Visions

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  • Augustine of Hippo's types of visions
    • Corporeal
      • Empirical as they are mediated through the physical senses
        • the figure / object is externally present
      • St Bernadette
        • Visions of the Virgin Mary - identified herself as the immaculate conception
        • Instructed that the water at Lourdes has healing powers & a chapel was to be built on site
        • 69 miraculous healings
    • Imaginative
      • When something that strengthens faith is seen with the mind's eye - no external existence
      • John in the Book of Revelation
        • Beast out of the earth
        • Recounted visions of the final judgement
    • Intellectual
      • Brings knowledge and understanding
      • Julian of Norwich
        • Hazelnut - 'it is all that it is made' - it exists now and forever because God loves it. - Everything owes its existence to love of God
        • God makes it, God loves it, God sustains it
      • See things as they really are

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