Tylor also theorized about the origins of religious beliefs in human beings, proposing a theory of animism as the earliest stage, and noting that " religion " has many components, of which he believed the most important to be belief in supernatural beings ( as opposed to moral systems, cosmology, etc .).

Astrology consists of a number of belief systems which hold that there is a relationship between astronomical phenomena and events in the human world.

Between 1512 and the final draft in 1528, Dürer's belief developed from an understanding of human creativity as spontaneous or inspired to a concept of ' selective inward synthesis '.

Also in these books, Athanasius put forward the belief that the Son of God, the eternal Word through whom God created the world, entered that world in human form to lead men back into the harmony from which they had earlier fallen away.

Some of Whorf's unpublished manuscripts on spirituality also suggest that he was influenced by the ideas of Helena Blavatsky the founder of the Theosophical Society who wrote about cosmic evolution, a belief that regards reincarnation to be the source of evolution of human races towards continuously higher forms.

This discourse with Nicodemus established the Christian belief that all human beings — whether Jew or Gentile — must be " born again " of the spiritual seed of Christ.

The mainstream Christian belief is that Jesus is the Son of God, fully divine and fully human and the saviour of humanity.

Finally, belief in the power of such a cabal is an implicit assertion of human dignity – an often unconscious but necessary affirmation that man is not totally helpless, but is responsible, at least in some measure, for his own destiny.

Members of the Aghori drink from human skulls and practice cannibalism in the belief that eating human flesh confers spiritual and physical benefits, such as prevention of aging.

In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks, and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness.

Chuck D stated that it is Public Enemy's belief that all human beings are equal.

The core of Confucianism is humanism, the belief that human beings are teachable, improvable and perfectible through personal and communal endeavour especially including self-cultivation and self-creation.

* His belief that implies that angels indulged in coitus with human women.

" Broadly it is taken as the belief that Jesus only seemed to be human, and that his physical body was a phantasm.

During this stage a dispute occurred between ad-Darazi and Hamza bin Ali mainly concerning ad-Darazi's ghuluww ( Arabic, " exaggeration "), which refers to the belief that God was incarnated in human beings, especially ' Ali and his descendants, including Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah who was the current Caliph, and ad-Darazi naming himself " The Sword of the Faith " which led Hamza to write an epistle refuting the need for the sword to spread the faith and several epistles refuting the beliefs of the ghulat.

In Bahá ' í belief, human time is marked by a series of progressive revelations in which successive messengers or prophets come from God.

Some forms of Buddhism hold belief in cycles in which life span of human beings changes according to human nature.

Munch was particularly inspired by Gauguin's " reaction against realism " and his credo that " art was human work and not an imitation of Nature ", a belief earlier stated by Whistler.

The notion of elves thus appears similar to the animistic belief in spirits of nature and of the deceased, common to nearly all human religions ; this is also true for the Old Norse belief in dísir, fylgjur and vörðar (" follower " and " warden " spirits, respectively ).

Most of Hume's followers have disagreed with his conclusion that belief in an external world is rationally unjustifiable, contending that Hume's own principles implicitly contained the rational justification for such a belief, that is, beyond being content to let the issue rest on human instinct, custom and habit.

Indeed, these Four Freedoms were explicitly incorporated into the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which reads, " Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed the highest aspiration of the common people ,...."

Many Wiccans, though not all, profess a belief in an afterlife called the Summerland, a peaceful and sunny place where the souls of the newly dead are sent.

In Bahá ' í belief, souls in the afterlife will continue to retain their individuality and consciousness and will be able to recognize and communicate spiritually with other souls whom they have made deep profound friendships with, such as their spouses.

According to Tylor, animism often includes " an idea of pervading life and will in nature "; i. e., a belief that natural objects other than humans have souls.

A large part of mythology is based upon a belief in souls and spirits — that is, upon animism in its more general sense.

" This alludes to the Catholic belief in a spiritual state, known as Purgatory, in which those souls who are not condemned to Hell, but are also not completely pure as required for entry into Heaven, go through a final process of purification before their full acceptance into Heaven.

Their theology included belief in the immortality of the soul and that they would receive their souls back after death.

He indignantly repudiates the fanatical view of some coreligionists that all non-Jews have no souls — a belief reciprocated by the Gentiles of the time.

Thus, these origins for lycanthropy mingle a belief in reincarnation, a belief in the sharing of souls between living humans and beasts and a belief in human ghosts appearing as non-human animals after death.

The transmigration of souls became a Manichaean belief, and the quadripartite structure of the Manichaean community, divided between male and female monks ( the " elect ") and lay followers ( the " hearers ") who supported them, appears to be based on that of the Buddhist sangha.

This dogma defined the Church's belief that the souls of the departed go to their eternalb reward immediately after death, as opposed to remaining in a state of unconscious existence until the Last Judgment.

It is largely a religious concept, where it is used in two distinct respects — a belief in the resurrection of individual souls that is current and ongoing ( Christian idealism, realized eschatology ), or else a belief in a singular " Resurrection of the Dead " event at the end of the world.

This implies that only the soul of Adam was created directly by God ( with Eve's substance, material and immaterial, being taken from out of Adam ), in contrast with creationism ( not to be confused with creationism as a belief about the origin of the material universe ), which holds that all souls are created directly by God ( with Eve's substance, material and immaterial, being taken from out of Adam ).

In that century, other cultures influenced Greeks to develop the belief that souls left the sleeping body.

Currently, however, it is a popular Christian belief that the souls of the righteous do go straight to heaven.

The dísir are explicitly called dead women in Atlamál 28 and a secondary belief that the dísir were the souls of dead women ( see fylgjur ) also underlies the landdísir of Icelandic folklore.

In an iconic speech to the Council of State, William to the shock of his audience motivated his conflict with King Philip II by saying that, even though he had decided for himself to keep to the Catholic faith, he could not approve that monarchs should desire to rule over the souls of their subjects and take away from them their freedom of belief and religion.

Matthew and Levi were two different people, but rather the belief in the " Abominable doctrine of the transmigration of souls ".

Grim Fandangos world combines elements of the Aztec belief of afterlife with style aspects of film noir, including The Maltese Falcon, On the Waterfront and Casablanca, to create the Land of the Dead, through which recently departed souls, represented in the game as calaca-like figures, must travel before they reach their final destination, the Ninth Underworld.

For both the Yu ' piak and Iñupiaq, the meaning is closest to an understanding of a world in which " Most Arctic peoples believe all the world is animate, and that animals have souls or spirits ", ( Berlo and Phillips 161 ) a foundational belief of the continuum and interconnectivity of all life and spirit of all that which is, that which has been, and that which is yet to be.

In disease pathogenesis, for example, Avicenna " added his own view of different types of spirits ( or vital life essences ) and souls, whose disturbances might lead to bodily diseases because of a close association between them and such master organs as the brain and heart An element of such belief is apparent in the chapter of al-Lawa " ( see Cardiology section ), which relates " the manifestations to an interruption of vital life essence to the brain.