theosophist
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- theosophistic adjective
- theosophistical adjective
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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
Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, theosophist and delegate to the Cortes of Spain, stood last week in a rostrum that has not been used for eight years.
From Time Magazine Archive
The celebrated theosophist Zu'l Noun is known as the168 first who introduced into Islam visions and mystic ecstacies.
From Mystics and Saints of Islam by Field, Claud
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