ABSTRACT
ANAGOGY LIKE allegory had more than one aspect. The word was applied to the whole purpose of symbolism – a lifting up of the heart and mind from earthly things to things heavenly, symbolice et anagogice – symbolically and anagogically. As Durandus explained, ‘Anagogy is spoken as ana meaning up and gogy meaning a leading (ductio). So the anagogic sense (sensus anagogicus) is spoken of as that which leads from the visible to the invisible.’ 1 The word was also used to describe the content of the heavenly vision which in the case of anagogy was the goal of the Christian, the heavenly Jerusalem, and eternal communion with God which was the Christian hope – quid speres anagogia.
