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Whitman S. - Conventional Cant +

A book by [[Whitman, Sidney|S. Whitman]], published in London by K. Paul, Trench & Co., 1887. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] suggests that this is the work [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] calls The Land of Cant. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Sunday Devotion to Pleasure#68|BCW 9:68]]) +

Whitman, Sidney +

Bibliographical references include: The Land of Cant. There is uncertainty as to this title. The only work listed for this author is Conventional Cant, its results and remedy. London: K. Paul, Trench & Co. 1887. xix, 235 pp (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#458|9:458]][[SMW::on]]). +

Whitworth, George Clifford +

The bibliography lists Personal Statement of Religious Beliefs (London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1880), an eighteen-page pamphlet. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#549|2:549]][[SMW::on]]). +

Who Wrote the Mahatma Letters? +

Book by H. E. and W. L. Hare, published by Williams and Norgate in London in 1936; 326 pages (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#418|10:418]][[SMW::on]]). +

Whymper, Edward +

Delivered a lecture on living at great elevations to the Society of Arts at South Kensington on 9 March 1881. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Human Life at High Altitudes|BCW 3:141]]) +

Widow’s Son +

A name given to the French Masons, because the Masonic ceremonies are principally based on the adventures and death of Hiram Abif, “the widow’s son”, who is supposed to have helped to build the mythical Solomon’s Temple. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Wie Ich Mein Selbst Fand +

Autobiography of H. von Schewitsch containing recollections of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - The Diaries of H. P. Blavatsky#436|BCW 1:436]]). +

Wiertz, Antoine +

[[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] called him an “unconscious Theosophist” when commenting on his painting of future humanity and his conception of people becoming giants in knowledge and physique. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Miscellaneous Notes (63)#134|BCW 13:134]]) +

Wiggin, James Henry +

Editor of the weekly [[The Liberal Christian]], who left an account of a gathering at [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s home around the time of the founding of the Theosophical Society. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Formation of the Theosophical Society#121|BCW 1:121-123]]) +

Wigmore, C. J. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol7|vol. 7]] (1885–1886). +

Wijesurndar, D. A. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol4|vol. 4]] (1882–1883). +

Wijeyesekara, W. F. +

Ceylonese Buddhist and secretary of the Colombo Buddhist Theosophical Society. +

Wilberforce, Basil +

Anglican clergyman, later Archdeacon of Westminster. As Canon Wilberforce he spoke on Spiritualism at the Newcastle Church Congress in 1881. +

Wilder A. - New Platonism and Alchemy +

Pages 26 and 28–29 of the 1869 Albany edition supply several quotations in [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Alchemy in the Nineteenth Century. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Alchemy in the Nineteenth Century#540|BCW 11:540]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Alchemy in the Nineteenth Century#543|BCW 11:543]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Alchemy in the Nineteenth Century#544|BCW 11:544]]) +

Wilder, Alexander +

An American physician and scholar of Neoplatonism. He was an early member of the Theosophical Society and assisted in preparing H. P. Blavatsky’s ''Isis Unveiled'' for publication. His writings ranged across medicine, ancient philosophy and religious history. His translation of Iamblichus's treatise on the mysteries first appeared in ''The Platonist'', with some instalments in ''The Theosophist'' in 1881. It was later issued as ''Theurgia or the Ancient Mysteries'' (New York, 1911). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#537|3:537-538]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Alchemy or the Hermetic Philosophy. No specific information regarding this work is available (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#478|8:478]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: New Platonism and Alchemy: A Sketch of the Doctrines and Principal Teachers of the Eclectic or Alexandrian School; also an Outline of the Interior Doctrines of the Alchemists of the Middle Ages. Albany, N.Y. 1869 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#592|11:592-593]][[SMW::on]]). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Blavatsky H.P. - Footnotes to Iamblichos: A Treatise on the Mysteries#269|3:269]][[SMW::on]]) Author of Psycho-Physiological Notes, to which [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] added a comment on the biblical association of blood with life. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Footnote to Psycho-Physiological Notes#20|BCW 6:20]])

Wilder, Dr. Alexander +

American physician, author and Platonic scholar. A largely self-taught polymath who began teaching school at fifteen, he trained in medicine partly out of scepticism toward contemporary medical practice, received his M.D. from Syracuse Medical College in 1850, and worked for some years as a journal editor before devoting himself increasingly to Platonism and Hermetic philosophy, influenced by Swedenborg and by General Hitchcock's writings on alchemy. He helped organize the American Akademe philosophical society in 1883 and translated Iamblichus's ''On the Mysteries of the Egyptians''. He contributed substantial material to the "Before the Veil" section of ''Isis Unveiled'' and remained a staunch friend of both H.P.B. and Col. Olcott. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#531|1:531-533]][[SMW::on]]). +

Wilder, Marshall P. +

American horticulturist and president of the New England Horticultural Society. A testimonial concerning Henry Steel Olcott was reproduced in the January 1881 Supplement to ''The Theosophist''. +

Wili +

See [[We]]. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Will +

In metaphysics and occult philosophy, Will is that which governs the manifested universes in eternity. ''Will'' is the one and sole principle of abstract eternal MOTION, or its ensouling essence. “ The will”, says Van Helmont, “is the first of all powers. . . . The will is the property of all spiritual beings and displays itself in them the more actively the more they are freed from matter.” And Paracelsus teaches that “determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might he perfectly certain.” Like all the rest, the Will is ''septenary'' in its degrees of manifestation. Emanating from the one, eternal, abstract and purely quiescent Will (Âtmâ in Layam), it becomes Buddhi in its Alaya state, descends lower as Mahat (Manas), and runs down the ladder of degrees until the divine Eros becomes, in its lower, animal manifestation, erotic desire. Will as an eternal principle is neither spirit nor substance but everlasting ideation. As well expressed by Schopenhauer in his ''Parerga'', “ in sober reality there is neither'' matter ''nor ''spirit.'' The tendency to gravitation in a stone is as unexplainable as thought in the human brain. . . If matter can — no one knows why — — fall to the ground, then it can also — no one knows why — ‐think. . . . As soon, even in mechanics, as we trespass beyond the purely mathematical, as soon as we reach the inscrutable adhesion, gravitation, and so on, we are faced by phenomena which are to our senses as mysterious as the WILL.” [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Wilson, Horace Hayman +

English physician and orientalist (1786-1860), secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and later Boden professor of Sanskrit at Oxford. His Sanskrit dictionary and translations of the Rigveda and Vishnu Purana were important scholarly works; Blavatsky extensively used the latter. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#549|2:549]][[SMW::on]]). Compiled a Sanskrit-English dictionary (Calcutta, 1819; enlarged edition, 1832) and translated the ''Rigveda''. His essays on Hindu religion were collected by Reinhold Rost and published in two volumes in 1862. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#384|5:384]][[SMW::on]]). Bibliographical references include: Vishnu-Purāṇa. Tr. by H. H. Wilson. Ed. by Fitzedward Hall. London: Trübner & Co. 1864, 65, 66, 68, 70. Works of the late H. H. Wilson (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#458|9:458]][[SMW::on]]). +