Issac Asimov's classic short story Nightfall takes the reader to a planet that has never experienced darkness, as at least one of its six suns illuminates the sky at any given time. There is no such thing as "night" for its inhabitants. The story's progression reveals that both religious prophesy and scientific prediction have pointed to the imminent descent of complete darkness, and explores the various reactions of the populace thereto. The narrative develops over an approximate time of one hour leading up to the "totality".

As a summary and philosophical interpretation of "Nightfall," The Dawn of Nightfall draws esoteric correlations with this science fiction masterpiece and inner pyscho-spiritual illumination. The intended purpose for the reader of this essay is to reflect as deeply as possible and be humbled by the magnitude of mortality, and to inspire the transition into the illuminated state. (Published under the pen name Edison Thomas.)