For he or she who can bear to get up before the sun and feel well-slept, refreshed and energetic, watching a sunrise can be a very magnificent spectacle. Now, a sunrise is indeed an ordinary phenomenon that everyone knows just as well as they know a sunset. But it is probably only a very few who really think about or understand what it is they are actually witnessing. A sunrise is not merely a sunrise in the ordinary material sense. As the human being gradually develops cosmic sensory perception and thinking, all phenomena in the processes of nature become "pages in God's picture book"; they become, as Christ said, "for he who can hear...", a divine speech. He realises that there is in fact nothing whatsoever that is actually only what it appears to be or is what it has been named after. Behind this eye- and ear-catching façade, it always constitutes something far greater and a far more profound field; indeed, it is nothing less than an unmitigated divine communication with the living beings. I will not go into this principle in depth here but just refer you to my book "Blade af Guds Billedbog (Pages of God's Picture Book)*". However, as a brief greeting to my dear readers, I would like to express here something of what I myself felt on Easter morning when I was on the beach by Villa Rosenberg (Kosmos Holiday Centre**) waiting for the sunrise so that I could take a photo of it.

But is this realistic panorama, this concrete fact that I have here before my eyes not exactly a description of the whole of the terrestrial human world situation? Is this situation not also, from a mental point of view and point of view of fate, a world of shadows, a cross between night and day, a no-man's land between light and darkness, a state between life and death? Here mental darkness does not reign completely supreme, even though mankind's death-dealing knowledge and capability is the primary factor in its situation. Here too a faint, incipient light is present, even if it, compared to the darkness, is still only a secondary factor.

In the form of the golden dawn of such a new day, the almighty Godhead repeats again and again this meeting with every human being. A human being that has managed to experience threescore years and ten, which is the "age of man", has therefore experienced this resurrection of light from the darkness in the form of a new day's halo 25,500 times. With such a great number of times, God thus makes clear to the human being that after night follows day, after darkness follows light. And is this not further emphasised by a corresponding experience of the fact that after winter follows summer? Has one ever seen the opposite occur? Does one not believe that this unceasing, perpetually repeating confirmation of the same principle must gradually leave its particular mark on the living being? And can this mark avoid giving rise in the being to an unshakeable familiarity with this principle, an unshakeable knowledge that after night follows day, after darkness follows light? And is it not precisely this divine fact that, through spiritual science, has now become the key to the theoretical solution to the mystery of life, the key to the confirmation of reincarnation, the key to the true cause and source of the formation of fate? And furthermore, is it not the same perpetual principle of cycles in life that today, through the cosmic analyses of spiritual science, shows the mental and cosmic position of mankind to be a cosmic winter zone, an epoch of life culminating in death and suffering, a domain of cosmic night in whose dark banks of fog a new cosmic day's sunrise, the first tentative blush of dawn of a life-giving epoch of love, is beginning to break? Why should a new cosmic epoch of day or light not arise after the human beings' present cosmic epoch of night or darkness as well as a sunlit day arises above the ordinary night's banks of fog, and a life-giving, bright and warming summer arises out of the deadly regions of coldness and the dark winter frost? And how could the Godhead make the human being realise this in any other way than by allowing this eternal cosmic principle of cycles to repeat itself in dimensions that are no larger than can be observed by the human physical sensory faculty and can be recognised and confirmed by means of the human intellectuality?

A sunrise is therefore no insignificant event, even though it is a daily experience. It is the revelation of one of life's great physical and mental regulating principles. It is always a resurrection of light, a victory of life over death. Every sunrise is therefore really a kind of Easter morning, which, like the Easter morning of the calendar, is a symbol or realistic expression of the radiant resurrection that revealed itself through Christ after his fatal crucifixion or night of suffering on Calvary. Every sunrise is the Godhead's giving of life to the law of light and darkness. It is a confirmation of the position of light in relation to darkness. With this position, it determines that in the darkness of every Gethsemane an angel of light will turn up, and that over the night-black fog of every region of fate, a bright morning will break and that no fate can be so dark and painful that God will not rise in it as a shining morning sun.