I would like to talk to you guys about what Esotericism really is. I'm making this post because I feel we have sadly fallen into some excesses, such as watered down New Age ideas borrowed from Blavatsky-ite Theosophy. 

Much of the New Age ideas (such as indigo peoples, ascension, channeling, numerology, decoding secret meanings in words, etc) came from the late 19th-early 20th century Theosophical circles. For example, the indigo peoples, for me, bares resemblance to the Fifth-root race, aka the Aryan race, as said by Helena Blavatsky and Alice Bailey. Ascension was an idea that mostly came from Aleister Crowley, which he probably stole from other magicians and occultists. A lot of the occultic ways of decoding "secrets" of things, which are numerology, have very differing schools in terms of how you find a number within a word (whether it be Pythagorean English Gematria, or Hebrew Gematria, or Greek Isopsephy ad so on), and the meaning of the numbers attained from the numerological system. Now channeling is something that I'm against because we in this physical dimension do not really know much about the other dimensional realities. We don't know if those spirits say if they're really are when being channeled, or if they are just trying to possess you. 

What I'm trying to say is that in order to find deeper meanings within the subjects of Esotericism, we need to find the root origins of those practices. For example, Freemasonry, according to Cannabis: The Philosopher's Stone (a work in which you can search online at ww.alchemylab.com) was not only said to be passed down by the Rosicrucians and the Knights Templar, but also took some of the ideas from the Ismailis and the Sufis. For those of you who don't know also, Freemasonry was also influenced by the Moors, who were Black people from North Africa and Arabia, as said in this article from New Dawn Magazine.

http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/the-masons-and-the-moors

To show you all that the Moors were Black, here's a definition from etymonline.com . 

Moor (n.) "North African, Berber," late 14c., from Old French More, from Medieval Latin Morus, from Latin Maurus "inhabitant of Mauritania" (northwest Africa, a region now corresponding to northern Algeria and Morocco), from Greek Mauros, perhaps a native name, or else cognate with mauros "black" (but this adjective only appears in late Greek and may as well be from the people's name as the reverse). Being a dark people in relation to Europeans, their name in the Middle Ages was a synonym for "Negro;" later (16c.-17c.) used indiscriminately of Muslims (Persians, Arabs, etc.) but especially those in India.

So what we should do is to look at not the Renaissance, Enlightenment, and 20th century Occultists and Theosophists; instead, we should look at people like Ibn Arabi (who was a Moor) and other Sufi sheikhs. But what we should also do is to rid Esotericism of anything that strays from what real spirituality is, because uncovering Esotericism means to uncover the mystikos, or communion with Allah.