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Attribute: Commonly, what is proper to a thing (Latm, ad-tribuere, to assign, to ascribe, to bestow). Loosely assimilated to a quality, a property, a characteristic, a peculiarity, a circumstance, a state, a category, a mode or an accident, though there are differences among all these terms. For example, a quality is an inherent property (the qualities of matter), while an attribute refers to the actual properties of a thing only indirectly known (the attributes of God). Another difference between attribute and quality is that the former refers to the characteristics of an infinite being, while the latter is used for the characteristics of a finite being. In metaphysics, an attribute is what is indispensable to a spiritual or material substance; or that which expresses the nature of a thing; or that without which a thing is unthinkable. As such, it implies necessarily a relation to some substance of which it is an aspect or conception. But it cannot be a substance, as it does not exist by itself. The transcendental attributes are those which belong to a being because it is a being: there are three of them, the one, the true and the good, each adding something positive to the idea of being. The word attribute has been and still is used more readily, with various implications, by substantialist systems. In the 17th century, for example, it denoted the actual manifestations of substance. [Thus, Descartes regarded extension and thought as the two ultimate, simple and original attributes of reality, all else being modifications of them. With Spinoza, extension and thought became the only known attributes of Deity, each expressing in a definite manner, though not exclusively, the infinite essence of God as the only substance. The change in the meaning of substance after Hume and Kant is best illustrated by this quotation from Whitehead: "We diverge from Descartes by holding that what he has described as primary attributes of physical bodies, are really the forms of internal relationships between actual occasions and within actual occasions" (Process and Reality, p. 471).] The use of the notion of attribute, however, is still favoured by contemporary thinkers. Thus, John Boodin speaks of the five attributes of reality, namely: Energy (source of activity), Space (extension), Time (change), Consciousness (active awareness), and Form (organization, structure). In theodicy, the term attribute is used for the essential characteristics of God. The divine attributes are the various aspects under which God is viewed, each being treated as a separate perfection. As God is free from composition, we know him only in a mediate and synthetic way thrgugh his attributes. In logic, an attribute is that which is predicated or anything, that which Is affirmed or denied of the subject of a proposition. More specifically, an attribute may be either a category or a predicable; but it cannot be an individual materially. Attributes may be essential or accidental, necessary or contingent. In grammar, an attribute is an adjective, or an adjectival clause, or an equivalent adjunct expressing a characteristic referred to a subject through a verb. Because of this reference, an attribute may also be a substantive, as a class-name, but not a proper name as a rule. An attribute is never a verb, thus differing from a predicate which may consist of a verb often having some object or qualifying words. In natural history, what is permanent and essential in a species, an individual or in its parts. In psychology, it denotes the way (such as intensity, duration or quality) in which sensations, feelings or images can differ from one another. In art, an attribute is a material or a conventional symbol, distinction or decoration.

Consciousness ::: In all its forms and protean manifestations, consciousness is spirit-matter -- force and matter, or spirit andsubstance, are one -- hence consciousness is the finest and loftiest form of energy, is the root of allthings, and is coextensive with kosmic space. It is, therefore, the foundation and the essence of gods, ofmonads, and of atoms -- the three generalized degrees, kosmically speaking, of the universe. A naturalcorollary from this is that the universe therefore is imbodied consciousness, or much more correctly weshould call it a quasi-infinite aggregate of imbodied consciousnesses.

divinity ::: a. --> The state of being divine; the nature or essence of God; deity; godhead.
The Deity; the Supreme Being; God.
A pretended deity of pagans; a false god.
A celestial being, inferior to the supreme God, but superior to man.
Something divine or superhuman; supernatural power or virtue; something which inspires awe.

Immanence: (late Lat. Immanere, to remain in) The state of being immanent, present, or in dwelling. In Medieval Scholasticism a cause is immanent whose effects are exclusively within the agent, as opposed to transient. For Kant the immanent is experiential as opposed to non-experiential or transcendent. In modern metaphysics and theology immanence signifies presence (of essence, being, power, etc.), as opposed to absence. According to pantheism the essence of God or the Absolute is completely immanent in the world, i.e. is identical with it. According to Deism God is essentially absent or transcendent from the world. According to immanent theism He is both immanent (in presence and activity) and transcendent (in essence) with respect to it. Mysticism in its broadest sense posits the mutual immanence of the human and the divine. -- W.L.

