As the sunlight penetrates every nook and corner where an entrance is found possible, casting out the darkness and all the creatures of darkness, so the light of Truth and Love enters human consciousness, casting out the darkness of ignorance, superstition, and false educated belief, and saving humanity from everything unlike God. If the sunlight enters not the hidden chamber, it is because no entrance thereto is found. The ever-presence of light is a self-evident fact to the one who abides therein, while the one who lives in a room from which all light is excluded might perchance doubt its very existence. Doubt he certainly would if he had never known the light.
A room is not dark at noon-day except the light be excluded by man's device. The sun is shining without in all its brightness, and if an opening is found for even one ray of light, there that ray enters, untouched by the darkness and dampness within, an earnest of more to follow. The lone ray is not of itself sufficient to dispel the darkness and gloom, but it begins the work, and more light will follow just as fast as that which excludes the light is removed. In that very instant in which the obstruction is removed the light enters, unconscious of the darkness, and its brightness is not diminished thereby.
The sunlight of Truth and Love is ever-present and everywhere present; it cannot be entirely excluded from human consciousness. The sense of good entertained by mortals has been limited, but they have always been able to see more than they were willing to do. They have argued that it was impossible for them to do better or to gain more light. They have contended that their condition was in keeping with the natural order of things and that the light was withheld by reason of the operation of its own laws. Mortal man has sought to justify himself, and in some degree he may have felt that he has succeeded. Feeling the need of help, and not knowing how to gain the light, he has looked to the darkness to save him from the effects of darkness. Believing that he was able to see and do by reason of the darkness, he has called the darkness light and thereby the more completely excluded that "Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world."
