The Law of Opposites

Disciple: Excuse me, Master, [...] therefore there is a duality before which intellectualism hits me by saying that one must not be in the white nor in the black, but be the central point of the two.

The Fifth Gospel Lunar Psychism and Solar Psychism Second Chamber – Mexico City – 1976

Master: Well, then it seems that you have forgotten the four arithmetic operations of reasoning: affirmation, negation, discussion, solution. So one must not forget those four operations of arithmetics.

The Fifth Gospel Lunar Psychism and Solar Psychism Second Chamber – Mexico City – 1976

As for the law of the opposites, everything is and is not at the same time; every truth is a half-true, every truth is half wrong; the extremities touch. Do you not see that we are inside the world of relativity of Einstein?

The Fifth Gospel Lunar Psychism and Solar Psychism Second Chamber – Mexico City – 1976 also in The Law of the Pendulum

Now, if you want to get out of this world of relativity of Einstein, undoubtedly, you will need to create the Solar Man within yourself. If you create the Solar Man within yourself, unquestionably, you escape from that dualism which lives in incessant antithesis; you go beyond good and evil, you liberate yourself from the powers of good and evil.

The Fifth Gospel Lunar Psychism and Solar Psychism Second Chamber – Mexico City – 1976 also in The Law of the Pendulum

But only the Solar Man manages to liberate himself from the powers of good and evil. Only the Solar Man manages to go beyond the battle of the antitheses. Only the Solar Man really liberates himself.

The Fifth Gospel Lunar Psychism and Solar Psychism Second Chamber – Mexico City – 1976 also in The Law of the Pendulum

Only the Solar Man can liberate himself really from this entire battle of the antitheses; only the Solar Man liberates himself from the pair of opposites of philosophy; only the Solar Man truly arrives at the experience of what is real and lives in what is real; not before. With pure reasonings, you can be sure that you will not achieve it; the most you will achieve is to ruin your mind and your brain; that is all.

The Fifth Gospel Lunar Psychism and Solar Psychism Second Chamber – Mexico City – 1976 also in The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

In Arcanum number 10 we find the Wheel of Destiny, the cosmogenic wheel of Ezekiel. Within this wheel we find the battle of the opposites, Hermanubis on the right, Typhon on the left. This is the wheel of ages, it is the Wheel of Fortune, of Reincarnation and of Karma; the terrible Wheel of Retribution - above the Wheel is the mystery of the Sphinx. In the Wheel of Antithesis the two Serpents are in mutual combat. Within this Wheel is enclosed the whole secret of the Tree of Knowledge. The four rivers of Paradise flow from a single source. One of these flows through the dense forest of the sun, watering the Philosophical Earth of the gold of light. The other, tenebrous and murky, circulates through the kingdom of the abyss. Light and Darkness; White Magic and Black, are in mutual combat. Eros and Anteros, Cain and Abel live within us in intense struggle, until, discovering the mystery of the Sphinx, we take up the Flaming Sword. We then liberate ourselves from the wheel of ages.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Return and Reincarnation

By means of this Arcanum the Matrix is made, is modelled, where images take form. Arcanum 2 is the Thesis expounding the Antithesis. It is the Fount which accumulates the waters of the Spring. It is the dual manifestation of the Unity. Upon dividing, the Unity gives origin to receptive, productive femininity in all nature.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

Obviously it is urgent to emphasize the transcendental idea that the Law of Antithesis is coexistent with any crude natural process. This concept of content is absolutely, unimpeachable, unassailable and irrefutable.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971 also in The Law of Polarities, The Law of the Pendulum

Specific examples: day and night, light and darkness, construction and destruction, increase and decrease, birth and death, etc...

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971 also in The Law of Polarities, The Law of the Pendulum

The exclusion of any of these two aforementioned Laws - EVOLUTION and INVOLUTION - would give rise to static, quiescent, radical paralysis of natural mechanisms.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution

Because the energy of death is so strong, it destroys the human organism totally. It is a current of such high voltage, that it inevitably destroys the organism when it travels through it. As a flash of lightening can tear a tree apart, so the ray of death reduces the human body to ashes. It is the only type of energy that the body cannot resist. This ray connects death with conception. The two extremes meet. When the essence is detached from the old body on the terrible impact of the ray of death, a tremendous electrical tension is produced on a key note, the axiomatic result of which is the movement and combination of the determining GENES of the future physical body. This is how the fine constituents of a fertilised egg are arranged in the corresponding order, having electrical tension and the key note of death for a basis.

The Book of the Dead, 1965 also in The Secret Weapon of the Ego

The Moon carries away and brings the deceased. The extremes touch each other. Death and conception are intimately united. The path of life is formed by the tracks of the hooves of the Horse of Death.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967

How difficult is the path that devours millions of zoosperms for one single fecundation…! Fecundation and expiration are opposites…

For the Few, 1980

The result: the antithesis annuls this path with the force of decrepitude, the force of time, the fecund Decrepit One…

For the Few, 1980

Next to every temple of Light is a Temple of Darkness. There where the light shines more, the darkness by contrast changes appearance, becomes denser.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)

The Knights of the White Grail must inevitably fight against the Knights of the Black Grail.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)

The Chamber of the witches situated in Salamanca in Spain is the fatal antithesis of the Temple of Montserrat.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)

Let us study this curious analogy of opposites. The Temple of the White Grail is a splendid monastery of the Great Light. The Temple of Salamanca is a splendid monastery of Darkness.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966) also in The Law of Correspondence

The Monastery of Montserrat has two floors. The chamber of witch craft also has two floors. The Temple of Montserrat is encircled by beautiful and sweet gardens. The chamber of witchcraft is also encircled by romantic gardens, where every flower exudes a halitus of death.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)