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1:The essence of God, if at all God has an essence, is Beauty. ~ Hermes,

2:Knowledge belongs to the very essence of God, if at all God has an essence. ~ Hermes,

3:The essence of God, if at all God has an essence, is Beauty. ~ id, the Eternal Wisdom

4:Knowledge belongs to the very essence of God, if at all God has an essence. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom

5:No one who sees the Essence of God can willingly turn away from God ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (ST 1.94.1).,

6:The splendour which inundates all his thought and all his soul, snatches him from the ties of the body and transforms his whole being into the very essence of God. ~ Hermes, the Eternal Wisdom

7:The Supreme Mind 'O God! we acknowledge Thee to be the Supreme Mind Who hast disposed and ordered the Universe; Who gave it life and motion at the first, And still continuest to guide and regulate it. From Thee was its primal impulsion; Thou didst bestow on thine Emanated Spirit of Light, Divine wisdom and various power To stablish and enforce its transcendent orbits. Thou art the Inconceivable Energy Which in the beginning didst cause all things; Of whom shall no created being ever know A millionth part of thy divine properties. But the Spirit was the Spirit of the Universe- Sacred, Holy, Generating Nature; Which, obedient unto thy will, Preserves and reproduces all that is in the Kosmos. Nothing is superior to the Spirit But Thou, alone, O God! who art the Creator and Lord; Thou madest the Spirit to be thy servitor, But this thy Spirit transcends all other creatures; This is the Spirit which is in the highest heavens; Whose influence permeates all that lives; As a beautiful Flower diffuses fragrances But is not diminished in aught thereby. For all divine essences are the same, Differing only in their degree and power and beauty; But in no wise differing in their principle, Which is the fiery essence of God himself. Such is the animating flame of every existence Being in God, purely perfect; But in all other living things Only capable of being made perfect.' ~ Dr E.V. Kenealy, The Book of Fo. The Supreme Mind. from path of regeneration,

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1:Love... the essence of God. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove

2:R eason strives for knowledge and yet this natural striving is not adequate to the knowledge of the Essence of God, but only to the knowledge that God ... is beyond all conception and knowledge. ~ nicholas-of-cusa, @wisdomtrove

3:A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It consents, so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove

4:A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,” so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove

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1:Love is the essence of God. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

2:The essence of God, if at all God has an essence, is Beauty. ~ id,

3:The essence of God, if at all God has an essence, is Beauty. ~ Hermes,

4:Knowledge belongs to the very essence of God, if at all God has an essence. ~ Hermes,

5:Knowledge belongs to the very essence of God, if at all God has an essence. ~ Hermes,

6:Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,

7:The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications. ~ J I Packer,

8:When we stop and reflect things begin to happen and sometimes we get the essence of God when we are just quiet. ~ Sally Quinn,

9:We are on earth as extensions of God to finish the work He began. We are the essence of God, His on-going incarnation in the world. ~ Earl Paulk,

10:The essence of sin is “I do not want to have God in my life.” And the essence of God’s judicial wrath is to give us what we have asked for. ~ Timothy J Keller,

11:The human mind has an adequate knowledge of the eternal and infinite essence of God. ~ Baruch Spinoza, Ethics (1677) Part II: On the Nature and Origin of the Mind,

12:The splendour which inundates all his thought and all his soul, snatches him from the ties of the body and transforms his whole being into the very essence of God. ~ Hermes,

13:novelty resembles life in the same way as the latest apparition of a harlot proves the essence of God. His existence had already been proved by the accordion, the ~ Tristan Tzara,

14:That is to say, that which is totally concealed from our eyes right now, namely the very substance and essence of God, we will see in all of his glory and majesty and splendor in heaven. ~ R C Sproul,

15:The essence of God is consciousness. Consciousness can be used for either violence or peace; the choice is ours. When it is expanded, human consciousness chooses non-violence, since that is compatible with love. ~ Deepak Chopra,

16:Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say nought, Bewitched by the magic potion. I cannot differentiate Between my drunk and sober state. ~ Rumi,

17:To put it another way, God is able to interact with us in ways we interpret (through our time-bound experience of cause and effect) as the result of time-like capacities in the person or essence of God or the existence of other time-like dimensions ~ Hugh Ross,

