If we're to speak of neo-platonic emanationism, let's not forget Master John Scotus Eriugena! Greatest of his age methinks. I've had a draft of an essay on him sitting around for a while. Well worth a column or two. The Periphyseon is an amazing text!
On the matter of light: in the writings of the scholastic monks in Tibet, it had the meaning of "awareness-being". Not like the light of a flashlight, but of Mind itself creating and illuminating the world.
If we're to speak of neo-platonic emanationism, let's not forget Master John Scotus Eriugena! Greatest of his age methinks. I've had a draft of an essay on him sitting around for a while. Well worth a column or two. The Periphyseon is an amazing text!
On the matter of light: in the writings of the scholastic monks in Tibet, it had the meaning of "awareness-being". Not like the light of a flashlight, but of Mind itself creating and illuminating the world.