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Revision as of 02:59, 13 October 2008
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Self-deification is the belief that oneself is a deity or the striving for personal apotheosis. The term autotheism can be used in the same sense (first attested in 1619),[1] but it should be noted that the term has an unrelated meaning as a technical term in Christology.
Suitheism is a hybrid neologism coined by American occultists David Michael Cunningham and Traeonna A. R. Wagener with the same meaning[2]
Self-deification can either involve the expectation of worship by other people, as in the case of divine kingship in imperial cults, or it can be the mystical notion of identity of the soul or the self with God (Unio Mystica, Advaita).
Modern instances of purported self-deification include:
- Father Divine (d. 1965)
- Lou de Palingboer (d. 1968)
- Juanita García Peraza (d. 1970)
- Yahweh ben Yahweh (d. 2007)
- Caligula
- Josef Stalin
- Adolf Hitler
- Kim Il-sung
living:
- Jehovah Wanyonyi (b. c. 1924)
- Sathya Sai Baba (b. c. 1927)
- Mitsuo Matayoshi (b. 1944)
- Mother Meera (b. 1960)
- Vissarion (b. 1961)
- Grigory Grabovoy (b. 1963
- Kim Jong-il b. 1941
References
- ^ Word List: Definitions of Ecclesiastical Terms
- ^ Creating Magickal Entities, 2001; the term is attested as early as 1999 on Usenet [1]