18:I am the fiery life of the essence of God; I am the flame above the beauty in the fields; I shine in the waters; I burn in the sun, the moon, and the stars. And with the airy wind, I quicken all things vitally by an unseen, all-sustaining life. ~ Hildegard of Bingen,

19:Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say nought, Bewitched by the magic potion. I cannot differentiate Between my drunk and sober state. ~ Rumi,

20:In a sense we're all children of God - Jesus is called the one and only Son. Monogeneo is the word, God's only "genetic" child. He bears the very essence of God. What we say about God we say about Jesus. So the promise rises and falls on the identity of Jesus. ~ Max Lucado,

21:A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It “consents,” so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree ~ Thomas Merton,

22:Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death. The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: 'I am Who am.' The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: 'I am who am not.' Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side. ~ Fulton J Sheen,

23:Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death. The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: “I am Who am.” The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: “I am who am not.” Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side. The ~ Fulton J Sheen,

24:We are now assuming that we have here the centre and goal of all God's works, and therefore the hidden beginning of them all. We are also assuming that the prominent place occupied by this divine work has something corresponding to it in the essence of God, that the Son forms the centre of the Trinity, and that the essence of the divine being has, so to speak, its locus ... in His work, in the name and person of Jesus Christ. ~ Karl Barth,

25:Yet it is perhaps worth mentioning that the masculine tenor of God-talk is particularly problematic in English. In Hebrew, Arabic and French, however, grammatical gender gives theological discourse a sort of sexual counterpoint and dialectic, which provides a balance that is often lacking in English. Thus in Arabic al-Lah (the supreme name for God) is grammatically masculine, but the word for the divine and inscrutable essence of God—al-Dhat—is feminine. ~ Karen Armstrong,

26:The Blessing Heads are covered by the Tallit, or prayer shawl; hands are extended out with the fingers splayed to form the shape of the letter Shin, the first letter in the word Shaddai, a name for the Almighty. The chant, in Hebrew, is loud and ecstatic: "May the Lord bless and keep you." The Shekhina is summoned; the feminine essence of God. She enters the sanctuary to bless the congregation. The very sight of her, the awesome light emanating from the Shekhina, is dangerous to behold. ~ Leonard Nimoy,

27:God is closer than you think” means he is available in this moment right now. Always now. Only now. Abraham Heschel writes that other religions often began by setting apart sacred places whereas Israel in the Sabbath set apart a sacred time, for time is the stuff of life. For where shall the likeness of God be found? There is no quality that space has in common with the essence of God. There is not freedom enough on the top of a mountain; there is not glory enough in the silence of the sea. Yet the likeness of God can be found in time, which is eternity in disguise. ~ John Ortberg Jr,

28:Unlike idolatry, which claims to make manifest the very essence of God, or the humanistic approach, which claims that God, if God exists, is utterly irrelevant, the iconic approach offers a different way of understanding. To treat something as an icon is to view particular words, images or experiences as aids in contemplation of that which cannot be reduced to words, images or experience. Not only this, but the icon represents a place where God touches humanity. Consequently, icons are not only the place where we contemplate God; they also act as the place that God uses in order to communicate with us. ~ Peter Rollins,

29:Nevertheless, we can make a distinction between the three persons of the Trinity, because each member of the Godhead has unique attributes. We say the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, but we don’t say that the Father is the Son, the Son is the Holy Spirit, or the Holy Spirit is the Father. There are distinctions between them, but the distinctions are not essential, not of the essence. They are real, but they do not disturb the essence of deity. The distinctions within the Godhead are, if you will, sub-distinctions within the essence of God. He is one essence, three subsistences. That is about as close as we can get to articulating the historic doctrine of the Trinity. ~ R C Sproul,

30:Scripture says:—If a man should rise, pretend to be a prophet, and show you his signs by which he desired to convince you that his words are true, know that God intends thereby to prove to the nations how firmly you believe in the truth of God's Word, and how well you have comprehended the true Essence of God; that you cannot be misled by any tempter to corrupt your faith in God. Your religion will then afford a guidance to all who seek the truth, and of all religions man will choose that which is so firmly established that it is not shaken by the performance of a miracle. For a miracle cannot prove that which is impossible; it is useful only as a confirmation of that which is possible, as we have explained in our Mishneh-torah. ~ Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190),

