theosophist

[thee-ahs-uhf-ist]

noun

plural

theosophists 

1. a person who believes in theosophy.

2. a member of the Theosophical Society.

Other Word Forms

• theosophistic adjective
• theosophistical adjective

Example Sentences

The group you’re describing sounds as if it has debts to certain theosophist teachings.

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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.

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Today, he is virtually forgotten, though his last name may ring a faint bell: His sister-in-law Annie Besant was a pioneering socialist and prominent theosophist, almost as famous as Helena — “Madame” — Blavatsky herself.

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The intellectuals espousing this scheme were known as theosophists, and they were nearly as mainstream as scientists and philosophers at the time.

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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.”

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