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 | | Exoteric religions are passionate about the law of God. | | | Exoteric religions assert that God can be found within the absolute truths of doctrine and dogma. | | | These seekers find the exoteric fundamentalisms of Jewish, Christian and Islamic religions to be spiritually unsatisfying at best and, at worst, capable of genocide. |
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http://www.faithworks.com/archives/truth_beyond.htm
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| | Chan Newsletter No. 45, May 1985: Esoteric and Exoteric Buddhism |
| | As I have said, this sutra is used in both Tantra and Ch'an: that is, esoteric and exoteric Buddhism. | | | The existence of such deities is well accepted by both esoteric and exoteric Buddhism. | | | We must judge that in this situation esoteric Buddhism is better for me, or at this point exoteric Buddhism is better. |
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http://www.ddmba.com/ddp/channews/05-1985.html
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| | Shingon Buddhist Intl. Institute: Teachings |
| | The Exoteric Teachings were all taught by the Nirmanakaya Buddha, the historic Buddha Sakyamuni. | | | The teaching of Shingon Buddhism is based on the belief in these two pillars, and it allows each one of us to live fully the life we treasure as our one and only life safeguarded, as it was explained earlier, by the vows and protective powers of many buddhas. | | | According to Kobo Daishi, it is only the Shingon Tradition which is the Esoteric Teaching, while all of the rest of the Buddhadharma are the Exoteric Teachings. |
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http://www.shingon.org/teachings/ShingonMikkyo/esoteric-exoteric.html
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| | Also, some forms of meditation such as Vipassana and Zen are exoteric. | | | Traditionally, the approach to spirituality can be either exoteric or esoteric. | | | What this means is that the esoteric is a natural progression to the exoteric. |
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| | Burton Daniels' Home Page: Ageism and the Anti Superiorism or Soul on Ice: A Spiritual Manifesto: Exoteric And Esoteric ... |
| | In addition to the exoteric revisions of the spiritual revelations of the world's greatest spiritual masters, the class of exoteric elders can also be seen to include those at the developmental level of the adult poised to enter these resplendent realms. | | | Exoteric elders can exist in any strata or domain of society, although they tend to gravitate toward science and religion-and especially those institutions that teach science and religion: schools and universities. | | | Yet, if exoteric religion was acknowledged to be a lesser wisdom and not confused for its esoteric counterpart, it could perhaps serve a useful purpose as an introductory course to greater wisdom. |
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http://www.burtondaniels.com/ageism/exoteric_esoteric_elders.html
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| | Ghwendolyn Wolfrose: Priestess of the Wica |
| | An exoteric path is one that is geared towards the general populace, toward people who don't necessarily want to spend a huge amount of time pondering every aspect of their religion for hidden meanings, but just want a reasonable and easy-to-understand set of moral and religious precepts to guide them in their everyday lives. | | | One of my major pet peeves with the current crop of exoteric Wiccans is that they seem to have forgotten that Wicca in its traditional sense is/was an initiatory mystery religion, in which nothing is ever as simple as it seems, or has only one meaning. | | | It was not designed to be a mass religion, and little thought was given to providing exoteric interpretations of its belief system or practices. |
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http://wolfrose.com/index.php?id=esovexo.inc
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| | Surrender: Its Significance for Today and in the Qur'anic Commentary of Ruzbihan al-Baqli |
| | When I assert that exoterically oriented people reduce surrender to a principle governing action, I do not mean to imply that such people do not also regard as a valid aspect of surrendering the conforming of one's beliefs to those beliefs accepted by orthodoxy. | | | In contrast to what the exoteric reductionists of today's world (the fatalistic and militant exoterists, along with many modernists and post-modernists) would have us believe, there is a long and rich tradition of an esoteric understanding of Islam and the principle of "surrender to God." Rūzbihān Baqlī's Qurʾān commentary, the ʿArāʾis | | | Just like the exoteric reductionist who erred by passivity, the militant exotericist (like Muslims in general) would view his problematic situation as a test of faith. |
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| | The Rulership of the Signs in Esoteric |
| | The exoteric is material, the esoteric projects for spiritual and intangible causes. | | | His exoteric idealistic reasoning is to save the sorrowful from prodigality (Jupiter) helping them onto spirituality {Neptune}. | | | The individual is able to impregnate others with his divine ideation and to put them first. |
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http://www.btinternet.com/~seamaid/Esotericrulerships.htm
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| | Comparative Spirituality 101 |
