The Book Of Night One

(I) DARKNESS IS OLDER THAN LIGHT: The first thing to shine, and announce its presence was Darkness. It was a marvel then, simple but striking: Darkness was just one thing, but it was mountainous and unmovable, it piled higher and higher, it sank deeper and deeper, and never for an instant did its shining diminish or alter its intensity. It was simply a time of single things, there was no blending, no uniting and consequent union, no rushing together of things, mightily pulled toward each other. It was just a still, silent, stolid sphere of dark shining... And all lights were trapped within its vast extent. Small rays and long photons, long rays and small photons, single things composed of Light, squeezed through dark corridors and condensed into shining globes whose igniting created a new realm - light interposed with darkness, a light-world equal to its parent Darkness, engendering its own lives across Time... across Space... We human beings are composed of an inseparable bond of Darkness and Light. At home in both realms, we belong to neither wholly: we are creatures of a divided legacy....