GOD’S, CREATOR’S (Spiritual) LIGHT EXPLAINED
By White Wolf
Light is the truth that created earth and brings joy. The specific spiritual meaning and significance of light is explained as understood by the author. The scriptures mostly refer to light in only general terms. When there are statements that help specificity, they are referenced. Helpful papers on this website are identified.
Light is connected with God
Daniel 5:14—“light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee”
John 8:12—“I am the light of the world”
2 Corinthians 4:4—“light of the glorious gospel of Christ”
Book of Mormon (BofM) Mosiah 16:9—“He is the light and life of the world”
BofM 3 Nephi 18:16—“I am the light: I have set an example”
Latter Day Saint (LDS) Doctrine and Covenants (D&C) 84:45—“whatsoever is truth is light, and whatsoever is light, is Spirit”
D&C 88:6-- “the light of truth”
D&C 88:13,41-- “(Christ’s light) is in all things, giveth life to all things…is the law by which all things are governed”
D&C 93:28-- “He that keepth his commandments receiveth truth and light, until he is glorified in truth and knoweth all things”.
Light is the truths, realities, knowledge that permits us to see, understand, comprehend how the world was created and functions under the direction of Christ, and when these truths are applied to peoples lives (love, respect….), they lead people to the abundant life—one full of charity, forgiving, gratitude, beauty, joy, great knowledge…..
The application of light
In its’ broadest sense, light is divine knowledge. God’s applying of this knowledge, light, produces and has produced the following results:
- the formation of Mother Earth and everything on her, including physical bodies for plants and animals ((LDS) Pearl of Great Price (PGP) Abraham 5:7—“God formed man of the dust of the ground”)
- the placement of governing spirits in these physical bodies to give these bodies life (LDS PGP Abra. 5:7—“God formed man and took his spirit (that is man’s) and put it in him; and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul”);
- all Nature respects and obeys Christ (there are many examples—the formation of and the stability of physical structures and the laws of physics, water turned into wine, the Red Sea parted so the children of Israel could escape Pharaoh’s army, healing the sick………..;
- Christ helps man apply divine knowledge (how to develop love, have respect, practice forgiveness, compassion….) to bring him to the divine level;
5. application of this knowledge, can produce visible light.
These five points are discussed below.
The Spiritual realities of light which made the Creation possible
The website paper entitled “Creator’s, God’s Power and Glory Explained”, lists the basic realities which comprise light and which allowed Christ to create Mother Earth and all on Her. These realities, truths are:
Reality One: The Universe is composed of countless spirits, intelligences or awarenesses, whatever you call them, which perceive positive and negative energy, such as love versus hate……………(LDS PGP Abr. 3:22—“shown unto me……the intelligences that were organized before the world was).
Reality Two: These awarenesses can react to this energy, and seek to align themselves with the positive and flee or avoid the negative.*
Reality Three: Our all wise Creator knows how to organize these awarenesses, spirits so that the organization, such as atoms organized to form molecules, is a positive experience. .
Reality Four: Awarenesses, consciousnesses choose to obey the Creator’s request to form ‘objects’, etc., because they benefit from this organization, it is a positive experience and they are removed from chaos. Positive energy is generated which flow outward to the Creation.
Reality Five: As organizations formed by the requests of the Creator increase in complexity, positive energy is exponentially increased and accumulated in the new organization, such as in atoms to molecules up the scale to plant or animal bodies.
Reality Six: With each good organization, positive energy is released into the Creation and accumulates in the individuals involved in aiding the new organization.
Reality Seven: As the overall organizer of everything, the Creator is the ultimate accumulator of all this positive energy.
Reality Eight: This tremendous accumulation of positive energy results in the Creator being glorious in appearance and being full of love. His working to help all awarenesses, results in tremendous love accumulating to the Creator, Jesus Christ.
* Positive and negative as used in electrical theory, is different than that used here. There the negative, electrons flow to the positive. Here positive represents what is desirable, good, such as love, beauty….. Negative represents what is evil, such as hate, envy, deception…. Negative people usually avoid the positive.
Christ organized our physical bodies and put life in them
Christ convinced spiritual element, awarenesses, consciousnesses, from atoms up to organize themselves such that physical bodies were created. To give these bodies life, He placed governing spirits in them, such as our spirit in our body (see 1 & 2 on the front page).. When we die, our spirits leave our body.
