mystagogue

Teresa is another Moses for our time, a true mystagogue of the blessed and luminous darkness.

Augustine's Legitimation of Coercion in the Light of His Roles of Mediator, Judge, Teacher and Mystagogue".

I caught a Jackie Chan here, a Tsui Hark there, and cable TV yielded up oddities like Shaolin Kung-Fu Mystagogue. The films appealed to me as "pure cinema," popular fare that, like American Westerns and gangster movies of the 1930s, seemed to have an intuitive understanding of the kinetics of movies.

This leads to the decision of one group of OSs to bring back Alan Watts as the teacher best suited to help them with what they are going through--the right mystagogue for their moment.

The priest of Jesus Christ is, first and foremost, a mystagogue, one who bears the Mystery and initiates others into it.

functioning as a mystagogue) is strange, but attributes this to literary licence, suggesting that Asinius anticipates 'the final image of the bald-headed Lucius on the board of the college ofpastophori .' (46) Of course, if one views Asinius as an inadequate figure, then this identification becomes uncomplimentary for Lucius.

In The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche presents Socrates as the anti-Greek par excellence, calling him a "theoretical optimist" and a "mystagogue of science" (96).

Man's closest animal relative, the monkey has often assumed contradictory symbolic meanings, but this sage primate seems to resemble the Hermes like figure who, in the words of Chevalier, "initiates the quest for knowledge ..., a quest of which the goal is the 'Secret of the Universe....'" He is a "mystagogue standing, like Hermes, at the crossroads of the visible and the invisible." (4) Dominating the snake, having appropriated its sagacity, Bova's Snake Master is furthermore an allusion to the tragic Laocoon, overcome by sea serpents that subsequently crawl back to the altar of Athena, the goddess of wisdom.

The latter have long since carried the day against the allegorically credulous Graves and his ignorant or unscrupulous informant, the Sufi mystagogue votary Omar Ali-Shah.

(13) Eric Robertson Dodds traces to Iamblichus "the triadic scheme" enshrined in the system of Proclus, of monos, phrohodos, and epistrophe, that is, "the law of mean terms," and the more general principle it typifies, "the mirroring at successive levels of identical structures." He writes, too, that to Iamblichus, "Mystagogue and thaumaturgist that he was ...