The early Quaker teaching concerning “the universal and divine light of Christ” was a message concerning the action of God rather than the nature of man. It was saying, not simply there is innate in every man a private source of illumination, but rather, that what God showed himself to be in Jesus Christ he eternally is in all men.
Christ in Early Quakerism, by Maurice Creasey. The early Quaker teaching concerning “the universal and divine light of Christ” was a message concerning the action of God rather than the nature of man. It was saying, not simply there is innate in every man a private source of illumination, but rather, that what God showed himself to be in Jesus Christ he eternally is in all men. Tri-fold. Friends Publishing Corporation, 1976. Edited and reprinted by the Tract Association, 2013.