Law of Polarity & Interconnectedness - a graphic
symbol candidate
11Dec2006 07:19 AM Musings
I've been meditating on various geometric symbols
that epitomize the quintessence of the 7 natural (or
Hermetic) Laws of truth that apply to all life. A
friend and mentor (Floyd Edwards, author of
Symbolism of the Great Seal of the
United States)
introduced me to a book in the early 1970's called
the
Kybalion,
which has been in print almost a century which
describes these seven Universal laws. Since the
book has gone out of copyright, you can also read
it online in its entirety
here.
One of the laws (#4 in the sequence presented in the Kybalion ) is the Law of Polarity which states that everything has its opposites; and all opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree. In light of contemporary systems theory, which reminds us that everything is interconnected, it would seem that the solution to the problems of limiting polarized perspectives (which threaten to keep our planet on a destructive course, from individuals to nations,) would be to embrace perspectives that INTEGRATE and reconcile seemingly different point of view -- with the realization that we're all one and merely operate (for the most part) from differing "degrees" of various polarized viewpoints.
I just listened to a superb interview by Ashok Gangadean addressing many aspects of this concept. I'm also realizing that a symbol that represents many aspects of this transcending vision is the "string art" genre which shows all possible permutations of a network. Theoretically, the ultimate symbol would depict every possible point in all dimensions of space time (and beyond) interconnected to every other point (which is what physics now suggests is the closest model of our Universe, to the best of my knowledge). However, a symbol with a dozen points around a central point suffices as a pretty good placeholder for us 3D folks
Here's a sketch of my proposed
candidate for a symbol for the law of polarity:
One of the laws (#4 in the sequence presented in the Kybalion ) is the Law of Polarity which states that everything has its opposites; and all opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree. In light of contemporary systems theory, which reminds us that everything is interconnected, it would seem that the solution to the problems of limiting polarized perspectives (which threaten to keep our planet on a destructive course, from individuals to nations,) would be to embrace perspectives that INTEGRATE and reconcile seemingly different point of view -- with the realization that we're all one and merely operate (for the most part) from differing "degrees" of various polarized viewpoints.
I just listened to a superb interview by Ashok Gangadean addressing many aspects of this concept. I'm also realizing that a symbol that represents many aspects of this transcending vision is the "string art" genre which shows all possible permutations of a network. Theoretically, the ultimate symbol would depict every possible point in all dimensions of space time (and beyond) interconnected to every other point (which is what physics now suggests is the closest model of our Universe, to the best of my knowledge). However, a symbol with a dozen points around a central point suffices as a pretty good placeholder for us 3D folks
Here's a sketch of my proposed
candidate for a symbol for the law of polarity:
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