The-ōs'o-phy, n.

n. [Fr. théosophie, Sp. & It. teosofia, Gr. θεοσοφία, from θεόσοφος, wise in the things of God, from θεός, God, and σοφός, wise.] Supposed intercourse with God and superior spirits, and consequent attainment of superhuman knowledge by physical processes, as by the theurgic operations of some ancient Platonists, or by the chemical processes of the German fire philosophers; also, a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of the divine mind, and the interior relations of the divine nature.