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Wolleb, Theo. G. Ed. +

President of the Aurora Lodge of the Theosophical Society at Oakland, California, established in 1889 after its members left the Golden Gate Lodge at San Francisco. +

Woman: Her Position and Her Prospects, Her Duties and Her Doings +

“Woman: Her Position and Her Prospects, Her Duties and Her Doings,” Lady’s Pictorial, London, March 3rd, 1888 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#416|9:416]][[SMW::on]]). +

Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly +

This was the leading and most outrageous of the radical spiritualist magazines, featuring the political battles of Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927), the first woman nominated to run for president of the United States, in 1872), her war against Henry Ward Beecher and advocacy of "free love," and the lucubrations of Stephen Pearl Andrews on Universology and the Pantarchy. Woodhull, Claflin, Blood and Andrews contributed most of the content, all along the lines of radical reform, communism, anti-clericalism, and free love. (IAPSOP) Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly was an American weekly newspaper first published on May 14, 1870 by sisters Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin. [[Category: CTD info from Wikipedia]] (WP) +

Woodman, L. C. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol6|vol. 6]] (1884–1885). +

Woodman, S. E. +

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

Word, The (periodical) +

New York periodical edited by Harold W. Percival, with twenty-five volumes issued from October 1904 to September 1917 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#430|10:430]][[SMW::on]]). +

Wordsworth, William +

An English poet and a central figure of Romanticism. +

Working Womens Club +

Founded by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] with others at 193 Bow Road in London’s East End. Opened on 16 August 1890, under L. Cooper and [[Besant, Annie|A. Besant]]; it closed in 1894 because of excessive costs. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev (BCW vol.12)#xxv|BCW 12:xxv]]) +

World +

As a prefix to mountains, trees, and so on, it denotes a universal belief. Thus the “World‐Mountain” of the Hindus was Meru. As said in ''Isis Unveiled'': “All the world‐mountains and mundane eggs, the mundane trees, and the mundane snakes and pillars, may be shown to embody scientifically demonstrated truths of natural philosophy. All of these mountains contain, with very trifling variations, the allegorically‐expressed description of primal cosmogony ; the mundane trees, that of subsequent evolution of spirit and matter; the mundane snakes and pillars, symbolical memorials of the various attributes of this double evolution in its endless correlation of cosmic forces. Within the mysterious recesses of the mountain — the matrix of the universe — the gods (powers) prepare the atomic germs of organic life, and at the same time the life‐drink, which, when tasted, awakens in man‐matter the man‐''spirit''. The Soma, the sacrificial drink of the Hindus, is that sacred beverage. For, at the creation of the ''prima'' ''materia'', while the grossest portions of it were used for the physical embryo‐world, its more divine essence pervaded the universe, invisibly permeating and enclosing within its ethereal waves the newly‐born infant, developing and stimulating it to activity as it slowly evolved out of the eternal chaos. From the poetry of abstract conception, these mundane myths gradually passed into the concrete images of cosmic symbols, as archæology now finds them.” Another and still more usual prefix to all these objects is “Mundane”. (See “Mundane Egg”, “Mundane Tree”, and “Yggdrasil”.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

World, The (London) +

London (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#480|8:480]][[SMW::on]]). London paper (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#462|9:462]][[SMW::on]]). +

Worlds, Inferior and Superior +

The Occultists and the Kabbalists agree in dividing the universe into superior and inferior worlds, the worlds of Idea and the worlds of Matter. “As above, so below”, states the Hermetic philosophy. This lower world is formed on its prototype — the higher world; and “everything in the lower is but an image (a reflection) of the higher”. ''(Zohar,'' ii., fol. 2oa.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Worlds, the Four +

The Kabbalists recognise Four Worlds of Existence: viz., Atziluth or archetypal ; Briah or creative, the first reflection of the highest; Yetzirah or formative; and Assiah, the ‘World of Shells or Klippoth, and the material universe. The essence of Deity concentrating into the Sephiroth is first manifested in the Atziluthic World, and their reflections are produced in succession in each of the four planes, with gradually lessening radiance and purity, until the material universe is arrived at. Some authors call these four planes the intellectual, Moral, Sensuous, and Material Worlds. [w.w.w.] [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Wreck of the SS Eunomia +

