If the light of a thousand suns suddenly arose in the sky, 
that splendor might be compared to the radiance of the 
Supreme Spirit.  And Arjuna saw in that radiance the 
whole universe in its variety, standing in a vast unity in 
the body of the God of gods. 

FROM THE BUDDHIST SCRIPTURES  
The Dhammapada 25:373, 387  

The sun is bright by day, the moon shines by night, 
the Brahman is bright in his meditation;  but Buddha, 
the Awakened, is bright with splendor day and night... 
When with a mind in silent peace a monk enteres his 
empty house, then he feels the unearthly joy of 
beholding the light of Truth. 

FROM THE ZOROASTRIAN SCRIPTURES  

With Truth moving my heart, with Best Thought inspiring 
my mind, with all the might of spiritual force within me, 
I kneel in homage to Thee, my Master, with the songs of 
thy loving praise ever on my lips.  And even at the last, 
when I shall stand at Thy Gate as a suppliant, I shall hear 
distinct, the sweet echo of my prayers from Thy Abode 
of Songs. 

FROM THE NATIVE AMERICAN TRADITION  
Four Winds, Navaho Prayer for Healing  

You who dwell in the house of dawn, in the house made 
in the evening twilight,...with the zigzag lightning flung 
over your head, come to us soaring!  With the rainbow 
hanging high on the ends of your wings, come to us 
soaring!  I have made the right offering;  I have prepared 
the smoke for you. 

FROM THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES  
The Tanakh :   Ezekiel 47 

He led me back to the entrance of the Temple, and I found 
that water was issuing from below the platform of the 
Temple...{ He told me}   Every living creature that swarms 
will be able to live wherever this stream goes;  the fish 
will be very abundant once these waters have reached 
there...All kinds of trees for food will grow up on both 
banks of the stream.  Their leaves will not wither nor 
their fruit fail; they will yield new fruit every month, 
because the water for them flows from the Temple. 
Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for 
healing. 

FROM THE SCRIPTURES OF ISLAM  

The Koran 24:34  24:36 

Light upon Light:  Allah guides to His light whom he will..... 
His light is found in temples which Allah has 
sanctioned to be built for the remembrance of 
His name. 

FROM THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES  
Revelation 22:5 

His servants shall worship him;  they shall see his 
face and his name shall be on their foreheads.  And 
night shall be no more;  they need no light of lamp 
or sun, for the Lord God will be their light... 

I Peter II  

For know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?  Yea, ye are the temple of the living god; and are built upon the foundations of apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ being the chief cornerstone; in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord; in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit. 

Laying aside therefore all malice, and all guile and all hypocrisies, and envies,m and all evis speakings, come unto God, as unto a living stone, that ye also, as living stones, may be built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God. 

FROM THE WRITINGS OF HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN  

RAGAS  525