Первый открытый христианский веб-словарь

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СЭС: 1. в широком смысле – всякое мистическое учение, претендующее на раскрытие особых «божественных тайн». 2. Мистическая доктрина Е. П. Блаватской и её последователей – эклектич. соединение мистики буддизма и др. восточных учений с элементами оккультизма и неортодоксального христианства.

OED2: слово с XVII века; в узком смысле — о Бёме: The word was revived early in the 17th c. in Latin and vernacular forms, to denote a kind of speculation, such as is found in the Jewish Cabbala and is illustrated by the writings of Cornelius Agrippa (1486_1535), Paracelsus, Robert Fludd, and others, which sought, usually by the doctrine of the macrocosm and microcosm, to derive from the knowledge of God contained in sacred books, or traditions mystically interpreted, a profounder knowledge and control of nature than could be obtained by the methods of the Aristotelian or other current philosophy. The name theosophy was often applied specifically to the system of Jacob Boehme (1575_1624), which, though not claiming to the same degree traditional authority, was largely expressed in language borrowed from writers of the school in question. The word has then and since been applied to more ancient and more recent views having more or less affinity to those already mentioned. 1. Any system of speculation which bases the knowledge of nature upon that of the divine nature: often with reference to such authors as those above mentioned, and more particularly to Boehme. 2. Applied to a system of recent origin, resembling the above in its claim to a knowledge of nature profounder than is obtained from empirical science, and contained in an esoteric tradition of which the doctrines of the various historical religions are held to be only the exoteric expression. Sometimes called Esoteric Buddhism. See Theosophical Society.

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