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Charles Buck Theological Dictionary

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A sect who pretend to derive all their knowledge from divine illumination. They boast that, by means of this celestial light, they are not only admitted to the intimate knowledge of God, and of all divine truth, but have access to the most sublime secrets of nature. They ascribe it to the singular manifestation of divine benevolence, that they are able to make such a use of the element of fire in the chemical art, as enables them to discover the essential principles of bodies, and to disclose stupendous mysteries in the physical world. To this class, it is said, belonged Paracelsus, R. Fludd, Van Helmont, Peter Poiret, and the Rosicrusians.

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Buck, Charles. Entry for 'Theosophists'. Charles Buck Theological Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​cbd/​t/theosophists.html. 1802.
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