When the dark age arrived, the initiatory colleges were closed. This was fatality. From then on the great black lodges that were born during the archaic darkness of ancient times, in fact became more active. The limit of light is darkness. Next to every temple of light there is another of darkness, and where the light shines more clearly, the darkness becomes more dense.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)

The initiatory colleges of Egypt, Greece, India, China, Mexico, Yucatan, Peru, Troy, Rome, Carthage, Chaldea etc., etc., had their dangerous antipodes, their fatal antitheses, tenebrous schools of black magic, fatal shadows of the light.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)

The law of contrasts is found written with characters of fire in the great book of Nature. It is obvious that the limit of light is darkness. Thus, the shadow of any Sanctuary of Glory is always a tenebrous den.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970 also in The Law of Polarities

Hence, in no way is it strange that also around there, upon the meridian slope of the same mountains which looks towards the Arabian Spain, the enchanted castle of the Necromancer Klingsor is found...

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

Every human being has a double, an opposite, who lives within the infraconsciousness of Nature. In front of Buddha, we find his brother and enemy Devadatta, the King of hell. In front of Anael, the Angel of Love, we find Lilith, the antithesis of love.

Endocrinology & Criminology, 1957 also in The Subconscious

Every person has a “human double” incarnated in him or her. That double is exactly alike in physiognomy, attitudes, manners, in certain capacities, etc. With this we are not referring to the Esoteric Double or the Astral Double. We are talking about another different type of “personality”: a Twin Soul, an Antithesis. Said Soul is the “Double: That Double possesses the same physical features; we say that the person is exactly an ANTITHESIS.

Logos, Mantram, Theurgy, 1959

Jahve is a fallen Angel who is extremely perverse. Jahve is the genius of evil. Christ is the chief of the Great White Lodge, and Jahve, his antithesis is the chief of the Great Black Lodge. The Powers of Light and Darkness live in eternal struggle, and the roots of this struggle are in the sex. The semen is the battleground. In the semen the Angels and demons fight to the death. The backbone of the great conflict between Angels and demons is sex. The problem is there. The root of all White and Black doctrines is there. Christ has his plan of action. Jahve has his. The chosen follow Christ. The great majority of human beings fanatically follow Jahve. Nevertheless, all of them hide behind the Cross.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)

In the Astral Cross, columns of Angels and demons fight each other. Facing each angel is a demon.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)

Every human being has his Double. We have here one of the mysteries of the Twin Souls. The Lamas say that Devadatta was the brother and rival of Buddha. He is the King of the Inferno.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)

In everything, the Doubles resemble one another. The Doubles are analogous, they have the same tendencies, but with the differences of the Analogies of Opposites. Facing a White Astrologer is a Black Astrologer. If a Master teaches White Sexual Magic, his double will teach black sexual magic. The Doubles are similar in everything, but they are antithetical.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)

The physiognomy and body of the doubles are similar because they are twins. This is one of the great mysteries of occultism. Every White Soul has a Black Double, a contrary Soul that antagonizes and fights. Love and Anti-Love fights each other. Anael is the Angel of Love. Lilith is its Tenebrous Double. Lilith represents Anti-Love. In ancient times, the great theurgist lamblichus invoked these two Genii, and then from a river came two children; Love and Anti-Love, Eros and Anti-Eros, Anael and Lilith. The multitudes that witnessed the miracle of lamblichus prostrated themselves before the great theurgist. The disciple of the stony path that leads to Nirvana is filled with ecstasy when he has the privilege of contemplating Anael, the Angel of Love. Anael appears before his callers, those who know how to invoke him. Anael is a beautiful Child of the Dawn. In the presence of the Angel of Love we feel ourselves return to the lost innocence of Eden. Anael’s hair appears as a golden cascade falling over his alabaster shoulders. The face of the Angel of Love has the rosy color of the dawn. Anael dresses with a white tunic and is of indescribable beauty. Anael is the Angel of music and of Love, the Angel of beauty and of tenderness, the delightful Cupid of the enamored, and the ecstasy of all adoration. Lilith, the rival brother of Anael, is his fatal antithesis. He is a terribly malign child. He is the infernal Angel of all great amorous deceptions. He is a monarch of the Atomic Infernos of Man.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)

The wise Law of Contrary Analogies invites us to comprehend that if 13 subjective and negative states exist during a Hypnotic state for the Projection of the Double, likewise, another 13 Objective and Positive States also exist during a healthy and Natural Projection of the Double.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

Ah! I said, I understand. The most monstrous thing has to be, in accordance with the law of the opposite analogies, the counterpole of the most magnificent thing.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971 also in The Law of Polarities

Fine! But what is the most magnificent thing that exists on the sorrowful face of this afflicted world?

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971

Then, it clearly came to mind; the Mountain of Skulls, bitter Golgotha and the great Kabir Jesus dying on a cross for Love of all sad humanity.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971 also in Hatred

Then I exclaimed: Love is the most magnificent thing that exists on earth! Eureka! Eureka! Eureka! Now I have discovered the secret. Hatred is the antithesis of the most magnificent thing.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971 also in Hatred, The Keys of Astral Travel

It is clear and evident that Lucifer is the antithesis of the Creator Demiurge, its living shadow projected into the profound depths of microcosm man.

The Three Mountains, 1972 also in Lucifer

They who rashly curse Lucifer, speak ill of the Cosmic Reflection of the Logos; anathematise the Living God manifested in matter and renounce the always incomprehensible wisdom revealed in the opposites of light and darkness; semblance, similarity: sun and shadow, day and night. Law of opposites...

