I'm moving over Christmas break - hubby and I bought a new house. Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, even if you can't celebrate it like you'd like to. Like me. But I'm not sad about it. I've had many great Christmases over the years, and my memories are keeping my heart warm this year.
The next quote we encounter from the April 1972 General Conference is a reference from the life of Sir Isaac Newton.
From the talk by Elder Joseph Anderson, "Man's Eternal Horizon", comes this early discovery:
The Quote
"It is reported that on one occasion
when Sir Isaac Newton was thinking seriously concerning the nature of light,
he cut a hole in a window blind and a ray of light entered his room.
He held a triangular piece of glass in the range of the light,
and there were reflected in great beauty all the colors of the rainbow.
And for the first time man learned
that all of the glorious colors of the universe
are locked up in a ray of white light."
I think he told this story to demonstrate that all the facets of the gospel of Jesus Christ are true, and thus all of them should be accepted if we want to receive pure light and knowledge from the Lord. It would be weird to acknowledge the existence of red, but to deny the existence of yellow or green. All the colors come together with a ray of light split through a prism, not just some.
The belief before Isaac Newton's time was that pure light was colorless, and colors came from mixing light with different variations of darkness. Not so, he proved.
Isaac Newton postulated and proved in his book, Opticks, that light instead consisted of various spectrum of color, which is why, when light goes through rain, the rain acts as a prism that splits the light, and we see a rainbow of color in the sky.
It's a great read, if you like advanced math. The pictures alone are fairly intense. But the guy did invent calculus, after all...
May we all rejoice in the Light, and all that He contains. Merry Christmas season everyone!
