The Divine Comedy can be described simply as an allegory: Each canto, and the episodes therein, can contain many alternate meanings. Dante's allegory, however, is more complex, and, in explaining how to read the poem (see the "Letter to Can Grande della Scala"), he outlines other levels of meaning besides the allegory (the historical, the moral, the literal, and the anagogical). The structure of the poem, likewise, is quite complex, with mathematical and numerological patterns arching throughout the work, particularly threes an ...

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Father Divine

(1878Ð1965)

Born George Baker, he was the Black minister and founder of the Peace Mission Movement in Sayville, New York, in 1932. on of ex-slaves, Divine developed a theology comprised of elements of African-American Christianity, Methodism, Catholicism, Pentecostalism, and the power-of-positive-thinking ideology, New Thought.

He taught that he was God and encouraged followers to channel his spirit to achieve health, prosperity, and salvation. An integrationist, Divine attracted both blacks and whites and campaigned for Civil Rights. During the Depression, disciples opened businesses offering low-priced goods and services, and Peace Missions provided social assistance to the poor.

(See also: Father Divine, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

The Divine Comedy - Visual arts. The 1911 silent film L'Inferno, directed by Guiseppe de Liguoro, starring Salvatore Papa and released on DVD in 2004, with a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream; see IMDb reference; Silent era.com. The 1935 motion picture Dante's Inferno directed by Harry Lachman, written by Philip Klein and starring Spencer Tracy. The interpretation of hell in the 1998 film What Dreams May Come is heavily inspired by Dante's Inferno. P ...

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DIVINE POWER: the Life Force or Energy, which exist in the God and Goddess and the ultimate source of all things.

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DIVINATION: magickal method of looking into the future or the past or seeking unknown information through the use of various oracles.

1) the ritual process designed to contact the psychic mind.

2) the magickal act of dicovering the unknown.

3) the act (DIVINING) of contacting the psychic mind by tricking, or drowsing, the Conscious Mind through ritual & observation of, or manipulation of, tools. NOTE: this isn't necessary for those who can easily attain communication with the psychic mind, though they may practice it.

4)  The art of connecting with the divine, or to see a situation from a 'divine' view.

5) Often inaccurately described as 'fortune telling'. 

6) Divination is a way to emotionally detach from events in order to see them more clearly. In this way past, present, and future situations can be sorted out and dealt with from a more advantageous perspective. Tools of divination vary widely and can include: Tarot cards, Runes, tea leaves, palms, dice, playing cards, omens seen in natural forms such as birds, fire, water, crystal or glass spheres, clouds, patterns in sand, eggs, entrails, faces and scalp formations, wax, etc.

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Divination: Method of inquiring into a situation through tools, some examples of divination are scrying, tarot and runes. See dowsing below.

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Divine Mother: Shakti, especially as Personal Goddess, as conceived of and worshiped by Shaktas.

See: Shakti, Shaktism.

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Divine Life Society - Religion & spirituality. Spiritual counselling, Yoga training, Retreat centre, Libraries, meditation calsses etc. Publication of many books and booklets on various topics related to Hinduism and Self-development keeping in view the needs of the modern man. Divine Life Society - Social field. Charitable hospital at Sivanandanagar Divine Life Society - Education field. Around 1000 students from poor classes are given financial assis ...

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Divinity

The nature or quality of being God or God-like. Christian theologies are divided on just how divine Jesus was and whether or not man is divine.

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Divining Rod:

A forked rod (or sometimes a pair of L-shaped rods) used in dowsing.

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DIVINATION - using magickal tools and symbols to gather information from the Collective Unconscious on the nature of people, places, things and events in the past, present and future. (TRASB)

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DIVINE POWER - the natural power of the Gods. This force permeates holy places & peo;e, & can be drawn upon by the followers of each dieties.

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DIVINE SOUND - (shabd, Sanskrit) eternal vibration within all beings that is realized by chanting or focusing the breath activating the inner ear. (NAD)

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DIVINATION: The magickal art of using tools and symbols to gather information from the Collective Unconsciousness. This can be on people, places, things and events past, present, and future.

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DIVINE POWER: The unmanifested, pure energy that exists within the Goddess and God. The life force, the ultimate source of all things.

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In Christian thought, the importance of the concept is that God as a simple being is not divisible, and thus, he is present in his entirety everywhere that he is present, if he is present anywhere. In light of this idea, Thomas Aquinas wrote that, because God is infinitely simple, he can only appear to the finite mind as though he were infinitely complex. This doctrine also helps keep trinitarianism from drifting or morphing into polytheism, ...

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"Father Divine" preached of his divinity from even before he was known as "Father Divine" in the late1910s. He taught that his life fulfilled all Biblical prophecies about the second coming, regarding himself as Jesus Christ reborn. However, Father Divine also lectured that Christ existed in "every joint" of his follower's bodies, and that he was "God's light" incarnated to show how to establish heaven on earth and show the way of eternal life. For example: Condescendingly I came as an existing Spirit unembodied, until condescen ...

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Neil Hannon has been the only ever-present member of the band, being its founder in 1989 when he was joined by John McCullagh and Kevin Traynor. Their first album, the heavily REM-influenced and now-deleted Fanfare for the Comic Muse, enjoyed little success, though, and soon McCullagh and Traynor were to go their separate ways. Hannon, however, was not deterred in his efforts and re-appeared in 1993 with Liberation. Featuring a fairly diverse musical outlook that goes from the tongue-in-cheek synth pop of 'Europop' to th ...

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Divine Right was originally released in 1979 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR). The second edition was released in 1980 and included several original additions as well as elements from articles appearing in Dragon Magazine at the time. The game was sold for several years and set many precedents in turn-based wargaming. TSR stopped the presses after a while. The game was updated by Glenn Rahman and was released in 2002 as a 25th-Anniversary Edition by The RightStuf International, Inc. The ...

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

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Divination

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Divination: An attempt to understand communication from the dead by means of various signs; the I Ching, one of the Five Classics of Confucianism, is the most noted of these in popular Chinese belief systems.

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Divination

The act of foretelling the future or gaining unknown information by using psychic skills or other methods outside of the ordinary senses,palmistry, astrology, tarot and I Ching are examples of divination.

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