Thesaurus: theosophy

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1. 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.
2. n. a system of belief based on mystical insight into the nature of God and the soul
3. 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.
4. Any system of philosophy or mysticism which proposes to attainintercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent superhumanknowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations ofsome ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the Germanfire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed,knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinaryillumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of thedivine mind, and the interior relations of the divine nature.
5. n. a system of belief based on mystical insight into the nature of God and the soul