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The doctrine or theory of immanence holds that the divine encompasses or is=
 manifested in the material world. It is held by some philosophical and met=
aphysical theories of divine presence. Immanence is usually applied in mono=
theistic, pantheistic, pandeistic, or panentheistic faiths to suggest that =
the spiritual world permeates the mundane. It is often contrasted with theo=
ries of transcendence, in which the divine is seen to be outside the materi=
al world.

Another meaning of immanence is the quality of being contained within, or r=
emaining within the boundaries of a person, of the world, or of the mind. T=
his meaning is more common within Christian and other monotheist theology, =
in which the one God is considered to transcend his creation.Pythagoreanism=
 says that the nous is an intelligent principle of the world acting with a =
specific intention. This is the divine reason regarded in Neoplatonism as t=
he first emanation of the divine.[1] From the nous emerges the world soul, =
which gives rise to the manifest realm. Neoplatonic gnosticism goes on to s=
ay the Godhead is the Father, Mother, and Son (Zeus). In the mind of Zeus, =
the ideas are distinctly articulated and become the Logos by which he creat=
es the world. These ideas become active in the Mind (nous) of Zeus. With hi=
m is the Power and from him is the nous.[2] This theology further explains =
that Zeus is called Demiurge (D=C3=AAmiourgos, Creator), Maker (Poi=C3=AAt=
=C3=AAs), and Craftsman (Technit=C3=AAs).[3] The nous of the demiurge proce=
eds outward into manifestation, becoming living ideas. They give rise to a =
lineage of mortal human souls.[4] The components of the soul are[5] 1) the =
higher soul, seat of the intuitive mind (divine nous); 2) the rational soul=
 (logistikon) (seat of discursive reason / dianoia); 3) the nonrational sou=
l (alogia), responsible for the senses, appetites, and motion. Zeus thinks =
the articulated ideas (logos). The idea of ideas (eidos - eid=C3=B4n), prov=
ides a model of the Paradigm of the Universe, which the Demiurge contemplat=
es in his articulation of the ideas and his creation of the world according=
 to the Logos.[6]

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Exponents of this non-dual tradition emphasize the importance of a direct e=
xperience of non-duality through both meditative practice and philosophical=
 investigation. In one version, one maintains awareness as thoughts arise a=
nd dissolve within the 'field' of mind; one does not accept or reject them,=
 rather one lets the mind wander as it will until a subtle sense of immanen=
ce dawns. Vipassana, or insight, is the integration of one's 'presence of a=
wareness' with that which arises in the mind. Non-duality or rigpa is said =
to be the recognition that both the quiet, calm, abiding state as found in =
samatha and the movement or arising of phenomena as found in vipassana are =
not separate.

According to Christian theology, the transcendent God, who cannot be approa=
ched or seen in essence or being, becomes immanent primarily in the God-man=
 Jesus the Christ, who is the incarnate Second Person of the Trinity. In By=
zantine Rite theology the immanence of God is expressed as the hypostases o=
r energies of God, who in his essence is incomprehensible and transcendent.=
 In Catholic theology, Christ and the Holy Spirit immanently reveal themsel=
ves; God the Father only reveals himself immanently vicariously through the=
 Son and Spirit, and the divine nature, the Godhead is wholly transcendent =
and unable to be comprehended.

The immanence of the triune God is celebrated in the Catholic Church, tradi=
tional Protestant Churches, and Eastern Churches during the liturgical feas=
t of the Theophany of God, known in Western Christianity as the Epiphany.

Descriptions of divine immanence can be seen in Nigleh, from the Bible to R=
abbinic Judaism. In Genesis, God makes a personal covenant with the forefat=
hers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Daily Jewish prayers refer to this inherited=
 closeness and personal relationship with the divine, for their descendants=
, as "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob". To Moses, God reveals his Tetra=
grammaton name, that more fully captures divine descriptions of transcenden=
ce. Each of the Biblical names for God describe different divine manifestat=
ions. The most important prayer in Judaism, that forms part of the Scriptur=
al narrative to Moses, says "Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord i=
s One." This declaration combines different divine names, and themes of imm=
anence[citation needed] and transcendence. Perhaps the most personal exampl=
e of a Jewish prayer that combines both themes is the invocation repeatedly=
 voiced during the time in the Jewish calendar devoted to Teshuva (Return, =
often inaccurately translated as Repentance), Avinu Malkeinu ("Our Father, =
Our King"). Much of the later Hebrew Biblical narrative recounts the recipr=
ocal relationship and national drama of the unfolding of themes of immanenc=
e and transcendence. Kabbalistic, or Hasidic Jewish thought and philosophy =
describe and articulate these interconnected aspects of the divine-human re=
lationship.

