There may be only a few people here who are initiated into the Esoterics of manners and manias, but how many good husbands, loving wives, and happy children are there among your rich!
"With Edge Tools"
Hobart Chatfield-Taylor
This was presently opened and they found themselves in an underground chamber, devoted to the mysteries of the worship of Serapis, in which the adepts were required to go through certain severe ordeals before they were esteemed worthy to be received into the highest order of the initiated-the Esoterics.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers