different between esoterism vs exoterism

English

Noun

esoterism (countable and uncountable, plural esoterisms)

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

See also

• esotericism
• esoteric
• exoterism

References

• Esoterism, in

Dictionary of Mysticism, by Frank Gaynor, 1973, page 58.

• esoterism, in New Encyclopedia of Islam.

Anagrams

• resistome

English

Noun

exoterism (plural exoterisms)

1. The outward forms that religion takes; the institutional aspects of faith and religion, such as rituals, moral precepts, and institutions.
   • 1875. Gordon Campbell, Wilson Edward William Morrison, E B Iwan-Müller, Frederick Sanders Pulling, Francis Griffin Stokes, The Shotover Papers, Or, Echoes from Oxford, University of Oxford, page 73,

     It is not however easy -- perhaps it is impossible -- to reveal a discovery so wonderful by popular exoterism on the point: posterity will amplify and expound in dry but acumonious logic what I have here only to put forth in its great Severity and Profundity.

   • 1919. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science, The Aryan Theosophical Press, page 535,

     The thought of the present-day commentator and critic as to the ancient learning, is limited to and runs round the exoterism of the temples...

   • 2003. Reiner Schürmann, Reginald Lilly, Broken Hegemonies, Indiana University Press, page 248,

     In their exoterism, they showed civic sense is most demanding.

See also

• esoterism

References

• exoterism, in New Encyclopedia of Islam.

Anagrams

• oximeters, oximetres