What is the difference between Esotericism and Occultism?
Occultism comes from the word “occult” meaning ‘hidden.’ On the other hand, “esoteric” denotes something existing internally, an integral component of a thing, inseparable from it’s outward structure. More specifically, that which is properly dubbed “esoteric,” is the innermost core of religious truth (which is not to say that the esoteric is equivalent to theological truth, because, the core, which is universal truth, corresponds to the metaphysical domain). Moreover, elementary logic suggests an inside can not exist without an outside, and vice versa. Consequently, unlike the occult, one can not consider an esotericism without at some point having the exoteric in view…it would be akin to a person saying “Let us talk about the inside”, to which a respondent queries “The inside of WHAT”, ad infinitum. Esoteric knowledge, being metaphysical, which among other things separates it from anything contingent, can only be know through the Intellect, by which we mean what has been described
