The strictly supernatural destiny of the Beatific Vision, for which the Christian must strive, necessitates ways and means which lie altogether beyond what is purely natural ( see GRACE ).
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Cruise's performance is very funny _ watch his nervous entrance to the office after he's unleashed his beatific vision on his fellow sharks _ but is built around a core of genuine hope.
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In contrast to the " Hell of the Damned ", the Limbo was thought as a place where souls enjoyed natural happiness and suffered no punishments except for the lack of the beatific vision.
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The seeing of blue and yellow colors while in samadhi, which is a state of union with the omnipresent Brahman, who is beyond all duality, is also similar to the idea of beatific vision.
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One side of Great Soul is the Obscure Subtlety ( akhfa ) and the other side is the Latent Subtlety ( khafi ) Great Soul is the storehouse of eleven thousand beatific visions of God.
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In the Christian West, All Saints'Day honours those who have attained the beatific vision in heaven, while the next day, All Souls'Day, commemorates the departed faithful who have not yet been purified and reached heaven.
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In 1954, Zaehner published an article called " The Menace of Mescaline ", in which he asserted that " artificial interference with consciousness " could have nothing to do with the Christian " Beatific Vision ".
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In the later medieval period, some theologians continued to hold Augustine's view, others held that unbaptized infants suffered no pain at all : unaware of being deprived of the beatific vision, they enjoyed a state of natural, not supernatural happiness.
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There, one summer morning in 1541 he had a beatific vision of the Seven Martyr Saints Saints Saturnino, Ciriaco, Largo, Smaragdo, Sisinnio, Trasone and Pope Marcellus I revealed in a white light within the ruins of the Baths of Diocletian.
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In Catholic theology, the intercession of saints is valid because those who have died in the Faith are with God in Heaven and enjoy the Beatific Vision, i . e ., unmediated access to God's Presence, actually in Paradise itself, seeing God.
