The only line which Christ drew is that which parts the sheep from the goats, that great horizon-line of the moral nature of man which is the boundary between light and darkness.

XLI. LIGHT AND DARKNESS.

If we have learnt something more of who God is; if we have learnt that he is a God in whom we can trust through joy and sorrow, through light and darkness, through life and death, have we not learnt enough for ourselves?

The Egyptians, like the Zoroastrians, seemed to count the one all-dividing line in the universe the line between truth and falsehood, between light and darkness.

The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged; on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest; who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away.

The conflict sketched in these pages appears as a war between light and darkness.

But let us return to the kinetic skin of energy between Light and the Darknessthe firmament which God calls Heaventhe battle ground for gravity and apergy, or attraction and repulsion, or good and evil, or the powers of light and darkness.

All of them are the transparent stories of a simple people, to express in intelligible terms the daily struggle that is ever going on between Day and Night, between Light and Darkness, between Storm and Sunshine.

Apart from its being but a repetition or continuation of the genuine ancient account of the conflict of day and night, light and darkness, which I have already given, the name Tollan is enough to point out the place and the powers with which the story deals.

It was "a day when light and darkness coexisted in contiguous masses, and the earth and sky were but one.

Such a scene recalls Milton's sublime pictures of Pandemonium, and shows directly to the eye what effects a great imaginative painter may produce with no other colors than light and darkness.

Mutual service and slaverylike light and darkness, life and deathare directly opposed to, and subversive of, each other.

Mutual service and slaverylike light and darkness, life and deathare directly opposed to, and subversive of, each other.

A repetition of this story is given in the legend of the fight between Horus and Set, and in both forms it represented originally the fight which was supposed to go on daily between light and darkness.

Light and darkness, truth and falsehood, are not more in opposition than Christianity and slavery.

A day when Christ sets before us, as he did to those Jews, good and evil, light and darkness, right and wrong, and says, Choose! Choose at once, and choose for ever; for by what you choose this day, by that you must abide till death.

The march of Pitt's policy went on; and the chasm between light and darkness deepened.

As day is partitioned between light and darkness, so has the public taste as to Wordsworth been divided between his reverers and the followers of the Jeffrey heresy.

If this mystical view of Fire be clear, it will be easy enough to follow what Law says about Light and Darkness, or Air, Water, and Earth, interpreting them all in the same way as "eternal Things become gross, finite, measurable, divisible, and transitory.

Two principles were thus supposed to reign over the world, antagonistic to each other, and each alternately presiding over the destinies of mankind.[102] The contests between the good and evil principle, symbolized by light and darkness, composed a very large part of the ancient mythology in all countries.

The same religious sentiment of the ancients, modified, however, in its details, by our better knowledge of divine things, has supplied Freemasonry with a double symbolismthat of Light and Darkness.

This doctrine pervaded all the Oriental religions, and its influences are to be seen in the system of Speculative Masonry, where it is developed in the symbolism of Light and Darkness.

No; light and darkness are but poor distinctions Of such, whose courage comes by fits and starts.

DUALISM, or MANICHÆISM, the doctrine that there are two opposite and independently existing principles which go to constitute every concrete thing throughout the universe, such as a principle of good and a principle of evil, light and darkness, life and death, spirit and matter, ideal and real, yea and nay, God and Devil, Christ and Antichrist, Ormuzd and Ahriman.

Among the statutes that I see to the Fair that stood up straight in my mind wuz Light and Darkness.