"Let there be light." These words are the first words that are spoken in all creation, according to biblical text. Myself, I won't buy a bible that doesn't translate this sentence just like that, this simple, profound command. There's something to that phrase, something that hints of a higher meaning, something of the divine, and in my heart I could not imagine a better start to the beginning of it all. Various people have tried to reconcile this phrase to our physical beginning, the moment of the Big Bang from which this universe sprang; but I see no reason to try and match things up like that: let it stand, I think, as a mysterium tremendum, as it should. We do not know how one may conceive of light when darkness is all there is. And we cannot conceive of how one may speak, and the elements themselves obey that voice.
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