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Abano, Petrus of 57 Baader, Franz von 124 Abeille, Mireille 245 Babylon 216–218, 221–223, 226–232, 235 Abelson, Joshua 110, 116–119, 121 Bachofen, Johann Jakob 246 Abhinavagupta 147 Baier, Karl 136 Abraham von Worms 19 Bailey, Alice 124 Académie des Sciences Morales et Balfour, Arthur James 67 Politiques 110 Balfour, Gerald 70 Academy of the Natural Sciences Bandyopādhyāy, Surendranāth 146 Leopoldina 10, 82f., 85f., 89f., 94f. Bannatyne Club 63 Accart, Xavier 196f. Barbault, André 193 Adyar 251, 259, 265 Basnage, Jacques 105 Adyar Library 19, 259, 265 Bastian, Adolf 40, 51 Agnon, Samuel Yosef 119 Batinism 240 Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Beckh, Eugen B. 241 Cornelius 19, 50, 57 Beckh, Hermann 241 Ahmadi 245 Beckh, Marie (née Seiler) 241 Akbar, Moghul emperor 47 Bektashism 240 al-Bīrūnī. See Bīrūnī, al- Bennoit, Lucie 259 al-Hallaj, Mansur. See Hallaj, al- Benson, Edward White 70 Alcyone. See Krishnamurti Benson, Mary (née Sidgwick) 70 Alpert, Richard (Ram Dass) 183 Benson, Robert Hugh 70 Alt, Peter-André 25, 32 Bensusan, Samuel Levi 116 Amis de la Pensée indienne, les 199 Bergman, Hugo 119f. Andrae, Walter 11, 216–236 Bergson, Henri-Louis 150, 188f. Anglo-Jewish Lodge of Theosophists 116 Bergunder, Michael 19, 21, 26 Animism 58, 167f. Bernard, Léo 3 Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe 137 Berneuchener Bewegung 257 Anthropological Society (London) 63 Berthelot, Marcellin 211 Anthroposophical Society 119, 241 Besant, Annie 70, 141, 143, 165, 251, 19, 118–120, 216–219, 240 255, 265 Aquinas, Thomas 154 Bhagavadgītā 249, 251f. Arbeiterverbrüderung 83 Bharati, Agehananda 132, 153 Archive for Animal Magnetism 87–89 Bhāratī, Hariharānanda 147 Ārya Samāj 137, 139–141 Biot, Jean Baptiste 211 aš-Šahrastānī. See Šahrastānī,aš- Bisson, David 194 Ashur 216–218, 223 Bīrūnī, al- 46 Assmann, Jan 32 Blake, William 126 Association of Hebrew Theosophists 118 Blau, Joseph 121, 123 Athenaeum Club 62 Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna 2, 5, 9, 58f., Aurobindo 149, 197, 203f., 210 66–74, 76, 107, 122f., 125, 164, 166, Avalon, Arthur. See Woodroffe, John 168, 172, 177, 249, 253, 265 Avalon, Ellen 141 Bodendörfer, Judith 11f. Ayni, Mehmet Ali 239f. Bodmershof, Elfriede 245

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Boehme, Jacob 124, 126 Colquhoun, Ithell 115 Bogdan, Henrik 192 Comparative studies 60–62, 162, 171, 176, Bohley, Johanna 91 200–203, 257 Boirac, Émile 150 – and Evans-Wentz 183–185 Brāhma Samāj 137, 139, 147 – France 208–210 Bréhier, Émile 188 – Massson-Oursel 188–191 British National Spiritualist Alliance 68f. – Tantra 153–157 Britten, Emma Hardinge 59 Comte, Auguste 190 Brod, Max 245 Conrady, August 261 Brucker, Johann Jakob 20 Constant, Alphonse Louis 15, 107–109, Brunton, Paul (Raphael Hurst) 166 