emanation

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Hence: Primitive Sound Emanation, which turns out to be a fancy phrase for an impressively fierce wild-monkey screech.

From Chicago Tribune • Apr. 27, 2011

It is very clear, therefore, that though Philo declined Oriental pantheism, he laid his foundation on the Oriental theory of Emanation.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William

O Nofri," she said, "Priestess of Set, great seeress and magician of the old world in whom once my spirit dwelt, send forth your Ka, your everlasting Emanation, to help me.

From Love Eternal by Haggard, Henry Rider

This above is the Breath, the Conception, the Emanation, the Dream, the Universal Energy—philosophers have called it by many names, but they mean the God-Idea wrought of necessity in Spirit, since God is spirit.

From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Comfort, Will Levington

Its doctrines of the Transmigration of the Soul, of the Creation as God's self-revelation in the world, of the Emanation from the divine essence of semi-human, semi-divine powers, were only commonplaces of medieval theology.

From Chapters on Jewish Literature by Abrahams, Israel