The word is found in Gnostic texts such as the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, and also appears in the Greek Magical Papyri.

The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, for instance, refers to Abrasax as an Aeon dwelling with Sophia and other Aeons of the Pleroma in the light of the luminary Eleleth.

Despite his Roman Catholic post, Garvin described his spiritual position as " pandeism ' or ' pan-en-deism ,' something very close to the Native American concept of the all-pervading Great Spirit ..."

" He gives the Great Commission: " Therefore go and make disciples of all the nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you ;" Jesus will be with them " to the very end of the age.

While the general concept of a " Spirit " that permeates the cosmos is a general feature of most religions ( e. g. Brahman in Hinduism and Tao in Taoism and Great Spirit among Indigenous peoples of the Americas ), the term Holy Spirit specifically refers to the beliefs held in the Abrahamic religions.

The Bahá ' í Faith has the concept of the Most Great Spirit, seen as the bounty of God.

In January 2002, the partially nude female statue of the Spirit of Justice, which stands in the Great Hall of the Justice Department, where Ashcroft held press conferences, was covered with blue curtains, along with its male counterpart, the Majesty of Law.

The name derives from Cree manitou-wapow or Ojibwa manidoobaa, both meaning " straits of Manitou, the Great Spirit ", a place referring to what are now called The Narrows in the centre of Lake Manitoba.

Traditional Native Americans believe in a creator, variously referred to as Great Spirit, Great Creator or Great One, who is the originator of creation.

His third experience was in 1942 during the worst fighting of WWII, Ueshiba had a vision of the " Great Spirit of Peace ".

The primary function of these " medicine elders " is to secure the help of the spirit world, including the Great Spirit ( Wakan Tanka in the language of the Lakota Sioux ), for the benefit of the entire community.

* The Great Spirit is a forty-million-foot-tall robot from the Bionicle mythos.

It is traditionally believed that the Second Ecumenical Council held in Constantinople in 381 added the section that follows the words " We believe in the Holy Spirit " ( without the words " and the Son " relative to the procession of the Holy Spirit, which would become a point of contention in the Great Schism of Orthodoxy from Catholicism ); hence the name " Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed ", referring to the Creed as modified in the First Council of Constantinople.

The natives believed that the island was formed by the Great Spirit placing on the Blue Waters some dark red crescent-shaped clay.

( North American Native writers have also translated the word for God as the Great Mystery or as the Sacred Other ) This concept is referred to by many as the Great Spirit.

The singular thunderbird ( as the Nuu-chah-nulth thought of it ) was said to reside on the top of a mountain, and was the servant of the Great Spirit.

* In the 2007 video game Dragoneer's Aria, The Great Spirit guards a World Tree.

When ' Big Raven ', a deity in human form, found a stranded whale, he was told by the Great Spirit where to find special mushrooms that would give him the strength to drag the whale back to the sea and thus return order to the world.

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He furthermore warned that " the transfer of Cuba to Great Britain would be an event unpropitious to the interest of this Union.

), a Perseus, a satyr — Marsyas — admiring the flute and Minerva ( Athena ), a Hercules, which was taken to the shrine dedicated by Pompey the Great at the Circus Maximus, Discobolus ( the discus thrower ), and an Apollo for Ephesus, " which Antony the triumvir took from the Ephesians, but the deified Augustus restored it again after being warned in a dream ".

When Guyuk began moving west, Sorghaghtani Beki, the widow of Tolui, warned Batu that he was actually the Great Khan's target.

The cover story of the June 6, 2005 issue warned that the second Great Depression was " just weeks away.

Sihanouk writes that in 1975 he, Khieu Samphan, and Khieu Thirith went to visit Zhou Enlai, who was gravely ill. Zhou warned them not to attempt to achieve communism in a single step, as China had attempted in the late 1950s with the Great Leap Forward.

They initially praised the Bolsheviks, for pulling Russia out of the Great War, but warned that, given the development of political consciousness in the largely ill-educated peasant based society, it could not be a socialist revolution: " the franchise presents to the workers the way to their emancipation.

Mormons maintain that this apostasy was prophesied of within the Bible ( see and Great Apostasy ), which prophecy warned that an apostasy would occur prior to the second coming and was therefore in keeping with God's plan for mankind.

* ' Great Satan ' warned of a burning hell by Ian Black, The Guardian, February 16, 2005

Internationally celebrated limnologist Dr. David Schindler, notable for research at the Experimental Lakes Area which led to the banning of harmful phosphates in detergents, warned about algal blooms and dead zones, " The fish-killing blooms that devastated the Great Lakes in the 1960s and 1970s haven't gone away ; they've moved west into an arid world in which people, industry, and agriculture are increasingly taxing the quality of what little freshwater there is to be had here .... This isn't just a prairie problem.

