On the Sun and Light

...called it a certain and clear image of the divine intelligence. Just as a ray flashing forth from the sight is the image of the sight itself. Perhaps, indeed, light is the very sight of the celestial soulLatin: anima; the animating principle of the heavens: or the very act of vision stretched out toward external things, acting from a distance, yet meanwhile not leaving the heavens, but always continuous there, not mixed with external things: acting by seeing and touching at the same time. We, at least, are accustomed to call light a certain footprint of the world-life, as if offering itself to the eyes in a certain proportion: or like a vital spirit between the soul of the world and its body. But concerning this we have said enough in our theology. Wherefore, when you strive to affirm many angelic minds above the heavens as if they were lights, and their order both toward each other and toward the one God, the Father of Lights: why indeed will you have need of long, winding paths of investigation? Look up at the heavens, I pray, you citizen of the celestial fatherland; the heavens were made by God most orderly and most open for the very purpose of declaring this clearly. Therefore, as you look upward, the celestial bodies immediately—through the very rays of the stars as if they were the glances and nods of their own eyes—

tell of the glory of God: and the firmament The expanse of the sky or heavens proclaims the work of his hands. A translation of the Latin Vulgate, Psalm 18:2 (Psalm 19:1 in English bibles)
The Sun, indeed, can most greatly signify God himself to you. The Sun will give you signs:
Who would dare to call the Sun a liar? A quote from Virgil's Georgics, 1.463
Thus, finally, the invisible things of God—that is, the angelic divine powers—are perceived, understood chiefly through the stars: but through the Sun always...