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	Encyclopedia: Arcane
		Esotericism refers to knowledge suitable only for the advanced, privileged, or initiated, as opposed to exoteric knowledge, which is public.
		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.
		Esotericism is often said to assume the existence of a spiritual elite, as distinct from the believing masses.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Arcane (5786 words)

	Esotericism - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Esotericism is from the latin Esoterra, meaning "within the world." It is a word meaning anything that is occult, a latinate word meaning "hidden" (from which we get the term occlusion).
		The opposite of this is Exoterra or Exotericism, which means something "without the world," i.e.
		Esotericism gives reference to anything private, specifically such things which are or were forced to be kept private due to fears of persecution.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /esotericism.htm (281 words)

	AAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But secrecy can be seen as both a fragile element and as one that renders the institutions associated with it vulnerable.
		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.
	www.aarweb.org /about/announce/20041011.asp (513 words)

	openDemocracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This understanding fits together with Strauss’s discovery of the literary practice of exotericism, that is, of the truth that some philosophers did not always say ostensibly what they meant in fact.
		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.
	www.opendemocracy.net /articles/ViewPopUpArticle.jsp?id=3&articleId=1577 (1817 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		'''Exotericism''' comprises religion 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 Nature material world and the supposed afterlife).
		There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article Exotericism.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Exotericism.html (149 words)

	Rene Guenon
		Every true vital religion is hence a dynamic balance between outer forms, sacraments and rituals (exotericism) and the inner, sometimes withdrawn, esoteric teachings.
		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”.
		Extending from the dynamics of exotericism and esotericism, Guenon was able to pinpoint and denounce false traditions and those which did not function from a point within the perennial wisdom.
	pages.zoom.co.uk /thuban/html/guenon.htm (1863 words)

	THE ANCIENT SOURCE, Origin of Theosophical Ideas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.ultlon.freeserve.co.uk /ancientsource.html (310 words)

	Exotericism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		This page was last modified 01:12, 19 Feb 2005.
		The article about Exotericism contains information related to Exotericism.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Exotericism (132 words)

	Theos-Talk Archives (March 2002 Message tt00016)
		The "shallow enough at its shores" business is pure exotericism; not wrong so much as it is misleading.
		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.
		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.
	www.theosophy.com /theos-talk/200203/tt00016.html (514 words)

	What was Leo Strauss up to?
		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.
		According to Strauss, awareness of exotericism disappeared with the emergence of historicism toward the end of the eighteenth century.
		Second, one must always keep in mind the end or function of genuinely Socratic speech or the purposes of exotericism.
	www.thepublicinterest.com /archives/2003fall/article1.html (4889 words)

	Ibn 'Arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition: The Making of a Polemical Image in Medieval Islam (Suny Series, Islam) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		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).
		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.
	www.freeglossary.com /p:0791439682 (634 words)

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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).
		However, when esotericism was ousted by exotericism, symbolism by ritualism, idealism by sacerdotalism, this early spiritual concept soon dwindled into a polytheistic sacrificial creed.
		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).
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/sunrise/22-72-3/rel-kav1.htm (2037 words)

	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.
		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.
		Against that fallacy, in some important sense it is actually mysticism/esotericism that comes first, temporally, with exotericism being a compromised, later, distorted, co-opted degeneration of the true, original allegorism.
	www.egodeath.com /TrueOriginsChristianityLiteralization.htm (7866 words)

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		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.
		Among these were esoteric and esotericism, exoteric and exotericism.
		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.
	www.theos-world.com /archives/download.php?NAME=tw200503&PATH=txt&TYPE=ascii (15282 words)

	Esoteric Orders and Their Work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Dion Fortune, in Esoteric Orders and Their Work, gets to the root of exactly what esoteric orders are, leaving no stone unturned.
		"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.
	www.kittsdream.com /Books/esoteric%20orders.htm (322 words)

	Honenfs Early Life and Training in Tendai Buddhism
		Among the thirteen different schools of Tendai esotericism, Honen is said to have received from Koen the teaching of the Sanmai lineage.
		Of the ten different schools of Tendai exotericism, Honen received from Koen the teaching of the Sugiu line.
		Kokaku1 was the founder of the Sugiu lineage, which became the main stream of the Eshin school.
	www.jsri.jp /English/Honen/LIFE/training.html (1358 words)

	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.
		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.
		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.
	www.teosofiskakompaniet.net /BPWadiaSecretDoctrineStudies2.htm (3467 words)

	Religio Perennis: The Three Marys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Again, they are at the edge between truth and falsehood, because Saint Mary, we saw, is a fundamental element in the Christian exotericism and esotericism.
		The night of chaos referred to the “material” indifference, as an inverted reflex of the principial indifference of the non-manifestation, of the supernal night.
		To permit the human mind to grasp somehow what is impossible to understand in a rational, discursive way, the Principle (even if unchangeable and immutable, without duality and immovable) is considered to act through his “energy” (shakti), which is feminine compared to him.
	www.religioperennis.org /Document/Tamas/threemary.html (6937 words)

	Theos-Talk Archives (November 2000 Message tt00125)
		It is a model of what happens, and expresses conventional truth but expresses no absolute truth.
		As I said earlier, we ought all to draw some inspiration after reading SD I 207-8.
		It does seem like this is what is going on from a purely conventional viewpoint.
	www.theosophy.com /theos-talk/200011/tt00125.html (3698 words)

	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.
		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.
		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.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/sd/sd2-1-13.htm (9733 words)

	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.
	www.exoticindiaart.com /book/details/IDE375 (378 words)

	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.
		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.
		There are two lessons to be learnt from this.
	www.al-islam.org /allah/info/quran2.html (943 words)

	The Italian Communal Esotericism of the Universal Soul Movement, by Massimo Introvigne
		That this structure may work is proven by the whole history of Buddhism.
		In Buddhism we may call the elite essence religion esotericism”; and the mass godly religion “exotericism.” Doing this would not be a statement about the various competing definitions of esotericism (see Faivre and Voss 1995, Hanegraaff 1995.) It would however recognize that esotericism is not magic.
		Esotericism does not focus on manipulating the supernatural for practical purposes, nor does it refrain from addressing questions of ultimate meaning.
	www.cesnur.org /2004/mi_essence.htm (2572 words)

	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.
	feastofhateandfear.com /archives/serrano2.html (4726 words)

	Dhammapada: Wisdom of the Buddha, trans. Harischandra Kaviratna
		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.
		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 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.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/dhamma/dham-hp.htm (5104 words)

	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.
	spiritual-health.org /Sufi/Community/Mysticism/mysticismb.htm (4214 words)

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