Word Finder - esoteric

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An esoteric doctrine or treatise; esoteric philosophy.

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One who believes, or is an initiate, in esoteric doctrines or rites.

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Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest, or an enlightened inner circle.

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The writing in this manual is very esoteric; I’d need a degree in engineering just to understand it!

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Having to do with concepts that are highly theoretical and without obvious practical application; often with mystical or religious connotations.

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Confidential; private.

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an esoteric meeting

The meaning was very esoteric in film, literature and art.

Communicating love in a way neither had ever experienced, they converged in an esoteric dance in which the world fell away.

He was avoiding the sense of making something too esoteric.

The odds are that one or two of those podcasts will actually be about a topic you are interested in - no matter how esoteric your hobbies may be.

These correspond to the "merit badges" earned by Boy Scouts, and range from physical activities such as "Hiker" to more esoteric research-based badges like "Earth Connections."

According to the Kabbalah all these esoteric doctrines are contained in the Hebrew Scriptures.

Like Van Gogh, you can infuse words with your own vision without becoming esoteric.

Lighting is probably the most esoteric element of photography.

A statesman whose words have to be interpreted by an esoteric meaning cannot fairly complain if he is often misunderstood.

Powells perceptive commentary is of enduring interest to all lovers of esoteric lore.

That suggests pantheism, the usual form of such esoteric wisdom.

The purpose of these transformations will sound a bit esoteric at the moment.

Our only concerns are the Canon menu system, which is just too esoteric for our liking.

What follows are the more advanced, less used, or sometimes esoteric capabilities of perl regexps.

The usual suspects like AIM and Skype are in the list, as well as more esoteric services like Gadu-Gadu.

His life work has been conducting research in a somewhat esoteric branch of business.

These include rather esoteric installation or set-up problems for specific systems.

We may define these courses by the terms esoteric and exoteric - the former the philosophy of the school, cultivated principally at the universities, trying to systematize everything and reduce all our knowledge to an intelligible principle, losing in this attempt the deeper meaning of Leibnitz's philosophy; the latter the unsystematized philosophy of general culture which we find in the work of the great writers of the classical period, Lessing, Winkelmann, Goethe, Schiller and Herder, all of whom expressed in some degree their indebtedness to Leibnitz.

The belief being esoteric, a secret of the initiated, necessarily escaped casual inquirers.

In esoteric numerology each person's master number corresponds to a specific color.

But such is not esoteric knowledge or what we have now called subjective Theosophy.

Such esoteric books are apocryphal in the original conception of the term.

In addition, his work is more idiosyncratic than MEZ's, whose content, once decoded, tends not to be especially esoteric.

The author of the Theologia mystica and the other works ascribed to the Areopagite proceeds, therefore, to develop the doctrines of Proclus with very little modification into a system of esoteric Christianity.

His visages have an air of rapt suavity, devotional fervency and beaming esoteric consciousness, which is intensely attractive to some minds and realizes beyond rivalry a particular ideal - that of ecclesiastical saintliness and detachment from secular fret and turmoil.

It would appear that the occupants are engaged in some highly esoteric branch of science.

Turning now to the consideration of the word " apocryphal " itself, we find that in its earliest use it was applied in a laudatory sense to writings, (I) which were kept secret because they were the vehicles of esoteric knowledge which was too profound or too sacred to be imparted to any save the initiated.

From the 1 0th century onwards the art of landscape gardening steadily grew into a science, with esoteric as well as exoteric aspects, and with a special vocabulary.

A letter addressed to Oecolompadius 1 gives an account of their practices and beliefs at that time, and shows us a simple and unlettered community, which was the survival of an attempt to form an esoteric religious society within the medieval church.

In the above acceptation of the term, the Neoplatonic doctrine of emanations from the supra-essential One, the fanciful emanation-doctrine of some of the Gnostics (the aeons of the Valentinian system might be mentioned), and the elaborate esoteric system of the Kabbalah, to which the two former in all probability largely contributed, are generally included under the head of theosophy.

Baader distinguishes, in a manner which may be paralleled from Boehme, between an immanent or esoteric process of self-production in God, through which He issues from His unrevealed state, and the emanent, exoteric or real process, in which God overcomes and takes up into Himself the eternal "nature" or the principle of selfhood, and appears as a Trinity of persons.

Now, in order to discern this underlying truth in the various and apparently conflicting world creeds, appeal was made to a "Secret Doctrine," and "Esoteric Teaching," which Madame Blavatsky proclaimed had been held for ages as a sacred possession and trust by certain mysterious adepts in occultism, or "Mahatmas," with whom she said she was in psychical as well as in direct physical communication.

As if that wasn't an entirely predictable outcome for popularizing previously hidden, esoteric material!

This may sound esoteric but it feeds through into fixed-rate mortgage rates, which have fallen sharply, thus helping support the housing market.

The esoteric nature of certain parts of the encyclopedia, especially the last part of it, is a remarkable peculiarity of the Rasa'il.

We offer spiritual council, healing, esoteric studies, free psychic readings, diverse information and much more.

But such is not esoteric knowledge or what we have now called subjective theosophy.

If the literary style in which the exegetic discussion of the texts and rites is carried on in the Brahmanas is, as a rule, of a very bald and uninviting nature, it must be borne in mind that these treatises are of a strictly professional and esoteric character, and in no way lay claim to being considered as literary compositions in any sense of the word.

But there was no doubt a tendency to extend the term " exoteric " from the dialectical to the more popular of the scientific writings of Aristotle, to make a new distinction between exoteric and acroamatic or esoteric, and even to make out that Aristotle was in the habit of teaching both exoterically and acroamatically day by day as head of the Peripatetic school at Athens.

Semler, is "economy," which also occurs in the kindred sense of "reserve" (or of Disciplina Arcani - a modern term for the supposed early Catholic habit of reserving esoteric truths).

The theory of an esoteric tradition is distinctly represented in 2 Esdras xiv., where Moses receives words which were not to be published, and Ezra re-writes seventy books which were to be delivered to the wise men of his people.

He also thinks that in Origen's esoteric doctrine the historical Christ becomes unimportant.

Of this process, this self-generation of God, we may distinguish two aspects - the immanent or esoteric, and the emanent or exoteric. God has reality only in so far as He is absolute spirit, and only in so far as the primitive will is conscious of itself can it become spirit at all.

Nor can the esoteric and pantheistic theories of priests (according to which the various beast-gods were symbolic manifestations of the divine essence) be received as an historical account of the origin of the local animal-worships.

If we are to regard the Egyptian myths about the gods in animal shape, and about the non-natural superhuman heroes, and their wars and loves, as esoteric allegories devised by civilized priests, perhaps we should also explain Pund-jel, Qat, Quawteaht, the Mantis god, the Spider creator, the Coyote and Raven gods as priestly inventions, put forth in a civilized age, and retained by Australians, Bushmen, Hottentots, Ahts, Thlinkeets, Papuans, who preserve no other vestiges of high civilization.

And even in 1877 he allowed that "in a religion that embraces large and separate classes of adherents there always is of necessity to a certain extent an exoteric and an esoteric doctrine."

It is not just the cat who benefits from an esoteric title, but also the giver of this name.

Stores such as Janie and Jack are a little more esoteric, but each of these designers boasts an online store at their website.

However, boutiques will often feature more esoteric designers and carry the most interesting merchandise.

Copenhagen's designs are much more accessible on the web or in esoteric high-end boutiques.