234 The Law of the Rhythmic Breath 



activity and existence being unthinkable, other- 

 wise and these two aspects of the First Cause 

 are necessarily of different character, opposite poles 

 the one to the other, hence give rise to diversity 

 in Unity; whence arises the law of affinity, or sym- 

 pathy, in opposites. Therefore, " pairs of oppo- 

 sites " are to be held in mind as the basis of all 

 activities, all change, all progress, and the beginning 

 of numbers, the duad, without which the Holy 

 Trinity were impossible. Affinity is the Love 

 Principle which builds all worlds, while its oppo- 

 site, hate, destroys. The opposite of unity is di- 

 versity, and the product of their interaction is a 

 unit which differs from them, the Trinity, the 

 three in one, or three aspects of the Primary Cause. 

 The very beginning of Kosmic manifestation was 

 an unfolding of this three-fold power, the Trinity, 

 which was latent in Unity. To put this in simple 

 terms of every day life which should speak to 

 every human heart in a voice that will forever echo 

 the truth: Father, mother, and child are forever 

 reiterating, reproducing the Primary activity of 

 the Holy Trinity. 



/ These aspects are defined in Principles as Will, 

 Wisdom, and Activity, the Will to do, the Wis- 

 dom to conceive, the Power to act. The ideas of 

 all created things are inherent in this first utterance 

 of Supreme Unity, which we recognize as the First 

 Logos, the expression or Voice of God, who 



