In the early 17th century, esotericism is represented by currents such as Christian theosophy and Rosicrucianism.

The goal of theosophy is to explore the origin of divinity and humanity, and the end of world, life and humanity.

By the 18th century the word theosophy was often used in conjunction with panosophy, i. e., a knowledge of divine things that is acquired by deciphering the supposed hieroglyphics of the concrete universe.

The term theosophy is more properly reserved for the reverse process of contemplating the divine in order to discover the content of the concrete universe.

Influenced by theosophy and the perception of a coming New Age, a common theme among Kandinsky's first seven Compositions is the apocalypse ( the end of the world as we know it ).

Baader's philosophy is thus essentially a theosophy.

A very active and independent maillist which has no official connection with any organization is a valuable source for uptodate information on all matters relating to theosophy and TS Adyar and others.

It is totally independent and is not funded or directly or indirectly controlled or moderated by any theosophy organization.

Theosophy is in opposition to the spiritualist interpretation of evolution, theosophy teaches a metaphysical theory of evolution mixed with human devolution, spiritualists do not accept the devolution of the theosophists.

The akashic records ( akasha is a Sanskrit word meaning " sky ", " space " or " aether ") is a term used in theosophy ( and Anthroposophy ) to describe a compendium of mystical knowledge encoded in a non-physical plane of existence.

More is also believed to have written Philosophiae Teutonicae Censura, 1670, a criticism of the theosophy of Jacob Boehme ; and to have edited Joseph Glanvill's Saducismus Triumphatus, 1681.

In the modern esoteric theory of theosophy, orichalcum is described as a metallic pink-colored metal mined in Atlantis ; another name for it is said to be mountain copper.

The original man of the Clementines is, therefore, simply a product of three elements, namely, Jewish theology, Platonic-Philonic philosophy, and Oriental theosophy ; and this fact serves to explain their obscurity of expression on the subject.

A follower of Böhme's theosophy is a " Behmenist ".

Despite being based on a corrupted form of Böhme's surname, the term Behmenism has retained a certain utility in modern English-language historiography, where it is still occasionally employed, although often to designate specifically English followers of Böhme's theosophy.

Panpsychism, as a view that the universe has " universal consciousness ", is shared by some forms of religious thought: theosophy, pantheism, cosmotheism and panentheism.

: substitutes ) is a rank of forty saints, but more often the larger group of 356 saints in Sufi theosophy, only known to and appointed by Allah.

Transcendent theosophy or al-hikmah al-muta ’ aliyah ( Arabic:, Persian: ), the doctrine and philosophy that has been developed by Persian Islamic philosopher, Mulla Sadra, is one of two main disciplines of Islamic philosophy which is active today.

Transcendent theosophy or al-hikmat al-muta ’ li ( حكمت متعالي ), the doctrine and philosophy developed by Persian philosopher, Mulla Sadra, is one of two main disciplines of Islamic philosophy that is currently live and active.

" One of Finland's most famous clairvoyants, Aino Kassinen, recalled in her memoirs that she met Ryti in the 1930s in Helsinki, and got the understanding that Ryti strongly believed in people's being guided by the higher divine powers, and that he strongly believed in God, and had studied theosophy and anthroposophy.

In his book, Andreae shows an utopic island in which Christian theosophy and applied science ruled, and in which the spiritual fulfillment and intellectual activity constituted the primary goals of each individual, the scientific pursuits being the highest intellectual calling – linked to the achievement of spiritual perfection.

In Iranian theosophy, the heavenly Pole, the focal point of the spiritual ascent, acts as a magnet to draw beings to its " palaces ablaze with immaterial matter.

Building on both the Western esoteric tradition and theosophy, Rudolf Steiner and others in the anthroposophic tradition have attempted to apply systematic methodology to the study of spiritual phenomena, building upon ontological and epistemological questions that arose out of transcendental philosophy.

To theosophy man starts in a state of perfection ( see Golden age ) and falls into a process of progressive materialization ( devolution ), developing the mind and losing the spiritual consciousness.

