The Essenes faithfully handed down in their theosophic system the names, as well as the importance and position of the various angels.
Simon ben Asai was an enemy to marriage, and, together with Simon ben Zoma, he became absorbed in the theosophic speculations of the times.
Alongside of it, however, we have a theosophic mysticism which reverting from the tendency that had lately come into vogue to Neoplatonic ideas, drew its chief inspiration from the Pseudo-Dionysian writings.
Moreover, the people of India thought out and elaborated most profound systems of theosophic thought in the far, remote past.
This path of abstraction and asceticism leaves the soul to theosophic knowledge, which is consummated in the supreme bliss of assimilation with the Divine.
But he was also a great mystic and an eminent theosophic speculator.
There, among the Babi refugees, he found new and old friends who adhered closely to the original type of theosophic doctrine; an increasing majority, however, were fascinated by a much more progressive teacher.
We can evidently also rest satisfied, in order to evade the question of authorship, that the writing itself gets its own character from the hermetic interpretations, and shows in detail its correspondingly theosophic material.
The Kabbala is unquestionably a continuation of earlier theosophic inquiries.
It may be said that this is the most concentrated form of selfishness,--that it is utterly opposed to our Theosophic professions of benevolence, and disinterestedness, and regard for the good of humanity.
Let us try to analyse it for ourselves, and see whether light will come upon it by using the Theosophic idea of a triplet summed up in a fourth, that is not really a fourth, but the summation of the three.
The theosophic and the medical aspects of Christian Science may perhaps be distinguished; the latter at all events is open to grave abuse.
This reaction takes the form of an increased vitality of dogmatic religion, or else culminates in the formation of Spiritualistic or Theosophic societies for the prosecution of occult phenomena.
She has been engaged in a long continued combination with other persons to produce by ordinary means a series of apparent marvels for the support of the Theosophic movement.
In another part of this excursus Krochmal describes the systems of the Alexandrian Jewish philosophers, such as Philo and Aristobulus, and discusses their relation to certain theosophic ideas in various Midrash-collections.
Such in a word is the theosophic relations between the three periods represented by the first Vedic Collection, the ritualistic Br[=a]hmanas, and the philosophical treatises called Upanishads.
The older divinities show one by one the transformation that they suffered at the hands oftheosophic thinkers.
The theosophic explanation involving the familiar idea of the "pairs of opposites" would be something as follows.
Gardner, since he is both the discoverer of the fairies and a considerable authority upon theosophic teaching.
That this tendency of the "demonstrable sciences" is their only one having a bearing on "theosophic systems.
And what, on the other hand, are the "theosophic fancies" against which he would plant this barbaric artillery of Fate?
The earlier alchemists knew nothing of its theosophic doctrines; and the earlier Rosicrucians did not dabble in alchemy.
Does it not follow that, in the Fourth Gospel, we have the more theosophic portions of ancient philosophy attached externally to the life of the Prophet of Nazareth?
Instead, it represents thetheosophic speculations of the Ancient World.
This account of the creation is characteristic of Hindoo thought as it passes from the frank admiration of nature, which distinguishes the Vedic period, to what more nearly approaches theosophic speculation.
The founders of the society deny a personal God, and a somewhat subtle form of Pantheism is taught as the Theosophic view of the universe, though even this is not forced on members of the society.
I know that she will always be earnest in the advocacy of any views she undertakes to defend, and I look to possible developments of her Theosophic views with the very gravest misgiving.
The moon asks certain theosophic questions; he alone who can answer them is considered sufficiently emancipated to advance to the world of Brahma.
Even the theosophic Upanishads are compelled to make their way through this tolerably crude mythology when they come to deal with the passage of the soul to release from existence and absorption in the universal Brahma.
Ptolemy, the Valentinian who least sacrificed the moral to the theosophic element, scarcely dealt with the Old Testament differently from St. Paul.
His respect for orthodoxy was gone; its hold upon him was lost; and he allowed himself to drift in the wide sea of theosophic speculation wherever his ideas carried him.
A valuable volume of selections from "Jacob Behmen's Theosophic Philosophy" was made by Edward Taylor, London, 1691.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "theosophic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
