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| | Rene Guenon |
 | | The core of that religion must be a living esoteric tradition. | | | Guenon saw that within the Kali Yuga these teachings were becoming debased and that these traditions were loosing their link to the perennial wisdom, as such they were becoming atrophied and even, in some cases, becoming “counter traditions”. | | | His perceptions and insight into these faiths and the true meanings of their symbols still stands the test of time today. |
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http://pages.zoom.co.uk/thuban/html/guenon.htm
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| | Exotericism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Exotericism comprises religious practices and laws that are meant to regulate human activities in the "external" world and are easily understandable and practicable by the masses, as opposed to esotericism. | | | The goal of exoteric spirituality, generally, is to secure a favorable place for the soul in the afterlife by following the prescribed behaviors and rituals of organized religion while in this life (as opposed to the esoteric goal of transcending both the material world and the supposed afterlife). | | | The Red Cross and other charities also need your help. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotericism
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| | Talisman Bahai Archives Feb 8-14, 1996 |
| | Metaphysically Islam exotericizes the inner meaning of the mystery of the trinity (which in itself is a highly esoteric doctrine but is exotericized as a creed) by insisting on the absolute tawhid (unity) of God while also positing His necessary immanence: i.e. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/space/talisman/T96feb2.htm
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| | Art and Spirituality |
| | Karen Claire Voss, "Mysticism and Exotericism", Studies in Spirituality, 6, 1996, p107. |
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| | If one seems too iconoclastic and stern, and the other too metaphysical and transcendental, even to being overgrown with the weeds of Indian exotericism -- many of the gods of its Pantheon having been transplanted under new names to Tibetan soil -- it is entirely due to the popular expression of Buddhism in both Churches. | | | If one seems too iconoclastic and stern, and the other too metaphysical and transcendental, events being overcharged with the weeds of Indian exotericism -- many of the gods of its Pantheon having been transplanted under new names into Thibetan soil -- it is due to the popular expression of Buddhism in both churches. | | | Real Buddhism can be appreciated only by blending the philosophy of the Southern Church and the metaphysics of the Northern Schools. |
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http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/ctg/bu-bz.htm
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| | Dhammapada: Wisdom of the Buddha, trans. Harischandra Kaviratna |
| | But when esotericism was ousted by exotericism, symbolism by ritualism, idealism by sacerdotalism, this early spiritual vision dwindled into a polytheistic sacrificial creed, and the cultural life of the Aryans became completely dominated by a priesthood. | | | The religion of the Vedas is neither naturalism nor anthropomorphism, neither polytheism nor monotheism, but a unique mysticism, a synthesis of religious streams known to the ancient Aryans. | | | The Brahman priests made every effort to monopolize for themselves the religious hymns of the Vedas and the ballads which the Aryans sang in praise of the deified natural forces, thus arrogating to themselves as much power as possible. |
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http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/dhamma/dham-hp.htm
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| | Religio Perennis: The Three Marys |
| | This feminine aspect of Divinity can be found in India, where it is called Shakti, an equivalent, in some respects, of the Hebrew Shekinah. | | | The function of the feminine principle, Guénon says, appears also in Catholic exotericism, due to the importance of the Virgin. | | | The Mystic Rose from St. Mary’s litanies is of initiatory origins and is motivated by the connection to Wisdom (Sophia) and to Shekinah (Ésot. |
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http://www.religioperennis.org/Document/Tamas/threemary.html
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| | (DG-040-1) GN0STICISM AND THE GNOSTIC JESUS: (Part One in a Two-Part Series on Ancient and Modern Gnosticism) |
| | exotericism: A pejorative term used by esotericists to describe the mere outer or popular understanding of spiritual truth which is supposedly inferior to the esoteric essence. | | | esotericism: The teaching that spiritual liberation is found in a secret or hidden knowledge (sometimes called gnosis) not available in traditional orthodoxy or exotericism. | | | Pleroma: The Greek word for "fulness" used by the Gnostics to mean the highest principle of Being where dwells the unknown and unknowable God. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/6535/gnostic1.htm
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| | The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky, vol 2, pt 1, stanza 10 |
