Numbering in the thousands, Divine Assassins are dead flesh, processed by the Divine Order's " Bio-Scholars " under the direct supervision of the Grand Bio-Vizier.

As a result, Divine Assassins are very nearly indestructible.

When a Divine Assassin is no longer needed or fails to behave as expected, His Shadow calls on a special subset of Divine Assassins called Divine Executioners.

Divine Executioners are far more deadly than regular Divine Assassins.

As Kai said, " If Divine Assassins are Death incarnate, then Divine Executioners are the Apocalypse made flesh.

An interesting paradox develops here because Divine Assassins are designed to be immortal, to always survive, a concept developed in episode 18 of season 4, " The Game.

And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace.

" Of the scholastics he says :" Yet they will have us beleeve, that by the Almighty power of God, one body may be at one and the same time in many places problem of the universals ; and many bodies at one and the same time in one place whole and the parts ; ... And these are but a small part of the Incongruencies they are forced to, from their disputing philosophically, in stead of admiring, and adoring of the Divine and Incomprehensible Nature ...."

Under Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, Roman Catholic bishops, priests, and deacons are again permitted to use the 1962 edition of the Roman Breviary, promulgated by Pope John XXIII to satisfy their obligation to recite the Divine Office every day.

Considerable fragments of two other works, On Providence and Divine Manifestations, are preserved in the early medieval encyclopedia, the Suda.

According to Christian writers, most notably Paul, the Bible teaches that people are, in their current state, sinful, and the New Testament reveals that Jesus is both the Son of man and the Son of God, united in the hypostatic union, God the Son, God made incarnate ; that Jesus ' death by crucifixion was a sacrifice to atone for all humanity's sins, and that acceptance of Jesus as Savior and Lord saves one from Divine Judgment, giving Eternal life.

Although love is central to both Christianity and Judaism, literary critic Harold Bloom ( in his Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine ) argues that their notions of love are fundamentally different.

Divine representations of the Cernunnos type are exceptions to the often-expressed view that the Celts only began to picture their gods in human form after the Roman conquest of Gaul.

Divine things are regarded as eternal and based in truth, while material things are regarded as ephemeral and based in illusion.

* Divine force or power-powers or forces that are universal, or transcend human capacities

Unforeseeable, overwhelming, or seemingly unjust events are often thrown on ' the will of the Divine ', in deferences like the Muslim inshallah (' as God wills it ') and Christian ' God works in mysterious ways '.

There are, however, certain esoteric and mystical schools of thought, present in many faiths — Sufis in Islam, Gnostics in Christianity, Advaitan Hindus, Zen Buddhists, as well as several non-specific perspectives developed in new age philosophy — which hold that all humans are in essence divine, or unified with the Divine in a non-trivial way.

It treats of the incarnation of the Divine Logos, and its contents are in many cases identical with the Demonstratio evangelica.

In Book III of The Divine Institutes Lactantius ridicules the notion that there could be inhabitants of the antipodes " whose footsteps are higher than their heads ".

* In Dante Alighieri's Inferno ( which is part of the Divine Comedy series ), Hector and his family are placed in Limbo, the outer circle wherein the virtuous non-Christians dwell.

The two most famous descriptions of Heaven are given in Dante Alighieri's Pardiso ( of the Divine Comedy ) and John Milton's Paradise Lost.

All Orthodox authorities, however, agree that only later Rabbinical interpretations are subject to reconsideration, and hold that core sources of Divine written and oral law, such as the Torah the Mishnah and the Talmud, cannot be overridden.

The most usual stress schemes for the Italian hendecasyllable are stresses on sixth and tenth syllables ( for example, " Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita ," Dante Alighieri, first line of The Divine Comedy ), and on the fourth, seventh and tenth syllables (" Un incalzar di cavalli accorrenti ," Ugo Foscolo, Dei sepolcri ).

The terms hesychia and Hesychast are used quite systematically in the Ladder of Divine Ascent of St John of Sinai ( 523 – 603 ) and in Pros Theodoulon by St Hesychios ( c.

