Theosophist

I've got a cousin who's what they call a Theosophist, and he says he's often nearly worked the thing himself, but couldn't quite bring it off, probably owing to having fed in his boyhood on the flesh of animals slain in anger and pie.

Archive 2005-05-01 Matthew Buckley 2005

I've got a cousin who's what they call a Theosophist, and he says he's often nearly worked the thing himself, but couldn't quite bring it off, probably owing to having fed in his boyhood on the flesh of animals slain in anger and pie.

My Man Jeeves 1928

The ideal of the Theosophist is the at one-ment of his own spirit with that of the Infinite.

Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 1856

"Theosophist" giving any of these truths to the world, we rejoice, because we see that our work is being done.

London Lectures of 1907 Annie Wood Besant 1890

And so, coming down through the centuries, since the Christian time, you will find the word Gnostic used every now and again, but more often the term "Theosophist" and

London Lectures of 1907 Annie Wood Besant 1890

The God-builders included Maxim Gorky, Anatoly Lunacharsky, a former Theosophist who was appointed commissar of enlightenment in the new Soviet regime, and the trade minister Leonid Krasin, an engineer and disciple of the Russian mystic Nikolai Fedorov, who believed that the dead could be technologically resurrected.

John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality 2011

From campsite to campsite and diner to diner, through groups of Harold's eccentric friends, Harold and Rose encounter a series of truncated obstacles, giving a lift to a monsignor who's broken down on the way to bury a soldier flown back from Saigon, falling foul of a Theosophist and being held up in a bank robbery.

The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress by Beryl Bainbridge – review 2011

I suspect that you are actually closer to a Theosophist than any other category of religion, since what you've told me of Christian Science seems to fit the Theosophy mold.

Blind Faith? 2009

I suspect that you are actually closer to a Theosophist than any other category of religion, since what you've told me of Christian Science seems to fit the Theosophy mold.

Blind Faith? 2009

There are Theosophical elements in all fourteen Oz books, with Tik-Tok of Oz 1914 particularly strong in Theosophist symbolism.

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