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theosophy

the.os.o.phy \-fe-\ n [ML theosophia, fr. LGk, fr. Gk the- + sophia wisdom 
   - more] at -SOPHY 1: belief about God and the world held to be based on 
   mystical insight  often cap  2: the beliefs of a modern movement 
   originating in the U.S. in 1875 and fol lowing chiefly Buddhist and 
   Brahmanic theories esp. of pantheistic evolution and reincarnation