| | Exoteric religion is understood to derive from an originally esoteric source (such as a great Spiritual Master or a shaman). | | | When an exoteric religion loses touch with its esoteric roots (e.g., by being “re-shaped” for the sake of political and social survival), it can devolve into an illegitimate exoteric religion that may be socially and politically influential, but that is nonetheless spiritually bankrupt. | | | The difference between "armchair" comparative religion (as practiced in academia) and empirical comparative spirituality, based on Spiritual practice and Realization. |
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http://www.comparativespirituality.com
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| | The exoteric teaching was that taught to the people, while the esoteric was reserved for the disciples. | | | It is well-known that most ancient religions had two aspects, the exoteric or outer, and the esoteric or inner. | | | The perceptions of this esoteric being are what constitute soul wisdom, of which sense- perceptions are but exoteric shadows. |
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http://www.wisdomworld.org/setting/exotericesoteric.html
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| | Path to God - Esoteric and Exoteric Religion |
| | The book contains outward or exoteric religion which according to Jesus himself, was for those not ready for the real thing. | | | Path to God - Esoteric and Exoteric Religion | | | Pearls for the swine so the bible is of usefull, but stale, and not the esoteric thing. |
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http://pathtogod.info/esoteric.html
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| | Scholasticism was the burning torch of Western Exoteric Christianity in the otherwise dark Middle Ages waiting for the dawn of the consciousness soul in the Fifth Cultural Epoch commencing the year 1413. | | | The intention of these spiritual powers was to instill in exoteric Western Christianity a Hellenistic-Gnostic inspired natural science that would cut off mankind's spiritual path to achieve Manas, Buddhi and Atma in future cultural epochs. | | | Without firmly grounding humanity in the Christ impulse of exoteric Christianity, the human ego would not be free at this later epoch to develop as intended by the Spirits of Form. |
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http://www.vermontel.com/~vtsophia/DION1.htm
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| | Divinatory Meanings-Magical Terminology |
| | Exoteric meaning: That which cares and maintains, protects, and preserves; that which is motherly; wisdom, harmony, salvation, blessing, protects from hail and fire. | | | Exoteric meaning: Beginning, creation, excitation, power, success, wisdom, duties fulfilled, art of concealment and hiding. | | | Esoteric meaning: Eternal change, caring and maintaining principle in the universe, Higher Self, God in us. |
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http://www.empathys.co.uk/92.html
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| | We might say that (exoteric) religion is an ideology, and (exoteric) spirituality is a process. | | | It is arguable that while the exoteric form of religions differ widely, on an esoteric level they are all similar. | | | Religions and spiritual beliefs that see the sacred as immanent are generally more environmentally sound. |
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http://www.thegreenfuse.org/spirit.htm
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| | A Conversation With... Huston Smith, PhD. |
| | That's where New Agers part company with me and, by the same token, prefer "spirituality" over the word "religion," because religion is organized spirituality, and therefore carries the burden of institutionalization. | | | The parallel for that is that they all hold--and this is where eyebrows get raised when I speak, because I say that one cannot enter fully--meaning with one's whole life, one's will, one's perceptions and so on--into the esoteric except through the exoteric, or a religion that also has an exoteric dimension. | | | Every religion has its exoteric, outer side that it shows to the world, can be put into forms, songs, liturgy, theology, words, and the inner essence of what those forms point toward. |
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http://www.lightworks.com/MonthlyAspectarian/2002/March/conversation.htm
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| | India-'The Alma-Mater'-II: The Temple of Knowledge |
| | The visible and tangible record of the Sanatana Dharma, the Eternal Religion, is but the garment of the true Wisdom-Religion which antedates the Vedas themselves. | | | Within the exoteric lies hidden the esoteric, though it is true that the esoteric extends beyond the exoteric, just as soul vision transcends mind perception. | | | Another way to look at these two is to regard Gnyan-Kanda as the hidden esoteric soul of Karma-Kanda, the exoteric ritual or form side of religion. |
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http://www.wisdomworld.org/additional/ancientlandmarks/TheTempleOfKnowledge-2.html
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| | Esoteric and Exoteric Knowledge in Religious Traditions |
| | Scientology has sought to protect their sacred scriptures, both esoteric and exoteric, through modern means not available to earlier religious movements, for example, copyrighting. | | | The esoteric sacred texts -- available only to those having achieved a certain spiritual level -- are a very small part of their sacred scriptures. | | | But most of the material is regarded as exoteric sacred texts and thus generally available. |
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http://www.scientology.org/copyright/bryant.htm
