anagogic

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The necessity of reckoning with an anagogic content of myths results from the fact that religions with their ethical valuations, have developed from mythical beginnings.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely

The ethically indifferent meaning of the tale alongside of the psychoanalytic and the anagogic corresponds to the chemical contents of the hermetic writings.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely

There are, however, others than the religiously inspired natures, who are preëminently endowed to produce suggestive symbol groups with anagogic value; the artists.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely

For example, I make no judgment on the degree of actuality in the anagogic symbolism of the parable.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely

The viewing of the exalted anagogic conception as a perspective vanishing point, makes allowance for the possible errors of superposition in the anagogic aspect of the elementary types.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely