Definition of Esoteric

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Esoteric

Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; -- said of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to exoteric.

Marked by secrecy or privacy; private; select; confidential; as, an esoteric purpose; an esoteric meeting.

An esoteric doctrine or treatise; esoteric philosophy; esoterics.

One who believes, or is an initiate, in esoteric doctrines or rites.

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Esoteric Quotations

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.
H. P. Blavatsky

The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.
H. P. Blavatsky

When I first started playing music in 1955, there was just a small body of people that knew it. It was a very esoteric type of thing.
Steve Lacy

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
Lord Melbourne

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.
Anthony Braxton

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
M. Night Shyamalan

Esoteric Translations

esoteric in German is esoterisch

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