DARK/chaos

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• Is the home of pure spirit, holding all that we are.  It is the “deathless nucleus of each human being.[1]
• Is intrinsic, essentialised existence.  Its numinous, boundless being and exists in a state of primordial completeness.
• Is Mystery, both unknown and unknowable, except from a place of Oneness with the void, the great Silence, which is the heart of Darkness.
• Reaches a pinnacle of tension at its heart’s core, which expresses ultimately, as a ‘point of clear, cold fire’. [2]
• Interpenetrates all that we think, do, know, believe, hope and die for, in all pasts, presents and futures.
• Does not need to know, in order to be in fullness and completeness. For it, difference or distinction does not exist.

Has its own intrinsic value, authority and utter certainty based upon its place as the source of and the end of all life

• Is the field from which all forms spring and against whose background all of life is lived.  Dark breathes out and creates the world of form; it breathes in and gathers the world back in again.
• Is the catalyst of change, of manifestation and of destruction.
• As the womb of all forms, it is filled with undiluted potential.
• Confronts the tendency of Light to become illusion, reminding it that illusion is created when the mind seeks prematurely or impatiently to banish the Dark in the quest for answers.
• When viewed from a human perspective, it has a strong connection to Light, which helps it to stay clear of chaos.  Light reminds it that pattern, Plan and Purpose also form part of All That Is.

NB. Strictly speaking, ‘Dark’ is not an energy.  Rather, it is the field within which all life exists.  But for the purposes of the map, we have ‘domesticated’ it somewhat, so that we can use it to further define and contrast the energies of Light, Love and Power[3].

Power/destruction   Love/fear   Light/illusion