The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #26 January 2015 | Page 127

different, irreconcilable.
But we apply the Principle of
Polarity, we find that there is
no such thing as Absolute Love
or Absolute Hate, as
distinguished from each other.
The two are merely terms
applied to the two poles of the
same thing. Beginning at any
point of the scale we find
"more love," or "less hate," as
we ascend the scale and "more
hate" or "less love" as we
descend this being true no
matter from what point, high
or low, we may start. There are
degrees of Love and Hate and
there is a middle point where
"Like and Dislike" become so
faint that it is difficult to
distinguish between them.
Courage and Fear come under
the same rule. The Pairs of
Opposites exist everywhere.
Where you find one thing you
find its opposite - the two
poles.
And it is this fact that enables
the Hermetist to transmute one
mental state into another,
along the lines of Polarization.
Things belonging to different
classes cannot be transmuted
into each other, but things of
the same class may be
changed, that is, may have

their polarity changed.
Thus Love never becomes East
or West, or Red or Violet - but
it may and often does turn into
Hate and likewise Hate may be
transformed into Love, by
changing its polarity.
Courage may be transmuted
into Fear and the reverse.
Hard things may be rendered
Soft.
Dull things become Sharp.
Hot things become Cold.
And so on, the transmutation
always being between things of
the same kind of different
degrees. Take the case of a
Fearful man. By raising his
mental vibrations along the
line of Fear - Courage, he can
be filled with the highest
degree of Courage and
Fearlessness. And, likewise, the
Slothful man may change
himself into an Active,
Energetic individual simply by
polarizing along the lines of
the desired quality.
The student who is familiar
with the processes by which
the various schools of Mental
Science, etc, produce changes
in the mental states of those
following their teachings, may
not readily understand the