122, 141 Buber, Martin 3, 11, 106, 120, 253 Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish Muthu Buddha, Gautama 166, 169, 176–178, 154, 243 182, 241 Cooper, Laura Mary 253 Buddhism 58, 208, 241, 243, 261–264; Cooper-Oakley, Isabel 76 see Tibet; Zen Corbin, Henri 124, 201, 208, 247–249 Buddhistischer Missionsverein fur̈ Corneille, Pierre 199 Deutschland 261 Corson, Hiram 125 Budge, Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis 76 Cousin, Victor 110, 112 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earl 57 Cox, George William 47 Burne, Charlotte S. 74 Crispo, Giovanni Battista 20 Burnouf, Eugène 204 Crookes, William Sir 67–69 Burton, Richard Francis Sir 63 Crowley, Aleister 107–109 Buxtorf, Johannes 105 Curie, Marie 9 Cusanus, Nicolaus 46 Caithness, Marie Countess of (Duchess de Cyranka, Daniel 7, 10 Pomár) 58f. Campbell, Joseph John 183 Dacca Literary Society 148 Cantor, Georg 9 Darwin, Charles 45, 49, 55, 65 Carus, Carl Gustav 86, 90 Dasgupta, Shashibhusan 183 Carus, Paul 261, 263 David-Néel, Alexandra 166 Catholicism 22f., 61, 151f., 190, 247, 255, Davis, Andrew Jackson 83, 85f., 88, 91, 257, 261f. 93–98 Cellini, Benvenuto 57 Dayānanda Saraswatī,Swāmī 137f. Celts 168–171, 180 de Giorgio, Guido Lupo Maria 195f. Centre Védantique Ramakrishna 199 De Smedt, Marc 200 Certeau, Michel de 247 Della Porta, Giambattista 57 Chaldean Oracles 111f. Demarquette, Jacques 193 Champollion, Jean-François 204 Deussen, Paul 249, 259 Chatterji, Bankim Candra 146 Deutschkatholiken 82–91, 95, 99 Chavannes, Émmanuel-Édouard 189 Dharmapala, Anagarika 261 Christian Community, The 232–234, 241 Diogenes Laërtius 190 Claudel, Paul 204 Divination 86–89, 99 Clodd, Edward 45, 54f., 57, 64 Donner, Uno 8 Clouston, William Alexander 64 Dorson, Richard 64 Colberg, Ehregott Daniel 20, 24f. Downie, R. Angus 48 Colebrooke, Henry Thomas 204 du Potet de Sennevoy, Jules Denis 140 Index 277

Dupuis, Charles François 46f. Folklore (studies) 44–75, 113, 165, 168–171; Durand, Gilbert 247 see Celts Durkheim, David Émile 6, 189f. Folklore Society 44, 54, 63f., 74 Duval, Valentine 145 Foucher, Alfred Charles Auguste 189, 195, 205, 210 Eckartshausen, Karl von 247 Fourier, Charles 96 Eckhart von Hochheim (Meister Eckhart) Fox sisters (Leah, Margaretta, 154 Catherine) 84f. École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris 187, Franck, Adolphe 106, 110, 111f., 114, 117, 121, 195, 199 123, 239 Edison, Thomas Alva 9 Frazer, James George 6, 44–46, 48, 50–55, Ehrenfels, Baron Christian von 245 57, 61–65, 68, 75, 168 Ehrenfels, Baron Omar (Umar) Rolf von Freemasonry 138, 247, 257 245 Freireligiöse 99 Ehrenfels, Emma (née André) 245 Frenschkowski, Marco 2 Einstein, Albert 9 Fröbe-Kapteyn, Olga 124 Eisler, Robert 124, 253 Eliade, Mircea 124, 132, 153f., 174, 183, Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand 142, 197 193f., 210, 243 Gaster, Moses 110, 113–116, 121, 124 Éliphas Lévi. See Constant, Alphonse Louis Gaster, Theodor 116 Emden, Jacob 105 German Catholics Movement. See Emerson, Ralph Waldo 164 Deutschkatholiken Emmrich, Martin 86 Gernet, Nina 251 Encausse, Gérard Anaclet Vincent Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei) 200 (Papus) 107–109, 112, 122, 194 Gewurtz, Elias 122 Epictetus 199 Ghoṣ,Aṭal Bihāri 133 Eranos Circle 124, 153, 201, 208, 247, Gifford lectures 65, 67, 71 253, 257 Ginsburg, Christian 125 Eschenmayer, Carl August von 89 Globalisation 27–33; see Buddhism; Esoteric School () 241, 253 Hinduism; Islam; Theosophy Esotericism (concept) 1–8, 14–39, 104f., 108, Goetz, Walter 261 121–127, 135, 138f., 141–152, 192–194, Goldberg, Oskar 108, 122 239f., 247f. Golden Dawn. See Hermetic Order of the Ethnological Society of London 63 Golden Dawn Etudes Juives 110 Gomme, George Lawrence Sir 64 European Society for the Study of Western Goudriaan, Teun 134 Esotericism (ESSWE) 19, 26 Govinda, Anagarika (Ernst Lothar Evans-Wentz, Walter Yeeling 3, 11, 76, 132, Hoffmann) 166, 172 153f., 161–185 Graetz, Heinrich 106, 114, 117 Evola, Julius (Giulio Cesare Andrea) 132, 150, Grail 257 153, 187 Grand Loge Nationale Française 247 Grant, Kenneth 153 Fabre d’Olive, Antoine 122 Grimm, brothers 51, 57 Faivre, Antoine 3, 16–18, 26, 31, 35, 38, 247 Grimm, Georg 261 Feld, Ellen 245 Groupe d’Etudes des Techniques Mystiques Ficino, Marsilio 16 et du Yoga 197 Filliozat, Jean 203 Gruppo di Ur 187, 192 278 Index

Guaita, Stanislas de 122 Iamblichus 57 Guénon, René (Jean Marie Joseph) 33, 126, Ibn Arabi 239 194–197, 204, 207, 209f., 243 Idel, Moshe 110 Günther, Johann Christian 86 Ignatian exercises 257 Gupta, Sanjukta 134 Inge, Ralph 127 Gurney, Edmund 68f. Institut de Civilisation indienne 198f., Gutierrez, Alejandro 199, 210 204–206 Guy, David 164 Institute de France 110 International Lodge (Tokyo) 263 Hacker, Paul 198 Islam 28–31, 35, 179, 200f., 239f., 245f.; Haddon, Alfred Cort 64 see Batinism; Sufi Halbfass, Wilhelm 198 Hallaj, al- 37 Jacobs, Joseph 64 Hammer, Olav 192 James, William 46, 48, 57, 69, 126, 150, 165, Hanegraaff, Wouter Jacobus 20–22, 26, 168, 170 50, 53, 97, 106–108, 112, 247 Janet, Pierre Marie Félix 189 Happich, Carl 257 Jellinek, Adolf 106 Hargrove Branch 249 Jesus (Christ) 176, 182, 200, 253 Harināth, Kāngāl 146 Jewish Historical Society 64 Harnack, Adolf von 61 Johnston, Charles 249f. Harrison, Jane Ellen 46, 75 Johnston, Vera (née de Zhelihovsky) 249 Hartland, Edwin Sidney 46, 48, 52, Jordan, Louis Henry 66 63f. Judge, William Quan 165, 249 Hartmann, Franz 68 Jung, Carl Gustav 124, 132, 153–155, 164, Hauer, Jakob Wilhelm 132, 154 172, 183 Havell, Ernest Binfield 154 Heiman, Samuel I. 116 Kabbalah/Jewish 104–128, Helmboldt, Cecilia 251 104–111, 116–128, 190; see Zohar Herbert, Jean 200–204, 207f., 210 