The Kybalion, Chapter 11 summary
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In Chapter 11, the Principle of Rhythm describes recurring swings throughout nature and mental life, while neutralization offers a way to avoid their conscious effects. The discussion then develops the Law of Compensation, presenting pleasure, pain, possessions, and losses as counterbalancing experiences that may extend across multiple lives.
What happens
- The Principle of Rhythm describes motion between opposing poles throughout physical, mental, and spiritual existence.
- Cycles of worlds, living things, nations, seasons, and matter illustrate the claim that movement never entirely stops.
- The Hermetists teach that raising consciousness above the lower mental plane prevents negative swings from affecting conscious experience.
- The Law of Compensation makes the extent of one swing determine the extent of its opposite.
- The Hermetists explain pleasure as compensation for preceding pain, including pain attributed to another incarnation.
- The discussion applies compensation to ordinary advantages and disadvantages, contrasting a wealthy man's resources with a laborer's appetite.
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