The Two Pole Universe

1.1 Love is at the root of contact. It is the basis of all communication.

1.2 Love is validation. It is the will to give, the will to include, the will to support, the
will to preserve and the will to be part of. It is the basis of integration, of merging, of
coming together.
1.3 And Love is the driving force of creation; the urge to give life, to give existence, to
bring into being.
1.4 And Love is at the root of knowledge. To love is to want to know, and to want to
know is to know, because it means reaching out, it means destroying blocks and barriers,
it means dropping defences, it means discovery, it means openness and sensitivity. For
Love, real Love, not the human parody which passes for Love, is far from being blind.
1.5 Love is awareness. For what we love, truly love, to that we want to give. We want
to give it life, power, strength, support, knowledge, help, salvation, whatever it requires
of us for its survival and fulfilment. And if we are to give validly, we must know what is
required, and if we are to know precisely what the object of our love requires, - not
necessarily what it professes to require, nor what we would like it to require, nor what we
ourselves require of it, but what it requires - then we must know the object of our love.
We must know it through and through, not just see its outward appearance and assume
the rest according to our requirements. We must see behind and beyond facades and
apparencies. We must be fully aware of the true and basic nature of the object of our
love. If we are not, we shall not know a fraction of its requirements, we shall know
nothing of its needs in order to survive, nor of its needs in order to fulfil its true purpose
and thus validate its own existence.
1.6 Therefore, if we love we must know, and if we must know we shall know; for to him
who knocks it shall be opened, and to him who asks it shall be told, and he who truly
desires knowledge shall be given knowledge. So that a man may judge his real intention
to know by the extent to which he does know, and if he does not know, then he may
assume that he does not truly want to know - hard though he may try to convince himself
otherwise. And if he does not want to know, then he may assume that he does not love.
And if a man knows, it is because he wants to know, and if he wants to know, that is
Love.

2.1 And opposite Love is Fear. And Fear is the root of non-contact, of running away, of
hiding, of being unseen and unknown.
2.2 Fear is the basis of no communication. It is the will to separate, the will to put
distance between self and another, the will to strengthen self at the expense of another,
the will to take instead of giving, the will to escape, and if there is no escape, to destroy,
to damage, to cripple, to distort, to mutilate, to reduce and to make powerless.
2.3 Fear is the root of all destruction. It is the root of all hatred and aversion. It has no
desire to create and build, only a need to destroy, to prevent, to be isolated and
unreachable. It gives no validation, no support, no hope, no strength, except to itself in
order to build itself up in opposition to the object of its fear.
2.4 Fear invalidates. It betrays and belittles. It mocks and jeers. It gives no credit and it
takes all unto itself.
2.5 And Fear is the root of ignorance. It is blind, because it is afraid of what it might
see. It knows nothing, because it does not want to know. It is afraid to know.
2.6 The man who fears, shuts his eyes and stops his ears and hides his head in the sand.
The last thing he wants is knowledge of the object of his fear, and if he wants ignorance
then he remains in ignorance. And if a man is lacking in knowledge of a certain matter,
he may assume that whatever lie he may tell himself to the contrary, he does not truly
desire knowledge of that matter, and if he does not truly desire knowledge of that matter,
it is because he is afraid. He is afraid to know.

