What is the Definition
of the Esoteric?
Transcribed from an Emin meeting with Matthew~Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
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In order to define that, I'm going to give you several different explanations, rather than just give you a string of words. Now, there's a pond~and in this pond there are lots of frogs; and in the middle of this pond there's a lily leaf with one frog sitting on it. In the water there are some frogs splashing about, and right on the edge of the pond, on the bank there are some frogs sitting.
Someone somewhere is throwing rocks up in the air. And every once in a while, one of the rocks drops on the head of the frog in the middle of the pond. And the frog goes, "Oh, yes" or "My God, no." The frog knows that it's been hit on the head. It's got no doubt whatsoever that it's been hit on the head. The frogs swimming about in the water can see the frog in the middle of the pond and they know that something has happened to that frog, but they're not quite sure what. The frogs sitting on the edge of the pond don't even know that anything is going on because they're not even in the water and they can't feel the ripples.
There are three terms: Exoteric~which is the outer ring; Mesoteric~which is the middle ring; and Esoteric~which is the inner ring. Each of these three levels of knowledge and life and of connection has a different center of gravity. People who live in the exoteric worlds are people whose center of gravity internally has been formed by the pressures of life around them. So what is important for them is entertainment and sports and business and looking good and whatever the current cultural values happen to be. So there is no self-chosen action in them. You can also put the word "unconscious" with that.
The middle ring is the ring of arts, music, literature and the sciences, all of which spring from the core of truths of the esoteric worlds. Because, you understand, the great musicians and the great painters have been inspired by the mysteries of life~such as the mystery of nature and the mystery of the human being~they've produced great music or great literature or great art. Even the scientists today, who are virtually totally intellectual, have been gripped by the unknown~which is a fact, if you follow what I'm saying. That's the mesoteric.
Now, the esoteric is the mystery and the power and the fact of life itself. When it is described, it is described in esoteric teachings~normally using such things as numbers or symbols to describe the actual living process of life itself. The occult is life. The esoteric is the only way in which a human can translate the occult knowably because, you see, a plant is an occult fact. Now, esoterically, by understanding the laws, you can explain it. And those kinds of explanations resound in all the great works of history.
I'll give you and example. You know on your dollar bill you've got a pyramid with an eye on it. Do you know why? I wonder if you know that out of approximately fifty-five American citizens who got together to form the American Constitution, fifty-two were Freemasons. And two of the greatest Freemasons were Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. And the esoteric symbology that was written into the American Constitution, which turns up in the words about liberty and freedom, is the power motive of the Freemasons; the words, L, P, D or liberty, power and duty.
What that actually says is that there was an incredible movement to create something from the esoteric. It's manifestation, initially, was in the mesoteric. The form it took was the arts, literature, and music. All that is remaining is the exoteric, which is the remnants of it.
Now one other thing that you've got to understand is that people who live in the esoteric have a center of gravity which is self-chosen and is chosen against the recognition of what the human being is for. The people who live in the mesoteric are partially self-chosen and partially caused. It also says the people in ordinary life can never deal with people who are developed. What they meet are other students who are already partly on their way.
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