anagogic
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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
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 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
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
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