Kalidasa 241 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn 53, 74f., Kamensky, Anna 251 107, 123 Kamensky, Margarita Alexeyevna 251 19–25, 58, 76, 255 Kardec, Allan 85, 93 Herodotus 46 Kasar Devi, Almora (India) 167 Heruka, Tsangnyön 178f. Keightley, Archibald 69 Herzl, Theodor 118 Kemper, Hans-Georg 23, 25 Hibbert Lectures 65 Kerner, Justinus 85 High Court of Calcutta 133 Keyserling, Hermann 257 Hinduism 58, 196–207, 211 Kielhorn, Franz 261 Hodgson, Richard 67f., 70 Kieser, Georg 86, 89f. Hoens, Dirk Jan 134 Kilcher, Andreas 120 Horodezky, Samuel Abba 106 Kingsford, Anna 58, 69 Hunt, James 63 Kingsland, William 69 Huss, Boaz 3, 30 Kipling, Rudyard 73 Huxley, Aldous Leonard 182f. Kirchberger, Niklaus Anton 247 Huxley, Thomas Henry 45, 49, 55, 63, 150 Kircher, Athanasius 23 Hydesville 85 Knorr von Rosenroth, Christian 107, 123 Index 279

Kōsen, Imakita 263 Magical school of Salamanca 51 Kripal, Jeffrey John 3, 38, 153 Magnetism 84–90, 94, 182 Krishna 166, 200 Mahābhārata 252 Krishna Prem, Sri (Ronald Henry Nixon) 166 Mahabodhi-Gesellschaft 261 Krishna Sastri, Ganapati 259 Mahatma letters 67 Krishnamurti, Jiddu 70, 166, 187, 265 Mahayana Lodge (Kyoto) 263 Kuhn, Adalbert 47 Maimonides, Moses 123 Maitland, Edward 58 Lacombe, Olivier 210 Majumdār, Baradā Kānta 136, 138–144, 151 Lallement, Maude 205 Majumdār, Jñānendralāl 136 Lalon, Fakir 145 Malinowski, Bronisław 6 Landauer, Meyer Heinrich Hirsch 106 Mandala 246 Lane, Beatrice 263 Manen, Mari Albert Johan van 259, 265 Lang, Andrew 44, 46, 48f., 54–57, 64, 68, Manen, Maria Albertina Johanna 265 75, 168 Manen, Reinier Otto van 265 Langsdorff, Georg von 86 Martinez de Pasqually, Jacques de Livron Lardinois, Roland 187, 204f. Joachim de la Tour de las Case 112 Lauenstein, Diether 8 Martinismus 247 Le Cour, Paul 211 Massey, Charles Carleton 68f. Leadbeater, Charles Webster 67, 142, 253, Massignon, Louis 239 255, 265 Masson-Oursel, Paul 3, 11, 132, 153, 157, Leary, Timothy Francis 183 187–202, 204–211 Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm 196 Masui, Jacques 209 Leipzig School of Neogrammarians 47 Mathers, Samuel Liddell MacGregor 107, Leland, Charles Godfrey 52, 57 115f. Leon, Moses de 114 Mauss, Marcel 189 Lepsius, Karl Richard 172 McDougall, William 168 Les Amis de la Pensée indienne. See Amis de McLennan, John Ferguson 48 la Pensée indienne, les Mead, George Herbert 170 Levertoff, Paul 117 Mead, George Robert Stow 76, 115–117, Lévi, Éliphas. See Constant, Alphonse-Louis 123f., 253 Lévi, Sylvain 132, 153, 189, 194, 204, Mead, Mary (née Stow) 253 208–211 Méautis, Georges 255f. Lévy-Bruhle, Lucien 188–190 Meghaduta 241 Lewis, Samuel 122, 127 Meister Eckhart. See Eckhart von Hochheim Liberal Catholic Church 255 Melanchthon, Philipp 25 Lichtfreunde 99 Mesmer, Franz Anton 85, 93, 140 Linnaean Society 249 Metzner, Ralph 183 Linssen, Robert 187 Meyrink, Gustav 