If ever
you’re fortunate enough to stand in a great cathedral like Chartres in Paris, or some
other elsewhere, and gaze up at the gorgeous stained-glass windows depicting so many
stories of saints and sinners, the great symbolism behind it all that the architect,
artisans and mystics intended is simply this – through all the myriad figures and
representations of nature, the one Light shines through and enlightens them all. Without
that Light, they could not be seen nor could their translucent colours enthral us.
One Light shines through the many windows and the many differently shaped pieces of
glass in each window section. It is the one Light making many appearances – the
so-called saints and sinners stand out in every imaginable shade and hue.
These magnificent windows are trying to tell us – it’s all God! Not God and
them or God and us – there is only God, the Light that is the substance of all. The
same Light shines in and through everything that comes into being – there is nothing
else!
The Christ-Light is What we really are – the Light of the world, as the Master
always was, is now and ever shall be – beyond birth and death, beyond time and space.
Let us then stand in awe and with the eyes of God, gaze the gaze of eternity – seeing
God everywhere and in everything.
