Silent Truths

Language of Opposites

“For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory” (2 Corinthians 4:6).

Humanity has always known itself in the language of opposites. Light and dark, good and evil, positive and negative. The Bible gives us the moral vocabulary; science gives us the physical one. Yet both whisper of something deeper. We are charged beings, oscillating between poles, but never content to remain only in the duality.

Electricity teaches us that opposites define the flow. Michael Faraday once wrote in his Experimental Researches in Electricity:

“The lines of magnetic force may be conceived as real things… passing from the north to the south pole, and their attractions and repulsions are but the actions of these lines upon each other.”

For Faraday, magnetism was not two static opposites, but a dynamic relationship of fields. Without the interplay of poles, there is no current, no spark, no illumination. Likewise, the human condition is energized by the tension between body and soul — action and reflection, outward and inward.

Tesla saw the universe itself as a field of polarity.

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe,” he declared, “think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.”

Tesla knew that the positive and negative poles were not enemies but necessary halves of one current. The battery does not produce light by one pole alone; it requires the circuit between them. Our souls are drawn into the same mystery. Without opposition, there is no resonance; without resistance, there is no growth.

Maxwell gave polarity its mathematics. In formulating the equations that unified electricity and magnetism, he remarked:

“The field is the true seat of the phenomena.”

For Maxwell, the poles were not objects in themselves but manifestations of a deeper, continuous field. This is where the spiritual analogy reveals itself. The body and soul may appear to us as poles — positive and negative — yet their true meaning arises only in the field that surrounds them: spirit.

Spirit is not another pole but a third presence. Where body acts and soul responds, spirit resonates. Spirit is the induction, the awareness that there is charge, that there is flow. Jesus spoke of this field when He said,

“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light” (Matthew 6:22).

The lamp is not merely positive or negative; it is the illumination born from the current that flows between them.

Even Edison, the practical experimenter, recognized polarity’s paradox. He once quipped:

“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

Electricity is not stored in one pole or the other — it is realized only in the circuit, in the action. So too with humanity: our value is not locked in body or soul alone, but in the resonance of spirit that gives meaning to both.

Beyond the duality lies the fullness of life. We are not merely positive and negative, body and soul, good and evil. We are triaulity — body, soul, and spirit. The poles exist, but their purpose is to generate the field, the resonance of conscience, the awareness of being. This is the current of existence:

“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life” (John 8:12).

Understand the Knowledge

The danger was never the knowledge itself. When humanity reached for the knowledge of good and evil, the tragedy was not in seeing opposites but in reducing all knowing to those opposites. We forced the universe into a binary lens, flattening mystery into verdicts, shrinking complexity into judgment. What was meant to awaken us became a cage of duality. Maybe the problem wasn’t the tree, but our insistence that every fruit of knowledge must be labeled “good” or “evil.”

This is the same mistake we make in science when we stop at the poles. Positive and negative are real, but they are not the whole story. As Faraday, Tesla, and Maxwell showed, the wonder lies in the field, the resonance, the unseen lines of force that transcend the poles themselves. In the same way, our humanity cannot be understood if we confine it to binaries of morality. Spirit is the unacknowledged third — the field of conscience and awareness that gives meaning to the charges of body and soul.

To move beyond the duality is to reclaim the fullness of knowledge. The Spirit is not simply another category; it is the resonance that allows us to perceive beyond judgment. It is the induction of self-awareness, the recognition that life is more than “good” or “evil,” more than “positive” or “negative.” This testimony is not binary — it is relational, multipolar, alive.

“The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children” (Romans 8:16).

This testimony is not binary — it is relational, multipolar, alive.

So the true revelation is this: humanity was never meant to live in a world divided solely by opposites. Our calling is not to make everything “good” or “evil,” but to live in the resonance of body, soul, and spirit — a triaulity as essential as positive, negative, and the field.

Science has discovered this truth in magnetism; faith has proclaimed it in scripture. The light shines not because of a pole, but because of a circuit, a flow, a field. To be human is to be charged — and to know that beyond the duality, there is life abundant.