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| | Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Basically, the Mystery religions can be considered as the esoteric counterpart to the exoteric popular religions. | | | The symbols and mythology of popular cults of worship are thought to contain an esoteric meaning which reveal a deeper mystical knowledge. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/p/pseudodi.htm
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| | Don't people in exoteric religion have this contact? | | | For most people, for instance, exoteric religion works just fine. | | | Really, really, really, really, really, big." This is how exoteric religion functions. |
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http://www.seekersoftruth.us/esoteric.htm
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| | SCIENTIFIC MATERIALIST: As an outsider looking at exoteric religion, it is apparent that the major religions are constantly at each others' throats with everyone trying to convert everyone else to their brand of religion. | | | TM MEDITATOR: And Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is opening Vedic Universities in every state in the U.S. BUDDHIST MONK: And Buddhism has never been more popular around the world. | | | Not that the exoteric groups, or the public as a whole, are even aware of this struggle. |
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http://www.dimensional.com/~risaacs/l2.htm
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| | What if there are "exoteric methods" that are, say, inspirational re whatever that might be seen as "more esoteric" in some comparative/exoteric sense. | | | Finally, esoteric meditation is "non-meditation" or "meditation without meditating" where one can observe emptiness directly while going about one's daily life. | | | from Mauri: <<exoteric form of meditation that produces esoteric insight?>> might (?) tend to be interpreted, by some, (even though, obviously enough, that's just a question), that exoterics are, or can be, "in some sense," "less mayavic" than some say. |
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http://www.katinkahesselink.net/arch/gb43.html
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| | The World of Jin-Gang-Dhyana - Baochu Holy Realm series no. 1 - Xizi Holy Tantra Words |
| | The two revered Buddhas both performed on the same stage of the "great show of deliverance of sentient beings." Holy ancestor Holy Vimalakirti's sacred deeds of disseminating the path have been fully disclosed in the holy scripture the Vimalakirti Sutra, which is honoured by both Exoteric and Esoteric Buddhism. | | | According to the holy revelation of the Old Dharma Lord, when the Root Patron Buddha, the Great Sage Sakyamuni Buddha, dwelled in this world, He personally demonstrated the process of transforming from mundane to holiness in His attaining Buddhahood. | | | At the same time He taught Exoteric and Esoteric Buddhism, and simultaneously disseminated the three vehicles of "Hinayana, Mahayana, and Tantrayana Buddhism." |
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http://www.jgdvan.hispeed.com/e43c/e431a1a3.html
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| | seemyanmar.com - exoteric buddhism |
| | Read about Exoteric Buddhism in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary. | | | Find the Best Sites For exoteric buddhism With Starware | | | Starware search is an excellent resource for quality sites on exoteric buddhism and much more! |
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http://www.seemyanmar.com/exoteric-Buddhism.aspx
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| | Stevie Ray Vaughan's Natal Horoscope Interpertations |
| | Other exoteric and esoteric keywords include: Philosophy, religion, higher education, distant travel, cultural learning, publishing, the journey along the Path, the Ageless Wisdom, akashic records. |
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http://www.tangledupinblues.com/natal-aspects.html
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| | Exoteric And Esoteric Christianity |
| | An exoteric contemplation of Christianity, accessible to all the world, is contained in the Gospels. | | | Today we must return to a knowledge of esoteric Christianity: we must know again that Christianity does not only contain what is exoteric, but goes beyond the forebodings that can be awakened through the Gospels. | | | All that could be gathered of the intercourse of the Christ who had passed through death and had risen from the dead, with those of his disciples who were able to understand him, was of the greatest importance in this esoteric Christianity. |
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http://www.uncletaz.com/exoeso.html
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| | Doorways in Consciousness: Part 1 |
| | These are "proactive" spiritual technologies that, even though some of the traditions mentioned encompass them, differ from their more passive, exoteric counterparts. | | | When God was about to create the world by his word, the twenty-two letters of the alphabet descended from the terrible and august crown of God whereon they were engraved with a pen of flaming fire. | | | This section has traced the role of sound in the creation myths of various exoteric religions and peoples. |
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http://www.vantagequest.org/trees/door1.htm
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| | And that, verily, God is powerful in all things, and that the signs (or verses) have exoteric and esoteric meaning, and neither their outward preventeth their inward, nor doth their inward prevent their outward meaning." (Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha v3, p. | | | "Know thou, verily, man before reaching (spiritual) maturity passes his days and only apprehends trivial things which are clear on account of their exoteric indications, but when he attains full development, then he grasps the realities of things and their esoteric facts. |
