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Visionary experience of God
Identifier
010144
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
The title was intended to provoke interest. The reality is that no one has genuinely had visionary experience of God. There are other observations that state this categorically but this selection shows the same.
A description of the experience
1 John 4:16
No one has ever seen God, if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us
The Sophia of Jesus Christ – Gnostic Gospels
Jesus replied 'I wish you to understand that all born into this world from its beginning until now, being earth bound, although enquiring about God, haven't found Him
The Bhagavad Gita [translated by W J Johnson]
Arjuna, I know the dead, the living and those creatures yet to come, but no one at all knows me