By Godhead I mean Sri Aurobindo's Overmind, by which is meant cosmic creative Reality in Itself, the Supreme taking on all forms and multiplicity as both God and unmanifest, beyond but also including all the more limited realisations of the Absolute. It can be and often may be represented in terms of religious imagery or mythology, but such anthropomorphic images should not be taken too literally, as in itself it is ineffable. The distinction between Godhead and Supreme, or to use Aurobindonian terminology Overmind and Supermind, is that the former involves the infinite taking on the form of infinite different aspects, perspectivs, and possibilities, whereas the latter is a state of uncompromised and all-embracing integral unity.
Godhead is higher than both nonduality and theism. Transcendent Godhead is described in terms of emanation from an ineffable Supreme, as in the Kabbalistic Atzilut, whereas the activity of immanent Godhead or Gods is described for example by Rudolf Steiner as spiritual hierarchies.
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