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Interpreter of religious doctrines
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mystagogue
Word definitions for mystagogue in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"person who initiates into mysteries," 1550s, from Latin mystagogus "a guide to the mysteries," from Greek mystagogos , from mystes "one initiated into the mysteries" (see mystery (n.1)) + agogos "leading, a leader" (see act (n.)). Related: Mystagogic ; ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A mystagogue (from "person who initiates into mysteries") is a person who initiates others into mystic beliefs, an educator or person who has knowledge of the sacred mysteries . Another word is hierophant . In ancient mystery religions , a mystagogue would ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mystagogue \Mys"ta*gogue\, n. [L. mystagogus, Gr. ?; ? one initiated in mysteries + ? leading, n., a leader, fr. ? to lead: cf. F. mystagogue. See 1st Mystery .] One who interprets mysteries, especially of a religious kind. One who keeps and shows church ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who prepares an initiate for entry into a mystery cult, or who teaches mystical doctrines 2 One who keeps and shows church relics.
Usage examples of mystagogue.
Unlike the religion of books or creeds, these mystic shows and performances were not the reading of a lecture, but the opening of a problem, implying neither exemption from research, nor hostility to philosophy: for, on the contrary, philosophy is the great Mystagogue or Arch-Expounder of symbolism: though the interpretations by the Grecian Philosophy of the old myths and symbols were in many instances as ill-founded, as in others they are correct.
Beau the renunciatory mystagogue, who whatever he was up to would not be occupied as Pierce was.
We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.
Gnostic societies, and the mystagogue was at once knowing one and priest, so also in the Catholic Church the priest is accounted the knowing one.
To Clement and Origen, however, teacher and mystagogue are as closely connected as they are to most Gnostics.
Naphta has something of the mystagogue about him, he interests me a good deal.
To teach us wisdom, and the folly of endeavoring to explain to ourselves that which we are not capable of understanding, we reproduce the speculations of the Philosophers, the Kabalists, the Mystagogues and the Gnostics.
He was clean-shaven, which was unusual for Jevlenese cult gurus and mystagogues, but the countenance thus displayed was perhaps even more striking.
Hear theories from internationally renowned mystagogues on why the hauntings continue to transpire.
The brown book is a collection of the myths of the past, and it has a section listing all the keys of the universeall the things people have said were The Secret after they had talked to mystagogues on far worlds or studied the popul vuh of the magicians, or fasted in the trunks of holy trees.
By chemical and mechanical secrets then in their exclusive possession, the mystagogues worked miracles before the astonished novices.
I saved it from the red-tape empire builders, the obscurantists, the mystagogues, the spies.
Unlike the religion of books or creeds, these mystic shows and performances were not the reading of a lecture, but the opening of a problem, implying neither exemption from research, nor hostility to philosophy: for, on the contrary, philosophy is the great Mystagogue or Arch-Expounder of symbolism: though the interpretations by the Grecian Philosophy of the old myths and symbols were in many instances as ill-founded, as in others they are correct.