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The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (NWT) is a modern-language translation of the Bible published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. and the International Bible Students Association of Brooklyn, New York (corporations in use by the religious organization commonly known as Jehovah's Witnesses). It was not the first, nor the last translation to be published by them, but it was thei ... Including:

• New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - History
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• New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures - The Kingdom Interlinear Translation

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Will Power.
 
See WILL

 
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Willi.
 
See VILI

 
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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 Magic, White Magicians.
 
See MAGIC, MAGICIAN

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

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

 
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Wing, Wings Often signifying flight, but more accurately the soaring power of the spirit, literally or metaphorically, as in the wings of Mercury, of Christian, Hebrew, and other angelic figures of the Mesopotamian nations, of the horse Pegasus, of the sphinxes representative of the several human powers, of the winged dragons, of the winged wheels mentioned in Ezekiel''s vision of initiation, and also as descriptive of the workings of fohat. The eternal bird, the flutter of whose wings produces life, represents the dual forces proceeding from boundless space, and the emblem is equivalent to Hansa, the Hindu bird of wisdom. Similar to this is the winged globe of Egypt.
 
As the emblem in ancient symbolic art, representative of the soaring power of the human spirit-soul within, and from this fundamental idea the emblem has been applied to derivative symbolic ideas, such as the flight of the inner self into interior worlds during the trials of initiation, or the soaring intelligence of the initiate penetrating into the mysteries and secrets of interior worlds.

 
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