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| | Esotericism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | While esotericism tends to focus on personal enlightenment and internal spiritual practice, organized religion or exotericism tends to focus on outer spiritual practice and ritual and on laws that govern the society. | | | Some present-day teachings choose to term themselves as forms of "esotericism" due to their focus on the "inner" aspects of experience (such as self-transformation) or the "inner" meanings of religious texts (such as Esoteric Christianity and "the Work" of G.I. Gurdjieff). | | | As important a part of esotericism as any of these answers, is the spirit of quest which has encouraged seekers throughout the ages to search the world, and their own souls, for deeper meaning and ultimately salvation. |
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| | Esoteric teachings |
| | In the east esotericism is represented by elements of Tibetan and Shingon Buddhism, and by the "mind to mind" transmissions that are taught within Zen Buddhism. | | | Esotericism in the Arab world was also suppressed in favor of fanatic exotericism with results we see to this day. | | | But often the understanding of esotericism is taught in such layers that those who teach them will have two versions of their religion. |
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| | Esotericism, Defined |
| | Esotericism is the art of "bringing down to earth" those energies which emanate from the highest sources and there "grounding them" or anchoring them. | | | Esotericism uses the forces of the third aspect (that of intelligent substance) as recipients of the energies of the two higher aspects and, in so doing, salvages substance. | | | This mediating principle is the soul of the individual aspirant or disciple (if one may use such misleading wording); it is also the anima mundi in the world as a whole. |
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| | Some Remarks on the Study of Western Esotericism |
| | When they refer to their domain of study by the term "esotericism" they do not mean some kind of universal and trans-historical sui generis phenomenon (analogous to "the sacred" in religious studies), but a certain number of historical currents and traditions in western culture that are available for study regardless of how they are evaluated. | | | The relationship between the study of western esotericism and the type of "comparative religion" known as perennialism or traditionalism is problematic for practical and organizational rather than scholarly reasons. | | | [12] Perennialism is a mode of interpreting - not esotericism, but the phenomenon of religion as such; and whereas perennialist literature shows a marked preference for such religions as Hinduism and Islam, historical currents typical of western esotericism play a marginal role in it. |
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http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/Hanegraaff.html
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| | Holte's corner: Appropriate and inappropriate esotericism |
| | Esotericism is basically religion based on "initiation." At one time I despised esoteric teachers and felt that esotericism was a dishonest way to approach religion. | | | But it is esotericism that he was teaching, and this esotericism is interesting but not necessarilly what Buddhism is really about. | | | In-appropriate esotericism is teaching any religion without the intent, purpose and wisdom to "save" them from their own evil inclinations and ignorance. |
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| | Anulios » Blog Archive » Esotericism |
| | That religion deals with belief and faith, whilst the esoteric is in fact a quest for knowledge rather than an actual belief. | | | In the above regard, it is a commonplace (in some circles) to suggest that esotericism and religion are two entirely different things. | | | When such an individual dies, the disciples often try to ‘carry on’ and the group will often then stabilise on belief rather than knowledge, due to the fact that the possessor of the knowledge is no longer present. |
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| | Esoteric |
| | Also esotericism is concerned with gnosis (spiritual knowledge). | | | It often, but not always, incorporates an element of secrecy regarding initiation, special knowledge, etc. Esotericism also tends to be a separate teaching to the exoteric or literal religion (although still taking the latter as authoritative). | | | Mysticism tends to be more practical and contemplative, and tends to be devotional (Christian mysticism, Sufism etc), although it can and very often also is equally concerned with gnosis (Sufism again, Advaita Vedanta, Buddhism). |
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| | "Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism" - A Review by J. Gordon Melton |
