"telestic" meaning in English

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          "text": "Orithya was the daughter of Erectheus, and the prieſteſs of Boreas; for each of the winds has a preſiding deity, which the teleſtic art, or the art pertaining to ſacred myſteries, religiouſly cultivates.",
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          "ref": "1992, Donna Tartt, The Secret History, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN:",
          "text": "He paused, and took a drink. ‘Do you remember last fall, in Julian’s class, when we studied what Plato calls telestic madness? Bakcheia? Dionysiac frenzy?’",
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