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What Does Darkness Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,
What does darkness mean in the Bible?
Darkness: the blindness of a mind ruled by fear, the inability to see that the pain it meets comes from the guilt it has projected outside itself.
Christian Psychology lens · Proverbs 4:19
Where darkness appears in the Bible
1 John 1:5
This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
1 Kings 8:12
Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
Darkness through 2 lenses
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Christian Psychology · Proverbs 2:13
Christian Psychology
Darkness is never a place a mind is sent to; it is a direction it turns toward when it lets go of love's way of seeing. To leave the straight path is simply to prefer the grievance, to choose the small satisfaction of being wronged over the peace of overlooking the wrong.
Nothing dramatic happens in that turning. A mind does not fall; it only stops looking with love and calls the resulting dimness the truth about a brother. And because it was a choice, another choice can be made, and the light it thought was gone was only waiting to be looked toward again.
- Ways of darkness: the direction a mind turns when it prefers the grievance to peace, the dimming of sight that follows the choice to condemn.
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Esoteric · 1 John 1:5
Esoteric
God is light in the most literal sense the writers could reach: the invisible photon, the radiance standing behind all matter and holding no shadow. The single eye Jesus named is the pineal gland deep in the head, the seat where this inner light is worked, and its melatonin is the very substance spoken of here. A person is not only told about light; the body itself faintly emits it, made of the same brightness. To find God is to find the light already burning at the center of one's own head, needing only stillness to be seen.
- Light: the invisible photon, the creating radiance the body carries at the pineal center behind the eyes.
- Darkness: mere absence, the unlit carnal condition where no light has yet been found.
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What darkness means in each story
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- PsychoanalysisDarkness: Darkness here is not evil; it simply means 'not yet seen'. It is everything in us we are not aware of. For Jung, the unconscious is not empty: it is full of potential that has not come into the light.Genesis 1:1-2
- PsychoanalysisDeep sleep and dreadful darkness: As with Adam, deep sleep comes before revelation, but now with terror. Contact with the Self can feel frightening.Genesis 15:8-21
- Christian PsychologyDarkness (divided from the light): the grievances you hold, darkening your own mind.Genesis 1:3-5
- PsychoanalysisSeparation of light and darkness: Consciousness works by making distinctions: this vs that, me vs you, good vs bad. Jung saw separating opposites as the very first job of the ego. Without distinctions there is no awareness at all.Genesis 1:3-5
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