esoterism

Noun

 * 1) The inward forms of faith and religion; transcendence, mystic experience, and internal realizations of the Divine.
 * 2) Being esoteric.

Quotations

 * 1937. Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman, Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, page 622,
 * In the case of modern fraternal societies, with their trappings of esoterism, the ceremonial becomes the chief function of the organization...
 * 1958. Sidney David Braun, Dictionary of French Literature, Philosophical Library, page 331,
 * By 1896 Symbolism had dissolved into a multitude of little chapels calling themselves Paroxysm, Esoterism, Naturism...
 * 2005. Guenon, Rene Guenon, Henry D. Fohr, Cecil Bethell, Michael Allen, Studies in Freemasonry and the Compagnonnage, page 37
 * It should not be forgotten that just as there is an Islamic esoterism, so also at the time was there a Catholic esoterism also, by which we mean an esoterism taking as its basis and support the symbols and rites of the Catholic religion.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: esoterie
 * Albanian: ezoterika
 * Bulgarian: езотеризъм
 * Catalan: esoterisme
 * Czech: esoterismus
 * Danish: esoterisme
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: esoteerika, esoteeria
 * Finnish: esoteerisuus
 * French:
 * Friulian: esoterisim
 * Galician: esoterismo
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: esterismo
 * Lithuanian:
 * Norwegian: esoterisme
 * Polish: ezoteryka
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: ezoterizmus
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: esoterism
 * Turkish: ezoterizm
 * Ukrainian: езотерика, езотеризм