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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.
Besides thoughts, discernment of spirits can be applied to the judgment of such phenomena as dreams, visions, miracles, prophecies, and other supernatural gifts. In an ideal case, the main tool of discernment could be the person's conscience; however, in the Orthodox view, that relates only to the people of holy life.
A person with wonder and awe knows that God is the perfection of all one’s desires. This gift is described by Aquinas as a fear of separating oneself from God. He describes the gift as a "filial fear," like a child's fear of offending his father, rather than a "servile fear," that is, a fear of punishment.
Visions. An outpouring of this gift is prophesied in Joel 2:28 and Acts 2:17 shows that early Christians believed this prophecy was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost. Visions tend to be more private experiences than the other gifts. Some researchers expand the definition of visions to include a strongly felt presence. [38]
Other means by which God purportedly gave special revelation were divine voice, writing or dictation, angels, prophets, visions, dreams, dream-visions, inspiration, and guidance from the Holy Spirit. When reviewing these examples, one can see that there is some overlap with direct revelation, which denotes personal communication from God ...
Dreams, visions and revelations. The Quran claims that true dreams, visions and verbal revelations are a bounty of God and descend from him. The Quran claims these experiences are signs of the existence of God. All human beings are potentially capable of these experiences. God speaks to man
Articles relating to visions, things seen in a dream, trance, or religious ecstasy, especially supernatural appearances that usually convey a revelation. Visions generally have more clarity than dreams, but traditionally fewer psychological connotations. Visions are known to emerge from spiritual traditions and could provide a lens into human ...
The Spirit must and will be poured out on the church, that she may be purified and filled with God – and just in proportion as the Spirit of God works, so will he – when our Lord anoints men with power, so will he. This is particularly the nature of the trial, through which those are to pass who will be counted worthy to stand before the ...