This oil was formerly used for illuminating purposes.
Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth.
One of the guards at the mouth of the cage strode in with a torch, illuminating the dead bodies surrounding her.
Their monotheism remains Semitic - even in their conception of the cosmogonic and illuminating function of Wisdom they regard God as standing outside the world of physical nature and man, and do not grasp or accept the idea of the identity of the human and the divine; there is thus a sharp distinction between their general theistic position and that of Greek philosophy.
He was so often accused by political purists for associating politically with men of discredited reputation that his own picturesque statement of his conversion to a belief that in legislative or administrative politics one must work with all sorts and conditions of men is illuminating.