Inner Light
Jones argued that his interpretation of the quaker doctrine of the inner light was something shared by george fox and other early quakers but some quaker theologians and historians most notably lewis benson reject this viewpoint.
Inner light. The episode was written by freelance writer morgan gendel based on his original pitch. Gendel is credited as writer of the story and co writer of the teleplay with peter allan fields. The inner light is the 125th episode overall and the 25th episode of the fifth season of the american science fiction television series star trek. The concept of the inner light is central to many versions of quaker or religious society of friends theology.
The inner light was the b side of lady madonna i thought it would be fun to give every star trek episode i wrote a title that s from a different obscure beatles song. It refers to god s presence within a person and to a direct and personal experience of god. The inner light is the doctrine that there is something divine something of god in the human soul. It was a little joke between me and me.
It was expressed in the 17th century in the teachings of george fox founder of the friends who had failed to find spiritual truth in the english c. It was partly inspired by the beatles song the inner light written by george harrison and based on verses in the tao te ching. I wanted to call starship mine revolution but they had already used evolution. Rufus jones in 1904 wrote that.
Inner light is a skill located in the mages guild which can be found in the guild skill tree. Quakers believe that god speaks to everyone but that in order to hear his voice one must.