A treatise on the Suffistic and Unitarian Theosophyof the Persians, compiled from native sources, London, 1867.
The philosophy of Leibnitz is opposed at once to the theosophy of Paracelsus and Böhme and to the empiricism of Bacon and Locke, the pantheism of Spinoza, and the scepticism and manichæism of Bayle.
Hamberger, “Sketch of the Character of the Theosophy of Baader.
The most brilliant period of Gnosticism, too, when the most serious danger from Paganism within the Christian pale in the form of Hellenic and Syro-Chaldaic Theosophy and Mysteriosophy threatened the church, was already past.
Cocceian method the mysticism and theosophy of Bourignon.
It is theosophy in its infancy, adapted to the status of American thought in the psychological direction.
He probably served Maximilian both as soldier and as secretary, but his wonderful and varied genius was not satisfied with these occupations, and he soon began to take a lively interest in theosophy and magic.
From these three arguments he developed an elaborate theosophy which was a syncretism of oriental mysticism and pure Greek metaphysic, and may be regarded as representing the climax of Jewish philosophy.
Theosophy or divine wisdom does not make such assertions.
Footnote 119: The causal body illumined by the divine Essence, which theosophy names Âtmâ-Buddhi.
Those who have acquired the power to read the cosmic records[44] will easily recognise amongst the present pioneers of theosophy many a champion who in a former age struggled and fought in the same sublime cause.
Pascal received from the hands of the President-Founder the Subba Rao medal, awarded to members of the society whose literary labours in the promulgation of the truths of Theosophy have proved eminently useful.
If that is theosophy I will believe in it when I am old, fat and a German.
Schubart's sufferings had in fact permanently injured him; his mind was warped and weakened by theosophy and solitude; bleak northern vapours often flitted over it, and chilled its tropical luxuriance.
It contains a system of Theosophy that has often appeared in the writings of philosophers, both in ancient and modern times.
The Jewish Theosophy was a mystery; like the Eleusinian, or the Pythagorean, unfit for the vulgar.
This theosophy appears nevertheless in combination with other elements in his writings.
Wesley had no liking for Boehme and cut out from Brooke’s book the theosophy that had this origin.
It does seem to catch the masses, that's a fact, whereas your theosophy doesn't appear to be practicable for uneducated people nor for children.
Theosophy satisfies me, because it explains some things in my own nature that I never could understand before.
You know as well as I do that Theosophy has been the making of me, and through me it shall be the making of Mary too.
With Spiritualism to represent the phenomenal and personal, Theosophy the philosophical and occult, and our own work the mystical and divine, every region of man's higher nature would find its due recognition and unfoldment.
Theosophy is in fact a philosophy of altruism, whose main tenets are brotherly love and justice.
As such he ate the Ashes of Madame Blavatsky, and Theosophy was no more.
The Ashes of Madame Blavatsky The two brightest lights of Theosophy being in the same place at once in company with the Ashes of Madame Blavatsky, an Inquiring Soul thought the time propitious to learn something worth while.
Annie Besant 2 0 Theosophyof the Upanishats 3 0 The Stanzas of Dayân.
Theosophy and kindred subjects can be obtained, post free, on application.
There may be Indian elements in Neo-platonism and Gnosticism, but this possibility does not affect my contention that the immediate source of the a¹cAºfA- theosophy is to be sought in Greek and Syrian speculation.
The step from theosophyto pantheism was not, I think, made either by a¸¤allAij (aEuro 922 A.
Cagliostro in the eighteenth century founded his Egyptian Free-Masonry for the re-generation of mankind, and Blavatsky in the nineteenth century laid the corner stone of modern Theosophy for a similar purpose.
Many noted Theosophists claim that modernTheosophy is not a religious cult, but simply an exposition of the esoteric, or inner spiritual meaning of the great religious teachers of the world.
Mr. Bucham Harding, the leading exponent of Theosophy mentioned above, says that within the temple the neophyte will be brought face to face with his own soul.
The first work of any literary pretensions to call attention to Theosophy was Sinnett's "Esoteric Buddhism.
Theosophy pretends to a deeper metaphysics than Spiritualism, and numbers its adherents by the thousands; it is, therefore, intensely interesting to study it in its origin, its founder and its present leaders.
At another time, the leaders of Theosophy talked of imitating Masonry by having degrees, an elaborate ritual, etc.