31:The resulting view is “structuralist” or “holistic” in two respects. First, one can only state something fundamental by characterizing the world as a whole. And second, the derivative individualistic facts then flow from that fundamental fact only as a group, not one-by-one. So there is no making sense of either the fundamental or the derivative without making sense of everything at once. As a result, this is what might be called a “many-from-one” metaphysics, on which many elements (the individualistic facts) flow together from one source (the World Fact). I am not aware of other many-from-one views in recent metaphysics, but Spinoza arguably endorsed one when he argued that the finite modes flow together, but not individually, from the essence of God.28 If I am right, we have good reason to revisit many-from-one views today. ~ Anonymous,

32:A TREE gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him. It “consents,” so to speak, to His creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree. The more a tree is like itself, the more it is like Him. If it tried to be like something else which it was never intended to be, it would be less like God and therefore it would give Him less glory. No two created beings are exactly alike. And their individuality is no imperfection. On the contrary, the perfection of each created thing is not merely in its conformity to an abstract type but in its own individual identity with itself. This particular tree will give glory to God by spreading out its roots in the earth and raising its branches into the air and the light in a way that no other tree before or after it ever did or will do. Do ~ Thomas Merton,

33:We have already shown that things have three degrees of existence. The first is in individuals, and this existence is qualified by eternity with regard to whatever applies to the essence and the attributes of God-great and glorious. The second degree is in minds, and this is created since minds are created, while the third is in speech and comprises names. This degree is also created in the creation of speech. Indeed, we intend 'the knowledges' by the thing established in minds, and when related to the essence of God-great and glorious-these are eternal, because God-great and glorious-is existent and knowing in eternity, and knows Himself to be existent and knowing. And His existence was affirmed in Himself and also in His knowledge. And the names which He will inspire in His servants and which He creates in their minds and their speech were also known by Him. From this interpretation, it becomes possible to say: there are names in eternity. ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali,

34:And yet I will exert special effort to the end that they who lend ready and open ears to God’s Word may have a firm standing ground. Here, indeed, if anywhere in the secret mysteries of Scripture, we ought to play the philosopher soberly and with great moderation; let us use great caution that neither our thoughts nor our speech go beyond the limits to which the Word of God itself extends. For how can the human mind measure off the measureless essence of God according to its own little measure, a mind as yet unable to establish for certain the nature of the sun’s body, though men’s eyes daily gaze upon it? Indeed, how can the mind by its own leading come to search out God’s essence when it cannot even get to its own? Let us then willingly leave to God the knowledge of himself. For, as Hilary (of Poitiers) says, he is the one fit witness to himself, and is not known except through himself. But we shall be “leaving it to him” if we conceive him to be as he reveals himself to us, without inquiring about him elsewhere than from his Word. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, I:XIII:21. ~ James R White,

35:Firsyt of all, it must be realized that only God truly knows about Himself ( ya- rif aqq ma- rifatih) and fully comprehends the essence of His majesty. This need not be considered strange. For I say, only an angel truly knows about angels. Only a prophet truly knows about prophets. Indeed, only a scholar truly knows about scholars. I would even say that as long as a student has not attained his professor’s rank in scholarship, he does not truly know his professor. When he has attained his professor’s rank, he knows him almost in the way the pro- fessor knows himself . . . I would even say that it cannot be conceived that an impotent man could truly know about the condition attained by a person during cohabitation . . .” Al-Ghazzâlî goes on to say that even for low animal life such as ants and gnats, it must be assumed that any true knowledge of their being is possible only for ants and gnats, that man has no true knowledge of himself and as a rule knows about himself only through the actions and characteristics of his self (soul), while ignoring its quiddity, “and once man knows that he is of necessity unable to perceive the essence of God’s majesty, he has attained what is the end of his perfection, as this is the goal of human perfection. ~ Abu Hamid al-Ghazali,

