( Christ 1997, 2003 ) The term " The Goddess " may also refer to the concept of The One Divine Power, or the traditionally worshipped " Great Goddess " of ancient times.

A Magus is further limited in terms of the spell's application: Ars Magica features a set of magical ' laws ', similar in concept to those of physics, defining the upper limits of any magical spell ( Creo Corpus, for example, cannot create ' true ' life, nor can it restore the dead ; magic, in general, cannot affect the flow of time, nor can it affect the ' lunar sphere or anything above it ' ( i. e. the realms of the Divine, according to medieval thought )).

Some Christian theologians have connected the concept of Shekhinah to the Greek term " Parousia ", " presence " " arrival ," which is used in the New Testament in a similar way for " Divine Presence ".

Māyā may also be visualized as a guise or aspect of the Divine Mother ( Devi ), or Devi Mahamāyā, concept of Hinduism.

Adi Shakti is the concept, or personification, of divine feminine creative power, sometimes referred to as ' The Great Divine Mother ' in Hinduism.

Regicide has particular resonance within the concept of the Divine Right of Kings, whereby monarchs were presumed by decision of God to have a divinely anointed authority to rule.

This widely-held belief, this most unusual Jewish concept is based on a Talmudic statement to the effect that in every generation 36 righteous " greet the Shechinah ," the Divine Presence ( Tractate Sanhedrin 97b ; Tractate Sukkah 45b ).

The concept of the " guru " can be traced as far back as the early Upanishads, where the idea of the Divine Teacher on earth first manifested from its early Brahmin associations.

* Divine simplicity ( the Christian concept of divine unity )

Returning resurrection is a theological concept of the Unification Church explained in the Divine Principle.

The concept of indemnity is explained at the start of the second half of the Divine Principle, " Introduction to Restoration ":

Specifically, John Locke as part of his argument against the " Divine Right of Kings " in his book Two Treatises of Government defines it this way: “ Tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to ; and this is making use of the power any one has in his hands, not for the good of those who are under it, but for his own private, separate advantage .” Locke's concept of tyranny influenced the writers of subsequent generations who developed the concept of tyranny as counterpoint to ideas of human rights and democracy.

The Kabbalists identified the final, feminine Sefirah with the earlier, traditional Jewish concept of the Shekhinah ( immanent Divine Presence ).

Such a concept derives from the Kabbalistic theology that the physical World, and also the Upper spiritual Worlds, are continuously recreated from nothing by the Shefa ( flow ) of Divine will, which emanates through the Sefirot.

It is a concept album based on Dante's The Divine Comedy, a book that Green read in high school and suggested to the band for the concept for the album.

Hinduism is based on the concept of omnipresence of the Divine, and the presence of a soul in all creatures, including bovines.

Hinduism is based on the concept of omnipresence of the Divine, and the presence of a soul in all creatures, including bovines.

In this cosmology, there are seven cosmic planes, three lower, corresponding to relative existence ( the Physical, Vital, and Mental ), and four higher, representing infinite divine reality ( Life Divine bk. 1 ch. 27 ) The Aurobindonian Mind or Mental Plane constitutes a large zone of being from the mental vital to the overmental divine region ( Letters on Yoga, Jyoti and Prem Sobel 1984 ), but as with the later Theosophical concept it constitutes an objective reality of pure mind or pure thought.

Carl Jung referred to a similar concept as the " Divine Child ".

In this cosmology, there are seven cosmic planes, three lower, corresponding to relative existence ( the Physical, Vital, and Mental ), and four higher, representing infinite divine reality ( Life Divine bk. 1 ch. 27 ) The Aurobindonian Mind or Mental Plane constitutes a large zone of being from the mental vital to the overmental divine region ( Letters on Yoga, Jyoti and Prem Sobel 1984 ), but as with the later Theosophical concept it constitutes an objective reality of pure mind or pure thought.

A. Richards and A. N. Whitehead, examining the latter's concept of the “ Divine persuasion ” in a 1945 article entitled “ Physical Agencies and the Divine Persuasion ” and the former ’ s understanding of “ truth in poetry ” in an article of the same name, which concludes:

The concept of Christ as Logos derives from: " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Philo had adopted the term Logos from Greek philosophy, using it in place of the Hebrew concept of Wisdom ( sophia ) as the intermediary ( angel ) between the transcendent Creator and the material world.

The Christian concept of the Christ / Messiah as " the Word made Flesh " ( see also Logos ) is fundamentally different from the Jewish and Islamic.

This concept of divinity is associated with that of the Logos, which had originated centuries earlier with Heraclitus ( ca.

Some scholars hold that his concept of the Logos as God's creative principle influenced early Christology.

There is, however, a difference between the Egyptian and Hebrew logos mythologies: in Genesis 1 the divine word of the Elohim is an act of " making into "; the word of Egyptian creator-god, by contrast, is an almost magical activation of something inherent in pre-creation: as such, it goes beyond the concept of fiat ( divine act ) to something more like the Logos of the Gospel of John.

As the operative principle of the world, to them, the Logos was anima mundi, a concept which later influenced Philo of Alexandria, although he derived the contents of the term from Plato.

