Abstract

We confess in the Creed that God is light, and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, is light from the light. There is no prayer without even a reference to light. The initial light, after the Christian conception, is a reflection of the uncreated divine energies, a sign of the presence and fullness of the divine creative grace. "The difference between the light of the first day and that of the fourth day," says Saint Basil the Great, is this: the first was the very essence of light, the second was carried by the astral bodies. But the light and something else are the luminators; the Creator it fills them with light and suspends them in the vicinity of the world". As a primordial element in creation, light is the first that has been praised by the praise of the Creator Himself, as it is said in Holy Scripture: "And God saw that light is very beautiful". The word "enlightenment" goes far beyond the simple idea of seeing around and creates, with each example, its own structure. The light that comes from above has a unique quality in nature, as in philosophy, it penetrates even the darkest corners of the spirit, even if it is only a ray. The meaning of "enlightenment" becomes synonymous with revelation, whether we are talking about the world of ideas, the mental, the intellectual or the spiritual. However, light also has scientific definitions and is at the center of the most remarkable explorations of the truths of Creation. The demonstration, in 2015, of Einstein's theory, according to which light behaves as a wave and a particle at the same time, meant an extremely important turning point, on the border between science and religion. Beyond the scientific demonstration and the experiment itself, the quantum understanding of light brings to attention another paradigm of wave-particle duality, that of mystery. This mystery probably made Einstein declare in 1916 that for the rest of my life I would like to think about what light is. As His invisible thoughts are seen from the creatures, we can believe that this mysterious wave-corpus duality is the natural phenomenon by which we can understand, or rather accept, believe in, the mystery of the unmixed union of his nature. God with the human, in the person of the Savior of Christ.