ANAGOGE

'Anagoge' is the spiritual interpretation or application of literal statements or events, especially the Scriptures.
Theologians describe five methods of interpreting the Scriptures: literal, historical, moral, allegorical and anagogical. Hugh of St. Victor, in ''De scripturis et scriptoribus sacris'', distinguished anagoge from allegory. The latter is when a visible fact is signified by another visible fact. Anagoge, on the other hand, is ‘leading above,’ when by a visible fact an invisible is declared.