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
With him went a slender, married English girl, Virginia Haggard MacNeil, a theosophist and vegetarian.
From Time Magazine Archive
I believed firmly that there was a spirit present, but it was not the spirit of the deceased theosophist, rather of a monarch who is very much alive.
From The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War by Upward, Allen
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
It is addressed to theosophists, and can only be completely understood in the light of theosophistic doctrines.
From The Human Machine by Bennett, Arnold
My purpose is merely to show how theosophists quarrel: going back to the days of Anu and Baal and the bronze Image of the Babylonian fire-god: Let them die, but let me live!
From The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition by Sinclair, Upton
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