"exoterism" meaning in English

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          "text": "1919. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science, The Aryan Theosophical Press, page 535,\nThe thought of the present-day commentator and critic as to the ancient learning, is limited to and runs round the exoterism of the temples..."
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          "text": "2003. Reiner Schürmann, Reginald Lilly, Broken Hegemonies, Indiana University Press, page 248,\nIn their exoterism, they showed civic sense is most demanding."
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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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