telestic
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“Do you remember last fall, in Julian’s class, when we studied what Plato calls telestic madness? Bakcheia? Dionysiac frenzy?”
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Hence the whole of the telestic science energizing theurgically ascends as far as to this order.
From Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Thomas Taylor
"Plato expresses four kinds of Mania—Firstly, the musical; secondly, the telestic or mystic; thirdly, the prophetic; and fourthly, that which belongs to Love."—Preface to Zanoni.
From The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram
