Theosophy (disambiguation)

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Theosophy is a religion 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 work that has, over history, sometimes been identified as the above, but which most scholars disagree is the same work
  • Christian theosophy, a range of positions within Christianity which 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 Islamic philosopher Mulla Sadra
  • Neo-Theosophy, a term used by the followers of Blavatsky to denominate the system of Theosophical ideas expounded by Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater following the death of Madame Blavatsky