see|pandeism
English
Etymology 1
wikipedia|Pandeism (Godfrey Higgins)
Blend of Pande- from Pandu and the Pandavas (figures from the historical mythology of India) and -ism.
Pronunciation
IPA|/pæn'di'Äz'É™m
wikipedia
Noun
Pandeism (plural: uncountable)
- archaic a secret religious sect hypothosized to exist in a range extending from India to Europe and Northern Africa
#:I am induced to think that this Pandeism was a doctrine, which had been received both by Buddhists and Brahmins. w:Godfrey Higgins|Godfrey Higgins, w:Anacalypsis|Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis: Or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions (1833), p.439.
#the belief that god became part of the universe in the process of creating it.
Etymology 2
wikipedia
blend|pantheism|deism; from Gr. πάν (pán) "all" and L. deus, "god". First used in the variation "Pandeisten" (pandeists) by w:Moritz Lazarus|Moritz Lazarus and w:Heymann Steinthal|Heymann Steinthal in Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft (1859), p. 262.
Pronunciation
IPA|/pæn'deɪ'Äz'É™m/
Noun
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- alternative spelling of|pandeism
Category:Religion
Category:English nouns ending in -ism
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