"Let there be light." With these words, proclaims the book of Genesis, the sacred process of creation was begun. Greek mythology, similarly, depicts the conquest over Chaos by ordered illumination, while the cosmologist cites a dazzling explosion of brightness as the birth of the universe. At all levels, the emergence of light has been intimately intertwined with the mergence of life--dawn represents the resurrection of day; Lazarus stumbled into sunlight from gm blackness of his …
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…gain spiritual, philosophical, or physical understanding, claims Plate, unless we turn and face the true light and envision the universe as it truly is. If this assertion is accurate, then a great darkness has blinded the human race. Evidence of this is our indulgence in futile activities, such as war, hatred and environmental destruction. Perhaps it is time that those mighty words again be cried, and echo throughout the human cosmos: "Let there be light!"