Darkness (n.) clings to every personality and provides the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the shadow and the anima, step into our nightly visions or, remaining invisible, take possession of our ego-consciousness.
Darkness (n.) once accepted is not changed into light, but kindles one: if you don't know it is night you won't light a lamp, nor will one be lit for you unless you have suffered the horror of the dark.
Darkness (n.) already mixed into modern man softens the impact of evil but makes him more vulnerable — we need more light, not less, to endure the dark God.
Darkness (n.) faced honestly in oneself should inspire a salutary terror at what one is capable of becoming.
Darkness (n.) means the chthonic, the concrete and earthy — the anima's dark side stirs whenever something threatens to become real, and that is the fear behind regression.
Darkness (n.) is a blessing for the man dazzled by the light, as the boundless desert is paradise to the escaped prisoner.
Darkness (n.) heightens suggestibility, especially of the senses, and in séances it deepened partial hypnosis until the medium's split-off ideas broke through as visions.