Most of us adore the sun.
How easy it is to be captivated by the sheer splendor of the sun’s shining. Moreover, how many of the thousands of sense perceptions brought to our mind over a lifetime are authored by the sun. In our daily life, we rarely notice how instinctively flora and fauna turn their faces into the brightest star.
Sometimes we can think of our brightly burning star as it is the Center of the universe.
According to Carl Gustav Jung’s “Book of Symbols,” to sun worshippers over centuries, solar rays seemed to transfer magical properties of creativity, fertility, healing, or prophecy. No wonder then that the sun has evoked the worldly prestige and authority of rulers who wear the sunlike crown. Following the previously mentioned book, the brightest star in the eye of the Mother of All. It is something like the omniscient, all-seeing Eye of Allah. Eventually, the sun is the guardian of universal order.
The sun was also often the inspiration for writers.
I will give you one of the examples. That will be Fyodor Dostoyevski. In one of his masterpieces, that is “Humiliated and Insulted,” Dostoyevski expressed his amazement of what sun rays can do to human souls. According to the author, they can bring new, fresh views and approaches to many cases. Sun rays can develop our thoughts and bring new ideas to our minds.
Sun rays can even inspire us.
Dostoyevski wrote about it when one of the main characters of the novel observed the sunset in clear and frosty weather in March, in St. Petersburg. The streets, bathed in brilliant light, suddenly started to glitter. Moreover, all the houses seemed to sparkle. Their grey and dirty-green hues for a moment lost all their gloominess.
Dostoyevski compares this view with the clearness and brightness of the human soul.
It is some new kind of thought. The author is amazed by what incredible thing can do with a human’s soul one ray of sunshine.
On the other hand, simultaneously, we must accept the brightest star as a destructively, with its burning heat, boiling the brain and driving to madness, the cruel, deaf star.
