So much for security. But it is in the stripping away of the not -us and of the transient accidents of our lives that a deeper fog of our distorted perceptions can melt away. I didn't leave the Garden in any more jubilation than I entered it, but I left it differently than I entered it. The loss, the fear, and the disappointed hope were still there, but there was something else more fundamental than any of these. And light is more fundamental than time and space.
Light is more fundamental, and it is everywhere.
It's just that we cannot see it. The light that strikes the eye is known only through the energy it releases which is translated into a physical image which appears to be composed of light. Because there is something more fundamental, more elemental, than what we can see or hear or taste. But sometimes we can know it. Even space and time, and matter and energy, are only manifestations of a deeper underlying continuum.