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Walkyries +

Called the “choosers of the dead”. In the popular poetry of the Scandinavians, these goddesses consecrate the fallen heroes with a kiss, and bearing them from the battle‐field carry them to the halls of bliss and to the gods in Walhalla. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Wallace, Alfred Russel +

British naturalist, explorer and biogeographer. He developed the theory of evolution by natural selection independently of Charles Darwin. The bibliography lists Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection (1870) and On Miracles and Modern Spiritualism (1875; second edition, 1881). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#549|2:549]][[SMW::on]]). His ''On Miracles and Modern Spiritualism'' comprises three essays. De Zirkoff lists London editions of 1875, 1881 and 1896. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#536|3:536]][[SMW::on]]). +

Wallace, Joseph +

The appendix attributes ''History of Mystic Philosophy'' to him but reports that the work could not be identified. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#670|4:670]][[SMW::on]]). +

Wallenstein, Albrecht von +

Military commander and statesman (1583-1634), Duke of Friedland, Sagan and Mecklenburg, prominent in the Thirty Years' War. De Zirkoff also notes his interest in astrology and his efforts to develop education, agriculture, mining and manufacturing in Friedland. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#536|3:536-537]][[SMW::on]]). +

Wanes +

A race of gods of great antiquity, worshipped at the dawn of time by the Norsemen, and later by the Teutonic races. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Wara +

One of the maidens of Northern Freya; “the wise Wara ”, who watches the desires of each human heart, and avenges every breach of faith. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Warburton, William +

English theologian (1698-1779), Bishop of Gloucester from 1759. His works include ''The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated'', first published in two volumes in 1738-1741. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#537|3:537]][[SMW::on]]). +

Ware, James +

Author of ''De scriptoribus Hiberniae'' (Dublin, 1639). The appendix lists English versions on the writers of Ireland published in 1704 and 1764, the latter continued by Walter Harris. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.7)#401|7:401]][[SMW::on]]). +

Was Writing Known Before Panini? +

Authorship is uncertain. [[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]] records suggestions of [[Subba Row, Tallapragada|T. Subba Row]] and M. M. Chatterji and allows for [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s editorial involvement, without attributing the article unequivocally to her. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Was Writing Known Before Panini#294|BCW 5:294]]) +

Water +

The first principle of things, according to Thales and other ancient philosophers. Of course this is not water on the material plane, but in a figurative sense for the potential fluid contained in boundless space. This was symbolised in ancient Egypt by ''Kneph'', the “unrevealed” god, who was represented as the serpent — the emblem of eternity — encircling a water‐urn, with his head hovering over the waters, which he incubates with his breath. “And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” (''Gen''. i.) The honey‐dew, the food of the gods and of the ''creative bees'' on the Yggdrasil, falls during the night upon the tree of life from the “divine waters, the birth‐place of the gods ”. Alchemists claim that when pre‐Adamic earth is reduced by the Alkahest to its first substance, it is like clear water. The Alkahest is “the one and the invisible, the water, the first principle, in the'' second'' transformation”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Watkins, Geoffrey +

Son of J. M. Watkins, holding the manuscripts of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Nebo of Birs-Nimrud and Pherecydes formerly owned by his father. The former was transcribed from microfilm for the Collected Writings. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Nebo of Birs-Nimrud#271|BCW 13:271]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Pherecydes#283|BCW 13:283]]) +

Watkins, John M. +

As [[Mead, George Robert Stow|G. R. S. Mead]]’s literary executor searched his unpublished manuscripts after his death in 1933 without finding a commentary on Pistis Sophia. Owned [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s autograph manuscripts of Nebo of Birs-Nimrud and Pherecydes, later held by his son Geoffrey. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Introductory Notes to H.P.B.s Commentary on the Pistis Sophia#4|BCW 13:4]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Nebo of Birs-Nimrud#271|BCW 13:271]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - Pherecydes#283|BCW 13:283]]) His full name was John Maurice Watkins (1862–1947), according to the [https://www.watkinsbooks.com/history-of-watkins history of the bookshop he founded]. +

Watson, P. H. +

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

We +

One of the three gods — Odin, [[Wili]] and We — who kill the giant Ymir (chaotic force), and create the world out of his body, the primordial substance. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Weber, Albrecht +

The Appendix refers readers to BCW V, 383-384 for biographical information. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.2)#549|2:549]][[SMW::on]]). German Orientalist (1825-1901) and professor at Berlin, noted for Vedic studies. Edited ''Indische Studien'' and the White Yajurveda, contributed to Böhtlingk and Roth’s Sanskrit dictionary, and wrote a history of Indian literature. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#383|5:383-384]][[SMW::on]]). Biographical and bibliographical information is referenced to BCW volume 5, pages 383-384 (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.10)#428|10:428]][[SMW::on]]). +

Weber, Wilhelm Eduard +

German physicist (1804-1891), professor at Göttingen and Leipzig. His investigations of electric currents and electrical theory contributed to the background of Maxwell's work on the electromagnetic nature of light. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#537|3:537]][[SMW::on]]). +

Webster's Complete Dictionary, 1880 +

The bibliography lists an 1880 edition of Webster's Complete Dictionary (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#458|9:458]][[SMW::on]]). +

Webster, Forster +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol5|vol. 5]] (1883–1884). +

Weeks, Nicholas Curtis +

Read proofs at various stages of production of volume XII of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings. ([[Zirkoff, Boris|B. de Zirkoff]], [[Zirkoff B. - Foreword (BCW vol.12)#xxi|BCW 12:xxi]]) Assisted with indexing and proofreading volume XIII of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings. ([[Eklund, Dara R.|D. Eklund]], [[Eklund D. - Foreword (BCW vol.13)#xxi|BCW 13:xxi]]) Assisted in every phase of preparing volume XIV of [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]]’s Collected Writings, including proofreading and indexing. ([[Eklund, Dara R.|D. Eklund]], [[Eklund D. - Foreword (BCW vol.14)#xxi|BCW 14:xxi-xxii]]) +

Welcker, Friedrich Gottlieb +

Bibliographical references include: Griechische Götterlehre. Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1857-63. 3 vols. 8vo (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.8)#478|8:478]][[SMW::on]]). +