David Mor
meditation on light
Pure natural light is the source of inspiration as it also responsible for synchronizing body rhythms. Just think of caricature in which a light bulb suddenly turns on whenever the fair hero got an idea or better to say, inspired. Even in more recent times of cyber world where a light bulb is identified as an emoticon associated with inspiration. However the relationship of light and inspiration isn’t new and it actually goes three thousand years back in time when the Pharaoh Akhenaton the ruler of eighteenth dynasty in ancient Egypt taught his followers to view the sun as the visible source of creation, of life and of growth. For him the sun was a god, the only one god, Aton-Ra. According to the ancient Egyptian glyphs Aton was present as disk of the sun surrounded by rays, and each ray ended in an extending hand. In his poem "Great Hymn to the Aton", Akhenaton praises Aton as the creator, and giver of life. The poem has a striking similarity to Psalm 104 in the Hebrew bible as well to the
Book of Habakkuk (Chapter 3, 4),
His radiance is like the sunlight;
He has rays flashing from His hand,
And there is the hiding of His power
ספר חבקוק פרק ג', פסוק ד
וְנֹגַהּ כָּאוֹר תִּהְיֶה,
קַרְנַיִם מִיָּדוֹ לוֹ;
וְשָׁם, חֶבְיוֹן עֻזֹּה
Observant Jews recite Psalm 104 in its entirety every day during morning services, as well on certain occasions, such as the New Moon, while in the Eastern Orthodox Church the Psalm (or 103 in Greek) is recited in the main liturgical at the beginning of vespers and the all-night-vigils.
meditation on light
Pure natural light is the source of inspiration as it also responsible for synchronizing body rhythms. Just think of caricature in which a light bulb suddenly turns on whenever the fair hero got an idea or better to say, inspired. Even in more recent times of cyber world where a light bulb is identified as an emoticon associated with inspiration. However the relationship of light and inspiration isn’t new and it actually goes three thousand years back in time when the Pharaoh Akhenaton the ruler of eighteenth dynasty in ancient Egypt taught his followers to view the sun as the visible source of creation, of life and of growth. For him the sun was a god, the only one god, Aton-Ra. According to the ancient Egyptian glyphs Aton was present as disk of the sun surrounded by rays, and each ray ended in an extending hand. In his poem "Great Hymn to the Aton", Akhenaton praises Aton as the creator, and giver of life. The poem has a striking similarity to Psalm 104 in the Hebrew bible as well to the
Book of Habakkuk (Chapter 3, 4),
His radiance is like the sunlight;
He has rays flashing from His hand,
And there is the hiding of His power
ספר חבקוק פרק ג', פסוק ד
וְנֹגַהּ כָּאוֹר תִּהְיֶה,
קַרְנַיִם מִיָּדוֹ לוֹ;
וְשָׁם, חֶבְיוֹן עֻזֹּה
Observant Jews recite Psalm 104 in its entirety every day during morning services, as well on certain occasions, such as the New Moon, while in the Eastern Orthodox Church the Psalm (or 103 in Greek) is recited in the main liturgical at the beginning of vespers and the all-night-vigils.