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Revelation and unveiling
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Jun
While in philosophy, unveiling is the clarity attained by metaphysical or 
ontological intelligibility, which is not restricted only to the material, empirical or quantitative aspects of reality, unveiling in theology is revelation and intelligibility through faith.
Both seek knowledge of the whole, from its original aspect, passing through the means (the paths and methods it proposes) to understand rationally or through the “revelation” of harmonic knowledge (elucidation) of divine truths or those contained in the Scriptures (justification).
Thus, Theology, while it is the study that represents an effort of the reason (and spirituality) for a greater understanding of what is said through the Scriptures, however, it is always revelation because divine knowledge is infinite, while human knowledge is finite.
Thus, the word unveiling (removing the veil) is suitable for rational effort, but without the resource of metaphysics and ontology, it remains tied to revelation, which is pragmatic rational knowledge.
The effort to understand the new data from the James Webb telescope, for example, is already giving physicists and astrophysicists new understandings of the universe, but it is increasingly difficult to understand the initial moment or what initial substance it formed, the answer seems to be go beyond its limits when conducting hypotheses: without this one there is no beginning or there are other multiverses beyond our universe.
Thus, unveiling is that knowledge that goes towards the essence of what we are and where we are heading and what ethical-metaphysical laws govern us and we should obey them.
So un-veil can indicate that more than an initial substance (a primordial monad or an initial cosmic energy) there can be a Being and an intention in creation.
If the eye is the lamp of our body and reveals reality to us, we must go beyond it to reveal the secrets of eternity, because our knowledge is limited.
This wisdom is the one that affirms, in the biblical reading that we know how much two sparrows are worth, but the divine (Mt 10,31-32): “As for you, even the hairs of your head are numbered. Do not be afraid! You are worth more than many sparrows.”
