Opposite and Opposing Forces Are Convertible

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Living the Life Series · 13 pages

A thirteen-page compilation opened by an abstract and train of thoughts with page references. The running head states the claim: opposing forces are readily convertible.

The argument proceeds by accumulation rather than proof, working through pair after pair until the principle looks general. It opens on the observation that good and evil pervade the objective material universe and that everything is polarised — magnetism positive and negative, male and female — with night resting humanity from the day's activity and restoring the equilibrium of human as of cosmic nature. The first conversion is stated in the terms the file uses throughout: Good and D'Evil, Agathodaimon and Kakodaimon, are convertible, since Daemon est Deus inversus — the devil is God upside-down. Heat and electricity, two of the three Mothers of Hermes, are said to be convertible in the same sense; so are Pneuma and Anemos, Spiritus and Ventus; so are Purusha and Prakriti, Spirit and Matter, Deity and Nature, Force and Matter. The list then moves from physics to scripture and myth — Cain and Abel, Osiris and Typhon, Jacob and Esau; Ophios and Ophiomorphos, Apollo and Python, Christos and the Serpent. Two further pairs close it: activity and passivity, of which activity is named the condition the student must begin with; and spiritualism and animalism, where the convertibility is offered as a warning rather than a consolation.

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