Meaning of exoterism | Babel Free

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The outward forms that religion takes; the institutional aspects of faith and religion, such as rituals, moral precepts, and institutions.

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“1875. Gordon Campbell, Wilson Edward William Morrison, E B Iwan-Müller, Frederick Sanders Pulling, Francis Griffin Stokes, The Shotover Papers, Or, Echoes from Oxford, University of Oxford, page 73, It is not however easy -- perhaps it is impossible -- to reveal⟳ a discovery so wonderful by popular exoterism on the point⟳: posterity will amplify and expound in dry but acumonious logic what I have⟳ here only to put⟳ forth in its great Severity and Profundity.”

“1919. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science, The Aryan Theosophical Press⟳, page 535, The thought of the present-day commentator and critic as to the ancient learning, is limited to and runs round the exoterism of the temples...”

“2003. Reiner Schürmann, Reginald Lilly, Broken Hegemonies, Indiana University Press⟳, page 248, In their exoterism, they showed civic sense⟳ is most demanding.”

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