Light divine spells were quite ordinary.
Ordinary in a neutral way, not a negative way.
Unlike the Mage's eight schools of magic, light magic was, in essence, somewhat similar to elven magic.
One type included all the functions of magic.
Healing, defense, summoning, single target, control, area of effect, and so on.
What normal magic could accomplish, light magic could also, and there didn't seem to be any difference.
But the substantive difference was still there; if light magic had enough breadth, then normal magic had both breadth and depth.
The eight schools of magic, no matter which one, an ordinary Mage could never finish studying it in a lifetime.
Genius Mages could be proficient in two or three schools at the same time.
But there was a great advantage to light divine spells earlier on; it was easy to get started.