The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #26 January 2015 | Page 162

individuals who have attained
any degree of self-mastery,
whether they understand the
law or not. Such persons
simply "refuse" to allow
themselves to be swung back
by the pendulum of mood and
emotion and by steadfastly
affirming the superiority they
remain polarized on the
Positive pole.
The Master, of course, attains
a far greater degree of
proficiency, because he
understands the law which he
is overcoming by a higher law
and by the use of his Will he
attains a degree of Poise and
Mental Steadfastness almost
impossible of belief on the
part of those who allow
themselves to be swung
backward and forward by the
mental pendulum of moods
and feelings.
Remember always, however,
that you do not really destroy
the Principle of Rhythm, for
that is indestructible. You
simply overcome one law by
counter-balancing it with
another and thus maintain an
equilibrium. The laws of
balance and counter-balance
are in operation on the mental
as well as on the physical

planes and an understanding
of these laws enables one to
seem to overthrow laws,
whereas he is merely exerting
a counterbalance.

"Nothing escapes the Principle
of Cause and Effect, but there
are many Planes of Causation
and one may use the laws of
the higher to overcome the
laws of the lower." - The
Kybalion.
By an understanding of the
practice of Polarization, the
Hermetists rise to a higher
plane of Causation and thus
counter-balance the laws of
the lower planes of Causation.