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These beings are the “ Sons of Light,” because they emanate from, and are self-generated in, that infinite Ocean of Light, whose one pole is pure ''Spirit ''lost in the absoluteness of Non-Being, and the other, the ''matter ''in which it condenses, crystallizing into a more and more gross type as it descends into manifestation. Therefore matter, though it is, in one sense, but the illusive dregs of that Light whose limbs are the Creative Forces, yet has in it the full presence of the Soul thereof, of that Principle, which none — not even the “ Sons of Light,” evolved from its {{Style S-Small capitals|absolute darkness}} — will ever know. The idea is as beautifully, as it is truthfully, expressed by Milton, who hails the holy Light, which is the —

And of th’ Eternal co-eternal beam ;

. . . . . Since God is light,