In this sense, Shinto was seen as a divine essence or energy rather than a teaching.

The partial or total manifestation of the divine essence in human form.

James advocated that there is a duality to the divine essence.

He said that, being of a divine essence, he was not subject to terrestrial laws.

They had never seen a king, who said he was of divine essence, nor a simple minister, die of this horrible death.

The mystic is now wrapped in contemplation of the divine essence.

They also reduced the divine attributes to the divine essence.

Applied to God, the term denotes that divine essence which eludes human understanding and experience.

All creatures have part in the divine essence; but this is true of the soul in a higher degree.

Islamic theology makes a distinction between the attributes of God and the divine essence.