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Lucifer, The Law of Polarities

I now invite the whole audience to listen tome and all the Gnostic Movement in general to an in-depth reflection on the antithesis...it is unquestionable that the horrible serpent, Python, is the negative and fatal opposite, the shadow, shall we say, the radical antithesis, of the serpent of light.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

The antithesis of Lucifer or the superior aspect of the same, is the Solar Logos, the Cosmic Christ.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Lucifer, The Intimate Christ

Adonai’s shadow is Satan’s glory and the Lord’s stool is Satan’s throne.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

Countenance, resemblance, similitude, sun and shadow, day and night, the law of the contraries—two are the armies of the Logos or Demiurge Architect of the Universe: the warring hosts of Michael in the sublime expansions of heaven, and the legions of Satan in the abyss of the manifested world. Clearly, these are the unmanifested and the manifested, the virginal one and the one fallen into animal generation.

The Mayan Mysteries, 1977 also in Lucifer

The antithesis of these Klipoth is a super-divine atom which is related with the church of Laodicea or the lotus of one thousand petals.

The Aquarian Message, 1960 also in The Klipoth

The abyss is the antithesis of the “AIN SOPH.” The abyss is the fatal shadow of the Ain Soph.

The Aquarian Message, 1960 also in The Words He Uses

The Elohim live in Eden; yet, the terrible and perverse Lucifers live in the Abyss. The innocent elementals of fire, air, water and earth exist in Eden; yet, the demons exist in the Abyss. Behold here the pair of opposites of philosophy.

Aztec Christic Magic, 1973 also in Elemental Magic, Yesod

This is the center of earth’s heart, where we find the maximum density and gravity, the fundamental seat of Satan, the inferno. Where the light shines most clearly, there also is the darkness densest: this is the law of the analogies of opposites. In the center of the earth’s heart are both the seat of Satan and the temple of the genie of earth, the symbol of infinity, and angels and demons in eternal battle.

The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Klipoth, The Law of Correspondence

The abyss is terribly painful. The horrible antithesis of Ain Soph is the abyss, the Kliphos of the Kabalah. The Kliphos are atomic and tenebrous, of the lunar path.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

There are in reality twelve Sephiroth which can be spoken of Ain Soph is the eleventh, and its tenebrous antithesis, the abyss, is Sephiroth number twelve.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Ain, Ain Soph, Ain Soph Aur

Ostensibly, above this world of three dimensions (length, width and height), various superior dimensions exist; obviously, in accordance with the law of contrasts, various infradimensions of a submerged mineral type exist below this three-dimensional zone. It is indubitable that the quoted hells of a Dantestic type correspond to these infradimensions.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Malkuth, The Klipoth

Since the Sun is the source of all life and the marvelous agent that sustains all existence according to the eternal common cosmic “Trogoautoegocratic” Law, obviously, we come to really find the fatal and negative antithesis of all of this in the antithetical solar aspect of the fourth submerged terrestrial zone.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Klipoth

Moving on to the antithetical sphere of Uranus in the abysmal depths of the planet Earth, by the law of contrasts and the law of analogy of the opposites and of simple correspondence, the horrifying Cacus should also be destroyed.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Law of Correspondence

You see then, ladies and gentlemen, these luminous and tenebrous antithetical aspects, in which manner they correspond and in which manner they develop...

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Law of Correspondence

Answer: Friends, it is urgent to comprehend that in the superior dimensions of nature, submerged beneath the epidermis of the Earth, there exists by the law of antithesis, a ninth circle of glory, where the Initiates of the Universal White Fraternity can see, traced in a concrete manner, the sign of the infinite, the holy eight, set in a horizontal manner. Whoever has studied esoteric Kabbalah knows very well the inner significance of this magical figure.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Klipoth

What would be the antithesis of generosity? Egotism, usury, embezzlement, that is obvious.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Greed, Resentment and Generosity

In this manner, every religious antithesis, every Jupiterian contrast, has to be inevitably found in the sixth infernal circle beneath the epidermis of the Earth.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Klipoth

Question: You tell us that the sixth submerged region of Jupiter is the antithesis of the planet Jupiter that orbits around the Sun. I observe, Master, when you spoke of other Dantestic circles that you did not refer to them as the antithesis of the planets to which they correspond. Would you like to clarify this for us ?

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

Answer: Sir, gentlemen, ladies, obviously, the nine infernal circles are always the negative antithetical aspect of the spheres of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. I believe that I have already said something in past lectures about this subject and that we have already described the relationship existing between those worlds and the nine zones, which are submerged below the epidermis of our planet Earth. Finding a similarity to all of this, you will see that every person under the sunlight, projects his shadow everywhere; you will find something similar with each of these nine worlds of the solar system and their corresponding shadows or obscure, tenebrous zones within the entrails of the planet in which we live, do you understand? Question: Master, could you tell us if the submerged zone of the planet Jupiter is inhabited?

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Klipoth

Answer: Distinguished lady, allow me to inform you and to inform all the persons who are listening to me, that in the natural infradimensions of the submerged mineral kingdom of the planet Jupiter, exist terribly perverse demons, involuting creatures, people who are on their way towards the second death. I clarify, I am not t about the heaven of Jupiter; I limit myself exclusively to mention the submerged mineral kingdom of that planet. Question: Can we consider that in spite of the fact that there are terribly malignant involuting beings in the infernos of Jupiter, that said infernos are antithetical to the infernos of the sixth Dantestic circle of the planet Earth?

