At work in the poems of Milton and Aeschylus, for example, as well as in Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, is a fatherlike figure that Bodkin identifies as the Divine Despot ( Bodkin 1934: 250 ; cited in Allgaier 1973: 1036 ).

Heaven, Hell, and the Divine Despot may descend to earth and have offspring in the Hamlet theme which involves a child's " ambivalent attitude " toward its parents and off of which are spun such variants as Oedipus and Orestes ( Bodkin 1934: 11-15, cited in Williams 1973: 221 ), or all may remain at the divine level, as in the situation with Milton's God and Satan, or Aeschylus's Zeus and Prometheus:

One problem noted with this approach is that there seems to be no fixed basis on deciding what God is not, unless the Divine is understood as an abstract experience of full aliveness unique to each individual consciousness, and universally, the perfect goodness applicable to the whole field of reality.

The son of man figure within the book of Daniel seems based on the Divine figure presented in the Merkabah of the book of Ezekiel.

In the above formulation, a problem emerged, which is rendering something obligatory on the Divine being — something that seems to directly conflict with Divine omnipotence.

However, it seems fitting that Mary's body, which was by nature mortal, should be, in conformity with that of her Divine Son, subject to the general law of death ".

Although it is worth mentioning that Augustine also said " a law that is not just, seems to be no law at all " and Thomas Aquinas indicated laws " opposed to the Divine good " must not be observed.

If God commands the High Priest to enter the Holy of Holies and confront the Divine Presence in simple white linen garments, it seems fitting to do the same when preparing someone to meet their Maker.

What they view as the problem comes in with the Sefer ha-Bahir and the Zohar, where the Sefirot have become hypostatized as Divine attributes or emanations, and it seems that religious devotions can never be addressed directly to the En Sof ( the Absolute ) but only through one or other of the Sefirot ; and in modern Edot ha-Mizrach prayer books each occurrence of the Divine Name is vocalized differently in a kind of code to show which Sefirah one should have in mind.

In the braying contest that follows, there is a noise that seems to come " from the deep Divine ;/ There Webster!

This arrangement seems successful to Lady Divine's lover, Mr. David ( David Lochary ), until Lady Divine becomes bored with the routine, and decides to murder the patrons rather than merely robbing them.

She never married and seems to have been the first of the celibate holders of the office of Divine Adoratrice of Amun, as he stipulated along with the new tradition that she would adopt the daughter of the succeeding pharaoh as her successor at the end of his reign in order to facilitate the transition to the next pharaoh.

Also the book seems to stress that all texts and scriptures are true and have a share about the truth of the Divine.

This code, entitled " Articles, Lawes, and Orders Divine, Politique, and Martiall " ( popularly known as Dale's Code ), was notable for its pitiless severity, and seems to have been prepared in large part by Dale himself.

In Sahih Al-Muslim and Al-Bukhari, Prophet Muhammad explains, " It ( Al-Iman / faith ) is to affirm your faith in God, His angels, His Books His Messengers and the Last Day, and to believe in the Divine Destiny whether it be good or bad.

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.

* 1946 – Father Divine, a controversial religious leader who claims to be God, marries the much-younger Edna Rose Ritchings, a celebrated anniversary in the International Peace Mission movement.

Certain high church services and other musical events in liturgical churches ( such as the Roman Catholic Mass and the Lutheran Divine Service ) may be a cappella, a practice remaining from apostolic times.

In the world to come there shall be neither eating nor drinking, neither trading nor toil, neither hatred nor envy ; but the righteous shall sit with crowns upon their heads, and rejoice in the radiance of the Divine Presence ".

In Gandhi ’ s thought, ahimsa precludes not only the act of inflicting a physical injury, but also mental states like evil thoughts and hatred, unkind behavior such as harsh words, dishonesty and lying, all of which he saw as manifestations of violence incompatible with ahimsa. Gandhi believed ahimsa to be a creative energy force, encompassing all interactions leading one's self to find satya, " Divine Truth ".

" 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 ...."

An Act of Parliament passed in the year 1563, entitled “ An Act for the Translating of the Bible and the Divine Service into the Welsh Tongue ,” ordered that the Old and New Testament, together with the Book of Common Prayer, were to be translated into Welsh.

Divine — capitalized — may be used as an adjective to refer to the manifestations of such a Divinity or its powers: e. g. " basking in the Divine presence ..."

Paul was so sure of his spiritual authority in issuing this only nominally " voluntary " request that he was convinced that his own imprisonment would be dissolved via Divine intervention.

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 ".

