of terrestrial planetary spirits, from the highest to the lowest plane, so has every other heavenly body. In Occultism, however, the term “Planetary Spirit” is generally applied only to the seven highest hierarchies corresponding to the Christian archangels. These have all passed through a stage of evolution corresponding to the humanity of earth on other worlds, in long past cycles. Our earth, being as yet only in its fourth round, is far too young to have produced high planetary spirits. The highest planetary spirit ruling over any globe is in reality the “Personal God” of that planet and far more truly its “over‐ruling providence” than the self‐contradictory Infinite Personal Deity of modern Churchianity. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Plastic Soul +

Used in Occultism in reference to the ''linga '' ''sharira ''or the astral body of the lower Quaternary. It is called “plastic” and also “Protean” Soul from its power of assuming any shape or form and moulding or modelling itself into or upon any image impressed in the astral light around it, or in the minds of the medium or of those present at séances for materialization. The ''linga sharira'' must not be confused with the ''mayavi rupa'' or “thought body” — the image created by the thought and will of an adept or sorcerer ; for while the “astral form” or'' linga '' ''sharira'' is a real entity, the “thought body” is a temporary illusion created by the mind. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Platina B. - Vitae Pontificum +

Contains extensive papal biographies, including Gregory the Great. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] identifies it as the work behind [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s reference, taken from [[Ragon, J. M.|J. M. Ragon]],. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Roots of Ritualism in Church and Masonry#79|BCW 11:79]]) +