| | Esotericism has faired little better from the hands of post-Enlightenment secular scholars most of whom have seen its growth as a real threat to Western culture, or at best dismissed it as irrelevant superstition (like religion in general). | | | What we call Esotericism is a set of more-or-less related movements, personalities, and volumes of writings that have appeared through the centuries, which offer a quite distinct religious vision from that being professed by orthodox Christianity. | | | The tools utilized to gain such gnosis include the whole spectrum of occult arts and a range of spiritual exercises from meditation to kundalini yoga, from divination to magic. |
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http://www.cesnur.org/2005/hanegraaff.htm
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| | Methods in the Study of Western Esotericism |
| | I think we should begin by defining “esotericism,” rather straightforwardly, as a term referring to cosmological or metaphysical religious or spiritual knowledge that is restricted to or intended for a limited group, and not for society at large. | | | Once again, the word “gnosis&; refers to direct spiritual insight into the nature of the cosmos and of oneself, and thus may be taken as having both a cosmological and a metaphysical import. | | | The word “esoteric,&; in other words, refers to secret or semi-secret spiritual knowledge, including both cosmological and metaphysical gnosis; and I think that one cannot exclude from this definition phenomena classed as “mysticism.&; We must look at all esoteric phenomena, and not exclude one area or another for convenience’ sake. |
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http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/VolumeIV/Methods.htm
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| | American Renaissance |
| | In Western esotericism we find underlying all the various forms the traditions take, an underlying recognition that literature is not merely a means to communicate data, but also a vehicle to transmit means of spiritual understanding. | | | There are also various practical forms of esotericism including forms of divination like cartomancy, geomancy, and necromancy, as well as alchemy, astrology, herbalism, and magic. | | | The Western esoteric traditions, after all, often exist on the margin or border of religion, and this too may account for their attractiveness to authors in the modern era, when institutionalized religion often seems constricting or oppressive to them. |
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| | Esotericism and Biblical Interpretation (by Ron Rhodes) |
| | In the it's-my-interpretation approach of esotericism, the basic authority in interpretation ceases to be Scripture, but is rather the mind of the individual interpreter. | | | Now, in contrasting esotericism with a "literal" approach to Scripture, I am not suggesting a "wooden literalism" that interprets biblical figures of speech literally. | | | But what is understood to be a figure of speech and what is taken literally should be based on the biblical text itself -- such as when Jesus used obviously figurative parables to communicate spiritual truth. |
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| | ESOTERICISM 2001 |
| | It does not mean that all religions are the same or that the truth claims of all religions are true. | | | Esotericism encompasses many religious and spiritual traditions as well as metaphysical practices. | | | Spiritual people from the world’s major faiths find correspondence with one another in the mystical realm of their faiths. |
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http://uk.geocities.com/esoteric_alliance/esotericism_2001-overview.htm
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| | Times & Seasons » The Value of Esotericism |
| | The clearest example of our use of esotericism is the temple: the ordinances of the temple are hidden from the world, intended only for the intitiated. | | | There appears over time to be a strong tendency toward esotericism in most human associations — witness the development of everything from gnosticism, Kabbalism, and ancient mystery religions, to college fraternities, kids’ backyard tree-house clubs, GW Bush’s fundraising “Pioneers,” and so on. | | | Esotericism in Mormon film is coming up in my thread on The RM :) |
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http://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php?p=811
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| | Holte's corner: More on Zuiho Bini |
| | The purpose of esotericism is to teach the teachers and to teach the teachers of teachers. | | | In other words, rather than arrogantly assuming that Buddhism has all the answers, that the various religions are wrong, I'm coming to realize that I've had things backwards and the various religions are wrong and right to the extent that my own spiritual development is wrong or right. | | | Nichiren sought a religion where the esotericism would follow that Dengyo had intended. |
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| | Encountering Mysticism: Esotericism and Practice in Three Traditions |
