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  • The scheme of the Esoteric and the Exoteric is a sliding, self-lubricating, self-adjusting, non-copyrighted invention -- perfect in its workings -- that all wise theologians fall back upon in time of stress.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Elbert Hubbard 1885

  • Benkenmitsu nikkyôron (Treatise on the Differences Between Esoteric and Exoteric Teachings) around 814, and the so-called Sanbu-shô (“Three Writings”) of

    Laughter 2009

  • A.udei Kesef, Exoteric commentary on The Guide of the perplexed, in: A.udei Kesef u-Maskiyot Kesef, ed.S. A. Werbloner, Frankfurt a/M 1848.

    Joseph Kaspi Kasher, Hannah 2006

  • Believing that the earth was the only world, that it was a vast circular plane, and that it was the fixed and immovable center around which revolved the celestial luminaries, the ancient Astronomers, in conformity to the requirement of the doctrine of future rewards and punishments, as inculcated in the Egyptian Version of the Exoteric

    Astral Worship J. H. Hill

  • In imitation of the ancient mysteries they instituted lower and higher degrees; in the former they taught the Exoteric creed, and in the latter the Esoteric philosophy, as explained in our introduction.

    Astral Worship J. H. Hill

  • In determining the duration of the period within which were to occur the events taught in the doctrines of the Exoteric Creed, the ancient

    Astral Worship J. H. Hill

  • The apparent retreat of the sun from the earth, in winter, and his return in the spring, suggesting the idea of a figurative death and resurrection of the genius of that luminary, they applied these phenomena of the year to man, and composed the allegories relative to his fall and redemption, as inculcated in the Exoteric Creed.

    Astral Worship J. H. Hill

  • The bent of his mind was towards philosophical speculation, to which he had been attracted in his youthful studies of Scaliger's “Exoteric Exercises”.

    Kepler Bryant, Walter W 1920

  • Hence arose the Kiaumen or Exoteric branch of the system, and it was believed to hold the tradition of the words of the Buddha.

    The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908

  • So remember, if you buy him, one of him is called Esoteric, and the other Exoteric.

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 of Samosata Lucian 1895

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