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Line 57: − + − 0:1.3 Deity functions on personal, prepersonal, and superpersonal levels. Total Deity is functional on the following seven levels:+ − − * 1. 0:1.4 Static—self-contained and self-existent Deity. − * 2. 0:1.5 Potential—self-willed and self-purposive Deity. − * 3. 0:1.6 Associative—self-personalized and divinely fraternal Deity. − * 4. 0:1.7 Creative—self-distributive and divinely revealed Deity. − * 5. 0:1.8 Evolutional—self-expansive and creature-identified Deity. − * 6. 0:1.9 Supreme—self-experiential and creature-Creator-unifying Deity. Deity functioning on the first creature-identificational level as time-space overcontrollers of the grand universe, sometimes designated the Supremacy of Deity. − * 7. 0:1.10 Ultimate—self-projected and time-space-transcending Deity. Deity omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Deity functioning on the second level of unifying divinity expression as effective overcontrollers and absonite upholders of the master universe. As compared with the ministry of the Deities to the grand universe, this absonite function in the master universe is tantamount to universal overcontrol and supersustenance, sometimes called the Ultimacy of Deity. − − 0:1.11 The finite level of reality is characterized by creature life and time-space limitations. Finite realities may not have endings, but they always have beginnings—they are created. The Deity level of Supremacy may be conceived as a function in relation to finite existences. − − 0:1.12 The absonite level of reality is characterized by things and beings without beginnings or endings and by the transcendence of time and space. Absoniters are not created; they are eventuated—they simply are. The Deity level of Ultimacy connotes a function in relation to absonite realities. No matter in what part of the master universe, whenever time and space are transcended, such an absonite phenomenon is an act of the Ultimacy of Deity. − − 0:1.13 The absolute level is beginningless, endless, timeless, and spaceless. For example: On Paradise, time and space are nonexistent; the time-space status of Paradise is absolute. This level is Trinity attained, existentially, by the Paradise Deities, but this third level of unifying Deity expression is not fully unified experientially. Whenever, wherever, and however the absolute level of Deity functions, Paradise-absolute values and meanings are manifest. − − 0:1.14 Deity may be existential, as in the Eternal Son; experiential, as in the Supreme Being; associative, as in God the Sevenfold; undivided, as in the Paradise Trinity. − − 0:1.15 Deity is the source of all that which is divine. Deity is characteristically and invariably divine, but all that which is divine is not necessarily Deity, though it will be co-ordinated with Deity and will tend towards some phase of unity with Deity—spiritual, mindal, or personal. [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword]
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A '''deity''' is a [[preternatural]] or [[supernatural]] [[being]], who is always of significant power, [[worship]]ped, thought [[holy]], [[divinity|divine]], or [[sacred]], held in high regard, or respected by human beings.
A '''deity''' is a [[supernatural]] [[being]], who is always of significant power, [[worship]]ped, thought [[holy]], [[divinity|divine]], or [[sacred]], held in high regard by [[human being]]s.
Deities assume a variety of forms, but are frequently depicted as having human or animal form. Some faiths and traditions consider it blasphemous to imagine or depict the deity as having any concrete form. They are usually immortal. They are commonly assumed to have personalities and to possess [[consciousness]], [[intellect]]s, desires, and emotions similar to those of [[human]]s. Such natural phenomena as lightning, floods, storms, other 'acts of God', and miracles are attributed to them, and they may be thought to be the authorities or controllers of every aspect of human life (such as birth or the afterlife). Some deities are asserted to be the directors of time and fate itself, to be the givers of human law and morality, to be the ultimate judges of human worth and behavior, and to be the designers and creators of the Earth or the [[universe]].
Deities assume a variety of forms, but are frequently depicted as having human or animal form. Some faiths and traditions consider it blasphemous to imagine or depict the deity as having any concrete form. They are usually immortal. They are commonly assumed to have personalities and to possess [[consciousness]], [[intellect]]s, desires, and emotions similar to those of [[human]]s. Such natural phenomena as lightning, floods, storms, other 'acts of God', and miracles are attributed to them, and they may be thought to be the authorities or controllers of every aspect of human life (such as birth or the afterlife). Some deities are asserted to be the directors of time and fate itself, to be the givers of human law and morality, to be the ultimate judges of human worth and behavior, and to be the designers and creators of the Earth or the [[universe]].
<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''[[Deity]]''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Deity '''''this link'''''].</center>
==Etymology==
==Etymology==
The word "deity" derives from the [[Latin]] ''"dea"'', ("goddess"), and '''"deus"'', ("god"). Related are words for "sky": the Latin "''dies''" ("day") and "''divum''" ("open sky"), and the [[Sanskrit]] "''div''," "''diu''" ("sky," "day," "shine"). Also related are "divine" and "divinity," from the Latin "''divinus''," from "''divus''."
The word "deity" derives from the [[Latin]] ''"dea"'', ("goddess"), and '''"deus"'', ("god"). Related are words for "sky": the Latin "''dies''" ("day") and "''divum''" ("open sky"), and the [[Sanskrit]] "''div''," "''diu''" ("sky," "day," "shine"). Also related are "divine" and "divinity," from the Latin "''divinus''," from "''divus''."
Not many of these endured so long, but records of such deities exist from the beginning of human records of their beliefs. Tantalizing images of what may be tens of thousands of years of worship of deities who seem to have been unchallenged and essentially unchanged, therefore easily suggesting that perhaps, humans believed in a single deity initially, that some later developed pantheons and returned again to single deities, and that others developed cosmological concepts that were quite abstract and not dependent upon deities.
Not many of these endured so long, but records of such deities exist from the beginning of human records of their beliefs. Tantalizing images of what may be tens of thousands of years of worship of deities who seem to have been unchallenged and essentially unchanged, therefore easily suggesting that perhaps, humans believed in a single deity initially, that some later developed pantheons and returned again to single deities, and that others developed cosmological concepts that were quite abstract and not dependent upon deities.
==Urantia Quote==
==Quote==
DEITY is personalizable as God, is prepersonal and superpersonal in ways not altogether comprehensible by man. Deity is characterized by the quality of unity—actual or potential—on all supermaterial levels of reality; and this unifying quality is best comprehended by creatures as divinity.
DEITY is personalizable as God, is prepersonal and superpersonal in ways not altogether comprehensible by man. Deity is characterized by the quality of unity—actual or potential—on all supermaterial levels of reality; and this unifying quality is best comprehended by creatures as divinity.
Deity is the source of all that which is divine. Deity is characteristically and invariably divine, but all that which is divine is not necessarily Deity, though it will be co-ordinated with Deity and will tend towards some phase of unity with Deity—spiritual, mindal, or personal. [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Foreword]
[[Category: Religion]]
[[Category: Religion]]