### illumination:

Darkness
* Biblical symbol of ignorance, which can be highly self-righteous.
* Some darkness is caused by eclipse
  - materials.
  * is made by blocking light from the sun or some other source of light, which makes shadow. At night the Earth blocks the sun, and casts a shadow over one entire side of the world
* also can impair judgment
  - provides natural cover
* can be a transforming and thus a healing place
  - just as damaging to human beings as solitary confinement
  - very frightening, particularly when it is unexpected
  - bring about neuroses and psychoses - anxiety
  - only exist where there is an absence of light
  - protect as well as threaten
* causes fear
  - inner misery, unhappiness, lack of peace
* comes quickly, and gnats and mosquitoes invade.
* covers the earth, and gross darkness the people
* deals with self worth in a negative response to life.
* dissipates with the light.
* does nothing to receive light or prepare for the light.
* enters people's consciousness because of their attachment to material grossness.
* exists only where there is no light, and error advances only where there is ignorance
  - wherever there is an absence of light
* falls at night.
* falls, and ducks cast eerie shadows on the water as they stretch their wings.
* frightens children and sometimes animals.
* gives way to light, passion to virtue, sadness to joy
* has another application a color of skin
  - negative effects
  - no effect on respiration
* helps germination
  - preserve the color
* implies the universe was neither formed or energized since light form of energy.
* increases melatonin secretion which is associated with sleep
  - risks of flight
* induces flowering.
* is always relative to the source of light, to the mind's assumptions.
* is an essential step in true enlightenment
  - important part of sexuality
  - anything and everything related to the devil and things that are bad and wrong
  - beneficial to germination
  - called black and the night is called black if it starless moonless night
  - complexion
  - disorder
  - everything that is unknown, primitive, evil, and impenetrable
  - ignorance and wisdom is brightness
  - just the abscence of light
* is located in beds
  - cellars
  - moons
  - movies
  - made by blocking light from the sun or some other source of light , which makes shadow
  - merely the absence of light
  - most certainly the absence of light, both literally and figuratively
  - necessary for germination
  - nothingness
  - on the face of the deep
* is only bad because there is light
  - the absence of light, and all winters end
  - overcome by the light
  - part of being human
  - put for light and light for darkness
  - really the absence of light, and cold is really the absence of heat
  - scenes
  - simply lack of light
* is simply the absence of light, and it is caused by errors that hide the truth
  - sin and evil
  - something no one wants anything to do with, especially spiritual darkness
* is the absence of energy
  - shining
  - absence, the withholding, of the world outside
  - bed of illusion shielded by the spirit of oneness
  - center of our souls, Like still black water in the moonlight
  - lack of knowledge and understanding
  - preferred time for sleep and rest
  - substance of our personality
  - symbol of sin and evil
  - values
  - vanquished in the presence of light
  - what covers everything like a cloak, and outlasts light
  - where the light is needed
* lack of wholeness.
* leads to slavery to the details of life.
* means colder temperatures
  - disorientation, despair
  - no light and vice-versa
* metaphor that the Bible uses for sin and every evil.
* modulates the light, and nescience accompanies our science on every level of knowing.
* never dispels light.
* often makes the horizon hard to find.
* only exists as light exists.
* part of life.
* perfects goodness, which is light.
* prevails eight months of the year.
* protects the wicked and heightens our sense of fear.
* replaces light.
* represents evil
  - ignorance, error, falsehood and sin
* reveals light.
* signals the pineal gland to release melatonin.
* signifies death and non-existence
  - spiritual ignorance and moral depravity
* standard part of normal life.
* stimulates melatonin production, which increases sleepiness
  - secretion while light suppresses it
* surrounds the light-born.
* symbol of evil
  - fear and loneliness
* symbolizes the unknown, while light symbolizes knowledge and truth.
* takes the place of light, ignorance of knowledge, and one neither sees nor understands.
* thin membrane enclosing light.
* triggers the hormones that bring on sleep.
* usually means night time.
* wears off after a set period of time.
* withdraws when there is enough light.
* word for merging upper and lower.
* works through negative imagination then emotion.