I want to explore the negative polarity.

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Negative and positive are used in the LOO simply to describe the polarity, and those are the terms we are familiar with from physics.

Yin- Negative, Receptive, Absorbing, Withdrawing, Negative Electrical Charge (more electrons, it gathered electrons)
Yang- Positive, Giving, Expelling, Expanding, Positive Electrical Charge (fewer electrons, it game electrons away)

The StS path is likened unto a black hole, it absorbs, it separates, and it draws in toward the center.
The StO path is likened unto a star, it radiates, it coalesces, and it projects out toward everything.

Ironically the adept paths say to follow the middle path. Both must be balanced, so while there is a bias to one polarity there also has to be a balance struck within each individual for each polarity as well. Who knows what that balance looks like as we are all trying to figure it out, but neither side exists without the other. Maybe we should just be ourselves and let the chips fall where they may.

I think you are referring to the middle pillar and not the path? Positive adepts seek the positve polarity according to the Hermetic Principle of Polarity and the negative for the negative. You use the Universal Principles to maintain your polarity by which creates balance within the MBS and of course the Spiritual Ego (not the ego of lower man).

The path of the adept in western magic is generally represented by the ascent along the 32 paths of wisdom balancing the pillar of severity and the pillar of mercy to find balance in the middle pillar. The eastern buddhist doctrine is one of following the eightfold path to balance and not have excessive positive or negative. Similarly Taoist alchemy is focused on combining Yin and Yang in a cycle to transform Qi into Jing, Jing into Shen, and Shen into the golden elixir. This is also similar to how Ra and Quo talk about integrating and accepting the negative parts of the self.

This is a bit of new understanding for me but the way I am starting to see it is that the path is toward StS or StO. Which is an outward polarity or bias, but there is an internal balancing between the two polarities that must occur since we are all things. This is why the middle pillar, or eightfold path, or taoist alchemy have the focus on finding the middle.

I am not as familiar with hermeticism so I don't really have much to say about that interpretation right now. I did just read up on the hermetic principle of polarity and I find it useful but the Hermetic Library explanation at least I am not sure is quite in line with what I have in mind.