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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Theosophy  \The*os"o*phy\,  n.  [Gr.  ?  knowledge  of  things  divine, 
  fr  ?  wise  in  the  things  of  God;  ?  God  +  ?  wise:  cf  F. 
  th['e]osophie.] 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  theosophy 
  n  :  belief  based  on  mystical  insight  into  the  nature  of  God  and 
  the  soul 
 
  From  THE  DEVIL'S  DICTIONARY  ((C)1911  Released  April  15  1993)  [devils]: 
 
  THEOSOPHY,  n.  An  ancient  faith  having  all  the  certitude  of  religion 
  and  all  the  mystery  of  science.  The  modern  Theosophist  holds  with 
  the  Buddhists,  that  we  live  an  incalculable  number  of  times  on  this 
  earth,  in  as  many  several  bodies,  because  one  life  is  not  long  enough 
  for  our  complete  spiritual  development;  that  is  a  single  lifetime 
  does  not  suffice  for  us  to  become  as  wise  and  good  as  we  choose  to 
  wish  to  become  To  be  absolutely  wise  and  good  --  that  is  perfection; 
  and  the  Theosophist  is  so  keen-sighted  as  to  have  observed  that 
  everything  desirous  of  improvement  eventually  attains  perfection. 
  Less  competent  observers  are  disposed  to  except  cats,  which  seem 
  neither  wiser  nor  better  than  they  were  last  year.  The  greatest  and 
  fattest  of  recent  Theosophists  was  the  late  Madame  Blavatsky  who  had 
  no  cat. 
 
 




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