emanation
- noun
- /ˌɛm.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
- Specialized
- In Christian theology, the Holy Spirit is understood as an emanation from the Father and the Son, especially during Pentecost.
Waking up to the fact that you are a divine emanation of the sacred one that breathed you into life.
- Waking up to the fact that you are a divine emanation of the sacred one that breathed you into life.
Examples
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Finally, Hear O Israel and the silent Amidah take us into atzilut ("emanation"), the highest and most abstract of the four worlds.
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It's one of the emanations of an infinite God.
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Either way, the final conclusion is the same: music is an activity under the final superintendence of the Spirit, an emanation from it.
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Thus God's own self-determination is an essential emanation of his goodness.
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Waking up to the fact that you are a divine emanation of the sacred one that breathed you into life.
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"'T is a kind of emanation of God's beauty," Edwards had written of the inward light, "and is related to God as the light is to the sun."
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Wollstonecraft also maintained that reason was an "emanation of divinity," and therefore the nature of reason must be the same for both sexes.
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The idea that a beloved woman can be the manifestation of divinity or the emanation of God was acceptable among the Arabs much earlier than the thirteenth century.
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The belief that the Holy Spirit is an emanation of divine origin helps explain the concept of inspiration in prophecy.
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Many theologians describe the relationship between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as an emanation of love and unity.
Synonyms
A Christian belief that the Holy Spirit comes from the Father or from both Father and Son
A Christian belief that the Holy Spirit comes from the Father or from the Father and the Son
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word emanation comes from the Latin parts e- 'out' and manare 'to flow', giving the image of something 'flowing out' from a source. That's why theologians use emanation for the Holy Spirit, because it describes the Spirit 'flowing out' from the Father and the Son at Pentecost.