| | In Indian exotericism, these angels (Asuras) are also denounced as "the enemies of the gods;" those who oppose sacrificial worship offered to the latter. | | | Hindu exotericism represents them all as Yogins, whose piety inspired them to refuse creating, as they desired to remain eternally Kumaras, "Virgin Youths," in order to, if possible, anticipate their fellows in progress towards Nirvana -- the final liberation. | | | In Christian theology they are broadly referred to as the "Fallen Spirits," the heroes of various conflicting and contradictory legends about them, gathered from Pagan sources. |
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http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd2-1-13.htm
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| | True Origins of Christianity, Gradual Literalization |
| | In some sense, esotericism often *does* come temporally after exotericism; first a person thinks exoterically and then esoterically; the child learns religious literalism, and then is initiated with a series of sessions with visionary plants, to reconceive religion as being purely allegorical of entheogenic experiential insights. | | | The result is yet more complex: religion comes to be a product of long-term ongoing tension between the forces of exotericism and esotericism, each coming first in some sense and second in some other sense. | | | However, there is a common fallacy that considers exotericism as the real and given and preexistent version of a religion, with mystics later inventing fantastic improvisations that deviate, and invent interpretations upon the literalist actual themes in the scriptures. |
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http://www.egodeath.com/TrueOriginsChristianityLiteralization.htm
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| | AAR |
| | Religious groups often distinguish themselves from "outsiders," and gain authority and power, through constructing and sustaining private or secret doctrines, practices, or beliefs; but many religions' esotericism is complemented by an equally if not more powerful exotericism, a desire to "propagate" or at least express the faith to others. | | | Modern cultures are captivated by the idea of secrecy, conspiracy, and hidden meanings, and often these themes receive religious or quasi-religious frames; yet globalization and information trafficking seek to turn all secrets in modern culture into commodifiable data. |
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http://www.aarweb.org/about/announce/20041011.asp
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| | OG Exotericism -- that is to say, the outward and popular formulation of religious and philosophic doctrines -- reveils the truth; the self-assurance of ignorance, alas, always reviles the truth; whereas esotericism reveals the truth. | | | The word seems to have originated in the Peripatetic School of Greece, and to have been born in the mind of Aristotle. | | | I read some time ago an article written … on the difference between Exotericism and Esotericism. |
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http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/ctg/em-ez.htm
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| | Miguel Serrano |
| | In the west, it was destroyed with the Cathars and the Templars, with the Minnesanger and the Fedele d' Amore, with the troubadours of the Languedoc, in the eternal war with the enemies of the divine myth. | | | What had been a private, unique, aristocratic initiation has become vulgarised in the exotericism of the Church of Rome, which has taken possession of its symbols and adulterated them. | | | The Gnostic Lady, Sophia, Woevre Saelde, the feminine Holy Spirit, Parakletos, the Dove, has been popularised as the Virgin Mary; the Exchange of Hearts, which is in reality the awakening of the Anahata chakra, has been externalised in the cult of the heart of Jesus. |
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http://feastofhateandfear.com/archives/serrano2.html
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| | Mysticism - pursuing the realization of spiritual potential |
| | When one considers the logical possibilities entailed by the notion of ‘oneness’ that is said to be characteristic of mystical union, to exclude exoteric manifestations from such a notion of oneness seems excessively arbitrary. | | | In other words, if the undifferentiated unity experience of the mystic is accepted as disclosing a fundamental truth about the nature of Reality - despite the appearances of multiplicity within the world of illusions or contingencies - then, exotericism must be included as something which is a manifestation of oneness. | | | In fact, to the extent exoteric doctrine emphasizes oneness, it identifies itself, on its own level, with the ultimate nature of Transcendent Reality. |
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http://spiritual-health.org/Sufi/Community/Mysticism/mysticismb.htm
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| | Sufism Comes West |
| | This may sound similar to Hazrat Inayat Khan’s teachings; Guénon, however, held that it was necessary for the seeker to align with one of the revealed religions and channel his or her efforts within its laws and rituals. | | | This has come to be distilled in the Traditionalist slogan “No esotericism without exotericism.” |
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http://www.sufistudies.net/articles/sufism-comes-west.html
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| | Resources on Wicca and Neopaganism |
