First, he was a creator god who, with his wife Eve had become gods by living a mortal life, becoming resurrected, and earning their exaltation on another planet.

According to prominent 20th-century Latter-day Saint Apostle Bruce R. McConkie, those who have their calling and election made sure " receive the more sure word of prophecy, which means that the Lord seals their exaltation upon them while they are yet in this life.

" He affirmed, " He is the Savior and the Redeemer of the world ," through whose loving atoning sacrifice is extended to " every son and daughter of God, the opportunity for eternal life and exaltation in our Father ’ s kingdom, as we hearken to and obey His commandments.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church or Mormons ) do not believe in the tradition of apotheosis, but rather in the Christian tradition of divinization or deification ( which in Mormonism is usually referred to as exaltation, eternal life, or eternal progression ) which to Mormons is the belief that mankind may live with God in families and become " gods " themselves, though eternally subordinate and subject to God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

In modern biblical research the occurrences of Son of man in the Synoptic gospels are generally categorized into three groups: those that refer to his " coming " ( as an exaltation ), those that refer to " suffering " and those that refer to " now at work ", i. e. referring to the earthly life.

From the time of embarking on the journey to make the hajj, pilgrims often experience a spirit of exaltation and excitement ; the meeting of so many Muslims of all races, cultures, and stations in life in harmony and equality moves many people deeply.

However, Mormon doctrine differs from Arianism in a number of ways, particularly in the doctrines of eternal progression and exaltation.

This belief stems from statements by 19th century Mormon authorities including Brigham Young, although some of these leaders gave possibly conflicting statements that a monogamist may obtain at least a lower degree of " exaltation " through mere belief in polygamy.

# Regardless of how many people a man or woman is sealed to by proxy, they will only remain with one of them in the afterlife, and that the remaining spouses, who might still merit the full benefits of exaltation that come from being sealed, would then be given to another person in order to ensure each has an eternal marriage.

He opposed Fascism's later exaltation of existing institutions, calling them " reactionary ", and walked out of the 1920 Fascist party congress in disgust, withdrawing from politics for three years ; but he supported Italian Fascism until his death in 1944.

: Smith discussed the potential of mankind by referencing Romans 8: 17, then stating that men may go: "... from one small degree to another, and from a small capacity to a great one ; from grace to grace, from exaltation to exaltation ... until ( they ) arrive at the station of a God.

* The Jew of Arragon, a play that was " howled from the stage " at Covent Garden in 1830 owing to its exaltation of the Jew

The six or so remarkable books he published from 1914 to 1918 — El Rastro Flea-Market, El Doctor Inverosímil Improbable Doctor, Greguerías, Senos, Pombo, El circo Circus — illustrate most of his main characteristics: his search for a new fragmentary genre of short prose poems ( giving them the arbitrary name of greguerías ), his exaltation of trivial everyday objects, his emphasis on eroticism, his exuberant self-projection and exclusive dedication to art, his playful humour, his contemplative secular mysticism, and above all his cult of the image, especially witty surprising images.

# Regardless of how many people a man or woman is sealed to by proxy, they will only remain with one of them in the afterlife, and that the remaining spouses, who might still merit the full benefits of exaltation that come from being sealed, would then be given to another person in order to ensure each has an eternal marriage.

His works often deal with the extremes of human experience, from death and degradation to religious exaltation.

There he wrote his fourth work, The Metamorphosis, which greatly departed from his previous works, concerning itself with patriotic exaltation.

It depicts an undergraduate girl's parting from her soldier lover, and ends: " She walked in exaltation through the black streets, her heart glowing like a coal with deep love ".

" The illumination grew brighter and brighter, the roaring louder, I experienced a rocking sensation and then felt myself slipping out of my body, entirely enveloped in a halo of light … I felt the point of consciousness that was myself growing wider, surrounded by waves of light … I was now all consciousness, without any outline, without any idea of a corporeal appendage, without any feeling or sensation coming from the senses, immersed in a sea of light simultaneously conscious and aware of every point, spread out, as it were, in all directions without any barrier or material obstruction … bathed in light and in a state of exaltation and happiness impossible to describe.

The company differs from its competition with a " unique brand positioning based on the exaltation of pleasure to discover the diversity of cultures and technologies ".

Since in Hellenistic astrology aspects were generally recognised from sign to sign, it is uncertain whether the distance of a planet from the exact degree of exaltation had much significance.

* Cartas atrasadas del Parnaso and Sueño escrito por el padre Josef Francisco de Isla en la exaltacion del Señor D. Carlos III ( que Dios guarde ) al trono de España, Madrid: Oficina de Pantaleon Aznar ( 1785 )-Overdue letters from Parnassus and A Dream written by Father José Francisco de Isla in exaltation of Lord D. Carlos III ( God bless ) to the throne of Spain.

The Sun of Reality, the Essence of Divinity, reflected itself in this mirror and manifested its light and heat in it ; but from the exaltation of its holiness, and the heaven of its sanctity, the Sun did not descend to dwell and abide in the mirror.

