Sentence examples for esoteric doctrines from inspiring English sources
In general, the last two subjects are the most numerous, while Yoga tends to centre on the mystique of certain sound-symbols (mantras) that sum up esoteric doctrines.
He remained a lifelong student of the highest caliber: co-teaching with philosophers, metabolizing esoteric doctrines, even directing the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
Because the Maya priests had reached advanced knowledge of astronomical phenomena and a sophisticated concept of time, it appears that their esoteric doctrines differed widely from the popular myths.
He embraced every last extravagant curlicue of the Golden Age — the Roman myths and esoteric doctrines, the fanatical dedication to the verse structures of Spanish tradition — only he embraced them in a pop-eyed spirit of paradox.
The New Testament took its basic notions of revelation from the contemporary forms of Judaism (1st century bce and 1st century ce)—i.e., from both normative rabbinic Judaism and the esoteric doctrines current in Jewish apocalyptic circles in the Hellenistic world.
Like the later so-called Qumrān covenanters (the monastic group associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls), they were opposed to the Jewish priesthood and the cult of the Temple, regarded Moses as a messianic figure, and forbade the revelation of esoteric doctrines to outsiders.
He took intuitionism from a somewhat esoteric doctrine in the philosophy of mathematics to a mainstream philosophical position.
Because this homology was considered at the time to be an esoteric doctrine, the title "Upanishad" also became associated during the middle of the 1st millennium bce with a genre of textual works claiming to reveal hidden teachings.
But, while portraying itself as the defender of the traditional religion regulated by the Talmud and its commentaries, the Zohar places itself above tradition by boisterously proclaiming the incomparable value of the theosophic teaching of Rabbi Simeon ben Yoḥai and the superiority of the esoteric doctrine over Talmudic studies.
On the Ismā'īlīs side, the use of the esoteric doctrine of Hermeticism and the Greco-Alexandrian mystical teachings were adopted by Ismā'īlīs philosophers.
Pico equates this secret interpretation of the law with the Cabala, an esoteric doctrine in which the words and numbers of Hebrew scripture are interpreted according to a mystical system (1965, 30; see also Heptaplus 1965, 68).
