The Devil's Dictionary: Esoteric

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
ERUDITION
ETHNOLOGY

ESOTERIC

-adj.

Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient philosophies were of two kinds, - exoteric, those that the philosophers themselves could partly understand, and esoteric, those that nobody could understand. It is the latter that have most profoundly affected modern thought and found greatest acceptance in our time.

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