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Experience of momentary divine radiance From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In a religious context, transfiguration, from Latin transfiguratio, is the experience of momentary divine radiance.[citation needed] It can function as a form of apotheosis.[1]
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In the Ladder of Jacob, at the conclusion of this instruction, instead of simply being given the new name Israel, Jacob is introduced to his heavenly counterpart, the angel Israel.[citation needed]
In the Book of Enoch, when Enoch returns to Earth, he tells his children that although they see him as the earthly, human Enoch, there is likewise an angelic Enoch (Metatron) that has stood in the Lord's Presence.[citation needed]
In the departure of Elijah to heaven by chariot of fire, and horses of fire and lifted up by a whirlwind to heaven.
Lumen gentium states that "the Immaculate Virgin [...] was exalted by the Lord as Queen of the universe, that she might be the more fully confirmed to her Son, the Lord of lords and the conqueror of sin and death".[2]
The Buddha is said to have been twice transfigured, at the moment of his enlightenment and at the moment of his death.[3]
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