Then without apparent volition we began to move toward the door, whose rattling in the gale held a comforting suggestion of earthly reality.

But for all it reveals about Long Island, the aerial views also obscure some earthly realities.

Spatial icons are images that establish a mediating relation between earthly reality and the heavenly realm.

The Saal was built on two levels, with a balcony overlooking the main floor, representing earthly reality below and the heaven reality above.

Where modern rationalism concentrated on the mundane, Qutb still cultivated the traditional discipline of looking through the earthly reality to what was beyond time and change.

This taught Muslims to see all earthly reality as "signs" of the Unseen.

An earthly reality could become a symbol of the divine, but was never itself holy; it pointed beyond itself to where reason could not go.

The Kingdom is at the same time a heavenly as well as an earthly reality.

According to many generations of churchmen and inquisitors, demons could assume a certain earthly reality in order to appear to us.

Unlike Christians, whose promised land is in the afterlife, Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad were seen as addressing earthly reality.