Concept
Beatific vision
Overview
in Christian theology, the beatific vision is the ultimate direct self-communication of God to the individual person
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Obj. 4: Further, the saints in heaven are most perfectly conformed to the image of God by the beatific vision; wherefore it is written (2 Cor. 3:18): "We . . . are transformed into the same image from glory to glory." But temporal things are known by the beatific vision. Therefore the image of God exists in us even according to temporal things. _On the contrary,_ Augustine says (De Trin.
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
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He can then stand free before the Almighty. He may tremble, but he is not afraid. For his strength of soul is grounded not in the external world but in his own ideal. If we are born under a lucky star, and are fortunate and happy lovers of the ideal, the ecstasy of the mystic's beatific vision is ours. But even if we are born under an unlucky star, and are misfortunate and unhappy lovers of the ideal, we still have…
Benedictus de Spinoza, The Philosophy of Spinoza
States what Beatific vision is; names Beatific vision.
I agree, he said, as far as I am able to understand you. Moreover, I said, you must not wonder that those who attain to this beatific vision are unwilling to descend to human affairs; for their souls are ever hastening into the upper world where they desire to dwell; which desire of theirs is very natural, if our allegory may be trusted.
Plato, The Republic
States what Beatific vision is; names Beatific vision.
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