Fortunetelling

A form of divination in which a person attempts to predict the future using alleged paranormal powers

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Fortune telling: A form of divination in which a person attempts to predict the future using paranormal powers

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Fortunetelling

A form of divination in which a person attempts to predict the future using alleged paranormal powers

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

THEO

Greek root meaning "god" combines to generate many creative ideas:

THEOCRASY -- Mixed worship of the gods; intimacy with the  gods.

THEOMACHY -- Opposition to divine will; Fighting with the  gods.

THEOMORPHOSIS -- Transformation into a divine shape.

THEOPANAX --  The all-healing god.

THEOPHANY -- The showing of divinity in mankind.  However, the Neoplatonists meant man recognizing his own divinity showing in  himself.

THEOPNEUSY -- Divine Inspiration. Another Neoplatonic idea. The  inspiration, though divine, is one's own Higher Self.

THEOPOEIA --  Godmaking.

THEOSIS -- God impulse. Theos is the god's personality or  character as opposed to Daimon, a divine power or entity.

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Shakti:

Shakti: power; energy; force; the divine power  of becoming; the apparent dynamic aspect of eternal being; the  absolute power or cosmic energy.

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Shakti: Power; energy; force; the Divine Power of becoming; the apparent dynamic aspect of Eternal Being; the Absolute Power or Cosmic Energy.

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Shakti

Spiritual power; the divine cosmic energy which projects, maintains and dissolves the universe.

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Narayana

Name of a deva, a strong, manly hero having divine power.

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Sakti:

Sakti: power; the feminine aspect of divinity.

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Mantra: A sacred chant used in Hindu tradition to embody the divinity invoked; it is said to possess deep magical power.

(See also: Mantra, Magic, Shamanism, Paganism, Wicca)

Adisakti (Sanskrit) (from adi first + sakti power, energy)

Primeval power; the divine force or direct energic emanation from mulaprakriti, hence the feminine aspect or clothing of any spiritually formative potency. Personified in the Hindu pantheon as the consort of a divinity, every divinity having its own sakti or formative power-substance. Also a name for maya, significant because illusion begins with manifestation (SD 1:10).

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Savitri: The divine Solar deity, or the vitalizing power behind the visible sun, immortalized in the Gayatri Mantra.

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Mahashakti: The Great Power; the divine creative energy.

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sakthi:

sakthi (shakthi). Great universal power, divine energy, strength.

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Isitwa "divine power" (TG 158; IU 2:593)

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Isatva (Sanskrit) Supremacy, superiority, lordship; hence divine power.

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Faith Healing:

Healing that is associated with prayer or belief in Divine power.

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Father Divine

(1878–1965)

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)

Shakti: (Sanskrit) "Power, energy," from the root shak, "to be able."

The active power or manifest energy of Siva that pervades all of existence. Its most refined aspect is Parashakti, or Satchidananda, the pure consciousness and primal substratum of all form.

This pristine, divine energy unfolds as ic�ha shakti (the power of desire, will, love), kriya shakti (the power of action) and jnana shakti (the power of wisdom, knowing), represented as the three prongs of Siva's trishula, or trident. From these arise the five powers of revealment, concealment, dissolution, preservation and creation.

In Saiva Siddhanta, Siva is All, and His divine energy, Shakti, is inseparable from Him. This unity is symbolized in the image of Ardhanarishvara, "half-female God." In popular, village Hinduism, the unity of Siva and Shakti is replaced with the concept of Siva and Shakti as separate entities. Shakti is represented as female, and Siva as male. In Hindu temples, art and mythology, they are everywhere seen as the divine couple. This depiction has its source in the folk-narrative sections of the Puranas, where it is given elaborate expression. Shakti is personified in many forms as the consorts of the Gods. For example, the Goddesses Parvati, Lakshmi and Sarasvati are the respective mythological consorts of Siva, Vishnu and Brahma. Philosophically, however, the caution is always made that God and God's energy are One, and the metaphor of the inseparable divine couple serves only to illustrate this Oneness.

Within the Shakta religion, the worship of the Goddess is paramount, in Her many fierce and benign forms. Shakti is the Divine Mother of manifest creation, visualized as a female form, and Siva is specifically the Unmanifest Absolute. The fierce or black (asita) forms of the Goddess include Kali, Durga, Chandi, Chamundi, Bhadrakali and Bhairavi. The benign or white (sita) forms include Uma, Gauri, Ambika, Parvati, Maheshvari, Lalita and Annapurna. As Rajarajeshvari ("divine queen of kings"). She is the presiding Deity of the Sri Chakra yantra. She is also worshiped as the ten Mahavidyas, manifestations of the highest knowledge - Kali, Tara, Shodashi, Bhuvaneshvari, Chinnamasta, Bhairavi, Dhumavati, Bagata, Matangi and Kamala. While some Shaktas view these as individual beings, most revere them as manifestations of the singular Devi. There are also numerous minor Goddess forms, in the category of gramadevata ("village Deity"). These include Pitari, "snake-catcher" (usually represented by a simple stone), and Mariyamman, "smallpox Goddess."

In the yoga mysticism of all traditions, divine energy, shakti, is experienced within the human body in three aspects:

1)    the feminine force, ida shakti,

2)    the masculine force, pingala shakti, and

3)    the pure androgynous force, kundalini shakti, that flows through the sushumna nadi.

Shakti is most easily experienced by devotees as the sublime, bliss-inspiring energy that emanates from a holy person or sanctified Hindu temple.

See: Amman, Ardhanarishvara, Goddess, Parashakti, Shaktism.

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Shakti:

Shakti ("power"): the ultimate Reality in its feminine aspect, or the power pole of the Divine; see also kundalini-shakti

(See also: Shakti, Yoga, Yoga Dictionary)

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spirit healing (spiritual healing): therapeutic form of channeling whose proponents ascribe healing to divine power or to doctors in the spirit world.

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