Genesis 1:3: Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.John 8:12: Christ: “I am the light of the world”Christ as light; Mary as glass that the light passes through without changing it (Virgin Mary)Hildegard of Bingen: “a fiery light of the greatest radiance coming from the open heavens flooded through my entire brain.”Dante, Paradiso, Canto 33: “Yet, as I wished, the truth I wished for came cleaving my mind in a great flash of light.”