Can anyone translate this simple phrase from English to Latin?

Question

The phrase is: "From Darkness to Light."

Although it seems quite obvious, it may be necessary to clarify the connotations associated with the words "darkness" and "light." These do NOT imply color or any similar meanings. They DO, however, refer to symbolic darkness and light: blindness to sight; ignorance to comprehension; the naiveté of youth to the maturity of experience; obscurity to enlightenment; etc. Any help is most appreciated.

Answer 1

Martox has given you some good ones. I would use tenebrae for darkness and lumen for light. Lux is very close in meaning, however. But tenebra needs to be in the plural to be grammatically correct Latin.

Ab tenebris ad lumen (From darkness to light)
Ex tenebris ad lumen (Out of darkness to light)
Lumen ab tenebris (Light from darkness)
Lumen ex tenebris (Light out of darkness)


lumen -inis n. [light; a light, lamp; the light of day, day; the light of life; the light of the eye, the eye; an opening, a light in a building]; fig., [clearness, insight; a shining light, glory, ornament]

lux lucis f. [light]; [esp. daylight, day; a day; the light of life or of day; the eye, eyesight; illustration, elucidation; hope, encouragement; ornament]

tenebrae -arum f. pl. [darkness; night; blindness; obscurity]

Answer 2

Tenebrae Definition

Answer 3

LUX EX TENEBRA (that I prefer) or
EX TENEBRA AD LUCEM or
EX OBSCURITATE AD LUMEN

All of them are fitting the meaning of yr sentence.
In particular Tenebra means also ignorance.