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• EMANATION (Lat. emanatio, from e-, out, manare, to flow)

EMANATION (See also:

• LAT

Lat. emanatio, from e-, out, manare, to flow)  , in See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy and See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology, the name of one of the three See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief theories of existence, i.e. of the relation between See also:

• GOD

God and men—the One and the Many, the Universal and the Particular . This theory has been propounded in many forms, but the central See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea is that the universe of individuals consists of the involuntary " outpourings " of the ultimate divine essence . That essence is not only all-inclusive, but absolutely perfect, while the " emanated " individuals degenerate in proportion to the degree of their distance from the essence . The existence of evil in opposition to the perfect goodness of God, as thus explained, need not be attributed to God's agency, inasmuch as the whole See also:

• EMANATION (Lat. emanatio, from e-, out, manare, to flow)

emanation-See also:

• PROCESS

process is governed by necessary—as it were See also:

• MECHANICAL

mechanical—See also:

• LAWS

laws, which may be compared to those of the See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical universe . The See also:

• DOCTRINE

doctrine of emanation is thus to be distinguished from the cosmogonic theory of Judaism and See also:

• CHRISTIANITY

Christianity, which explains human existence as due to a single creative See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of a moral See also:

• AGENT (from Lat. agere, to act)

agent . The God of Judaism and Christianity is essentially a See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person in See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close See also:

• PERSONAL

personal relation to his creatures; emanation is the denial of See also:

• PERSONALITY (from Lat. persona, originally an actor's mask, from personare,1 to sound through)

personality both for God and for See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man . The emanation theory is to be contrasted, on the other See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand, with the theory of See also:

• EVOLUTION

evolution . The two theories are alike in so far as both recognize the existence of individuals as due to a necessary process of differentiation and a See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale of existence . They differ, however, fundamentally in this respect, that, whereas evolution regards the process as from the indeterminate See also:

• LOWER

lower towards the determinate higher, emanation regards it as from the highest to the indefinitely lower . There is considerable superficial similarity between evolution and emanation, especially in their formal statements . The process of evolution from the indeterminate to the determinate is often expressed as a progress from the universal to the particular . Thus the primordial See also:

• MATTER

matter assumed b, the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek physicists may be said to be the universal substance out of which particular things arise .

The doctrine of emanation also regards the See also:

• WORLD

world as a process of particularization . Yet the resemblance is more apparent than real . The universal is, as See also:

• HERBERT (FAMILY)
• HERBERT, GEORGE (1593-1633)
• HERBERT, HENRY WILLIAM
• HERBERT, SIR THOMAS (1606-1682)

Herbert See also:

• SPENCER
• SPENCER, HERBERT (1820-1903)
• SPENCER, JOHN CHARLES SPENCER, 3RD EARL (1782-1845)
• SPENCER, JOHNPOYNTZ SPENCER
• SPENCER, WILLIAM ROBERT (1769-1834)

Spencer remarked, a subjective idea, and the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general forms, existing ante res, which See also:

• PLAY

play so prominent a See also:

• PART

part in Greek and See also:

• MEDIEVAL

medieval philosophy, do not in the least correspond to the homogeneous matter of the physical evolutionists . The one process is a logical operation, the other a physical . The theory of emanation, which had its source in certain moral and religious ideas, aims first of all at explaining the origin of See also:

• MENTAL

mental or spiritual existence as an effluence from the divine and See also:

• ABSOLUTE (Lat. absolvere, to loose, set free)

absolute spirit . In the next See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, it seeks to See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account for the general laws of the world, for the universal forms of existence, as ideas which emanate from the Deity . By some it was See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed into a See also:

• COMPLETE

complete philosophy of the world, in which matter itself is viewed as the lowest emanation from the absolute . In this See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form it stands in See also:

• SHARP, GRANVILLE (1735-1813)
• SHARP, JAMES (1618-1679)
• SHARP, JOHN (1645-1714)
• SHARP, RICHARD (1759-1835)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1749-1824)
• SHARP, WILLIAM (1856-1905)

sharp See also:

• ANTITHESIS (the Greek for " setting opposite ")

antithesis to the doctrine of evolution, both because the former views the world of particular things and events as essentially unreal and illusory, and because the latter, so far as it goes, looks on matter as eternal, and seeks to explain the general forms of things as we perceive them by help of simpler assumptions . In certain theories known as doctrines of emanation, only mental existence is referred to the absolute source, while matter is viewed as eternal and distinct from the divine nature . In this form the doctrine of emanation approaches certain forms of the evolution theory (see EVOLUTION) . The doctrine of emanation is correctly described as of See also:

• ORIENTAL

oriental origin . It appears in various forms in See also:

• INDIAN

Indian philosophy, and is the characteristically oriental See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element in syncretic systems like See also:

• NEOPLATONISM

Neoplatonism and See also:

• GNOSTICISM (Gr. yvwvcs, knowledge)

Gnosticism .

None the less it is easy to find it in embryo in the speculations of the essentially See also:

• EUROPEAN

European philosophers of See also:

• GREECE

Greece . See also:

• PLATO

Plato, whose philosophy was strongly opposed to the evolution theory, distinctly inclines to the emanation idea in his doctrine that each particular thing is what it is in virtue of a pre-existent idea, and that the particulars are the lowest in the scale of existence, at the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head of, or above, which is the idea of the See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good . The view of See also:

• XENOCRATES

Xenocrates is based on the same ideas . Or again, we may compare the Stoic doctrine of airoppoiae (literally " emanations ") from the divine essence . It is, however, only in the last eclectic See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of Greek philosophy that the emanation doctrine was definitely established in the doctrines, e.g . See also:

• PLOTINUS (A.D. 204-270)

Plotinus . See especially articles EVOLUTION, NEOPLATONISM, GNOSTICISM .