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 dissenters, who included Rabbi Joel Roth as well as a partial concurrence by Rabbi Daniel Nevins, argued for reaffirming the classical halakhic framework in which human decrees inform and often limit but never wholly abrogate law believed to be of Divine origin, stating that " we should acknowledge that God's law is beyond our authority to eliminate ", but should continue the traditional approach of applying strict evidentiary rules and presumptions that tend to render enforcement unlikely.

" It may be a contraction of a larger form of which the Divine name or its abbreviation formed a part, so as to signify " God is help ," or " Help, God.

The Harmonites named their third and last town Economy, after the spiritual notion of the Divine Economy, “ a city in which God would dwell among men ” and where perfection would be attained.

In contrast to other branches of Christianity, Mormon theology considers God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit to be three separate gods united in will and purpose, ( see social trinitarianism ) as opposed to the orthodox view of three hypostases sharing in one Divine nature or essence ( ousia ), with the three members of the Godhead co-eternal and co-equal, together adored ( worshiped, given latria ) and glorified.

In January 1947, Nehru said that independent India would not accept the Divine Right of Kings, and in May 1947, he declared that any princely state which refused to join the Constituent Assembly would be treated as an enemy state.

**** Divine command theory holds that for a thing to be right is for a unique being, God, to approve of it, and that what is right for non-God beings is obedience to the divine will.

Like Ideal Observer Theory, Divine Command Theory purports to be universalist despite its subjectivism.

Dixit attended Divine Child High School and Mumbai University and studied to be a microbiologist.

Yet, since human reason could not fully comprehend the Eternal law, it needed to be supplemented by revealed Divine law.

In this view, Orthodox Judaism can “ be enriched ” by its intersection with modernity ; further, “ modern society creates opportunities to be productive citizens engaged in the Divine work of transforming the world to benefit humanity ”.

Orthodox Judaism holds that, given Jewish law's Divine origin, no underlying principle may be compromised in accounting for changing political, social or economic conditions ; in this sense, " creativity " and development in Jewish law is limited.

During his three-year reign, King James II became directly involved in the political battles in England between Catholicism and Protestantism, on the one hand, and on the other, between the Divine Right of Kings and the political rights of the Parliament of England.

Other religious figures became involved in the controversy surrounding the film, including Francis J. Spellman, the Catholic Archbishop of New York, who called it " sinful " and forbade Catholics in the archdiocese to see the film and James A. Pike of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, who countered Spellman by pointing out that there was more " sensuality " in the film The Ten Commandments than there was in Baby Doll, and argued that " the church's duty is not to prevent adults from having the experience of this picture, but to give them a wholesome basis for interpretation and serious answers to questions that were asked with seriousness.

The film contained several controversial scenes, notably one which involved Lady Divine masturbating using a rosary while sitting inside a church.

After finishing his work on Trouble in Mind, Divine again became involved with a John Waters project, the film Hairspray ( 1988 ).

In Hasidism, the doctrine of " Practical Tzadikism ", developed by Elimelech of Lizhensk, involved the Tzadik performing miracles to channel the Ayin-Yesh Divine blessing.

The Catholic Encyclopedia notes: " As the acceptance of Christianity involved belief in a body of doctrine and the observance of the Divine law (" teach, make disciples, scholars of them "; " teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you ", Matthew 28: 20 ( see Great Commission ), it is clear that some sort of preliminary instruction must have been given to the converts.

* Divine chose to perform his own stunts, the most difficult of which involved doing flips on a trampoline during his nightclub act.

The King was severely reprimanded for this sin by the prophet Nathan and suffered a Divine retribution, though unlike with the colonel it involved the death of David's baby son and not of himself.

The historical details of the episode are still involved in some obscurity, and although mentioned by Villani and other writers, it owes its fame entirely to Dante's Divine Comedy.

They sought an esoteric, transcendent scholarship in Scriptural exegesis, that involved subtle metaphysical descriptions of Divine emanations and Heavenly Realms.

winning Arts in Education program funded by the New York State Council on the Arts in the Rhinebeck Central School System that involved video, painting, sculpture, poetry, theater, music and Native American culture ; the International Catholic Children's Bureau in designing two national conferences: Children and AIDS and Creativity: A Step Toward Spiritual Growth in the Child ; for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC Mothers and Daughters, a Midsummer Celebration ; Simple Beauty, an Arts in Education program that taught children the most advanced theories in physics through the arts ; and a spring event for Belvedere Castle in New York's Central Park ; and the Festa dos Ibeji, a Celebration of Children, particularly Twins.