In religion, however, the process whereby the Idea becomes self-conscious spirit is represented in images and metaphors as the process whereby "God" becomes the "Holy Spirit" dwelling in humanity.
Most Pentecostal and charismatic Christians believe that all Christians have the Holy Spirit dwelling in them.
During King Haco's stay at Guðey an Abbot of a monastery of Greyfriars waited on him, begging protection for their dwelling, and Holy Church: and this the King granted them in writing.
"We couldn't say 'no.' " If growing up in the little house brought inconveniences, they were small prices to pay for the privilege of dwelling in a holy place that helped stoke his faith.
The body is a temple of clay, but also a "fragile" vessel of clay and although it is a dwelling place for the Holy Spirit, it is not the ultimate for the Christian.
This embodiment of the divine in the human sanctifies and transforms the human into an organ or limb of the godhead, a divine and holy vessel a "throne" or "chariot" for the dwelling of the divine.
This is what St. Paul was talking about when he wrote, "We are carefully joined together in him, becoming a holy temple for the Lord... a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit".
"We still have our ghosts, we still have black magic," said Todsaporn Jamsuwan, the co-founder of Holy Plus, a company that makes "spirit houses," the ubiquitous miniature structures that resemble dollhouses and serve as dwellings for protective ghosts.
The shelters commemorate the 40 years Jews spent in makeshift dwellings while headed toward the Holy Land.
The inner room, or Holy of Holies, was thought to be the actual dwelling place of the God of Israel, who sat invisibly enthroned above a solid slab of gold that rested on the Ark of the Covenant and had a cherub at each end.
