Universes are created reach their extreme low point of materiality and then begin in their upward swing. The Principle manifests in the creation and destruction of worlds in the rise and fall of nations in the life history of all things and finally in the mental states of Man.īeginning with the manifestations of Spirit-of THE ALL-it will be noticed that there is ever the Outpouring and the Indrawing the 'Outbreathing and Inbreathing of Brahm,' as the Brahmans word it. Suns, worlds, men, animals, plants, minerals, forces, energy, mind and matter, yes, even Spirit, manifests this Principle. There is always an action and reaction an advance and a retreat a rising and a sinking manifested in all of the airs and phenomena of the Universe. But the swing is ever 'toward' first one pole and then the other. This does not mean, however, that the pendulum of Rhythm swings to the extreme poles, for this rarely happens in fact, it is difficult to establish the extreme polar opposites in the majority of cases. Rhythm manifests between the two poles established by the Principle of Polarity. The Principle of rhythm is closely connected with the Principle of Polarity described in the preceding chapter. The great Fifth Hermetic Principle-the Principle of Rhythm-embodies the truth that in everything there is manifested a measured motion a to-and-from movement a flow and inflow a swing forward and backward a pendulum-like movement a tide-like ebb and flow a high-tide and a low- tide between the two-poles manifest on the physical, mental or spiritual planes. Is the measure of the swing to the left rhythm In everything the measure of the swing to the right,

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