mystagogue , auch: mystagog

This is what I call being a mystagogue.

A mystagogue or hierophant is a holder and teacher of secret knowledge in the second sense above.

Other early adopted words that still survive include mystagogue, from the 1540s, and androgyne, from the 1550s.

But in her dealings with social formulae here in England she is, it must frankly be said, a common mystagogue.

Accompanying the initiate is a mystagogue, who explains the symbolism and theology to the initiate.

Gladstone was a demagogue: Disraeli a mystagogue.

Augustine Mystic and Mystagogue.

The author "is less a mystery writer than he is a mystagogue," John Leonard said in The Times in 1981.

"The Mystagogue, the Gnostic Quest, the Secret Book" (Robert M. Price)

It is a divination which is being wrought and it is Silenus, first the pedagogue and then the mystagogue of Dionysus, by whom it is wrought.

Better yet, Albania"), and his supposed connection to their logic professor, Ilgauskas (a virile mystagogue given to whole-sentence pronouncements like "The causal nexus" and "The atomic fact").

The founder was successively a mystagogue, then a prophet, and the group was first based on a personal and prophetic charisma, then a sacramental charism, then a group charism.

During the early 2000s (decade), York presided Tama-Re styled as "Our Own Pharoah NETER A'aferti Atum-Re," leader and chief mystagogue of "The Ancient Egiptian Order."

Although List had been concerned "to awaken German nationalist consciousness", the High Armanen Order had addressed itself to the upper and middle class Germans in Austria, and here List had preferred the "role of the mystagogue" over political activism.

Writers such as Vincent Starrett and Carl Van Vechten, extolling the lyrical power of his prose, proclaimed him a mystagogue of the secrets of life and art in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne.