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  2. Vision (spirituality) - Wikipedia

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    Vision of Thomas Aquinas in the Vatican Museum. Evelyn Underhill distinguishes and categorizes three types of visions: [3]. Intellectual Visions – The Catholic dictionary defines these as supernatural knowledge in which the mind receives an extraordinary grasp of some revealed truth without the aid of sensible impressions, and mystics describe them as intuitions that leave a deep impression.

  3. Saint Joseph's dreams - Wikipedia

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    The second dream, as shown by the text on the angel's banderole: "Flee to Egypt", 13th-century mosaic, Florence Baptistry The Dream of Saint Joseph, by Philippe de Champaigne. Saint Joseph's dreams are four dreams described in the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament in which Joseph , the legal father of Jesus , is visited by an angel of the ...

  4. Category:Biblical dreams and visions - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Biblical dreams and visions" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. ... Historicist interpretations of the Book of Daniel;

  5. Jacob's Ladder - Wikipedia

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    In the second interpretation, the ladder is the human soul, and the angels are God's logoi, pulling the soul up in distress and descending in compassion. In the third view, the dream depicts the ups and downs of the life of the "practiser" (of virtue vs. sin). Finally, the angels represent the continually changing affairs of humankind.

  6. Vision theory of Jesus' appearances - Wikipedia

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    These interpretations were later classed the "subjective vision hypothesis", [note 2] and is advocated today in secular and Liberal Christian scholarship. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] According to Ehrman, "the Christian view of the matter [is] that the visions were bona fide appearances of Jesus to his followers", [ 18 ] a view which is "forcefully stated in ...

  7. Four senses of Scripture - Wikipedia

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    Dream-vision; pilgrimage; personification; satire; typological story structure (the dreamer's progress mirrors the progress of biblical history from the Fall of Adam to the Apocalypse). Pearl. In a plot based on an anagogical, allegory; a dreamer is introduced to heavenly Jerusalem. Focus on the meaning of death.

  8. Dream interpretation - Wikipedia

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    Dream interpretation is the process of assigning meaning to dreams. In many ancient societies, such as those of Egypt and Greece , dreaming was considered a supernatural communication or a means of divine intervention , whose message could be interpreted by people with these associated spiritual powers.

  9. Four kingdoms of Daniel - Wikipedia

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    The following interpretation represents a traditional view of Jewish and Christian Historicists, Futurists, Dispensationalists, Partial Preterists, and other futuristic Jewish and Christian hybrids, as well as certain Messianic Jews, who typically identify the kingdoms in Daniel (with variations) as: the Babylonian Empire; the Medo-Persian Empire