Immanation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A flowing or entering in.

    "If we turn to the oldest hypotheses of the East,—to the Vedas of the Bramins and the Zendavesta of the Parsees,— […] we shall find indeed a full acknowledgement of the immortality of the soul, but only upon the sublime and mystical doctrine of emanation and immanation, as part of the great soul of the universe; […]"

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"If we turn to the oldest hypotheses of the East,—to the Vedas of the Bramins and the Zendavesta of the Parsees,— […] we shall find indeed a full acknowledgement of the immortality of the soul, but only upon the sublime and mystical doctrine of emanation and immanation, as part of the great soul of the universe; […]"

Etymology

From im- (“in”) + Latin manare (“to flow”). Compare mantio (“a flowing”).

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