theosophist
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- noun
- /θiˈɑːsəfɪst/
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teósofo
- Many famous thinkers, such as Helena Blavatsky, were influential theosophists in the late 19th century.
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But unlike non-Christian Theosophists, who would proclaim the powers of mastery humans possessed in themselves, Bushnell looked to a Redeemer.
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136 British Spiritualist, Theosophist, and social reformer Anna Kingsford may count as another.
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But Mondrian was a Theosophist.
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Peter Jackson is also a theosophist or supports their ideas unknowingly, as you can see in the same interview I mentioned earlier.
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She does source several theosophists, however.
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Afterwards, why not learn from Theosophists, Rosicrucians, and Freemasons, as Williams apparently did?
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However, the inventor of the deaf hand sign, Helen Keller, was herself an occultist and Theosophist, as mentioned earlier.
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Mystics, Gnostics, Theosophists—all speak of a world of soul and spirit that for them is just as real as the world we see with our physical eyes and touch with our physical hands.
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The idea of the oceanic also, as we have seen, played a central part in the religious schemas of the Theosophists, who believed in a single, originating spiritual force from which all humans are descended and that binds us all together.
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From the 19th century to today, westerners from Theosophists to the Beats to the New Agers to the "Buddhist naturalists" have looked at Buddhism and seen what they wanted to see.
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Synonyms
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A person who accepts something as true and often supports it, for example a religion or idea
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A person who strongly follows and practices a religion
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Etymology
Theosophist comes from the Greek parts theo- meaning 'god' and sophia meaning 'wisdom'. You can see the same root in philosophy, and a theosophist is someone who seeks 'wisdom about God' or hidden spiritual truths about the universe.