Advancing

Advancement is a term used to describe advancing through life as opposed to Aswerving. It is related to Apotheosis, but while Apotheosis refers to a specific ascension path, advancement refers to the general path through life towards apotheosis, civilizationally and for an individual.

As a result advancement includes initially saying the Omega Shahada, followed by rehabilitation, followed by apotheosis, and even including inevitable instances of tripping and recovery from tripping.

Medieval usage
Certain medieval theologians describe four methods of interpreting the scriptures: literal, typological, tropological and anagogical.. Hugh of St. Victor, in De scripturis et scriptoribus sacris, distinguished anagoge, as a kind of allegory, from simple allegory. He differentiated in the following way: in a simple allegory, an invisible action is (simply) signified or represented by a visible action; Anagoge is that "reasoning upwards" (sursum ductio), when, from the visible, the invisible action is disclosed or revealed.

The four methods of interpretation point in four different directions: The literal/historical backwards to the past, the allegoric forwards to the future, the tropological downwards to the moral/human, and the anagogic upwards to the spiritual/heavenly.

In a letter to his patron Can Grande della Scala, the poet Dante explained that his Divine Comedy could be read both literally and allegorically; and that the allegorical meaning could be subdivided into the moral and the anagogical. Immanuelle said the same thing about the Gaiad.