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What is the exact nature of Aquinas's private revelation of Jesus to him? It seems evident that this was a corporal vision and not a intellectual vision or imaginative vision. It certainly was not the Beatific Vision because St. Thomas had not yet died and entered the presence of God. Seeing that the conversation was heard by another friar, it makes sense that it was a corporal vision ...
Friar Lawrence Haste at Charlene Warden blog
