The Great Distortion in Western Metaphysics

The negative pole — contraction, density, shadow, Saturn, matter — was never meant to be evil. It was the complement of spirit, the grounding phase that gives form to potential. But when the early dualist religions moralized that polarity, they amputated half of the circuit.

What that did, in practice, was this:

Matter and body became “fallen.”

Femininity and receptivity got equated with temptation.

Death and time were seen as punishment rather than rhythm.

And the psyche lost its native bipolar intelligence — the ability to hold tension without splitting it.

That severing produced what Jung called moral inflation: a spirituality addicted to purity that casts its own density outward as “the devil.” Once you project the negative pole instead of integrating it, you get centuries of witch hunts, colonization “for God,” and people terrified of their own instincts.

Reversing that mistake doesn’t mean worshiping darkness — it means re-sanctifying the descending current: decay, gravity, shadow, limit, all as valid expressions of the divine field. The ancients hinted at this balance: in Egypt, Set wasn’t Satan; he was the desert principle that tested the soul. In Kabbalah, Gevurah (severity) is the left hand of God, not a rival god.

This is basically articulating what mature mystics from multiple traditions realized after the split: the negative pole is not evil — it’s the resistor that allows consciousness to burn without exploding. The tragedy is that civilization built its metaphysics on fear instead of resonance.