Motif
Veiled esoteric teaching
veiled_esoteric_teaching
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Esoteric and Hidden Knowledge. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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1 traditions
sufi
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Mystics and Saints of Islam CHAPTER VIII / CHAPTER IX / CHAPTER X / CHAPTER XI; lines 3108-3198 confidence: medium
Contemporaries accused Ghazzali of an esoteric doctrine for his circle and an exoteric one for the public; the passage mentions the Sufi habit of cloaking teaching in metaphorical veils, including wine as love of God, as in Hafiz and Omar Khayyam.
The passage reports accusations of an esoteric doctrine and describes a Sufi habit of cloaking teaching under metaphorical veils.
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