This Principle embodies the truth that “everything is dual“; “everything has two poles“; “everything has its pair of opposites,“ all of which were old Hermetic axioms. It explains the old paradoxes, that have perplexed so many, which have been stated as follows: “Thesis and antithesis are identical in nature, but different in degree“; “opposites are the same, differing only in degree“; “the pairs of opposites may be reconciled“; “extremes meet“; “everything is and isn't, at the same time“; “all truths are but half truths“; “every truth is half-false“; “there are two sides to everything,“ etc., etc., etc. It explains that in everything there are two poles, or opposite aspects, and that “opposites“ are really only the two extremes of the same thing, with many varying degrees between them. To illustrate: Heat and Cold, although “opposites,“ are really the same thing, the d
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