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| | Esotericism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Not infrequently, the claims of one esoteric group may be rejected by the wider religious culture, or by other esoteric groups which make their own rival claims. | | | Nineteenth-century esoteric writers came to be deeply influenced by various Eastern religions, which they typically saw as partaking of the same divine truth. | | | In some religious contexts, especially within Western Christianity, "esoteric" knowledge is seen as somewhat dangerous to the mainstream of that religion, involving the possibility of heresy. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_knowledge
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| | Esoteric Buddhism by A.P.Sinnett |
| | Esoteric science, though interesting itself mainly with matters generally regarded as appertaining to religion, would not be the complete comprehensive and trustworthy system that it is, if it failed to bring all the facts of earth life into harmony with its doctrines. | | | And the esoteric doctrine is thus regarded by those of all creeds who are “enlightened” (in the Buddhist sense) as the absolute truth concerning Nature, Man, the origin of the Universe, and the destinies toward which its inhabitants are tending. | | | The fact is, however, that esoteric Buddhism, though by no means divorced from the associations of exoteric Buddhism, must not be conceived to constitute a mere imperium in imperio - a central school of culture in the vortex of the Buddhist world. |
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http://www.theosophical.ca/EsotericBuddhism.htm
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| | SCIENCE AND ESOTERIC KNOWLEDGE |
| | However, in the course of history, a process of bifurcation took place, and knowledge was dichotomized into sacred and secular knowledge. | | | Sacred knowledge was further divided into esoteric and exoteric knowledge—the former in the form of mystery schools, which went largely underground, and the latter in the form of theology or scholasticism. | | | Modern science was an outgrowth of secular knowledge, completely disassociated from esoteric knowledge in its origin and in its philosophical foundation. |
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http://www.philosophy.org/webarticles/text/hermetic2.htm
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| | Jeffrey Hadden defends Scientology's Secrecy |
| | The notion that religious knowledge in the modern world is democratic knowledge and, therefore open to all, decries the experience of new religious movements in the North America and Europe. | | | I understand that it is the contention of Fishman and Geertz that the claim to confidentiality of sacred texts is incompatible with the free expression of religion. | | | It is clear that religious groups have possessed and persistently guarded selected esoteric meanings of sacred texts for as long as we have knowledge of religious groups. |
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http://www.rickross.com/reference/apologist/apologist18.html
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| | Esoteric Publishing / Esoteric Philosophy Links |
| | Uriel Esoteric Spirituality, the Tibetan, and the Archangel Uriel. | | | The Esoteric Studies Guide A place to find out more about the Mahatmas, their disciples, and their teachings about the nature of the universe. | | | The purpose of the SOL is to assist in spreading esoteric knowledge in an ethical manner to all who want to receive it, regardless of religious denomination, gender, nationality, race, age, social position or income. |
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http://www.esotericpublishing.com/links.html
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| | Kevorkian Center |
| | Hurufi ideas about esoteric knowledge can be summarized as follows: all Hurufis believed that the exoteric/esoteric distinction arose at the beginning of time when God created the cosmos in order to become known as stated in a popular hadith qudsi. | | | In line with the doctrine of divine predestination, it is God himself who has predetermined their elect status from eternity and enabled them to attain the heights of knowledge and religious experience that are by definition unattainable to ordinary human beings. | | | Thus in the Sunni manaqib (praise) literature, we frequently find mention of Abu Bakr's peerless knowledge of genealogical relationships among the Arabs and of his greater maturity, and concomitantly, greater wisdom, vis-a-vis `Ali; this was then interpreted to signal the former's predisposition to be the Prophet's successor. |
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http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/neareast/esoteric_conf.html
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| | Steiner: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds: How Is Knowledge of the Higher Worlds Attained? |
| | This meditation is the means to supersensible knowledge. | | | It must be emphasized that higher knowledge is not concerned with the veneration of persons but the veneration of truth and knowledge. | | | Not until a student is at least open to the possibility of knowledge of another kind will he be receptive to it when it is to be had. |
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http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~dcandmkw/spirit/stein3.htm
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| | Scientology: A Way of Spiritual Self-Identification |
| | Esoteric knowledge in religious systems is possible in two forms. | | | Esoteric knowledge of Scientology concerns the second form. | | | It is supposed that the disclosure of hidden knowledge, giving it availability for all who so wish, transforms hidden knowledge into profane, or secular, knowledge which loses its holy power and convertibility. |
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http://www.neuereligion.de/ENG/Sivertsev/doc2.htm
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| | Self knowledge and esoteric education |