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Klipoth

Answer: Friends, the tenebrous corresponds with the tenebrous; no antithesis whatsoever exists between the Jupiterian infernos and the sixth Dantestic circle submerged below the geological cortex of our world Earth.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

We should look for antitheses exclusively between the luminous and obscure aspects of Jupiter.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

Indubitably, the Jupiterian splendors have their opposites, their shadows, not only in the entrails of that radiant planet, but also below the cortex of our afflicted world. Question: Master, could you tell us what are the materials or elements which make up that tenebrous zone of the sixth submerged dimension of our planetary organism?

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

"Why can I not see it?" "Because you have egotistical ideas." "Will I be able to see it, Master?" "As long as you have a dualistic vision and you say ‘I cannot’ and so on, your eyes will be blinded by that relative vision." “When there is neither I nor you, then can it be seen?" “When there is neither I nor you, who wants to see?" The foundation of the ‘I’ is the dualism of the mind. The ‘I’ is sustained by the battle of the opposites. All thinking is founded on the battle of the opposites. If we say so and so is tall, we are really saying he is not short. If we say that we are entering, we are really saying that we are not exiting. If we say that we are happy, with that we affirm that we are not sad, etc.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

The problems of life are nothing but mental forms with two poles: one positive and the other negative. Problems are sustained by the mind and are created by the mind. When we stop thinking about a problem, the latter inevitably ends. Happiness and sadness, pleasure and pain, good and evil, victory and defeat, constitute the battle of the opposites on which the ‘I’ is founded. The entire miserable life that we live goes from one opposite to another: victory, defeat; like, dislike; pleasure, pain; failure, success; this, that, etc.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

Intellectual dualism such as pleasure and pain, praise and slander, triumph and defeat, wealth and misery constitute the painful mechanism of the mind.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in Suffering, The Mind

► Let us start our sermon of tonight. Certainly, humanity lives amidst the battle of the antithesis, amidst the bloody fight of the opposites: sometimes, we find ourselves very joyful, content; other times, we are depressed, sad. We have periods of progress, of well-being – some more than others, according to the Law of Karma–. We also have critical periods economically, socially, etc. There are times when we are optimistic regarding life, and there are times when we feel pessimistic.

The Fifth Gospel Chaotic Consciousness and Intelligent Consciousness Public Lecture – Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico also in The Law of the Pendulum

When I try to reunite all of the fragments of my mind into one thing there is dualism. Dualism exists when my mind is a slave of the good and the bad, of the cold and the hot, of what is big and what is small, of what is agreeable and disagreeable, of yes and no, etc. There is also dualism when we divide ourselves between superior ‘I’ and inferior ‘I’ and we aspire for the superior ‘I’ to control us during meditation.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Mind, The Science of Meditation

Therefore and in accordance with the law of opposites, the instinctive energies or impulse that were suppressed within the everyday mind eventually emerged in the subconscious to a greater or lesser degree depending on their intensity.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971

The entire work of the Intellectual Center is divided into two parts: Affirmation and Negation, Yes and No, Thesis and Antithesis.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Centres of the Human Machine, The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

The same struggle between pleasant and unpleasant exists in the Instinctive Center; pleasant sensations, unpleasant sensations and all of those sensations are related with the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Sensations, The Centres of the Human Machine

The specific functions of each center indicate, point to certain dualisms in each center, as the dualism of the mind with its incessant battle of antithesis dividing thoughts; the dualism of emotions splitting them into pleasant and unpleasant emotions; the dualism of instinctual sensations splitting them into pleasure and pain; the dualism of sexuality splitting them into attraction and repulsion of sex, etc. Without a doubt, each one of the five centers is, at the same time, positive and negative.

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in The Centres of the Human Machine, The Law of Polarities, The Law of the Pendulum

The reasoning person believes that he can attain the truth through the struggle of antithesis, but this only divides the mind and incapacitates it to comprehend the truth. The intuitive person only knows how to listen to the voice of the silence. Thus, within his serene mind, the eternal truths of life are reflected with splendid beauty.

The Revolution of Beelzebub, 1950 also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

The mind of the intuitive one serenely and silently flows very far away from the black struggle of antithesis and from the storm of exclusivity.

The Revolution of Beelzebub, 1950 also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

Reason does nothing but divide the mind between the struggles of the antithesis. The decisions of reason are daughters of ignorance and always bring pain.

Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

36. Antithetical concepts convert the mind into a battle camp.

Igneous Rose, 1954 also in The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

37. The battle between concepts of antithesis causes the understanding to be divided, and converts it into a useless instrument.

Igneous Rose, 1954 also in The Law of the Pendulum

44. The process of option divides the mind into a battle of antithesis.

Igneous Rose, 1954 also in The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

138. When the process of selection divides the mind between the battle of antithesis, then the internal images are hidden like stars behind the stormy clouds of reasoning. 139. We must learn to think with the heart and to feel with the head.

Igneous Rose, 1954 also in Igneous Rose, The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

Reasoning is based on opinions, on the struggle of antithetical concepts, on the process of conceptual choice, etc. A mind divided by the struggle of reasonings, is a useless instrument for the Being, for the Inner-Self.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

A mind divided by the battle of opposites is not capable of comprehending that which is new; it is petrified, solidified.

Fundamental Education, 1970 also in The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

The battling between antitheses destroys occult powers. This battling of reasonings damages the mind's powers.

Christ Consciousness, 1952 also in The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

Well, this has an interesting aspect, but –I repeat– upon returning to practical life, people are once again in that incessant battle of the antithesis, in that horrible fight of the opposites, characteristic of the dualism of the understanding. There is no peace in such a mind. In a mind that is not integral, unitotal, there can be no peace; in a mind that is not strictly receptive and non-projecting, there can be no peace or continuous enlightenment.

