The term theosophy has been used by scholars of Kabbalah to refer to medieval Jewish mysticism. The term technically means “the wisdom about God,” and it is conventionally distinguished from theology on the basis that theology is reasoned argumentation about God’s nature, whereas theosophy is a kind of illumination – a knowledge or a gnosis through the heart, or by means of the heart, into the nature of God, and the soul, and the world.