Greetings from the Dark

[Zaxon]

Shin'Ar,

You suggest I sample existence, and experience the light. Am I not justified, Shin'Ar, to likewise ask that you join me in darkness? You take the easy path of dissolution of self, by following the light. You bloat yourself on love, to compensate for a weak and unreliable will. You measure your greatness by your capacity to love, because you know you cannot measure it by the greatness of your achievements. Take the more difficult path, Shin'Ar, and fortify your soul with fire, and make your will the catalyst of creation. Be not the marble Shin'Ar, but dare to be the artisan who shapes it.

I have no interest in your path Shin'Ar, as you have no interest in mine.

As one moves up the echelons of light, the solar plexus becomes potentiated, and the heart chakra becomes the principle motivator for action. The children of light eventually become its instruments - as love washes over them, and consumes them - blotting out singular identity and volition. If the darkness aggrandizes the self, the light obviates it. Love is a narcotic that turns the supplicant into a willing slave to other beings. Conversely, in the darkness, we do not succumb to this willing slavery. Instead, we value the self and volition. As one moves deeper into the night, the heart chakra becomes potentiated, and there is only will and passion. In the darkness, every being is God - each the epicenter of all existence, each worshipping at the alter of self.

I am old, Shin'Ar, and know something of the light. But given the choice between being a servant of light, or the God of Darkness - I choose the dark.

-Zaxon