Therapeutse

or Thtrapniti s. A school of Esotericists. which was an inner group witiiin Alexandrian Judaism and not, as generally believed, a "sect". They were "healers" in the sense that some "Christian" and "Mental" Scientists, members of the T.S., are healers, while they are at the same time good Theosophists and students of the esoteric sciences. Philo Juda'us calls them "servants of god". As justly showji in A Dictionari) of . . . Litiratun , S(cts, and Doctrines (Vol. IV., art. "Pliilo Judipus") in mentioning the Therapeutes — "There appears no reason to think of a special 'sect', but rather of an esoteric circle of illuminati, of 'wise men' . . . Thev were contemplative Hellenistie Jews."