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“Opposition is true friendship.”—William Blake

“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Conscious love evokes the same in response. Emotional love evokes the opposite. Physical love depends on type and polarity.”—G.I. Gurdjieff

What is love? What is it that drives relationships? If we sift through the sands of the world’s writing, we come up with quotations like those above. Yet, surprisingly there is little conjecture (and fewer things written) about the nature of that attraction (how it works), and yet this force keeps us endlessly relating to one another.

If we suggest that beauty is what attracts, that only leads to the question: What makes beauty attractive? What is the true nature and origin of beauty? Here is what I have come to understand.

The famous astrologer (and supreme court justice from Germany) Dr. Theodor Landscheidt pointed out many years ago in his book Cosmic Cybernetics that large-scale structures like our galaxy (and everything in it, like our Solar System, our Earth, us, etc.) can only cohere and continue to exist by circulating (in some way) information throughout the structure. That is what keeps these large structures together or coherent. Galaxies and all stellar structures circulate this vital information through some mechanism that is not known to us at the present.