theosophy
ब्रह्मविद्या
definition
noun
In the early 1890s, she became a leading exponent of the religious movement of theosophy (emphasizing an individual spiritual awareness of God), and went to live in India.
any of a number of philosophies maintaining that a knowledge of God may be achieved through spiritual ecstasy, direct intuition, or special individual relations, especially the movement founded in 1875 as the Theosophical Society by Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907).
translation of 'theosophy'
ब्रह्मविद्या,
ईश्वरी साक्षात्कार घडवून आणणारे तत्वज्ञान
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This is dangerous stuff, according to Blavatsky, but 'theosophy' can help.
Instead, she says that she devoted her study to astral projection and 'theosophy' , hoping to find an answer.
Today this agnosticism informs many of the New Age and other religious movements which appeared in the sixties as well as some movements from the last century, such as 'theosophy' .
Once settled, he sought out people with whom he could share some of his cultural traditions - those free-thinkers who had taken up vegetarianism and 'theosophy' .
From mesmerism and animal magnetism to 'theosophy' and beyond, Gamwell chronicles with great seriousness attempts by modern artists to explore immanentist spiritualities.
Madame Blavatsky, one of the founders and best-known practitioners of 'theosophy' , was particularly influential.
He reprimands Dominique for laughing at 'theosophy' , something Mrs. Marsh believes in, and tells her she should have worn her emerald bracelet.
She speaks admiringly of Madame Blavatsky, 'theosophy' 's founder, as well as England's leading theosophists Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater.
This in turn led to the aesthetics of expressionism, and also to the emergence of gnostic 'theosophy' , which similarly sought to controvert nihilism rather than allow the human will to be vanquished.
He wanted to set up a secret community which would be based on a mixture of unusual beliefs involving both the worship of his own son, Jack, and the tenets of the then-fashionable credo of 'theosophy' .
His belief in the spiritual power of art was related to his adherence to certain doctrines of 'theosophy' , a cult that promoted deeper spiritual reality through intuition, meditation, and other transcendental states.
In the early 1890s, she became a leading exponent of the religious movement of 'theosophy' (emphasizing an individual spiritual awareness of God), and went to live in India.
The period when he fancied that he was a medium didn't last more than two or three years, and he wasn't the only Prime Minister interested in spiritual matters or in 'theosophy' or spiritualism.
She had a long spiritual journey, flirting at points with 'theosophy' as well as the Roman Catholic Church.
In time, like many leading artists of the day, she became interested in 'theosophy' as a way of knowing God.
The 'theosophy' of Madame Blavatsky, which he discovered at the beginning of 1905 and rarely referred to in his letters, merely lent form and jargon to certain aspects of the delusion.
At the same time his interest in Indian thought and 'theosophy' led him to the Dublin Hermetic Society.
Walter did not allow Blavatsky's death to lessen his involvement with 'theosophy' .
Jung of course was famously sceptical of 'theosophy' .
In 1889 her views shifted to 'theosophy' , of which she became the leader, and in 1894 she moved to India, where she devoted the rest of her life to Indian nationalism.
In 1880 he came into contact with 'theosophy' and after renouncing his European name, he moved to their Society headquarters, near Madras, where he studied Buddhism.
This is especially important now that so many people are under the spell of all manner of religious and surrogate dogmas ranging from Blavatsky's 'theosophy' to Hubbard's scientology.
We have also started our own publishing company and the aim is to publish theosophical and 'theosophically' related literature.
According to his 'theosophic' system, God, as Divine Man, is infinite love and infinite wisdom, from whom emanate the two worlds of nature and spirit, distinct but closely related.
Steiner may have broken away from the Theosophical Society, but he did not abandon the eclectic mysticism of the 'theosophists' .
The notion that we have seven bodies (one for each of the seven planes of reality) is a teaching of 'theosophist' Madame Blavatsky.
He was a 'theosophist' and believed in the equality of all human beings.
This indifference to outward forms or beliefs is in fact an important aspect of theosophy itself, for it is why the 'theosophers' have never formed a sect or institution.
Van Beyerland collected, translated and published the complete works of the German 'theosopher' Jacob Böhme before the English and German collected editions appeared.
Even some mystically or 'theosophically' minded writers have tended to jump on the big bang bandwagon, believing that the theory is essentially correct, provided we recognize the workings of divine intelligence going on behind the scenes.
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