Being less encumbered by material embodiments they partake more of what is divine.

Being convinced that salvation is alone by accepting Christ as Saviour, and being convicted by the Holy Spirit of my lost condition, I do repent of all effort to be saved by any form of good works, and just now receive Jesus as my personal Saviour and salvation as a free gift from Him.

Being a dimensionless fraction, it may also be expressed as a percentage, and is measured on a scale from zero for no reflecting power of a perfectly black surface, to 1 for perfect reflection of a white surface.

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.

Being now master of the empire, he is said to have abandoned himself to a life of debauchery.

Being a protective encasement with at least one gun position, it is essentially a pillbox or small fortress ( though these are static fortifications of a purely defensive nature ) that can move toward the enemy-hence its offensive utility.

Being a monarchical state, with its roots invested in Colonial England, black letter law is that which is a term used to describe basic principles of law that are accepted by the majority of judges in most provinces and territories.

Being is an extremely broad concept encompassing subjective and objective features of reality and existence.

In a single sentence, parallel to Aristotle's statement asserting that being is substance, St. Thomas pushes away from the Aristotelian doctrine: " Being is not a genus, since it is not predicated univocally but only analogically.

This comparison is the basis of his Analogy of Being.

" The words " Is, or Bee, or Are, and the like " add no meaning to an argument nor do derived words such as " Entity, Essence, Essentially, Essentiality ", which " are the names of nothing " but are mere " Signes " connecting " one name or attribute to another: as when we say, A man, is, a living body, wee mean not that the Man is one thing, the Living Body another, and the Is, or Being another: but that the Man, and the Living Body, is the same thing ;...." " Metaphysiques ," Hobbes says, is " far from the possibility of being understood " and is " repugnant to naturall Reason.

Being to Hobbes ( and the other empiricists ) is the physical universe: The world, ( I mean ... the Universe, that is, the whole masse of all things that are ) is corporeall, that is to say, Body ; and hath the dimension of magnitude, namely, Length, Bredth and Depth: also every part of Body, is likewise Body ... and consequently every part of the Universe is Body, and that which is not Body, is no part of the Universe: and because the Universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing ; and consequently no where.

In calling his work Being and Nothingness an " essay in phenomenological ontology " Jean-Paul Sartre follows Heidegger in defining the human essence as ambiguous, or relating fundamentally to such ambiguity.

Monistic theism, which includes the concept of a personal god as a universal, omnipotent Supreme Being who is both immanent and transcendent, is prevalent within many other schools of Hinduism as well.

There is also a distinct order to the process of creation, from earth to plants to animal, which evokes the concept of The Great Chain of Being.

*" Complaint of the Absence of Her Lover Being upon the Sea " set to music From the 1990 concept album “ Tyger and Other Tales ”

Being deeply structural, his concept involves both constraint and enablement.

The concept grew out of Tennov's mid-1960s work, when she interviewed over 500 people on the topic of love, and was first published in her 1979 book Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love.

From the ancient Greeks until the work of Carolus Linnaeus ( also known as Carl Linnaeus, or Carl von Linné ) and other 18th century naturalists, the main concept of natural history was the scala naturae or Great Chain of Being, a conceptual arrangement of minerals, vegetables, more primitive forms of animals, and more complex life forms on a linear scale of increasing " perfection ", culminating in our species.

The American spiritual writer and philosopher Ken Wilber uses a concept called " Great Nest of Being " which is similar to the Great chain of being and which he claims to belong to a culture-independent " perennial philosophy " traceable across 3000 years of mystical and esoteric writings.

Michael King, a leading writer on Pākehā identity, discussed the concept of distinct Pākehā practices and imaginations in his books Being Pākehā ( 1985 ) and Being Pākehā Now ( 1999 ), and the edited collection, Pakeha: The Quest for Identity in New Zealand ( 1991 ), conceptualising Pākehā as New Zealand's " second indigenous " culture.

Bektashism places much emphasis on the concept of Wahdat-ul-Wujood وحدة الوجود, the " Unity of Being " that was formulated by Ibn Arabi.

Being a thought proposition is not a part of the concept of a truth in itself, notwithstanding the fact that, given God ’ s omniscience, all truths in themselves are also thought truths.

In Being and Time Martin Heidegger argues that the concept of time prevalent in all Western thought has largely remained unchanged since the definition offered by Aristotle in the Physics.

One concept, that of Christian Western Europe, conceived of the races as constituting a hierarchical chain of life known as the Great Chain of Being, which was believed to have been created by God, in which the people thought the Christian European races were closest to God in perfection.

When she cracked the IRS database before her release from the Matrix, she chose the alias of Trinity as a hacker, to imply that she is as enigmatic as trying to grasp the concept of a " Three-In-One Being.

