It is but another assertion of his claim to be in sympathy with the esoteric rather than the exoteric teaching of the present; to be on the mount with the few and not on the plain with the many.

For as the glacier formed on the mountain slips slowly down to the plain, so, he held, the esoteric teaching of to-day will be the popular teaching of future ages.

Hence to say that the distinction between esoteric and exoteric teaching means that the Church has two creeds, one for the simple, another for the educated, is a thoughtless criticism which overlooks the necessarily symbolic nature of all language concerning the "eternities," and confounds a different mode of expression with a difference of the facts and realities expressed.

Before the era of the great bacteriologic discoveries of the eighties and nineties, the concordance of esoteric racial and personal markings was a great help in diagnosis to the physician.

But it has been the comfort and the joy of an esoteric few,the witnesses of truth whom God chooses, to keep alive the virtues and the ideas which shall ultimately triumph over all the forces of evil.

The esoteric doctrines of the priests initiated into the higher mysteries probably were the primeval truths, too abstract for the ignorant and sensual people to comprehend, and which were represented to them in visible forms that appealed to their senses, and which they worshipped with degrading rites.

As the son-in-law of the high-priest of Hieropolis, and delegated governor of the land, in the highest favor with the King, and himself a priest, it is probable that Joseph was initiated into the esoteric wisdom of the priesthood.

And it is possible, after all, that the loftiest of the Greek philosophers derived their opinions from those who had been admitted to the secret schools of Egypt, where it is probable that the traditions of primitive ages were preserved, and only communicated to a chosen few; for the ancient schools were esoteric and not popular.

Moses lays down laws best calculated to keep the nation separated and esoteric; but there is marvellous wisdom in those which were directed to the development of national resources and general prosperity in an isolated state.

Usually the type we choose is one whose beauty is somewhat esoteric to other eyes.

The mission of esoteric astrology.

Doctrine of esoteric psychology.

(Esoteric psychology, serial no.56, course V-A) © 1Oct36; AA222454.

(Esoteric psychology, serial no.61, course V-E) © 1Oct36; AA222457.

(Esoteric psychology, course V-C, serial no.58)

(Esoteric psychology, serial no.57, course V-B)

Doctrine of esoteric psychology.

And these fantastic theories are generally justified by most esoteric doctrine, not by the appeal to the facts which stare you in the face.

It was secret, esoteric, and highly symbolical.

It thus came to constitute a kind of sacred language, and became invested with an esoteric significance understood only by the few."The

As the pictures and effigies suspended in early Christian churches, to commemorate a person or an event, became in time objects of worship to the vulgar, so, in Egypt, the esoteric or spiritual meaning of the emblems was lost in the gross materialism of the beholder.

This esoteric and allegorical meaning was, however, preserved by the priests, and communicated in the mysteries alone to the initiated, while the uninstructed retained only the grosser conception.

"To perpetuate the esoteric signification of these symbols to the initiated, there were established the Mysteries, of which institution we have still a trace in Freemasonry.

They have, namely, as a rule, tacitly though not explicitly recognized the fact that a poem whose value depends exclusively upon an esoteric interpretation has no meaning whatever as a work of art, while if artistic value can be assigned to the primary meaning of the work, it is a matter of indifference aesthetically whether there be an esoteric interpretation or not.

They have, namely, as a rule, tacitly though not explicitly recognized the fact that a poem whose value depends exclusively upon an esoteric interpretation has no meaning whatever as a work of art, while if artistic value can be assigned to the primary meaning of the work, it is a matter of indifference aesthetically whether there be an esoteric interpretation or not.

However, I assume from your remark that we have been retained in a matter presenting some peculiarly absurd, archaic or otherwise interesting doctrine of law?" "Not directly," responded Tutt.

Hewlett's style is finished and richly poetical, but often too ornate and too encrusted with archaic terms and other artificial forms.

An archaic form of "swoon," found in Elizabethan English.

"Eat" as past participle, however, was archaic or rude even in Coleridge's time.

"Or" here is not the adversative conjunction but an entirely different word, an archaic variant of "ere," meaning "before.

She was at once the most archaic and modern of states.

Even the doctor is now largely emancipated from his archaic limitations as a skilled retainer.

The Norman font with its archaic carving and the fifteenth-century crucifix over the west door should be noticed.

When restorations were in progress in 1872 the archaic tub-shaped font, now standing at the end of the church, was discovered under the present font.

Customs and beliefs are more primitive and the forms of speech more archaic than in the region beyond the New Forest, and the natives have a goodly amount of the old Jutish blood in their veins, possibly more than their relatives of the Isle of Wight.

It was the best house in the place, whitewashed, and painted with figures of trees, men, animals, and birds, all in red ochre, and in a style of art truly archaic.

Near to the enormous transatlantic liners were some very ancient tartans and some Greek boats, heavy and of archaic form, which recalled the fleets described in the Iliad.

There is no other case quite parallel to this in the annals of European colonization, although the Goanese in India have a native tongue and a Portuguese creed, while in several of the Spanish-American states the Indian blood is dominant and the majority of the population speak an Indian tongue, perhaps itself, as with the Quichuas, once a culture-tongue of the archaic type.

We saw on the banks screamersbig, crested waders of archaic type, with spurred wings, rather short bills, and no especial affinities with other modern birds.

The tapir is a very archaic type of ungulate, not unlike the non- specialized beasts of the Oligocene.

The primitive archaic forms of inner experiences and thought in schizophrenia.

The primitive archaic forms of inner experiences and thought in schizophrenia.

Everyday things in archaic Greece.

Everyday things in archaic Greece, by Marjorie and C. H. B. Quennell.

Archaic Greek art against its historical background.

The characters of the inscription are so archaic that this date may refer to an earlier epoch than the Indo-Skythian.]

", "Sir?" "In simpler and more archaic phrase, I can't afford you, Burgess, unless I pilfer for a living.

That its authorities should have been so violently perturbed by a proposal to teach SHAKSPEARE histrionically, or by the spectacle of boys enjoying modern poetry, surely supposes conditions almost incredibly archaic.

The modern luncheon or nuncheon was the archaic prandium, or under-meat, displaced by the breakfast, and modified in its character by the different distribution of the daily repasts, so that, instead of being the earliest regular meal, like the grand déjeuner of the French, or coming, like our luncheon, between breakfast and dinner, it interposed itself between the noontide dinner and the evening supper.

But greater and more imperishable than this archaic gem is the gift that the noble King left to the English nationa gift that affects the entire race of English-speaking people.