
“Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
“Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
XII. The origin of evil things; and that there is no positive evil.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Variant: The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration the darkness.
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Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
“Only God, the Exalted, is the light; everything else is darkness.”
Theology and Mysticism