The study, theory, or practice of anagogic interpretation; the body of knowledge about spiritual and mystical readings of texts.
Formed by adding the suffix '-ics' to 'anagogic,' a pattern that creates nouns referring to academic disciplines or systems of knowledge (like physics, mathematics, ethics). This nominalization transforms the adjective into an abstract noun.
Just as 'mathematics' is the study of numbers and 'ethics' is the study of morality, 'anagogics' would be the entire medieval scholarly field dedicated to finding heaven-pointing meanings in sacred texts—a discipline that shaped centuries of interpretation.
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