"The light of the Lord's transfiguration does not come into being or cease to be, nor is it circumscribed or perceptible to the senses, even though for a short time on then narrow mountain too it was seen by human eyes. Rather, at that moment the initiated disciples of the Lord "passed", as we have been taught, "from flesh to spirit" by the transformation of their senses, which the Spirit wrought in them, and so they saw that ineffable light, when and as much as the Holy Spirit's power granted them to do so." - excerpt from Homily 34 on the Transfiguration by Saint Gregory Palamas