Transcendent means that which is beyond all concepts. Time and space form the sensibilities that bound our experience. Our senses are enclosed in the field of time and space, and our minds are enclosed in a frame of the categories of thought. But the ultimate thing (which is no thing) that we are trying to get in touch with is not so enclosed. We enclose it as we try to think of it. The transcendent transcends all of these categories of thinking. Being and non-being - those are categories. The word God properly refers to what transcends all thinking, but the word God itself is something thought about. Now you can personify God in many, many ways. Is there one god? Are there many gods? Those are merely categories of thought. What you are talking and trying to think about transcends all of that.

The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell