anagogic

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To the most general type belong then, without doubt, those symbols or frequently disguised images, concerning which we wondered before, that besides representing “titanic” tendencies, they are fitted to represent the anagogic.

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

Regarded from the point of view of knowledge, the formation of types reveals itself as a symbolic presentiment of an anagogic idea, not at first clearly conceivable.

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

Secondly, the question presents itself more particularly how can two so antithetic meanings as the psychoanalytic and the anagogic exist side by side.

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

Quite as clear as the nature myth purport, is the fact that we have a representation of regeneration, which is quite as conceivable in psychoanalytic as in anagogic explanation.

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