Light: living spirit, conscious and active
Ask someone what sunlight means to them, and they will reply that it allows them to see. The beings and objects will always seem more important to them than the light that makes them visible.
In Initiatic Science, light is a living spirit, conscious and active. You may say that solar radiation is not a spirit but a physical phenomenon much studied by physicists. Yes, but sunlight is simply a manifestation on the physical plane of the cosmic Spirit, through which the universe was created. The universe is a creation of light. Light is a spirit, the Spirit of God himself. It created life, physical as well as spiritual, and it continues to sustain it. The more light humans receive and absorb, the more their soul and spirit manifest as intelligence, love and power. And so when the word ‘light’ is used it has a spiritual dimension.
When someone is said to have light, it means the spirit is manifesting in them.
Sun: symbol of the universal religion
Catholicism has presented itself as the sole universal religion. But, in fact, the only religion which can truly claim to be universal is one inspired by the sun. Because the sun is universal.
‘And the Lord,’ you will say, ‘ is he not universal?’ Of course the Lord is universal, but for our ordinary human consciousness, he is so imperceptible and inaccessible! On the grounds that we must recognize only one God, many refuse to accept a solar religion, a philosophy which presents the sun as the symbol of the Divinity. But because they are unable to contact God, they remain in the void. Claiming that they praise and glorify only the Lord, they feel and understand nothing. Is this intelligent? Why not realize that it is the sun, above all, that can bring us closer to God by giving us an image of his light, his love and his power?
As long as we reject the sun, we remain in the shadows, cold and weak.