theosophy
theosophy is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- and
- article
- belief
- believer
- body
- canonist
- catholic
- collective
- community
- confession
- creed
- declaration
- denomination
- denominational
- divine
- divinity
- doctrine
- evangelical
- faith
- faithful
- hagiography
- hagiology
- hyperorthodoxy
- iconoclasm
- monotheism
- monotheistic
- mystery
- natural
- nine
- once
- orthodox
- orthodoxy
- persuasion
- profession
- religion
- religious
- schismless
- scholastic
- schoolman
- scriptural
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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