Esotericism quiz
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Which Russian-born mystic co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875?
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What spiritual movement did Rudolf Steiner found after leaving Theosophy?
Answer: Anthroposophy
Why: Steiner applied Anthroposophy to everyday life, creating Waldorf education and biodynamic farming methods.
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What mystic system uses a tree with ten numbered spheres?
Answer: Kabbalah
Why: Twenty-two paths link the ten spheres, and the Sefer Yetzirah insists on ten and not nine, ten and not eleven.
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Elizabeth I's advisor John Dee claimed to speak which angelic language?
Answer: Enochian
Why: Dee's scryer Edward Kelley reported the 21 letter angelic alphabet in 1583, and the pair recorded its grammar in their journals.
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The word abracadabra was originally used in the 2nd century to cure what?
Answer: malaria
Why: Serenus Sammonicus, physician to Caracalla, had sufferers wear the word on parchment, written as a shrinking triangle.
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What does Hermes' title "Trismegistus" literally mean?
Answer: Thrice Great
Why: The Greek tris plus megistos renders an Egyptian epithet of Thoth, recorded at Esna as the great, the great, the great.
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Which 17th-century shoemaker-mystic wrote The Signature of All Things?
Answer: Jakob Böhme
Why: He kept his shoemaker's workshop in Görlitz and dated his mystical awakening to 1600, when light glinted off a pewter dish.
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