Pure Light is among the most perennial and generic signs in human spirituality. Light has been employed in all cultures and all time periods and every belief system to describe the supreme reality, the most profound truth and the ultimate creator of life. But when spiritual traditions talk of Pure Light they are hardly referring to the light of the physical world. Rather, Pure Light is an invisible, intelligent, and conscious entity- an entity that is beyond matter, time and individuality. It is the source and the place of spiritual awakening.
In spirituality, Pure Light can be said to be the real material of existence, the unspoken presence of everything. It cannot be adequately captured by the senses or even by the language. Instead, it is familiar by first-hand experience–by conditions of consciousness whereby the distinction is eliminated and the subject perceives itself as belonging to something much larger. Pure Light is not external, it is not somewhere elsewhere. It is the core of being itself.
Light as the Universal Metaphor Spiritual.
Light is the metaphor of the sacred that has always been the leading one of humanity. In the olden day the light was equated with life. The sun nurtured harvests, determined time and sent away darkness. This it was, of course, physical dependence, translated into spiritual symbolism. Light had come to signify knowledge, safety, order, and the presence of gods whereas darkness signified ignorance, chaos and fear.
Nevertheless, spiritual doctrines always point out that Pure Light does not stand in opposition to the darkness on the moral grounds. The darkness is not malevolent; just the lack of consciousness. When light comes, the darkness is not in combat with it, it disappears. Thus, Pure Light is a representation of awareness itself: the ability to see what is really there.
Light is connected with Jyoti which is the inner light of consciousness in Hindu philosophy. Enlightenment is a literal meaning of an awakening in Buddhism and a common description of the radiant clarity of mind. God in Christian mysticism is defined as the unapproachable light and in Islamic Sufism, God in form of the divine light (Nur) fills all creation. Even today, in spiritual language, individuals talk of lifting their vibration or becoming brighter and once again light is the thing that produces spiritual change.
The Nature of Pure Light
Spiritually, Pure Light is not energy as commonly used in the scientific world, but it can be felt to be energizing by whoever experiences it. It is thought preceding consciousness, consciousness preceding identity. It is not changeable, critical or segmented. It simply is.
The emptiness of Pure Light is one of the paradoxes of this artwork in that it is simultaneously empty and full. It lacks the form, is full of possibilities. Out of it, everything is born, matter, thoughts, feelings, and even a feeling of oneself. Nevertheless it is not affected by what it makes. That is why lots of spiritual traditions say that the ultimate reality is both transcendent and immanent: above the world, and inside all the atoms of this world.
Pure Light is frequently mentioned as infinite, immortal and indivisible. It is unable to be increased or reduced. It is not the property of one but is open to everybody. It does not presuppose belief, it exists before belief. The way to experience it may be through belief, but not through believing.
Lightness and Consciousness simply
On the most fundamental level Pure Light and consciousness are identical. The brain does not make consciousness, but it is perceived to be a transmitter or an interpreter of a far bigger state of consciousness. This field is Pure Light, the limitless consciousness manifesting itself in an infinite variety of forms.
When a human being realizes that he is aware, something deep takes place. Focus is directed inward not to thoughts or feelings but to the silent spectator beyond them. In this recognition, the person will feel that there is luminosity, clear, and serenity. This is commonly said to experience Pure Light, not as a visual experience, but as a state of existence.
Mystics of various traditions state when the delimitations of the self disappear and are replaced by an all-encompassing feeling of unity, love, and lightness. The use of words such as light, brightness and radiance is employed since the normal language does not describe the experience. Light is the nearest comparison to knowing, being and loving at the same time.
Pure light and infinite love be with us!