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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

superarcane en · ADJ

Etymology

From super- + arcane.

Meanings

  1. (rare) Beyond merely arcane; truly confidential.
    • The way in which the Buddhists have understood such a reality, in terms of an external, internal, and arcane level of interpretation, to which often a superarcane level is added, stipulates a correspondence between these levels, which each have their own organization dynamics. 1987, Herbert Vighnāntaka Guenther, Creative Vision Symbolic Recreation of The World of Tantrik Realisation, Lotsawa, →ISBN, page 119:
    • Spirit (rüh), for example, is the experience of negating the attributes of self ; wayfaring in the mystery (sirr) is the annihilation fo one's personal essence In God's essence; wayfaring in the (khafi) differentating God from all other manifestations; and wayfaring in the superarcane (afka) is differentiating the creation from the Creator. 2007, Butrus Abu-Manneh, Journal D'histoire Du Soufisme, Volume 5, Journal D'histoire Du Soufisme, page 210:

Forms

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super-arcane alternative lexicographic
most superarcane Degree=Sup lexicographic
more superarcane Degree=Cmp lexicographic