Mystagogue

Quick meaning: Mystagogue is a noun meaning A person who prepares an initiate for entry into a mystery cult, or who teaches mystical doctrines.

Meaning

A person who prepares an initiate for entry into a mystery cult, or who teaches mystical doctrines.

Example Sentences

Philosophers themselves, the mystagogues in the temple of decorum, must approach it with reverence, and after all are allowed only to turn it aside a very little.

Yet again the thought of Death as the deliverer, the revealer, and the mystagogue, through whom the soul of man is reunited to the spirit of the universe, returns; and on this solemn note the poem closes.

There is an overruling destiny above us, though not in the sense in which it was viewed by that wretched man, who, beguiled by some foreign mystagogue, used the awful word as the ready apology for whatever he chose to do—we must examine the packet.

It's just because I have picked up a little about mystics that I have no use for mystagogues. Real mystics don't hide mysteries, they reveal them. They set a thing up in broad daylight, and when you've seen it it's still a mystery. But the mystagogues hide a thing in darkness and secrecy, and when you find it, it's a platitude.

Word Forms

• mystagogues
• mystagog
• mystagogus

Synonyms for mystagogue

Depending on context, synonyms include hierophant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mystagog, mystagogus, hierophant, mystic, mystificator, mysticist.

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