So we knew darkness or void is mother of all, which many creature come from. But what about the Source? Doesnt He which everything come from too? So who is first the source or darkness? Thanks
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Technically The Void Is Source Because Thats Where All Potential Was Stored. Then It Chose To Birth It. Well That’s My Opinion Anyway.
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“Darkness” (in parentheses because that concept didn’t even exist in that Aeon) is the Unmanifested Tao before the existence of matter, particles and even the concept of nothing. Tao is the Source/God by the way
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The relationship between darkness (or void) and the Source is often seen as a duality in many philosophical and spiritual traditions. Darkness represents the primal, unmanifested potential, while the Source is the active creative force from which everything emerges. In some views, darkness is the first state, a passive void from which creation arises, and the Source is the power that brings it into form. However, if the Source is seen as the origin of all, including darkness, then it precedes the void. The answer depends on whether creation begins with the unmanifested or with the creative force itself.
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What if this reality is void? Or is darkness? Think about it. All that space and nothingness.
Perhaps matter is just frozen light from source and all matter is here accidentally because it sneaks through the cracks.
Stars could be spawn points or windows. This of course leans into the duality that source exists elsewhere in another reality if darkness was always here.
If stars mix hydrogen to heavier and heavier elements, and hydrogen is the bottom of the periodic table until it gains another proton raises the atomic number and changes to the next element.
Then maybe darkness was always here and source was always “there” (or a different reality) until the “birth” of source here or big bang or whatever you wanna call it.
I guess in other words the theory goes they always were. But again just a theory 
I luv rabbit holes 
Maybe matter is just frozen light.
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Except “void” means “completely empty”. And we’re here, therefore this reality is not void by definition. Even if you lot are in my imagination and I’m populating reality all my myself it’s not void as long as I’m in it.
Darkness is the just absence of light, (not even EM radiation, just the parts in the spectrum that are visible to human eyes, e.g., dark can be warm and cold - heat is Infrared EM radiation) hence the fear of the dark - there can be things in it that want to eat you and humans rely very heavily on sight, thus they can’t defend themselves in the dark and it triggers the survival instinct.
I would not say who as much as what.
I follow the taoist view - everything manifest comes form the tao, which is not dark (there’s no light to be absent yet) it’s not void as “empty” implies there’s something to not be there, empty is also a manifestation. thoughts and words are manifestation, people and spirits are manifestations - the tao is pure potential for manifestation, so there is no “who” yet.
Imo, “whos” are quite deep into manifestations building more manifestations as I see them they are more complex, higher orders of reality. Before that you have to have basic forces and light.
Once you have spectrums of energy available and forces to rule their interactions, then you get relative intensities and frequencies that allow for yin and yang relationships. When you have yin and yang you can develop the elements, spirits and matter.
Yes, the concept of the tao is that it cannot be defined, it cannot be described it is untouchable and is always there, outside of reality. It creates realty. The very name tao is a manifestation and therefore not the tao.
The general gist in taoist philosophy is as follows (there are variations):
Out of the Tao came the one (the tao that can be named),
from the one cane the two (yin and yang - relativity)
from the two came the 5 (elements)
and from the 5 came the ten thousand thing (everything else).
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I love taoism. I’ve always been curious, do you consider the tao the same as source? And if so would source therefore not be affiliated with “light” necessarily as light is manifest and therefore “existing and describable”?
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Yes tao is “Source” so light is manifest and so cannot be the tao. Tao is unmanifest potential - for anything and everything, thoughts, this post, life, energy, vacuum, darkness, death, yin and yang, anything you can think of really.
“The tao that can be named is not the tao”
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I think it would be best to direct this question to an ancient being or Goetic demon because we are are all forgetting it’s a “MULTIVERSE” and this universe is just a portion, till we are able to fully understand and decipher the multiverse this question will never/can never be adequately answered, my honest take… 
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Darkness and Light come from the same Source. As for where the Source came from-- I don’t think that’s a question that can be answered directly or concretely. The Source always was, always is, and always will be.
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