Visions and Apparitions

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Visions and Apparitions

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Visions and Apparitions

This article will deal not with natural but with supernatural visions, that is, visions due to the direct intervention of a power superior to man. Cardinal Bona (De discret. spir., xv, n. 2) distinguishes between visions and apparitions.
There is an apparition when we do not know that the figure which we see relates to a real being, a vision when we connect it with a real being. With most mystics we shall consider these terms as synonymous.

THREE TYPES OF VISIONS

Since St. Augustine (De gen. ad litt., 1. XII, vii, n. 16) mystical writers have agreed in dividing visions into corporeal, imaginative, and intellectual.

The article offers further information on each category as well as info on "visions of demons" and "EVOCATION OF THE DEAD AND SPIRITISM"

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