Lvx in Tenebris Lucet

Merry Christmas! The season of light in the darkest time of the year!

Lvx in tenebris lucet. The light shines in the darkness.

God - uniform and eternal - is perhaps known in contrast.

So it is that the Immortal is sustained by the mortal, the invisible made known through the visible things.

The mystery of the Incarnation is alluded to in these simple lines.

God and man, united after the vision.

The body is like a tunnel, a partition; only in man is God’s omnipresence seemingly refutable. But of course, God is everywhere. Always.

The mystery of freewill sustains an illusion of His absence, an illusion potentiated in man (it is man alone who can choose to deny God – to cleave to God or away from God). So it is that evil - that is, godlessness - seeps into the world. For wherever God is, evil cannot possibly exist. One is a lack. The other, a fullness.

How does evil seep into the world? Veritably, through the tunnel of man.

Thus the mystery of the One Thing is upheld. God, perfectly right, without limit or boundary, distinction or contradistinction, is not limited by mere Goodness or Rightness or Presence because, through man, the contrary is potentiated in division by will - indeed, all things come to pass. All things must come to pass.

The fall births sin; sin makes all suffering - even what will not be is possible because of sin.

The just necessity places man in the center.

The angels alight. Through man the depths descend. And yet his heart is a ladder – through nous the soul moves. It is adjusted in Judgment.

Man comes into being for the revelation of the Word.

Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

God renders perfection by man.

Christ is redemptive, indeed. Through the Incarnation, the necessity of sin is absolved. He became man that we, in time, could become like Him.

Tetelestai (τετέλεσται). It is finished.