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  • n  a system of belief based on mystical insight into the nature of God and the soul

  • He can no more understand theosophy, the works of Annie Besant and Krishnamurti, than a primitive man could understand Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays.
  • Rejected in love, he goes after power and one day discovers in a volume of Indian theosophy the technique of "mental magnetism.
  • The humorless Emily, meanwhile, showed no interest in her husband's work and was unable to persuade him that any of her passions literature, feminism, theosophy (an occult .
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  • The Books We've Lost
    Charles Simic Years ago, in a store in New York that specialized in Alchemy, Eastern Religions, Theosophy, Mysticism, Magic, and Witchcraft, I remember coming across a book called How to Become Invisible that I realized would make a perfect birthday present for a friend who was on the run from a collection agency trying to repossess his car. It cost fifteen cents, which struck me as a pretty ...
    Aug. 13, 2013 - New York Review of Books
Quotes

  • Reynold A. Nicholson in The Statesman
    While comparing the two works, Professor RA Nicholson, the greatest Western researcher on Rumi and his art, says: "Sufi theosophy is the fountainhead of Rumi's inspiration. From this the Masnavi and the Diwan descend by separate channels. The one is...

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