Medieval kabbalists envisioned a universe arranged hierarchically in 10 divine emanations, called sefirot, and developed numerical, alphabetical and metaphorical correspondences among them.

This radical proposition was put forward by Isaac Luria, a 16th-century kabbalist, who believed that the universe was born in crisis, resulting in a system of divine emanations riven by fault lines.

The "left side" of divine emanation is a negative mirror image of the "side of holiness" with which it was locked in combat.

It also has to do with the divine emanations that came about when the creator retreated within himself in order to allow for the existence of something other than himself.

In both religions there are guardian angels, or fravashi, which are considered to be created beings and are distinct from the Energies of God or divine emanations.

The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit refers to a divine emanation called 'Mother', who is also identified as the Barbēlō.

Lévi linked the ten numbered cards in each suit to the ten sefiroth or divine emanations.

A 13th-century forgery of a supposedly much earlier masterwork, the Zohar contains a bewildering mixture of rabbinical sayings, diagrams of divine emanations, Talmudic commentaries, myths and fantasies.

In his theology, Helios, the sun, was the ideal example of the perfection of the gods and light, a symbol of divine emanation.

Hippolytus gives a much more doctrinally detailed account of Simonianism, including a system of divine emanations and interpretations of the Old Testament, with extensive quotations from the Apophasis Megale.