Deity:

Refers to various forms and types of God as projected by human imagination.

A name for a divine statue. For example, the Vaishnavas worship the deity or form of Krishna. A reverent way of referring to a statue of a god.

See also Deva.

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TRANSCENDENT DEITY - a God or Goddess who is seen as dwelling outside, rather than inside, humanity. A non-invocable deity. (CMM)

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DEITY - a Diven entity, God/Goddess honored in a religious "doctirine".

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Transcendent Deity: A God or Goddess who is seen as dwelling outside, rather than inside, humanity. A non-invocable deity.

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Deity:

(1) The most powerful sort of “supernatural” being.

(2) A powerful pattern in the Switchboard.

(3) The memory of a dead hero(ine) or magician.

(4) An ancient visitor from outer space.

(5) An ancient visitor from inner space.

(6) All of the above?

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EARTH DEITIES - Asasaya (Ashanti), Bhumi (Sanskrit), Coatlicue (Nahuatl), Estanatlehi (Navajo), Gaia (Greek), Geb (Egypt), Geo (Greek), Jord (Norse), NuWa (Chinese), Tara (Tibetan). (NAD)

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Infernal Deities (from Latin inferi or inferni inhabitants of the lower world)

Cosmic powers pertaining to the lower planes of manifestation. Classical mythology shows the earth and its beings between the heavens and the infernal regions, under the double influence of the higher and the lower deities. Sometimes they are called chthonian deities, gods of the earth or underworld, implying a duality of heaven and earth, or above and below.

They are usually doubles of the superior gods, often with the same name but distinguished by an epithet, as in Jupiter Chthonius or Osiris-Typhon. The contrast between good and evil has given a sinister aspect to these deities, as being connected with death, destruction, and affliction, though they are necessary cosmic powers. Christian theology in particular has turned them into devils.

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Deity or God. Intelligence and will superior to the human, forming the intelligent and vital governing essence of the universe, whether this universe be large or small.

The principal views as to the nature of deity may be classed as

1)    pantheistic,

2)    polytheistic,

3)    henotheistic, and

4)    monotheistic.

Pantheism, which views the divine as immanent in all nature and yet transcendent in its higher parts, is characteristic of certain Occidental philosophical systems and of all Oriental systems.

Polytheism implies the recognition of an indefinite number of deific powers in the universe, the plural manifestations of the ever immanent, ever perduring, and manifest-unmanifest One. Polytheism is thus a logical development of pantheism.

Henotheism is the belief in one god, but not the exclusion of others, such as is found in the Jewish scriptures, where the ancient Hebrews frankly worshiped a tribal deity and fully recognized the existence of other tribal deities.

Monotheism is the belief in only one god, as is found in Christianity and Islam. These religions, in inheriting the Jewish tradition, have confounded this merely personal and local conception with the First Cause of the universe, which in theosophy would be called the formative cosmic Third Logos, thus producing an inconsistent idea of a God who is both infinite, delimited, and personal in character, with an intuition, however, of the necessarily impersonal cosmic intelligent root of all.

In theosophical philosophy, the cosmic divine in the hierarchical sense is both transcendent and immanent, during manifestation breaking as it were into innumerable rays which produce the various deific powers in inner and outer nature; each such immanent divinity, however, itself emanating from the all-encompassing and forever unmanifest Rootless Root or parabrahman.

The various universes, sometimes referred to as sparks of eternity, spring from parabrahman at periodic intervals called manvantaras, and then resolve back into the pre-manvantaric condition or pralaya, only to issue forth again when the pralaya of whatever magnitude has run its course. Therefore, at one and the same time divinity is transcendent and immanent, eternal and unmanifest, while its rays or cosmic sparks of whatever magnitude are periodic and manifested. Hence from each such manifested One or cosmic hierarch proceed the multiple rays, to which in various theogonies are given names and attributes of superior deities. Thus the words god and deity become generic, and the general definition may be applied to the core of the core of any being, great or small, cosmic or human, for all are sparks of the cosmic flame of life.

The word deity, in the sense of beings which are more spiritual than the human being of today, may be applied to the divine rulers of human races before the times of the demigods and heroes; or more generally to an indefinite range of nonphysical beings, spiritual or ethereal in character, including among the latter the so-called "spirits of the elements."

See also GOD; GOD(S)

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Nameless Deity, Nameless One The real name of a thing is its essential characteristic, is itself; therefore that which is beyond all attributes must necessarily be nameless. It is nameless because incognizable; it is the One Reality, 'eyn soph, the Absolute. The expression may occasionally be applied to other beings whose name it is necessary to withhold, such as the Wondrous Being, who has to remain nameless (SD 1:207).

See also WATCHER; WONDROUS BEING

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A Christian theological definition of Deity according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:

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Deity: "God." Can refer to the image or murti installed in a temple or to the MahŒdeva the murti represents. See: murti, puja.

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jutha:

the 'left-overs' of food offered to a deity, the deity having extracted the essence of the food

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gramadevatas:

village deities

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devi:

female deity

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kirtan:

hymn in praise of a deity

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bhajans:

hymns in praise of a deity

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saivites:

devotees of the deity shiva

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savitr:

vedic solar deity

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uma:

consort of the male deity shiva

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vaishnavites:

devotees of the deity vishnu

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