11. The Law of Rhythm:
This Universal Law states that everything vibrates and moves to certain rhythms.
These rhythms establish seasons, cycles, stages of development, and patterns.
Each cycle reflects the regularity of God’s universe.
Masters know how to rise above negative parts of a cycle by
never getting too excited or allowing negative things to penetrate their consciousness.
Everything happens in rhythms, like the seasons, our luck changes.
There are times when our vibrations are high and we feel that nothing stops us,
but then there are time when our vibrations are low and we don't perform as well.
The Law of Rhythm is closely connected with the Law of Polarity.
Rhythm manifests between the two poles established by the Law of Polarity.
This does not mean, however, that the pendulum of rhythm necessarily 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. But the swing is ever toward first one pole and then the other.
Learning how to apply this in your life:
The Hermetic Masters long since discovered that while the Law of Rhythm
is invariable and ever in evidence in mental phenomena,
there are still two planes of its mental manifestation.
They discovered that there are two general planes of Consciousness, the Lower and the Higher,
and the understanding of this fact enabled them to rise to the higher plane and thus escape
the swing of the rhythmic pendulum which manifests on the lower plane.
In other words, Consciousness is not affected by the pendulum swing which occurs on the Unconscious Plane.
This they call the Law of Neutralisation.
Its operations consist in the raising of the Ego above the vibrations of the
Unconscious Plane of mental activity so that the negative swing of the pendulum
is not manifested in consciousness, and therefore those who are able to apply this Law are not affected.
It is akin to rising above a thing and letting it pass beneath you.
All individuals can attain a certain degree of self-mastery by applying the Law of Neutralisation by refusing to allow their moods and negative mental states to affect them.
The importance of this will be appreciated by any thinking person who realizes what creatures of
moods, feelings and emotion the majority of people are, and how little mastery of themselves they manifest.
If you will stop and consider a moment, you will realize how much these swings of Rhythm have affected you in your life —
how a period of enthusiasm has invariably been followed by an opposite feeling and mood of depression.
Likewise, your moods and periods of courage have been succeeded by periods of fear.
And so it has ever been with the majority of persons — tides of feeling have ever risen and fallen with them,
but they have never suspected the cause of the mental phenomenon.
n understanding of the workings of this Law will provide the key to the Mastery of these rhythmic swings of feeling,
and will enable the student to know himself better and to avoid being carried away by these inflows and outflows.
The Will is superior to the conscious manifestation of this Law and we may escape its effects,
although the Law itself can never be destroyed.
The pendulum ever swings, although we may escape being carried along with it.
Wishing you a rhythmic week – and a rising above that which brings you down.