Jewish mysticism gives explanations of greater depth and spirituality to th=
e interconnected aspects of God's immanence and transcendence. The main exp=
ression of mysticism, the Kabbalah, began to be taught in 12th-Century Euro=
pe, and reached a new systemisation in 16th-Century Israel. The Kabbalah gi=
ves the full, subtle, traditional system of Jewish metaphysics. In the Medi=
eval Kabbalah, new doctrines described the 10 Sephirot (divine emanations) =
through which the Infinite, unknowable divine essence reveals, emanates, an=
d continuously creates existence. The Kabbalists identified the final, femi=
nine Sefirah with the earlier, traditional Jewish concept of the Shekhinah =
(immanent divine presence). This gave great spirituality to earlier ideas i=
n Jewish thought, such as the theological explanations of suffering (theodi=
cy). In this example, the Kabbalists described the Shekhinah accompanying t=
he children of Israel in their exile, being exiled alongside them, and year=
ning for Her redemption. Such a concept derives from the Kabbalistic theolo=
gy that the physical World, and also the Upper spiritual Worlds, are contin=
uously recreated from nothing by the Shefa (flow) of divine will, which ema=
nates through the Sefirot. As a result, within all creations are divine spa=
rks of vitality that sustain them. Medieval Kabbalah describes two forms of=
 divine emanation, a "light that fills all worlds", representing this imman=
ent divine creative power, and a "light that surrounds all worlds", represe=
nting transcendent expressions of Divinity.

Giordano Bruno, Baruch Spinoza and possibly Hegel espoused philosophies of =
immanence versus philosophies of transcendence such as Thomism or Aristotel=
ian tradition. Kant's "transcendental" critique can be contrasted to Hegel'=
s "immanent dialectics."[13]



Gilles Deleuze qualified Spinoza as the "prince of philosophers" for his th=
eory of immanence, which Spinoza resumed by "Deus sive Natura" ("God or Nat=
ure"). Such a theory considers that there is no transcendent principle or e=
xternal cause to the world, and that the process of life production is cont=
ained in life itself.[14] When compounded with Idealism, the immanence theo=
ry qualifies itself away from "the world" to there being no external cause =
to one's mind.

Thomas Carlyle's idea of "Natural Supernaturalism" posited the immanence of=
 the divine in nature, history and man. Clement Charles Julian Webb explain=
ed that "Carlyle had done more than any other nineteenth-century writer to =
undermine belief in the transcendence of God and the origin of the material=
 world in an act of creation in time, and to put in its place an 'essential=
ly immanentist' theology, drawn largely from the writings of the German Ide=
alists." Carlyle's "Natural Supernaturalism" was highly influential on Amer=
ican Transcendentalism and British Idealism.[15]

Giovanni Gentile's actual idealism, sometimes called "philosophy of immanen=
ce" and the metaphysics of the "I", "affirms the organic synthesis of diale=
ctical opposites that are immanent within actual or present awareness".[16]=
 His so-called method of immanence "attempted to avoid: (1) the postulate o=
f an independently existing world or a Kantian Ding-an-sich (thing-in-itsel=
f), and (2) the tendency of neo-Hegelian philosophy to lose the particular =
self in an Absolute that amounts to a kind of mystical reality without dist=
inctions."[16]

Political theorist Carl Schmitt used the term in his book Politische Theolo=
gie (1922), meaning a power within some thought, which makes it obvious for=
 the people to accept it, without needing to claim being justified.[17] The=
 immanence of some political system or a part of it comes from the reigning=
 contemporary definer of Weltanschauung, namely religion (or any similar sy=
stem of beliefs, such as rationalistic or relativistic world-view). The Naz=
is took advantage of this theory creating, or resurrecting, basically relig=
ious mythology of race, its heroes, and its destiny to motivate people and =
to make their reign unquestionable, which it became.[18]

The French 20th-century philosopher Gilles Deleuze used the term immanence =
to refer to his "empiricist philosophy", which was obliged to create action=
 and results rather than establish transcendents. His final text was titled=
 Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life and spoke of a plane of immanence.[19]

Furthermore, the Russian Formalist film theorists perceived immanence as a =
specific method of discussing the limits of ability for a technological obj=
ect. Specifically, this is the scope of potential uses of an object outside=
 of the limits prescribed by culture or convention, and is instead simply t=
he empirical spectrum of function for a technological artifact.[20]

The way to deeper knowledge of God is throughthe lonely valleys of soul pov=
erty and abnegation ofall things. The blessed ones who possess the Kingdoma=
re they who have repudiated every external thing andhave rooted from their =
hearts all sense of possessing.These are the "poor in spirit." They have re=
ached aninward state paralleling the outward circumstances ofthe common beg=
gar in the streets of Jerusalem; that iswhat the word "poor" as Christ used=
 it actually means.These blessed poor are no longer slaves to the tyrannyof=
 things. They have broken the yoke of the oppressor;and this they have done=
 not by fighting but by surrendering.Though free from all sense of possessi=
ng, theyyet possess all things. "Theirs is the kingdom ofheaven."
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