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
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
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
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
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
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