Let There Be Light(ning)

[Adisa]

If we follow the Book of Genesis in the order the text presents, something becomes impossible to ignore: light appears before the Sun.

Like many others, I once assumed the light God commanded into existence was the Sun. But when I returned to the text with new eyes, I realized that wasn’t so. The Sun, Moon, and stars don’t appear until what the text calls the fourth day.

So I went back, trying to understand the light that had escaped me.

At first, I connected it to fire, a masculine element—an illumination born of heat. I was almost certain I had found the meaning. But the more I thought about fire and its relationship with water, the more uneasy I became. Fire dies in water. Fire weakens. Fire submits.

And then it hit me—

or more accurately… it struck me.

The first light wasn’t fire.

The first light was (EL)ectric.

A charge.

A pulse.

A spark that cannot be dimmed by water.

Let there be LIGHT(ning).

The electric spark igniting creation.

This revelation isn’t isolated.

It’s supported by mythology: Zeus, Jupiter—the sky fathers—masculine forces wielding lightning as the symbol of authority and creation. Even ancient stories of primitive humans discovering fire begin with lightning striking the earth.

Cinema echoes the same truth.

Dr. Frankenstein brought his creation to life not with magic, nor with flame, but with electricity—the spark of animation.

And in modern life?

Electricity is everywhere, but most ironically of all, the same force that ignited creation is used in our homes every day simply as light.

We also know this force in its most sacred form:

the power to restore life.

Every one of us has etched into our memory the image of a medical team using a defibrillator—charging the paddles, delivering a jolt of electricity—to restore the natural rhythm of a failing heart.

We are electrical beings.

Electricity carries current.

Water carries current.

As above, so below.

The first light from the heavens—the masculine spark—

charged the primordial waters—the feminine womb—

working in unison to initiate the creation we now call existence.

“Every revelation is a revision. And every revision leads closer to truth.”

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