The term emanation, being itself a metaphor, has been, and is still, used in many senses, and frequently by writers who are not emanationists. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
It was as if there had been an emanation from the mind, like that from the body. From Wordnik.com. [Oldtown Folks] Reference
The rate of diffusion of the thorium emanation is even less satisfactorily determined; but it also appears to be high. From Wordnik.com. [Sir William Ramsay - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Creation is "emanation" -- the overflow of God's excess of goodness. From Wordnik.com. [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference
(It may be noted, however, that sometimes the word emanation is used in a broader sense including also creation. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
God's power of emanation, which is creative, although simple in its origins and principle, is complex in its effects. From Wordnik.com. [Dietrich of Freiberg] Reference
"emanation" -- a radiation so faint its source could not be traced. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
The first 'emanation' when you realized that you had the capacity to create life. From Wordnik.com. [catpewk Diary Entry] Reference
A powerful and wide-spreading emanation, that is utterly disgusting and repulsive to every animal in its wild state. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries] Reference
Principle, the latter being as much an "emanation" as is Matter. From Wordnik.com. [A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga] Reference
But when I meet him I notice in him a kind of emanation of quiet bliss. From Wordnik.com. [The Path Of Duty] Reference
The word "emanation" has been adopted as the only one which to a certain extent conveys this very subtle and complicated idea. From Wordnik.com. [Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria] Reference
At times there is an exquisite singing in the air, not audible but plainly to be felt, and a kind of emanation of light in the Chapel. From Wordnik.com. [Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation] Reference
Somehow, from the complete inertia of her movements and her expressionless face, comes a mysterious emanation which is deadly to the male.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Faces of Vanity Fair] Reference
The emanation is another matter. From Wordnik.com. [The War Terror] Reference
It has arisen by emanation from a cosmic Principle. From Wordnik.com. [Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India] Reference
Effluvium: a foul or unpleasant smell or emanation. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
What you saw was but the emanation of your own brain. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
The subtle, invisible emanation radiating from every individual. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms] Reference
'The temple of art is an emanation from that Divine Spirit who fills it with Himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
London: of an emanation that was not interpreted as light until it reached the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
The dictionaries define the word aura as: "Any subtle, invisible emanation or exhalation.". From Wordnik.com. [The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms] Reference
The style is an emanation from Baxter's own intellect, -- he has written himself into the poem. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
This conduct conveys an emanation of the principal light passing over the more delicate shadows. From Wordnik.com. [Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt.] Reference
All visible and invisible beings are an emanation from Him, and are not really distinct from Him. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
The soul of man is thus an emanation from the godhead, into whom it will eventually be re-absorbed. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
I once heard a member of a foreign legation say to another: "Gurowski is an emanation of the Devil.". From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
The Pythagoreans taught, too, of the existence of an animal soul, an emanation of the soul of the universe. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Probably He was one of the Aeons of whom our forefathers have told us -- the leading emanation from the Most High. From Wordnik.com. [The Prayer Book Explained] Reference
Sulphur is of two kinds, one of which is of volcanic emanation, the other being closely allied to sedimentary rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888] Reference
Whence their emanation, where and how they got their power, by what rule they lived, moved and had their being, we know not. From Wordnik.com. [America First Patriotic Readings] Reference
I cannot believe that even Mr. Davis was privy to the diabolical plot, but think it the emanation of a set of young men of the. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Englishmen as an emanation and a proof of the most grovelling malignity, not less despicably silly than shamelessly calumnious. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
But it is, in point of fact, untrue that an act passed by Congress is conclusive evidence that it is an emanation of the popular will. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Briefly, then, the human aura may be described as a fine, ethereal radiation or emanation surrounding each and every living human being. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Aura Astral Colors and Thought Forms] Reference
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