Such celestial unions may compete with their earthly counterparts, and the idea that the spirits should sexually possess their devotees is by no means excluded.

Their earthly counterparts were only receptacles for his seed by which he would pass on his heritage to those who came after him.

Zion' is the symbol of God's heavenly presence, and 'Jerusalem'is its earthly counterpart.

Symbolically, the chair Bernini designed had no earthly counterpart in actual contemporary furnishings.

The police are rarely sympathetic; in fact they are the earthly counterparts of the malignant powers above, and their main function is to torment the helpless.

The woman of Mars being quite differ- ent in her outlook on life than her earthly counterpart.

In ad- dition, they had cannon and rifles, not unlike their earthly counterparts, which they used with deadly effect upon the enemy.

His heaven is a reassuring, beautiful place, where family, love and hope exist as idealized versions of their earthly counterparts.

The Bishop also has neighbors in cyberspace, who are as politicized, playful and undoubtedly annoying as their earthly counterparts.

The Forbidden City, as the residence of the terrestrial emperor, was its earthly counterpart.