Is it not at least equally reasonable to assume that there are many spirits, or many shapes taken by thesuperpersonal world spirit, with which the soul can get into touch?
First there is Brahman the one self-existent, omnipresent, superpersonal spirit from whom all things emanate and to whom all things return.
Cult and dogma alike testify that in this case also the deity came to be superpersonal from an early period on.
Though the superpersonal deity receives recognition in dogma, and the development, therefore, marks an important religious advance over the age of gods, the cult is directed to the person of the god-man.
In the philosophy of the Greeks, the personal deity of popular belief had been displaced by a superpersonal being.
The god-idea had been etherealized into the abstract idea of a superpersonal being, but its place was taken by the human individual exalted into a deity.
Though the transition from a personal god to a superpersonal deity is the decisive characteristic that marks a world religion, there is closely connected with it a second distinctive feature.
The truth is that the transformation of the personal god into a superpersonal deity is probably the most important mark of world religion.
National religion displaced the subpersonal demon in favour of the personal god; in world religion, the personal god is exalted into a superpersonal deity.
Nature--and human life with it--was thought of as under the control of a superpersonal agent who guided the course of events in accordance with his purposes.
The complexity and autonomy of nature thrusts all thought of superpersonal agency into the background.
As we could never rise to the intrinsic conception of personal unity from the consideration of some lower unity, material or mechanical; so neither can we pass from the notion of personal to that of superpersonal unity or being.
For the notion of a superpersonal unity is needed chiefly as suggesting a mode in which many mutually exclusive personalities or "spheres of experience" or lives, may be welded together into a coherent whole.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "superpersonal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
