anagogic
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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
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 anagogic interpretation is indeed a prospective explanation in the sense of an ethical advance.
From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely
What I have already taken from the anagogic fairy tale interpretation as a symbol of introversion shows, of course, also the character of intro-determination.
From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely
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 Jelliffe, Smith Ely
