Theosophy
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Any system of philosophy or mysticism which proposes to attainintercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent superhumanknowledge, by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations ofsome ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the Germanfire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed,knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinaryillumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of thedivine mind, and the interior relations of the divine nature.
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The teaching that dark is light and light is dark and other nonsense.
Theosophy was founded by Helena Blavatsky, she is considered godmother of the New Age Movement.
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