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'''Beatific Vision''' (Latin: ''visio beatifica'') in [[Christianity|Christian]] [[theology]] is the ultimate direct self-communication of [[God]] the [[Trinity|Holy Trinity]] to the individual [[Human being|person]], the immediate knowledge of God which the [[angel]]ic spirits and the [[soul]]s of the just enjoy in [[Heaven]]. It is called "vision" to distinguish it from the mediated indirect knowledge of God which the human [[mind]] may attain in the present life "from womb to tomb". The beatific vision is probably best understood by a consideration of a strong [[analogy]] in the difference between a lifetime of being [[Blindness|blind]] and a lifetime of having [[sight]], or a lifetime of [[deaf|deafness]] without the sounds of nature and the joy of beautiful [[music]].

'''Beatific Vision''' (Latin: ''visio beatifica'') in [[Christianity|Christian]] [[theology]] is the ultimate direct self-communication of [[God]] the [[Trinity|Holy Trinity]] to the individual [[Human being|person]], the immediate knowledge of God which the [[angel]]ic spirits and the [[soul]]s of the just enjoy in [[Heaven]]. It is called "vision" to distinguish it from the mediated indirect knowledge of God which the human [[mind]] may attain in the present life "from womb to tomb". The beatific vision is probably best understood by a consideration of a strong [[analogy]] in comparing the difference between a lifetime of being [[Blindness|blind]] and a lifetime of having [[sight]], or a lifetime of [[deafness]] without the sounds of [[nature]] and the joy of beautiful [[music]].

All of human [[experience]] of [[reality]] during the whole of a lifetime before death is mediated by the imperfect, [[physical]], [[creature]] [[senses]] of perception and the processes of [[understanding]] and [[reason]]ing by means of the [[mind and brain]]. As a member of redeemed humanity in the "communion of [[saint]]s" mentioned in the [[Creed]]s, a person possessing the beatific vision reaches the perfection of [[salvation]] in its entirety, which is heaven. In beholding God face to face the created [[intelligence]] finds perfect happiness, and for this reason the vision is termed "beatific". The notion of vision stresses the intellectual part of salvation, but the whole of the beatific vision encompasses the whole of the human experience of joy which, at the resurrection, will be enjoyed by the whole person, body soul and spirit, the totality of happiness coming from personally seeing and experiencing God finally face to face and not imperfectly through faith.<ref>1 Corinthians 13:11–12.</ref>

All of human [[experience]] of [[reality]] during the whole of a lifetime before death is mediated by the imperfect, [[physical]], [[creature]] [[senses]] of perception and the processes of [[understanding]] and [[reason]]ing by means of the [[mind and brain]]. As a member of redeemed humanity in the "communion of [[saint]]s" mentioned in the [[Creed]]s, a person possessing the beatific vision reaches the perfection of [[salvation]] in its entirety, which is heaven. In beholding God face to face the created [[intelligence]] finds perfect happiness, and for this reason the vision is termed "beatific". The notion of vision stresses the intellectual part of salvation, but the whole of the beatific vision encompasses the whole of the human experience of joy which, at the resurrection, will be enjoyed by the whole person, body soul and spirit, the totality of happiness coming from personally seeing and experiencing God finally face to face and not imperfectly through faith.<ref>1 Corinthians 13:11–12.</ref>