theosophie

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A form of theosophy — Any doctrine of religious philosophy and mysticism claiming that knowledge of God can be attained through mystical insight and spiritual ecstasy, and that direct communication with the transcendent world is possible.

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Meanings

nountheosophie (usually uncountable, plural theosophies)

plural theosophies

  1. archaicuncountableusuallyArchaic spelling of theosophy.

    It is not the primitive trueth^([sic]) of creation, not the ancient, reall^([sic]) theoſophie of the Hebrews and Egyptians, but a certain preternaturall^([sic]) upſtart, a vomit of Ariſtotle, which his followers with ſo much diligence lick up, and ſwallow.

    1650, Eugenius Philalethes (pseud. of Thomas Vaughan), “The author to the reader”, in Anthroposophia theomagica : or A discourse of the nature of man and his state after death, London: Printed by T. W. for H. Blunden, →OCLC, page B4
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