How does something become light out of darkness?
The light shines in the darkness. Knowledge is present, but we come to know only what we direct our focus of attention toward. Our focus of attention is the light that not only illuminates, but also knows.
Darkness and light are only apparently contrasts. In reality, their relationship is exactly the same as that between the unconscious I and the conscious I.
The laws of the world, which are called heaven in the Bible, determine what appears in the material world. Those laws that we have already come to know enter into the light as the knowledge of the conscious I. Therefore, darkness actually contains everything that exists, and what consciousness comes to know becomes light.
The process of knowing is nothing other than our experiences, which repeat themselves so that, based on these recurring experiences, we may recognize the laws that appear.
There are connections between the laws; therefore, only those laws can be known that are connected in some way to the laws already known. This pattern of connections determines what we are capable of knowing on the basis of our current knowledge. Therefore, the Bible is essential because, through its stories, it reveals the network of connections between the laws.
During the process of knowing, by defining the meanings of the names and words that appear in the Bible, a logical network of relationships must emerge. Our definitions must remain valid throughout the entire text of the Bible, and in this way the system that is actually defined in heaven appears. Thus, we come to know heaven, which appears in the material world even when, because of our false interpretations, the network of relationships is not visible.