108, 122, 253 Lodge, Oliver Sir 68 Milarepa, Jetsun 178–180, 183f. Loma Land 165 Modena, Leon 105 London Lodge of Theosophy 69 Molitor, Franz Joseph 122f., 125f., 128 Lopez, Donald Sewell Jr. 163f., 171 Monod-Herzen, Gabriel 204, 207, 209 Lotus 112 Moore, Charles Alexander 191 Lubbock, John Sir 64 Morin, Jean 105 Luther, Martin 25 Morris, William 243 Lutyens, Emily Lady (née Bulwer-Lytton) 69 Mouttapa, Jean 200 280 Index

Mühlematter, Yves 11, 162 Pierce, Charles 38 Müller, Ernst 110, 118–121 Piraino, Francesco 28 Müller, Friedrich Max 1, 4, 6, 46–48, 53, Pischel, Richard 261 56–61, 65, 71–75, 176, 184, 259 Pistis Sophia 253 Musée Guimet, Paris 195, 198 Plato 111, 174 Museumsinsel Berlin 11, 218–236 Plutarch 46, 255 Myers, Frederic William Henry 54, 68f., 170 Podmore, Frank 68f. Mystery cults 256 Porphyry 46 Mysticism 112, 124–128, 239f. Primitivism 58 Protestantism 22f., 152, 257 Nasse, Christian Friedrich 89f. Pye, Michael 28 Needham, Rodney 34 Pythagoreans 14 Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel 7, 10, 82–96, 98–100 Quakers 48 22, 111, 190 Quest Society 115f., 253 Neugebauer-Wölk, Monika 23 Quispel, Gilles 124 (movements) 107, 127 Ngwene Moussa, Désiré 12 Raatz, Paul 259 Nobel, Johannes 8 Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli 197, 203 Noble, Margaret Elizabeth 243 Ramakrishna Order 198f., 205 Nutt, Alfred Trübner 64, 169 Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Sri (Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya) 198–200 Occultism 1f., 4f., 6–8, 15, 19, 22, 36, 45, Ramana Maharishi, Shri 166 49f., 52, 55, 58, 60, 67f., 72, 75f., 83f., Rationalist Press Association 55 96, 98f., 100 110, 115, 117f., 120f., 132, Rāy, Rām Mohan 147 138–141, 143f., 150f., 154f., 162, 193, 240 Raya-Yoga School 165 Ockham, William of 37 Regardie, Francis Israel 122, 153, 155 Oetinger, Friedrich Christopher 124 Reichenbach, Karl Ludwig von 140 Olcott, Henry Steel 5, 67, 73, 259, 265 Reincarnation 166–178 Order of the Eastern Star 255 Religionswissenschaft. See Religious studies Orientbund 245 Religious studies 1–12, 16, 18–20, 23, 28, Orthodox Christianity 249, 251 31f., 35, 54–56, 60, 63, 75, 82, 84, 127, Otto, Rudolf 4 162f., 249, 251 – and Science 100f. Padmasambhava 181 – Great Britain 44–49 Paix et Lumière Society 251 – Spiritualism 96f. Palatschek, Sylvia 1 Renou, Louis 203–206, 208–211 Palladino, Eusapia 54 Reuchlin, Johann 107, 109, 121, 128 Pan(en)theism 17 Reynolds, John Michael 162f., 166, 181f. Papus. See Encausse, Gérard Rhys Davids, Thomas Williams 28 Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus von Rhys, John 168 Hohenheim) 57, 68, 112, 140 Rice University, Houston 3 Parsifal 257 Richet, Charles Robert 68 Patanjali 137 Rimbach-Sator, Friedemann 162, 168, 171 Philo Alexandrinus 111 Riquet, Michel 247 Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni 107 Ritter, Karl Bernhard 257 Index 281

