Attendant to the all-encompassing shroud of night is the license to serenity and repose. A bedimmed periphery conduces one to focus their gaze inward and reflect upon themselves or upon whatever avocation best attains that salutary relaxation naturally sought after the labors of the day have ended.
More significant than this though is that the coming of vespers intrinsically empowers the individual, for under the shade of night one assumes an authority that the hours of the sun reserves exclusively for itself and the heavens. With the sanction of darkness it is left entirely to the wish and whim of each what radiance, if any, their surroundings appear in. From this perspective the individual is but a vulgar slave during the waking hours and an absolute sovereign during the witching.
Frightfully though if one accepts that humankind is permeated by corruption in its most basic nature, the advanced license of the dark of night can only be understood to necessarily be a sanction to perpetrate that corruption. Why else would the hours of the sun's absence be labeled, among other things, as "the witching hours"? When the sun is shining all is laid bare by the heavens; under the cloak of darkness the depravity of mankind has immunity to do evil and to enshroud that evil as much as it desires.
In the obscurity of the shadows the witches doth rein.
Under this principle it becomes self-evident why the Judeo-Christian tradition has so often equated God with light in its teachings. Under the guise of darkness human evil is empowered and so the evils of the temporal easily become equated with darkness. By the light that is God that darkness is extinguished and the way to salvation is illuminated.
Evil is darkness, God is the light and the light shines in the darkness and the darkness cannot overcome it.
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