Using Sound Affirmations for Personal Power, Creativity, and Healing

In spiritual and religious traditions all over the world, spiritual states are equated with light. A common spiritual objective is "enlightenment" In the everyday language of spiritual development, we seek "light on the path" so that we may safely make our way. For centuries, artists from diverse traditions have made use of light in depicting great spiritual teachers. A clear indicator of spiritual power, light surrounds the priests of the Ark of the Covenant and creats the nimbus of the saints and halos of Christ and the Buddha. In the first few verses of Genesis we read, "And God said, Let there be light, and there was light" Yet if we imagine that light is the highest expression of spiritual power, we are mistaken. The spirit is created and animated not by light, but by sound.

Looking more closely at Genesis we see "God said.." The light of divine creation was initiated by sound. The speech of God, according to Genesis, was the source of the spiritual light to wich we all aspire.

The New Testament Gospel of John, which was written thousands of years after Genesis, opens with the verse, "In the beginning was the Word..." The beginning was not light: rather, it was sound in the form of the divine speech. Neither the Old Testament nor the New Testament contains a verse such as "And God made light to shine" Rather, God creates the phenomenon by speaking of it. The primary mechanism of creations is sound.

In the wisdom of the ancient East, we find the same teaching. The whole universe comes about when God decides ti manifest reality through the power of divine speech. In some Eastern tects, this power is referred to as Sarawati--the Word.

From: Healing Mantras: Using Sound Affirmations for Personal Power, Creativity, and Healing