English citations of theosophistical

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    • 1830, Thomas Thomson, The History of Chemistry, 2nd edition, volume 1, London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, →OCLC, page 173:
      [] in order to counteract the alchymistical and the theosophistical dogmas so common at that period.
    • 1831 June, “[Reviewed work:] Lettres à M. Letronne [] , [by Caspar] Reuvens [] ”, in The Edinburgh review, volume 53, number 106, Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, →OCLC, page 372:
      he has succeeded in throwing a powerful and steady light on several points which were previously involved in mystery and darkness; and particularly in detecting the real source of those theosophistical extravagancies which, engrafted on Christianity, constituted the gnosticism of the first ages of the Church.
    • 1889 March 23, “Yearning reduced to absurdity”, in The Scots observer[1], volume 1, number 18, Edinburgh, London, →OCLC:
      This is a volume of Theosophistical, and therefore nonsensical, essays.
    • 1893 July 22, “How to study spooks”, in Bedfordshire Times and Independent, via British Newspaper Archive, →OCLC, page 2:
      [] not by the questionable phenomena of dark séances, or the automatic writing-down of the puerile vagaries of imaginary “Julias,” or what the has pertinently called “the theosophistical concoctions” of the Theosophists.
    • 1903, “Theosophists”, in John Henry Blunt, editor, Dictionary of sects, heresies, ecclesiastical parties, and schools of religious thought, New York: Longmans, Green, →OCLC, page 596:
      This last named author oscillates between a comparative sanity, induced by his admiration for the Cartesian philosophy, and a more than Theosophistical madness due to the fascination of the mystic Madame Bourignon.
    • 1997 November 28, jc, “Re: Glamour”, in alt.meditation[2] (Usenet), message-ID <347EB903.2202@bohm.anu.edu.au>:
      Any brain cells in there, apart from pseudo-intellectual, patently theosophistical clap trap.