Allusion to “Light and Dark” may be the most ancient religious metaphor in common usage: the forces of Darkness, the transforming power of Enlightenment. And always light and dark are presented as a contrast of opposites. Well, they are not.
Darkness is the abode of light. Light does not displace the dark: light infuses the dark. And those who would eschew all familiarity with the dark are just as misguided as those who would romantically embrace it.
Manichean separation of elements sets them at war. Darkness is given a power that belies its inherent passivity. Light is left homeless in a vacuum of ignorance: agar plate for dangerous imaginings.
Self-knowledge is not concerned with protecting the thought-forms of naivety, but with informing the dark with light.
Darkness is the abode of light. Light does not displace the dark: light infuses the dark. And those who would eschew all familiarity with the dark are just as misguided as those who would romantically embrace it.
Manichean separation of elements sets them at war. Darkness is given a power that belies its inherent passivity. Light is left homeless in a vacuum of ignorance: agar plate for dangerous imaginings.
Self-knowledge is not concerned with protecting the thought-forms of naivety, but with informing the dark with light.
Shadows
The setting sun has set the sky ablaze
Trees loom black
Shadows reach long
There are shadows without
There are shadows within
Vacancies in luminance
When perceived appear
As creatures of a nether light
The setting sun has set the sky ablaze
Trees loom black
Shadows reach long
There are shadows without
There are shadows within
Vacancies in luminance
When perceived appear
As creatures of a nether light
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