THE BEING OF LIGHT

Good day my brothers and sisters.

Albert Einstein said, `I want to know God`s thoughts... the rest are details.` From childhood, he wondered what it would be like to be light. His scientific discoveries beautifully complement the paradoxical spiritual insights of the mystics. The mystics say that time and space are illusions. Einstein has scientifically shown that this is true. If we could move at the speed of light, these fundamental dimensions would cease to exist, ( Hmm, I believe my prayes travel at the speed of light!) Science teaches that from light`s point of viewthere is no space and no ime, just as the mystics teach that from God`s perspective there is only oneness and eternity

The mystics talk of the ultimate reality as the `All and Nothing`, using paradoxical phrases such as `The clear Light of the Void` and `The dazzling Darkness`. Science teaches us that if there were to be only pure light with nothing for it to illuminate, it would be paradoxically totally dark. Like God who cannot be seen, yet is evirywhere bringing all things into existance, light reveals reveals everything, yet is itself invisible. If I recall correctly, then in part of the communion service we attended this morning, we said, " Light from Light and true God from true God".

Modern physics wrestles with the paradox that light sometimes appears as made up of particals and sometimes as a wave, depending on the way the experiment is set up. This is directly comparable to our mystical observations about consciousness. From the perspective of our normal awareness each individual is a discrete -particle- of consciousness that we experience as you and `me` . But from the sublime mystical perspective there is only one consciousness and individuals are no more than `waves` rising and falling on this one ocean of being. When the mystic experiences pure consciousness he cease to experience himself as a distinct particle of consciousness, and knows himself to be a `wave` - a transitory disturbance on the Sea of God that is the ultimate and only true identity. There are waves, but they are wholly made up of the sea. The mystic ceases to focus on the objects which light reveals, and is aware of the one light which reveals them. He turns his attention from the contents of consciousness, and focused on consciousness Itself - the sense of `I AM`. He sees the light. He is enlightened.

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Thats why my sister had made and gave me a present of the T shirt " Im a mystical spiritual being having a human experience." Okay, I am back having just located and ironed it, it is ready to pack.

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From its earliest beginnings in the Greek Mystery Schools to the amazing modern insights of Albert Einstein, science has always been a source of mystical wonder. Einstein wrote:

The most important function of science is to awaken the cosmic religious feeling and keep it alive... It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without (outside) it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvellous order which reveal themselves bothe in natur and int the world of thought, He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe* as a single significant whole.

* As I like to think of it uni-verse; one song.