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Main article: Origins of chess Many countries claim to have invented the chess game in some incipient form. The most commonly held belief is that chess originated in India, where it was called Chaturanga, which appears to have been invented in the 6th century AD. Although this is commonly believed, it is thought that Persians created a more modern version of the game after the Indians. In fact, the oldest known chess pieces have been found in excavation ...

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Willi.
 
See VILI

 
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Will Power.
 
See WILL

 
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Will-less A condition of beings who have not yet evolved forth free will, hence without initiative or self-determination. A specific instance is the case where will-less may be applied to the gods in heaven against whom Satan rebelled (as narrated in Milton''s Paradise Lost). In theosophical literature, used in reference to mankind in its early stages before manas (mind) became awakened, hence to the first and second root-races and early third root-race. Even among these early races the will was not absent, but it had not yet come into functional activity.

 
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White Lotus Day May 8; commemorating H. P. Blavatsky''s death in 1891.

 
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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" (TG 369).
 
See also HIRAM ABIF

 
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White Magic, White Magicians.
 
See MAGIC, MAGICIAN

 
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White Regarded as the source whence the seven prismatic colors diverge, it stands for the Logos of a hierarchy. Nearly all the archaic religio-philosophies state that light or white is born of darkness, the incomprehensible deeps of universal life which is darkness only to our poorly evolved sense and mind. In this sense, darkness may often be spoken of as absolute light.
 
As opposed to black, it mystically signifies pure and good: for example, white magician or white magic.

 
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Wisdom.
 
See ATMA-VIDYA; BODHI; HOCHMAH; SOPHIA, ETC.

 
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Winged Globe.
 
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