3.1 So there is Love and there is Fear. And Love and Fear are opposites - and more than
opposites, for Love and Fear are the two poles of the mind. They are the root of the
conflict that divides the mind. They are the fundamental dichotomy, the very core of the
struggle that rages within every human being. The battle between these two is the source
of all human anguish, all pain, all suffering. All disaster stems from the conflict between
Love and Fear.
3.2 Yet, though Love and Fear confront one another from opposite ends of the universe
of the human mind, though they are forever locked in a struggle for life and death, though
nothing in existence can hope to reconcile these two antagonists to one another, though
they are separated by a gulf that cannot be transcended from within the terms of
humanity, and though everything that is food and drink to one is poison to the other, yet
are they no further from each other than the two sides of one coin.
3.3 For they ARE two sides of one coin.
3.4 Separated by eternity yet are they inseparable. Each is anathema to the other, yet
neither can exist without the other. Love is the enemy of Fear, and yet Love is
indispensable to Fear. Fear is bent upon the destruction of Love, yet if it were to achieve
its aim, it would destroy itself at the same time. Love seeks to eliminate Fear, but if Fear
ceased to exist Love would also cease to exist.
3.5 A coin cannot have only one face. Either it has two or it does not exist at all. A
magnet cannot have only one pole. Either it has both a North and a South pole, or it is no
magnet. If one side of a conflict vanishes, there is no conflict, and therefore the other
side, which must by its nature be part of a two pole existence, also vanishes.
3.6 So, both Love and Fear are dependant upon the existence of one another because
each is by nature one half of a duality, one pole of a two poled existence, and they are
inseparable.
3.7 And Love belongs to Life, and Fear belongs to Death. Love is behind success, and
Fear is at the core of failure. Love is the basis of expansion, reaching outwards and rising
upwards, and Fear is the basis of contraction, turning inwards and sinking downwards.
And Love is white and Fear is black. Love is joy and Fear is misery. Love is pleasure.
Fear is pain. Love is freedom. Fear is imprisonment. Love is strong. Fear is weak. Love
is redemption and salvation. Fear is damnation. Love is the boundless wonders of
Heaven, Fear is the constricting horrors of Hell. Love is purity. Fear is a stain.
3.8 Yet not one of these opposing elements can have any meaningful existence without
the presence - or at least the knowledge - of the other. Without the awareness of Death,
Life is a meaningless concept. Without the knowledge of success, what is failure?
Without an inwards, there is no outwards. Without an up, there can be no down. What is
black, if there is no white? What is joy, if we have not known misery? Pleasure, if we
have not known pain? Imprisonment, if we have not known freedom? Strength, if we
have not been weak? Salvation, if we have not felt the all-consuming fires of damnation?
3.9 There is no such thing as a stain in a world where purity does not exist. There is no
such thing as Heaven in a Universe where there is no Hell; no concept of good without an
equal and opposite concept of evil; no love of GOD without fear of the Devil
3.10 And each pair of diametric opposites is like the magnet with two poles; one entity
with two conflicting sides; one concept with two conflicting aspects; one coin with .two
faces back to back.

4.1 So Love and Fear are close; they live side by side. They
cannot merge, but they can interlock. They cannot coordinate but they can become
entangled. Like wrestlers they can occupy the same space contorted by the tension of the
strife between them, but each no less present than the other.
4.2 So that Man fears what he loves and loves what he fears and herein lies the agony of
his existence. And what he most dearly loves, of that he is most abjectly afraid, and
herein lies the torture of his mind, and the anguish of his soul.
4.3 What a man does not fear he does not love. And what a man does not love he does
not fear,
4.4 What has no effect on him whatever, he neither loves nor fears. But what affects him
strongly, what reaches down and touches his inner being, what makes an impact on him,
stirs him, strikes some chord deep down within Ms mind, evokes response;
that thing, whatever it may be, he both loves and fears. He is drawn towards it, and at. the
same time desires to escape from it. He wants to give to it, and at the same time he has an
inclination to destroy it. He wants to own it, and yet he wants to discard it. He wants to
belong to it, and yet he wants no part of it whatever. He wants to follow it, and yet he
wants to forget it. He feels a need to find out all about it, so that he can know it, and
simultaneously he finds himself reluctant to discover it. He wants to know, but cannot
bring himself to ask. He wants to see, but cannot bring himself to look. He wants to enter,
but cannot bring himself to knock. He wants to hear, but cannot bring himself to listen.
4.5 He is deep in the conflict between Love and Fear. And sometimes the feeling of
Love is uppermost, and sometimes the sense of Fear. Sometimes he is drawn, and
sometimes he is driven away.
4.6 The pendulum swings. And like a pendulum the further one side manifests, the
stronger the pull from the other side, until the momentary point of equilibrium before the
swing is reversed.. The closer a man comes to what he loves, the further in the pressure
draws him, the greater becomes the pressure of Fear;
until the moment when for one Instant Fear and Love exert even pressure. The man
moves neither further in nor out again. He is still, poised at a certain point of
involvement, then the pressure of Fear that stems from the closeness of contact with the
object of Fear outweighs the weakened pressure of Love that has not found complete
fulfillment in this partial commitment.
4.7 And the pendulum swings back again. The man moves out, escapes, fights off the
terrifying contact, and plunges back into isolation. And again, like the pendulum, when
he reaches a certain point of removal, a certain degree of alienation from the object of his
love, when he has destroyed his contact with it to a certain extent, either by his own
desertion or by driving away the thing he loves or even by destroying it, when by
whatever means he reaches that point, then again a moment of balance, an instant of
equilibrium.
4.8 Fear is reduced by distance, for the threat must be immediate and close to be real,
and Love on the other hand is intensified by starvation. We never know the full extent of
our love for something until we have lost contact with it. So again the pressures are
reversed in intensity, and once more the man is driven by Love to make contact, and Fear
is not strong enough to prevent it.