Hesychasts are fully integrated into the liturgical and sacramental life of the Orthodox Church, including the daily cycle of liturgical prayer of the Divine Office and the Divine Liturgy.

However, Hesychasts who are living as hermits might have a very rare attendance at the Divine Liturgy ( see the life of Saint Seraphim of Sarov ) and might not recite the Divine Office except by means of the Jesus Prayer ( attested practice on Mt Athos ).

His Divine Shadow ( also known simply as His Shadow ) is a fictional character in the TV series Lexx.

Jack Shaftoe ( also known, at various points, as King of the Vagabonds, L ' Emmerdeur, Half-Cocked Jack, Quicksilver, Ali Zaybak, Sword of Divine Fire, and Jack the Coiner ) is one of the three primary fictional characters in Neal Stephenson's 2, 686-page, Clarke Award-winning epic trilogy, The Baroque Cycle.

With many appearances on television, film and stage, Elliott is best known for her longtime portrayal of fictional character Renée Divine Buchanan on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live, a role she has played in extended stints off-and-on during every year between 1987 and 2011.

Many " fictional " works of travel literature are based on factual journeys – Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and presumably, Homer's Odyssey ( c. 8th century BCE ) – while other works, though based on imaginary and even highly fantastic journeys – Dante's Divine Comedy, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Voltaire's Candide or Samuel Johnson's The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia – nevertheless contain factual elements.

In addition, Katherine is one of the few fictional texts that include writings by the Blessed Julian of Norwich, a character in the novel, who is considered one of England's greatest mystics and whose Revelations of Divine Love was the first book written in English by a woman.

The Divine Order is a fictional religion in Lexx, created by the last of the Insect Civilization as a means of controlling the human population of the Light Universe, and ultimately to use them to destroy themselves ( since as stated by His Divine Shadow, being the last of the insects, he alone could not destroy all of humanity ).

In 1969, soon after the production of The Diane Linkletter Story, Waters began filming a full-length motion picture, Mondo Trasho, which starred Divine as one of the main characters, a " portly blonde bombshell " who drives around town and runs over a hitchhiker.

Divine also played his first on-screen male role, Earl Peterson, in the film, and Waters included a scene during which these two characters had sexual intercourse as a joke on the fact that both characters were played by the same actor.

To help publicize these singles, which proved to be successful in many discos across the world, Divine went on television shows like Good Morning America as well as a series of tours in which he combined his musical performances with comedic stunts and routines that often played up to his characters ' stereotype of being " trashy " and outrageous.

* At one point, the characters discuss the possibility that the release of the film Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood shortly before the plague may have caused a massive " death-by-chick-flick.

The poet emphasizes the mental struggles of Sarah, the resignation of Abraham to the Divine will, the anxious forebodings of Isaac, and the affectionate sympathy of the servants, in other words, a psychological analysis of the characters.

* Igunis, known as the Divine Destroyer, is one of the magic swords that are used by the characters in the game.

Alternatively, in the words of the Darqawi Sufi teacher Ahmad ibn Ajiba, " a science through which one can know how to travel into the presence of the Divine, purify one's inner self from filth, and beautify it with a variety of praiseworthy traits ".

The VALIS trilogy is a " trilogy " of science fiction novels by author Philip K. Dick which include VALIS ( 1978 ), The Divine Invasion ( 1980 ), and The Owl in Daylight ( unfinished / unpublished ).

Impartial enough to accord to childlike faith its full rights, Ibn Daud desires also to defend the rights of reason, and, consequently, resists with the utmost energy any attempt to set bounds to science ; regarding this as a culpable encroachment upon the plan of the Divine Ruler, who did not endow man with the faculty of thought without intent.

* Complete text of Lanz von Liebenfels ' Theozoology or the science of the Sodomite Apelings and the Divine Electron in English at archive. org

* Complete text of Lanz von Liebenfels ' Theozoology or the science of the Sodomite Apelings and the Divine Electron in German at archive. org

The Divine Invasion is a BSFA Award nominated 1981 science fiction book by Philip K. Dick.

William Denovan ( 1889 ) wrote in Mind: " The highest stage of his revelation might be denominated Theophysics, or the science of Divine purpose in creation.