anagogic

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And as a matter of fact the more developed forms permit a very much richer anagogic interpretation than the archaic.

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

We find it, for instance, in the criticism of Virgil, to whose work were attributed four distinct meanings: literal, allegorical, moral, and anagogic.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

The third meaning of this work of imagination lies in different relations half way between the psychoanalytic and the anagogic, and can, as alchemistic literature shows, be conceived as the bearer of the anagogic.

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

Therefore in the case of every symbolism tending to ethical development, the anagogic point of view must be considered, and most of all in religious symbolism.

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

If we wish to contrast their titanic with their anagogic aspect, we get approximately the following scheme, to which I add the familiar astrological characters of the seven planets.

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