God said, "Let there be light and there was light.
Gen. 1:3
God is Light.
I John 1:5
He is Light. All that is clear and pure,
all that is open and known, this is God
Light is His essence of Utter Holiness
and the blazing power that issues from it . . . .
God is light and the Father of lights.
James 1:17
His creation rises entirely from
the energy of Light that proceeds from His
Very Being.
It is the First Action of all His beginnings.
Light is the Origin of all that is God . . .
and all that comes from Him.
Whatever is of God comes as Light first.
ALL His works issue from Light,
are birthed out of Light.
So everything is some form of Light.
Everything He made is Light,
and all of ...
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God said, "Let there be light and there was light.
Gen. 1:3
God is Light.
I John 1:5
He is Light. All that is clear and pure,
all that is open and known, this is God
Light is His essence of Utter Holiness
and the blazing power that issues from it . . . .
God is light and the Father of lights.
James 1:17
His creation rises entirely from
the energy of Light that proceeds from His
Very Being.
It is the First Action of all His beginnings.
Light is the Origin of all that is God . . .
and all that comes from Him.
Whatever is of God comes as Light first.
ALL His works issue from Light,
are birthed out of Light.
So everything is some form of Light.
Everything He made is Light,
and all of life
. . . ALL of it . . . derives its life
from Light.
Light is unmixed purity, transparent verity.
Light is neither benign nor gentle.
Light is radiation
and that is life to some things . . .
death to others.
Life to light
but death to darkness.
Light issues from a throne of fire -
so it burns and kills impurities
by piercing rays of pure life.
Light is vibrant energy pouring over fallen inertia,
infusing the power to be and to move.
The Light was the first cause.
God's Voice called first for the specific of Light
and from the fury of Light,
the chaotic fluid became
the stable substance.
Light is God shining forth, seeing all
and through all.
When His Light is cast on a place,
all-that-is, is revealed.
Only Light makes darkness visible
by sheer contrast.
Light is a Trinity of elements:
Heat: felt and not seen - this is God
Light: seen, not felt - this is Christ.
Actinic: neither seen nor felt,
but action - this is the Holy Spirit.
When God invades a single life, the Holy Spirit is
first sent to brood, move, and hover.
Then God-Light is released by the Word
and the darkness is identified.
The pattern is this, ever and always:
the Spirit moving over the discord,
God's command to release Light
by the Word-Son
and Creation's response of
heaving into Order.
"All is really light, trapped light."
- Norman Grubb
The properties of natural light, the sun,
reveal and reflect the essence of Spiritual Light,
the Son, so I speak of both at once.
Copyright © 2001 Martha Blaney Kilpatrick
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