The Law of Opposites is the second of the five great Principles of Life and it works in perfect harmony with the Energy of Attraction. This principle states that no sooner will you call something into your reality then its exact opposite will also appear and always first.

I am saying that the moment you choose anything — any outcome, object, or experience — the exact opposite of this will come into your life in some way. It may show itself in some far distant quarter, or it may pop up right in front of your eyes, but it will be there, absolutely.
It is necessary for the “opposite” of whatever you are choosing to create, to show up with the Energy of Attraction, for the reason that life cannot be experienced in a vacuum. A context must be produced in which you may experience what you have chosen. Because not many people know this, they can easily turn negative in their thinking just when the universe was preparing to place before them all that their heart desired. They do not see the appearance of the opposite as a sure and certain sign that they are on the right path, heading towards their chosen objective. Rather, they see it as an obstacle… They experience themselves up against a wall when they are really standing in front of a doorway. Only discernment would allow them to know the difference. This is where the Gift of Wisdom comes in.
The Law of Opposites is based on the fundamental and founding principle of all life: “In the absence of that which you are not, that which you are is not.” I know, I know, that’s not a very clear sentence. Let me clarify. Let’s say, for the purposes of illustration, that you wish to experience yourself as “the light.” Now let us imagine for the purposes of this illustration that there is nothing else around you but the light —indeed, that there is nothing else in existence but the light. This would make it impossible to experience yourself as the light. You may “know” yourself as that, but you cannot “experience” yourself as that.
(There is a difference between knowing and experiencing, and it is experiencing what it knows itself to be for which the soul yearns).
There is only one way to experience yourself as the light, and that would be to find yourself in darkness. In this illustration, there is nothing but the light. You, therefore, must create the darkness. You must call it forth. And you will.
This is the Law of Opposites, which gives you opportunity. Yet if you see the opposite not as an opportunity but as an opposition, you will see it not as something that empowers you, but as something that takes power away from you. You will fall into negative thinking, not understanding that you, yourself have used the Energy of Attraction to draw to you the darkness as well as the light (what you would call “negative,” as well as what you would call “positive,” outcomes) in order to fully experience the positive outcome that you are creating.
There is power in opposites, and this is the intricate way in which attraction works with all the great principles of life. Those principles work in concert with each other; they function as a perfect mechanism — the Mechanism of Manifest-ation — like levers in a finely tuned watch.
What are we to do then, when the Law of Opposites seems to be thwarting rather than supporting personal creation?
Understand exactly what is going on.
Endeavour to see the appearance of the “opposite” as your first indication that personal creation is working flawlessly. Remember that the first step in creating anything is creating a context within which it may be experienced. Do not resist the opposite of anything that you wish to experience. Instead, em-brace it. Look right at it and see it for what it is.
What you resist, persists. That is because, by your continued attention to it in a negative way, you continue to place it there. You cannot resist something that is not there. When you resist something you place it there. By focusing angry or frustrated energy on it you actually give it more life.
This is why all great masters have urged us to “resist not evil.” Do not fight that which is opposite to your stated desire or your preferred outcome. Rather, relax into it. I know that may sound strange, but I promise you, it works. Do not become rigid and tense, ready for battle. Never oppose that which opposes you. Do not OPpose, COMpose. Do you understand? Remember this little rule always.
Compose your original id-ea of how you want life to show up. And compose you-rself while you’re at it. Come from a place of relaxed assurance that life is functioning perfectly. Yet do not confuse relaxation with acceptance.
“Resist not evil” does not mean that you should not try to change what you do not choose. Changing something is not resisting something, it is merely choosing again. Change is not resistance, but alteration. To modify it is not to resist, but rather to continue personal creation.
Modification is creation. Resistance is the end of creation. It firmly holds the previous creation in place.
Do you see? At every moment of difficulty and challenge in your life you have a choice: opposition or composition. To repeat: you can either oppose that which you are experiencing, or compose that which you chose. Now, thanks to the Law of Opposites, you have a context within which to experience it. And that is the greatest thing the universe could ever give you.
This is an important aspect of the “mystery formula” of life that is rarely explained.