| The Conjure-Man Dies, generically and esoterically, presents demanding self-referential problems for the writer and the reader of such hermeneutic texts. |
| Leo Strauss taught that the major canonical writers, especially philosophers, wrote in two fashions within the same text, exoterically and esoterically. |
| Why write esoterically if one is obliged openly to announce the point of one's esotericism? |
| I admit that Leibniz treated the doctrine of eternal damnation very exoterically, and that esoterically he would have expressed himself altogether differently on the subject. |
| But the climbing of the sixth hill is esoterically considered difficult. |
| No doubt it also has an esoterically significant numerical value. |
