WHAT IS THEOSOPHY? Theosophy: A philosophic and religious
“gnostic” current, a continuation and synthesis of ancient neo-
Platonism and gnosticism which, in its newer form, was put forth
mainly by the Theosophical Society (founded in 1875) by its
founder Helena Petrovna Blavatski, a Russian “medium,” and now
offered by the “New (Aquarian) Age” movement. The main aim of
theosophy is, on one hand the, development of a global core of a
humanity free of discrimination based on religion, race, sex,
class and colour, but on the other hand, in relation to the
previous objective, to prove that all the different religious
faiths and heresies are substantially the same, with a common
beginning and minor variations. Based on these aims, theosophy
set out from the beginning to advance “comparative religion” as
a means of demonstrating the origin of religions from common
primary religious myths. However, characteristic of the
theosophic understanding – due to its basically Hinduistic (and
Buddhist, as concerns ethics) char