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from The Century Dictionary.
- In an exoteric or public manner.
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One very important method, a priority – both esoterically and exoterically – is to prepare the way for Vindex: for an individual of Destiny who has the charisma to lead a practical revolt against the Magian.
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The commentator is for explaining the second line exoterically.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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On this question many of them have frequently said that it is the soul which, in such cases, changes its nature, and assumes the passions of animals into which, as is said exoterically, it transmigrates, though it does not enter into their bodies.
Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Th. Pascal
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This contradiction can be explained exoterically by saying that time and changed circumstances separate the two situations: having made the world perfect, God redeems it after it has become corrupt; and whereas all things are naturally good, they may by accident lose their excellence, and need to have it restored.
The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907
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The only God of the first Sam [= a] j; is a person; that of the reform is exoterically Nature.] [Footnote 110: But, as will be noticed in the four articles
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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Masonic Word of the Middle Ages, and was probably used, exoterically, for purposes of recognition among members of the Great Building
Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall Sydney T. Klein 1893
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The numerical majority of Christians -- the Greek and Roman Catholic -- are as much pagans as their ancestors, the ancient Greeks and Romans were exoterically.
Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer Charles Sotheran 1874
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Bible even exoterically declares that "the woman is the glory of the man."
The Woman's Bible Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1858
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Priest, not by word, yet by brain and sinew, preaches forth the mystery of Force; nay preaches forth (exoterically enough) one little textlet from the Gospel of Freedom, the Gospel of Man's Force, commanding, and one day to be all-commanding.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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So the instructions (exoterically) say: you should do this process during "the light of the fourteenth of the month."
Tikkun Magazine - Current Thinking Rabbi Michael Lerner 2010
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