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• REVELATION — REVELATION, an act whereby the hidden, unknown God shows Himself to man. To be sure, this phenomenon belongs to the realm of human reality, but it is experienced by man as coming from God. Phenomenologically, every religion finds its starting… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Visionary environments — ( fantasy worlds ) are extensive/large scale artistic installations (buildings, sculpture parks, etc) intended to capture intense subjective/personal experiences (dreams, fantasies, obsessions, etc) of their creators. The subjective/personal… …   Wikipedia

• revelation — revelation, vision, apocalypse, prophecy are comparable when they mean disclosure or something disclosed by or as if by divine or preternatural means. Revelation is often specifically applied to the religious ideas transmitted by writers of books …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Revelation of Saint John the Divine — noun the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the Apostle • Syn: ↑Revelation, ↑Apocalypse, ↑Book of Revelation •… …   Useful english dictionary

• Private revelation — In the teaching of the Catholic Church, a private revelation is a particular revelation to a specific Christian. Beliefs in such revelations is not obligatory for Catholics; only belief in universal or public revelations, which are contained in… …   Wikipedia

• Book of Revelation — For other uses, see Book of Revelation (disambiguation). Books of the New Testament …   Wikipedia

• Book of Revelation — noun the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the Apostle • Syn: ↑Revelation, ↑Revelation of Saint John the Divine,… …   Useful english dictionary

• Margaret McDonald (visionary) — Margaret MacDonald was born in 1815 in Port Glasgow, Scotland and died around 1840.[1] She lived with her two older brothers, James and George, both of whom ran a shipping business.[1] Beginning in 1826 and through 1829, a few preachers in… …   Wikipedia

• ZOHAR — (Heb. זֹהַר; (The Book of) Splendor ), the central work in the literature of the kabbalah . Introduction In some parts of the book the name Zohar is mentioned as the title of the work. It is also cited by the Spanish kabbalists under other names …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Tz'u-hui Tang — (慈惠堂, Ci Hui Tang, literally Compassion Society ) is a religious group that is one of the Way of Former Heaven ( Hsien t ien Tao ) sects. The Way of Former Heaven sects are syncretic religious groups that aspire to unify Taoism, Confucianism,… …   Wikipedia

• biblical literature — Introduction       four bodies of written works: the Old Testament writings according to the Hebrew canon; intertestamental works, including the Old Testament Apocrypha; the New Testament writings; and the New Testament Apocrypha.       The Old… …   Universalium