Part one of term paper
"Let there be light." With these words, proclaims the book of Genesis, the sacred process of creation was begun. Greek mythology, similarly, depicts the conquest over Chaos by ordered illumination, while the cosmologist cites a dazzling explosion of brightness as the birth of the universe. At all levels, the emergence of light has been intima ...

Part two of term paper
... a purely sensual plane, is the perception of such light. Radiating from a primary source and reflecting off opaque surfaces, rays are filtered through the eye end interpreted by the mind. The human species is vastly dependent on this process: although provided with five senses, the brain gathers well over halt its external information through the eyes. On a spiritual level, however, is endowed with much greater significance. Buddha implored us to seek 'inner light"; Jesus Christ crowned himself ...