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Love and Evil Are Not Opposites |
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Authorities throughout the ages who either ignorantly or deliberately misinterpreted the Ancient African concept of polarity have caused infinite magnitudes of anguish, misery, and death to untold numbers of Black people.
The principle of polarity is that everything is dual, has poles for its pair of opposites, and its opposites are identical in nature but different in degree. This principle has come to us through word of mouth over thousands of years since they were originally spoken by the Black Egyptian Hermes Trismegistus (?5500 BC).
The transmitters of this message assumed the sophisticated had the basic background concepts of the laws of the universe needed to place this principle into its proper context. However, the masses lack this background. It was not Hermes' intention to say love and evil or even Sublime good and evil are polar opposites or that both need to be embraced to obtain balance and harmony.
To explain my interpretation of Hermes' intention, allow me to use the Universe Circle concept -- a cross inside a circle so as to form four quadrants.
In the upper part of the Universe Circle is QI (quadrant I), consisting of God's love. In the upper right is QII, representing the opposite of love -- i.e. the absence of love -- as characterized by indifference to compassion or caring. In the lower left is QIII, a mixture of love, Sublime goodness, nature, and anything not hateful or evil.
QIV, in the lower right, consists of hateful thoughts, destructive emotions, and evil deeds -- each resulting from the absence of love which characterizes QII. Thus, QIII is about God's creations from QI -- i.e. the real -- while QII and QIV are manifestation of what God did not create -- i.e. the unreal. Hermes said the infinite mind of God is the Absolute Reality and out of it comes Universal Energy which, in turn, produces Universal Matter.
Whatever is related to this energy and its matter is "real" and therefore all God's creatures and creations are real because they possess the spirit of God. This spirit, called Substance, is what links all God's creations to each other (the law of sympathy). The complementary equals referred to in the Yin/Yang concept are real and identical in nature -- both therefore being essential to qualify as polar opposites.
It is impossible for love (QI) and evil (QIV) to be opposites or merge as complementary equals for several reasons.
First, love, deriving from God's mind, exists and exerts power as a positive force in its form of Universal Energy. Because evil is the result of a human creation (resulting from making a free will choice to shut out love), it lacks Substance.
Second, love and evil do not have comparable forces of power. The word "Force" means strong with respect to encountering resistance. Being God made, forces of love work everywhere inside and outside the earth world. Forces of evil operate only within a human -- and only when that human switches off love during decision making.
Love is the only force able to conquer evil. To wipe out evil provides the opportunity to replace it with the force of love. However, evil does not have the power to wipe out or even affect love in those who resist. Third, just as a woman is either pregnant or not (an all-or-none situation regarding a spiritual event), love is either switched on or off at the time we make each decision. In contrast to evil, love has no degrees.
Now in returning to Hermes' principle of polarity, what is referred to is that polar opposites necessarily require being of a similar nature -- and real -- and have Substance -- and complement each other -- and be present in QIII. In each of the pairs of heat/cold, light/dark, black/white, dull/sharp there are varying degrees of the "same thing."
That "same thing" as, for example, in "heat" and "cold" is merely a form, a variety, and a rate of vibration. In other words, "heat" and "cold" are varying degrees between the two poles of one "spoke." This implies one cannot distinguish where "heat" stops and "cold" begins because, as Hermes said, "the extremes meet" (The Kybalion p. 32).
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Joseph A. Bailey, II, M.D.
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