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Ptah, Pthah
Ptah, or Pthah (Egypt, Egyptian). The son of Kneph in the Egyptian Pantheon. He is the Principle of Light and Life through which "creation" or rather evolution took place. The Egyptian logos and creator, the Demiurgos.
A very old deity, as, according to Herodotus, he had a temple erected to him by Menes, the first king of Egypt. He is "giver of life" and the self-born, and the father of Apis, the sacred bull, conceived through a ray from the Sun. Ptah is thus the prototype of Osiris, a later deity. Herodotus makes him the father of the Kabiri, the mystery-gods; and the Targum of Jerusalem says: "Egyptians called the wisdom of the First Intellect Ptah"; hence he is Mahat the "divine wisdom"; though from another aspect he is Swabhavat, the self-created substance, as a prayer addressed to him in the Ritual of the Dead says, after calling Ptah "father of fathers and of all gods, generator of all men produced from his substance": "Thou art without father, being. engendered by thy own will; thou art without mother, being born by the renewal of thine own substance from whom proceeds substance".
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Ptah, Pthah:
Spiritual Theosophical
Dictionary on
Ptah, Pthah
Ptah, or Pthah (Egypt, Egyptian). The son of Kneph in the Egyptian Pantheon. He is the Principle of Light and Life through which "creation" or rather evolution took place. The Egyptian logos and creator, the Demiurgos.
A very old deity, as, according to Herodotus, he had a temple erected to him by Menes, the first king of Egypt. He is "giver of life" and the self-born, and the father of Apis, the sacred bull, conceived through a ray from the Sun. Ptah is thus the prototype of Osiris, a later deity. Herodotus makes him the father of the Kabiri, the mystery-gods; and the Targum of Jerusalem says: "Egyptians called the wisdom of the First Intellect Ptah"; hence he is Mahat the "divine wisdom"; though from another aspect he is Swabhavat, the self-created substance, as a prayer addressed to him in the Ritual of the Dead says, after calling Ptah "father of fathers and of all gods, generator of all men produced from his substance": "Thou art without father, being. engendered by thy own will; thou art without mother, being born by the renewal of thine own substance from whom proceeds substance".
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Definition
of Ptah, Pthah is extracted from the home page of United
Lodge of Theosophists and THE THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARY BY H. P. BLAVATSKY (Printed 1892).
PREFACE.
"The Theosophical Glossary
purposes to give information on the principal Sanskrit, Pahlavi, Tibetan,
Pâli, Chaldean, Persian, Scandinavian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Kabalistic
and Gnostic words, and Occult terms generally used in Theosophical literature,
and principally to be found in Isis Unveiled, Esoteric Buddhism, The Secret
Doctrine, The Key to Theosophy, etc.; and in the monthly magazines, The
Theosophist, Lucifer and The Path, etc., and other publications of the
Theosophical Society. The articles marked [w.w.w.] which explain words found in
the Kabalah, or which illustrate Rosicrucian or Hermetic doctrines, were
contributed at the special request of H.P.B. by Bro. W. W. Westcott, M.B., P.M.
and P.Z., who is the Secretary General of the Rosicrucian Society, and
Præmonstrator of the Kabalah to the Hermetic Order of the G.D."
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