Chhotomama's "joy" (ananda), unlike Lapierre's, goes back to Tagore's belief that ananda was essential to creation, both aesthetic and divine; a belief not so far from the young James Joyce's that "the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy".
"Whether in their careers or physiognomies, in the alchemy between their faces and the screen or in the kind of directors they choose work with, and from a mortal, starlike quality, they escalate into an essential, transcendental, divine sphere".
Denying attributes to God follows, for Maimonides, from a proper awareness of the nature of divine unity (as an essential and trait-less being as wisdom as goodness).
Since a substance and its inseparable attributes "share in the same essential nature," and since one can't understand a substance without understanding its "essential and inseparable attribute[s]," the Lord and his divine consort form "a single reality" (Kumar 146 7).
Essential both for divine and natural magic is a genuine faith, which requires purity of heart and an intrinsic adherence on the part of the soul to the divinity.
And, perhaps above all, human and divine.
It is at once disgusting and divine.
His suit is Prada and divine – "Thanks.
Absolutism and divine right were under attack.
It's simultaneously dreadful and divine.
