beatific
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Beatific and terrifying as an archangel, Collin is giving one of the best performances on television right now; she’s TV’s greatest radical mom since Keri Russell as Elizabeth Jennings on “The Americans.”
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022
Far from approaching the Beatific Vision, Huxley "came nearer than he knew to the gates of Hell."
From Time Magazine Archive
Medieval heaven, approached intellectually by the Scholastics or passionately by the mystical school of love, expanded St. Augustine's idea of the Beatific Vision, the saints' rapturous and direct communion with God.
From Time Magazine Archive
By gazing on her eyes, he rose through heaven, and stood with her before the splendor of the Beatific Vision.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
By essential is meant the happiness which the soul receives immediately from God in the Beatific Vision.
From The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by Boudreaux, F. J.
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