ntiles (Isa. 13:6).

I have established Thee for a light of the Gentiles that
Thou mayest be My salvation unto the end of the earth
(Isa. 19:6).

The nations of them that are saved shall walk in His light
(Apoc. 21:24).

Send out Thy light and Thy truth; let them lead me (Psalm
43:3).

In these and other passages the Lord is called light from Divine
truth, which is from Him; and the truth itself is likewise called
light. As light in the heavens is from the Lord as a sun, so when He
was transfigured before Peter, James, and John:

His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white
as the light (Matt. 17:2).

And His garments became shining, exceeding white as snow,
so as no fuller on earth can whiten them (Mark 9:3; Matt.
17:2).

The Lord's garments had this appearance because they represented
Divine truth which is from Him in the heavens, "garments" also in the
Word signifying truths,{1} consequently it is said in David:

O Jehovah, Thou coverest Thyself with light as with a
garment (Psalm 104:2).

{Footnote 1} In the Word "garments" signify truths, because
truths clothe good (n. 1073, 2576, 5248, 5319, 5954, 9216,
9952, 10536). The Lord's garments when He was transfigured
signified Divine truth going forth from His Divine love (n.
9212, 9216).

130. That light in the heavens is spiritual and that this light is
Divine truth may be inferred also from the fact that men as well as
angels have spiritual light, and have enlightenment from that light
so far as they are in intelligence and wisdom from Divine truth.
Man's spiritual light is the light of his understanding, and the
objects of that light are truths, which he arranges analytically into
groups, forms into reason, and from them draws conclusions in
series.{1} The natural man does not know that the light from which
the understanding sees such things is a real light, for he neither
sees it with his eyes nor perceives it by thought. And yet there are
many who recognize this light, and distinguish it from the natural
light in which those are who think naturally and not spiritually.
Those think naturally who take account of the world only, and
attribute all things to nature; while those think spiritually who
take account of heaven and attribute all things to the Divine. It has
often been granted me to perceive and also to see that there is a
true light that enlightens t