Theos-Talk Archives (May 2003 Message tt00160)

Dallas wrote: <<Dear Mauri: Look on yourself as 
"permanent" -- you REMEMBER, you 
EXPERIENCED, you QUESTIONED, etc....<<

Even speculated ... ?

<<YOU are always the "SELF," the WITNESS, the 
OBSERVER, and the CHOOSER.>>

But/"but", you're not saying much about "who"/what 
that "YOU" might be, so ... ^:-) ...

<<As to your use of "exoteric" and "esoteric" I cannot 
understand what hold they have over you.>>

How's this for a "hold" in terms of meaning re 
"exoteric/exoteric": some things can only be 
experienced, and so in that sense are "esoteric," in that 
they can't be described, as compared to the "exoteric" 
that can be described. And then, of course, there's the 
conventional dictionary definition of "esoteric." So I 
might add (?): I cannot understand what hold ... 
Whatever.

<<Try and see if this makes it simple: <<LAW and 
LAWS are always esoteric to actions. >> 

As I tend to see it, laws and actions and anything that 
can be described (exoterized, as it were) on this plane
are not "particularly esoteric" (in a transcendental 
sense), except in some conventional dictionary sense, 
possibly, that doen't take into account anything beyond 
exoterics. After all, (as we all tend to know?), most 
standard, language dictionaries were written for, and 
by, the literally minded, to reflect the literal, exoteric, 
standardized, historic, established, conventional, etc, 
worldview that's generally taken to relate to "exoteric 
notions" about "reality" around here, eh? 

You might have noticed, Dallas, that many of the terms 
in Purucker's Glossary, eg, are not to be found in most 
standard dictionaries. So one might say that "standard 
people" ("standard people"... ? ^:-) do not, in general, 
seem to take very kindly, (or "understandingly"... ?) to 
non-standard terminology ... Or something like that ... ? 
In other words, Dallas, while various attempts to 
standardize the unstandardizable (re exoteric/esoteric) 
might be seen, by some, as sort of "understandable" in 
some "forgivable" sense, here and there, maybe, (if not 
more so?), I've been kind of hoping that on a "more 
specialized" list such as this (or am I dreaming again?) 
there might be some allowances made in keeping with 
the nature of the list ... Oh, never mind. It's all so much 
karma, after all, so ... 

Speculatively,
Mauri