anagogic

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As has been shown by two fairy tales and as I could have abundantly shown from countless others, the psychoanalytic and the anagogic interpretations are possible alongside of the scientific.

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

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

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 Jelliffe, Smith Ely

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 Jelliffe, Smith Ely

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 Jelliffe, Smith Ely