And being but one, she can do all things: and remaining in herself, she maketh all things new: and in all ages entering into holy souls, she maketh them friends of God, and prophets.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
If spiritual light was created when God said, "Let there be light," you must not think that this was the true light, coeternal with the Father, through whom all things were created and who enlightens every person. Rather, it was that light of which Scripture could say, "Among all things, Wisdom was created first." In fact, when that eternal and immutable Wisdom, which is not created but generated, communicates itself to spiritual and rational creatures"as to holy souls so that, enlightened, they might shine"he constitutes in them, so to speak, a state of enlightened reason that can be understood as the creation of the light when God said, "Let there be light!" If there already existed a spiritual creature called by the name "heavens" in the passage where it is written, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," these heavens are not the corporeal heavens but the incorporeal. They are superior to any body, not by the ordering of space into levels but because of the exceeding dignity of their nature.
