Fall into the Dark Side
Take me through the night
Fall into the dark side
Darkness is but infinite light. There is no true ontological “darkness” in the sense of absence (of anything, light or otherwise, there is no “nothingness”). Our experience of darkness is simply that, an experience. It is epistemological, not ontological. God himself is the incomprehensible abyss of infinite light that can’t be seen for the fact that he is infinite, and to us this incomprehensible light is darkness. The light we see is but a glimpse of the darkness. But despite our fear, we are drawn towards darkness, towards the unknown, toward God. We shine light into it. We use the comprehensible to try to understand that which is incomprehensible, the gift of light is the gift of exploration into darkness, He gives us ourselves (finite light) in our knowledge of Him (Infinite light, or Darkness). Some abandon the light altogether. Others abandon the darkness, giving in to fear. Both give in to fear. Both are wrong.
The former fears the light, and tries to escape to darkness, hoping to find the “peace” of nothingness. But darkness can only ever contain light. Satan’s loss of light is only the loss of the comprehensible, his very own darkness is filled with the incomprehensible light of the God he hates. His sin is not his dive into darkness, but his rejection of the light as the way into darkness, without the light, God’s Darkness is experienced as hell and anguish. He fears the light, but the light is the expression of darkness, what he fears in the light, life, he still finds in the darkness, and this tortures him and all who follow him. His very existence is of the incomprehensible light, which he cannot extinguish, for he cannot extinguish the God who is this light.
The latter follow the same path. They fear the darkness, and give in, clinging into the finite light, clinging to the comprehensible. But again, the light only ever expresses the infinite light of darkness, and so inevitably draws them there. In clinging to the light, they already embraced the dark, but they don’t see this. They fight the dark, and in so doing lose the light, plunging into the same darkness they fought, only without the light they loved, and here they are face to face with their contemporaries who embraced darkness.
Only in the embrace of the light’s leading into the dark do you keep it. Only in the Son’s finite light can you know his infinite light, only in his fiery eyes of light can you know the darkness that hides his heart, for it is in the dark waters that the words were spoken: Let There Be Light!.