The anagogical level we suggest is probably the most abstract and impossible to see unless you read the entire Comedy.

But so far as they signify what relates to eternal glory, there is the anagogical sense.

The reaction to such anagogical thinking set in with the unfolding of critical scientific thought in the 17th century.

In this state, the literary structure points toward unification of all things in a single anagogical symbol.

A plot based on an anagogical allegory; a dreamer is introduced to heavenly Jerusalem.

It has three subdivisions: the allegorical, moral, and anagogical (meaning mystical or spiritual) senses.

They are literal, allegorical, moral, and anagogical.

In Judaism, anagogical interpretation is also evident in the medieval Zohar.

The anagogical interpretation includes eschatology and applies to eternity and the consummation of the world.

In that letter, Dante claims he wrote the Comedy with four intended levels of meaning: narrative, allegorical, moral, and anagogical.

Building on the allegorical sense, the moral sense instructs in regard to action, and the anagogical sense points to man's final destiny.

From early times there were developed four such senses: literal, allegorical, tropological and anagogical, the last three being seen as "spiritual senses".

Thus it was a medieval allegory work containing the four elements of allegory: literal, typological, moral, and anagogical.

The fourth type of interpretation is anagogical, dealing with the future events of Christian history, heaven, hell, the last judgment; it deals with prophecies.

Certain medieval theologians describe four methods of interpreting the Scriptures: literal/historical, allegorical, tropological (moral), and anagogical.

Berean Christadelphians sometimes use a method of Biblical interpretation which is highly anagogical, with a heavy emphasis on typology and conjectural exposition.

As they walked across the burning beach to the bungalow Poly murmured, "She's not an anthropomorphic dolphin, she's an anagogical dolphin."

This led to a "progressive understanding of the meanings of Scripture--literal, moral, allegorical, and anagogical"-that was contained within the mystical journey itself.

The last level was anagogical, whereby Ansai argued for the supremacy of the Japanese nation (relative to all others), using his own interpretations of Shinto texts.

There is also the literal, allusion-based and anagogical meanings of the text which are referred to as "Peshat", "Remez" and "Derash" respectively.

This was later broadened, especially by the medieval Scholastics, into the famous doctrine that Biblical passages had a 'fourfold sense' - the literal, moral, allegorical, and anagogical.

This anagogical use of language points to a realm of experience beyond that of its immediate field of reference, and draws on the alternative life-style of the contemplative.

Nicolas of Lyra's approach to explicating Scripture was firmly based on the literal sense, which for him is the foundation of all mystical or allegorical or anagogical expositions.

In this way the meditation instructor practises an "anagogical" regard - i.e., teaching which accompanies (agogy) the practitioner back or anew (ana-) to the honest textures of what is present.

A major theme of their studies was the anagogical relationship between the Divine and the Mundane, adopted by Pope Eugene IV in his 5.1.1435 bull declaring Roman supremacy.

The anagogic level of medieval allegory treated a text as expressing the highest spiritual meaning.

Finally, Frye proposes an anagogic phase wherein a symbol is treated as a monad.

Their magic is seemingly separate from the Gnostic and Anagogic types, as it cannot be perceived by the Few.

She wrote unusual prose and poetry, much of it published in her own magazine, the Anagogic & Paideumic Review.

There are two main types of magic used in the northern Three Seas: Gnostic and Anagogic.

The Imperial Saik - Anagogic School indentured to the Emperor of Nansur.

Anagogic Tyranny is an album by the Canadian technical death metal band Sympathy, released on November 11, 2008 on Bombworks Records.

Her reticence was more difficult to understand, but for all I knew, it was based on a dictum from National or arose from an anagogic rite of sisterhood.

Ciena was founded by David Huber, Kevin Kimberlin, and Optelecom to find ways to increase the capacity to design optical networking tech anagogic communication.

The Scarlet Spires - Anagogic School which is the most powerful in the Three Seas and de facto ruler of High Ainon since 3818.

Anagogic interpretation: dealing with the future events of Christian history(eschatology), heaven, purgatory, hell, the last judgement, the general resurrection and second Advent of Christ, etc. (prophecies).

'Post' as a way of thinking: Lyotard's third meaning of the post in postmodern is that it can mean thinking which is analytical, anamorphic, anamnetic and anagogic.

While Gnostic magic is largely forgotten (being the dominant art of the Ancient North, destroyed during the First Apocalypse), Anagogic magic is more widely studied among multiple schools.

Lord Satanus reveals that he used the war to spread a modified viral version of DMN, the anagogic drug he had once used to destabilize Metropolis and confound Superman.

The four methods of interpretation point in four different directions: The literal/historical backwards to the past, the allegoric forwards to the future, the tropological downwards to the moral/human, and the anagogic upwards to the spiritual/heavenly.

When the couple and their friends saw Hallett singing at the "B.B. Kings" lounge at Universal CityWalk, Whedon conceived of Lorne as an anagogic demon who reads the hearts and futures of his guests as they sing in his karaoke bar.

Little is known about the Metaphysics of Cishaurim sorcery, or the Psûkhe as the Cishaurim refer to it, beyond the fact that it cannot be perceived by the Few and that it is in many ways as formidable as the Anagogic sorcery of the Schools.

Lorne, the Host of the bar, is introduced - an Anagogic demon who can see into the hearts and read the future of those who sing, he tries to convince Angel to do a number, but Angel refuses, saying there are three things he never does: tan, date, and sing in public.