Rivers, Augustus Fox Pitt 64 Shankaracarya 178 Rolland, Romain 198 Shunyata (Alfred Julius Emmanuel Ronge, Johannes 90f. Sorensen) 166 Rosicrucians 138 Sibly, Ebenezer 140 Ross, Alexander 46 Siddheswarananda, Swami 199, 205f., 210 Rousselle, Erwin 257 Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred (née Balfour) 67, Roxburghe Club 63 70 Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Sidgwick, Henry 67f., 70 Britain and Ireland 63 Silburn, Lilian 132, 153 Royal Asiatic Society 253 Simon, Maurice 117, 119 Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal 265 Sinnett, Alfred Percy 28, 69, 165, 168, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and 176–178, 253 Ireland 63 Sitra Achra 109 Royal Asiatic Society Oriental Translation Smith, Jonathan Zittell 57 Fund 63 Smith, William Robertson 46–48, 57, 61, 75 Royal Historical Society 63 Smythe Palmer, Abram 47 Royal Society (for Improving Natural Snellgrove, David Llewellyn 183 Knowledge) 62, 67 Société des Russell, George William 168 Society for Psychical Research (S.P.R.) 54f., 66–70, 74, 116, 170 Šahrastānī,aš-46 Society of Antiquaries in London 51 Saif, Liana 29, 32 Society of Metapsychic Studies (Turkey) 239 Saint Martin, Louis–Claude de 112 Sōen, Shaku 263 Saler, Benson 34 Sorbonne 188, 194, 205 Samdup, Kazi-Dawa (Lama) 163, 166, 172, Sorcery 53 174, 177 Spencer, Herbert 45f., 65 Santos, André 12 Spencer, John 46 Sarmis, Dilek 28 Sperling, Harry 117 Saurat, Denis 239 Sphinx (German theosophical magazine) 68 Schlieter, Jens 3 Spiritualism 49–51, 55, 59, 67, 74, 84f., Schmidt, Robin 8 91–96, 116, 118, 143, 164, 182, 239f. Schocken, Zalman 122 Stausberg, Michael 34 Scholem, Gershom 3, 11, 104–110, 119, Steiner, Rudolf 9, 37, 118–120, 240f. 121–128, 208 Stengel, Friedemann 24 Schouten, Jan Arnoldus 9 Steuco, Agostino 23 Schrader, Friedrich Otto 259 Strauss, Charles T. 261 Schuré, Edouard 239 Strong, John 162 Schwartz, Friedrich Leberecht Wilhelm 47 Strube, Julian 3, 11 Scott-Elliot, William 75 Stuckrad, Kocku von 3, 18f., 21, 26, 38 Scotus, Michael 57 Sufism 239f., 245 Seal, Brajendranath 191 Suzuki, Daisetsu Teitarō 263 Second International Folk-Lore Congress 51 Swadeshi movement 146, 149 Sedgwick, Mark 28–32, 194 Swedenborg Society (Japan) 263 Sefer Yetzira 111f. Swedenborg, Emanuel 24, 85, 96, 263 Sefirot 125 Swedenborgianism 263 Seidenstucker,̈ Karl Bernhard 261 Swiss National Science Foundation 11f. Seneca the Younger, Lucius Annaeus 199 Syamananda Brahmachary, Swami 166 282 Index

