A war between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness

"The Last Judgement" by Viktor Vasnetsov

The "War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness" is a manual for military organization and strategy that was discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls (a collection of 972 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible). These scrolls contain an apocalyptic prophecy of a war between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness.

The war is first described as an attack by the Sons of Light against those who violate the divine covenant. In the end, all of Darkness is to be destroyed and Light will live in peace for all eternity.

"God is light, and in him is no darkness at all"

There are more than 200 references to the word 'light' in the Bible.

Light was the first of God's creations, according to the book of Genesis.

  And God said, let there be light, and there was light. (Old Testament, Genesis, i,3.)
God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. (Old Testament, Genesis, i,4.)
  To the land of deepest night, of deep shadow and disorder, where even the light is like

  darkness. (Job 10.22.)
  What is the way to the abode of light? And where does darkness reside? (Job 38.19.)

Light was identified throughout the New Testament with the nature of God, himself.

  The word is light that the darkness cannot extinguish, and this light illuminates every

  man [...] We are the children of light, who have put aside the world of darkness.

A god between life and death

The mythological Trinity or Triad: Osiris, Horus and Isis

In Egyptian mythology there are many legends about the relationship between life and death, often expressed in a struggle between light and dark.
In the myth of Osiris and Isis, as a life-death-rebirth deity, Horus/Osiris (life/death) became a reflection of the annual cycle of crop harvesting as well as reflecting people's desires for a successful afterlife, and so the legend became extremely important, outstripping all others.

The myth concerns the death of Osiris, the god of the Afterlife and the dead, the travel of his sister-wife Isis searching his body and the birth of Horus, the ancient Egyptian's national patron god.

Aten the great Sun god

The pharaoh Ekhnaton and his family worshipping Aten

In the history of religions and philosophy, light is the simbol of positivity, in two different meanings: light as principle of life and knowledge.

In Ancient Egyptian religion, the sun is the light source. The pharaoh Ekhnaton places traditional gods under that of Aten (or Ra), the sun god.

The Great Hymn to the Aten suggests that Ekhnaton considers Aten as the only god and creator of the universe:

How manifold it is, what thou hast made!

They are hidden from the face (of man).

O sole god, like whom there is no other!

Thou didst create the world according to thy desire,

Whilst thou wert alone: All men, cattle, and wild beasts,

Whatever is on earth, going upon (its) feet,

And what is on high, flying with its wings.

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