Vision

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Ancient Egyptians abandoned mere metaphor and literally worshipped the sun. Is light a profound substance, as previously discussed, but self-fulfillment relies on perception of this light; it relies on .
Darkness is the perfect antagonist to light. It is an utter absence of illumination; it is the night, which devours the day; it is the womb, which we escaped, and the tomb to which we must return. Humans have always feared the dark, from the small child who cringes in her bed to the old man whose night-light is never unplugged. What is so terrifying about darkness is its deprivation of . Just as one finds comfort and enlightenment in the physical and metaphorical act of seeing, one finds fear and confusion in the state of blindness. Many religious doctrines preach of an antagonistic force, such as Satan, which attempts to cast the believer into darkness and thus blind him to the truth. If is what lifts the human spirit to a higher plateau of spiritual understanding, blindness ...

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