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"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 ....

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.... a spiritual level, however, is endowed with much greater significance. Buddha implored us to seek 'inner light"; Jesus Christ crowned himself "the light of the world"; Ancient Egyptians abandoned mere metaphor and literally worshipped the sun. Is light a profound substance, as previously discussed, but self-fulfillment relies on perception of this light; it relies on . Darkness is the perfect antagonist to light. It is an utter absence of illumination; it is the night, which devours the day; it is the womb, which we escaped, and the tomb to which we must return. Humans have always feared the dark, from the small child who cringes in her bed to the o ....