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Originally Posted by wolfgang  To define negative polarity, isn't that just saying going in the direction of something that doesn't help or work and may cause harm? |
Absolutely not. it's "negative" in the same sense that electrons are negative. There are billions of electrons holding the world together - there is nothing wrong with them. Yet we call electrons "negatively charged."
The term negative is not meant to imply that it's someone "bad" or neccessarily destructive. I would say it is "evil" in a certain sense, but destruction is not the point.
The key thing is selfishness. Negative polarity is about selfishness and self-love. It just so happens that a strong selfishness will cause people to do acts considered by society to be immoral. But that is just society - what do they know?
Steve's advice on how to cultivate each polarity is IMO exactly right. To cultivate a "dark" polarity you focus on being selfish and on absorbing energy to yourself for your own benefit. But a natural part of this, along the path you travel, is going to be coercing others. Whether or not you know about the path, you are still traveling it.
Steve recommends the exact same practices to follow darkwork that the Church of Satan recommends - and this is what we'd expect otherwise there would be some incongruency somewhere. But the practices are the same - absorb energy into yourself for your own usage and benefit, focus on your own well being and interests entirely.
If the practices are the same, it doesnt matter what you call it or what you predict it will do. The path will be the same.
My bet is just that it will be helpful to people to know about this path before they travel it and find the obstacles on their own. I think a person with a strong bias towards unity may travel down the dark path for awhile, and may eventually realise it's not for him and then intentionally repolarize towards the positive. We always have free will. So in truth it's not much of a danger, and I hope I don't scare anyone from exploring that side of life.