Talmud 111, 117 – Anglo-Jewish Lodge of Theosophists Tantra 132–160 – Anthroposophy Tatya, Tukaram 140 – Ārya Samāj Taylor, Kathleen 133, 144 – Association of Hebrew Theosophists The Christian Community. See Christian – Esoteric School (Theosophy) Community, The – Hargrove Branch . See Theosophist, The – Liberal Catholic Church The Truth Seeker. See Truth Seeker, The – Loma Land Theosophical Societies 9, 44, 59, 62, – London Lodge of Theosophy 66–73, 107, 112, 115f., 118, 123–126, – Mahayana Lodge 195, 203f., 239, 249, 251, 253, 255, 259, – Order of the Eastern Star 261, 263, 265 – Sphinx (German theosophical magazine) -Convention 265 – Quest Society Theosophical University, San Diego 165 – Vestnik Teosofii Theosophisches Leben 259 Thilenius, Georg 261 Theosophist, The 249 253, 259, 261, 263 Thomasius, Jakob 20 Theosophy 49, 58–60, 67–76, 115, 117f., Thoms, William 64 128, 161, 167, 171, 176, 178f., 181, 184, Tibetan Buddhism 161–184, 265f. 240f., 249–252, 255, 259f., 263–265 Tingley, Katherine Augusta Westcott 165 – and India 135–144 Toumarkine, Alexandre 30, 33 – Kabbalah 112, 123–126 Truth Seeker, The 136, 139 – Religious studies in France 203–206 Tucci, Giuseppe 183 – Society for Psychical Research 66–70 Tworuschka, Udo 75 – and persons. See Tylor, Edward Burnett 45f., 48, 50–53, 57f., – Beckh, Hermann 61, 63–65, 75, 168 – Bergman, Hugo – Besant, Annie Underhill, Evelyn 123, 127 – Caithness, Marie Countess of Urban, Hugh 134, 147, 153 (Duchess de Pomár) – Chatterji, Bankim Candra Vaughan, Thomas 137 – Fröbe-Kapteyn, Olga Vestnik Teosofii (Theosophy Messenger) – Gernet, Nina 251 – Johnston, Charles Vett, Carl 239f. – Kamensky, Anna Victoria, Queen 44 – Kingsford, Anna Vidyāratna, Tārānātha 135 – Leadbeater, Charles Webster Vidyārṇava, Śivacandra Bhaṭṭācārya 136, – Lutyens, Emily Lady (née Bulwer-Lytton) 145–148f., 152, 154 – Maitland, Edward Vidyāsāgar, Jīvānanda Bhaṭṭācārya 145 – Manen, Mari Albert Johan van Viswanathan, Gauri 156 – Olcott, Henry Steel Vitalism 150, 171 – Raatz, Paul Vivekananda Society 148 – Sinnett, Alfred Percy Vivekananda, Swami 197, 199, 243 – Steiner, Rudolf – Tingley, Katherine Augusta Westcott Waite, Arthur Edward 107 – and groups, institutions. See Wallace, Edith Owen 255 – Adyar Library Wayman, Alex 183 Index 283

Webb, James 45 Workers’ Brotherhood. See Weder, Katherine 12 Arbeiterverbrüderung Wellhausen, Julius 47 World’s Parliament of Religions, Chicago 96 Welling, Georg von 125 Wright, David Gordon 134 Wels, Volkhard 25 Westcott, Wynn 122 Yates, Frances Amelia 16 Wheeler-Barclay, Marjorie 75 Yeats, William Butler 165, 253 Wikipedia 18f. Yildirim, Cüneyd 32 Wilde, Oscar 53, 68 Yoga 246 Wilder, Alexander 76 Yogānanda, Paramahansa 166 Wilhelm, Richard 257 Yorke, Gerald Joseph 153 Williams, Henry James Sr. 48 Yukteswar Giri, Swami Sri 166 Windisch, Ernst 261 Winkler, Kenneth 164 Zander, Helmut 5 Winternitz, Moriz 132 Zacheriae, Theodor 261 Witchcraft 50, 52 Zen 263 Wittgenstein, Ludwig 34 Zimmer, Heinrich Robert 132, 153 Wittig, Gregor Konstantin 86, 95 Zionism 106, 113, 118–120 Woodroffe, John 3, 11, 132–136, 138, Zohar 104, 105, 107, 111 141–146, 148–157, 161f., 166, 172 Zoroastrism 111f.