"Conceptions of God in monotheist, pantheist, and panentheist religions \u2013 or of the supreme deity in henotheistic religions \u2013 can extend to various levels of abstraction: as a powerful, human-like, supernatural being, or as the deification of an esoteric, mystical or philosophical entity or category; as the \"Ultimate\", the summum bonum, the \"Absolute Infinite\", the \"Transcendent\", or Existence or Being itself; as the ground of being, the monistic substrate, that which we cannot understand; and so on.The first recordings that survive of monotheistic conceptions of God, borne out of henotheism and (mostly in Eastern religions) monism, are from the Hellenistic period. "@en . . . . . .