superarcane

superarcane

English

Alternative forms

  • super-arcane

Etymology

From super- +‎ arcane.

Adjective

superarcane (comparative more superarcane, superlative most superarcane)

  1. (rare) Beyond merely arcane; truly confidential.
    • 1987, Herbert Vighnāntaka Guenther, Creative Vision Symbolic Recreation of The World of Tantrik Realisation[1], Lotsawa, →ISBN, page 119:
      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.
    • 2007, Butrus Abu-Manneh, Journal D'histoire Du Soufisme, Volume 5[2], Journal D'histoire Du Soufisme, page 210:
      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.