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Vetala +

An elemental, a spook, which haunts burial grounds and animates corpses. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Vetala Siddhi +

A practice of sorcery; means of obtaining power over the living by black magic, incantations, and ceremonies performed over a dead human body, during which process the corpse is desecrated. (See [[Vetala|Vetâla]].) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Vetala-panchavimsati +

“Twenty-Five Tales of the Vetala”. De Zirkoff lists Richard Burton's version, ''Vikram and the Vampire'' (1870), and ''The Baital Pachisi'', translated by W. B. Barker and edited by E. B. Eastwick (London, 1855). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#535|3:535]][[SMW::on]]). [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] tentatively connects a distorted title used by [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] with this collection. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Study of Russian by Indian Officers|BCW 3:49]]) +

Vetlyaninskaya Stanitsa +

A settlement on the Volga in Enotayevsk district, Astrakhan province, founded in 1764–1765; [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] identifies the setting of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s account of the last good lama. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Last of a Good Lama#29|BCW 8:29]]) +

Vetterling, Herman Carl +

Swedish-born American Swedenborgian minister, homeopathic physician and Theosophist who adopted Buddhism. Published ''The Buddhist Ray'' under the name Philangi Dasa. +

Vial, Mathieu +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol8|vol. 8]] (1886–1887). +

Vianney, Jean-Baptiste-Marie +

French priest known as the Curé d'Ars, appointed parish priest at Ars in 1818 and canonized in 1925. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#669|4:669-670]][[SMW::on]]). +

Vibhavasu +

A mystic fire connected with the beginning of ''pralaya'', or the dissolution of the universe. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Vibhutayah +

The same as ''Siddhis'' or magic powers. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Viccaji, R. B. +

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

Vidya +

Knowledge, Occult Science. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Vidya‐dhara +

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

Vieuxtemps, Henri +

Belgian violinist and composer (1820-1881), pupil of Bériot and one of the founders of the Franco-Belgian school of violin playing. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#536|3:536]][[SMW::on]]). +

Vihara +

Any place inhabited by Buddhist priests or ascetics; a Buddhist temple, generally a rock‐temple or cave. A monastery, or a nunnery also. One finds in these days Vihâras built in the enclosures of monasteries and academies for Buddhist training in towns and cities; but in days of yore they were to be met with only in unfrequented wild jungles, on mountain tops, and in the most deserted places. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Viharaswamin +

The superior (whether male or female) of a monastery or convent, Vihâra. Also called ''Karmadâna'', as every teacher or guru, having authority, takes upon himself the responsibility of certain actions, good or bad, committed by his pupils or the flock entrusted to him. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Vihiva Pûnnûttee Sûtra +

A Jain scriptural text, published by Ookerdhaboy Shewjee in Bombay in 1877, cited by Zirkoff among the Appendix's bibliographical entries. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.1)#530|1:530]][[SMW::on]]). +

Vijnanam +

The Vedântic name for the principle which dwells in the ''Vijnânamaya Kosha'' (the sheath of intellect) and corresponds to the faculties of the Higher Manas. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Vikarttana +

Lit., “shorn of his rags”; a name of the Sun, and the type of the initiated neophyte. (See ''Secret '' ''Doctrine'', I., p. 322, n.) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Vikram and the Vampire +

R. F. Burton’s English adaptation of tales of the vetala. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Study of Russian by Indian Officers|BCW 3:49]]) +

Vimoksha +

The same as Nirvâna. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +