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Welles, Charles Bradford +

The appendix cites an essay by C. B. Welles in ''Harvard Theological Review'', volume XXXIV, April 1941, without giving its title. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#401|7:401]][[SMW::on]]). +

Welles, Gideon +

United States Secretary of the Navy during the American Civil War. A testimonial concerning Henry Steel Olcott was reproduced in the January 1881 Supplement to ''The Theosophist''. +

Wells, Emmeline Blanche +

Editor of ''The Woman’s Exponent'' who, according to her granddaughter, hosted [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] during a journey through Salt Lake City ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, General Outline of her Life Prior to her Public Work#xli|BCW 1:xli]]). +

Werdandi +

See [[Norns|Nörns]], the three sister‐ goddesses who represent the Past, the Present and the Future. Werdandi represents the ever‐present time. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Westbrook, Judge R. B +

Little definite information survives about him. He appears to have held a professorship of philology at a British university, became a Councillor of the Theosophical Society, and was made a Vice-President in 1877; H.P.B. held him in high regard, though his later history is unclear. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#531|1:531]][[SMW::on]]). +

Westcott, Brooke Foss +

English biblical scholar (1825-1901), professor of divinity at Cambridge and bishop of Durham from 1890. He prepared an influential edition of the Greek New Testament and took an active interest in social reform and labour questions. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.6)#449|6:449]][[SMW::on]]). +

Westcott, William Wynn +

His article Christian Rosencreutz and the Rosicrucians appeared in The Theosophist, volume 15, March 1894, pages 365-377 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#478|8:478]][[SMW::on]]). His articles include The Kabalah (Lucifer, August–September 1891, pp. 465–469 and 27–32) and A Further Glance at the Kabalah (April–May 1893, pp. 147–153 and 202–208). ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Kabalah and the Kabalists at the Close of the Nineteenth Century#272|BCW 7:272]]) As vice-president of the Blavatsky Lodge, addressed its meeting on 14 May 1891 concerning the recently deceased [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev (BCW vol.13)#xxv|BCW 13:xxv]]) +

Westergaard, Niels Ludwig +

Danish Orientalist (1815-1878), professor of Indian philology at Copenhagen. Travelled in India and Persia; edited and translated Zoroastrian texts, including the ''Bundehesh'' and ''Zendavesta'', and studied early Indian chronology. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#384|5:384]][[SMW::on]]). +

Westminster Confession of Faith +

A confession drawn up by the Westminster Assembly, which met from 1643 to 1649. Together with the catechisms and directories prepared by the assembly, it forms the Westminster Standards, accepted by most English-speaking Presbyterian churches. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#537|3:537]][[SMW::on]]). +

Westminster Review +

The journal's founder, Jeremy Bentham, envisioned it as a platform for the "Philosophic Radicals." Sir William Molesworth in the 1830s merged the Westminster Review with the London Review; from 1836 to 1840 it was published as the London and Westminster Review. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries the journal changed owners several times; in 1887 it switched from quarterly to monthly publication, but gradually lost its former influence. In 1846 the Foreign Quarterly Review was merged into it; for a time it was published under a combined title, and from January 1847 as the Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review, before reverting again to the Westminster Review. +

What is Matter and What is Force +

In a letter to [[Sinnett, Alfred Percy|A. P. Sinnett]], [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] attributed the reply to Master K. H. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] states that it is unknown whether it was dictated or received in another way. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - What is Matter and What is Force#208|BCW 4:208]]) +

Wheeler, J. Mazzini +

Bibliographical references include: “Buddhism in Tibet.” An article (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#592|11:592]][[SMW::on]]). +

When I Was Small +

[[Zhelihovsky, Vera Petrovna de|V. P. Zhelihovsky]]’s childhood recollections, a source for the early years of her sister [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]. A second edition appeared in 1894 ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, General Outline of her Life Prior to her Public Work#xxx|BCW 1:xxx-xxxii]]). +

Whip of Osiris +

The scourge which symbolises Osiris as the “judge of the dead ”. It is called the ''nekhekh,'' in the papyri, or the flagellum. Dr. Pritchard sees in it a fan or ''van'', the winnowing instrument. Osiris, “whose fan is in his hand and who purges the Amenti of sinful hearts as a winnower sweeps his floor of the fallen grains and locks the good wheat into his garner ”. (Compare ''Matthew,'' 12.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Whitaker's Almanack +

Listed without further bibliographical information (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#478|8:478]][[SMW::on]]). Containing an account of the astronomical and other phenomena .. information respecting the Government, etc. etc. (by Joseph Whitaker, F.S.A. 1820-95). An Annual publication started in 1869 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#458|9:458]][[SMW::on]]). +

White Fire +

The ''Zohar'' treating of the “Long Face” and Short Face “, the symbols of ''Macrocosm ''and ''Microcosm'', speaks of the hidden White Fire, radiating from these night and day and yet never seen. It answers to vital force (beyond luminiferous ether), and electricity on the higher and lower planes. But the mystic “White Fire” is a name given to Ain‐Soph. And this is the difference between the Aryan and the Semitic philosophies. The Occultists of the former speak of the Black Fire, which is the symbol of the unknown and unthinkable Brahm, and declare any speculation on the“ Black Fire” impossible. But the Kabbalists who, owing to a subtle permutation of meaning, endow even Ain‐Soph with a kind of indirect will and attributes, call its “fire” white, thus dragging the Absolute into the world of relation and finiteness. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

White Head +

In Hebrew'' Resha Hivra'', an epithet given to Sephira, the highest of the Sephiroth, whose cranium “ distils the dew which will call the dead again to life”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

White Lotus Day +

Instituted by [[Olcott, Henry Steel|H. S. Olcott]]’s Executive Order of 17 April 1892 to commemorate [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]. Olcott proposed the name; the order referred to her will of 31 January 1885 and provided recommendations for the annual observance. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - H.P.B.s Last Will and Testament#322|BCW 6:322-324]]) +

White Stone +

The sign of initiation mentioned in St. John’s ''Revelation''. It had the word ''prize'' engraved on it, and was the symbol of that word given to the neophyte who, in his initiation, had successfully passed through all the trials in the MYSTERIES, it was the potent white cornelian of the mediæval Rosicrucians, who took it from the Gnostics. ‘ To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the ''hidden'' manna (the occult knowledge which descends as'' divine ''wisdom from heaven), and will give him a ''white '' ''stone'', and in the stone a new name written (the ‘mystery name’ of the inner man or the EGO of the new Initiate), which no man knoweth saving him that receiveth it.” (''Revelation'', ii. 17.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

White, Henry G. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol3|vol. 3]] (1881–1882). +