Early Chinese anchoritism was theoretically aimed at a mystic pantheist union with the divine, personal salvation being achieved when the mystical recluse united with divine essence.

Critically, the film was also better received than the first two instalments, with some critics remarking that it was the first Harry Potter film to truly capture the essence of the novels.

Under Arianism, Christ was instead not consubstantial with God the Father since both the Father and the Son under Arius were made of " like " essence or being ( see homoiousia ) but not of the same essence or being ( see homoousia ).

According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.

Jesus was God in essence, being and or nature ( ousia ), which the Latin fathers translated as substantia.

The temple to Ares in the agora of Athens that Pausanias saw in the second century AD had only been moved and rededicated there during the time of Augustus ; in essence it was a Roman temple to the Augustan Mars Ultor.

His primary interest was in applying the methodology of science to realms of inner experience and the spiritual worlds ( Steiner's appreciation that the essence of science is its method of inquiry is unusual among esotericists ), and Steiner called anthroposophy Geisteswissenschaft ( lit.

His " Software Tools " series spread the essence of ' C / Unix thinking ' with makeovers for BASIC, FORTRAN, and Pascal-and most notably his ' Ratfor ' ( rational FORTRAN ) was put in the public domain.

German strategist Carl von Clausewitz stated that " the employment of battles ... to achieve the object of war " was the essence of strategy.

The essence of Zakonopravilo was based on Corpus Iuris Civilis.

The political revolt brought little social change, however, and 19th century Chilean society preserved the essence of the stratified colonial social structure, which was greatly influenced by family politics and the Roman Catholic Church.

The view that there was no rigid structure is reinforced by S. T. Joshi, who stated " Lovecraft's imaginary cosmogony was never a static system but rather a sort of aesthetic construct that remained ever adaptable to its creator's developing personality and altering interests ... here was never a rigid system that might be posthumously appropriated ... he essence of the mythos lies not in a pantheon of imaginary deities nor in a cobwebby collection of forgotten tomes, but rather in a certain convincing cosmic attitude.

It was Maurice Fréchet who, in 1906, had distilled the essence of the Bolzano – Weierstrass property and coined the term compactness to refer to this general phenomenon.

In essence, the earliest vision of Christendom was a vision of a Christian theocracy, a government founded upon and upholding Christian values, whose institutions are spread through and over with Christian doctrine.

The essence of the design was the ability to transfer charge along the surface of a semiconductor from one storage capacitor to the next.

In classical thought, a definition was taken to be a statement of the essence of a thing.

In essence, the data warehousing concept was intended to provide an architectural model for the flow of data from operational systems to decision support environments.

In essence, the accusation was that the accused committed treason against the " benevolent and righteous " common cause.

Its essence, physically, spiritually, and symbolically, pervades their existence.

In the third Triad, Palamas refuted Barlaam's charge of Messalianism by demonstrating that the Hesychasts did not share the antisacramentalism of the Messalians nor did they claim to physically see the essence of God with their eyes.

In the third Triad, Palamas refuted Barlaam's charge of Messalianism by demonstrating that the Hesychasts did not share the antisacramentalism of the Messalians nor did they claim to physically see the essence of God with their eyes.

In The Key to Theosophy she wrote that " All men have spiritually and physically the same origin, which is the fundamental teaching of Theosophy " and that " mankind is essentially of one and the same essence.

Blavatsky wrote that " all men have spiritually and physically the same origin " and that " mankind is essentially of one and the same essence.

It is the line Jews, who were given the option by the Inquisition, to eat pork and convert to Christianity or be burned at the stake, recited when they chose to jump into the fire ; the line Jews repeated when they finally realized that they were being marched not into showers to be deloused but into gas chambers in the Nazi concentration camps ; the line, that more than any other, captures the Jewish essence.

Killing ( or at least heavily injuring ) creatures made of tangible shadow seemingly allows her to temporarily absorb their essence into herself and convert it into superstrength.

… He doesn't talk of it in any quick and slighting way, but becomes a devout convert to the Godly essence in human-kind Love.

The essence of subsidiarity is concisely inherent in the Chinese maxim ' Give someone a fish and you feed him for a day ; teach the person to fish and you feed him for a lifetime '.

The actual life of the individual is what constitutes what could be called his or her " true essence " instead of there being an arbitrarily attributed essence used by others to define him or her.

For him, the unique essence of the cinema — that which could be duplicated in no other medium — is editing.

Many Patton contemporaries, including those who knew him personally or served with him, have applauded Scott's characterization of Patton for accurately capturing the essence of the man – war-loving, egotistical, overbearing, obsessive, conflicted, and enigmatic, yet unrivalled in his ability to inspire and lead large forces of men in a desperate and ultimately victorious struggle against a determined enemy.

Fëanor's mother, Míriel, died shortly after giving birth, having given all her strength and essence to him.

According to him, will " is the innermost essence, the kernel, of every particular thing and also of the whole.

It seems that Iktomi, in stories attributed to him, in his very essence is representing the confusion between wisdom and folly.

In essence, Sporck took four of his personnel from Fairchild with him as well as three others from TI, Perkin-Elmer and Hewlett Packard to form a new eight man team at National Semiconductor.

Today he seems to us to have recorded his fellow Americans with a perception that was often as tender as it was vigorous, and to have preserved for us the essence of an American life which, indeed, he did not idealize -- because it seemed to him beautiful beyond the necessity of idealization.

In essence, the prosecutors took the line that Streicher's role in inciting Germans to exterminate Jews made him an accessory to murder, and thus no different from those who actually carried out the killings.

Feeling remorse for having killed the human, he merges his essence with Hayata to revive him.

In essence the Chairman delegates the performance of the civic representative role to his deputy and consents to him or her being known under the courtesy title of ' Mayor of Frodsham.

He believed that the Holy Spirit was part of God's essence, a power from him that suffused all creation and through which God was omnipresent and able to act at all places and at all times.

In order to pass for human ( the other animal fables want nothing to do with him ), he has been infected with lycanthropy, making him, in essence, a werewolf.

Lelouch Lamperouge, the main protagonist of the japanese animation Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion possesses a power ( referred to as a " Geass ", a corruption of " geas ") that allows him to forcibly compel any person with whom he can make eye contact to obey a command he issues – in essence placing that person under a geis themselves.

Wanting more power for his bloodline, Tremere found the resting place of Saulot, the Antediluvian founder of clan Salubri, and diablerized him, consuming his very essence and gaining his power.

* A number of spin-off media have provided additional explanation for the Doctor's regeneration including the Virgin New Adventures novels Timewyrm: Revelation, Love and War by Paul Cornell, Head Games by Steve Lyons, all of which speculate that the Seventh Doctor's ' essence ' drove the Sixth Doctor to pilot the TARDIS into the Rani's tractor beam to become Time's Champion and prevent himself from becoming the Valeyard, and the Past Doctor Adventures novel Spiral Scratch by Gary Russell, which features the Sixth Doctor sacrificing much of his energy to prevent a pan-dimensional being from destroying creation, leaving him in a weakened physical condition before the Rani's attack.