Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
esotericism .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The inward forms of
faith andreligion ;transcendence ,mystic experience, andinternal realizations of the Divine. - noun Being
esoteric .
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Examples
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He closes with a quote from Frithjof Schuon, a mystical philosopher of "esoterism" whom I read a lot of in college; and he approvingly cites
Archive 2006-06-01 Mike L 2006
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He closes with a quote from Frithjof Schuon, a mystical philosopher of "esoterism" whom I read a lot of in college; and he approvingly cites
Is there a cosmos? Mike L 2006
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The notion of a “hidden meaning” is present in all religious texts; except for Christianity, which has severed all ties with esoterism, formally and brutally, in the 6th century AD, all other texts have an exoteric i.e. literal reading and an esoteric one.
Is Second Life the theatre of the absurd? Ask the Kool-Aid Man in SL Bettina Tizzy 2009
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As I mentioned for the Parel Iron Man cover, esoterism really does not have much of a place on comic book covers.
Judging (Marvel’s April) Books By Their Covers | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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The esoterism of religions is dying and is breathing hard to survive.
Archive 2008-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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The esoterism of religions is dying and is breathing hard to survive.
Why divide love? Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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This might have created a certain elitism and esoterism in the museums offerings, but at least they were building a patrimony that could be put someday to good use.
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This might have created a certain elitism and esoterism in the museums offerings, but at least they were building a patrimony that could be put someday to good use.
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We do not appear to have any direct proof of the existence of "mysteries" of Isis and Serapis {230} prior to the Empire, but all probabilities are in favor of a more ancient origin, and the mysteries were undoubtedly connected with the ancient Egyptian esoterism.
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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They understand, because they feel, the inevitable esoterism that must persist at the kernel of all democracies, unless these degenerate into mere rabble and intellectual mob: they are the last, therefore, to maintain that one person's word is as good as another's; that common sense is competent to solve all questions; that freedom of thought means the right of all to think as they please.
The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett
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