“The higher dimension of religion has also always been practiced by a relatively few uncommon individuals. Indeed, it was largely the response to the more conventional or superficial aspects of such extraordinary personalities that produced the great cultic movements of exoteric religion among the masses. But such cultic movements are created by and designed for the instruction and social improvement of ordinary people, not men and women of the more highly evolved or awakened type. Therefore, alongside the development of exoteric religions there have always been secret societies and esoteric groups founded on practice of higher personal, moral, and biologically evolutionary disciplines.”

http://www.aboutadidam.org/relationship/secret.html

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The higher dimension of religion has also always been practiced by a relatively few uncommon individuals. Indeed, it wa…" by Adi Da Samraj?
Adi Da Samraj photo
Adi Da Samraj 24
American writer 1939–2008

Related quotes

“The priestly guilds were highly mobile, with the result that cultic practices crossed ethnic lines over wide areas.”

Cyrus H. Gordon (1908–2001) American linguist

Introduction
The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations (1965 [1962])

Warren Farrell photo
Hermann Rauschning photo
David Boaz photo
John Gray photo
Mao Zedong photo

“This is a movement on a vast scale. It has indeed mobilized the masses. It is of very great significance to the revolutionization of the thinking of the people throughout the country.”

Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

Directives on the Cultural Revolution (1966-1972)

Everett Dean Martin photo
G. K. Chesterton photo
Freeman Dyson photo

Related topics