What Does Darkness Mean in the Book of Genesis?
Darkness means unconscious existence. The material world exists without the presence of consciousness.
The first verses of the Bible declare that God defines the laws of the world, based on which the material world appears.
The Spirit of God also exists, but it is not within the material world. It does not perceive it, nor does its existence depend on it, just as the existence of the material world does not depend on the presence of the Spirit.
The fact that, in the description of the definition of the material world, the text tells us that the Spirit of God exists is a specific reference to the fact that the Spirit of God is timeless, limitless, and exists independently of material manifestation.
Darkness means that there is no one who is conscious of the material world, no one who perceives it, yet the material world still exists. The laws that define the world, which we called Heaven, create the material world, and it exists.
Relationships exist among the laws of the world. Every law that defines the existence of something is also a limitation, because it already exists. Every additional law can appear in the material world only in harmony with, and adapted to, the laws that already exist. In Darkness, these relationships are not capable of appearing, because there is no one present who understands them. There is no consciousness, no intellect, no perception, yet everything appears according to the laws defined in Heaven, in complete harmony with everything else that already exists.