Spiritual Deists reject all divine revelation, religious dogma, and supernatural events and favor an ongoing personalized connection with the divine presence through intuition, communion with nature, meditation and contemplation.

Generally, Spiritual Deists reject the notion that God consciously intervenes in human affairs.

Because of this, Spiritual Deists are extremely welcoming and tolerant to all except dogma, demagoguery, and intolerance itself.

Therefore, most Spiritual Deists are more comfortable contemplating the universe as a mystery than they are in filling it with belief systems such as eternal reward, reincarnation, karma, etc.

* Some deists, usually referred to as Spiritual Deists, practice meditation and make frequent use of Affirmative Prayer, a non-supplicative form of prayer which is common in the New Thought movement.

In the 21st century, the more senior bishops of the Church of England continue to sit in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as representatives of the established church, and are known as Lords Spiritual.

Spiritual and philosophical institutions have been allowed to be established or re-established, as long they are not perceived to be a threat to the power of the CPC.

This is expressly denied by Covenant Theologians who claim the existence of a relationship via “ Spiritual Israel .” A dispensationalist would claim that none of the prophecies pertaining to Israel are or will be fulfilled in or by the New Testament Church.

Spiritual values are therefore worth striving for as they alone offer the soul, its ultimate freedom and stability.

Molokans ( Russian for " milk-drinkers ": молокане ) are sectarian Christians who evolved from " Spiritual Christian " Russian peasants that refused to obey the Russian Orthodox Church.

Though Molokans are somewhat similar to the European Quakers and Mennonites — for their pacifism, communal organization, spiritual meetings, and sub-groupings — they are ethnically much closer to Doukhobors and Sabbatarians ( Subbotniki ) because they evolved from the same Russian Spiritual Christian movement of Khristovers and Ikonobors ( icon-wrestlers ), and migrated together with some intermarriage.

The Olney Hymns are subdivided into three books: Book I, On Select Texts of Scripture ; Book II, On occasional Subjects ; and, Book III, On the Progress and Changes of the Spiritual Life.

Spiritual gifts are received as a result of the baptism with the Holy Spirit.

The balance are Lords Spiritual ( prelates of the Anglican Church ).

" Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop an individual's inner life.

Most recently, the last principle, adopted in 1985 and generally known as the Seventh Principle, " Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part ", and a sixth source ( adopted in 1995 ), " Spiritual teachings of earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature " were added to explicitly include members with Neopagan, Native American, and pantheist spiritualities.

Its nine members are elected every five years from the male membership in good standing of the world community by an electoral college consisting of all the members of each Bahá ' í National Spiritual Assembly throughout the world.

* Henry Constable's Spiritual Sonnetts are written.

Most of these are either part of the more traditional Old Believer movement, which arose from a schism within Russian Orthodoxy, or the more radical " Spiritual Christianity " movement.

In the meantime, he had composed a great part of his most famous poem Spiritual Canticle during this imprisonment ; his harsh sufferings and spiritual endeavours are then reflected in all of his subsequent writings.

Although his complete poems add up to fewer than 2500 verses, two of them — the Spiritual Canticle and The Dark Night of the Soul are widely considered masterpieces of Spanish poetry, both for their formal stylistic point of view and their rich symbolism and imagery.

The Spiritual Canticle is an eclogue in which the bride ( representing the soul ) searches for the bridegroom ( representing Jesus Christ ), and is anxious at having lost him ; both are filled with joy upon reuniting.

Students at the Spiritual University must conquer lust in order to go to Golden Age heaven on earth where children are created by power of mind for 2, 500 years of peace and purity ( like holy swan ).

Spiritual gifts are distinguished from other graces of the Holy Spirit, such as the fruit of the Spirit and the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit, in that the charismata are to be used for the benefit of others while the fruit of the Spirit and the Isaiahan gifts result in personal sanctification.

* 1965: Bill Bright writes Have you Heard of The Four Spiritual Laws ?, likely the most widely distributed religious booklet in history, with more than 2. 5 billion printed to date.

Its closest comparison to other Leeb / Fulber projects would likely be Future Primitives by Intermix, or Spiritual Archives or Stone Tower by Delerium.

Finally, Rollo founded the label Cheeky Records and has produced the music of other artists, most notably his sister Dido's albums, as well as using various monikers to create popular dance music under the names Rollo Goes … ( Camping, Mystic and Spiritual ), Felix, Our Tribe ( with Rob Dougan ), and Dusted.

The Wisdom Tree label resulted in Color Dreams ' best selling titles, including Spiritual Warfare and Bible Adventures.

In contrast, they called themselves " true Spiritual Christians ", rather than " milk-drinkers ", because they could not accept the Russian Orthodox Church, nor the Protestant sects or the Catholic Church.

Beatings, torture, kidnapping, imprisonment, banishment, dismembering, killing, and other forms of punishment were inflicted upon those called " Spiritual Christians ", as Molokan's called themselves.

