Quotes About Esoteric

If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

Onions are sacred to the Yezidis, perhaps because they have many layers and are thus "esoteric.")

Peter Levenda

Peter Levenda

As we all know, there is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition.

I have my own cosmology that's kind of like an esoteric mix of a lot of different things that work for me and that to me, are worth exploring. There is a little bit of the archetypal Christianity that I've kind of reconciled because when you're raised that way, inevitably that infrastructure will persist into your adulthood.

The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.

Gabriel,' said Jerott firmly, 'is now at Birgu, Malta, engaged in a life-and-death struggle for the Grand Mastership of the Order of St John. He is unlikely to spend a large part of his time arranging esoteric disasters for his adversaries. He is far more likely to arrange to kill them stone dead.' 'All right. You go and get killed stone dead on that side of the garden, and I'll stick to this,' said Lymond.

Mah?y?na Buddhism arose in India around the first century C.E. It can be classified into three periods: early, or dynamic (1st century C.E. to 4th century C.E.), middle, or scholastic (4th–mid-7th century), and late, or esoteric (mid-7th–early 13th century).

I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.

You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

There are two distinct methods of interpreting the Quran. The first, tafsir, is primarily concerned with elucidating the literal meaning of the text, while the second, ta'wil, is more concerned with the hidden, esoteric meaning of the Quran.

The color on the new Zenith was more than good; it was nearly occult.

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.

Unfortunately for a multitude of occultists, humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of humor that has impelled them into the arcane and esoteric.

In the occult, good manners matter, as they do in life, and perhaps even more so.

I guess I've always been attracted to secret societies and the mystery surrounding them.

One may at least surmise that this esoteric teaching had a close and direct connection with wisdom, and that it did not only appeal to reason or to logic, as is the case with philosophy, which for this reason has been called rational knowledge - the philosophers of antiquity maintained that rational knowledge, that is, philosophy, is not the highest degree of knowledge, is not wisdom.

Les Apsarâs sont les Nymphes célestes, qui symbolisent aussi ces possibilités informelles ; elles correspondent aux Hûris du Paradis islamique (El-Jannah), qui, sauf dans les transpositions dont il est susceptible au point de vue ésotérique et qui lui confèrent des significations d'ordre plus élevé, est proprement l'équivalent du Swarga hindou.

Pour répondre à cette question, nous rappellerons que l'initiation est essentiellement une transmission, et nous ajouterons que ceci peut s'entendre en deux sens différents : d'une part, transmission d'une influence spirituelle, et, d'autre part, transmission d'un enseignement traditionnel. [...]