esoteric

This collection of essays written in the 1930s by the Russian esotericist Valentin Tomberg explores the development of Russian and Eastern spirituality.

At least one other major esotericist of the time, Claude Doggins of Sedalia, Colorado, also envisioned the nuclear destruction of America.

My method for reading Emerson as an eloquent "esotericist" relies on Leo Strauss' manner of reading the esoteric tradition of political philosophy and his discussions of exo-esotericism in such texts as Persecution and the Art of Writing.

His attending as a boy the Orthodox liturgy, which Christian esotericist Valentin Tomberg calls "a cult experience," may have resulted in his first mystical encounters of Christ.

On the whole the esotericist readers have neglected the scriptural and rabbinic references that make up a good part of the book, and which could provide grist for the esotericist mill.

2 For many years English language classical scholarship has for the most part hesitated before the difficult choice posed by the interpretations of the "unwritten teachings" by Harold Cherniss, on the one hand, and the esotericist tradition, on the other.

I read a lot of esotericists; the book that made the biggest impression on me was Rene Guenon's The King of the World--I just, by the way, did an exhibition of drawings in France around this theme.

And it remains to be seen whether or not there is a future for these particular decks in the hands of cartomancers and esotericists.

Sa'in al-Din did not think very highly of theologians, whom he placed just above the lowest-ranked traditionists but below Avicennan philosophers among exotericists, though he clearly valued advanced Sufis much higher, whom he ranked above Illuminationist philosophers but below "letter-specialists" (hurufis) among esotericists (these hurufis, who were experts in the arcane but quite "scientific" field of the study of letters, numbers, and other graphic signs, are not to be confused with the followers of Fazlallah Astarabadi).