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07 May 2023, 12:46 pm

Anyone interested in theosophy here?


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08 May 2023, 3:55 am

_Hermes_ wrote:
Anyone interested in theosophy here?
You really should define what you mean by "Theosophy".

If you mean the occult movement originating in the 19th century with roots that can be traced to ancient Gnosticism and Neoplatonism, then no.

If instead you mean the study of the Biblical God, then yes.



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11 May 2023, 1:38 pm

Fnord wrote:
_Hermes_ wrote:
Anyone interested in theosophy here?
You really should define what you mean by "Theosophy".

If you mean the occult movement originating in the 19th century with roots that can be traced to ancient Gnosticism and Neoplatonism, then no.

If instead you mean the study of the Biblical God, then yes.


I am actually interested in both. I don't see that the occult movement originating in the 19'th century actually denies a biblical god. It just says that there is several definitions of god. By god you could mean so much, you could mean The Absolute, you could mean Jehova, Adonai, Ein Soph and not to mention the hindu pantheons of Vishnu, Shiva, Bramha and The Brahmaa, the world soul.

What god are you refering to?


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11 May 2023, 2:15 pm

Fnord wrote:
_Hermes_ wrote:
Anyone interested in theosophy here?
You really should define what you mean by "Theosophy".

If you mean the occult movement originating in the 19th century with roots that can be traced to ancient Gnosticism and Neoplatonism, then no.

If instead you mean the study of the Biblical God, then yes.


Never heard the word used for anything other than the former.

The study of the nature of a "god" is "theology". So if the god in question is that of Christianity than it's "Christian theology".

Madame Blavatsky musta gotten drunk and slurred her speech one night and got "theology" and "philosophy" confused...and the name stuck. :lol: But just for the creed she and her friends founded.



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11 May 2023, 2:21 pm

There is a WP member who was heavy into stuff like "Hermeticism", and whatnot. Dont know where he has disappeared to.



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14 May 2023, 5:13 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
There is a WP member who was heavy into stuff like "Hermeticism", and whatnot. Dont know where he has disappeared to.


Are you thinking of techstepgenr8tion? He's still here.


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14 May 2023, 5:22 pm

Thats him. He recently posted somewhere else.