Secret_History

102 The Secret History of the World
Anything in creation can be analysed and studied in the light of these three
principles, which appear in a way analogous to that described while talking about
the conditions of creation of the World. They apply uniformly to all levels of the
Cosmos. The classical example which the esoteric schools give to represent the
play of the three forces is bread. To make bread we must have flour, fire and water.
In this example, flour is the conductor of the passive force, fire of the active force,
and water of the neutralizing force.
Here we must make it clear immediately that the substance which serves in one
case as conductor for the passive force, may in other cases be the conductor.[…]
If the junction of the forces remains sterile, this means that in the esoteric sense
their co-operation was not complete. The fault could arise from one of the three
forces, from two of them, or even from all three. Analysis in the light of the law in
question can greatly assist in determining the one or many causes of failure. For
example, with the same good flour, the bread can be bad or inedible if we have
added too much water - or not enough - or if the flame was weak or too high.[…]
This [analogy] allows us to grasp the sense and effect of a subsidiary law of the
Law of Three. We see that with the same flour - the passive force in our example -
we can experience failure due to a defective sharing of the active force (Fire), of the
neutralizing force (Water), or of the two together. […] The passive force contains
all the possibilities for creating the phenomenon, while the active force intervenes
as the realizer, and the neutralizing force as the regulator, of the relations between
the two other forces, determining the dosage for both in an optimal way. This
explains and justifies the fact that pre-eminence in the phenomenal world is
attributed to the passive force.
Let us note here that this pre-eminence is a direct result of conditions at the first
Creation. To pass or cross from the non-manifested state - a mono polar one,
concentrated on the unique consciousness of Self within which the Divinity remains
before the Creation of the World - the first Idea which makes the Divinity come out
of the state of non-manifestation to become manifest, is necessarily that of the You.
This idea, conceived by the divine sacrifice of Self-limitation, has Love, a
neutralizing force, for third force.[…]
Thus, from the beginning of Creation, the divine existence becomes bipolar, Love
being the neutralizing force which sustains relations between the universal ‘I’ and
the universal ‘You’ […]
When a substance serves as a conductor for the passive force, we call it Oxygen (0
); when it serves as a conductor for the active force we call it Carbon ( C) ; when it
serves as a conductor for the neutralizing force we call it Nitrogen (Azot) (N).
When considered independently from the forces of which it is the conductor, the
substance is called Hydrogen (H). […]
We know that the structure of the lower intellectual centre is bipolar. This structure
is perfectly adapted to that of what in the orthodox Tradition is called the ‘World’.
This ‘World’ consists in ensemble of the ‘A’ influences […]. It is the world in
which we live, which appears to the human Personality as the only reality, but is in
fact relative or even illusory. […]as we have already stated, all the ‘A’ [influences]
have counterparts which neutralize them - [‘B’ influences]. This symbolizes the
creation of the world, starting from Zero, by division into two groups of forces,
equal in power and diametrically opposed in direction.