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(32) Anagogically, the wolves might beckon apocalyptic imagery as enemies of the church paving the way to the eschaton with violence and treachery.

He was teaching and healing me anagogically. So was Dante.

readers to read emblematically and anagogically" (p.

This name is immediately followed by Youre names 1 entre heer in my rolle anon, entering not only his own name, but also youre names (the readers') (20) into his roll, or roster, as (and here is an aural pun signaled by heer) "a non" from the Latin nonnus, " a monk." The adept who has been able to appreciate t-t-t within that ook Right receives grace, qualifies as a spiritual religious person, and goes into the blisse of hevene (912), anagogically, that is.

Along the same lines, Scott asserts that this meal "functions anagogically, as does the sacrament of the Eucharist, an earthly reflection of the eternal Heavenly Banquet" (207).

Yet the relevance of that anagogically rich passage in Corinthians 13:12 becomes an obvious guiding principle for both Pearl and Faces: the Pearl Maiden claims that souls in heaven no longer see as in a glass, darkly (Pearl 859), and the passage from which the novel's title is taken directs us to that final end, until: "I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer.

(45) In the ninth century, Rabanus Maurus argued that allegorically Jerusalem could be understood as standing for the current church; tropologically it stood for the faithful soul, while anagogically it was the celestial home.

Hans-Georg Gadamer has gone so far as to suggest that the content of religious and ethical discourses is a mode of aesthetic knowledge of reality that is distinct from but no less "true" than scientific analysis; nature, he proposed, can rightly be read anagogically as well as analytically.

interpreted the espousal in the Song of Songs anagogically as the union

the Bible--literally, allegorically, morally, and anagogically. (11) In