![]() ![]() Christian teaching understands the transfiguration as the moment at which Jesus revealed his true divine nature to his disciples. ![]() All she could discern was a shadowy shape ablaze with light -sees the cedar "charged and transfigured, each cell buzzing with flame." Even though she later believes galls, or abnormal growths, might have caused the golden color, the vision remains the same -echoes the New Testament story, with which Dillard was undoubtedly familiar, of the transfiguration of Jesus. the blind girl's tree and the cedar tree in Dillard's backyard -girl whose sight was restored by surgery saw a tree in her garden and did not recognize it at first with her new vision. ![]()
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