| | Esoteric education, or inner education, begins with the most simple yet fundamental questions that are asked by every child: "Who am I?", "Where did I come from?", "Why am I me and not you?". | | | It is fuelled by a certainty that there is a purpose in being here, and that the movement of mankind's spiritual evolution is intelligent and has an aim. | | | Thus when it is known that the One Real Being is one's very essence and that oneself is its own 'envelope', there follows the realisation that all existence is an intrinsic unity. |
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http://www.beshara.org/pages/education.html
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| | The Esoteric Knowledge |
| | Bathing in the river of knowledge, he has attained perfection and he looks like the foliage on the tree of ever-lasting peace (186-190), or the blossoms of the supreme spirit, or a pillar in the pavilion of fortitude, or an overfull jar dipped in the ocean of bliss. | | | in their wisdom they keep the knowledge of unity intact, because wherever they cast their eyes, they see nothing except myself, see wherever the bubble floats, it is always in water and whether it stays or bursts, it remains in water (251-255). | | | Even as the husk is separated by a strong wind, piling a heap of grain on the ground (41-45), so this wisdom, equating mortal life with the world of name and form leads the spiritual aspirant to the state of liberation. |
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http://www.starwon.com.au/~soham/jnaneshwari/chap09.html
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| | Towards a Foundation of a Universal Esoteric Science |
| | which presents human knowledge and experience in terms of a gradation of several metaphysical levels, in keeping with the teachings of mystics and spiritual traditions of all times and cultures. | | | What I am interested in is a universal system of knowledge, such as the Unified Science of Edward Haskell and co-workers, the Cosmic Humanism of Oliver Reiser, the Sacred Soviety of William Irwin Thompson, the Primordial Tradition of Professor Huston Smith. | | | Esotericism, being more pragmatic, is not only about knowledge, it is also about attainment. |
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http://www.kheper.net/topics/Esoteric_Science.html
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| | Lecture: Exoteric And Esoteric Christianity |
| | The esoteric knowledge is always a knowledge of facts which take place, as such, in the spiritual world, and remain hidden behind the veil of the physical world. | | | That a battle of the gods took place on that occasion, is contained also in the esoteric teachings imparted by the Christ to his initiated disciples, after his resurrection. | | | The essential knowledge conveyed to the disciples through the Mystery of Golgotha, was that men could again approach the divine worlds which they had left. |
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http://wn.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ExoEso_index.html
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| | CyberShaman -- Hawaiian Kupua Shamanism - Huna and Hawaiians |
| | That "ka 'ike huna," the esoteric knowledge of using the power of the mind to influence nature and events was practiced by the Hawaiians there is no doubt. | | | Many of the ancient heiau or temples of Hawaii held a tall, wooden framework called 'anu'u that was partially covered with kapa, or bark cloth, which was used for offerings and as a place for priests to reveal the words of the gods. | | | On page 23 of The Secret Science Behind Miracles he first introduces the word as "the 'Secret' (Huna)," a perfectly acceptable translation of the idea of hidden knowledge, and later declares that this is the word that he will use to describe the system of Hawaiian esoteric (i.e., secret) knowledge as he understood it. |
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http://www.hawaiian.net/~larryw/html/hunaword.html
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| | Golden Altai UniverSynergy Arts--Home Page |
| | knowledge was banned, and people who didn't conform to the dominant religion were persecuted and killed. | | | In the Dark Ages, previously known knowledge about human energy fields, herbal remedies, potions, secrets of health (such as yoga exercises), mental powers (such as telepathy and telekinesis), crystal vibrations, pyramid power, astral karate, and even the study of the human mind, was violently suppressed by churches and governments. | | | Some knowledge, which was once known, has been hidden from the public for centuries. |
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http://www.goldenaltai.org
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| | Sufism-Knowledge |
| | Manifest knowledge and the sciences of jurisprudence, they assert, belong to the theologians and scholars of the general run of ordinary Muslims, whereas the hidden knowledge and the knowledge of truth are reserved for the Sufi priests, who preferred to call themselves the elite. | | | They use esoterism as a pretext for misinterpreting the Qur'an and Sunnah, in order to drive Muslims away from sound religious knowledge, as indicated by some Sufi zealot, who consider knowledge as a hindrance in the way of the murid and a curtain which blocks his vision, "I prefer that the beginner ( | | | The Sufis do not realize that whatever al-Khidhr did was in accordance with Divine revelation, nor do they know that Musa's objections were due to the fact that his Divine Laws were different from al-Khidhr's. |
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http://www.qss.org/articles/sufism/sufi17.html
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| | The Basic Esoteric Dictionary |
