NOUN
- an incorporeal being believed to have powers to affect the course of human events
How To Use spiritual being In A Sentence
- Satan," in Greek "daimon" because he is a spiritual being possessed of extraordinary powers, also "diabolos," because he is a calumniator who accuses those whom he has deceived with false sin, the being whom Augustine said possesses intelligent reasons for what he urges others to do. THE IRATE NATION
- spiritual beings
- Sometimes the physical instincts are elevated to a spiritual level and often the spiritual being descends to a baser life.
- Philosophical Magazine, published in T [= o] ki [= o], a Japanese writer, Mr. Kenjir [= o] Hiradé, states also that the term kami does not necessarily denote a spiritual being, but is only a relative term meaning above or high, but this respect toward something high or above has created many imaginary deities as well as those having a human history. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
- Also from the influence of spiritual beings an injuring of the moral person is possible, so long as the rational creature has not as yet attained to its ultimate perfection, so that here also there is place for the duty of watchfulness, in order that the diverse personalities that are as yet in process of development may not act hinderingly upon each other. Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics.
- They employ the term psychical to indicate the relation of the human soul to sense, appetite, propensity, etc., and psychological, as indicating the ultimates of spiritual being. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
- In addition, marriage clearly promotes the bearing of children, which implies bringing new spiritual beings under the domination of fleshly bodies and so helping the cause of evil.
- Being defined as incorporeal substances, as purely spiritual beings, angels are not thus decomposable. The Angels and Us
- Thank God that you are a spiritual being, and that you will live eternally with Him.
- There were spirits (in Greek daimones) and spiritual beings like Socrates's mysterious voice (daimonion) (Apology, 31d1-4, 40a2-c3). Religion and Morality