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theosophist

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[thee-ahs-uhf-ist] / θiˈɑs əf ɪst /

noun

  • theosophists
    plural
  1. a person who believes in theosophy.

  2. a member of the Theosophical Society.


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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

They knew Lady Paget, friend of Queen Victoria, theosophist who made her own shoes and who predicted the World War and the Russian Revolution.

From Time Magazine Archive

The author has naturally the interest of a theosophist in Gnosticism, and approaches the subject accordingly from a point of view different from our own.

From Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D. by George Robert Stowe Mead

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 true that the Buddhists hold some beliefs in common with theosophists.

From Elementary Theosophy by L. W. (Louis William) Rogers

Sanchoniathon said in another work, that the serpent was immortal, and re-entered into himself; which, according to some ancient theosophists, particularly those of India, was an attribute of the Deity.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

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