In modern day culture we often separate matter from spirit and make spirit of a higher order. This, in turn, has led to making matter as less than sacred and has lead to the desacrilzation of the environment and the body. The Unmanifest is an infinite serpent and the graceful play of Mother Shakti is the graceful and powerful movement of that serpent. Shakti is the one Divine Reality, which consciously becomes the entire universe-lawful structures and miraculous manifestations, including all the precious beings abiding on earthly, subtle and heavenly planes. The Unmanifest shines forth as Shakti and Shakti is simply the luminous darkness of the Unmanifest.
Luminosity implies Light.
At the level of the Absolute, what is Dark is what is Light. The approaching Night, in Her display, spreads over the twilight, which is but the reflected remnant of an apparent consciousness, itself but the veiling power of ignorance, of unconsciousness. It seems to us impossible that Night may ever entirely drive away Twilight, as well as all remnants of thought or perception, but the Absolute Night is the ultimate form of Consciousness and when perception of all appearances vanishes, She appears supremely resplendent. By comparison with Her, Twilight and Dawn are but an obscurity. Just as Dawn vanishes when the Sun arises, so also the veiling power of ignorance dissolves when illumined by the power of Consciousness.