[Kolokotronis]

Theosis is NOT theosophy in any way shape or form!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have never heard the term used synonymously with "sanctification"

The best translation is "the process of becoming like God" but that's not real good. Take another look at post 161 so kindly put up for us by monkfan. This shows the process of theosis. See why we use Icons so much? Read St John Climacus and St. Symeon the New Theologian. Both of them give instructions to the monks in their care about theosis. I suppose that one could say that it is the process by which we become, probably after death, one with God, to become so subsumed by Him that He is our only reality, our only identity, our only focus. Not only would we have "seen" or "experienced" Merton's uncreated light, but actually become part of it. Does this help?

[NYer]

Theosis is NOT theosophy in any way shape or form!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have never heard the term used synonymously with "sanctification"

My sincere apologies! It was a natural mistake - 'theosis' 'theosophy'. And thank you for the explanation: "the process of becoming like God". While we can NEVER be God, nor understand GOD, we can and should attempt to emulate what God has taught us. Is that correct?

Thank you, monkfan, for posting that fabulous graphic! I just love it. I am the one on rung #2 ;-D

[Tantumergo]

"Theosis is NOT theosophy in any way shape or form!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

LOL! Priceless! You don't get many Freudian slips as bad as that, NYer!

Theosophy and the theosophical movement are associated with Freemasonry and the occult. Alistair Crowley (satanist high priest) started life out as a theosophist!!!

In Western theology we would translate the term "theosis" as deification, or divinisation, although both are inexact and it is another word which is best left in the Greek if possible.