" . . . as many candles lighted and put in one place do greatly augment the light,
and make it more to shine forth;
so when many are gathered together in the same Life,
there is more of the glory of God,
and his power appears to the refreshment of each individual
for each partakes not only of the Light and Life raised in himself
but in all the rest . . ."

Robert Barclay, excerpted from The Eleventh Proposition:  Concerning the Ministry of An Apology for the True Christian Divinity,
written in Latin in 1676; the first English translation was published in 1678