supersensible

He has more need than his fathers had of those supersensible principles which give order and meaning to sensible facts.

So Homer makes the Hero transcend life as it were, during life; and extend his wanderings into the supersensible world.

We feel in these dark Cimmerian limits his wrestle to pass over to the supersensible by thought.

He has to express himself in images taken from the sensible world, even while pushing them beyond into the supersensible.