Sentence examples for Divine radiance from inspiring English sources

Symeon the New Theologian speaks of himself as a young man who saw "a brilliant divine Radiance" filling the room.

In one of the artist's rare narrative scenes, "The Conversion of Saul," a big, solid butter-yellow beam of divine radiance drops from the sky like a stage prop.

But Curry gave himself away as an artist of impossible loyalties to the past and specious loyalties to the present when he introduced the pair of doves circling by fortuitous coincidence in the rays of Kansas light like the dove of the Holy Spirit generating divine radiance in Italian Renaissance paintings of the Baptism of Christ.

My one epiphany occurred with "Salome" (1930), a "Transparency" that superimposes an outlined woman's face and some flowers (a crown of thorns is hinted at, and there are stray lines indicating divine radiance) on a naked Salome dancing beside John the Baptist's head.

Once this attraction has taken place, "… the soul burns with a divine radiance which is reflected in the man of beauty as in a mirror, and … caught up by that radiance secretly as by a hook, he is drawn upwards in order to become God" (ibid).

The name "Pharnavaz" is also an illustrative example with its root par- being based upon the Persian farnah, the divine radiance believed by the ancient Iranians to mark a legitimate dynast (cf. khvarenah).

The Zohar, the masterpiece of medieval Kabbalah, whose very name means "radiance," spoke about the divine realm as awash with running rivers of light -- often playing upon the similar sounding Aramaic words, nehara (river) and nehora (light).

The poet is thus caught up in a circular process through which his understanding, like theirs, is drawn toward the divine as manifested in the lady's divinely inspired radiance.

Miraculous radiance was, traditionally, the manifestation of divine presence.

Once its illusory self is seen to be nothing but illusion, the world is experienced as nothing but the Divine Light, and one has access to the radiance of this Light, which is the source of prophecy.

You shine naturally when you're aligned with your divine femininity and all who cross your path sense this Mystical Radiance.