Are Darkness and Light Contrasts?
Darkness is complete; light is the light of consciousness, known content, the part of the world that has become conscious.
At the creation of the world, darkness was upon the waters, whose depth indicates the inner structure, of which only the surface is visible.
The laws and structure of the world exist and also appear in the material world as definitions come into existence, but consciousness can know them only through its experiences, because the laws cannot be perceived directly — only the material world can be perceived.
In the material world, the effects of the laws appear, they continuously repeat, and thus they become recognizable.
Light is what consciousness has already come to know. The surface is what consciousness is already capable of knowing and understanding based on its current knowledge. The depth, however, is what we can know only after acquiring further knowledge, because currently there is not yet sufficient experience and knowledge for its understanding.
Therefore, darkness is not the contrast of light. Rather, darkness contains that which we do not yet know, and it becomes light through our coming to know and understand it.
Darkness is the complete knowledge base, a vast library in which consciousness, like a candle, continuously moves. It comes to know what its current knowledge and experiences make possible, and what it has come to know becomes part of the light.
Darkness is a vast set in which all knowledge, all information, all experience, all time — past, present, and future — are contained. Light, on the other hand, is what we have come to know from it thus far.
Through the Human, that which exists becomes conscious — that which we gradually experience in time and space. The Human is, in reality, the light. Through the Human, “enlightenment” is realized, which is not a point at the end of the path, but something that continuously takes place through all of us.