As a gnostic Christian my belief system and world view are different than those who believe in classical Christianity. Both have been influenced by other sources most of all the secret (Occult, hidden) traditions of the West, including hermeticism* and the religious view of gnostic religious societies such as the Albigensians (Catherism)but also the Eastern religions particularly Buddhism,Taoism and Hinduism. While this may seem a mess of philosophies and religions to the uninitiated, it truly is not ... there are certain principles and concepts that cross the divides of culture, place and century.
It should not be thought that Jesus Christ is not at the center of all I believe and love - He is the Lord and king of my heart, mind and soul; but I see the universe as far more complicated than traditional Christians do and my studies have encompassed not only the Bible but the works and thoughts of many centuries and peoples. One example of this is my understanding of the creation of the universe. I agree with the those who comprehend "the ONE is all, the ALL is ONE." and I see nature and spirit as a whole fabric, not separate or divided. Creation happened from the top down - matter being the most solid and most unrefined concrete aspect of the entire creation. I see spirit as a form a matter, matter as a form of spirit; made up of nearly the same atoms but one less sublime than the other. One writer compared matter to the product of a chemical reaction laying at the bottom of a glass. It is thicker, more gross but still part of the whole of creation. I speak of realms - and 'dimensions' is another fine word for what I am trying to describe!
In God (the ONE) there is but ONE and there is no contraries or opposites - in God everything is light, love, goodness, sublime beauty & creation... God holds in himself all opposites, also, so he is both Father & Mother of the human soul, the source of our being and existence. He is the energy, force of creation, beauty of the universe and he is also a personal God who seems to have a personal opinion and love for the human race. Though He is unified with the universe, being its source and creator, its end will not His own - He is that which is the source of all universes. We can not as mortal creatures ever truly understand all that IS God - he is the ALL and He is the ONE. He will always seem to us a contradiction of terms, a mystery wrapped in layers of contradictions & impossibilities that are beyond our definitions and understanding. I think the old Buddhist tale of blind monks trying to understand the whole nature of a elephant is very near the truth when it comes to humans trying to comprehend the whole of God.
Ultimately, We do not need to fully understand, we can only SEEK to understand.
In the realms both physical and none physical there are opposites, sometimes these opposites are at war, sometimes they hold as tension like the poles of a magnet so in creation there contraries - the Tao, the balance is just the way the universe works. Like the laws of nature, gravity and the such, they are undeniable. At this point I would like to also add that the point of all spirituality and mysticism the world over is to become more like God: a unified whole person, united with God. The differences that are seen as profound in the various religions are often just a matter of nomenclature,how this unification is achieved and what it means - there maybe levels of unity as one passes through different initiations or awakenings (I do not know!). In Christian Mysticism it is believed that without help from God & Jesus there can be no final success or unity - Christ is the perfectly unified man-God and only with his help and presence can each of us achieve the same. Mysticism is always a private path, a private achievement and has almost nothing to do with organized, public religions. Love and surrender to God is the path of the Christian mystic.
As I said an important aspect of my philosophical world view is Balance, contraries, Tao, yin-yang, dharma, ma'at***, Logos, Wisdom- there is an underlying structure, form, law, rightness to the universe, a way of being, a duty and the balance of the universe must be maintained in both the person and in the larger cosmos. Imbalance means chaos, loss of goodness/ wholeness and union with the Divine and therefore is to avoided. Examples of these opposites are man-woman, good-bad,light-dark, right brain-left brain,conservative-liberal, joy-sorrow, hot-cold, action-inaction, hope-despair, science-religion, rational-irrational... The list is nearly if not completely endless. Most of the time, but not all the time a human being trying to walk a spiritual and mystical path tries to balance these contraries in him or her self. No one will be fully good or fully bad, No one is fully inactive or fully active, or fully hopeful and loving or completely despairing and full of darkness (very few humans are truly & completely evil!) ... the balance is all - in some cases, it can be observed that being loving and hopeful is better than being despairing and full of darkness... then we concentrate on what we desire to become and examine our lives (through meditation, prayer and therapy) to see why we stray . The point is to become WHOLE, balanced> fully and completely human. I would suggest for those who want to study this further to also research the Kundalini**** fire as the Hindus describe for it has a great deal to do with is theme of balance in both the human being and in the cosmos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeticism **
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensians ***
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%27at ****
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini 
