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Throughout most of this fiscal backing and filling Davis was busy practicing his theosophic belief that because Divine Providence had led him to money it was his holy duty to spend it.

From Time Magazine Archive

According to Edgar Davis' theosophic conception of things, Divine Providence had led him to money and it was his holy duty to spend it.

From Time Magazine Archive

This new religion, if we mistake not the signs of the times, will or does partake largely of theosophic and Buddhistic metaphysics and is not, therefore, to be despised by our best thinkers.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)

Moreover, the people of India thought out and elaborated most profound systems of theosophic thought in the far, remote past.

From India, Its Life and Thought by Jones, John P. (John Peter)

Even theosophic occultism speaks of itself as "science."

From Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Ellinwood, Frank F.