Quotes About Esoteric

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

The crossing of the Red Sea is, according to the allegorical or symbolic meaning, really the entrance into matter. Water always stands for matter in the esoteric wisdom. The well-known story of the forty years the Jews spent wandering in the wilderness was a mythical construct that was symbolic of the soul's life in the body during its earthly sojourn.

There's an often-repeated phrase in the hidden

The special skill of esoteric Buddhism is transmutation by right view and pure perception, using all appropriate means for training. For example, eating food is not itself a Buddhist practice, but if one uses it as a means of training, it becomes a Buddhist training in transforming one's daily life as Buddhist practice.

covert rituals.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

A secret society within a secret society.

There are secrets within secrets, though--always.

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.

Aleister Crowley

I read kind of serious books about fairly arcane subjects.

The association of magic and cryptology was reinforced by other factors. Mysterious symbols were used in such esoteric fields as astrology and alchemy—where each planet and chemical had a special sign, like the circle and arrow for Mars—just as they were in cryptology. Like words in cipher, spells and incantations, such as "abracadabra," looked like nonsense but in reality were potent with hidden meanings.

Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

behind the seen lies the immeasurable unseen.

I myself delve into very arcane things.

Sufism, the "secret tradition," is not available on the basis of assumptions which belong to another world, the world of intellect.

The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work.

Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.

El secreto se protege a sí mismo. Se lo encuentra únicamente en el espíritu y en la práctica del Trabajo.

El sufismo o "tradición secreta" no se encuentra disponible sobre una base de suposiciones que pertenecen a otro mundo, el del intelecto.

The breakup of the old order in the Near East, according to Sufi tradition, reunited the 'beads of mercury' which were the esoteric schools operating in the Egyptian, Persian and Byzantine empires into the 'stream of quicksilver' which was intrinsic, evolutionary Sufism. The

It looked ritualistic

Veiling truth in mystery.

Secrets...are the very root of cool.