Cyrstals of Light

Crystals of Light

A vision of light and darkness
By David Brandt Berg

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Crystals are very significant. Crystals are God’s own style of architecture in which He creates symmetry, and crystals are found throughout creation in all shapes. God appears to delight in creating order out of chaos.

(Vision:) I see a reflective crystal that glows with light. The darkness is all around and seems much larger than the light, and yet it can’t overcome the light. It can’t put out the light. It tries to surround the light and cover it, but it can’t put it out, because the darkness itself is destroyed by the light. Every time it comes close to the light, it is destroyed by this terrific power.

Thank You for the power, Lord. Thank You for the light. We couldn’t stand without Your light, without Thy power that surrounds us and lights us and causes us to glow.

It is impossible for the darkness to penetrate the light. But the light penetrates the darkness with its sharp lightning beams. And every time a lightning beam goes out, it brings back a jewel out of the darkness. The beam of light that comes from heaven is focused like a laser beam and refracts and spreads out and shows a vision like a picture on a screen.

All that darkness! Yet this piercing ray of brilliant light strikes this crystal with its beam or spurt of light and brings it to life, and then it glows with this light, not of itself, but from above, and it diffuses the light, spreads it out, refracts it into a colorful spectrum like a rainbow displayed against the darkness.

Each of these little crystals also has its own little force field, and anything that gets in its way, it destroys. Anything that tries to stop or hinder or come between the crystal and the light is destroyed by the light of each crystal. They are irresistibly drawn to the light and nothing can stop them. “My sheep hear My voice and they follow Me, and the stranger they will not follow” (John 10:27).

For we have come from the darkness into His glorious light, and that which was darkened has become enlightened and that which was in darkness has seen a great light (Isaiah 9:2)!

Jesus is the light of the world (John 8:12). “And this is the condemnation, that men love darkness rather than light” (John 3:19). They have to make a choice. They see the light in its beauty and brilliance, but they have to be willing to give up their darkness or they cannot enjoy the blessings of the light’s brilliance and radiance.

We are captivated, and in a sense imprisoned by the light, but we are also protected by the light. “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty” (Psalm 91:1). Abide under the shadow of the Almighty in the secret place. Abide under the brilliance, under the light underneath. God is overshadowing, but with light. No darkness in that shadow! It’s like an aura of light, an area of diffusion of light. This shadow is light. In other words, under this canopy it’s all light—God’s shadow of light.

While the crystal is out in the darkness, there is a terrific battle! The darkness cannot overcome it, but it batters it and it buffets it like the wind, which has no substance, yet blows and buffets and attempts to destroy it and blow it out. It is beaten about, yet is not destroyed.

As long as the crystals face the light, they seem to absorb the light and they have strength and they glow brightly and are drawn toward it, and the darkness has no power over them. But if they turn their facets or faces away from the light, it’s like a polarization.

If it turns toward the darkness rather than the light, the crystal loses its brilliance and it’s as though the darkness closes in and has greater power. And as the light diminishes in the crystal, the darkness has more power. The darker the crystal is, the more it is drawn by the darkness, as it faces the darkness. The moment it turns its face towards the light, it immediately begins to glow with the great brilliance of the light and power, and the darkness has no power over it.

You must face the light! You dare not turn away from the light or look backward, or you seem to lose the light. It seems like only your face is able to absorb the light. The crystal has to face the light in order to glow itself and to shine with such beauty, and especially the power in that light that drives off the darkness. The darkness flees in terror when the crystal glows. It’s afraid of the power!

But if the crystal turns away from the light, as though it were trying to turn itself and fight the darkness in its own strength, it loses the light, and it has no power unless it receives that beam of light. Every time it turns away, it grows darker and its strength fades and wanes, as the light is diminished in trying to face the darkness instead of facing the light.

As long as it faces the light, it doesn’t seem to have to exert any power itself at all, but the light gives it the power. So your only hope is facing and absorbing His light and glowing with His power, and this causes you to glow. It causes you to generate terrific power, which drives back the darkness and leaves you free to glide with such ease toward the light, until all are joined in one.

The light shines and shines through these crystals. There are thousands of little rays of light scattered everywhere in the darkness, and every beam from every little crystal is pulling in another crystal. And at the end of every beam of light is another crystal that’s being enlightened by it. And the other crystals start to move toward the light, as though each beam of light makes a path through the darkness that another crystal can follow, so all these little crystals can follow the path of light toward the light.

We are going to cover the earth with crystals of God’s light as it slowly turns and enlightens the whole universe with the light of the Lord, until it enlightens even the darkness.

Originally published March 1973. Updated and republished July 2012.