Jethro was an explorer, a trekker through the stars that rule the darkness.
Jethro discovered the meaning of each deity of every pantheon of gods, the forces they controlled, the energies to be exploited by worshipping them, the place each held in the power struggle of nature and being.
Until he arrived at a place from which he could look back and say, “Their power is an illusion. They are nothing more than conduits, the agencies of a perfect, transcendent Oneness Who pervades the universe.”
Then He saw the miracles wrought for the Jewish people, wonders that engaged every force of nature in unison, that connected heaven and earth as one.
Jethro knew he had arrived at truth. With him, he brought the secret of every false power, the wisdom that emerges from darkness.
And now Torah could enter the world.
Darkness, he found, can teach us more about light than light could ever say.
Likutei Sichot vol. 11, Yitro 1. Ibid vol. 16.
