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Theosophy (disambiguation)

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Theosophy is a religious and philosophical system established in the United States during the late 19th century.

Theosophy may also refer to:

  • Theosophical Kabbalah, the stream of Kabbalah that seeks to understand and describe the divine realm
  • Theosophy, a lost work on oracles by 5th-century Greek writer Aristocritus
  • Theosophy of Tübingen, a manuscript of an epitome of the last four books of an earlier, lost Byzantine work of eleven books called simply Theosophy or On True Belief
  • Christian theosophy, a range of positions within Christianity that focus on the attainment of direct, unmediated knowledge of the nature of divinity and the origin and purpose of the universe
  • Transcendent theosophy, the doctrine and philosophy developed by Persian philosopher Mulla Sadra
  • Neo-Theosophy, a term used by the followers of Helena Blavatsky to denominate the system of Theosophical ideas expounded by Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater following the death of Madame Blavatsky in 1891