theosophical

• “These three types of answers are found in three distinct streams of Kabbalah: what scholars call theosophical Kabbalah, prophetic/ecstatic Kabbalah, and practical/magical Kabbalah.”

  Jay Michaelson: An Introduction To Kabbalah, Part 3: Three Answers To The Ultimate Question

• “Certain forms of this belief, called theosophical, are held by many at the present day; it is supposed that men are capable of transcending the ordinary limitations of humanity.”

  Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV

• “The best-known and most important of the streams of Kabbalah is called, by scholars, "theosophical" Kabbalah.”

  Jay Michaelson: An Introduction to Kabbalah Part 6: The Sefirot, or, 'If Everything is God, how come it doesn't look that way?'

• “Her new “religion of humanity,” a kind of theosophical socialism, is too fantastically garbed to charm the sober spirits of our age.”

  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters

• “Gnosis, on the other hand, is present in almost every kind of theosophical movement, and ideas related to it seem to flourish in esoteric or “underground” groups today.”

  GNOSTICISM

• “Her new "religion of humanity," a kind of theosophical socialism, is too fantastically garbed to charm the sober spirits of our age.”

  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters

• “(The word "theosophical" was used by a group of 19th and 20th century mystics, including W.B. Yeats, to describe their quest.”

  Jay Michaelson: An Introduction to Kabbalah Part 6: The Sefirot, or, 'If Everything is God, how come it doesn't look that way?'

• “a kind of theosophical socialism, is too fantastically garbed to charm the sober spirits of our age.”

  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters

• “If we notice simply the theosophical, or alchemical or quasi-spiritual components of Schelling and Schubert's speculation, we may be led to think of Romantic theories of the psyche simply as stalled acts of secularisation, which still look for a spiritualised or idealised metaphysics of the person under the rubric of the psyche.”

  Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul

• “More than theosophical Kabbalah, prophetic Kabbalah closely resembles the mystical practices of other religious traditions, with meditation practices and other means of cleansing the doors of perception so that they can accept the Infinite.”

  Jay Michaelson: An Introduction To Kabbalah, Part 3: Three Answers To The Ultimate Question

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