Esotericism - an introduction
(Author's note: this essay first appeared as part of " Integral Esotericism - Introduction" on Integral World, November 2006, and is here included with only a very few modifications.
Esotericism: Energy in the Universe.
Summary: A collection of statements by the Tibetan.
Esotericism may thus be defined as elite essence religion functioning within a system also including a godly religion practiced by a larger number of believers.
Esotericism ― The philosophy of the evolutionary process both in man and the lower kingdoms in nature. The science of the accumulated wisdom of the ages.
Esotericism as it is practiced today is materialism: visible books by DK or Blavatsky - or whoever - are meant to provide guidance for spiritual living, rather than an invisible God.
In esotericism the term the soul is employed in a technical sense to refer to the causal body - which is a temporary sheath composed of mental substance and designed to focalize spiritual energies into the dimension of substance.
Sober esotericism combined with heterodox scholarship: existence of the esoteric tradition is accepted and facts are interpreted in its light but great effort is made to be in agreement with historically proven or provable facts.
In giving these letters to the world we feel that we are making a contri- bution of permanent value and importance, and one from which the student of esotericism will obtain much assistance in his progress on the Path.
Esoteric (Esotericism) The term Esotericism refers to the doctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge, or otherwise the quality or state of being described as esoteric, or obscure.
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Can you give me some proofs of its esotericism?
THEOSOPHIST. The best proof you can have of the fact is that every ancient religious, or rather philosophical, cult consisted of an esoteric or secret teaching, and an exoteric (outward public) worship.
It is not strange that the erudite Moses, initiated in Egypt, should teach the Jews a philosophy containing the more important principles of Egyptian esotericism.
"There is an essential distinction which must be made between 'optimistic' and 'pessimistic' forms of pre-Christian esotericism.
Theosophy is this direct knowledge of God; the search after this is the Mysticism, or Esotericism, common to all religions, thrown by Theosophy into a scientific form, as in Hinduism, Buddhism, Roman Catholic Christianity, and Sufism.
The human hands formed a sign of esotericism to impress mystery upon the initiates.
Meditating on the immanent sequence of the sefirot is characteristic of Western Esotericism, allowing higher energies to be brought down into the material realm, ...
 See also: Esoteric, World, Spirit, Ritual, Spiritual
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