"Darkness" is a symbol, a characteristic of the unknowable period of the history of God's creation of the entire Universe.

"Darkness" is also a symbol of the multiplicity, innumerability, inexhaustibility of God's Laws and their manifold manifestations in a universe unlimited by space and time.

"Darkness" is a symbol, a characteristic of the immoral, soulless state of man, when the spiritual "Image" and "Likeness" of God were not yet complete in him, when he was not a "living soul," that is, he was not yet spiritualized by true life according to the Will of God.

"Darkness" is also a symbol of the ungodly state of sinful living nations, living in various delusions, rejecting, violating, perverting the Will of God, His Commandments.