In 1962 Remey asked his supporters in the United States to organize themselves and elect a " National Spiritual Assembly Under the Hereditary Guardianship " ( NSAUHG ), first elected in 1963.

In 1998, Kurzweil published The Age of Spiritual Machines, which focuses heavily on further elucidating his theories regarding the future of technology, which themselves stem from his analysis of long-term trends in biological and technological evolution.

or define themselves as Spiritual Feminists.

She also employed other mystical ascetic works such as the Tractatus de oratione et meditatione of Saint Peter of Alcantara, and perhaps many of those upon which Saint Ignatius of Loyola based his Spiritual Exercises and possibly the Spiritual Exercises themselves.

These members represented subjects of the Crown who were not Lords Temporal or Spiritual, who themselves sat in the House of Lords.

The Lords Spiritual at first declared themselves entirely outside the jurisdiction of secular authorities ; the question of trial in the House of Lords did not arise.

Despite the African influences, Spiritual Baptists consider themselves to be Christians.

“ Alexander of Hales ,” in The Spiritual Senses: Perceiving God in Western Christianity, edited by Paul L. Gavrilyuk and Sarah Coakley.

* Reverend Run, The ( with Taylor, Curtis L .), “ It ’ s Like That: A Spiritual Memoir ,” St. Martin ’ s Press, 2000.

The School of Spiritual Science was intended to have three “ classes ”, but only the first of these was developed in Steiner's lifetime.

All the texts relating to the “ School of Spiritual Science ” have been published in the full edition of Steiner's works.

* Keith Thomas: “ Spiritual magic or theurgy was based on the idea that one could reach God in an ascent up the scale of creation made possible by a rigorous course of prayer, fasting and devotional preparation .”

* Lindgren, Carl Edwin as “ Neophyte ” ( 1996 ) Spiritual Alchemists: Rosicrucians, the Brotherhood of Light Ars Latomorum Publications, New Orleans, Louisiana, ISBN 1-885591-18-7

Spiritualist organizations were formed in America and Europe, such as the London Spiritualist Alliance, which published a newspaper called The Light, featuring articles such as “ Evenings at Home in Spiritual Séance ”, “ Ghosts in Africa ” and “ Chronicles of Spirit Photography ”, advertisements for " mesmerists ” and patent medicines, and letters from readers about personal contact with ghosts.

In 1992, Dr. Ed Murphy wrote a modern 600 page book on the subject, “ The Handbook of Spiritual Warfare “, from the point of view of deliverance ministry.

Pope John Paul II stated, “ ‘ Spiritual combat ’… is a secret and interior art, an invisible struggle in which monks engage every day against the temptations ”.

Among his better known works are Sonetos espirituales 1914 – 1916 ( 1916 ; “ Spiritual Sonnets, 1914 – 15 ”), Piedra y cielo ( 1919 ; “ Stones and Sky ”), Poesía, en verso, 1917 – 1923 ( 1923 ), Poesía en prosa y verso ( 1932 ; “ Poetry in Prose and Verse ”), Voces de mi copla ( 1945 ; “ Voices of My Song ”), and Animal de fondo ( 1947 ; “ Animal at Bottom ”).

Spirituality – can refer to an ultimate or an alleged immaterial reality ; an inner path enabling a person to discover the essence of his / her being ; or the “ deepest values and meanings by which people live .” Spiritual practices, including meditation, prayer and contemplation, are intended to develop an individual's inner life ; spiritual experience includes that of connectedness with a larger reality, yielding a more comprehensive self ; with other individuals or the human community ; with nature or the cosmos ; or with the divine realm.

* Counterbalance Library: Bell Burnell talk “ Science and the Spiritual Quest ” ( 24 Minutes ) ( Accessed 7 April 2010 ).

Her arrival in Singapore had been preceded by an article in The Straits Times on 15 September 1950 under the heading “ A Woman With A Message ”. Through the efforts of Dr and Mrs Fozdar, by 1952 there were enough Baha ’ is in Singapore to form the first Local Spiritual Assembly.

“ Gwendolyn MacEwen and Female Spiritual Desire .” Canadian Poetry 28 ( 1991 ): 18-39.

Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening, published by SelectBooks in 2011, is billed as “ the most comprehensive overview of his teachings to date ”.

Zankou ’ s plan included placing high-level demons above ground in key positions in society ( such as judges, CEOs of major companies and politicians ), but his plan was dependent on one highly ambitious maneuver ; taking control of the Spiritual Nexus residing under the Halliwell Manor, a maneuver which called for the removal of the “ Good ” in the manor, meaning Zankou had to find a way of removing the sisters ' influence on the manor if he was to succeed in absorbing the Shadow of the Nexus without it destroying himself and his demon followers ( an example of this is when Zankou opened the Nexus after removing Phoebe and Paige, but instead of the Shadow entering him, it killed three of his demons.