supersensible

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The best way to save America, concludes Canon Bell, is to raise up an elite, "servants of supersensible purpose," who will help the Common Man to perceive "what the good life is."

From Time Magazine Archive

They had no knowledge of the supersensible, no suspicion of the ideal.

From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Saltus, Edgar

Moreover, Proteus and Eidothea represent the two sides, the supersensible and the sensible, the latter of which must be transcended and the former grasped, ere return be possible.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques

Whether there be a spiritual universe answering to our conception, a Being justifying reason's idea of supreme unity, a soul that can exist in an eternal, supersensible world, are questions the philosopher declined to discuss.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

Truly one of the earliest needs of the human soul is this striving to find and to shadow forth in mythical outlines the realm of the supersensible.

From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques