The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #26 January 2015 | Page 126

The thermometer shows many degrees of temperature, the lowest pole being called "cold" and the highest "heat." Between these two poles are many degrees of "heat" or "cold" call them either and you are equally correct. The higher of two degrees is always "warmer" while the lower is always "colder." There is no absolute standard-all is a matter of degree. There is no place on the thermometer where heat ceases and cold begins. It is all a matter of higher or lower vibrations. The very terms "high" and "low" which we are compelled to use are but poles of the same thing-the terms are relative. So with "East and West" - travel around the world in an eastward direction and you reach a point which is called west at your starting point and you return from that westward point. Travel far enough North and you will find yourself traveling South, or vice versa. Light and Darkness are poles of the same thing, with many degrees between them. The musical scale is the same, starting with "C" you move upward until you reach another "C" and so on, the differences between the two ends of the board being the same, with many degrees between the two extremes. The scale of colour is the same-higher and lower vibrations being the only difference between high violet and low red. Large and Small are relative. So are Noise and Quiet, Hard and Soft follow the rule. Likewise Sharp and Dull. Positive and Negative are two poles of the same thing, with countless degrees between them. Good and Bad are not absolute - we call one end of the scale Good and the other Bad, or one end Good and the other Evil, according to the use of the terms. A thing is "less good" than the thing higher in the scale but that "less good" thing, in turn, is "more good" than the thing next below it and so on, the "more or less" being regulated by the position on the scale. And so it is on the Mental Plane. "Love and Hate" are generally regarded as being things diametrically opposed to each other, entirely