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Theosophist

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the·os·o·phy  (th-s-f)
n. pl. the·os·o·phies
1. Religious philosophy or speculation about the nature of the soul based on mystical insight into the nature of God.
2. often Theosophy The system of beliefs and teachings of the Theosophical Society, founded in New York City in 1875, incorporating aspects of Buddhism and Brahmanism, especially the belief in reincarnation and spiritual evolution.
[Medieval Latin theosophia, from Late Greek theosophi : Greek theo-, theo- + Greek sophi, wisdom.]
theo·sophic (--sfk), theo·sophi·cal (--kl) adj.
theo·sophi·cal·ly adv.
the·oso·phist n.
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Noun1.theosophist - a believer in theosophy
worshipper, believer, worshiper - a person who has religious faith


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The Lost World by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
Then there was a black-eyed restaurant waiter who was a theosophist, a union baker who was an agnostic, an old man who baffled all of them with the strange philosophy that WHAT IS IS RIGHT, and another old man who discoursed interminably about the cosmos and the father-atom and the mother-atom.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
Wherefore he was held in high reverence, and when the two other gentlemen were hanged for lying the Theosophists elected him to the leadership of their Disastral Body, and after a quiet life and an honourable death by the kick of a jackass he was reincarnated as a Yellow Dog.
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