The visible father of the world is the sun, the heavenly fire, for which reason father, God, sun, and fire are mythologically synonymous:
The well-known fact that in worshipping the sun's strength we pay homage to the great generative force of Nature is the plainest possible evidenceif evidence were still neededthat in God we honour the energy of the archetype
CW5 ¶ 135Religious regression makes use of the parental imago, but only as a symbolthat is to say, it clothes the archetype in the image of the parents, just as it bodies forth the archetype's energy by making use of sensuous ideas like fire, light, heat, fecundity, generative power, and so on
CW5 ¶ 138In mysticism the inwardly perceived vision of the Divine is often nothing but sun or light, and is rarely, if ever, personified (fig. 002) . For example, there is this significant passage in the Mithraic liturgy: “The path of the visible gods will appear through the disc of the sun, who is God my father”
CW5 ¶ 13859 CW5 Ser: 4 Par 138 (c) FigNo 002
Hildegard of Bingen ( 1100-1178 ) declares:
CW5 ¶ 139But the light I see is not local, but is everywhere, and brighter far than the cloud which supports the sun. I can in no way know the form of this light, just as I cannot see the sun's disc entire
But in this light I see at times, though not often, another light which is called by me the living light, but when and in what manner I see this I do not know how to say. And when I see it all weariness and need is lifted from me, and all at once I feel like a simple girl and not like an old woman ( Pitra, Analecta sacra, VIII, p. 333. Cited from Buber, pp. 51f. )