Theosophical Society

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a society founded by Madame Blavatsky and others, in New York in 1875, advocating a worldwide eclectic religion based largely on Brahmanic and Buddhistic teachings.

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How to use Theosophical Society in a sentence

As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
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“The institution of marraige [sic] is under attack in our society and it needs to be strengthened,” Bush wrote.
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Those are troubling numbers, for unfettered speech is not incidental to a flourishing society.
How the PC Police Threaten Free Speech|Nick Gillespie|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Compared with neighbors Myanmar, Vietnam, and Laos, Cambodia appears to have a blossoming civil society.
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Strangio is at his best when exposing what appears to be a flourishing civil society in Cambodia.
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Those in whom the impulse is strong and dominant are perhaps those who in later years make the good society actors.
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I haven't much time for seeing any one, except my patients, and the people I meet in society.
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William has thus been happily able to report to the society the approaching conversion of M'Bongo and his imminent civilization.
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The blind Samson of labor will seize upon the pillars of society and bring them down in a common destruction.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
He has told me that their society produced on him the effect of the cool hands of saints against his cheek.
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