The Christian concept of the Logos is derived from the first chapter of the Gospel of John, where the Logos ( often translated as “ Word ”) is described in terms that resemble, but likely surpass, the ideas of Philo:

In his First Apology, Justin used the Stoic concept of the Logos as a way of arguing for Christianity to non-Jews.

Since a Greek audience would accept this concept, his argument could concentrate on identifying this Logos with Jesus.

Neoplatonist philosophers such as Plotinus ( 204 / 5 – 270 AD ) used the term " Logos " in ways that drew on Plato and the Stoics, but the term Logos was interpreted in different ways throughout Neoplatonism, and similarities to Philo's concept of Logos appear to be accidental.

Plotinus relied heavily on the concept of Logos, but no explicit references to Christian thought can be found in his works, although there are significant traces of them in his doctrine.

The concept of Logos in Sufism is used to relate the " Uncreated " ( God ), to the " Created " ( man ).

Ibn Arabi seems to have adopted his version of the Logos concept from Neoplatonic and Christian sources, although ( writing in Arabic rather than Greek ) he used more than twenty different terms when discussing it.

Origen of Alexandria correlated the Stoic's concept of the rebirth and reconstruction of the cosmos with the active guidance and sustenance of the Logos, which is taken to be an emanation of Zeus, when Zeus turns his thoughts outwards once more.

The concept of Eros could be expressed in modern terms as psychic relatedness, and that of Logos as objective interest.

For example, both Odes and John use the concept of Jesus as Logos, and write in gentle metaphors.

Also influenced by Stoic philosophical concepts, he used the Greek term logos, " word ," for the role and function of Wisdom, a concept later adapted by the author of the Gospel of John in the opening verses and applied to Jesus Christ as the eternal Word ( Logos ) of God the Father.

In Ancient Greek culture there is often mention of the Logos, which is a very similar concept.

Judaism does not believe in the Christian concept of hell but does have a punishment stage in the afterlife ( i. e. Gehenna, the New Testament word translated as hell ) as well as a Heaven ( Gan Eden ), but the religion does not intend it as a focus.

( 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.

Sometimes translated as the " Loyal Opposition ", it acknowledges the legitimate existence of the two party system, and describes an important constitutional concept: opposing the government is not treason ; reasonable men can honestly oppose its policies and still be loyal to the Sovereign and the nation.

The German version of the Lord's Prayer uses the words for "" ( usually translated as " thy kingdom come " in English ) Himmelreich is the German term for the concept of " kingdom of heaven ".

Similar ideas can be found in other cultures, for example in China, where a concept often translated as " race " was associated with supposed common descent from the Yellow Emperor, and used to stress the unity of ethnic groups in China.

Some scholars have translated the Greek concept of " politeia " as " republic ," but most modern scholars reject this idea.

The preface explains that the original concept of a general system theory was " Allgemeine Systemtheorie ( or Lehre )", pointing out the fact that " Theorie " ( or " Lehre ") just as " Wissenschaft " ( translated Scholarship ), " has a much broader meaning in German than the closest English words ‘ theory ’ and ‘ science '".

The meanings of technology changed in the early 20th century when American social scientists, beginning with Thorstein Veblen, translated ideas from the German concept of Technik into " technology.

Its motif is the concept of the medical regard ( translated by Alan Sheridan as " medical gaze "), traditionally limited to small, specialized institutions such as hospitals and prisons, but which Foucault examines as subjecting wider social spaces, governing the population en masse.

Žabkar concludes that so particular was the concept of Ba to ancient Egyptian thought that it ought not to be translated but instead the concept be footnoted or parenthetically explained as one of the modes of existence for a person.

Tsuji also found this relevant to the Buddhist concept of nothingness, sometimes translated as mu.

Gǎnqíng () is an important concept in social relations in Chinese culture which is loosely translated as " feeling " and is related to the concept of guānxi ( relationship network ).

It is a central concept in Aristotelian ethics and political philosophy, along with the terms " aretē ", most often translated as " virtue " or " excellence ", and " phronesis ", often translated as " practical or ethical wisdom ".

Plendl had been working for some time to produce a much more accurate version of the same basic concept, which was eventually delivered as X-Gerät ( translated " X-Apparatus ").

Another difference from elementary geometry is the way in which parallel lines can be said to meet in a point at infinity, once the concept is translated into projective geometry's terms.

This was an important proof of concept, because the calculations are non-trivial and the results translated into significant savings of time, effort, and money.

It also proposes a personal commitment to the concept, action, and transcendence of peace – Salaam is also the root for the terms Muslim and Islam, literally translated, he / she who submits to God and submission to God, respectively.

Although the German concept of Ausnahmezustand is best translated as " state of emergency ", it literally means state of exception which, according to Schmitt, frees the executive from any legal restraints to its power that would normally apply.

Shklovsky is perhaps best known for developing the concept of ostranenie or defamiliarization ( also translated as " estrangement ") in literature.

He explained the concept in the important essay " Art as Technique " ( also translated as " Art as Device ") which comprised the first chapter of his seminal Theory of Prose, first published in 1925.

* Adolphe Quetelet publishes Sur l ' homme et le développement de ses facultés, ou Essai de physique sociale ( translated as Treatise on Man ), outlining his theory of " social physics " and describing his concept of the " average man " ( l ' homme moyen ) who is characterized by the mean values of measured variables that follow a normal distribution.