"Pan" = everything; "Theos" = god. The expression thus refers to a god that is equivalent to all universe and vice versa, to the whole of the universe, that is equivalent
… to god. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So, there are at least two major implications that make pantheism what it is, i.e. that make unique, or different from other forms of theisms and atheism in general: 1. There IS god and he is exactly the whole of the existent world. This claim differentiates pantheism from atheism which claims that there is no god at all. 2. While equivalent to the whole of the existent world, there is no god "above" the world or "above the waters" as the Bible puts it, so he could act as the outside manager of the way things are. As such, pantheist god is to be understood more like the inner law of the world which thus organises itself. This claim differentiates pantheism from the so called "transcendentalism", which claims that god is something extra to the existent world. ( Full Answer )