* Communalism and its cure by theosophy, Or spiritual health, the only sure basis of material wealth.

New Age theosophy also counters these critics, teaching the fact that the being known as Sanat Kumara would rather see spiritual harmony and peace, a fact which many Illuminati members ignore and abuse.

Steiner began using the word to refer to his philosophy in the early 1900s as an alternative to theosophy, the term for Madame Blavatsky's movement, itself from the Greek, with a longer history with a meaning of " divine wisdom ".

Many of the " revivals ", Wicca and Neo-druidism in particular, have their roots in 19th century Romanticism and retain noticeable elements of occultism or theosophy that were current then, setting them apart from historical rural ( paganus ) folk religion.

Notes: Reasons regarding to the division of traditional theosophy from the Theosophical Society

Mead was among the first Theosophists to explicate a "' Western ' theosophy deriving from Alexandrian and Hellenistic sources in the early centuries A. D ."

Madame Blavatsky was critical of spiritualism, she distanced theosophy from spiritualism as far as she could and allied herself with eastern occultism.

His Theologumena ( 1806 ), his Einleitung in das Studium der christlichen Dogmatik ( 1810 ), and his Judas Ischarioth ( 2 vols., 1816, 2nd ed., 1818 ), were all written in the spirit of Schelling, the last of them reflecting a change in Schelling himself from theosophy to positive philosophy.

Peter Caddy followed " an intuitive spontaneous inner knowing " and had many other influences from theosophy to the moral re-armament movement from which he developed methods of positive thinking and other methods he had learned in the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship.

Cumbey offered the first major criticism of the New Age movement from a Christian perspective in The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow: The New Age Movement and Our Coming Age of Barbarism ( 1983 ), but quickly lost academic credibility due to her promotion of conspiracy theories linking the New Age movement to Benjamin Creme, theosophy and Nazism.

Finally this pagan theosophy was driven from Alexandria back to Athens under Plutarch of Athens and Proclus, and occupied itself largely in commentaries based mainly on the attempt to re-organize ancient philosophy in conformity with the system of Plotinus.

Sanat Kumara gained greater prominence when her follower Charles W. Leadbeater wrote that Sanat Kumara was the " King " or Lord of the World, and the head of the Great White Brotherhood of Mahatmas who had revealed the principles of theosophy.

Sanat Kumara gained greater prominence when her follower Charles W. Leadbeater wrote that Sanat Kumara was the " King " or Lord of the World, and the head of the Great White Brotherhood of Mahatmas who had revealed the principles of theosophy.

Emma then moved back to New York, where she became involved in theosophy.

In contrast fellow Germans Paracelsus ( 1493-1541 ), Aegidius Gutmann ( 1490-1584 ), Valentin Weigel ( 1533-1588 ), Heinrich Khunrath ( 1560-1605 ), Johann Arndt ( 1555-1621 ), and Caspar Schwenckfeld ( 1490-1584 ) demonstrated an interest in theosophy.

He was also spiritually influenced by H. P. Blavatsky ( 1831 – 1891 ), the best-known exponent of theosophy.

From this correspondence Sinnett wrote The Occult World ( 1881 ) and Esoteric Buddhism ( 1883 ), both of which had an enormous influence in generating public interest in theosophy.

While philosophy did indeed decline in the western Islamic world ( Al-Andalus and the Maghreb ), recent research has shown that philosophy continued long after in the eastern Islamic world ( Persia and India ), where the Avicennian, Illuminationist and Sufi schools predominated, until Islamic philosophy reached its zenith with Mulla Sadra's existentialist school of transcendent theosophy in the 17th century.

Böhme's views greatly influenced many anti-authoritarian and Christian mystical movements, such as the Religious Society of Friends, the Philadelphians, the Gichtelians, the Society of the Woman in the Wilderness ( led by Johannes Kelpius ), the Ephrata Cloister, the Harmony Society, Martinism, and Christian theosophy.