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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Exoteric doctrines or principles, or the profession or teaching of such.

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  • noun Used with or without an article The quality of being widely known or exoteric.

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  • It is these elements, not the soul, that pass over into animal bodies, and, contrary to the opinions set forth in Egyptian exotericism, it is to the interest of the soul to free itself from terrestrial attraction and from its kâmic (astral) vehicle, and not to remain bound down to earth.

    Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Th. Pascal

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