I, the Lord, Have Called you in Righteousness,
and Will Hold your hand and Keep you.
And I Will Establish you as a Covenant of the people,
for a Light unto the nations.
Isaiah 42:6
For behold, darkness shall cover the earth,
and a thick darkness the nations.
But God Will Shine upon you.
Nations shall then go by your Light and
kings by your radiant illumination.
Isaiah 60:2-3
The light shines in the darkness,
but the darkness has not understood it.
John 1:5 NIV
Love allows, waiting kindly and patiently for His children's eyes to open. God's love emits His passionate power, which always is to share, to empower, to create, to magnetize and connect.
God's Light is relational; His love invitational.
In all three Abrahamic traditions, God is that "I am," who first spoke to Moses at the burning bush in the Sinai. In the deeper, more ancient Sanskrit texts of the yogis, that "I am" is personally experienced within our own selves. While God is the Great Self, the Great ultimate Being of all being-ness, we, who are made in His image, also contain and are made of His great being-ness. As God is light, we also are light. Our true being is God's very self within our dense, material human bodies. We are light. We are spirit. We are made of the same substance of light as our creator, and that light is beyond description. It will transform your consciousness, awaken you, empower and inspire you, and open portals upon portals into heavens.
The light reflects God (Allah), perceived by Yogis as an actual internal radiant inner sun, and experienced (and sometimes seen) by Christians as both an inner sun and as the highly charged Holy Spirit. Its illumination is beyond words as it transforms our human experience out of the realm of spiritual blindness and a very limited, narrow, earth-bound sensory perception. The brilliance of God that illuminates our minds - and it is first authentically experienced within the deeply silent, focused mind - changes us from primal sensory beings into ascended, divine beings who are merely having a human experience.
The light is completely non-material and is so empowering that it transforms the darkness of ignorance and dull blindness, into a life of abundance to which nothing in this world of any material value could compare. It transforms your poverty into a wealth beyond measure.
In Christian, Jewish and Muslim prayer, in Yoga and Buddhist meditation, we all will encounter the light. It enters through the crown chakra and literally illuminates the mind. It is experiential, rather than intellectual, which makes it so difficult to describe or explain. Poets, writers, prophets, theologians have all reached for words, and found them weak vessels, dim portals to describe the Great One out of which all is both born and alive within.
Surah 24:35 Al Nur (The Light)
(Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an)
"I am (is) the light of the world," Christ said. Then, turning to the great masses who were attracted to His light and love and power, He added, "You are the light of the world."
As He passed the torch of God consciousness to humanity, Christ revealed that God's power is that of a lover, who is made complete in the exchange of love. That love transaction is made between partners, equal in substance, rather than that of the inequality of judge and subject. Rather than a judge or monarch, God is gently nurturing yet with an awesome fecundity. The light of God's love is so far above our shallow, cold, diminishing, depleting, dis-empowering judgmental attitude too often associated with God.
Perhaps in the beginning of our relationship with God, at the time when the Abrahamic religions were first promulgated we trembled in fear in the presence of His light. Is it more likely that was our fear, our own projected judgment, rather than His? Why is power always associated with force, rather than with gentleness? Does true power need force, wouldn't inspiration and love have a more positive effect? And, if we humans can grasp that idea, wouldn't the great creator of the universe, not even be a zillion times more loving, allowing, gentle and powerful?
Love allows, waiting kindly and patiently for His children's eyes to open. God's love emits His passionate power, which always is to share, to empower, to create, to magnetize and connect.
God's Light is relational; His love invitational.
In all three Abrahamic traditions, God is that "I am," who first spoke to Moses at the burning bush in the Sinai. In the deeper, more ancient Sanskrit texts of the yogis, that "I am" is personally experienced within our own selves. While God is the Great Self, the Great ultimate Being of all being-ness, we, who are made in His image, also contain and are made of His great being-ness. As God is light, we also are light. Our true being is God's very self within our dense, material human bodies. We are light. We are spirit. We are made of the same substance of light as our creator, and that light is beyond description. It will transform your consciousness, awaken you, empower and inspire you, and open portals upon portals into heavens.
The light reflects God (Allah), perceived by Yogis as an actual internal radiant inner sun, and experienced (and sometimes seen) by Christians as both an inner sun and as the highly charged Holy Spirit. Its illumination is beyond words as it transforms our human experience out of the realm of spiritual blindness and a very limited, narrow, earth-bound sensory perception. The brilliance of God that illuminates our minds - and it is first authentically experienced within the deeply silent, focused mind - changes us from primal sensory beings into ascended, divine beings who are merely having a human experience.
The light is completely non-material and is so empowering that it transforms the darkness of ignorance and dull blindness, into a life of abundance to which nothing in this world of any material value could compare. It transforms your poverty into a wealth beyond measure.
In Christian, Jewish and Muslim prayer, in Yoga and Buddhist meditation, we all will encounter the light. It enters through the crown chakra and literally illuminates the mind. It is experiential, rather than intellectual, which makes it so difficult to describe or explain. Poets, writers, prophets, theologians have all reached for words, and found them weak vessels, dim portals to describe the Great One out of which all is both born and alive within.
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