supercelestial love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Situated above the firmament or vault of heaven, or above all the heavens.
  • More than celestial; having a nature higher than that of celestials; superangelic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Situated above the firmament, or great vault of heaven.
  • adjective Higher than celestial; superangelic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Situated above the heavens.
  • adjective Higher than celestial; superangelic

Etymologies

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super- +‎ celestial

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Examples

  • By propelling the soul through the heavens toward supercelestial divinity, magic assists the transition from natural philosophy to natural theology and beyond, while Cabala, which rises higher than any discursive theology, changes humans into angels purged of all traces of matter and thus prepared for henôsis or absolute unification with God.

    Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copenhaver, Brian 2008

  • [2927] The interpretation of these words is as follows: "I do not divide the Spirit of Christ, neither the heart nor the supercelestial power which is merciful; may I enjoy Thy name, O Saviour of truth!"

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • Thus, then, you have a clear statement of their opinion as to the origin of the supercelestial Jesus.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • Let them praise Thy Name, let them praise Thee, the supercelestial people, Thine angels, who have no need to gaze up at this firmament, or by reading to know of

    The Confessions 1999

  • For who can conceive these things, unless he has spent at least six and thirty years in the philosophical and supercelestial whims of Aristotle and the Schoolmen?

    In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958

  • Therefore His human mind was subject to the illuminations of supercelestial spirits.

    Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas

  • Idea of God, or absolute Goodness, which is said to be for the supercelestial universe what the sun in the heavens is for this terrestrial world of ours.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • Its having previously contained within Itself, superessentially, the whole perfections of all kinds of essential knowledge and power, and Its being firmly fixed by Its absolute power, above all, even the supercelestial minds.

    Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897

  • How many, and of what sort, are the Orders of the supercelestial Beings, and how the Hierarchies are classified amongst themselves, I affirm, the deifying Author of their consecration alone distinctly knows; and further, that they know their own proper powers and illuminations, and their sacred and supermundane regularity.

    Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897

  • And to the supercelestial lives It gives the immaterial and godlike, and unchangeable immortality; and the unswerving and undeviating perpetual movement; whilst extending Itself through excess of goodness, even to the life of demons [47].

    Dionysius the Areopagite, Works (1897) Dionysius the Areopagite 1897

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