by Bruce Johnson —
Bruce Johnson has over 30 years of study in the fields of Ancient Wisdom and occultism. He has taught classes on a wide range of topics, from Atlantis to mediums to Zoroaster. He is also a Spiritualist minister, with a background in spiritual astrology. He lives in Colorado with his wife and their cat.
Attraction qualities include those of balanced light, accretion, cohesiveness, integration, affinity, in-gathering, attracting that of a like nature and sympathy. Attraction is a centripetal building force that attunes to the blue ray of love/wisdom. The characteristics of repulsion oppose and are negative to those of attraction. Repulsion involves disintegration, dissimilarity, dispersal, division, disconnection, disassociation and antipathy. Repulsion demonstrates as a scattering centrifugal force reflecting the yellow ray of intelligence.
Attraction and repulsion together constitute one of the three fundamental Laws of Nature called the Law of Attraction. This universal law is also called the Law of Attraction and Repulsion, and the Law of Magnetic Attraction. The Law of Attraction underlies the ability to love wisely, the attraction of opposites to each other, the formation of groups and their interrelations, and aggregation of all kinds. Among the effects of the Law of Attraction are – bringing together individuals with important associations, building spiritual and physical forms for the expression of life, and the harmonizing of those forms to the evolving lives they contain.
The greater Laws of Nature possess aspects of themselves called lesser laws. The Law of Attraction and Repulsion encompasses various subsidiary laws, one of which is the Law of Gravitation. Traditional science recognizes only a portion of the law with what it calls gravitation, or attraction. Occult Science knows attraction and repulsion to be the dual properties of one force, both being necessary to account for the formation of a solar system, explain planetary motion, and clarifying why a comet’s tail points away from the sun.
Esoteric Science teaches that the magnetisms and electricities circulating throughout a solar system are the causes of the attractions and repulsions taking place inside that solar system. In addition, energies and forces are matter in its higher states. Magnetism is an invisible, substantial, super-sensuous substance. The magnetism that flows from the poles of a magnet is a real force, and demonstrates both principles of attraction and repulsion. The Law of Magnetism, like the Law of Gravitation and the Law of Chemical Affinity, are lesser laws or portions, of the Law of Attraction.
Atoms, humans, planets and suns are examples of microcosmic and macrocosmic magnets that participate in the attraction and repulsion that takes place throughout the spiritual and physical planes of life. A writer named Bhagavan Das authored an insightful book called The Science of the Emotions linking attraction and repulsion to human emotions. The following is a condensed partial sketch of the material contained in the book.
Everything manifest can be categorized into the Self, the not-Self, and the interaction between the two. Additionally, feeling or emotion can be divided into two types- attraction emotions and repulsion emotions. Attraction emotions are the pleasurable emotions that produce love and attraction. Attraction is the source of all love-emotions. Repulsion emotions consist of the painful emotions that produce hate and repulsion. Repulsion is the source of all hate-emotions.
The three primary love-emotions are reverence, affection and benevolence, all of which can be expressed at different levels of intensity like the hate-emotions can. The three basic hate-emotions are fear, anger and hostile pridefulness. All human emotions are represented by one or more of these six emotion-elements. The emotional response of the Self varies according to whether the not-Self is superior, equal or inferior to the Self.
