Sentence examples for esoteric interpretation from inspiring English sources

This "symbolic ambiguity" is also much in evidence in the esoteric interpretation of ritual acts performed in connection with images, flowers, and other cult objects and is intended to bring about a transfiguration in the mind of the adept.

Neither the identity nor the period of the Ikhwān aṣ-Ṣafāʾ has been definitively established, but the various authors of the Rasāʾil do seem to reflect the doctrinal position of the Ismāʿīlīyah, a radical Shīʿī Muslim sect influenced by Manichaeism and Neoplatonism, which preached an esoteric interpretation of the Qurʾān open only to initiates (see Ismāʿīlīte).

Italian poet, revolutionary, and scholar, known for his esoteric interpretation of Dante but best known as the father of several talented children, all of whom were born in England, to which he had fled as a political refugee from his native land.

In Epistle 40 the science of the esoteric interpretation of the Qur'ân (explaining its hidden meaning) is emphasized as the highest divine gift (in doing this the Ikhwân give an interpretation of Qur., III, 7 which precedes that, much more well-known, given by Averroes two centuries later, cf. III, 344, 10 345, 5).

Some preachers tried to link Saddam Hussein with wicked King Nebuchadnezzar of Biblical fame, but these arguments depended on esoteric interpretations of the Old Testament book of II Kings and could not easily be reduced to the kinds of catchy phrases that are projected onto video screens in vast evangelical churches.

The almanac issued long-range weather forecasts, based on esoteric interpretations of natural phenomena, long before the United States Weather Bureau (renamed the National Weather Service in 1970) or any other weather service existed, and generations of farmers planted and harvested according to its advice.

With this in mind, we can avoid cosmic and esoteric interpretations.

Hitler was highly critical of Himmler's esoteric völkisch interpretation of the 'Germanic mission'.

The first leader of Ḥabad was Rabbi Shneur Zalman, a prolific writer of 18th-century Lyady, Russia, whose Liqquṭe amarim ("Collections of Sayings")—popularly known as Tanya ("There Is a Teaching") from its opening word contains the theoretical doctrine of the movement and is an interpretation of Kabbala (esoteric Jewish mysticism).

Ismāʿīlī doctrine, formulated during the late 8th and early 9th centuries, stressed the dual nature of Qurʾānic interpretation as both exoteric and esoteric and, like Manichaeism, made a corresponding distinction between the ordinary Muslim and the initiated Ismāʿīlī.

The esoteric works must, then, be interpreted.