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God is light, and light supreme. Every other light is only its weak emanation (aporroe) and reflection which reaches the earth, however bright it would seem to be. But you see that darkness[15] was under His feet and He made darkness His secret place,[16] having placed it between Himself and us, in the same manner as Moses of old put a veil between himself and the grossness of Israel,[17] in order that it should not be easy for the darkened nature to see the hidden beauty... and in order that only light would come in contact with the Light, which always draws one higher through desire (efeseos),[18] and in order that only purified intellect would approach to the Most Pure, and in order that something should be revealed now and something else later, as a reward for virtue and for inclination here to this (absolute purity), or rather, for assimilation