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=Lesson 1: The Nature of Darkness= (By Shadowwolf) (Return to Lessons) (Return to Teachings)

The darkness is something man naturally fears, and has feared from the beginning of time. It is natural because his most primarily used sense is rendered useless within darkness and gullible against shadow. Most of the predators that are most fearsome use the night to hunt when man and beast are so weakened. The always darkness carries the menace of something unseen hunting. Despite all of our advancement we have not lost the primal fear of being hunted. It is at night that we remember that fear bred by generations of the fearful.

Some of us however are different. The night dwellers distinguish themselves differently. For one reason or another they have switched sides with the fearful and become the creatures of the night. Perhaps they have challenged their fears, perhaps they have become a hunter, perhaps they have enemies who walk by day. Regardless, those that walk in the proverbial night are the predecessors who forged the way for the Sith, and other orders of darkness. Only those that walk in the night may truly find their way from hunted to hunter.

Despite common belief that the darkness blinds people, it actually heightens their senses. Sight is such a false sense. The most deadly illusions and traps fool the eyes. Few other traps target another sense. At night the other four senses are heightened. Their collective gain far outweighs the senses lost. You could say that at night we see more than at any other time. Of ourselves and the world.

Because you cannot see you are faced with an advantage and a disadvantage in the darkness. Your eyes cannot be deceived in the dark and so you cannot be lied to. In the dark you need only to reach out and touch the truth to ‘see’ it as it truly is, but in order to touch it you must accept whatever that truth is. The Truth is in the darkness. In all of its grotesque glory.

In the darkness the only lies are the ones you bring with you. Though it is impossible for others to deceive you in the darkness suddenly your hopes and fears do it instead. You are now susceptible to your own lies more than any other person’s. For the undisciplined this proves their destruction. For this reason are hunters and the hunted separated by darkness. In the darkness what you want to believe will kill you.

Men wear masks during the day. No matter what they think. We are not our faces. We are not the way we look. In the darkness we take off our masks. We are whoever we are. A pretty or ugly face will not deceive in the dark for only touch and smell taste tell you the man. Cruelty can be hidden under no beauty in the dark. Only strength can be faked in the land of touch and smell and taste. Recognize the falsehoods we wear during the day for what they are. Masks.

In the darkness dreams are alive. When we look into the dark nothing, we see inside ourselves. If we have fear inside we will see our nightmares. If we have beauty inside than we see beautiful dreams and lullabies. It is in darkness that we dream, and in darkness the dream is real. Truly as we look into the dark we are only seeing ourselves naked, and in that respect the darkness is the truest mirror and the scariest enemy to those who are weak.

The darkness is immortal. It is the natural state of the universe. Though a tiny candle can banish the darkness for a time, the darkness always wins. Eventually the candle burns out and the darkness returns smugly to its place. Even the sun cannot last forever. Darkness is the omnipotent state of the universe.

Darkness is about the individual. In darkness we cannot help but look inside.

Lesson 1: The Nature of Darkness Lesson 2: Fuel of the Dark Side Lesson 3: Control Lesson 4: Dark Meditations Lesson 5: Danger to Darkness
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