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Definition of Instinctual
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Instinctual
Literary usage of Instinctual
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. De Stijl Continued: The Journal Structure (1958-1964) an Artists' Debate by Jonneke Jobse (2005)
"He finds the instinctual representative of "animal nature", the intuitional ...
With it he was attempting to replace the biological instinctual link with a ..."
2. The Circle of Love by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (1999)
"In earlier times man's confrontation with the primal, instinctual world was
symbolized in Western mythology by the slaying of the dragon. ..."
3. The Theosophist by Theosophical Society (Madras, India) (1898)
"The two sub-planes of Mind are correspondingly the Intellectual and the instinctual.
Of these the Intellectual may rise up to the Intuitional, ..."
4. The Paradoxes of Love by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (1996)
"A man needs to transmute his instinctual power drive until it is surrendered ...
A woman's instinctual nature always connects her with the spiritual essence ..."
5. Love Is a Fire: The Sufi's Mystical Journey Home by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (2000)
"A man needs to transmute his instinctual power-drive until it is ... A 'woman's
instinctual nature always connects her with the spiritual essence of life, ..."
6. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1897)
"The instinctual consciousness of animals and idiots in its lowest degrees ...
Thus there are seven degrees from the instinctual animal to the rationalized ..."