| | The God of the Bible cannot be both the God of the Bible and, at the same time, a card-carrying member of the pagan pantheon." | | | They express the two world views that have given rise to the classic theological distinction known as the "Antithesis"."... | | | "Just as you cannot mix oil and water, so you cannot mix paganism and Christianity, esotericism and exotericism. |
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http://www.utdallas.edu/~michaelh/wicca.shtml
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| | THE ANCIENT SOURCE, Origin of Theosophical Ideas |
| | THE Secret Doctrine is the accumulated Wisdom of the Ages, and its cosmogony alone is the most stupendous and elaborate system: e.g., even in the exotericism of the Purânas. | | | No vision of one adept was accepted till it was checked and confirmed by the visions - so obtained as to stand as independent evidence - of other adepts, and by centuries of experiences. | | | But such is the mysterious power of Occult symbolism, that the facts which have actually occupied countless generations of initiated seers and prophets to marshal, to set down and explain, in the bewildering series of evolutionary progress, are all recorded on a few pages of geometrical signs and glyphs. |
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http://www.ultlon.freeserve.co.uk/ancientsource.html
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| | The rishis divided the universe into three spheres or lokas, namely, Dyurloka or the celestial world, over which Savitri, the solar deity, presided; Antarikshaloka or the intermediate sphere, supervised by Indra; and Bhurloka or the terrestrial world, under the reign of Agni (Fire). | | | The three spheres of the vertical universe of the original Vedic sages was believed to be the abode of thirty-three gods: the eight Vasus, the eleven Rudras, the twelve Adityas, Dyaus (Zeus) and Prithivi (earth). | | | However, when esotericism was ousted by exotericism, symbolism by ritualism, idealism by sacerdotalism, this early spiritual concept soon dwindled into a polytheistic sacrificial creed. |
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http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sunrise/22-72-3/rel-kav1.htm
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| | openDemocracy |
| | It simply means that one must use one’s reason rigorously in order to discover what truly is being said. | | | Exotericism is a consequence of the tension between philosophy and politics, not the cause of it. | | | Philosophic exotericism, moreover, is in no way mystical, open only to those initiated into arcane and irrational rites. |
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http://www.opendemocracy.net/articles/ViewPopUpArticle.jsp?id=3&articleId=1577
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| | Kiss Me, Kate: Putting Visions of Religious Convergence to the Test |
| | Yet Izetbegovic's appropriation of Hegel is conducted according to Muslim rules: It is typologically warranted by Surah 55:19-20's vision of two seas that meet but do not transgress. | | | While Izetbegovic's thinking is in line with this classical Muslim account of its two rival monotheisms, he adds something new: A Hegelian emphasis on dialectical progress that makes Judaism's exotericism a thesis, Christianity the antithesis that attempts to overcome it by esotericism, and Islam their true synthesis. |
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http://www.westmont.edu/~work/articles/kissme.html
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| | She was the first since the days of the Alexandrian Neo-Platonists who unhesitatingly and emphatically declared that a secret body of Teaching and Teachers existed. | | | Among these were esoteric and esotericism, exoteric and exotericism. | | | Then HPB emerged from the Great Lodge for the service of our world, and ever since, especially after 1877 when her ISIS UNVEILED was published, certain hitherto, unfamiliar words came into prominence. |
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http://www.theos-world.com/archives/download.php?NAME=tw200503&PATH=txt&TYPE=ascii
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| | H 337 mysticism |
| | Tues, Oct 12 Esotericism and Exotericism in Jewish Mysticism | | | Assignment: D. Matt, Zohar, Excerpts from the Zohar on Exodus and Deuteronomy, 97-141; 182-189, INCLUDING notes at back of book! |
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http://www.williams.edu/history/courses/pages/Hist337/index.html
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| | Honenfs Early Life and Training in Tendai Buddhism |
| | Of the ten different schools of Tendai exotericism, Honen received from Koen the teaching of the Sugiu line. | | | Among the thirteen different schools of Tendai esotericism, Honen is said to have received from Koen the teaching of the Sanmai lineage. | | | Kokaku1 was the founder of the Sugiu lineage, which became the main stream of the Eshin school. |
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| | The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky, Vol 2, Book 1, Stanza 1 |
| | Tara, the priest's wife, who symbolizes the worshipper, prefers esoteric truths to their mere shell, exotericism; hence she is shown as carried off by Soma. | | | Soma is the mystery god and presides over the mystic and occult nature in man and the Universe. | | | Now Soma is the sacred juice of that name, giving mystic visions and trance revelations, the result of which union is Budha (Wisdom), Mercury, Hermes, etc., etc.; that science in short which to this day is proclaimed by the Brihaspatis of Theology as devilish and Satanic. |
