The essay is a commentary on the translation of Francois Laruelle's text "On the Black Universe". It presents the key ideas of his non-standard philosophy, relating them to a critique of Marxism (the notion of "the last instance") and contemporary forms of negative theology. Darkness is conceived in both political and religious dimensions. The author presents Laruelle's conception of immanence in a soteriological perspective, as a precondition for a radical transformation of humanity in relation to the real.