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3. The Mysterious Nature of Light,3a. “The Great Protean Magician”
... pure light condensed gradually into form, hence becoming Matter .... Light is the great Protean magician ... its multifarious, omnipotent waves give birth to every form ; as well to every living being. ... Within its beams, lie the beginnings of all physical and chemical action, and of all cosmic and spiritual phenomena. (Blavatsky, 1888, pp. 73 & 579) |
| Light has a most mysterious nature and is yet to
be understood within modern science. Archaic and modern mystical teachings
and modern science depict light as a fundamental primordial element responsible
for the creation and materialization of cosmic phenomena. Further,
mystics repeatedly describe light and illumination as essential features
of enlightenment, and exhort disciples to “gain the light within oneself.”
(Gnostic Gospels) Light is most frequently identified, in the mystical
literature, with consciousness itself.
As it happens, the advances of physics have not yet rendered light a mundane element or principle. Instead, the mysterious nature of light poses fundamental scientific questions about the nature of reality. In an interview with Rene Weber, Dr. Bohm (1986) explores the mysteries of light from a physical vantage point. One point made by Bohm with regards to light is that according to present field theories:
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| Religious and mystical teachings emphasize creation through the descent of supernal Light through higher dimensions of Space–which results through generations of causes and effects in the formations and structures of material reality. In the Book of Genesis, does not God say “Let there be light;” while in Kaballah, a line of light descends from the zero point centre of the Crown Sephirot of Kether, zigzagging down through the inward dimensions of the Tree of Life, through prism effects and symmetry breaking. Similarly, Blavatsky describes a ‘solitary ray’ that penetrates into the Mother Deep, initiating the processes of creation within the seven skinned parent Space; while the Vedic tradition talks of the ‘white radiance of Brahman’ as disrupting the three modes of nature, breaking the symmetries existing within the laya state. In the mystical traditions, light simply cannot be known in the terms of the “present structure of time and space,” as Bohm describes it. Light is the great protean magician. |
Recall the philosophy of Robert Grosseteste (1168-1253),
whose metaphysics were summarized by Wertheim:
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| In fact, diverse mystical cosmologies depict light as the first manifestation of cosmic creation–emerging out of Darkness (Infinite Light) and Non-Being. All material, cosmic and spiritual realities are regarded as latent in the mysterious potential of light, which has some profound metaphysical nature. The nothingness before the beginning is mysteriously filled with supernal light. It is light, in its supernal metaphysical nature, which condenses to form various planes of being and the material world orders. Mystical teachings depict the processes of creation as entailing the ‘freezing’of light, a condensation or crystallization through a hierarchy of broken symmetries which precipitate Being out of Non-Being. These concepts are all quite consistent with Bohm, and are in no way disproved by modern physical theory. In modern physics, a particle or quantum can similarly be described as the end result of broken symmetries in a seven dimensional hyperspace. Unfortunately, noone in modern psychology and philosophy, or perhaps only occasional fools, consider such ideas as applicable to the microcosm of a human being, as they are applicable to the Macrocosm of the Universe. Maybe someday we will all get to see the light! |
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