World.” For divine or spiritual light, in its essence, is Divine Truth; and this is from the Lord, and is the Lord ; for He says “I am the truth.” John 14: 6. Moreover truth shines, or appears as light, in the spiritual world. Hence, when the Lord was transfigured before the disciples, or when their spiritual sight was opened to enable them to see Him in his glory, as the angels see Him, it is said that “His face shone as the sun and his garments were white as the light.” So also the Revelator describes the appearance of the Son of Man to him when he was in the spirit, as of One whose “countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.” 1: 16. And when Paul was journeying towards Damascus, he says, “I saw in the way a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them that journeyed with me.” And it is important to observe that, when, in reply to the voice which he heard, he inquired, “Who art thou, Lord?” The answer was, “I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.”
The Lord Jesus Christ, therefore, is the Truth itself. And because truth appears in the other world as light, for it is spiritual light, therefore He appears to the angels, and to those who have their spiritual sight open, as a un—immensely brighter too, than the sun of this world. And since all the truth which enlightens the understandings of men
