GODS

n. (Informal) second floor of an auditorium; first seating raised-balcony above ground level in a theater or opera house; dress circle

n. being conceived to have supernatural powers and authority

This article is about the term "Deity" in the context of mysticism and theology. See God for details on monotheistic and henotheistic usages, as well as god (male deity) or goddess for details on polytheistic usages. For other uses, see either God (disambiguation) or Gods (disambiguation)See also: List of deities
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Noun
1. any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
(synonym) deity, divinity, immortal
(hypernym) spiritual being, supernatural being
(hyponym) Demogorgon
(member-holonym) pantheon
2. a man of such superior qualities that he seems like a deity to other people; "he was a god among men"
(hypernym) superior, higher-up, superordinate
3. a material effigy that is worshipped as a god; "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"; "money was his god"
(synonym) idol, graven image
(hypernym) effigy, image, simulacrum
(hyponym) golden calf

[Other] Gods are superior beings who distinguish themselves from other beings or spirits through their higher qualities (power and status) and usually worshipped as such. Other than the one God in monotheism gods are not regarded as being perfect or eternal. In fact, some are not even immortal. They are, however, attributed supernatural powers and aspects and may be beneficent towards humanity, although others are malignant, while yet others are neutral: neither good nor bad. There are male, female, and androgynous deities. Besides that, there are many categories of gods, depending on their functions, the forces of nature or human society they represent, their habitat, etc. Some of those categories are: sun-gods, sky-gods, fertility gods, water-gods (rain, ocean), chthonic gods, storm-gods, etc.

God(s) and Goddess(es) A generalizing term signifying all self-conscious entities superior to humankind, most often restricted to the three dhyani-chohanic kingdoms. The gods have differing places in nature's hierarchical scheme, running through innumerable grades of cosmic intelligences. Theosophy teaches that human beings who successfully reach the seventh round on this earth chain will pass, at the conclusion of this last round, into the kingdom superior to the human, that of the lowest dhyani-chohans.
One function of dhyani-chohans (gods or demigods of a lower type) is the watching over of all hierarchies below them, some being guardians of the human host, others guarding and protecting the less evolved kingdoms. The higher hierarchical ranges of gods or divinities in our universe "are Entities of the higher worlds in the hierarchy of Being, so immeasurably high that, to us, they must appear as Gods, and collectively -- God. . . . To the highest, we are taught, belong the seven orders of the purely divine Spirits; to the six lower ones belong hierarchies that can occasionally be seen and heard by men, and who do communicate with their progeny of the Earth; which progeny is indissoluble linked with them, each principle in man having its direct source in the nature of those great Beings, who furnish us with the respective invisible elements in us" (SD 1:133).
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