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theosophist

American  
[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

In politics, he went left; in religion, he became an Episcopalian, then for a space floundered around in Asiatic mysticism with a Russian theosophist dubbed "Guru."

From Time Magazine Archive

There never fails to be in the world one great theosophist.

From Mystics and Saints of Islam by Claud Field

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

He made a number of important discoveries in chemistry, and was unquestionably the first professor in Germany who gave chemical lectures, upon pure principles of affinity, unconnected with the extravagant notions of the theosophists.

From Thaumaturgia by An Oxonian

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

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

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