| | Such esotericism would remain distinct from the practices of communities; however, as a self-critical act of abstraction, it allows scholars to clarify the modes of reasoning and representation in use in the particular communities, and to do so for the sake of the work and practices of those communities themselves. | | | Ford's and Meskin's presentations led to comparisons between the esotericism of Kemper and that of the letter to Ephesians. | | | Yet, if mystical union with God finds its fulfillment in the upbuilding of harmony and peace, and the extension of citizenship in God's household to others, then esoteric wisdom informs and inspires the practice within the community. |
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http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/journals/ssr/issues/volume1/number1/ssr01-01-b01.html
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| | Islamic Esotericism |
| | To refer to all Islamic esotericism as "Sufism" is like referring to all modern unconventional non-materialistic and non-mainstream religious ideas as "New Age". | | | Although the equations are usually made: Islamic esotericism = Sufism, and Judaic esotericism = Kabbalah; this is not always correct. | | | Just as there are unconventional ideas that are neither non-materialistic, mainstream religious, or "New Age", so there are forms of esotericism within the Islamic world that are not the same as, or even related to, "Sufism". |
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http://www.kheper.net/topics/Islamic_esotericism/Islamic_esotericism.htm
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| | Theosophical Society in America |
| | Not to confuse esotericism with mysticism, or religion, or intuition, or secrecy, and so on. | | | You could look at it as I do in Access to Western Esotericism, in terms of "periodization"—how certain things happen at the same time—but to be honest, one must say that there was really no direct connection. | | | Too many things pertaining to religious phenomena were borderline, and didn’t fall under a classical definition of "religious." Call it "mysticism" if you like. |
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http://www.theosophical.org/theosophy/questmagazine/mayjune2000/esotericist
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| | Jewish influencies in medieval European esotericism |
| | In fact, let us not forget that in Matthew 13:10-11, when the disciples ask him ”why speakest thou unto them in parables?” Jesus himself answers: ”Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given”. | | | Rejected by the Church, esotericism became the ”royal tradition”, precisely in order to evidence the intention to preserve the initiatory secret. | | | —which is only natural, by definition esotericism is addressed to an elite of initiates, what is accessible to all is exoteric. |
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| | Esotericism in education —notes from the classroom, by Phyllis Power, Share International archives |
| | However what seems to be lacking is firstly the precision of esotericism and, secondly, the most important fact for those who believe in the Reappearance, the presence of the Christ, now, in the world. | | | The new, expanded knowledge of reality that esotericism offers is alien to most people in education, dominated as it is by the sceptical, concrete-minded 5th ray and the traditional curriculum. | | | I also introduced esotericism as one account of the forces underlying the transitional period in which we are living. |
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| | Wouter J. Hanegraaff |
| | Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion (ed. | | | From 1992-1996 he was a research assistant at the department for Study of Religions of the University of Utrecht, where he defended his dissertation New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought on 30 november 1995 (cum laude). | | | He is member of the editorial board of the journals Religion (Academic Press), Numen (Brill), and Esoterica (www.esoteric.msu.edu), and of the advisory board of Journal of Contemporary Religion (Carfax) and Nova Religio (University of California Press). |
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| | Hitlerian Esotericism and the Tradition, Part I |
| | What there was, moreover, of the eternal in the warlike religion of Wotan and Thor -- and, before that in the immemorial Nordic religion of the Sky, the Earth, and "Son" of the one and the other, which Dr. Hermann Wirth studied -- was to survive in Christian esotericism, and in esotericism as such. | | | This has, parallel to the teaching of the Churches, continued throughout history to have its initiates, less and less numerous, undoubtedly, but always present, and sometimes very active. |
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| | Esotericism FAQ |
| | Masonic esotericists are not making a religion of Masonry, though they are often exploring its spiritual implications. | | | Masonic esotericists believe in the same principles, virtues, and ideals that unite all Masons, no matter what their specific religious preferences. | | | Some people may be concerned that esotericism is incompatible with the "Abrahamic" faiths, or even "satanic". |
