fiat lux

[ fee-aht looks; English fee-aht luhks, fahy-uht ]

/ ˈfi ɑt ˈlʊks; English ˈfi ɑt ˈlʌks, ˈfaɪ ət /

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Latin.

let there be light.

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How to use fiat lux in a sentence

His moral fiat nox was greater in genius and creative power than Gods fiat lux.
The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study|Jean-Marie Guyau
It needs only a Fiat Lux of a kind very easily compassed to replace the unnatural by the natural.
The Irish on the Somme|Michael MacDonagh
Beauty, emerging meanwhile from her secular tomb, had uttered a new Fiat Lux.
Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern|Edgar Saltus
The Count, the invisible providence of this invisible world, alone could give it external life and utter the fiat lux of eternity.
The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851|Various

The fiat lux of creation is, therefore, in the deep sense of it, fiat anima.
The Eagle's Nest|John Ruskin