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  • visions
    • Content of visions
      • Message
        • The Prophet Mohammed receiving the Qur'an from the angel Jibrail
      • religious figure
        • St Theresa of Avila' had a vision of an angel holding a long spear. It pierced her heart several times and when it was withdrawn it left her 'completely afire with a great love of God'
      • A place of significance
        • Nanak's vision of God's court in which he was escorted into God's presence and commanded to drink a cup of nectar
    • classifications
      • groups- Visions are seen by more than one person
        • Fatima- the Virgin Mary appeared 6 times to 3 shepherd children and told them messages of wanting peace in Russia
      • Individual -dream-based
        • Josephs vision engaged Mary about her pregnancy
      • Intellectual- Visions can also bring a message
        • The wise men were warned not in a dream not to return to King Herod- Matthew 2:12
      • Corporeal- a physical body can be seen in the world, only visible to that person
        • The appearances of angels e.g. the shepherds when Jesus was born
    • sensory

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