Category: Esoteric Christianity

Esoteric Christianity is a term which refers to an ensemble of spiritual currents which regard Christianity as a mystery religion, and profess the existence and possession of certain esoteric doctrines or practices, hidden from the public but accessible only to a narrow circle of " enlightened ", " initiated ", or highly educated people.

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* The first of Twelve Holy Days ( Esoteric Christianity )

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They also practiced forms of Esoteric Christianity, Mysticism ( Christian mysticism ), and Rapp often spoke of the virgin spirit or Goddess named Sophia in his writings.

Category: Esoteric Christianity

Category: Esoteric Christianity

Furthermore, there are heterodox branches of Esoteric Christianity that practice divination, blessings, or appealing to angels for certain intervention, which they view as perfectly righteous, often supportable by gospel ( for instance, claiming that the old commandment against divination was superseded by Christ's birth, and noting that the Magi used astrology to locate Bethlehem ).

Recent studies have indicated that some Westerners accept the idea of reincarnation including certain contemporary Christians, modern Neopagans, followers of Spiritism, Theosophists and students of esoteric philosophies such as Kabbalah, and Gnostic and Esoteric Christianity as well as of Indian religions.

Category: Esoteric Christianity

Category: Esoteric Christianity

Esoteric Christianity accepts theurgy as a tradition that could benefit one greatly.

The main feat of Esoteric Christianity is to learn the mysteries of God, ( see Raziel ), and rise to higher consciousness and theurgy is, in the esoteric tradition, using this knowledge to heighten one's own spiritual nature.

* Steiner, Rudolf ( 1984 ) Esoteric Christianity and the Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz: Thirteen lectures given in various European cities in the years 1911 and 1912 ( a partial translation of Steiner, Rudolf ( 1962 ) Das esoterische Christentum und die geistige Führung der Menschheit: dreiundzwanzig Vorträge, gehalten in den Jahr.

Category: Esoteric Christianity

See also Indirectly, Esoteric Christianity, Kabbalah, Renaissance magic, Mysticism, Merlin, and Grimoire.

Category: Esoteric Christianity

Hermetism and Hermeticism remains influential in Esoteric Christianity, especially Martinism.

Category: Esoteric Christianity

* Sophia ( wisdom ), a central term in Hellenistic philosophy and religion, Platonism, Gnosticism, Orthodox Christianity, Esoteric Christianity, and Christian mysticism

It is also referred to in Esoteric Christianity as the place where the state of consciousness known as the " Second Heaven " occurs.

Esoteric interpretations do not usually contradict the conventional ( in this context called exoteric ) interpretations ; instead, they discuss the inner levels of meaning of the Qur ' an.

; " Esoteric Buddhism ": usually considered synonymous with " Vajrayāna ".

Esoteric cosmology maps out the universe with planes of existence and consciousness according to a specific worldview usually from a doctrine.

* What is Esoteric?

Vajrayana ( Devanagari: वज ् रय ा न ; Oriya: ବଜ ୍ ରଯ ା ନ, Tibetan: ར ྡོ་ ར ྗེ་ ཐ ེ ག ་ པ ་, rdo rje theg pa ; Mongolian: Очирт хөлгөн, Ochirt Hölgön, Chinese: 密宗, mì zōng ) is also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayāna, Mantrayāna, Secret Mantra, Esoteric Buddhism and the Diamond Vehicle.

The practice of Atiyoga is further divided into three classes: Mental SemDe, Spatial LongDe, and Esoteric Instructional MenNgagDe.

Although there is historical evidence for Vajrayana Buddhism in Southeast Asia and elsewhere ( see History of Vajrayana below ), today the Vajrayana exists primarily in the form of the two major sub-schools of Tibetan Buddhism and Esoteric Buddhism in Japan known as Shingon, with a handful of minor subschools utilising lesser amounts of esoteric or tantric materials.

In China and countries with large Chinese populations such as Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore, Chinese Esoteric Buddhism is commonly referred as Tángmì ( 唐密 ) " Tang Dynasty Secret Buddhism ," or Hànchuánmìzōng ( 漢傳密宗 ) " Secret Buddhism of the Han Transmission " ( Hànmì 漢密 for short ), or Dōngmì ( 東密 ) " Eastern Secret Buddhism.

" In a more general sense, the Chinese term Mìzōng ( 密宗 ) " The Secret Way ", is the most popular term used when referring to any form of Esoteric Buddhism.

Esoteric information is information understood by a small group, and usefully misunderstood by a larger group.

is one of the mainstream major schools of Japanese Buddhism and one of the few surviving Esoteric Buddhist lineages that started in the 3rd to 4th century CE that originally spread from India to China through traveling monks such as Vajrabodhi and Amoghavajra.

For that reason, it is often called Japanese Esoteric Buddhism, or Orthodox Esoteric Buddhism.

Shingon is the name of this lineage in Japan, but there are also esoteric schools in China, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong that consider themselves part of this lineage ( as the originators of the Esoteric teachings ) and universally recognize Kūkai as their eighth patriarch.

This is why sometimes the term " Orthodox Esoteric Buddhism " is used instead.

Dainichi Nyorai 大日如來 ) as the central primordial buddha in Esoteric Buddhist doctrine is the true nature of all things and phenomena, the totality of reality in all form and formlessness, arising and non-arising.

Esoteric Buddhism holds that while nothing can be said of it verbally, it is readily communicated via esoteric rituals which involve the use of mantras, mudras, and mandalas.

" According to Paul Williams, Mantranaya is the more appropriate term to describe the self-perception of early Esoteric Buddhism.

East Asian Esoteric Buddhism is also practiced in the Japanese Tendai School ( 天台宗 ), founded in the same era as the Shingon School in the early 9th century ( Heian period ), although Tendai doctrine contain mostly exoteric teachings.

The general term for Esoteric Buddhism in Japan is mikkyō ( 密教 ; literally " secret teachings ").

In China and countries with large Chinese populations such as Taiwan, Malaysia, and Singapore, Esoteric Buddhism is most commonly referred to as the Chinese term Mìzōng ( 密宗 ), or " Esoteric School.

= Goma 護摩 ) Ritual of consecrated fire is unique to Esoteric Buddhism and is the most recognizable ritual defining Shingon amongst regular Japanese persons today.