The wordTheosophy (Theosophia--divine knowledge) appears to have been used about the Third century, A.
In investigating the phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy I will use the scientific as well as the philosophic method.
Both Spiritualism and Theosophy contain germs of truth, but both are tinctured with superstition.
In the spring of 1896, Mrs. Tingley, accompanied by a number of prominent occultists, started on a crusade through the world to bring the truths of Theosophy to the toiling millions.
Mr. Coleman is at present engaged in the preparation of an elaborate work on the subject, which will in addition contain an "expose of Theosophy as a whole.
Do not fail to profit by the following: It is a regrettable fact that many people use the name of Theosophy and of our Organization for self-interest, as also that of H.
A clear exposition of Theosophy in form of question and answer.
Illustrated Weekly, Edited by Katherine Tingley A Magazine devoted to the Brotherhood of Humanity, the Promulgation of Theosophy and the Study of Ancient and Modern Ethics, Philosophy, Science and Art.
There are thousands of sceptics who do not want Theosophy to redeem them from a terror which they have long cast behind them, with the superstition by which it was bred and cherished.
What she may have to say about Theosophy after this can hardly be of interest to any thoroughly sane person.
There is one aspect of Mrs. Besant's advocacy of Theosophy which we censured at first, and which we now think is something short of honest.
Mrs. Besant's new superstition of Theosophy is, in our judgment, more foolish and less dignified than Christianity.
When we have done they will know more about Theosophy than if they had listened to Mrs. Besant (especially from Freethought platforms) for ten thousand years.
For if one must have dogma it is something to have system, and while precedent theosophy was based on the former it knew nothing of the latter.
A certain uniqueness of religious style, so to speak, differentiates every expression of India's theosophy from that of her Western neighbors.
For an imagination that knows no let has run away with every form of her intellectual productivity, theosophy as well as art.
Theosophy has its aspects as a science also; it is in very truth a science of life, a science of the soul.
Theosophy explains to us the laws under which this school-life must be lived, and in that way gives a great advantage to its students.
Pre-eminently and above all, this Theosophy is to him a doctrine of common sense.
But if from a certain point of view we may think of Theosophy as a religion, we must note two great points of difference between it and what is ordinarily called religion in the West.
We often speak of Theosophy as not in itself a religion, but the truth which lies behind all religions alike.
Thus we see that Theosophy combines within itself some of the characteristics of philosophy, religion and science.
He applies this consideration to his own sorrows and troubles, as well as to those of the world, and therefore one great result of his Theosophy is a perfect serenity--even more than that, a perpetual cheerfulness and joy.
The existence of Perfected Men, and the possibility of coming into touch with Them and being taught by Them, are prominent among the great new truths which Theosophy brings to the western world.
Secondly, Theosophy never endeavours to convert any man from whatever religion he already holds.
In its capacity as a religion, too, Theosophy gives its followers a rule of life, based not on alleged commands delivered at some remote period of the past, but on plain common sense as indicated by observed facts.
This brings us to that aspect of Theosophy which we have called religious.
The attitude of the student of Theosophy towards the rules which it prescribes resembles rather that which we adopt to hygienic regulations than obedience to religious commandments.
This doctrine was seriously endangered by the mystic theosophy of the false teachers.
Theosophy enables every thinker to reconcile the partial statements which are apparently so contradictory.
The Unfolding of Consciousness One of those pregnant and significant ideas which Theosophy scatters so lavishly around is thisÄthat the same scale is repeated over and over again, the same succession of events in larger or smaller cycles.
The terms of Theosophy can be easily identified with those of other schools.
All that the Vedanta says of the universal Self and the Self- limitation, Theosophy repeats.
Now, what light does Theosophy throw on both these systems?
The Monad of Theosophy is the Jivatma of Indian philosophy, the Purusha of the Samkhya, the particularised Self of the Vedanta.
Theosophy quite usefully and rightly, for the understanding of the human constitution, divides man into many parts and pieces.
By Theosophy I understand the true science of Deity, Nature, and Creature.
As to spiritism, of course at present theosophy has nothing to do with it, except to contemplate the workings of the magia of the fantasy of the grounds of nature, as shown in it.
The teachings of ancient theosophy and spiritualism--the mysticism of the East--have been permeating Christendom in recent years.
His own models were the oriental reveries of the Cabbala, and the theosophy of the mystics.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "theosophy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
