{"id":39221,"date":"2018-04-11T08:09:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T07:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=39221"},"modified":"2018-04-11T08:09:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T07:09:54","slug":"theosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/theosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Theosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>T<\/strong><strong>heosophy<\/strong> is defined by <em>Britannica<\/em> as an <em>&#8220;occult movement originating in the 19th century with roots that can be traced to ancient Gnosticism and Neoplatonism. The term <\/em><em>theosophy<\/em><em>, derived from the Greek <\/em><em>theos<\/em><em> (&#8216;god&#8217;) and <\/em><em>sophia<\/em><em> (&#8216;wisdom&#8217;), is generally understood to mean &#8216;divine wisdom&#8217;.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The movement was co-founded in 1875 by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/blavatsky-madame-helena-petrovna\/\">Helena Blavatsky<\/a>, Henry Steel Olcott and William Quan Judge, but is probably best known through the writings of Blavatsky, who has been denounced as a fraudster and plagiarist.<\/p>\n<p>Theosophy offers a range of odd beliefs regarding Atlantis<sup>(a)<\/sup> including the idea that it sank in portions in a series of earthquakes that began 800,000 years ago before the last island of Atlantis, Poseidonis, sank in 9564 BC.<\/p>\n<p>Theosophy spawned a number of breakaway groups and has inspired quite a number on the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/lunatic-fringe\/\">lunatic fringe<\/a> of Atlantis writers. Anthroposophy, a concoction of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/steiner-rudolf\/\">Rudolf Steiner<\/a>, was one of these.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crystalinks.com\/blatvatskyatlantis.html\">https:\/\/www.crystalinks.com\/blatvatskyatlantis.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theosophy is defined by Britannica as an &#8220;occult movement originating in the 19th century with roots that can be traced to ancient Gnosticism and Neoplatonism. The term theosophy, derived from the Greek theos (&#8216;god&#8217;) and sophia (&#8216;wisdom&#8217;), is generally understood to mean &#8216;divine wisdom&#8217;.\u201d The movement was co-founded in 1875 by Helena Blavatsky, Henry Steel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4274,5664,1811,5666,5665,1125,353,5667],"class_list":["post-39221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-britannica","tag-gnosticism","tag-helena-blavatsky","tag-henry-steel-olcott","tag-neoplatonism","tag-rudolf-steiner","tag-theosophy","tag-william-quan-judge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}