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http://www.masonicinfo.com/esotericismfaq.htm
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| | Chthonios Books: New Books - non-Christian Esotericism |
| | The books here are not intended to give a full selection of titles on every aspect of ancient religion, but are selected from the best works which delve into those aspects of ancient religion which lie behind later developments in western esotericism — especially the Mystery religions — and western religion in general. | | | Hieros gamos (sacred marriage) is a theme with deep connections in the ancient Mysteries and in later Esotericism. | | | Recent years have seen a spectacular rise of the New Age movement and an ever-increasing interest in its beliefs and manifestations. |
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| | Commentary on Boris Mouravieff's Gnosis by Laura Knight-Jadczyk |
| | The idea of esotericism is often misunderstood. The clue can be found in the Gospel of Saint John: "I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." | | | At the same time, some of them demand "simplicity" from esoteric teachings on the generally accepted principle that Truth itself must be simple. They conclude from this that access to Truth ought to likewise be simple. Then they assert that the methods to access Truth must be easily assimilable. | | | And, other than questioning Mouravieff's witness -- that is, to call him a liar -- Gurdjieff stated to him that [Gurdjieff's] System "was the ABC of Christian doctrine". |
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| | Amazon.ca: Access to Western Esotericism: Books |
| | Not for the beginner, "Access" is written by one of the world's leading academic authorities on western mystical and occult movements from the Renaissance to the present. | | | This is certainly Faivre's most useful book for a broad knowledge of esotericism. | | | A great deal of the book is concerned with defining key terms, such as 'esotericism', 'gnosis', 'theosophy', and 'occultism'. |
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| | Esotericism |
| | Neither Science nor Art, the Esoterics (Esotericism) stand on the borderlands between memetic phenomena like religion, mythology, and urban folklore on the one hand, and noetics on the other. | | | Spiritualism, Afterlifeism - Belief in continued existence of spirits, in some cases incorporating communication with supposed spirits of the deceased | | | Psionics and Esotericism - One might distinguish, in imaginative fiction - four positions regarding the existence or otherwise of non-ultratetch-generated supernormal powers |
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| | Esotericism - Message Board - People in Action |
| | For those of you who hunger for direct experience of the Mysteries of Life and Death, those of you who are tired of vain and insipient theories, the flatulence of false-mysticism and misguided spiritual culture that has taken this day and age, then you must enter into Gnosis. | | | People in Action: Message Board: Web Guide: Personal Growth: Spirituality: Esotericism | | | Esotericism - Message Board - People in Action |
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| | Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism |
| | In two massive volumes it covers every aspect of pagan, Jewish, and Christian religious discourses and phenomena traditionally labeled gnosticism, hermeticism, astrology, magic, the "occult sciences," esoteric religion, and much more. | | | Never before has such a complete overview of this obscure peripheral area of religion appeared. | | | He has published extensively on modern and contemporary Western esotericism, including a book devoted to the 15th-century Christian Hermetist Lodovico Lazzarelli and a monograph on the New Age movement. |
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| | Straussian.net Discussions: What is the purpose of a public discussion by Strauss of Esotericism? |
| | I would start by saying that one thing no one has ever heard mentioned is precisely why Strauss mentioned political-philosophical esotericism publicly. | | | A gardener makes a small garden for like-minded exceptional recluses while a world-maker makes—well, why point out the obvious?) In the end, Leo Strauss, by mentioning political esotericism, has begun the process that leads to its destruction, or if you prefer, its temporary ineffectiveness. | | | As an aside, I will say that I suspect that the only people who know what dead esotericists thought/believed are people who are currently channeling them. |
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| | The Definition of Esotericism |
| | "The Ageless Wisdom Teaching, or esotericism as it is often called, is not a religion. | | | Esotericism, as it is sometimes called, is also the art of working with those energies which emanate from the highest spiritual sources. | | | "Esotericism might be seen more as the philosophy of the evolutionary process, and occultism [meaning "hidden"] as the science of the energies which bring that process about." ("The Ageless Wisdom Teaching" by Benjamin Creme, p. |
