From Veil to Vision: The Light That Unfolds Within

with Scriptural Texts and Symbolic Interpretation

When Moses descended from the mount,
his face burned with borrowed light—
a shimmered echo of divine encounter.
The people saw it and drew back.
So he veiled it.
The glory was too much, too other, too outside themselves.

“And it came to pass, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses’ hand... that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him... And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.”
— Exodus 34:29–30 (KJV)

In Neville Goddard’s language, Moses represents the first stirring of awareness—the dawning realisation that imagination and God are one. But the light is still reflected—it comes from communion with something perceived as other. The veiling of the face symbolises how the early consciousness hides this truth, even from itself. It’s not yet ready to fully accept that the glory seen in God is the glory that dwells within.

But on another mount, centuries later,
Jesus stood with face ablaze—
not with reflected glory, but with the light of origin itself.
His face shone as the sun.
His garments turned to light.
There was no veil—only recognition.

“And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart,
And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.”
— Matthew 17:1–2 (KJV)

Here, Jesus is not simply a man, but the embodiment of awakened imagination—the state where man no longer reflects God but realises he is God, that the “I AM” within is the source of all light. The transfiguration is the moment the inner man throws off the veil of duality and becomes light itself.

Moses reflects the moonlit phase of awakening—
the imagination catching glimpses of the eternal.
Jesus embodies the sun at full rise—
not reflecting the light, but being it.
Not separation, but union.
Not law, but life.

This is the evolution of divine awareness in the soul:
from reverently covering what feels too high…
to realising the mount is within,
and the light is ours to radiate.