Citations:theosophistic

English citations of theosophistic

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• 1835, James Burton Robertson, “Lecture XI”, in The philosophy of history : in a course of lectures, delivered at Vienna, volume 2, London: Saunders and Otley, translation of original by Friedrich von Schlegel, →OCLC, page 67:

  From the very birth of Christianity, the Gnostics gave loose to the ardour of an Oriental fancy, indulged in a variety of Theosophistic speculations, […]

• 1836, William Dobson, Introductions to the dialogues of Plato, Cambridge: Pitt Press, translation of original by Friedrich Schleiermacher, →OCLC, page 11:

  For apart from theosophistic matter, and unless they would ascribe to Plato some sort of physical sciences which he could not possess, and which his own writings moreover would at once disavow, […]

• 1845, William L. Alexander, “Galatians, epistle to the”, in John Kitto, editor, A Cyclopedia of Biblical literature, volume 1, New York [u.a.]: Mark H. Newman [u.a.], page 725:

  […] the previous religious conceptions of the Galatians contributed; for, accustomed to the worship of Cybele, which they had learned from their neighbours the Phrygians, and to the theosophistic doctrines with which that worship was associated, […]

• 1905 [1899], Winfield Scott Hall, A textbook of physiology, normal and pathological : for students and practitioners of medicine, 2nd revised and enlarged edition, Philadelphia, New York: Lea Brothers, →OCLC, page 26:

  Though he founded an untenable theosophistic philosophy, the simple fact of his calling in question Galen's theories set the scientific world thinking.

• 1942, Winifred Smith, “Mystics in the modern theatre”, in The Sewanee Review, volume 50, number 1, The Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 41:

  Traces of theosophistic beliefs are also to be found in a few French plays of recent date. […] Contemporary mysticism seems to be taking several forms quite different from the theosophistic or anthroposophic.

• 1979 Summer, Gottlieb Gaiser, “A Note on the Principle of Dramatization in 'Circe' ”, in James Joyce Quarterly, volume 16, number 4, University of Tulsa, →ISSN, →JSTOR:

  This responds to a theosophistic parody in "Cyclops," where communication with his spirit had been effected, and he had requested and received "a quart of buttermilk" […]

• 1991, Nicholas Rescher, G.W. Leibniz's Monadology : an edition for students, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 161:

  At first a Cartesian, he later became a theosophistic mystic in the tradition of Jacob Boehrne and turned into an ardent critic of Cartesianism.

• 2014, Robert Nolan Knapp, Orphic ecology: melancholy and the poetics of Robert Duncan‎^[1], The University of Montana, Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers. Paper 4211, page 15:

  […] the tales of the Cerastae and the daughters of Propoetius explore the theosophistic roots of prostitution; […]

• 2014, Daniela Verducci, “A metamorphic logos for post-metaphysics. From the phenomenology of life and metaphysics”, in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Nazif Muhtaroglu, Detlev Quintern, editors, The logos of life and cultural interlacing, Islamic philosophy and occidental phenomenology in dialogue, volume 7, Dordrecht [u.a.]: Springer, →ISBN, page 23:

  The debate winds through pantheism and Spinozism, to find expression in the later Schelling, arousing very violent polemics, both from official theology, which cries out atheism, and from agnostic and positivistic thought, which considers this hypothesis a dangerous fall into theosophistic irrationalism.