supramundane

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Several of his supramundane gambits made copy for newsmen of the 1860s.

From Time Magazine Archive

Usually they have a definite object and, though ceremonies for the attainment of material blessings are not wanting, this object is most frequently supramundane, such as the fabrication of a body in the heavenly world.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

In his hesitation he was apt to turn to that only portion of his religion which had the attraction that myth possesses—- the introduction into a supramundane and superhuman world of a quasi-human element.

From Ancient Egypt by Rawlinson, George

The objects of religious knowledge have no history or rather, and this is a genuinely Gnostic and Neoplatonic idea, they have only a supramundane one.

From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil

So it is impossible to rise to the supramundane life, in so far as it does not happen by means of nature.

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