divine vision

Glimpse of God

Divine vision is the ability to perceive spiritual realities, the future, or truths hidden from ordinary sight—a gift attributed to prophets, mystics, and saints.

The term implies sight granted by God or supernatural forces rather than achieved through human effort: The oracle claimed divine vision of the city's fate.

It can also describe moments of profound spiritual insight: In her divine vision, she saw the interconnectedness of all living things.

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source of perception

divine visionsensory perception

Detecting stimuli through senses

human perception · empirical observation · naked eye

spiritual clarity

divine visionblindness

Absence of vision

darkness · spiritual darkness · ignorance · benightedness · hardened heart

epistemological status

divine visionblindness

Absence of vision

delusion · illusion · hallucination · deception · darkness

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