AC 7711 - "darkness" and "thick darkness"

AC 7711
In various places in the Word mention is made of "darkness"
and also at the same time of "thick darkness,"
and then "darkness" is predicated of falsity,
and "thick darkness" of evil together with it.
But the word by which "thick darkness"
is expressed in this verse means the densest darkness,
by which in the internal sense
are signified such falsities as spring from evil.
Such falsities arise with those who have been of the church,
and have lived a life of evil
contrary to the precepts of faith which they have known.
The evil from which these falsities spring,
is against the church,
against heaven,
and against the Lord,
thus is diametrically against good and truth.
This state is now described by "thick darkness."

That in the Word both "darkness" and "thick darkness"
are mentioned together,
and that "darkness" then denotes the privation of truth,
and thick darkness the privation of both truth and good . . ..