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The later Theosophical Society’s synthesis of hidden masters, lost continents, and borrowed Asian terms. Not Tibetan Buddhism and not spiritualism.

  • Theosophy is associated with Asceticism.

    In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, certain middle-age movements connected theosophy with a desire for hidden knowledge beside ascetic practice — theosophy sits with that asceticism strand.

    from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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  • Theosophy is associated with Essenes.

    In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, the Essenes are said also to busy themselves with theosophy and pretend to impart to the initiated a knowledge of the divine nature — theosophy is that Essene claim.

    from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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