Divine Magic means that you have the God-given power to heal and manifest anything you need for your life purpose.

The study of this ability is called Hermetics, based upon the ancient love-based Hermetic teachings (not to be confused with some fear-based teachings which aren't genuine Hermetics). The real Hermetic teachings are completely aligned with God's will. One of the principles of true Hermetics that has helped me the most is called "The Principle of Polarity.


I wrote about this principle in my book, Divine Magic, which is now available in paperback. The book comes with a free mp3 audio to help you to study and integrate this knowledge. Because it's the study of God's thoughts, the work is intellectual. But it's worth taking the time to study, because its results are instant and powerful.


The Principle of Polarity could also be called “The Principle of Practicality,” since it offers a profoundly practical tool for living, manifesting, and healing. It’s based upon the Hermetic principle that everything has two polarities or extremes.


Hermetics is the ancient study of how we are all in the mind of God, and that thought energy changes everything. These seeming opposites are part of the same pole, and they’re just situated at different ends. For example, hot and cold are extremes of the pole called “temperature.”


In between the two polarities of hot and cold are countless degrees of warmth and coolness. It’s the same way with every apparent opposite: hard and soft, noisy and quiet, light and dark, good and bad, love and fear. When you find one thing, you’ll also find the potential for its opposite.


The Principle of Polarity empowers you to transmute an undesirable situation to the other end of the pole and manifest a desirable situation. If something undesirable is present in your life, it means that its “opposite” is also present.


This principle works by lifting your mental vibrations to a higher level to banish the undesirable and attract the desirable. Let’s use the example of money. One end of the money pole is “prosperity,” where you have as much money as you could possibly desire. “Poor” is at the other end, where there isn’t enough money to meet your needs.


In between these two extremes are countless financial situations in between poverty and prosperity.


If you worry about money or complain that you don’t have enough, your thoughts are toward the “Poverty” end of the pole. Consequently, that’s what you’ll attract. Even if you don’t seem to have money right now, you can use the Principle of Polarity to improve your financial situation. Imagine a lever sliding up and down the Money Pole.



To attract more money, you can adjust your vibration upward by visualizing that the lever is at the highest possible location along the pole. Since this pole is in your mind, it’s your creation; therefore, it’s your personal Money Pole. Even if you’re worried about money, you can mentally will the lever to move up higher.



That visualization can immediately attract windfalls of prosperity, provided that you monitor the lever’s position to ensure that it stays at the upper ends of the pole. If you have difficulty imagining prosperity, then mentally push the lever on the Money Pole to the highest position that you can imagine manifesting in reality. There’s no point in asking you to visualize something that you can’t accept as a real possibility.



Yet, any improvement in elevating your lever up the Money Pole will have a positive effect on your finances. This is true even if you can only imagine pushing your lever up one notch above its current position.


Keep monitoring the Money Pole, and push the lever up as high as you feel comfortable. The minute that you believe that prosperity is possible, you’ll allow the lever to reach the top of the pole.


Of course, you can also imagine a pole that controls your beliefs about money and other life areas. Keep your levers high atop these poles to release old, limiting beliefs about money, love, and such.


Everything that you desire has a pole assigned to it, whether it’s health, a happy marriage, inner peace, or any other topic. Imagine this whole series of poles with sliding levers, similar to a sound mixing board in a recording studio, or like an airplane’s control panel. Each of those levers controls your finances, relationships, health, and other life areas.


Take a moment to visualize your inner control panel. Where are the levers positioned along the poles? To improve any situation, mentally move the lever higher up the pole (and to the top, ideally).


Check your poles regularly, or if you ever feel upset, to ensure that they haven’t slid downward. This gives a whole new meaning to “staying on top”! For instance, let’s say that you’ve quarreled with a loved one and you want a peaceful resolution. First, visualize a pole governing your relationship with this person.


Mentally move the lever alongside the pole to the top position of “Peaceful Relationship with [name of person].” Every time you think about this person, check to make sure that the lever is still at the top of the pole. Use this same mental imagery as frequently as possible for other areas of your life. The result is pure Divine magic!


“Everything is dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.” —The Kybalion

The great fourth Hermetic principle, the Principle of Polarity, embodies the truth that all manifested things have two sides, aspects, or poles.