5.1 So the law whereby Love is strengthened by distance and Fear reduced, and by
which Love is weakened by proximity and Fear enhanced, is the law by which the
pendulum swings and the two faced coin spins on its axis.
5.2 And man fears what is close and loves what is distant. Consequently either he stays
out of contact with what is close to him and lives in a distant dream world of unrealised
fantasy , or he seeks change continuously and is never satisfied. And so long as man is
fixed within the conflict of Love and Fear, these will be the patterns of his existence.
5.3 And with Fear there is blindness and ignorance. There is unawareness and
suppression. Fear generates blindness and the greater the fear, the greater the blindness,
so that where a man is afraid he does not see his fear where he can possibly avoid it. He
sees his love - unless it happens to be Love itself that makes him afraid - but his fear he
pushes into the back of his mind. Generally it manifests in discomfort, disapproval,
boredom, revulsion, anger, or intense hatred, depending on the extent of his, fear. But the
last thing he sees it as is fear.
5.4 So do not be surprised if a man says; he loves, but is not afraid. Do not be surprised
if you are conscious of your own love but not of your fear. Love is blind - to the fear that
stands beside it. And put little faith in what a man thinks he feels, for thought is the
enemy of feeling - scarcely a reliable expression of it.
5.5 Judge only what a man shows that he feels by his actions and his projections; then
you will find that always Love and Fear stand equal and opposite in every situation. This
is the law of the human mind, which is a mind of conflict.
5.6 But when a man is free of the conflict of the mind, then he is detached from the all-
compelling forces that constitute the human brain. When he has risen above the rigid
limitations of compulsive action, compulsive thought and compulsive emotion; then he
can break free of the dichotomy of Love and Fear; then he is compelled towards neither.
His choice is free; his intention is direct and unconflicted.
5.7 But to reach this state he must be aware. He must see and know the basic motivations
by which he lives. And his awareness must be complete within the bounds of his
capacity.
5.8 Therefore, as Love is awareness, he must have absolute Love. The pendulum must
swing to the pinnacle where Love and Fear become one and both are complete. He must
fear to the ultimate, he must love to the ultimate, and he must be ultimately aware. Then
and only then can he rise above the conflict.
5.9 Through total fear, and into total love, and into total awareness, and then he is free.
For total awareness of what is, is Truth, and Truth is the ultimate salvation.
5.10 And the greatest Fear is the Fear of GOD, and the greatest Love is the Love of
GOD, and the greatest awareness is the awareness of GOD. And when a being comes to
know the full extent, of his fear of GOD, then does he discover the full extent of his love
for GOD, and then is he totally aware of GOD, And that is the moment of his salvation.

December 1967