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spiritualize

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To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul.

To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; -- opposed to literalize.

To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

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In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixed-in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter. Eliphas Levi

Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives. Henry Reed

During his stay at the ashram he was spiritualized Source: Internet

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