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http://watsongregory.homestead.com/files/Esoteric.htm
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| | Distinctions Between Religious Enlightenment and Divine Self Realization |
| | The sincere seeker perceives a difference between exoteric spirituality – that which appeals to the five outer senses and the mind – and esoteric spirituality – that which develops the subtle senses of soul for its own ascension. | | | There is great argument between exoteric and esoteric endeavors. | | | But the sincere seeker, far from extinguishing their spiritual flame, always preserves an intuitive knowledge that the path to consciousness ( |
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http://www.masterpath.org/sriGaryOlsen/selfrealization.htm
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| | Byzantine Christianity: A Wisdom Path |
| | Our goal here is to allow Byzantine and other Eastern Christian wisdom, both in the inner (esoteric) and outer (exoteric) realms, to take a rightful place in the rich diversity of the exciting spiritual awakening which is taking place all over the world as the new millennium approaches. | | | There are many who have undertaken to study the Western esoteric tradition, with its links to Western Christianity, Jewish Qabbalah and the like. | | | Other extensive pages exist which deal with ancient and modern Gnosticism in all its aspects. |
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| | The foppery of an exoteric and esoteric doctrine. | | | The true church of Christ exoteric and esoteric | | | The Exoteric Ahmad Ibn Idris: A Sufi's Critique of the Madhahib and the Wahhabis : Four Arabic Texts With Translation and Commentary (Islamic History and Civilization) |
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| | This Star Shall Abide |
| | At first I was wary that this might be a Fisher-Price My First Objectivism Lecture (tm), but luckily the author is up to something a bit more sophisticated (but then, how could she not be?) As it turns out, what this book is really about is the difference between exoteric and esoteric religion. | | | This is a novel of ideas featuring an earnest young man whose commitment to The Truth leads him to reject the universal religion of his people. | | | The protagonist observes that the people around him mindlessly accept certain nonsensical beliefs (what William Golding called third-class thinking) and responds by devoting himself to attacking those beliefs (what Golding called second-class thinking. |
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http://www.adamcadre.ac/calendar/09932.html
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| | Okolo |
| | One is the exoteric teaching, the other the esoteric. | | | Esoteric can also include things like the microcosmic orbit that I mentioned in relation to meditation and Tai Chi. | | | The question for those with (Christian) faith however is did a physical manifestation of that story happen on Earth, that mirrored the story of the setting and rising of the sun? |
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http://www.okolo.org
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| | The Exoteric Layers of TdM |
| | Not surprisingly, this card is the primary key to unlocking the orthodox, exoteric layers of Tarot’s meaning. | | | The first two triptychs show the triumph of religion over all levels of society, from the lowest commoner to the highest noble, and Christianity over pagan religion. | | | Both the exoteric layers of meaning, the Literal and Allegorical, are based on this structure, seven triptychs grouped into a Three Worlds motif. |
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http://www.geocities.com/cartedatrionfi/Mendicant/Exoteric.html
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| | _Sufi Quræån commentary (al-tafsr al-ͨf), also known as al-tafsr al-ishår (allusive commentary) or bi ... |
| | tafsīr the object revealed is largely related to Sufi practice or to an ontological or anthropological aspect of Sufi doctrine but is not claimed to invalidate the exoteric meaning of the | | | Zarqānī noted that after Naysābūrī discussed the exoteric meaning ( | | | Rūḥ al-bayān (which has been published both in Turkey and in the Arab world), written largely in Arabic, has both traditional exoteric and Sufi dimensions. |
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http://www.uga.edu/islam/suftaf/sufi_tafsir_unicode.html
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| | Exoteric Forms of Chakrasamvara |
| | Yet, the highly esoteric deity Chakrasamvara also manifests himself in his alternative benefactory forms to aid in the mundane and more immediate this-worldly needs of the uninitiated practitioners. | | | Little-known in the art historical context, Achala and Mahakala are two of his exoteric aspects, and the works of art displayed will demonstrate their special relationship to Chakrasamvara practice. |
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http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/exhib/circleofbliss/Exoteric01.html
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| | exoteric - encyclopedia article about exoteric. |
