Supernatural vs Pandemonism - What's the difference?
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Above nature; that which is beyond or added to nature, often so considered because it is given by a deity or some force beyond that which humans are born with. In Roman Catholic theology, is considered to be a supernatural addition to human nature.
Not of the usual; not natural; altered by forces that are not understood fully if at all.
Neither visible nor measurable.
(countable) A supernatural being.
(uncountable) Supernatural beings and events collectively.
* 2012 , Blake Morrison, The Guardian , [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jul/20/blake-morrison-under-the-witches-spell?INTCMP=SRCH]:
Belief that every object (animate or inanimate), idea (abstract or concrete), and action is inhabited by its own independent supernatural spirit; worship of such spirits.
* 1833 , Charles Buck, A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious and Ecclesiastical Terms , p. 291:
* 1910 , Samuel Fallows, Andrew Constantinides Zenos, Herbert Lockwood Willett, The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopædia and Scriptural Dictionary , p. 1481:
* 1974 , Stephen Porter Dunn, Introduction to Soviet Ethnography , p. 491:
* 1996 , Robert Turcan, The Cults of the Roman Empire , page 121:
* 2004 , Boris Jakim, The Comforter , p. 226:
Belief in an universe that is infused with an evil spirit.
* 1927 , Lewis Browne, Elsa Weihl, That Man Heine: A Biography , p. 257:
* 1987 , Friedrich Schelling in Ernst Behler, Philosophy of German Idealism , p. 235:
* 2003 , Robert Wicks, Literary Truth as Dreamlike Expression in Foucault's and Borges's "Chinese Encyclopedia"'', in ''Philosophy and Literature , Vol. 27, No. 1, p. 80-97.
As nouns the difference between supernatural and pandemonism
is that supernatural is (countable) a supernatural being while pandemonism is belief that every object (animate or inanimate), idea (abstract or concrete), and action is inhabited by its own independent supernatural spirit; worship of such spirits.As an adjective supernatural
is above nature; that which is beyond or added to nature, often so considered because it is given by a deity or some force beyond that which humans are born with in roman catholic theology, is considered to be a supernatural addition to human nature.supernatural
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The house is haunted by supernatural forces.
Synonyms
* extraordinary, paranormal, preternatural, supranatural, unnaturalAntonyms
* ordinary * naturalNoun
(en noun)- Dr Johnson defended Shakespeare's use of the supernatural from the charge of implausibility on the grounds that, "The reality of witchcraft … has in all ages and countries been credited by the common people, and in most by the learned."
pandemonism
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Alternative forms
* * pandaemonismNoun
(-)- At all events, it is interesting to learn, from this work, with greater accuracy, an old religious system of the East, in which are to he found, with Pandemonism and the metempsychosis, the elements of the worship of the stars, of astrology, the theurgy , the doctrine of amulets, as well as the elements of the Hindoo religion, particularly the system of castes.
- Every object, animate or inanimate, every idea, abstract or concrete, became endowed with a spirit of its own. The religion of Rome was a pandaemonism , a belief, not in one god, pervading all nature and identified with nature, but in millions of gods, a god for every object, every act.
- But he was scarcely right in attempting to derive all primitive religious concepts from an undifferentiated "dim pandemonism ."
- The dignity and calm of Isiac faith had something to impress anxious or fickle pagans who were beguiled by the murky occultism of the sects or the pandemonism of the magicians.
- This peculiar anthropological docetism, or pandemonism , is not compatible with the Christian faith.
- It was but the original faith of the ancient ancient Teutons which the Christian monks had perverted into pandemonism .
- While this ancillary thought explains evil in the world, it also completely extinguishes the good and introduces pandemonism instead of pantheism.
- Whereas pantheism asserts that all is God, pandemonism' asserts that all is hell; whereas pantheism asserts that all is sacred and divine, ' pandemonism asserts that all is profane and contaminated.