In other words, whereas Heidegger calls the being of persons ' Dasein ', he determines ' Being in itself ' to be at the same time the most vague and general concept possible to contemplate, but also the topic of greatest interest to him as a philosopher.

For example, the notion of Pure Being for Hegel was the most abstract concept of all.

It is a fundamental concept in the existential philosophy of Martin Heidegger particularly in his magnum opus Being and Time.

Heidegger used the concept of Dasein to uncover the primal nature of " Being " ( Sein ).

Being an expression is a syntactic concept ; although different mathematical fields have different notions of valid expressions, the values associated to variables does not play a role.

A common rebuttal to Kant's critique is that although ' existence ' does add something to both the concept and the reality of God as the concept would be vastly different if its referent was an unreal Being.

Hegel then links this final absolute idea with the simple concept of Being which he introduced at the start of the book.

The central Husserlian concept of the directedness of all thought — intentionality — for example, while scarcely mentioned in Being and Time, has been identified by some with Heidegger's central notion of " Sorge " ( Cura, care or concern ).

Being politically and geographically inclusive and leaving at the same time space for diversity, this historical vision filled the needs of Dutch nation-building and integration in the 1890-1914 era.

At about the same time, the nominalist philosopher William of Ockham argued, in Book I of his Summa Totius Logicae ( Treatise on all Logic, written some time before 1327 ), that Categories are not a form of Being in their own right, but derivative on the existence of individuals.

It appeared an unworthy thing that in the celebration of this most holy feast we should follow the practice of the Jews ... For we have it in our power, if we abandon their custom, to prolong the due observance of this ordinance to future ages by a truer order ... For their boast is absurd indeed, that it is not in our power without instruction from them to observe these things .... Being altogether ignorant of the true adjustment of this question, they sometimes celebrate Passover twice in the same year.

Unlike his 24 foot statue in the Festival of the Supreme Being, he was now the same size as Liberty and Equality.

" John Lennon borrows these same words as lyrics for The Beatles song, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

Being an individual man is a thing that has been abolished, and every speculative philosopher confuses himself with humanity at large ; whereby he becomes something infinitely great, and at the same time nothing at all.

Although the Sikhs have many names for God, some derived from Islam and Hinduism, they all refer to the same Supreme Being.

Being based on 2 < sup > 10 </ sup > (), these are of comparable size to the metric prefixes and have traditionally shared the same names.

Being a rather neutral grape, Australian winemakers first approached Chardonnay in the same manner they were making wine from the similarly neutral Sultana grape.

Being part of a sedimentary or metamorphic rock, fossils undergo the same diagenetic processes as that rock.

When it is realized that what is coming into being is, at the same time, also returning to nothing ( in life, for example, one's living is also a dying ), both Being and Nothing are united as Becoming.

Her post-war theatre credits included Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest again at the Haymarket Theatre in 1946 and Lady Bracknell when the same play transferred to New York in 1947.

To celebrate National Coming Out Day on October 11, 2002, Human Rights Campaign released an album bearing the same title as that year's theme: Being Out Rocks.

The same author goes on by giving other philosophical writings which are totally compatible with the religion of Islam, as the al-Risālah fil-wujūd (, " Treatise on Being "), written in Arabic, which begin with Quranic verses and asserting that all things come from God, and there is an order in these things.

In the same year, she portrayed Cecily in the comedy The Importance of Being Earnest, a movie adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde ; she received a Teen Choice Award nomination for her performance.

Being an extension of Ṛta, Karma was conceived of as operating with the same absolute efficiency.

During the same visit to Knole Park, Goldman produced the promotional film for " Penny Lane ", the reverse side of the " Strawberry Fields Forever " single ( during this same stay in Sevenoaks, John Lennon wandered into an antiques gallery and purchased the poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal that would inspire the song " Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite !").

Being unable to speak the same language as his father naturally hindered their relationship.

During this same year, the Maharishi finished his book The Science of Being and Art of Living, which sold more than a million copies and was published in fifteen languages.

Being so closely associated with The Beatles, Black became one of a select group of artists in the 1964-5 period ( the others in the same position being Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas and Peter and Gordon ) to record more than one Lennon – McCartney composition.

Being and Nothingness has been compared to Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind by Iris Murdoch, who writes that continental philosophy shares the same general orientation as English analytic philosophy.

A few years later, in " A Child is Being Beaten " ( 1919 ), Freud laid greater stress on the fact that perversions ' go through a process of development, that they represent an end-product and not an initial manifestation ... that the sexual aberrations of childhood, as well as those of mature life, are ramifications of the same complex ' - the Oedipus complex.