exoteric

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As role model, sheds a dim light, His pick exoteric Gave us Bernie Kerik, Still ready, it seems, to incite.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2010

In solving this affair, the Bishop had recourse to the more exoteric passages of his criminal literature.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the exoteric doings of the human race were the following: Gilbert Murray.

From Time Magazine Archive

III, Mrs. Besant boldly states that, in regard to the Sections entitled "The Mystery of Buddha," there are "very numerous errors of fact, and many statements based on exoteric writings, not on esoteric knowledge"!

From H. P. Blavatsky A Great Betrayal by Cleather, Alice Leighton

He sees nothing but the exoteric side of the fable; the more instructed philosopher sees in it nothing beyond an attempt to weave a story to account for ordinary men and women existing.

From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Inman, Thomas