Intellectual Reference Point Restoration
The esoteric tradition is also intuitive, focusing on our subtle, inner worlds, rather than our obvious outer one. It believes in a living, organic, spiritual, even conscious universe, rather than a dead, mechanical, oblivious one. It is also concerned more with the whole than with the part, with the “correspondences” between things—the “network of connections that links everything with everything else”—than with what separates them.
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World