36:The Supreme Mind 'O God! we acknowledge Thee to be the Supreme Mind Who hast disposed and ordered the Universe; Who gave it life and motion at the first, And still continuest to guide and regulate it. From Thee was its primal impulsion; Thou didst bestow on thine Emanated Spirit of Light, Divine wisdom and various power To stablish and enforce its transcendent orbits. Thou art the Inconceivable Energy Which in the beginning didst cause all things; Of whom shall no created being ever know A millionth part of thy divine properties. But the Spirit was the Spirit of the Universe- Sacred, Holy, Generating Nature; Which, obedient unto thy will, Preserves and reproduces all that is in the Kosmos. Nothing is superior to the Spirit But Thou, alone, O God! who art the Creator and Lord; Thou madest the Spirit to be thy servitor, But this thy Spirit transcends all other creatures; This is the Spirit which is in the highest heavens; Whose influence permeates all that lives; As a beautiful Flower diffuses fragrances But is not diminished in aught thereby. For all divine essences are the same, Differing only in their degree and power and beauty; But in no wise differing in their principle, Which is the fiery essence of God himself. Such is the animating flame of every existence Being in God, purely perfect; But in all other living things Only capable of being made perfect.' ~ Dr E.V. Kenealy, The Book of Fo. The Supreme Mind. from path of regeneration,

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1.00 - The way of what is to come, #The Red Book Liber Novus, #unset, #Zen     But the spirit of the depths stepped up to me and said: "What you speak is. The greatness is, the intoxication is, the undignified, sick, paltry dailiness is. It runs in all the streets, lives in all the houses, and rules the day of all humanity. Even the eternal stars are commonplace. It is the great mistress and the one essence of God.     One laughs about it, and laughter, too, is. Do you believe, man of this time, that laughter is lower than worship? Where is your measure, false measurer?13 The sum of life decides in laughter and in worship, not your judgment."

1.04 - GOD IN THE WORLD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy   All creatures have existed eternally in the divine essence, as in their exemplar. So far as they conform to the divine idea, all beings were, before their creation, one thing with the essence of God. (God creates into time what was and is in eternity.) Eternally, all creatures are God in God So far as they are in God, they are the same life, the same essence, the same power, the same One, and nothing less.   Suso

1.poe - Eureka - A Prose Poem, #Poe - Poems, #unset, #Zen   As our starting point, then, let us adopt the Godhead. Of this Godhead, in itself, he alone is not imbecile -he alone is not impious who propounds -nothing. "Nous ne connaissons rien," says the Baron de Bielfeld -"Nous ne connaissons rien de la nature ou de l'essence de Dieu: -pour savoir ce qu'il est, il faut etre Dieu meme." -"We know absolutely nothing of the nature or essence of God: in order to comprehend what he is, we should have to be God ourselves."   "We should have to be God ourselves!" -With a phrase so startling as this yet ringing in my ears, I nevertheless venture to demand if this our present ignorance of the Deity is an ignorance to which the soul is everlastingly condemned.

2.12 - THE MASTERS REMINISCENCES, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism   GIRISH: "He [meaning Sri Ramakrishna] says that prema alone is the essence of God; we need the man through whom this ecstatic love of God flows. He says that the milk of the cow flows through the udder; we need the udder; we do not care for the other parts of the cow-the legs, tail, or horns."   TRAILOKYA: "The milk of God's prema flows through an infinite number of channels. God has infinite powers."

the Eternal Wisdom, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction   2) The essence of God, if at all God has an essence, is Beauty. ~ id   3) God is Light. ~ John   --   6) Knowledge belongs to the very essence of God, if at all God has an essence. ~ Hermes   7) God is not knowledge, but the cause of Knowledge; He is not mind, but the cause of mind; He is not Light, but the cause of Light. ~ id   --   2) The essence of God, if at all God has an essence, is Beauty. ~ id   3) God is Light. ~ John   --   6) Knowledge belongs to the very essence of God, if at all God has an essence. ~ Hermes   7) God is not knowledge, but the cause of Knowledge; He is not mind, but the cause of mind; He is not Light, but the cause of Light. ~ id   --   13) The splendour which inundates all his thought and all his soul, snatches him from the ties of the body and transforms his whole being into the very essence of God. ~ Hermes   14) Whosoever comes to birth in God, is delivered from the physical sensations, recognises the different elements which compose it and enjoys a perfect happiness. ~ Hermes

Verses of Vemana, #is Book, #unset, #Zen   By conquering the senses he that is steady knows the essence of God. How should a man not knowing himself will call such a man a sage?   He who daily and highly considers and forgets from his mind the distinctions of I and thou and he that thus liveth is the noble ascetic.   --   Like as the seeds and the husk (between themselves) are born together in water but the husk (goes) is destroyed so the concomitant evil fruits of his acts who knows the essence of God will leave him undefiled--Indeed it is thus.   189