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  • noun Plural form of theosophy.

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  • Of course my interest in comparative religions and theosophies might convince some folks I'm a few bricks short of the wall … all I will confess is that strange things tend to happen, all I hope to do when I sit down is catch some of the strangeness and share it.

    Temple: Incarnations preorder update apexdigest 2007

  • But to the "little systems" science can only be welcome in so far as it fits in with the petty scale upon which their theologies and theosophies have constructed the universe.

    Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan

  • It is often forgotten, amid the welter of modern ethical ideals and modern mystical theosophies, how grand and unique a thing is this Religion of Israel -- a religion whose God is at once Personal and Invisible.

    Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

  • Despite its brevity and occasional obscurity, the work is valuable as a specimen of Greek analytical genius in the service of Christian theology, "a calm but vigorous protest of the trained scientific intellect against the vague dogmatism of the Oriental theosophies".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • John and Origen, were the most profound exponents of the mysteries, while the great gnostic theologians linked on their most abstract theosophies to realistic mysteries.

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • Then Hilarion appears and starts theological discussion, whence arises a new series of actual visions -- the excesses of the heretics, the degradation of martyrdom itself, the Eastern theosophies, the monstrous cults of Paganism.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

  • It would be ridiculous to say that the fate of religious feeling is really involved in the fate of grotesque cosmogonies and theosophies framed in the infancy of men's knowledge of nature; for history shows us quite the contrary.

    The Unseen World, and Other Essays 1876

  • It would be ridiculous to say that the fate of religious feeling is really involved in the fate of grotesque cosmogonies and theosophies framed in the infancy of men's knowledge of nature; for history shows us quite the contrary.

    The Unseen World and Other Essays John Fiske 1871

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