The paper's criticism of Smith was focused on three main points: ( 1 ) the opinion that Smith had once been a true prophet, but had become a fallen prophet because of his introduction of plural marriage, exaltation and other controversial doctrines ; ( 2 ) the opinion that as church president and Nauvoo mayor, Smith held too much power and desired to create a theocracy ( see also Council of Fifty, Theodemocracy ); and ( 3 ) the belief that Smith was corrupting young women by forcing, coercing or introducing them to the practice of plural marriage.

In 1838 his Neuere Gedichte proved that Savonarola had been the result of a passing exaltation.

Attenders anticipated and had emotional conversion experiences, with crying, trances, and exaltation ".

According to Frances Lannon however, the articles on property and religion, with their exaltation of state power and disregard for civil rights, " virtually destroyed any prospect there had been for the development of a Catholic, conservative, Republicanism.

' He went away ,' records Montesquiou, ' in a state of silent exaltation [...] I do not doubt therefore that it was in the most admiring, sympathetic and sincere good faith that he retailed to Huysmans what he had seen during the few moments he spent in Ali-Baba's Cave.

It was difficult to realise that we were actually standing on top of the same peak which we had viewed two months ago from Ranikhet, and which had then appeared incredibly remote and inaccessible, and it gave us a curious feeling of exaltation to know that we were above every peak within a hundred miles on either hand.

For those who have lived and died throughout history without having performed these ordinances, it is believed that exaltation will be available through LDS Church vicarious temple work.

Augustine did, however, recognise a phenomenon he called jubilation-sounds of exaltation without words ; commentators such as Richard Hogue speculate that the practice of singing in the spirit persisted in Augustine's era, although xenoglossia was no longer extant among Christian:

Aholibamah ( Hebrew א ָ ה ֳ ל ִ יב ָ מ ָ ה, Standard Hebrew Oholivama, Tiberian Hebrew ʼOhŏlîḇāmā ; Hittite " My tabernacle of / is height / exaltation " or " Tent of the High Place "), is a minor biblical person in the Book of Genesis.

This process of exaltation means that humans can literally become gods through the atonement ; thus, " god " is a term for an inheritor of the highest kingdom of God.

The oldest gentleman among them, however, obviously feels differently, and does not share the common exaltation ; he obviously has grown wise enough not to join the chorus and turns away uneasily.

Unworthy mortal links will be dropped in eternity, for there is no family in which all generations will attain exaltation ; later generations of worthy families will be welded into the links formed by their ancestors who became worthy of a like exaltation with them.

First he explained to me the way the iris transforms light into the three primary colors then he proved to me why yellow is the most warm, noble and closest to light ; why blue is that mix of excitement and serenity, a distance that evokes shadows ; and why red is the exaltation of yellow and blue, the synthesis, the vanishing of light into shadow.

The Gospel of John focuses on God's glory in his use of light imagery and in his presentation of the Cross as a moment of exaltation ; he also sees the Cross as the example of agape love, a love which is not so much an emotion as a willingness to serve and care for others.

In the dossier, which was received poorly by Sir George Mounsey, the Foreign Office assistant under-secretary-who believed that it did not gel with Britain's then contemporary policy of appeasement-Sinclair described Hitler as possessing the characteristics of " fanaticism, mysticism, ruthlessness, cunning, vanity, moods of exaltation and depression, fits of bitter and self-righteous resentment ; and what can only be termed a streak of madness ; but with it all there is a great tenacity of purpose, which has often been combined with extraordinary clarity of vision.

The exaltation of the cross is not always performed ; only in cathedrals and monasteries.

If the exaltation of the cross has been performed, after the veneration of the cross the augmented litany, " Have mercy on us, O God …," is not pronounced, as is usual at a vigil ; instead the supplicatory litany is immediately said: " Let us complete our morning prayer unto the Lord.

“ ife became with me one prolonged state of hasheesh exaltation ...” he wrote, and noted that “ the effect of every successive indulgence grows more perduring until the hitherto isolated experiences become tangent to each other ; then the links of the delirium intersect, and at last so blend that the chain has become a continuous band ....

Hasheesh is indeed an accursed drug, and the soul at last pays a most bitter price for all its ecstasies ; moreover, the use of it is not the proper means of gaining any insight, yet who shall say that at that season of exaltation I did not know things as they are more truly than ever in the ordinary state ?....

However, the degree itself was used by ancient astrologers ; for example, the exact degree of exaltation of each of the luminaries ( the Sun and Moon ) was used in the formula for the Hellenistic Lot of Exaltation.

The most important dignity was domicile rulership ; slightly less important was exaltation.

* Apotheosis or de facto deification of the leadership: exaltation of the primary leader ( s ) to a God-like status in and over the group ;

O God, our refuge and our strength, look down with mercy upon the people who cry to Thee ; and by the intercession of the glorious and immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of Saint Joseph her spouse, of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, in Thy mercy and goodness hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners, and for the liberty and exaltation of our Holy Mother the Church.