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| | Esotericism - What Is It? |
| | Esotericism is therefore the body of knowledge or wisdom about all aspects of life which are within, behind, or beyond the outer appearance, form, or expression of life's many aspects. | | | Esotericism involves an effort to live attuned to the inner realities of life. | | | We relate the formless causes to the formed effects; we embrace the form worlds as meaningful creations of our unconditional love, and we bring clarity and purpose to all that happens. |
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| | VOLUME XI - II - 1 |
| | As far as we perceive life as something tangible we call it matter; and what is not as tangible as a substance but is yet perceptible we call spirit. | | | If a person is not able to see the hidden law he will not be able to see that hidden love which is called God in the scriptures. | | | The one who cannot see the truth of esotericism or mysticism is ignorant because he is backward in psychology. |
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| | The nature of esotericism by Aart Jurriaanse, Share International Archives |
| | It serves as the mediating principle between life and substance, but is oriented to the spiritual rather than to the physical aspects. | | | Not only are all forms of creation composed of energy, but every form of activity also arises from streams of energy activated by that all-encompassing law of nature the Law of Cause and Effect. | | | Esotericism therefore concerns itself with the many energies of the soul, and aims towards free access to and functioning in the subjective worlds. |
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| | Equinox - Books - Book Details |
| | In Western cultural history these claims often led to conflicts with more established forms of scriptural religions and with reductionist interpretations in science and philosophy. | | | A controversial issue of public debate during the recent years, esotericism can be described as the search for an absolute but hidden knowledge that people claim to access through mystical vision, the mediation of higher beings, or personal experience. |
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| | SUNY Press :: Access to Western Esotericism |
| | The second half of the book presents a series of studies on several important figures, works, and movements in Western esotericism--studies devoted to some of the most characteristic and illuminating aspects that this form of thought has taken, such as theosophical speculations on androgyny, rosicrucian literature, and Masonic symbolism. | | | Chapter Three: Esotericism in the Shadow of the Enlightenment | | | Here is also a historical survey, beginning with the Alexandrean Period, of the various esoteric currents such as Christian Kabbalah, Theosophy, Alchemy, Rosicrucianism, and Hermeticism. |
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| | Otoons - Ma Deva Vampirella - Osho Esotericism |
| | You have seen Christ, you have seen Buddha; you have seen kundalini rising in your spine, the serpent uncoiling; you have seen great light, you have seen a lotus flowering inside your head, you have seen the heart chakra opening, and all that crap — beautiful sounding words, but only fools are deceived by them. | | | There will be immense mystery, but no esotericism about it. | | | There will be great poetry, but no esotericism about it. |
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| | Beliefnet.com |
| | The more I study the more I see how the plan of obtaining truth and knowing God, especially when it comes to Latter-day Israel. | | | I feel that esotericism is necessary in regards to truth and Eternal Life, because what would be the purpose of obtaining these precious pearls of great price if they were as easy to obtain as simply listening to the masses. | | | Arosophos, is this the sort of esotericism you were referring? |
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| | Esotericism |
| | It revived in the 16th century as a form of counter-culture through the work of Hermetism, Christian Kabbalah and Paracelsus. | | | Since World War II the renewal of interest in Christian spirituality has led to an increasing awareness of the value of true Christian esotericism. | | | Elsewhere in the West it is to be found in new religious currents such as theosophy, anthroposophy, the psychological work of Carl Jung, and the studies of thinkers of the perennial philosophy school such as Rene Guenon. |
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| | Taxonomy of Christ Views |
| | o Do you strongly include and allow esotericism, such as a mystic experience of Jesus, in your explanation of the origin of Christianity and what Jesus was about? | | | Freke and Gandy draw the main distinction between esotericism and Literalism, but I dislike how they conflate supernaturalism and mundane literalism into the term "Literalism". | | | The three criteria above correlate to supernaturalism, esotericism, and literalism. |