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http://www.sacred-texts.com/the/sd/sd2-1-02.htm
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| | The Tibetan Book of the Dead |
| | The Tibetan Book of the Dead, has taken it to be a very free translation of Bardo Thodol (Liberation by Hearing on the after Death Plane'), is among the sacred book of the world. | | | The book is pre-eminent insight into interpretations of higher 'lamaic' teachings and of the subtle exotericism underlying the Bardo Thodol. | | | In this Oriental ideas have been put forward in a form which is intelligible to the European mind. |
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http://www.exoticindiaart.com/book/details/IDE375
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| | The Politics of Using the Quran |
| | It is now some thirteen centuries that the politics of "holding the Qur'an upon a spear" has been more or less prevalent among the Muslims. | | | There are two lessons to be learnt from this. | | | It becomes especially rife among those who wish to profit from it whenever sanctimoniousness and exotericism increases and it becomes fashionable to display one's piety and asceticism. |
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| | Studies in The Secret Doctrine - First Series #2 |
| | In pursuing our study, then, we should remember that we are contacting but a part of the mighty whole; that part deemed suited and worthy to be given out to this day and generation. | | | That is, the language of symbol and allegory has been often used, personification of principles has been resorted to for purposes of explanation, and names and forms are given as indicators of the nameless and formless. | | | In the process of giving out that which was esoteric and hidden and secret, it had to be clothed in the vestures of exotericism and publicity, and though a "silence of centuries is broken" it is broken along similar lines and in a similar way as on previous occasions, however far past. |
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http://www.teosofiskakompaniet.net/BPWadiaSecretDoctrineStudies2.htm
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| | Theosophy World — Home Page |
| | The public does not want to hear the exotericism the Movement has promoted throughout the last century. | | | I am not surprised at the continuing drop in membership. | | | They are truer and more theosophic than the exoteric stuff the Theosophical Societies keep putting out. |
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http://www.theos-world.com/archives/show.php?NAME=tw200110&PATH=txt&DESC=XXXtwtw200110
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| | The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky, Vol 1, bk 2, ch 12 |
| | * It is this trinity that is meant by the "three steps of Vishnu"; which means: (Vishnu being considered as the Infinite in exotericism) -- that from the Parabrahm issued Mulaprakriti, Purusha (the Logos), and Prakriti: the four forms (with itself, the synthesis) of Vach. | | | Only when divided in the manifested sphere into 3 and 7, they form | | | In Exotericism one will always find 10 and 7, of either Sephiroth or Prajapati; in Esoteric rendering always 3 and 7, which yield also 10. |
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http://www.public-domain-content.com/books/theosophy/sd/sd1-2-12.shtml
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| | Sufism Journal: Sufi History: At-Tasawwuf |
| | But this is not to be confounded with the expansion of sectarian movements, since the outer circles do not stand in oppostion to exotericism of which they are very often in fact an intesified form. |
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| | Ibn 'Arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition: The Making of a Polemical Image in Medieval Islam (Suny Series, Islam) |
| | Yet, to his opinion, they were able comprehend the key issues of his teaching especially those which can ideological or social relevance to broad masses of the believers. | | | Besides that under the main themes in Ibn Arabi's became settled there were little attempt to cast a fresh into the Sheykh's work. | | | However the usual taxonomic schema used by medieval authors to classify the figures of the Islamic thought(specialist of hadith, jurist, theologian, mystic) has appeared inappropriate to fully comprehend the sophisticated teachings of the Great Sheykh which defied all the attempts of classification(extreme literalism and thorough going exotericism both present in the works of Ibn Arabi). |
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http://www.freeglossary.com/p:0791439682
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| | Theos-Talk Archives (March 2002 Message tt00016) |
| | Exotericism builds pictures or models in our mind, and then influences or misleads us into thinking of those pictures/models as being real in themselves. | | | I don't mean to pick on Dallas, and am simply using his recent post as a typical example. | | | One short example: Shoreline Theosophy from Dallas: "Evolution is the development of consciousness ever forward, ever expanding to the infinite." Deeper Theosophy from G de Purucker: "A globe is therefore seen to be evolving by a dual process of involution and evolution. |
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http://www.theosophy.com/theos-talk/200203/tt00016.html
