The Three Categories of Light

[Oscar Truitt]

In my personal work with Light, I've discovered three distinct but often overlapping categories:

1). Artificial Light. This can include mechanical (electric etc.) light - but the term also relates to imagination i.e. the varieties of illumination used in visualization exercises and forms of meditation. This aspect of light is therefore man/woman-made - yet can be therapeutically beneficial when used well.

2) Qualified Light. Just as sunlight passes through a prism and produces the spectrum of color, so does spiritual light produce a spectrum of individualized (according to its applications) forms. Some examples would be the Light of Reike healing, the chakra colors, various frequencies of light identified with specific spiritual lineages (see "shakti" in hindu tradition).
This form of light is closer to the original creative ray but, as has been noted above, is specified and carries a unique vibrational signature.

3). Uncreated Light. This is the source energy. It carries within its field Divine Intelligence (while qualified Light is only a refection of that ) - and is always experienced in connection to "flow" or Spirit. Uncreated Light cannot be harnessed or channeled however. Rather it harnesses us, uses us and transforms us.
The term Uncreated is applicable because this source light is not created ( I say "is" since It exists outside of time). Light has always been. In the words of the Judeo/Christian Genesis story: "Let there be Light". The created order evolves as expressions of Light. But the "moment" of its appearance is an eternal one (before, if you will, the binding rotation of time).

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[Peter]

Hi Oscar, welcome to the board.

I appreciated that your website describes what it is you actually do, rather than being a short waffle of 'manifest this' and 'true potential that' as so many life coaches' websites are.

Your categories were interesting, conforming to the Law of Three. I've a background in physics, so I tend to struggle with thinking of light as anything other than a narrow band on the EM spectrum. I find the fact that light can become matter (and visa versa) fascinating.

Going off topic a bit here, but looking up Gurdjieff's Law of Three brought up the Law of Seven which gets me back to Light: Gurdjieff illustrated the Law of Seven with the colours in a rainbow (attributed to Newton who I believe also followed some esoteric studies) and also notes in a musical scale. What's interesting is that the Chinese use five notes in a musical scale, and declare five colours in a rainbow. Aristotle apparently recognised three colours (John Logie Baird would have approved). Of course there are an infinite number of wavelengths (in both light and sound), it's just humans that have a penchant for dividing things up!

[Ligth2Light]

Peter, thank you for responding and for your kind observation re my website.

When I speak of Light, I tend to move from the literal to metaphor a lot. Literally, many people experience this energy as a "brightness" - and I do as well. But there is this tendency in us, influenced by culture, to look at things spiritual in terms of cinematic drama and effect; we see light as a physical thing.
My experience has taken me into both of two (and I suppose there will be more)realms. I do indeed sometimes "see" brilliance in my meditations. But, more often these days, I'm finding that this light is a state of being rather than an observed shining; I'm noticing light as an expansiveness of consciousness, a opening up of emotional wonder, a "lightness" of attitude and, sometimes even accompanied by sound, a ringing of elevated personal energy. Light becomes this sense of "I could almost float" off the earth, I am not bound by heaviness, I feel transparent - not so dense or filled with thought. I suppose the best synonym would be the word Purity. I experience Light in stillness as this pure essential resonance, vibrating at a high pitch but, at the same time, free of care - fearless.
So, description becomes a tad complicated when we try to fit it into our language.
Yes, this light that I have categorized in three can and does manifest as brightness - but, then again, it doesn't have to. It is Light, weightless, undefinable.