LIGHT A CONCEPT OF TRUTH
Hope Saphos DeVenuto
From the intellect of Zeus, an immense bolt of fire terrifying and mighty
strikes the vault of heaven and in pursuing its brilliance, a perilous odyssey
is embarked
across an eternal threshold into a timeless age. The radiance of this flame
has now parted
the firmament as a curtain or veil drawn on the first moment of its conception
and instantly
the breath and sounds of matter deliver a vibration of a mighty purpose. It is
here, to the east
and west that Centurions of an ancient past guard this portal of heavens home
and yield there
mighty swords to usher one within, as others who have come before. The darkness
present
here is full of dreadful black, so frightening, that through the cloudless void,
an unseen voice
of a flute rises above the calm and into nothingness the sonance dissolves and
out of a deathless
world, a light appears and fills this chamber. At once there is a feeling of serenity
with the
return of the senses and an arousing awareness. Where does the light come from?
It has no
beginning or end. It's as if one were to burn a candle at both ends and as it
blazes from within
and without, it emits a feeling of soundness and blessings and evolves into a
guiding companion
of ignorance. A divine light, yes, filled with the knowledge of a truth that soothes
the soul and
humanness that is initiated into the trials of good and evil, darkness and light,
humanities only
hope in achieving the goal of its promised immortality.
In the presence of this light there is an astounding reflection of legends
and
portrayals of all the archetypes of man, warrior, and warioress who partook in
the light and
darkness, the duality of their form. The mortal beings who originated in Sophocle's
Oedipus
Rex, or any other great piece of literature, were those who tore at the boundaries
of a culture
as if to escape a cage not selfishly or without thought, but according to their
own ethics of
expanding the shallows of their world, were the seekers of light and truth. The
light that comes
from a memory of a divine abode that follows the darkness which may at first seem
strikingly
grey, is part of the process that gains a momentum of power and strength through
the actions
and connections of those who can recall it and perceive it as a mystical experience
deriving
from the gods. When light is viewed as a symbol, it can be regarded as a first
phase of an
unformed universe which creates an endless boundary for procreation and by following
it, we
can go beyond its symbolism into a metaphoric realm of unknown form, physical
sensation, and
intellectual emotion. Light and darkness becomes affiliated to signify the complimentary
or
ensuing qualities of an evolution. Through out the four corners of the earth light
symbolizes life,
salvation and happiness granted by the gods and so it is with an individuals confrontation
of
and with the acceptance of suffering, that the light becomes his liberation
and means of
communication with his own instinctive truth.
In each pursuing character on or off the planetary stage, there is an individual
process of assembling the context of images and experiences of what has been acquired
as
knowledge. And what has been acquired as knowledge may be truth for one, but not
for
another and so by conscience, each individual for himself is bound by his own
truth and by
his own light.
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