anagogic
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Secondly, the question presents itself more particularly how can two so antithetic meanings as the psychoanalytic and the anagogic exist side by side.
From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe
Regarded from the point of view of knowledge, the formation of types reveals itself as a symbolic presentiment of an anagogic idea, not at first clearly conceivable.
From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe
I have already spoken of the creations of the myth forming imagination and its anagogic import.
From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe
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 Smith Ely Jelliffe
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 Smith Ely Jelliffe
