Maya is but his power of self-manifestation.
Revelation, consequently, is viewed as the gracious self-manifestation of the divine to those who open themselves in loving contemplation.
Because God is known only through his self-manifestation in the created order, however, the distinction between theologia and oikonomia is easily blurred.
So the Son of God used manhood for his self-manifestation, and manhood was, therefore, included in his prosōpon, so that he was a single object of presentation.
Because of that idea of Christ as a "mode" of divine self-manifestation, proponents of that view were dubbed "modalists"; from an early supporter of the view it was called Sabellianism.
This gradation forms a single continuum that culminates in pure light, self-luminosity, self-awareness, self-manifestation, or self-knowledge, which is God, the light of lights, the true One.
To paraphrase the question, Tertullian asks what relationship exists between the world of revealed religion in which God's self-manifestation is the ultimate source of knowledge and the free intellectual inquiry of Greek philosophy.One may conclude, like Tertullian, that Athens and Jerusalem are in the end separate worlds, separate ways of apprehending reality.
This is true especially of his central doctrine of the "unity of being" and his sharp distinction between the absolute One, which is undefinable Truth (ḥaqq), and his self-manifestation (ẓuhūr), or creation (khalq), which is ever new (jadīd) and in perpetual movement, a movement that unites the whole of creation in a process of constant renewal.
There are ten sefirot or stages in God's self-manifestation.
These are conceived as God's attributes, or as divine spheres or realms, or as stages (in his self-manifestation).
One further, and less problematic, aspect of the "feeling" on which Schleiermacher bases religion should also be mentioned: its inclusion of motivating force, its self-manifestation in actions.
