The nature of spiritual darknesses is very misterious. Sometimes we can often doubt that they really exist. However, apart from direct experiences of many men today, authoritative testimonies exist which come from the past. Also in this case, like existential experiences, people can understand, without the necessity of impossible descriptions of something not describable. This should make one think of a real objectivity of darknesses. In analogy with physical obscurities, spiritual darknesses are accompanied, almost as a surrounding presence, by perception of our interior universe. As in the physical world, where experiences seem different to us if carried out in day or night time, so our inner being passes from darknesses to the inner light. This should make us profoundly reflect and understand how little we are able to enjoy our inner freedom. On the other hand, we should understandthat we are given the possibility of overcoming the conditioning that follows from the lack of light. |
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