civilized

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On the one hand, tantric yoga served to increasingly refine consciousness as a means to achieving divinized embodiment or, in other words, becoming a god while remaining in the body.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2016

In ancient times, says Gogarten, man envisioned himself as a creature entwined with and contained by a divinized cosmos.

From Time Magazine Archive

Him who clasps in his thought and in his love the whole humanity whose troubled annals history recounts, and who divinized the spirit of youth when He assumed its form?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various

Caught between the heavy boulders above and beneath the couch, the Shōgun was to be sent to rest with, not worship of, his divinized grandfather at Nikkō.

From Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)

In the Roman sacra gentilicia it was rather the divinized ancestors who were the guests—they were entertained by the living.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris