Sentence examples for divine illusion from inspiring English sources

Is free will real or just a carefully orchestrated divine illusion?

Hinduism teaches that our individual identities are part of a large, divine illusion called Maya.

Mr. Eliasson pulls back the curtain, revealing the humble technologies and optical tricks that lie behind his divine illusions.

This method enabled her to recreate Wendte's divine illusions.

In one bravura passage, he shows how a mathematical result called Ramsey's theorem can account for the illusion of divine order arising from chaos.

But their illusions of divine grace are shattered when a churchman incites a frightened mob to slay the two "sinners" (whose misdeed is understood to have caused the earthquake).

He has no illusions about divine inspiration or the uniqueness of his ideas.

By contrast, the infant's need for protection in a dangerous and uncertain world, which continues into adulthood "permanently sustained by fear of the superior power of Fate" (p. 20), is strong enough to explain religion as a wish-fulfilling projection (illusion) of a divine Father who is both protective and demanding.

KARL MARX saw criticism of religion as the beginning of all criticism: only when mankind had surrendered illusions about the divine could the real problems of the earth be tackled.

They are views according to which the apparent loss of divine attributes is only pretense or illusion.

Although the masters often rationalized slavery as a variation of patriarchal paternalism, Davis sees bestialization as the means by which slaveholders elevated themselves, creating the illusion that they enjoyed "something approaching divine power".