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| | Search Results for esotericism - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | American author, attorney, philosopher, and cofounder of the Theosophical Society, a religious sect incorporating aspects of Buddhism, Brahmanism, and Christian esotericism. | | | The greatest written works in one magnificent collection. | | | It looked forward to a “New Age” of love and light and offered a foretaste of the coming era... |
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| | Esotericism of the Popol Vuh by Raphael Girard, Glossary |
| | Zipacná causes the death of the Four Hundred Boys (associated with the Pleiades), who are resuscitated by the divine twins. | | | Esotericism of the Popol Vuh by Raphael Girard | | | Esotericism of the Popol Vuh by Raphael Girard, Glossary |
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| | Golden Precepts of Esotericism - by G. de Purucker |
| | It was Dr. de Purucker's hope that others would be "illumined with the same light and receive the same inspiration" that he himself had received from a lifelong absorption in the ideals and teachings of the Mystery Schools. | | | Third and Revised Edition copyright © 1979 by Theosophical University Press (print version also available). | | | Golden Precepts of Esotericism - by G. de Purucker |
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| | OBSERVING THE OBSERVER - The Totalitarian Veil of Fantasy Literature: Carl Schmitt, Esotericism, and Lukewarm Critical ... |
| | reading of Carl Schmitt with Western Esotericism and Totalitarianism. | | | As Jewish or early Christian esotericism, Fantasy is an anti-dote to a "Futurist" totalitarian reading of Modernity, sabotaging the celebration of violence and totalitarianism by doing what Schmitt saw as a symptom of modernist decline: allowing for belief in disbelief, the right to neither/nor. | | | Much has been made of the exoteric-esoteric distinction in the thought of Leo Strauss. Some authors suggested that a Straussian esotericism guided the neonconservative cabal within the Bush II administration, after all a secretive group that disdained public opinion and that was convinced of its own invincible rectitude even in the face of facts. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/christophwk/iblog/B1375532474/C74991927/E1869916045
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| | Past Events |
| | Antoine Faivre, École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne), History and Present State of the Discipline "Modern Western Esotericism" in the Study of Religion | | | Jean-Pierre Laurant, École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne), The term "Esotericism" in the Nineteenth Century | | | The Department of Theology and Religious Studies in the University of Wales Lampeter offers taught postgraduate Master's courses and supervision for the PhD in the areas of Theosophy, Western Esotericism and Religious Experience. |
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| | Psionics and Esotericism |
| | Esotericism While supernormal powers have been reported to exist (but rarely proved under falsifiable conditions), these are generally only attained after long discipline in yoga and other techniques of psycho-spiritual transformation. | | | Often those who have developed these powers ("siddhis") are reluctant to use them, very often the powers are not deliberately sought but area side-effect (even a distraction) of the spiritual quest. | | | The psi ability is also - to a greater or lesser extent - able to be manipulated by the person possessing it, as easily as one might move one's physical body or practice an exercise in mental visualisation (perhaps a better example). |
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http://www.orionsarm.com/intro/psionics_and_esotericism.html
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| | Association for the Study of Esotericism: Mission and Goals |
| | The mission of the Association for the Study of Esotericism is to promote excellence in scholarship and teaching in the study of esotericism and mysticism. | | | To advance publication and scholarly communication in the study of esotericism and mysticism. | | | The First North American Conference on Esotericism, to be held in 2004. |
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http://www.aseweb.org/ASE/ASEMission.html
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| | Western Esotericism Seminar |
| | Stavish will be presenting a concise program with the objective of helping those who are inclined to practice alchemy and Western Esotericism. | | | is recognized internationally as an authority on Western Esotericism, in particular the practice of Qabala and Alchemy. | | | Mark Stavish, of the Institute for Hermetic Studies in Pennsylvania, has been studying and practicing traditional Western Esotericism for over twenty years, and has served in various Rosicrucian and Martinist bodies. |
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http://www.triad-publishing.com/Store/Seminar.html
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