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Platino, Bartolomeo de Sacchi de +

Bibliographical references include: Vitae Pontificum, Venice, 1479, fol.; Paris, 1530. Engl, tr. by P. Rycaut, London, 1685 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#586|11:586]][[SMW::on]]). +

Plato +

An Initiate into the Mysteries and the greatest Greek philosopher, whose writings are known the world over. He was the pupil of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle. He flourished over 400 years before our era. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). De Zirkoff lists the ''Republic'', ''Theages'' and ''Timaeus'' in the Loeb Classical Library editions. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#518|3:518]][[SMW::on]]). The bibliography cites ''Critias'' in the Loeb Classical Library. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#662|4:662]][[SMW::on]]). De Zirkoff cites the dialogues ''Sophistes'', ''Timaeus'' and ''Gorgias'' in the Loeb Classical Library, with parallel Greek and English texts. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#443|6:443]][[SMW::on]]). The ''Republic'' is cited in the Loeb Classical Library. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#388|7:388]][[SMW::on]]). The bibliography lists his Phaedrus and Theaetetus in the Loeb Classical Library, alongside a third title whose spelling requires checking (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#472|8:472]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Phaedo. - Phaedrus. - Theaetetus. Loeb Classical Library (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#586|11:586]][[SMW::on]]).

Plato - Phaedo +

[[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] identifies 69c as the most likely source of the statement about initiates dwelling with the gods after death in [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s The Roots of Ritualism in Church and Masonry. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Roots of Ritualism in Church and Masonry#87|BCW 11:87]]) +

Platonic School +

Or the “Old Akadéme”, in contrast with the later or ''Neo‐Platonic'' School of Alexandria (See “Philalethean”). [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pleroma +

“Fulness”, a Gnostic term adopted to signify the divine world or Universal Soul. Space, developed and divided into a series of æons. The abode of the invisible gods. It has three degrees. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Pliny the Elder +

The bibliography cites his Natural History in thirty-seven books, in the Loeb Classical Library. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#539|2:539]][[SMW::on]]). De Zirkoff cites his ''Natural History'' in the Loeb Classical Library edition. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#518|3:518]][[SMW::on]]). +

Plotinus +

The noblest, highest and grandest of all the Neo‐Platonists after the founder of the school, Ammonius Saccas. He was the most enthusiastic of the ''Philaletheans'' or “lovers of truth”, whose aim was to found a religion on a system of intellectual abstraction, which is true Theosophy, or the whole substance of Neo‐Platonism. If we are to believe Porphyry, Plotinus has never disclosed either his birth‐place or connexions, his native land or his race. Till the age of twenty‐eight he had never found teacher or teaching which would suit him or answer his aspirations. Then he happened to hear Ammonius Saccas, from which day he continued to attend his school. At thirty‐nine he accompanied the Emperor Gordian to Persia and India with the object of learning their philosophy. He died at the age of sixty‐six after writing fifty‐four books on philosophy. So modest was he that it is said he “blushed to think he had a body”. He reached ''Samâdhi ''(highest ecstasy or “re‐union with God” the divine ''Ego'') several times during his life. As said by a biographer, “so far did his contempt for his bodily organs go, that he refused to use a remedy, regarding it as unworthy of a man to use means of this kind”. Again we read, “as he died, a dragon (or serpent) that had been under his bed, glided through a hole in the wall and disappeared” — a fact suggestive for the student of symbolism. He taught a doctrine identical with that of the Vedantins, namely, that the Spirit‐Soul emanating from the One deific principle was, after its pilgrimage, re‐ united to It. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Plummer, Lafayette Gordon +

Author of ''The Mathematics of the Cosmic Mind'', for which de Zirkoff records editions of 1966 and 1970. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#518|3:518]][[SMW::on]]). +

Plutarch +

De Zirkoff lists ''On the Cessation of Oracles'' in C. W. King’s translation of the theosophical essays from Plutarch’s ''Morals'', Bohn’s Classical Library, 1882. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#443|6:443]][[SMW::on]]). The bibliography cites ''Roman Questions'' and ''Consolation to Apollonius'' among the moral essays in the Loeb Classical Library. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#388|7:388]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Bioi Parallêloi (Parallel Lives): Lives of Phocion and Nicias. Loeb Classical Library (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#472|8:472]][[SMW::on]]). +

