💡 The True Light that Lightens Every Man ✨ The Word of God lightens every man that comes into the world, not after the manner of teaching, as the angels for example or men, but rather as God after the mode of creation, He engraves in each of those that are called unto being, the seed of wisdom or of Divine knowledge, and implants a root of understanding and so renders the living creature rational, showing it participate of His own Nature, and sending into the mind as it were certain luminous vapours of the Unutterable Brightness, in way and mode that Himself knows: for one may not, I deem, say on these subjects anything overmuch. (...) By participation with the Light the creature shines forth, and is therefore called and is light, mounting up to what is above its nature by the kindness of Him Who glorified it and Who crowned it with divers honours… For verily does the Lord mercies, rendering those that are little and a mere nothing according to their own nature, great and worthy of marvel through His Goodness toward them, even as He has, as God, willed to adorn us ungrudgingly with His own goods, and hence calls us gods and light, and what of good things does He not call us? St Cyril the Great, On John 1: 9; LFC 1, 86-87. #DivineLight #Logos #Creation #StCyril #Patristics #Theology