superarcane

English

Alternative forms

• super-arcane

Etymology

super- +‎ arcane

Adjective

superarcane (comparative more superarcane, superlative most superarcane)

1. (rare) Beyond merely arcane; truly confidential.
   • 1800, Jacques-Paul Migne, Patrologiae Cursus Completus: Series Latina‎^[1], page 1113:

     Et superscdere vidit excelsissimas essentias, quantum in symbolis dicendum, post Deum,et circa Deum collocataset cum Deo; omnibus etiam ipsis superarcane sublimiorem superprincipalem sunun itatem in medio superfirmatarum virtutum supercollocatam.

   • 1987, Herbert Vighnāntaka Guenther, Creative Vision Symbolic Recreation of The World of Tantrik Realisation‎^[2], 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^[3], 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.