esotericism

It also contains what might be called "esotericism," or, deeper readings of texts and life.

Jay Michaelson: An Introduction To Kabbalah, Part 1: What Is Kabbalah? 2009

I am not scholar enough to judge the Scandinavian verse, but the Irish poetic speech seems to me at worst an over abundance of the esotericism which is an essential element in all admirable literature, and I think it is a folly to make light of it, as a recent writer has done.91 Even now verse no less full of symbol and myth seems to me as legitimate as, let us say, a religious picture full of symbolic detail, or the symbolic ornament of a cathedral.

Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

"esotericism" suffers the risk of collapse when the resources of the "initiates" are not sufficient to "patch the gaps", that is, to solve problems as soon as they occur.

Mark Shuttleworth mark 2010

I have every right to condescend to people (i.e. most liberals) who think intellectual finesse and esotericism equals fitness for and superiority of leadership.

Matthew Yglesias » Judd Gregg for Commerce? 2009

Pythagorean esotericism has been a constant presence in Western thought since antiquity, but it was especially in vogue during the Renaissance, thanks to the rediscovery of a poem of “self-help” maxims written around the fourth century B.C. called the Golden Verses of Pythagoras.

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

Pythagorean esotericism has been a constant presence in Western thought since antiquity, but it was especially in vogue during the Renaissance, thanks to the rediscovery of a poem of “self-help” maxims written around the fourth century B.C. called the Golden Verses of Pythagoras.

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

His later spiritual perspective evolved among pantheism, humanism, and various elements of Western esotericism, as seen most vividly in Part II of Faust.

johann wolfgang von goethe | outside of the gate | Faust I. « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

His later spiritual perspective evolved among pantheism, humanism, and various elements of Western esotericism, as seen most vividly in Part II of Faust.

March « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

Pythagorean esotericism has been a constant presence in Western thought since antiquity, but it was especially in vogue during the Renaissance, thanks to the rediscovery of a poem of “self-help” maxims written around the fourth century B.C. called the Golden Verses of Pythagoras.

HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID Alex Bellos 2010

The difficulty and esotericism was part of the intensity of the lesson.

Sheila Weller: Rest In Peace -- Not, William Zantzinger 2009