Occultism, the study of the mysteries of Nature and the
development of the psychic powers latent in man. 
     Okhema, vehicle; Platonic term for body.

     Padarthas, predicates of existing things, so called in the
“Vaiseshikha,” or atomic system of philosophy, founded by Kanad (Sanskrit). 
     Padma sana, a posture practised by some Indian mystics it
consists in sitting with the legs crossed one over the other and the body straight. 
     Pahans, village priests. 
     Panchakosha, the five sheaths in which is enclosed the
divine monad. 
     Panchikrita, developed into the five gross elements. 
     Parabrahm, the supreme principle in Nature; the universal
spirit. 
     Paramarthika, one of the three states of existence according
to Vedanta; the true, the only real one. 
     Paramatma, time Supreme Spirit, one of the six forces of
Nature; the great force. 
     Parasakti, intellectual apprehension of a truth. 
     Pataliputra, the ancient capital of the kingdom Magadha, in
Eastern India, a city identified with the modern Patna. 
     Patanjali, the author of “Yoga Philosophy,” one of the six
orthodox systems of India and of the Mahabhashya. 
     Peling, the name given to Europeans in Tibet. 
     Phala, retribution; fruit or results of causes. 
     Pho, animal soul. 
     Pisacham, fading remnants of human beings in the state of
Kama Loka; shells or elementaries. 
     Piyadasi, another name for Asoka (q.v.)
     Plaster or Plantal, Platonic term for the power which
moulds the substances of the universe into suitable forms. 
     Popol-Vuh, the sacred book of the Guatemalans. 
     Poseidonis, the last island submerged of the continent of
Atlantis. 
     Pracheta, the principle of water. 
     Pragna, consciousness. 
     Prajapatis, the constructors of the material universe. 
     Prakriti, undifferentiated matter; the supreme principle
regarded as the substance of the universe. 
     Pralaya, the period of cosmic rest. 
     Prameyas, things to be proved, objects of Pramana or proof. 
     Prana, the one life. 
     Pranamaya Kosha, the principle of life and its vehicle; the
second sheath of the Divine monad (Vedantic). 
     Pranatman, the eternal or germ thread on which are strung,
like beads, the personal lives.  The same as Sutratma. 
     Pratibhasika, the apparent or illusory life. 
     Pratyaksha, perception. 
     Pretya-bhava, the state of an ego under the necessity of
repeated births. 
     Punarjanmam, power of evolving objective manifestation;
rebirth. 
     Puraka, in-breathing, regulated according to the system of
Hatha Yoga. 
     Puranas (lit. “old writings").  A collection of symbolical
Brahmanical writings.  They are eighteen in number, and are supposed to have been composed by Vyasa, the