| | Only the monads of the highest divine kingdom have knowledge of all the laws of the universe and are able to apply them correctly with unfailing precision. | | | INITIATION Process in esoteric training where the disciple (his monad) under the guidance of his teacher (a member of a higher natural kingdom) breaks through to the consciousness and energy (‘will’) of a higher atomic kind and definitively conquers it. | | | It has come from the planetary hierarchy, and its esoteric knowledge orders have existed among all nations that have attained a sufficiently high level to be able to inquire intelligently into the meaning and goal of life." K 1.43.5 |
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http://www.laurency.com/Dictionary.htm
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| | Esoteric Knowledge? |
| | Parallel to the standard exoteric view of the state (whether of the established church, or of established science), there have long been other esoteric views about mind, spirituality and religion, that have been somewhat different, even radically different. | | | They are commonly only found by going beyond ‘literal meanings’ of religious, to an esoteric knowledge texts (see later). | | | Not that he leaves this tradition unchanged, but that, more clearly than does Plotinus for example, he explains in much detail the visionary and mystical contents of many of the outer forms of Christianity. |
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http://www.theisticscience.org/spirituality/esoteric.htm
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| | Gurdjieff: The Unknown Man |
| | I shall assume that esoteric knowledge exists and shall discuss Ouspensky’s statement that teachers of this knowledge are usually difficult to recognize. | | | Some people repudiate the idea that direct knowledge of this nature exists and maintain that all knowledge must come indirectly through the special senses. | | | The first told of a German who journeyed to India in search of a guru and returned without having found one. |
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http://www.gurdjieff.org/walker1.htm
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| | Western Esoteric Texts |
| | Here is a smorgasbord of texts relating to esoteric and occult beliefs. | | | A comprehensive introduction to the Esoteric, including the Qaballa, Tarot, Ceremonial Magic, Neo-Platonic Philosophy, Mystery Religions, Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry. | | | Belanger has graciously donated this text which describes her beliefs on this topic. |
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/index.htm
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| | Esoteric Knowledge |
| | Esoteric knowledge is knowledge which is believed to be true but not generally known or accepted. | | | In ancient times, Greek societies were secret, male-only guardians of esoteric knowledge. | | | Such knowledge is confined within certain disciplines, such as magic and freemasonry. |
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http://www.wikiverse.org/esoteric-knowledge
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| | Reference of Esoteric Knowledge |
| | Skeptic's Annotated Bible- not affiliated with the esoteric per se, | | | Mistress of the Dreamways - Alania's site, soon to come |
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http://www.angelfire.com/journal/klaramaeve
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| | Higher Viewpoint - Book Lists |
| | Isidora Forrest is well known in the occult community for her contributions as a Golden Dawn initiate as well as Priestess of a modern Isiac tradition, and her wealth of experience and knowledge shows here. | | | It's divided into two parts; an exposition of the Goddess Isis in history and as worshipped today, and a detailed series of initiations which can be adopted in one's personal practice. | | | Read The Ritual Magic Workbook and you will know if the path of high magic is for you. |
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http://www.higher-viewpoint.com/modules/booklists
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| | SMN Science and Esoteric Knowledge Bibliography |
| | This bibliography is intended as a guide for people who want to learn more about knowledge and wisdom that goes beyond what is generally regarded as scientific. | | | Books which are particularly likely to appeal to those unfamiliar with esoteric knowledge are marked with an *. | | | The bibliography was created by the Science and Esoteric Knowledge Group of the Scientific and Medical Network, and was compiled by Dr Julian Candy, who would welcome corrections and suggestions for future inclusions. |
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http://www.datadiwan.de/SciMedNet/esotbibl/intro.htm
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| | Scientific and Medical Network - Discussion Group: Science and Esoteric Knowledge |
| | The meetings of the Science and Esoteric Knowledge Group were started from a concern with the limited epistemology and assumptions of modern science, which constitute an 'epistemological imperialism' in denying the validity of non-scientific ways of knowing and knowledge (wow!). | | | The group has worked on comparisons between the philosophical assumptions of modern science and a spiritual world-view. | | | Special Interest Groups - Science and Esoteric Knowledge |
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http://www.datadiwan.de/SciMedNet/184.htm
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| | Using esoteric knowledge to further your grow. by |
| | Click here for the full version: Using esoteric knowledge to further your grow. | | | Everything you EVER DID is STILL STORED IN YOUR PC. |
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http://www.overgrow.com/edge/showpost/p-216593.html
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| | Esoteric Science ... الايزوتيريك ... ... |
| | In addition, courses, orientation and exercises are available in weekly lessons / monographs to esoteric students for verification through practical application - the backbone of the Esoteric. | | | You're always invited to attend our weeklyand monthly Lectures |
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http://www.esoteric-lebanon.org/english.htm
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