The difference between things seemingly diametrically opposed to each other is only a matter of degree of vibration. For instance, Spirit and Matter are two extremes of the same thing, with intermediate planes in between them. So it is that The All and its creations are upon the same pole, with only vibrational differences between them. Heat and cold are identical in nature, distinguishable only by degrees.



The thermometer shows many degrees of temperature, the lowest being “cold,” and the highest “heat.” Between these two extremes are many degrees of “hot” or “cold.” The higher of two degrees is always “warmer,” while the lower is always “colder.” There is no absolute standard, as it’s a matter of degree. There is no place on the thermometer where heat ceases and cold begins. It is all a matter of higher or lower vibrations.



The very terms “high” and “low” are poles of the same thing, and the terms are relative. It’s the same with “east and west.” If you travel around the world in an eastward direction, you’ll eventually reach a point which is called west at your starting point.


Travel far enough north, and you’ll find yourself traveling south, or vice versa. Light and darkness are another example of poles of the same thing, with many degrees between them. In the same way, a musical scale begins with a “C” note. You move upward along the musical scale until you reach another “C,” and so on.



The differences between the two ends of the scale are the same. Color, too, follows the same principle, with higher and lower vibrations being the only difference between high violet and low red. Large and small are relative. So are noise and quiet, hard and soft, sharp and dull, and positive and negative.



Good and bad are also relative. We call one end of the scale good and the other bad. A thing is “less good” than the thing higher up the scale. However, that “less good” thing, in turn, is “more good” than the thing below it, and so on. And so it is on the Mental Plane.


Love and hate are generally regarded as being diametrically opposed to each other and unreconcilable. But as we apply the Principle of Polarity, we find that there is no such thing as Absolute Love or Absolute Hate, as distinguished from each other. They are merely terms applied to the two poles of the same thing. Beginning at any point of the scale we find “more love,” or “less hate,” as we ascend, and “more hate” or “less love” as we descend.



There are degrees of love and hate and a middle point where like and dislike become indistinguishable. Courage and fear come under the same rule. These pairs of opposites exist everywhere, and wherever you find one thing, you’ll find its opposite at the other extreme of the same pole. This fact enables you to transmute one mental state into another, along the lines of polarization.



Things belonging to different classes cannot be transmuted into each other, but things of the same class may have their polarity changed. So, love never becomes east or west, or red or violet. But love may and often does turn into hate. Likewise, hate may be transformed into love, by changing its polarity. Courage may be transmuted into fear, and the reverse. Hard things may be rendered soft. Dull things become sharp.



Hot things become cold. It’s all the same process. The transmutation always involves things of the same kind of different degrees. Take the case of a fearful man. By raising his mental vibrations along the line of fear and courage, he can be filled with the highest degree of courage and fearlessness. And, likewise, the slothful person may change himself into an active, energetic individual simply by polarizing along the lines of the desired quality.



The two ends of the poles may be classified as positive and negative. Love is positive to the negative hate, positive courage to negative fear, positive activity to negative non-activity, and so forth.


The positive pole is of a higher degree than the negative and readily dominates it. The tendency of nature is in the direction of the dominant activity of the positive pole. So you see that you can change your mental state by moving upward toward the positive pole, and that nature will help you along.


In addition to changing the poles of your own conditions, the Principle of Polarization allows you to also influence another’s mind to elevate their mental state.



Mental induction means that mental states may be produced by “induction” from others. So a higher mental vibrational rate may be communicated to another person, elevating the polarity of that person’s mental state. This is how the majority of “mental treatments” occur.

For instance, let’s say that a person is depressed and filled with fear. A mental scientist uses her will to increase the vibration of her own mind. Then she extends this positive vibration to the other person to produce a similarly high vibration through induction.



This raises the other person’s vibrations and results in polarization at the positive end of the scale. Fear and other negativity are transmuted into courage and similar positive mental states.


A little study will show you that these mental changes are all along the line of polarization, with changes only being within a few degrees of another. This great Hermetic principle enables us to better understand our own mental states, and those of other people.



We see that these states are all matters of degree, and that we can raise or lower the vibration at will to change our mental poles. We can master our mental states, instead of being their servant and slave.


And by this knowledge, we can aid others intelligently, and positively raise their polarity. We advise all students to familiarize themselves with this Principle of Polarity, because a correct understanding will throw light on many subjects.



Excepted from Divine Magic: The Seven Sacred Secrets of Manifestation by Doreen Virtue, available in bookstores and languages worldwide, and now in paperback here: http://goo.gl/iSJXnv