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- Firstly was the work of Helena Blavatsky the Russian mystic, in her book, ‘The Secret Doctrine’, in the late 1800s.
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Thales of Miletus ( / ˈθeɪliːz / THAY-leez; Greek: Θαλῆς; c. 626/623 – c. 548/545 BC) was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor. Thales was one of the Seven Sages, founding figures of Ancient Greece .
Perhaps for the first time in English, Thomas Stanley, between 1655 and 1660, would refer to the Pythagorean exoterick and esoterick. John Toland in 1720 would state that the so-called nowadays "esoteric distinction" was a universal phenomenon, present in both the West and the East.
Those of us who were introduced to the history of moral and political philosophy by students of Leo Strauss -- in my case, Allan Bloom -- would sometimes ask for evidence backing their claim that the great writers of the past practiced a lost art of esoteric writing.
Esōterikós was first recorded in a work by Lucian of Samosata from the 2nd century ce. From this word is derived the modern English adjective esoteric, denoting “something accessible, interesting, or intelligible only to a small group.”
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published in the New York Daily Graphic on 30 October 1874 was the first article definitely known to be from her pen. In 1877 her first major work, Isis Unveiled, appeared in two large volumes. It was followed eleven years later by the two volumes of The Secret Doctrine. Her
Jul 11, 2018 · One of the first Occult writers I read was Robert Anton Wilson (praise Bob!) in 2006 or so. He was a proponent of Non-Aristotlean Logic, and commentated that Aristotlean logic “subliminally programs us to invent fictitious certainties.”
Aug 1, 2024 · According to Mme. Blavatsky, the Esoteric Philosophy is a form of "objective idealism", the metaphysical view of which Plato is regarded as one of the earliest representatives in the West.