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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Divine Healing from Japan (Sazuke Healing): Specialty of Tenrikyo. Sazuke Healing is a form of hands on healing practiced by Prof. Tadamasa Fukaya (a Tenrikyo reverend) and promoted by the Tenri Cultural Institute, in New York City.

In his lecture on the Joyous Life, Fukaya stated that human bodies are loans from God the Parent and that, therefore, we should treat them according to the will of God the Parent (e.g., by not becoming infatuated and not indulging carnal desires).

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divination

: The art or act of revealing knowledge through supernormal media or intelligence

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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John the Divine

(John of Patmos) Mythological character purported to be the author of The Gospel of John and The Revelation (or Apocalypse) of John.

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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.

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John the Divine

(John of Patmos) Mythological character purported to be the author of The Gospel of John and The Revelation (or Apocalypse) of John.

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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.

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Divine Right

The claim to authority to rule as granted by God. Divine right is most commonly asserted by monarchs.

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Divine Science

A New Thought church headquartered in Denver. CO.

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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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Divine Principle

An Agni Yogic term meaning God or the Creator

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Divine Realization

Moments of revelation merging into synthesis or comprehension

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divining rod

A long narrow tool used in the hands of a dowser that gives them tangible signals in answer to their questions

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A Theosophical definition of Divine Soul :

Divine Soul

In occultism the divine soul is the garment of the divine ego, as the divine ego is the garment or child of the divine monad. The divine monad we may call the inner god, and this would mean that the divine ego, its offspring, is the inner Buddha, or the inner Christ; and hence the divine soul is the expression of the inner Buddha or of the inner Christ in manifestation on earth as the manushya-buddha or christ-man.

It should be stated here that of the several monads which in their combination form the entire septenary constitution of man each such monad has its own ego-child, and this latter has its own soul. It is this combination, mystic, wonderful, mysterious, which makes of man the complex entity he is, and which entitles him to the term which the occultism of the archaic ages has always given to him: the microcosm, a reflection or copy in the small of the macrocosm or kosmic entity.

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International Society of Divine Love

(ISDL) Founded by H. D. Prakashanand Saraswati, Hindu-based organization teaching Bhakti Yoga.

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