Vidyâ‐dhara
(Sk.)
And Vidyâ‐dharî, male and female deities. Lit., “possessors of knowledge”. They are also called Nabhas‐chara, “moving in the air”, flying, and Priyam‐vada, “sweet‐spoken ”. They are the Sylphs of the Rosicrucians; inferior deities inhabiting the astral sphere between the earth and ether; believed in popular folk‐lore to be beneficent, but in reality they are cunning and mischievous, and intelligent Elementals, or “Powers of the air ”. They are represented in the East, and in the West, as having intercourse with men (“ intermarrying ”, as it is called in Rosicrucian parlance; see Count de Gabalis). In India they are also called Kâma‐rûpins, as they take shapes at will. It is among these creatures that the “spirit‐wives” and “ spirit‐husbands” of certain modern spiritualistic mediums and hysteriacs are recruited. These boast with pride of having such pernicious connexions (e.g., the American “Lily ”, the spirit‐wife of a well‐known head of a now scattered community of Spiritualists, of a great poet and well‐known writer), and call them angel‐ guides, maintaining that they are the spirits of famous disembodied mortals. These “ spirit‐husbands” and “wives” have not originated with the modern Spiritists and Spiritualists, but have been known in the East for thousands of years, in the Occult philosophy, under the names above given, and among the profane as — Pishâthas. (TG).
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