Pobedonostsev, Konstantin Petrovich +

Russian jurist, senator, chief procurator of the Holy Synod and tutor to Alexander III (1827–1907). [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] describes him as an opponent of liberal reforms in education and the press; [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] discusses his activities in her journalism of 1889. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Going To and Fro in the Earth (1)#460|BCW 11:460]]) +

Poe, Edgar Allan +

*''Nevermore''. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#523|1:523]][[SMW::on]]). +

Poeticon Astronomicon +

An astronomical work in four books traditionally attributed to Hyginus. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] notes doubt about its attribution to Augustus’s librarian and cites editions in the Mythographi Latini of T. Muncker (1681) and A. van Staveren (1742). ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The History of a Planet#16|BCW 8:16-17]]) +

Point within a Circle +

In its esoteric meaning the first unmanifested ''logos'' appearing on the infinite and shoreless expanse of Space, represented by the Circle. It is the plane of Infinity and Absoluteness. This is only one of the numberless and hidden meanings of this symbol, which is the most important of all the geometrical figures used in metaphysical emblematology. As to the Masons, they have made of the point “an individual brother” whose duty to God and man is bounded by the circle, and have added John the Baptist and John the Evangelist to keep company with the “brother”, representing them under two perpendicular parallel lines. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Polanco, Juan Alonso +

Jesuit historian. Studied at Paris; joined the Order in 1541; after further studies at Padua and Florence, he was called to Rome by Loyola himself, and became his secretary; kept this post until the death of Borgia, and was the right arm of the Founder of the Order, both in the formulation of its Constitution, and in the correspondence with the various houses of the Order (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#448|9:448]][[SMW::on]]). +

Police Surveillance of the Theosophical Founders +

British police watched [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] and [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]] after their arrival in India. Olcott protested through the American consul; the chronological survey also records correspondence with the government and the cancellation of measures on 20 October 1880. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Retort Courteous|BCW 2:29]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.2)|BCW 2:xxxiii]]) +

Pollock, Joseph +

Author of “Is Man only a Machine?”, to which [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] appended a note in The Theosophist. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Miscellaneous Notes (10)|BCW 2:510]]) +

Polycarp +

Passage has not been identified. The only writing extant of this Apostolic Father who was bishop of Smyrna, is his Epistle to the Church at Philippi (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#586|11:586]][[SMW::on]]). Polycarp wrote in Greek. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] suggests that the Latin saying quoted by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] might be a translation from a lost Greek work; the attribution remains unestablished. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Marriage and Divorce#41|BCW 11:41]]) +

Pomar, Emmanuel de +

Writer on spiritual philosophy, known as the Duke de Medina Pomar; son of Marie Sinclair, Countess of Caithness. +

Pompignan, Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de +

French lawyer and poet. Educ. by the Jesuits; studied law and became solicitor general in his native town, and later councilor at Parliament of Toulouse (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#448|9:448-449]][[SMW::on]]). +

Ponsonby, Irene R. +

Checked the editorial material and read the page proofs for the 1966 first volume of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Foreword (BCW vol.1)#xxiii|BCW 1:xxiii-xxiv]]) Checked editorial material and read the page proofs of the second volume of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings, prepared in 1967. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Foreword (BCW vol.2)|BCW 2:xxiii-xxiv]]) Checked [[Ryan, Charles James|C. J. Ryan]]’s English translations of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s French texts for Volume V of her Collected Writings together with [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]]. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Foreword (BCW vol.5)#xxiii|BCW 5:xxiii]]) Checked [[Ryan, Charles James|C. J. Ryan]]’s translations of the French texts in Volume VI of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings with [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] and helped proofread the volume. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Foreword (BCW vol.6)|BCW 6:xxiii]]) Checked the English translations of two French texts prepared by [[Ryan, Charles James|C. J. Ryan]] and [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] for Volume VII of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Foreword (BCW vol.7)#xxiii|BCW 7:xxiii]]) Read the final proofs of volume XI of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings with L. Psaltis. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Foreword (BCW vol.11)#xxi|BCW 11:xxi]])