| | "They pretend," as I hear, "that the verses of Kabir have four different senses; illusion, spirit, intellect, and the exoteric doctrine of the Vedas"; but in this part of the world it is considered a ground for complaint if a man's writings admit of more than one interpretation. | | | Exoteric knowledge is knowledge that is publicly available, in contrast with esoteric knowledge Esoteric knowledge is knowledge which is believed to be true but not generally known or widely accepted. | | | See also: Esoteric The word esoteric generally relates to that which is known only by a restricted number of people (contrast exoteric). |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Metaphysics |
| | For the most part, they adopted the Gnostic view (see GNOSTICISM) that in the last appeal, the test of Christian truth is not the official teaching of the Church or the exoteric doctrine of the gospels, but a secret gnosis, a body of doctrine imparted by Christ to the chosen few. | | | The first heretics among the Christian thinkers were influenced in their philosophy by Neo-Platonism. | | | This body of doctrine was in reality a modified Neo-Platonism. |
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| | Zorbabuddha - All about Osho |
| | And now the pope is at the opposite extreme to Jesus: this is the ultimate schism between the exoteric and the esoteric. | | | Because of "heresy," Christianity has been destroying all that is esoteric. | | | This always happens: when I say something, I create two groups of people around me. One group will be exoteric. |
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| | The Houses in Esoteric Astrology a comparison |
| | Note if there are any aspects between the two and the type of aspect. | | | The blending and integration of these two facets of house meanings is the most important method of approach to the esoteric inferences of the house positions. | | | Juxtapose the exoteric ruler of the house in question with its esoteric counterpart. |
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| | Two of the most potent memetic fruits of Exoteric Consciousness are Science and Religion. | | | This is the form of consciousness that is most familiar, based as it is on the everyday waking state and the experience of the self or ego as a finite entity separate from other entities and from the universe. | | | Science uses hypothesis, experiment, and falsification to arrive at an understanding of Physical Reality that, whilst never absolutely true, does still provide us with a greater insight into external physical reality than any rival systems of understanding. |
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| | Listmania! Exoteric & Esoteric Bible Understanding |
| | Packer's Concise Theology gives you compact, jewel-like explanations of 94 basic topics of exoteric (mainstream) theology | | | Know the Truth: A Handbook of Christian Belief | | | This is the Everest of exoteric Biblical Theology (if from this point you think any book listed below goes off-course from Biblical teaching then stay with this and the above 2 Reformed sources) |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/listmania/list-browse/-/1IT4MM5AWLGVP
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| | Radical Monism And Exoteric Monotheism - contrasts |
| | Comparing exoteric religious Monotheism and mystical Monism, we have the following: | | | Teachings founded by a prophet who is the messenger of God for this age (Moses, Mohammad, etc), or by the supreme incarnation of God (Christ, Krishna, etc) | | | It is important to emphasise howver that this comparison is of two extremes - many forms of esoteric theism - Sufism, Kabbalah, etc - combine both the monistic and the theistic postions. |
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| | Nasir Khusraw [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | With this division, everything in the physical world points to its counterpart in the spiritual, which is seen as its source, its home, its true form. | | | Before looking at this more closely, it is important to understand that underlying each of the Ismaili cosmogonic systems is a fundamental division of all into two realms, the esoteric and the exoteric, the batin and zahir. | | | In holding to this cosmogonic description, Khusraw follows his fellow Ismailis (Nasafi and al-Sijistani) and ignores the structure introduced by al-Farabi and picked up by Ibn Sina and the Ismaili philosopher al-Kirmani. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/k/khusraw.htm
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| | Why Study Dragons |
| | Both approaches bring degrees of enlightenment but you choose which arena you wish to participate in; facts or truths, exoteric or esoteric. | | | The first and most common way is the exoteric often called scientific or mundane. | | | If on the other hand you asked the question ”If there were really dragons why would they even be interested in human civilizations?” then you would need to explore the philosophical, religious, or esoteric side of dragons. |
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| | Atomized junior- The Radio Weblog |
| | Strauss looked at this problem of exegesis and created a distinction between exoteric writing which were those things a writer said that directly answered or were provoked by particular phenomenon of the writers times and world (which a researcher should be versed in) and esoteric writing. | | | The topics of political philosphy bring attention from that most prickly member of the bete humane: rulers - and the men with either guns or swords they collect around them. | | | The notion of esoteric writing as Strauss defined it occurred when a writer abstracted, generalized versions of the isolated aspects of the human condition and engaged these issues on an idealized plane. |
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http://www.wam.umd.edu/~pbushmil/atomized_jr/2003/12/13.html
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