The Fifth Gospel The Serious Damages of Mental Representations Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977 also in The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

Energy is equal to mass by the velocity of the light to the square. We, the Gnostics, separate ourselves from the antithetical struggle that exists between Metaphysics and Dialectic Materialism. These are the two antitheses of ignorance, the two antitheses of error.

Endocrinology & Criminology, 1957 also in The Law of the Pendulum

In the world there exist many theories, of a spiritualistic type or of a materialistic type and the reason of the intellective humanoids is good for everything; it can create spiritual theories as well as materialistic theories.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Mind

The rational homunculi can elaborate within their cerebral encephalus, through the most severe logical processes, a materialistic theory as well as a spiritualistic theory and in one as well as the other, in the thesis as well as the antithesis, the logic, in its depths, is really admirable.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

Unquestionably, reason with all its logical processes as a faculty of investigation, has a beginning and an end; it is too narrow and limited, since as we have said, it serves everything, it is good for everything, for the thesis as well as for the antithesis. Ostensibly the processes of logical cerebration are not in themselves convincing, because of the concrete fact that with them one can elaborate any spiritualist or materialist thesis, both demonstrating the same logical vigor, plausible certainly for any reasoning humanoid.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

Unfortunately, the intellectual animal mistakenly called man, fascinated by the formulative power of dialectical logic, has forgotten about the dialectic of consciousness. Unquestionably, the power to formulate logical concepts is basically terribly poor. From thesis we can pass onto antithesis and through discussion reach synthesis, but the latter remains in itself an intellectual concept which in no way can coincide with reality. The Dialectic of Consciousness is more direct, permitting us to experience the reality of any phenomenon in itself and by itself.

The Great Rebellion, 1975 also in The Mind

Reason can devise marvels. If we listen to two men arguing, one spiritualist and another materialist, the spiritualist can present any doctrine with a wonderful, extraordinary logic, and the materialist, by antithesis, by opposition, can also create a beautiful, analytical, logical, perfect theory. So, what? Which of those two theories, both logical, both structured with basis in a reasoning dialectic, is the truth?

The Fifth Gospel The Precariousness of the Human Psyche lst International Meeting of Hermetic Culture – Guadalajara. Jalisco, Mexico – October 28. 1975 also in The Law of the Pendulum

If one carefully studies many modern writers, one could prove that they –and excuse the frankness– hardly have any ideas of their own, they limit themselves to transcribing, commenting, etc. There are authors who practically, make one feel as if they are shattering one’s mind. They defend terrible things in some chapters, certain theories, and in the subsequent pages they vehemently destroy that which they have defended before and exhibit a very well documented antithesis. So, upon reading one of those books, what one does is to put the intellect to work without really reaping any kind of spiritual harvest. Basically, what one achieves is to increase the battle of the antithesis in the intellect, that is all.

The Fifth Gospel Beyond the Mind Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1974 also in The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the essence or Buddhata is liberated from the mind and ecstasy arrives. The essence is always bottled up in the battle of the opposites, but when the battling ends and the silence is absolute, the essence remains free and the bottle broken into pieces.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Being Is the Being, The Essence, The Law of the Pendulum

The monks were unable to pass between those two opposites and the master broke the mirror into pieces. Ecstasy is impossible as long as the essence is bottled up in the opposites. In the times of Babylon, the Bodhisattva of the Most Holy Ashiata Shiemash, a great Avatar, came to the world. The Bodhisattva was not fallen and like every Bodhisattva, he had his Superior Existential Bodies of the Being properly developed.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66

There are two types of mechanical association which are the foundation of the opposites: a) Mechanical association by means of ideas, words, phrases, etc; b) Mechanical association by images forms, things, persons, etc.

Dissolving the I, 1964

An idea associates with another, a word with another, a phrase with another and the battle of the opposites follows. One person associates with another, the memory of someone comes to his mind, an image associates with another, a form with another and the battle of the opposites continues.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

When one achieves the dissolution of the mental mechanics, then comes that which in the orient is called the breaking of the bag, eruption of the void; then there is a shout of joy because the essence (the Buddhata) has escaped from within the battle of the opposites and now participates in the communication of the Saints.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Essence, The Law of the Pendulum

While the mind is embottled within the dualism, it is totally impossible to be integral. The essence of the mind (the Buddhata) is very precious, but unfortunately is it bottled in the battle of the antithesis.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

When the essence of the mind escapes during meditation out of the bottle of the opposites, we can experience what is real, the Being, the Intimate.

Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Law of the Pendulum, The Science of Meditation

The Essence is engrossed within the tremendous battle of the opposites: heat and cold, like and dislike, yes and no, good and evil, pleasant and unpleasant.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Human Soul, The Law of the Pendulum

The sole purpose of the mind is for the bitterness of our existence. Authentic, legitimate, real happiness is only possible when we emancipate ourselves from the intellect. However, we must recognize that an inconvenience exists, as well as a capital obstacle and impediment in order to acquire that longed for liberation of the Essence. I am referring to the tremendous struggle of antithesis.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in The Human Soul, The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

The Essence, the consciousness, even when of a Buddhic nature, disgracefully lives bottled up within the exaggerated intellectual dualism of the opposites ‘yes and no’, ‘good and evil’, ‘high and low’, ‘mine and yours’, ‘like and dislike’, ‘pleasure and pain’, etc.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in The Essence, The Human Soul, The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

By all means, it becomes luminous to deeply comprehend that when this tempest in the ocean of the mind ceases and the struggle between the opposites finishes, the Essence escapes and submerges itself within that which is the Reality.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in The Human Soul, The Law of the Pendulum, The Science of Meditation

