Apotheosis

Ah, yes, you free spirits! That's indeed true: I am the negation of the psychoanalytic proposition that the secret of desire cannot be known. For I am the closest to knowing it. My suspicion: it is related to a temporally-incarnating God.— "omnicorrupt" 9d18David Sedley [Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy] surmises that if you were to ask “any moderately well-educated citizen of the Roman empire to name the official moral goal, or telos,” of Plato’s philosophy, he would respond with Plato’s own words: “Becoming like god as much as possible”Apotheosis means change into divinity. PIE root *apo- "off, away", source of Modern English of, off. Apotheoun "deify, make (someone) a god," from apo, meaning, here, "change" (see apo-) + theos "god" (from PIE root *dhes-, forming words for religious concepts). ‘Apotheosis’, synonymous w/ Latin deificatio "making divine"; also called divinization and deification) is the glorification of a subject to divine level. It has meanings in theology, where it refers to a belief, and in art, where it refers to a genre.“As man now is, God once was:As God now is, many may be.”— Eliza R. Snow, Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow (Deseret News Co., 1884), 46–47
From at least the Geometric period of the ninth century BC, the long-deceased heroes linked with founding myths of Greek sites were accorded chthonic rites in their heroon, or "hero-temple".
In current record of the Greek world, the first leader who accorded himself divine honours was Philip II of Macedon. As for Rome, up to the end of the Republic, Romans accepted only one official apotheosis: the god Quirinus, whatever his original meaning, having been identified with Romulus
Instead of the word "apotheosis", Christian theology uses in English the words "deification" or "divinization" or the Greek word "theosis". Traditional Romish-derived theology, both East and West, views Jesus Christ as the preexisting God who undertook mortal existence, not as a mortal being who attained divinity. 
== Media  ==
* «"Return of Christ" by Lincoln Cannon» Published on May 24, 2018 by "Mormon Transhumanist Association" YouTube channel. 328 views as of 5 Sept 2019.
== Branching ==
* See also: Individuation; Futurists anticipate theosis
* Religion; Spirituality; Ascension; Transhumanism; The Outside; Theology
* Astrology; Theosophy; Illuminism; Technological apotheosis; Extropianism
== Definition ==
The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification. quotations ▼
: Synonyms: deification
From Latin apotheōsis, from Ancient Greek ἀποθέωσις (apothéōsis), from verb ἀποθεόω (apotheóō, “deify”) (factitive verb formed from θεός (theós, “God”) with intensive prefix ἀπο- (apo-)) + -σις (-sis, “forms noun of action”). Surface analysis apo- +‎ theo- +‎ -sis.
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