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.

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

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The Blood Divine - Former members. Paul Allender - guitars Ruth Wilson - session vocals ...

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Divining Rod:

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

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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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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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Special instruments are used to assist in the divination to transcribe Orunmila's wisdom through the diviner. The items used for divination include: a group of sixteen Ikin, commonly known as palm nuts, which are used to create binary data a vessel for the seeds a divination tray (opon Ifa). a tapper instrument (iroke Ifa) beaded belts for the babalawo to wear. The tray and tapper are used in Ifa divination, a central ritual within Yoruba religion. This tray, ...

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Book I is an examination of the ways of Nature's progress, the spiritual path, the reasons for the divisions and dualities in creation, and a detailed account of the nature of The Absolute, and how this unknowable, immutable omnipresent Reality became the universe we live in. Book II Part 1 explores the original Knowledge and state of the Absolute, and the cosmic Ignorance which is the source of our false perceptions of divisions and dualities in finite existence. It examines the cause of the ...

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Divine Soul The vehicle or garment of the divine ego, which in its turn is the field or vehicle of the divine monad -- terms referring to the human monadic centers. As the inner god corresponds to the divine monad and the inner buddha to the divine ego, so the divine soul may be said to be the expression of the buddha in manifestation on earth.

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divine will healing: Derivative of the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda (see Kriya Yoga). Its principle is that, by aligning one's will with divine will, one can transmit or project divine healing light.

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DIVINE LIGHT - celestial radiance perceived by the third eye, eternal effulgence within all beings brighter than the Sun, realized by turning away from the physical senses and looking within and whose mystical union confers truth, consciousness and bliss.

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Instructors, Divine. See DYNASTIES

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Divine Dynasties. See DYNASTIES

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Divine Ego. See REINCARNATING EGO

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Divine Instructors. See MANASAPUTRAS

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Divine Pymander. See PYMANDER

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Divine Thought. See IDEATION; LOGOS

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Divine Year. See BRAHMA'S DAY

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The Divine Comedy has been a source of inspiration for countless artists for almost 6 centuries–as one of the most well known and greatest artistic works in the Western tradition, its influence on culture can not be overestimated. Listed here are some examples. The Divine Comedy - Visual arts. Before his death in 1827, William Blake, the English poet and painter, planned and executed several watercolour illustrations to Dante's Inferno. Though he did not finish the series before his death, t ...

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divine incarnation: The concept of avatara. The Supreme Being's (or other Mahadeva's) taking of human birth, generally to reestablish dharma. This doctrine is important to several Hindu sects, notably Vaishnavism, but not held by most Saivites.

See: avatara, avatar, Vaishnavism.

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