A spiritual belief that God (or Gods) exist outside of the physical world and that humans cannot have a direct interaction with the deity or deities. To communicate with a transcendent deity requires some sort of intermediary. The opposite belief is that of an immanent deity or deities. See: Immanent.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...