Divine presence

Conceptualizations

• Immanence–usually applied in monotheistic, pantheistic, pandeistic, or panentheistic faiths to suggest that the spiritual world permeates the. It is often contrasted with transcendence, in which the divine is seen to be outside the material world.
• Inner light–term used in various religions to refer to the presence of God as a "light". The Religious Society of Friends regards this concept as a fundamental belief.
• Divine light–an aspect of divine presence with qualities of illumination: thought, intellect, knowledge, insight, wisdom, being, divine love.
• Numen–Latin term for "presence", used historically to refer to a Roman religious concept.
• Theophany–refers to the appearance of a deity to a human.
• Higher consciousness–is the consciousness of a higher Self, transcendental reality, or God.

  Abrahamic religions

Judaism

• Angel of the Presence–refers to an entity variously considered angelic or else identified with God himself.
• Shekhinah–denotes the dwelling or settling of the divine presence of God and his cosmic glory.

Christianity

• Immanuel–"God with us," is a Biblical concept that deals with the concept of divine presence, often used by Christians as a title for Jesus
• Incarnation –The belief that the second person of the Trinity, also known as God the Son or the Logos, "became flesh" by being conceived in the womb of Mary.
• Presence of God –refers to the belief that God is present by his Essence everywhere and in all things by reason of his Immensity. It also refers to the belief that God is in a special manner really and substantially present in the souls of the just.

• Consubstantiation–Lutheran concept of Christ being "infused" within the species of communion with these aspects still substantially present.
• Transubstantiation–Catholic and Orthodox concept of Christ fully, truly and substantially present in the Eucharist with the physical species being substantially absent.

  Indian religions