How to know yourself? How to recognize yourself? It is impossible to evaluate yourself. To assess yourself physically, you need a mirror and reflections. Otherwise it’s impossible. To evaluate yourself psychically, you also need mirrors and reflections. But what are they?
Because light cannot become aware of itself, but only of its reflection in matter. To know oneself and become aware of oneself and one’s value, one needs contrasts which then act as reveals of one’s own nature and one’s value. The contrasts reveal the true tone of beings and their psychic aspects.
According to the principle of polarity of the Kybalion: The principle of polarity implies the idea that “everything is double”, “everything has two poles”, “everything has two extremes”. “Thesis and anti-thesis are identical in nature , but different in degree.
Every psychic frequency also has its opposite, which are both identical in nature: fear reveals courage, seriousness takes on its true value in the face of carelessness, for example. Opposing character traits are revealed one after the other, facing each other. Agitation only takes on its true character when faced with calm; light reveals its true aspect only when faced with darkness.
Two different shades of light can create a certain contrast, but the greatest contrast is between the strongest light and the strongest dark, that is to say between white and black, between light and darkness. Good is only revealed in its full value in the face of evil. The stronger the contrasts, the stronger the self-awareness revealed.