To reach, to obtain quietude and silence in the mere superficial intellectual level, or in some subconscious departments of the mind is not enough, because the Essence continues bottled up within the submerged infraconscious and unconscious dualism. A blank mind is something extremely superficial, hollow and intellectual. What we need is serene reflection if what we truly want is to achieve the quietude and absolute silence of the mind.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in The Essence, The Science of Meditation, The Subconscious

The awakening of the consciousness, of the Essence, of the soul or Buddhata is only possible by liberating, emancipating ourselves from the mental dualism, from the struggle of the antithesis, of the intellectual waves.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in Awakening, Runic Magic, The Essence, The Law of the Pendulum

Kao Feng decided to work with this HUA TOU However, he was unable to concentrate his mind on it due to the bifurcation of this phrase This HUA TOU divided his mind into many opinions and opposite concepts and Kao Feng suffered unbelievably He yearned with all of his heart and all of his soul to liberate himself from Mental Dualism It is impossible to experience the Reality as long as the Essence, the Buddhata, the Soul, continues bottled up within Intellectual Dualism.

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in The Mind, The Science of Meditation

Opposing opinions, the struggle between opposite concepts and antithetic ideas correspond to the different illusory functions of the mind.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

Unfortunately, the only thing that the Luciferic Intellect does is torment us with the incessant battle of the opposites. Kao Feng liberated himself from the mind and became a Turiya.

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in The Law of the Pendulum

Erudite persons are not capable of listening to Revolutionary Psychology with a spontaneous mind, free of mental assumptions, theories, preconceptions, etc. They are not capable of opening themselves up to what is new with an integral mind, with a mind that is not divided by the battle of the antithesis.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in The Mind

Disciple: Master, how would you explain the point of equilibrium between non-identification and falling into indifference?

The Fifth Gospel The Exercise of SELF-KNOWLEDGE

Master: Very well, but we must know that there is the thesis, the antithesis and the synthesis. The synthesis takes us to the solution of the problem that you have brought up. Unquestionably, if one becomes master of one’s psychological processes, he can solve the most difficult problems. But when there is coercion in the mind, then he cannot solve problems.

The Fifth Gospel The Exercise of SELF-KNOWLEDGE

In the mind, it is perfectly defined by the battle of the antitheses, by conflicting opinions, etc. In the heart, by the antithetical emotions, by the states of anguish and happiness, of optimism and depression. In the motor-instinctive-sexual center it manifests in the habits, customs, movements: we frown, we are sullen when we are depressed; or we smile happily under the impulse of the motor center when we are very content, etc. We jump, we hop around full of joy due to good news, or our legs shake before an imminent danger; thesis and antithesis of the motor center, the Law of Pendulum in the motor center.

The Fifth Gospel The Pendular Conduct of Humanity Third Chamber Mexico City July 13th, 1977 also in The Centres of the Human Machine, The Law of the Pendulum

But, why do we commit the error of rejoicing before something positive and protesting before something negative, if they are the two sides of the same thing? I think that our most serious error consists precisely, in not knowing how to look at the two sides of any thing or of any circumstance, etc. We always see some faces, we identify ourselves with them, we smile; but when we are confronted with their antithesis, we protest, we tear our clothes, we roar and thunder; we do not want, in truth, to cooperate with the inevitable and this is precisely our error.

The Fifth Gospel The Pendular Conduct of Humanity Third Chamber Mexico City July 13th, 1977 also in The Law of the Pendulum

Let us imagine a circle around us, a magic circle. Through that circle pass all the pairs of opposites of philosophy: thesis and antithesis, pleasant and unpleasant circumstances, periods of triumph and failure, optimism and pessimism, what they call “good” and what people call “bad”, etc.

The Fifth Gospel The Pendular Conduct of Humanity Third Chamber Mexico City July 13th, 1977 also in The Law of the Pendulum

Around this magic circle we can see a very interesting procession. We will discover, for example, that all great joy is promptly followed by distressing, depressive, painful states. The more people laugh out loud, the bigger the tears and the worse the weeping. Observe. You will have seen that there have been moments in life when everyone laughs in the family, when everyone is overjoyed, when there is nothing but loud laughter and joy; that is a bad sign. When one sees that in a family, he can surely foretell, certain that he will not be wrong, that a great suffering is awaiting that family, when everyone will cry.

The Fifth Gospel The Pendular Conduct of Humanity Third Chamber Mexico City July 13th, 1977 also in The Law of the Pendulum

In this world which we could call “intellectual”, I always felt a certain aversion against opinions, because I have understood that an expressed opinion is nothing more than the intellectual exteriorization of a concept with the fear that another may be true. This, naturally, indicates utter ignorance; voicing an opinion that is in the antithesis.

The Fifth Gospel The Pendular Conduct of Humanity Third Chamber Mexico City July 13th, 1977 also in Fear, The Law of the Pendulum

So, the personality lives and moves within the Law of Pendulum, it lives in the world of opposing opinions, of antithetical concepts, of the battle of antitheses. Then, the personality knows nothing and the opinion is the product of ignorance.

The Fifth Gospel The Pendular Conduct of Humanity Third Chamber Mexico City July 13th, 1977 also in Personality, The Law of the Pendulum

Disciple: Well, I feel that love is beyond what that pair of opposites is; it transcends beauty and ugliness, it is beyond that.

The Fifth Gospel The Pendular Conduct of Humanity Third Chamber Mexico City July 13th, 1977

Was the fortune-teller right then, or not? Yes, she was: it is beyond the concepts of ugliness and beauty, even though beauty comes from love, it results from love. Where true love exists, inner beauty exists; this is obvious.

