Vision (spirituality) - Examples of Visions

Examples of Visions

Visions are listed in approximately chronological order whenever possible, although some dates may be in dispute

  • napsy of God in the Book of Ezekiel chapter number 1. (6th century BC)
  • Vision of a heavenly figure "like a son of man" in Daniel 7:13 (6th century / 2nd century BC)
  • Jesus' vision of the dove when baptized in the Book of Mark 1:10 (1st century
  • Marian apparitions (visions or visitations of Mary, mother of Jesus) (1st century AD - present)
  • Visions of the afterlife in the martyr accounts of Perpetua and Felicity (2nd century AD)
  • The theoria (Vision of God) by which a Christian mystic may discern a deep aspect of God (in the Eastern Orthodox tradition) (3rd-6th cent. AD)
  • Constantine's vision of Christ's sign (312 AD)
  • Jakob Böhme's vision of 1600, revealed when he observed the beauty of a beam of sunlight in a pewter dish
  • René Descartes' series of dreams on the night of November 11, 1619, which set the course of his life in science
  • Blaise Pascal's vision of November 23, 1654, which reinvigorated his spiritual commitment
  • Emanuel Swedenborg's visions, which formed the basis of a newly revealed doctrine (beginning in 1740s)
  • Joseph Smith's First Vision (1820)
  • Ramakrishna Paramahamsa describes of several visions including Kali, Sita, Krishna, Jesus, Mohammed. (mid/late 19th cent.)
  • Angels of Mons (1914)


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