An explosion aboard the steamship on 4 July 1871, after which [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] reached Alexandria ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, General Outline of her Life Prior to her Public Work#xlix|BCW 1:xlix]]). +

Wright, Claude Falls +

Irish Theosophist and member of H. P. Blavatsky’s Inner Group in London. Assisted at the London headquarters and was present at Blavatsky’s death in 1891. Irish Theosophist and early collaborator of Blavatsky, at times her secretary and manager of the publishing company associated with the London headquarters. Later lectured and organized branches in the United States (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.11)#593|11:593-594]][[SMW::on]]). In September 1890 was in charge of installing the H.P.B. Press at the new London headquarters, for which funds had already been provided. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbrev (BCW vol.12)#xxv|BCW 12:xxv]]) +

Wundt, Wilhelm Max +

German psychologist and philosopher (1832-1920), founder of an institute for experimental psychology at Leipzig University. His numerous works addressed psychology, physiology, logic and ethics. Blavatsky refers to his Der Spiritismus, an open letter to Hermann Ulrici (Leipzig, 1879). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#549|2:549-550]][[SMW::on]]). +

Wyld, George +

A Scottish physician interested in homeopathy, spiritualism and theosophy. He presided over the British Theosophical Society from 1880 until his resignation in 1882. His publications included ''Theosophy and the Higher Life'' (1880) and ''Notes of My Life'' (1903). Scottish homeopathic physician (1821-1906), interested in mesmerism and psychical research. He became president of the British branch of the Theosophical Society but resigned in 1882 over religious differences. He was also a founding member and first-council member of the Society for Psychical Research, and wrote ''Theosophy and the Higher Life''. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#538|3:538-539]][[SMW::on]]). In the preface to the second edition of his book on Theosophy, explained that he left the Theosophical Society after finding that [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] did not recognise a personal God. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Leaven of Theosophy|BCW 3:53]]) [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] records his election as vice-president of the London branch on 7 January 1883. This requires reconciliation with accounts of his resignation from the Society in 1882. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.4)#xxv|BCW 4:xxv]], [[Zirkoff B. - Chronological Survey & Key to Abbreviations (BCW vol.4)#xxvii|BCW 4:xxvii]]) His critical letter on [[Sinnett, Alfred Percy|A. P. Sinnett]]’s Esoteric Buddhism appeared in Light on 21 July 1883. [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s reply and a protest originally signed by more than five hundred Indian Theosophists appeared there on 27 October. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Esoteric Buddhism and its Critic#329|BCW 5:329]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Esoteric Buddhism and its Critic#334|BCW 5:334]])

Wöhler, Friedrich +

German chemist. Studied at the Univ. of Marburg and Heidelberg, 1820-21; took degree in surgery, 1823, but was persuaded by Gmelin to devote himself to chemistry (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#458|9:458]][[SMW::on]]). +

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'''X''' — This letter is one of the important symbols in the Occult philosophy. As a numeral '''X''' stands, in mathematics, for the unknown quantity; in occult numerals, for the perfect number '''10'''; when placed horizontally, thus χ, it means 1,000; the same with a dash over it χ for 10,000; and by itself, in occult symbolism, it is Plato’s ''logos ''(man as a microcosm) decussated in space in the form of the letter '''X.''' The, or cross within the circle, has moreover a still clearer significance in Eastern occult philosophy: it IS MAN within his own ''spherical'' envelope. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Xenophilus +

A Pythagorean adept and philosopher, credited by Lucian (''de Macrob''.), Pliny and others with having lived to his 170th year, preserving all his faculties to the last. He wrote on music and was surnamed the “ Musician”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Xifre, Jose +

Spanish nobleman and scholar who supported the spread of Theosophy in Spain. A pupil of H. P. Blavatsky and a friend of H. S. Olcott. +