The Fifth Gospel The Pendular Conduct of Humanity Third Chamber Mexico City July 13th, 1977

So, brothers, between the thesis and the antithesis there is always a synthesis that coordinates and reconciles the opposites. Let us see this. We know that there is a great battle between the powers of light and the powers of darkness. In the sacred sperm itself, there is a fight between the atomic powers of light and the atomic powers of darkness. This great struggle exists in everything created; the columns of angels and demons are combating each other in all the corners of the universe.

The Fifth Gospel The Pendular Conduct of Humanity Third Chamber Mexico City July 13th, 1977 also in The Law of the Pendulum

When one does not yet have the Philosopher’s Stone, one sees as impossible the reconciliation of the opposites –light and darkness– within oneself. But when one has the Stone of the philosophers, the Stone of the Serpent –based on conscious works and voluntary sufferings–, then, by means of it, he manages to reconcile the opposites and reconcile them in himself, because he recognizes that everything in creation has two sides. Only by means of a third position, that is, only by means of Tao –in the center of the magic circle–, only by means of the synthesis, can we reconcile the opposites within ourselves, that is obvious.

The Fifth Gospel The Pendular Conduct of Humanity Third Chamber Mexico City July 13th, 1977 also in The Law of the Pendulum

One liberates oneself from the Law of Pendulum when one places oneself in the Law of the Circle. When one places oneself in the Tao, he is in the center of the magic circle; because then, everything passes around him; all around his Consciousness in a circle –one sees one’s round Consciousness–, one sees how different events happen, with their two sides, with all their things, with their two positions, the circumstances, etc.; triumphs and defeats, success and failure.

The Fifth Gospel The Pendular Conduct of Humanity Third Chamber Mexico City July 13th, 1977 also in The Law of the Pendulum

Everything has two sides, and one, located in the center, reconciles the opposites. One no longer fears economic failure, one is no longer capable of blowing up his brains because one has lost his fortune from one day to the next –like many of the gamblers at the Casino of Monte Carlo have done: they lose their fortune and commit suicide–; one will no longer suffer due to the betrayals of his friends, one becomes invulnerable to pleasure or pain.

The Fifth Gospel The Pendular Conduct of Humanity Third Chamber Mexico City July 13th, 1977 also in Fear, Suffering, The Law of the Pendulum

Within the world of the intellect, there is no doubt that we are always making objections. This produces intellectual division: the mind is divided between thesis and antithesis, it becomes a battlefield that destroys the brain. Observe how those people who call themselves intellectuals are full of strange manias: some leave their hair dishevelled, they scratch themselves frightfully, etc., they make fifty thousand antics; clearly, it is the result of a mind that is more or less deteriorated, destroyed by the battle of antitheses.

The Fifth Gospel The Pendular Conduct of Humanity Third Chamber Mexico City July 13th, 1977 also in The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

If we object to every concept, our mind will end up arguing alone. As a consequence, illnesses come to the brain, psychological anomalies, depressive states of the mind, nervousness which destroys very delicate organs, like the liver, heart, pancreas, spleen, etc.

The Fifth Gospel The Pendular Conduct of Humanity Third Chamber Mexico City July 13th, 1977 also in The Law of the Pendulum, The Mind

Master: Of course. Those people realize, really, that everything in life has two sides, but unfortunately, they do not place themselves in the center of the circle, they do not place themselves in the Tao. When one is in the Tao, he sees around himself, around his own Consciousness inside himself, all the events of life with their two sides passing, and he knows that they are transient.

The Fifth Gospel The Pendular Conduct of Humanity Third Chamber Mexico City July 13th, 1977 also in Psychological States, The Law of the Pendulum

Adam and Eve integrate within the Monad and its Kabbalistic value is 10, which reminds us of the IO, in other words, of the vowels iiiiiii ooooooo. The very sacred union of the Eternal Masculine with the Eternal Feminine, the integration of the opposites within the Essential and Divine Monad.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967

Light and shadow in a harmonious antithesis point out a complete dualism whose extraordinary synthesis is wisdom.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Law of the Pendulum

Ostensibly, Xolotl-Lucifer-Prometheus is Quetzalcoatl’ s double, and is the prince of light and darkness, having absolute power over the heavens, the earth and the infernos. The divine Daemon is the reflection of God within us, here and now, and can confer upon us the power, the wisdom and divine likeness. Eritris sicut dei, “Thou shalt be like gods.” The Philosopher’s Stone (Lucifer-Xolotl) lies in the depths of our own sexual organs, and has to reconcile the opposites — coincidentia oppositorum — or the enemy brothers. Thou shalt be like gods.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974 also in Lucifer

The Sulphur and the Mercury open the doors of the distinct regions of the Universe. The Sulphur and the Mercury, although they are opposites, become conciliated by the virtue of the sublimed Salt.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The problems of thesis and antithesis are resolved with the synthesis, which is the wise management of the positive and negative forces. The Cross of Saint Andrew explains the work to be performed in the ninth sphere with the sulfur and the mercury: the hard struggle in order to attain the elimination of all the psychological aggregates based on conscious works and voluntary sufferings.

The Mayan Mysteries, 1977 also in The Law of Polarities, The Laws of the Three and of the Seven

Obviously, there exists a contraposition between the Theory of Relativity preached by Einstein, and the Illuminating Void. The relative, is relative. The machinery of relativity functions with the mind of opposites, with dualism.

For the Few, 1980 also in The Law of the Pendulum

48. The Tality is, unquestionably, also very far beyond the Illuminating Void. 49. The universal machinery of Relativity, and its opposite, the Illuminating Void, are merely opposites of that which is and, nevertheless, is not.

The Science of Meditation

50. The Tality is the synthesis of those opposites. It is that which exists beyond all possible existence.

The Science of Meditation

In the battle of the antithesis there is pain, and this is not happiness. If we want authentic happiness, we must get out of the mechanics of this relativity, take the great leap –I repeat– to fall into the bosom of the Illuminating Void.

