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Glossary Menus

Transcendence

In Panosophy—in which there are no divisions between science, philosophy, and theology—Transcendence is the quality of the Divine that surpasses the boundaries of the world of form, as the Cosmic Context of the Universe, and hence of all our lives.

In union with Immanence, Transcendence is Ineffable, quite impossible to express further in words or even concepts. Wholeness just is.

Nevertheless, this unification of Transcendence and Immanence best describes the life-changing 25 years of my spiritual awakening from 1983, on Wimbledon Common in London, to 2008, in the Altai Mountains in Russia. It was in this way that God became a scientific concept, which I set out to find in 1949 to find Inner Peace by ending the long-running war between science and religion.

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Etymology

1601, in Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, from transcendent, about 1450, possibly on the model of Latin Latin trānscendentia ‘character of being transcendent, elevation, loftiness’, from Latin transcendentem (nominative transcendens) ‘surmounting, rising above’, present participle of transcendere ‘climb over or beyond, surmount, exceed, overstep’, from trans- ‘across, beyond’, perhaps originally present participle of a verb *trare- ‘to cross’, from PIE base *tra-, variant of *terə, and scandere ‘to climb; scan verse’, from PIE base *skand- ‘to leap, climb’.

Transcendental, 1668, ‘transcending the bounds of any category’, in Aristotelian philosophy, from Medieval Latin transcendentalis, from Latin transcendentem, etc.

Transcendentalism, 1803, ‘transcendental philosophy’, in reference to Immanuel Kant, later to Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling; becoming in 1827 as the name of the teachings and philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his followers.

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