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Joe Allen: Are Demon-Invoking Gnostic Esotericists Behind All of Our Woes?

Geopolitics & Empire

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Distinctions in Religious Teachings

In religious teachings, there are distinctions between the exoteric and esoteric aspects. The exoteric involves institutional practices and teachings for the general public, while the esoteric is hidden or secret knowledge. Individuals in a religious community are free to progress from exoteric to esoteric knowledge. Mainline or acceptable religion is seen in public practices and churches, while Orthodox religion follows more traditional teachings, and heresy deviates from these beliefs.

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I'm not an osteic so Real quick if I could just make a couple of different distinctions the first uh between the esoteric and the exoteric and between mainline or acceptable religion and Orthodox religion and heresy So that uh the esoteric and the exoteric I think could be a pro applied very broadly Those are terms that are I think intended for broad application so that the exoteric is that uh the institutional practices and teachings that the the large the larger flock the laity Uh are instructed in and then you know and the laity will of course have freedom in any sort of religious community To increase their knowledge and to move up in the grades so to speak towards more more esoteric knowledge But in the beginning, you know, uh, the the simple things are most appropriate and so the exoteric tradition Is this what we see this what we see in the churches. That's what we see in public Proclinations the esoteric to the extent that it is embraced at all in any religious system Is just simply that's what that which is hidden from public eye that which is entered that which is in some cases secret or at the very least not

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