Quotes About Esoterism

There is a sacred science, and for thousands of years countless inquisitive people have sought in vain to penetrate its "secrets." It is as if they attempted to dig a hole in the sea with an ax. The tool must be of the same nature as the objective to be worked upon. Spirit is found only with spirit, and esoterism is the spiritual aspect of the world, inaccessible to cerebral intelligence. Those who profess to reveal the esoterism of such teachings are charlatans.

Certainly, all esoterism appears to be tinged with heresy from the point of view of the corresponding exoterism, but this obviously does not disqualify it if it is intrinsically orthodox, and thus in conformity with truth as such and with the traditional symbolism to which it pertains; it is true that the most authentic esoterism can incidentally depart from this framework and refer to foreign symbolisms, but it cannot be syncretistic in its very substance.

All this stained cryptology so deeply with the dark hues of esoterism that some of them still persist, noticeably coloring the public image of cryptology. People still think cryptanalysis mysterious. Book dealers still list cryptology under "occult." And in 1940 the United States conferred upon its Japanese diplomatic cryptanalyses the codename MAGIC.

Más allá comienza el misterio. Más acá, no hay misterio, no hay esoterismo, no hay más sombras que las que proyectan nuestros deseos y sobre todo, nuestro orgullo. Pero como es más fácil contentarse con ideas y palabras que hacer algo con las manos, con dolor y con fatiga, en el silencio y en la soledad, también es más cómodo buscar un refugio en el pensamiento llamado "puro" que luchar cuerpo a cuerpo contra el peso y las tinieblas de la materia.