anagogic
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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 Smith Ely Jelliffe
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 Smith Ely Jelliffe
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 Benedetto Croce
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 Smith Ely Jelliffe
Quite as clear as the nature myth purport, is the fact that we have a representation of regeneration, which is quite as conceivable in psychoanalytic as in anagogic explanation.
From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe
