Dear Dan, >> How does the Kybalion's axiom "Rhythm may be neutralized by an application of the Art of Polarization" apply to Karma? If a hermeticist neutralized the mental effects of Rhythm, would that interfere with his or her learning a karmic lesson? << What the Kybalion's authors refer to here is a byproduct of what Bardon called the "astral Equilibrium". The technique involves the mental discipline of emotions in which one steps back from direct involvement with their emotions. This "polarizes" the individual in the "higher self", as the Kybalion phrased it, and removes the individual's seat of conscious awareness from the continuum which exists between the emotional poles in question. The result is a very stable yet fluid state of being in which one actually perceives the karmic lessons that each experience holds with much, much greater clarity and is thus able to address those lessons more directly and immediately. If you're not riding the bottom of the pendulum where you'd be swinging wildly back and forth, but are instead seated at the pivot point of the pendulum where it is calm, then there is a clarity of awareness which facilitates the redemption of one's karma. This doesn't negate karma -- it just improves one's ability to confront and resolve karma. :) My best to you, :) Rawn Clark 19 May 2004 rawnclark@... rawn@... http://www.ABardonCompanion.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BardonPraxis http://E.webring.com/hub?ring=arionthebardonwe