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| | What was Leo Strauss up to? |
| | According to Strauss, awareness of exotericism disappeared with the emergence of historicism toward the end of the eighteenth century. | | | Persecution and the Art of Writing is Strauss’s only book explicitly devoted to his rediscovery of the forgotten art of writing, of writing “between the lines,” or, more precisely, exotericism. | | | Natural Right and History emphasizes the contrast between classical and modern natural right; in Persecution, the emphasis falls not on the fundamental divide in the philosophic tradition, but rather on its continuity. |
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http://www.thepublicinterest.com/archives/2003fall/article1.html
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| | Theos-Talk Archives (November 2000 Message tt00125) |
| | It is a model of what happens, and expresses conventional truth but expresses no absolute truth. | | | 62 and footnote (copied above) are valuable also.]<< This is pure exotericism. | | | It does seem like this is what is going on from a purely conventional viewpoint. |
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http://www.theosophy.com/theos-talk/200011/tt00125.html
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| | FIVE YEARS OF THEOSOPHY |
| | Wallowing in the mire of exotericism, he knows not what it is to live in the world and yet be not of the world; in other words, to guard self against |
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http://www.phx-ult-lodge.org/five-years.htm
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| | (blank) General Exotericism which does not associate with the terms 'sufism' or 'islam'. | | | ___________________________________________________________ Key: Ex Exotericism (Includes all blank areas, areas with '/', '+' and 'X') This is composed of all strictly political and social entrapment schemes by which individuals are divested of their personal power and integrity through rigid and irrational adherence to verbal or behavioral forms. |
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http://www.luckymojo.com/avidyana/gnostik/sufimodel.h
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| | Esoteric Orders and Their Work |
| | "Esotericism, Occultism, and Mysticism" defines what esotericism is in relation to exotericism; in layman's terms, the inner life versus the outer one. | | | In "The Origin of the Mysteries," she looks at how esotericism grew hand-in-hand with the evolution of humankind, discussing how humans evolved from a group soul (still present in animals today, i.e.: packs of wolves) into a singular soul. | | | Dion Fortune, in Esoteric Orders and Their Work, gets to the root of exactly what esoteric orders are, leaving no stone unturned. |
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http://www.kittsdream.com/Books/esoteric%20orders.htm
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| | Maimonides' Mysticism |
| | Much ink has been spilled discussing the dichotomy between Maimonides' exotericism and his esotericism. |
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http://www.emory.edu/UDR/BLUMENTHAL/MaimMyst.html
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| | The 2003 CESNUR Conference - Notes on the Aumist Religion (Zoccatelli) |
| | And as one may easily understand, such assertion forces us to change our perception of what has been said up to now with regard to Aumist doctrines, cosmology and symbolism. | | | But, in perfect “Aumist style,” the reality is even more complex: in fact, the Association of the Knights of the Triumphant Vajra is nothing but “the moral initiatic base […], the exotericism of the Association of the Diamond” (Hamsah Manarah, 1993b: 45). |
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| | The Definition of Esotericism |
| | "Esotericism is a science -- essentially the science of the soul of all things -- and has its own terminology, experiments, deductions and laws (The opposite of exotericism)". |
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| | Swades - Movies- Indiatimes |
| | Often in this long and finally deeply fulfilling journey you wonder what could possibly have prompted the director to make a film that doesnât pull any punches, resorts to no gimmicks in the narration and chooses  to stay supine at a time when cinema has become hysterically over-the-top. | | | Once the director sets off on this picaresque journey of selfdiscovery with his protagonist he doesnât flinch from the sheer  exotericism and transperancy of his familiar yet fascinating tale. |
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http://movies.indiatimes.com/articleshow/963408.cms
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| | Mere Islam: Where Are We and How Did We Get Here? |
| | Based on some of the ideas masquerading under the banner of "Islam" these days, I think this lecture is just what the doctor ordered... | | | All of this might be a novel and offensive perspective to those Muslims living off a steady diet of distorted news, shallow conspiracy theories and bland exotericism, but sometimes the bitter pill of reality is needed. |
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http://www.mereislam.info/2005/01/where-are-we-and-how-did-we-get-here.html
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| | rav13 |
| | Esotericism and exotericism: Halakhic Man, chapter 8; UVM, chapter 7, sections E and F. To receive special holiday packages, write to: |
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