Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - theosophy

 noun  Etymology: Medieval Latin theosophia, from Late Greek, from Greek the- + sophia wisdom — more at -sophy  Date: 1650  1. teaching about God and the world based on mystical insight  2. often capitalized the teachings of a modern movement originating in the United States in 1875 and following chiefly Buddhist and Brahmanic theories especially of pantheistic evolution and reincarnation  • theosophical adjective  • theosophically adverb