Initiation into mysteries, or instruction preparatory to this; the practices or teachings of a mystagogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference

He did not know he was by his own boast a mesmerist and a mystagogue; a destroyer of reason and will; an enemy of truth and liberty.    From Wordnik.com.  [G.K. Speaks - The Bluff of the Big Shops] Reference

The largest and most valuable, had I been sensible of such things was a book of marvels by "the most miraculous mystagogue of nature": China monumentis, qua sacris quà profanis, nec non variis naturae & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata, by Athanasius Kircher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kitai] Reference

Perhaps they would have but for the definite pronouncement of the mystagogue G.B. Shaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned] Reference

Thus, with Piero for mystagogue, we enter an inner shrine of deep religious revelation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts] Reference

Carlyle is frequently called a "mystic," and mystagogue he certainly is -- a man who interprets mysteries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.] Reference

To Clement and Origen, however, teacher and mystagogue are as closely connected as they are to most Gnostics.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)] Reference

But in her dealings with social formulæ here in England she is, it must frankly be said, a common mystagogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Things Considered] Reference

He had none of the airs of mystagogue, but talked to men, as he did to beasts, in the speech which was habitual to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution] Reference

But the mystagogue succeeds because he gets himself misunderstood; although, as a rule, he is not even worth misunderstanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Things Considered] Reference

Nevertheless he was no anarchist and no mystagogue; and even where he was defective, his defect has commonly been stated wrongly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Victorian Age in Literature] Reference

We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Bernard Shaw] Reference

‘He’s a mystagogue,’ said Father Brown, with innocent promptitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Father Brown] Reference

There is an overruling destiny above us, though not in the sense in which it was viewed by that wretched man, who, beguiled by some foreign mystagogue, used the awful word as the ready apology for whatever he chose to do — we must examine the packet.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Abbot] Reference

I’ll take on that chap. For it was in the back of their mind’s ear, temptive lissomer, how they would be spreading in quadriliberal their azurespotted fine attractable nets, their nansen nets, from Matt Senior to the thurrible mystagogue after him and from thence to the neighbour and that way to the puisny donkeyman and his crucifer’s cauda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

Æschines as mystagogue, 1099 n.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference

This is what I call being a mystagogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Things Considered] Reference

Gregorovius, as cicerone and mystagogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Calabria] Reference

Gladstone was a demagogue: Disraeli a mystagogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Things Considered] Reference