Esoteric and Exoteric Teaching
Throughout the history of organized religious practices there has been a Veil between what is preached to the common man, and what is known by the initiated. This division follows logically from the fact that individuals are on different psychological levels. Children learn the ethics of society by fairy tales; in the same manner most people need the religious fairy tales to further develop their mind. The focus of ancient civilizations was exactly that, to develop the mind of the human race, to lift them up from the unordered darkness of unconscious being [1]. Some individuals were front runners; they did battles on the very boundary of mental reality: shamans, prophets, gurus, pharaohs - sons and daughters of the Divine. Their insights became over time the basis for the development of ethics, morality and human interaction. Worshiping at a sarcophagus of Osiris, fresco from Pompeii [2]. But these insights could not be presented in their pure form, for a number ...