Darkness just is. Or you couldn't see the light. We can only look at what is as informed by our (12) senses. Then the higher senses take over to make sense. Darkness is literally something that can be viewed, seen, and in it work the highest hierarchies. There is no need to worship them!
In painting therapy darkness is our paint. With it we show up our willing force. It teaches the eye of the heart to see without judgement of good/evil (this exists only in the dream state or astral travel). In the light of truth you wouldn't exist! Impossible to "shy away from darkness". You have to be darkness in order to speak the truth. You speak of light and darkness quite abstractly, most spiritual people do. They hover over the bridge of colour or leave it as a rainbow in the sky. Where is the pot of gold? A spirit once communicated to a sage, that he regretted not counting his steps up the stairs more thoughtfully. Now he found himself stuck in the lobby of a castle, clueless how to climb up to the first floor where the party seemed to be going on.... Live the colours! That's the realm for human souls.