Truly Christ is our Light and without him we should be blind indeed, living in a state of darkness – for the knowledge of God does not develop naturally within the human mind and soul.

We can get some idea of this blindness by picturing ourselves as suffering from total loss of memory after an accident, so that every single thing we had ever learnt from the New Testament – every name and place, every incident, every saying, and everything connected with the Christian Faith and the Christian Church – was blotted out of our minds, so that even the very name of Jesus was new and meaningless.