Theosophy

Theosophy is an esoteric religious movement established in the United States during the late nineteenth century. It was founded largely by the Russian émigrée Helena Blavatsky and draws its beliefs predominantly from Blavatsky's writings. Categorised by scholars of religion as both a new religious movement and as part of the occultist stream of Western esotericism, it draws both upon older European philosophies like Neoplatonism and upon Asian religions like Hinduism and Buddhism.

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There is no religion higher than truth.
- Motto of the Theosophical Society. Helena Blavatsky, "The Neutrality of the Senate", Journal of The Theosophical Society, Madras, vol. 1, no. 2 (February 1884), pp. 33–34 [1]

Our age, we say, is inferior in Wisdom to any other, because it professes, more visibly every day, contempt for truth and justice, without which there can be no Wisdom. Because our civilization, built up of shams and appearances, is at best like a beautiful green morass, a bog, spread over a deadly quagmire. Because this century of culture and worship of matter, while offering prizes and premiums for every "best thing" under the Sun, from the biggest baby and the largest orchid down to the strongest pugilist and the fattest pig, has no encouragement to offer to morality; no prize to give for any moral virtue.
- Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, "The Dual Aspect of Wisdom", in Lucifer, vol. 7, no. 37 (15 September 1890), p. 2

Of the Absolute, the Infinite, the All-embracing, we can at our present stage know nothing, except that It is; we can say nothing that is not a limitation, and therefore inaccurate.
- Charles Webster Leadbeater, A Textbook of Theosophy (1912), ch. 2

What then is Theosophy? It is the formulated system of natural Religion-Philosophy-Science, embracing the verities of infinite Nature, and teaching therefore of the structure, operations, and laws of Nature as they have been and are visioned, seen, experienced, witnessed by all the great Sages and Seers of the past and present.
- Gottfried de Purucker, The Masters and the Path of Occultism (1939), ch. 3

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