"The price of admission to this vision of the soul is the loss of the materialist viewpoint. Only then can the soul show itself as both Hades and Pluto, the dark underworld with its fruitful and shining possibilities. From one perspective the blackness of night is ‘the source of all evil,’ but that from the viewpoint of the Orphics, ‘Night was a depth of love (Eros) and light (Phanes).’"

- The Black Sun, The Alchemy of darkness