Light Phenomena

This page on phenomena of light has not been established to tickle the imagination of those people who are always running after the spectacular with an unbounded frenzy in order to find excitement in their life from "outside" sources. Rather, it is for the truly authentic seeker of the Divine Presence, Adonai, Allaha, the true light. This page will assist the true seeker in knowing we also are light, and that the light of the Supreme can be found within, as that cosmic light is both transcendent and immanent.

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The Indian Saint Ramalinga Swami, who passed over in a flash of light in the latter 19th century, realized that deep devotion to God, which he called the Supreme Grace Light, would melt and merge the aspirant into the pure cosmic light of Divine Love. He spoke of this transmutation of our physical body in this way:

“By the grace of God, through communion and devotion to God, matter is converted into energy. The atoms of the elements, which constitute the body, are alchemised into pure and perfect atoms resulting in a body of love. In short, matter is converted into energy. Then the body will again be transformed into a body of grace and light. By further concentration (devotion to God and deeper meditation), the body of grace and light will be transformed into the body of wisdom, eventually to evolve into the body of the God Supreme or Immanence Within.“

Others also spoke of this "Light Consciousness," realizing the light was God. In his "Autobiography of a Yogi,” Yogananda spoke of his conversation with Therese Neuman, a German stigmatist who was a contemplative of Padre Pio. In this passage, he asks her:

"Don’t you eat anything?” I wanted to hear the answer from her own lips.

"No, except a Host at six o’clock each morning."

"How large is the Host?"

"It is paper-thin, the size of a small coin." She added, "I take it for sacramental reasons; if it is unconsecrated, I am unable to swallow it."

"Certainly you could not have lived on that, for twelve whole years?"

"I live by God’s light."

How simple her reply, how Einsteinian!

"I see you realize that energy flows to your body from the ether, sun and air."

A swift smile broke over her face. "I am so happy to know you understand how I live."

"Your sacred life is a daily demonstration of the truth uttered by Christ: "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.’ "

At the beginning of her book, SCIVIAS, Hildegard described her experience of the Living Light:

“It happened that, in the eleven hundred and forty-first year of the Incarnation of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, when I was forty-two and seven months old, Heaven was opened and a fiery light of exceeding brilliance came and permeated my whole brain and inflamed my whole heart and my whole breast, not like a burning but like a warming flame, as the sun warms anything its rays touch.”

In the book, "Scientific & Medical Studies on the Apparitions at Medjugorie" Rene Laurentin and Henri Joyeux make these statements in the chapter titled "a study of the phenomena of light":

“The good standing of luminous phenomena in the Bible invites us not to exclude the supernatural a priori. Indeed, the biblical examples are more varied and more disconcerting than the phenomena of Medjugorje: brands of fire that pass in the night among the sacrificial victims offered by Abraham, the burning bush, the many lights alluded to by the prophets, the Transfiguration....we conclude too readily that these phenomena are mere literary forms. In the same sense the signs in the heavens announced by Christ as heralding the end of time...are we to exclude a realistic interpretation of these words?”

“Can God still speak to us today through light? The phenomenon is situated in a coherent physical reality but it refers to something else, which somehow goes beyond our ordinary faculty of explanation.”

In the Sacred writings of the Old and New Testament we read these statements regarding "Light"-which are not a metaphor for something else.

"Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in the fresh, healing waters of direct perception. Attune yourself to the active inner Guidance; the Divine Voice has the answer to every dilemma of life.”

There are many quotes in the Old & New Testaments referring to the light beginning with the book of Genesis in which is told the story of Creation. God is said to begin creation with the words "Let there be Light." Out of the light sprang all creation vibrating with various levels of frequencies as all Creation springs forth from God whose essence is Light and Love.

There are many statements of St. Paul throughout the New Testament referring to God's children as "Children of the Light." In addition, there are the following quotes:

Matthew 5:14 You are the light of the world.

Matthew 5:16 Let your light shine forth.

Matthew 7:2 And Jesus’ clothes were as white as light.

John 1:4 In him was life and the life was the light of the world.

In the future, we will be offering more information and contemplation on Light as a reality of life of the Divine Oneness Within.