Legend of Baloi: the exoteric level (2)

‘Esoteric’, we saw last week, means ‘arcane, secretive, meant to be understood by a few’, whereas its antonym ‘exoteric’ means ‘obviated’ or ‘suitable for external dissemination’.

In this miniseries we first explored what the term baloi really meant at the exoteric level, before we began to unearth the esoteric secrets of these much-misunderstood beings. And one question I posed was “If we one is yet to understand baloi (wizards, witches) at the exoteric level, then how will he or she even begin to grasp what they are at the esoteric level?”

What, essentially, are baloi at the exoteric level? These were simply ancient, pale-skinned people of highly-advanced technology which they kept to themselves to buttress their status as ‘the gud ones’ (‘the good/superior ones’…gud being the source of ‘god’).

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