Early Friends found plenty of evidence in scripture to support their understanding of God's presence in the world. Much of it came from John's Gospel. John spoke often of the Holy Spirit as manifested in Christ: "When the sprit of Truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth." And he associated that Spirit with the image of light: "The true light, which enlightens everyone was coming into the world." (John 1:9). The relationship John establishes between the Light and Christ was central to the beliefs held by Fox and other early Friends. Theirs was a theology that centered on the notion of the Light or Christ Within. It was a theology that began with an experience of that Light: "Now the Lord God hath opened by his invisible power how that every man was enlightened by the divine light of Christ," wrote Fox, "and I saw it shine through all...." It was only after his experience of the Light that he found it in scripture: "This I saw in the pure openings of the Light without the help of any man, neither then did I know where to find it in the Scripture; though afterwards, searching the Scripture, I found it." Peter Anderson Friends Bulletin December 2001, page 14