Contrast - 8th November, 2024

Arild Rosenkrantz 

Contrast is imperial to perspective - both visually and conceptually. 

Mental acuity, as well as the depth of one’s soul’s activity, is all about observation and contrast - and later, further to this, discernment and definition.

And for contrast we require light, and discernible, palpable substance.

It is with the power and blessing of the light there becomes suitable graduations of defining contrast: light in the world, light in the mind, light in the soul.

And then also, there needs be without and within us a panorama, a vista, a scenery of detail - a catalogue of knowledge to choose where to fix our outer gaze or inner vision; and this is of course the realm of experience whereby we carry within us the certain knowledge of that we have formerly experienced.

And once again it is the light - the divine light - that reveals and finesses this contrast with its revelation of detail.

We must not judge our brothers for lacking in discernment, wisdom, or common sense. For the most part they are truly doing their best, and unless they have fallen into depravity, their testing and trying in life is no more and no less than what it could or should be.

In other words one may become exasperated wondering how it is that another simply cannot see what you plainly can see - but not only is a point of reference required for this meeting of minds, but the contrast as well for like thinking to occur.

It truly is a fool’s pursuit trying to force this upon another and one could say a lack of contrast in and of itself. 

Prayer is the secretum, the ad hoc, and the great improviser.

Prayer unites all by drawing in the light - opening hearts and minds to the effulgent, the incandescent ways of insight and inner vision.

Through prayer the contrasting light pours forth out and into the world redefining its worth with every new lumen.

Perspective is important, but it cannot exist without the light itself - and the pathway to this light is prayer.