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Meaning of teofania



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Alfredo Edgardo Alvarez Ahumada

teofania
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Theophany. Theophany: ( dios-aparicion ) It is the expression of a human God who incarnates in visible appearances.

  



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Asier Morales

Theophany has different meanings according to the religion that defines it - for example, in Hinduism, unlike Judaism and Christianity, the " 34 spiritual vision; It is terrifying. Thus is shown in a passage from the Gita, chapter that belongs to the famous Mahabharata epic text, in which the Warrior Arjuna asks his friend Krishna on the battlefield, to consider him more than a mortal, show its true form, giving this spiritual vision where it reveals itself as a terrifying manifestation. One of the phrases of this Theophany was paraphrased by the Atomic physicist Robert Oppenheimer to be witness to the first test of an atomic bomb: "Now I have become death, the destroyer of worlds ".

  










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