White Dot Seen Clearest on a Black Background

White Dot Seen Clearest on a Black Background - (1904)

Contrast

The values of our essence are shown to us to exist or not exist in contrast. That is when subjected to the opposite.

Our serenity is shown and known to us when we are in a hurry, when there is pressure, when there is an urgent deadline and little time etc.

One does not know what one has, or the strength of what one has until one faces the opposite. That is until a contrast is produced. This is in some way the role of the Typhon Baphomet in us. Let’s see what Master Samael says about this is in his book “Yes There Is An Inferno, Yes There Is A Devil, Yes There Is Karma”.

Typhon Baphomet is “every contrast”…

Here are four excerpts about the Typhon being the contrast:

One

“Only through the struggle, the contrast, temptation and rigorous esoteric discipline can there spring forth in us the flowers of virtue.”

Two

“Remember brothers that the Devil is every contrast: the Devil is the shadow of the Sun, the shadow of each tree in the light of the king star and of the night, etc. Looking at it from another angle, seeing this matter from another point of view, we can say that the Devil is the flipside of every coin;”

Three

“in this manner then, the Devil is a matter of contrasts, of oppositions, etc., etc.”

Four

“That this sacred absolute Sun has its contrasts and oppositions is normal; in any case his shadow in us and within us is Lucifer, the great psychological trainer that we have for our own good.”

Conclusion

The values of our essence are developed with contrast and only are known and seen in contrast. To be afraid of the contrast is to do very little.

End (1904).

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