anagogic

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We recognize therefore the anagogic significance of the homunculus, the idea of which we found closely interwoven with alchemy in general.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely

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 Jelliffe, Smith Ely

Kawa Kendi, a man in early middle age, powerful and lithe-limbed, sat as motionless as the King, his father, staring, as did all, with the fixed stare of the anagogic.

From Witch-Doctors by Beadle, Charles

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

Therefore in the case of every symbolism tending to ethical development, the anagogic point of view must be considered, and most of all in religious symbolism.

From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Jelliffe, Smith Ely