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 spiritual Sun and spiritual light are what is meant. Take a few texts for illustration. Can any one doubt that spiritual light, or divine truth which illumines the understanding, is what is meant in passages like the following?

"Jesus said. I am the light of the world; he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." "Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you." "While ye have the light believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light." "I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth in me should not abide in darkness." "Light is come into the world, but men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil." "He [the incarnate Word] was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world." "God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all."

Yes: The light of divine truth which is spiritual, is what enlightens the souls of men while they tabernacle in the flesh. But it cannot enlighten those who, because of their evil loves and their unwillingness to see and abandon them, shut their eyes against it. "For every one that doeth evil, hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved."

But spiritual light must emanate from a spiritual luminary, as surely as natural light must come from some natural luminary. And what can that luminary be but the Lord Himself who is the enlightener of all minds, and who, we are assured by Swedenborg, appears before