Life, such as we wish to consider it,
is but a struggle between two substances,
or a continual exchange of light and darkness.
One of these substances alternatively takes the place of the other,
sometimes taking the male function and sometimes the female.
And in a manner pleasing to the divine author,
everything either changes into a pure light,
or returns to the Cimmerian darkness,
which shows that light and darkness are but one and the same thing,
changing in form and value by the expansion or contraction of the substance.
-The Hermetic Recreations
