Lexicon

Technical vocabulary across traditions. Each entry links to the primary texts where the term lives, and to its analogues in other traditions.

• Apophasisἀπόφασις negation, "unsaying"; the via negativa of mystical theology christian-mysticism
• Batinباطن the inner, the hidden; the esoteric meaning paired with the manifest (zahir) islamic-mysticism
• Sodסוד secret, the esoteric or innermost level of meaning jewish-mysticism