While the group is one of the most well-known mainstream environmental groups of the country, it has also come under criticism, such as in 2010 when Prime Minister John Key accused them of engaging in " predictable scaremongering " when the group warned that a yet unreleased government report proposed to allow mining in 7000ha of high-value conservation land in Paparoa National Park, Great Barrier Island and the Coromandel Peninsula.

Esen Buqa warned Öz Beg that the Great Khan would overthrow him from the throne of the Horde and install another Khan from the Jochids instead.

Before the Great War, Maxse argued against liberal idealism in foreign policy, Cobdenite pacifism, Radical cosmopolitanism and constantly warned of the German menace.

Gregory the Great received the legates bearing the synodal letters which announced his consecration, partly from a desire not to disturb the peace of the church, and partly from the personal respect which he entertained for Cyriac ; but in his reply he warned him against the sin of causing divisions in the church, clearly alluding to the use of the term oecumenical bishop ( Gregory, Ep.

The statement denounced the British military presence in Northern Ireland as an " invasion of our rights " and warned that they will be targeted in " a resumption of hostilities between the Irish Republic and Great Britain ".

Caddo Lake, the Great Dismal and Reelfoot are swamps that are centered at large lakes.

Secretary-General Hammarskjold decided that it would be preferable if the U.N. troops sent into the Congo were to come from African, or at least nonwhite, nations -- certainly not from the U.S., Russia, Great Britain or France.

she was already considering putting in rebellious requests for duty at San Diego, Bremerton, the Great Lakes, Pensacola -- any place the Navy had a hospital -- with a threat to resign her commission if the request were not granted.

In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

The Secret Treaty of 1892 required both Russia and France to mobilize immediately followed by a commencement of action against the Triple Alliance if any member of the Triplice mobilized, and so, soon all the Great Powers of Europe were at war except Italy.

A work that is often read as if it were non-fiction is his account of the Great Plague of London in 1665: A Journal of the Plague Year, a complex historical novel published in 1722.

( That is, they are alphabetised as if their titles were " Charles, France, 3 " and " Charles, Great Britain and Ireland, 1 ".

This year masses are being held mainly in Konkanni, besides English, Marathi, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Portuguese and Spanish languages, but most, if not all the Masses, conclude with the recessional hymn Sam Fransisku Xaviera, Vhodda Kunvra ( In English it roughly translates Our Saint Francis Xavier, Great Prince ).

Thus, a Good attribute is considered to be Great if you were to roll two plus sides, one minus side, and one blank — the minus side cancels out one of the plus sides and the remaining plus side raises the result by one step.

Female Great Auks would lay only one egg each year, between late May and early June, although they could lay a replacement egg if the first one was lost.

The verse reads: " Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property ; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded ; and ( as to ) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them ; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them ; surely Allah is High, Great.

While Polo's book describes paper money and the burning of coal, it fails to mention the Great Wall of China, chopsticks, and footbinding, making skeptics wonder if Marco Polo had really gone to China, or wrote his book based on hearsay.

According to Crowley in " Liber O ", success in this technique is signaled by physical exhaustion and " though only by the student himself is it perceived, when he hears the name of the God vehemently roared forth, as if by the concourse of ten thousand thunders ; and it should appear to him as if that Great Voice proceeded from the Universe, and not from himself.

In fact, Popes Vigilius, Pelagius I ( 556-61 ), Pelagius II ( 579-90 ), and Gregory the Great ( 590-604 ) were only aware the Fifth Council specifically dealt with the Three Chapters and make no mention of Origenism or Universalism, nor spoke as if they knew of its condemnation even though Gregory the Great was opposed to the belief of universalism.

Other Great Sabbaths ( if this is referring to what are commonly considered to be Jewish holy days, though observed by many early professors of Christ ) come in the Spring, late summer, or Fall.

The Left Communist Bolsheviks likely believed that the Germans would seize the opportunity to make a separate peace with Russia ( even on moderate terms ) so that they would have an opportunity to defeat France and Great Britain before the Americans arrived, even if this meant they would have to settle for less generous terms.

Harding's Secretary of State, Charles E. Hughes, assumed a primary role in the conference and made the pivotal proposal — the U. S was to reduce its number of warships by 30 if Great Britain decommissioned 19, and Japan 17 ships.

MGM filmed The Great Meadow ( 1930 ) in Realife — however, it's unclear if it was ever released in that widescreen process due to declining interest of the movie-going public.

He reassured the pro-British Canadians that Parliament would surely decide that Canada would be at Britain's side if Great Britain was drawn into a major war.

The most important of these fixed feasts is the Great Feast of the Annunciation ( March 25 ), which is considered to be so important that it is never moved, even if it should fall on the Sunday of Pascha itself ( a rare and special occurrence which is known as Kyrio-Pascha ).