Emanations

Neoplatonists insisted that the One is absolutely transcendent and in the emanations nothing of the higher was lost or transmitted to the lower, which remained unchanged by the lower emanations.

And from that Light all these emanations, all these manifestations came forth.

At its most simple level, it is composed of ten spheres, or emanations, called sephiroth (sing.

In " Elogium ", Kes is affected by emanations from space-dwelling life-forms and prematurely enters the "elogium", the Ocampan female reproductive state.

In the different systems these emanations are differently named, classified, and described, but the emanation theory itself is common to all forms of Gnosticism.

J. J. Bellermann has speculated that "the whole represents the Supreme Being, with his Five great Emanations, each one pointed out by means of an expressive emblem.

Kabbalists believe that these two aspects are not contradictory but complement one another, emanations revealing the concealed mystery from within the Godhead.

Plotinus taught that there was an ineffable transcendent "God" (The One) of which subsequent realities were emanations.

The Aeons together made up the Pleroma, or fullness of divinity and thus should not be seen as identical with God nor as distinct from the divine, but as embodied divine emanations.

The Ancient Greeks thought that Sirius's emanations could affect dogs adversely, making them behave abnormally during the "dog days," the hottest days of the summer.

Their theology has a Neo-Platonic view about how God interacts with the world through emanations and is similar to some gnostic and other esoteric sects.

The Romans celebrated the heliacal setting of Sirius around April 25, sacrificing a dog, along with incense, wine, and a sheep, to the goddess Robigo so that the star's emanations would not cause wheat rust on wheat crops that year.

The second aspect of divine emanations, however, are accessible to human perception, dynamically interacting throughout spiritual and physical existence, reveal the divine immanently, and are bound up in the life of man.

The sephirot are considered revelations of the Creator's will (ratzon), The Song of the Soul, Yechiel Bar-Lev, p.73 and they should not be understood as ten different "gods" but as ten different ways the one God reveals his will through the Emanations.

The various emanations of God are called æons.

This new all-pervasive monad encompassed all creation and its original uncreated emanations.

This was generally well-separated from other buildings both because of the fire danger and because of the smoke emanations.

To other Gnostics, these emanations are akin to the Sephirot of the Kabbalists; they are deliberate manifestations of a transcendent God through a complex system of intermediaries.