He couldn't find a single model to copy; instead, he copied specific features from five girls to achieve the divine figure.
At times, the animal or plant achieves a divine identity of its own e.g., the thunderbird or the earthquake monster.
Thus when I reached eighty years, I hope to have made increasing progress, and at ninety to see further into the underlying principles of things, so that at one hundred years I will have achieved a divine state in my art, and at one hundred and ten, every dot and every stroke will be as though alive.
Metaphysics or speculative wisdom is the culminating and defining goal of philosophical inquiry: it is such knowledge as we can achieve of the divine, the first cause of all else.
Yet the chief of their number, Mr Greenspan, instead achieved near-divine status as chairman of the Fed.
A student of the monk-theologian Gregory Palamas, Akindynos absorbed from him the Hesychast theory of ascetical contemplation, a method of Eastern mysticism that used repetitive formulas and mental concentration through specific bodily postures to achieve inner peace and divine union through a vision of God.
It is nobler and more divine to achieve an end for a city than for an individual (NE 1094b9 10).
The human mind will achieve reunification with the divine, and then the corporeal, temporal, material world will become essentially incorporeal, timeless, and intellectual.
Rather, the theory holds that there are certain kinds of knowledge, crucial to cognitive development, that we can achieve only with special divine assistance.
Rather, the proponent of grace holds that there is a certain class of volitional states, crucial to human well-being, that we can achieve only with special divine assistance.
