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Western esotericism, also known as esotericism, esoterism, and sometimes the Western mystery tradition, [ 1] is a term scholars use to classify a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements that developed within Western society. These ideas and currents are united since they are largely distinct both from orthodox Judeo-Christian religion ...
Jewish mysticism. Academic study of Jewish mysticism, especially since Gershom Scholem 's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941), draws distinctions between different forms of mysticism which were practiced in different eras of Jewish history. Of these, Kabbalah, which emerged in 12th-century southwestern Europe, is the most well known, but it ...
v. t. e. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky[ a] ( née Hahn von Rottenstern; 12 August [ O.S. 31 July] 1831 – 8 May 1891), often known as Madame Blavatsky, was a Russian and American mystic and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. She gained an international following as the leading theoretician of Theosophy .
Esoteric Christianity is a mystical approach to Christianity which features "secret traditions" that require an initiation to learn or understand. [1] The term esoteric was coined in the 17th century and derives from the Greek ἐσωτερικός ( esôterikos , "inner").
Aleister Crowley, on his name change. Crowley had his first significant mystical experience while on holiday in Stockholm in December 1896. Several biographers, including Lawrence Sutin, Richard Kaczynski, and Tobias Churton, believed that this was the result of Crowley's first same-sex sexual experience, which enabled him to recognize his bisexuality. At Cambridge, Crowley maintained a ...
Eleusinian Mysteries ( Greek: Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια) was the name of the mysteries of the city Eleusis . The name of the city Eleusis is Pre-Greek, and may be related with the name of the goddess Eileithyia. [ 12] Her name Ἐλυσία ( Elysia) in Laconia and Messene probably relates her with the month Eleusinios and Eleusis ...
The erotic union symbolizes, respectively, the non-duality of Compassion (or Method) and Wisdom; or also of Form and Emptiness. [1] [2] [3] Eastern esotericism is a term used by some scholars that loosely encompasses religious beliefs and practices of the Eastern world said to be "esoteric", secret, or occult.
Pythagoreanism originated in the 6th century BC, based on and around the teachings and beliefs held by Pythagoras and his followers, the Pythagoreans. Pythagoras established the first Pythagorean community in the ancient Greek colony of Kroton, in modern Calabria (Italy) cirka 530 BC.