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.
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).
Hitler was highly critical of Himmler's esoteric völkisch interpretation of the 'Germanic mission'.
Among the classics of speculative Daoism, it alone holds the distinction of having become a scripture of the esoteric Daoist movements, which developed their own interpretations of its ambiguities and transmitted it as a sacred text.
The esoteric works must, then, be interpreted.
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.
However, this saga extends far beyond the universe of esoteric drug names, technical medical evidence and narrow interpretations of law.
One final interesting question is how the meaning of abâlisa and shayatîn in the Risâla al-Jâmi'a is related to the interpretation of those terms in other esoteric writings such as the Shajarat al-Yaqîn (probably, of Qarmatian origin).
Within this exegetic phenomenon, an original interpretation of his stories from an esoteric perspective was written by philosopher Vasile Lovinescu as Creangă și Creanga de aur ("Creangă and the Golden Bough").
