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Which Russian-born mystic co-founded the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875?

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  1. 1 Easy

    What spiritual movement did Rudolf Steiner found after breaking away from mainstream Theosophy?

    Answer: Anthroposophy

    Why: Steiner applied Anthroposophy to everyday life, creating Waldorf education and biodynamic farming methods.

  2. 2 Medium

    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.

  3. 3 Hard

    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.

  4. 4 Easy

    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.

  5. 5 Medium

    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.

  6. 6 Hard

    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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