All physical bodies that are/were organized by the Creator, are occupied by a governing spirit, awareness, even rocks. What is built by man, usually (perhaps never) doesn’t possess a governing intelligence, such as a car, house,** tool…… However, man made objects are composed of many intelligences, awarenesses who obey Christ. There just isn’t an overall governing spirit in the man-made object. If Christ commands, the man-made object will destruct.
All Nature respects and obeys Christ
The organized awarenesses, spirits in Nature obey Christ (LDS PGP Abr. 4:25—(the Creator) “organized the earth….. and…saw they” (the intelligences He organized) “would obey”) for they all respect and revere Him:
- they know that He has all wisdom;
- He organizes them so that all components experience the greatest possible joy.
All organized spirits, awarenesses in the Creation are always aware of what Christ wants them to do and they do it, are obedient (D&C 88:13,41). His Spirit and wishes are always before them (Christ’s light is in all things). Man is somewhat an exception. For man to develop his great potential, he, man must thoroughly experience and internalize in his heart, the difference between good and evil. In order to accomplish this, enough of Christ’s light is withheld from man that he makes some poor choices and experiences negativity. Man is given full light only when he sincerely seeks it. Man learns the difference between good (what the Creator wants) and evil as he does wrong. As he experiences negativity and if he is wise, he seeks for light through a close relationship with his Creator and develops to his great potential.
Christ works to bring divine knowledge to Man so Man can develop his great potential
A major purpose of Christ’s work is to bring Man the greatest possible happiness in the eternities. In LDS PGP Moses 1:39, it states—“For behold, this is my (God’s) work and glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man”. What this means is that the Creator seeks to bring us the greatest possible happiness in our post-Earth spirit life which lasts forever. Everything He teaches and asks us to do, is to help us grow in love, knowledge, wisdom, patience, appreciation of beauty…. The light (knowledge and commandments) He gives us is toward this end. Christ applied love, knowledge, respect, forgiveness, wisdom…… in creating Mother Earth and everything on her.
Visible light connected with the application of these realities
Many people have observed that when the great realities, teachings are incorporated into the life of people, they exhibit a radiance, their countenance is bright, there is a lightness/shine in their face and they have a beautiful white aura. Those who practice evil, have darkened countenances, darkness around their eyes and a black aura.
Christ who has completely internalized all the greater truths, radiates such brilliant light (Matthew 17:2 and D&C 110:3) that He must do one of two things when He becomes visible to unrefined man, otherwise they would burn up (that which is corrupt, will be burned by Christ’s brightness at The Second Coming). He either places a veil between Him and the person or His glory rests on the person so that the person can endure His brightness. His brightness is so intense, no sun is needed (Rev. 22:5).
Concluding observations relative to light
- The more light (knowledge) acquired and respected, the more of it flows to a person (LDS D&C 88:40—“light cleaves to light”).
- Conversely, as a person seeks evil, he looses the light, divine knowledge that he has had and then he often seeks evil knowledge.
- Light, higher knowledge can only be understood and applied by those that seek and practice it. The more a person is spiritually developed, the more such knowledge he can understand and apply (John 1:5—“light shineth in darkness and darkness comprehend it not”).
- Acquisition of light is greatly facilitated the more the spirit of the Creator rests with a person, to be specific, the more He possesses the Holy Ghost (Spirit)..
- The Creator with the divine knowledge He possesses and His respect of it, was able to create the physical bodies in which higher governing awarenesses, consciousnesses reside.
- When man’s spirit, awareness is in a physical body and he practices disciplining his body (the lesser spirits organized to form his physical body), that is, disciplining our sex drive, appetites, the need for alcohol and drugs for escape, etc., the more readily he acquires and internalizes divine knowledge in his heart, the higher his level of joy, the greater his appreciation of beauty…..
- The greatest measure of a person’s mental, creative capacity, is not IQ, but how much spiritual ‘light’ that he acquires and can acquire because he seeks knowledge of the greater realities, will respect it and lives the laws regarding the granting of it.
** An uplifting spirit (God’s spirit) can dwell in a righteous person’s home but it is not a governing spirit for that house such as a person’s spirit in his/her body.
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