theosophist
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By contrast, Gandhi acquired legal credentials while becoming acquainted with Helena Blavasky, the occultist and founder of the Theosophical Society, and with Annie Besant, another theosophist, with whom Gandhi discussed “the universal brotherhood of humanity.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2016
She spills an inordinate amount of ink on the con-artist spiritualist career of Schiaparelli's ne'er-do-well husband, a theosophist named Wilhelm de Wendt de Kerlor, who left her when their daughter was born.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2014
Elsewhere, a life-sized figure of the theosophist Madame Blavatsky appears to levitate between two chairs, in a work by Goshka Macuga, held aloft by the power of thought alone.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2010
In politics, he went left; in religion, he became an Episcopalian, then for a space floundered around in Asiatic mysticism with a Russian theosophist dubbed "Guru."
From Time Magazine Archive
Sinnett, ex-editor of one of the leading Indian newspapers, and, as a theosophist, very unlikely to be prejudiced in favour of Britain.
From New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments by Morrison, John
Over the decades, Southern California been welcoming to many people: the sickly sun seekers and the weirdly healthy; down-to-earth atheists and the space-voyaging theosophists; the truly innovative and the unrepentantly nutty.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2019
Photographs of the bearded young Mondrian looking half-Rasputin, half-yogi, along with Dutch translations of the lucubrations of Madame Blavatsky and Annie Besant may make the Dutch theosophists seem crankier than they were.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2010
Some theosophists had grown to look for a hierarch, a consecrated boy through whose lips the secret God should speak and in whose body God should be made manifest.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were not only dreamy theosophists, but materialists under the disguise of spiritualism.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity by Lord, John
But he is unaware of his success, and has no control over the actions of what old writers, and some new theosophists, call his ‘astral body’.
From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Lang, Andrew
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