The Dance of Darkness and Light
On fundamental principles of reality.
There was a time before relativity existed. Everything was still and silent. An unfathomable abyss of pitch-black nothingness permeated through it all. Nothing was distinguishable. The transience of life had not begun. Space itself has no function.
Something was interesting about this state. Something had to happen. It is as if the situation demanded this. Through an act of miracle, a point of interest appeared. It was not related to anything yet. It was a tiny spark. Were it not for this peculiar difference in events, which started the age of cause and effect, there would be no notion of anything happening.
Consider the prospect of eternity, and suddenly a difference occurs. That would make it the most significant event in history. If there is such a thing as history, it would be the only thing that ever happened.
This was not balanced. The spark was overwhelmed by the crushing emptiness of everything around it, almost to the point of being extinguished. So it made a wish: “I want to expand!” Therefore, it expanded into a larger spark.
The spark had an idea: it would call everything else darkness so it could compare itself to it. It divided itself into several sparks, eventually making up a more complex arrangement of light. That is the name it adopted. It noticed that it could create other complex patterns of light for its amusement, and this led to all kinds of “plays” in which it would entertain itself.
The Light then realised something profound. It needs the Darkness to shine out of it. It was a connection. This led to the realisation of the principles of polarity and relativity.
The Light was well on its way to becoming the greatest philosopher of all time. The only philosopher ever to have done so. It discovered that the Darkness was the substance of everything, without which it would be impossible for there to be any sparks. So, it developed a strong respect for Darkness.
After time went on and myriads of plays occurred in which Light was the actor and the audience, it felt lonely. It realised that while it could pretend to be many parts; they were all the same part, and thus it became one-sided and boring. So, it had a new idea.
What if Darkness was something scary and something unknown? If Light lost, to some extent, its control to Darkness, it would make things interesting again. Because there would arise a new element called surprise. Things could have the possibility of going wrong. So, the Light sat down and pondered for a long time how to accomplish this.
Then it hit it. It would request the Darkness to create a form similar to it, only it would be made of its opposite principle. However, since everything else except Light was already Dark, it seemed like an impossible mission. To create such a state of affairs, they would have to complicate their forms into incredibly fine length and detail, so much so that they would forget who they were.
Eventually, Light became energy, and Darkness became space. Light became particle waves, and Darkness became gravity. The Light gathered energy into a point of such tremendous force that it gave birth to the Big Bang. Thus was the universe was born. It was born out of a deep desire not to be alone anymore. All the variations of dualistic forces, of opposite sides of experience, were what they culminated in.
Together, they would make up a system whereby energy would decay and disappear eventually, which would give things more value because they were only temporary. It would be within a wave to be an undulating process with crests and troughs. Likewise, as life begins and rises but comes down and ends in death, the perfect balance would be maintained between Darkness and Light.
The role of the Darkness was as if to be always about to win, but never winning; and likewise, the role of the Light, was always as if to go out, but never going out. What was not recognised very often was that they needed each other.
Things that were negative, fearful, dying, absent, and lost belonged to the Darkness. Things that were positive, delightful, living, present, and found belonged to the Light. However, neither side was truly in a state of battle with each other; it was a cooperation or a dance.
So it was that the world in which we live today results from this division between the two fundamental forces, complicated to such high complexity that the principles behind the scenes are woven into everything. Even to this day, Darkness and Light keep on dancing in these fantastic ways and in countless forms, in the eternal play of the two.
L.
