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n. Religious philosophy or speculation about the nature of the soul based on mystical insight into the nature of God.

n. The system of beliefs and teachings of the Theosophical Society, founded in New York City in 1875, incorporating aspects of Buddhism and Brahmanism, especially the belief in reincarnation and spiritual evolution.

n. 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.

n. Any system of philosophy or mysticism which proposes to attain intercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent superhuman knowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of the divine mind, and the interior relations of the divine nature.

n. Knowledge of things divine; a philosophy based upon a claim of special insight into the divine nature, or a special divine revelation.

n. a system of belief based on mystical insight into the nature of God and the soul

"But the majority of Gnostic undertakings may also be viewed as attempts to transform Christianity into a theosophy, that is, into a revealed metaphysic and philosophy of history, with a complete disregard of the Jewish Old Testament soil on which it originated, through the use of Pauline ideas, [306] and under the influence of the Platonic spirit."

system    system of rules   

Cabbala    qabbala    qabbalah    kabbala    kabala   

theosophic    theosophist   

mesmerism    phrenology    occultism    spiritualism    epistemology