revelation

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1. revelation - Noun

2. Revelation - Proper noun

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The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them.

That which is revealed.

The act of revealing divine truth.

That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible.

Specifically, the last book of the sacred canon, containing the prophecies of St. John; the Apocalypse.

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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Ludwig van Beethoven

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. Hermann Hesse

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. Denis Diderot

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own. Salvatore Quasimodo

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. (Ambrose Bierce) English Proverb

What reveals itself to me ceases to be mysterious for me alone if I unveil it to anyone else, he hears mere words which betray the living sense Profanation, but never revelation. Traditional Proverb

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