The Fifth Gospel Psychoemotional Metamorphosis of Man Third Chamber – Mexico City – July 27, 1977

That is, the TALIDAD transcends these two opposites that I would call: mechanics of relativity and the Illuminating Void. The Illuminating Void is not the final word, it is the antechamber of the TALIDAD, that is, of the Great Reality.

The Fifth Gospel Psychoemotional Metamorphosis of Man Third Chamber – Mexico City – July 27, 1977

It is not so easy to reach SUPER-MAN. Undoubtedly, the path which leads to SUPERMAN, is beyond good and evil. Something is good when it suits us and bad when it does not. Crime also hides among the cadences of verse. There is much virtue in the villain and much evil in the virtuous person.

The Great Rebellion, 1975

Evil is dangerous, good is also dangerous; the terrifying path is beyond good and evil, is terribly cruel.

The Great Rebellion, 1975

Any moral code can detain us on the march towards SUPER-MAN. Attachment to these or those yesterdays, to these or those scenes, can halt us on the path which goes up to SUPER-MAN.

The Great Rebellion, 1975 also in The Great Rebellion

Norms, procedures, no matter how wise they might be, if they are trapped inside this or that fanatism, in this or that prejudice, in this or that concept, can be an obstacle for us in the progress towards SUPER-MAN. SUPER-MAN knows the good in evil and the evil in good; grasps the sword of cosmic justice and is beyond good and evil.

The Great Rebellion, 1975 also in Fanaticism, The Great Rebellion

SUPER-MAN, having liquidated in himself all the good and bad values, has turned into something which nobody understands, is the ray, is the flame of the universal spirit of life glaring in the countenance of a Moses. At every tent on the path, some anchorite offers the SUPER-MAN his donations, but he continues on his way beyond the good intentions of the anchorites.

The Great Rebellion, 1975

Unquestionably, the Path of the inner Self-realization of the Being is frightfully difficult. The Initiate must pass far beyond good and evil.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

46. You have now passed beyond good and evil.

Igneous Rose, 1954

47. You now know the goodness of evil and the evilness of good.

Igneous Rose, 1954

11. The Lion of the Law knows good from evil and evil from good. Jn everything good there is something evil and in everything evil there is something good.

Igneous Rose, 1954 also in The Law of Karma

The experience of Truth has been quite rare among humanity due to the concrete fact of mental imprisonment. People are imprisoned in the opposites—good and evil.

Fundamental Education, 1970

The same with all the virtues. Every virtue, however beautiful it may be, has its antithesis. Take for example, the virtue of tolerance. It is obvious that we must be tolerant with our fellow man, but tolerance in excess becomes complicity to crime. Someone comes, for example, to murder our relatives –a son, a brother– bandits who have raided the house. Our duty in that moment is to defend our son who is being attacked, to defend the innocent, to defend our brother; as heads of families, to know how to respond. If we, as tolerant people, say: “No, I will not raise my hand against anyone!”, and say to the bandit who is murdering the son or who is raping the daughter: “I bless you, brother, I forgive you for all these crimes that you are committing. God bless you!” Would that be just? Look, here is tolerance taken to the maximum. It is obvious that he would become an accomplice to the crimes.

The Fifth Gospel The Mind and Ethics of Resurrected Masters Third Chamber – Mexico City – December 31. 1975 also in Fanaticism

Thus, the Kabbalah tells us about the Sephiroth and their virtues. But it also tells us about the Qliphoth, which are none other than the adverse sephiroth, the antithesis of the virtues which are personified in the Sephiroth, the obverse of the medal.

The Fifth Gospel The Mind and Ethics of Resurrected Masters Third Chamber – Mexico City – December 31. 1975

There is a book in Tibet, about the way of action of the Initiates. We will call it “ethical”, although that word no longer even satisfies, because there are so many ethical codes. But the truth is that which is beyond good and evil. Because in everything good there is something evil, and in everything evil there is something good. Do not forget that amidst the incense of prayer, crime is also hidden. Crime is dressed as a martyr, as an apostle, and even goes so far as to officiate in the most sacred temples. Thus, there is much virtue in the wicked and much evil in the virtuous; there is good in the bad and bad in the good.

The Fifth Gospel The Mind and Ethics of Resurrected Masters Third Chamber – Mexico City – December 31. 1975

In Tibet –I repeat– there is a very special book for the Initiates, a unique way of action. Many of the ways of acting of those Tibetan Initiates would surprise us, they do not fully fit within the ways of being that we have here, in the horizontal life. There is a saying “do not do good things that look bad, or bad ones that look good”. Now, Tibetans do not allow their minds to be conditioned by such saying, they act in such a way that many would be surprised. The Initiates of Tibet do not act according to the codes that exist about good and evil, but according to the dictates of their own Consciousness, which is different.

The Fifth Gospel The Mind and Ethics of Resurrected Masters Third Chamber – Mexico City – December 31. 1975

After all, what is it that we call “good”? Let us become conscious of that which they call “good”. Good is all that is in its place; bad, what is out of place. For example, that fire [of the candle] is there now, it is good, right? But how about that fire burning the curtains there or roasting you alive? How would you like that? Would you like the feeling of becoming lit torches? I don’t think so. Well, now the water, there, in that glass, is fine; still in the kitchen, well, it is used to wash the dishes and the cups, or there in that little fountain, correct. But how about water flooding all the rooms? It would be bad, would it not?

The Fifth Gospel Didactics for Buddhist Annihilation Conference at the end of the Missionary Course – Guadalajara, Jalisco. Mexico – From June 15 to August 30. 1976