Tantra sees the Divine as both immanent and transcendent. Both religions agree that God shares both transcendent and immanent qualities. These deities are usually regarded as being immanent rather than transcendent. God is recognized as both transcendent and immanent. That the Primal Original God is Personal, both transcendent and immanent throughout creation. Tian is therefore both transcendent and immanent. These arguments fail to make the distinction between immanent gods and a Transcendent God. "Tian" is therefore both transcendent and immanent. For Clement, God is transcendent and immanent. He understood "spiritual virility" as signifying orientation towards this postulated transcendent principle. Christians believe God to be both transcendent and immanent (involved in the world). The non-dual is said to be not immanent and not transcendent, not neither, nor both. So the song is really about transcending and about the quality of the transcendent. The "lwa" are regarded as the intermediaries of the transcendent creator deity. Some believe that God is a metaphor for a transcendent reality.