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Encyclopedia Britannica



ESOTERIC

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 771 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EMS-EUD
ESOTERIC , having an inner or
secret
  meaning. This
term
 , and its correlative " exoteric," were first applied in the ancient
Greek
  mysteries to those who were initiated (kw, within) and to those who were not (Ew, outside), respectively. It was then transferred to a supposed distinction
drawn
  by certain philosophers between the teaching given to the whole circle of their pupils and that containing a higher and
secret
 
philosophy
  which was reserved for a select number of specially advanced or privileged disciples. This distinction was ascribed by Lucian (Vit. Auct. 26) to
Aristotle
  (q.v.), who, however, uses EEWTEpuKOi X6yyoe (Nic. Ethics) merely of " popular
treatises
 ." It was probably adopted by the Pythagoreans and was also attributed to Plato. In the sense of mystic it is used of a secret
doctrine
  of
theosophy
 , supposed to have been traditional among certain disciples of Buddhism.


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