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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Virgil, in his description, in the �neid, of the Mysteries, confines himself to the exoteric teaching. �neas, having passed over the Stygian lake, meets with the three-headed Cerberus.

From The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Wright, Dudley

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