Symbols and Similitudes: Darkness, of God's Inscrutability

And the people stood at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.

And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.

Then Solomon declared: “The LORD has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.

He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.

Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched and that is burning with fire; to darkness, gloom, and storm;

…to a trumpet blast or to a voice that made its hearers beg that no further word be spoken.