THE HIERARCHY OF LIGHT
✦ THE HIERARCHY OF LIGHT ✦ A Mystical Metaphysics of the Infinite Radiance Concerning the countless lights, the innumerable colors, and the infinite degrees of luminosity that emanate from the transcendent Singularity of Light Light does not become less by giving itself. It becomes a world. Dedicated to all who have sought the Light behind light— in temples and observatories, in scriptures and silences, in the lucid chambers of philosophy, and in the bottomless night of the soul. ❂ Proem: Before the First Dawn Before the first star kindled its silver fire, before space opened its vast blue-black sanctuary, before time began counting the footfalls of becoming, there was no darkness. There was no darkness because darkness had not yet been distinguished from light. There was no silence because no sound had yet arisen against which silence might be heard. There was no emptiness because there were no boundaries within which emptiness could gather. There was no “befo...