Balance (metaphysics)
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In the metaphysical or conceptual sense, balance is used to mean a point between two opposite forces that is desirable over purely one state or the other, such as a balance between the metaphysical Law and Chaos — law by itself being overly controlling, chaos being overly unmanageable, balance being the point that minimizes the negatives of both.
- The Kybalion states :
- *As above, so below ; as below, so above ...
- *Everything is Dual ; everything has poles ; everything has its pair of opposites ...
- *Everything flows, out and in ; everything has tides ; all things rise and fall ...
- *Use law against law ; the higher against the lower ; and by the art of Alchemy transmute what is undesirable ...
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