“The whole knowable universe forms one undivided whole.”
♦The Causal Law♦
It is composed of “a vast aggregate of original elements which are
perpetually working out their fresh re-distribution in accordance with
their own inherent energies.” These elements never become more nor less;
but under the Law which governs them, they are in constant motion; they
form, distribute, change, re-form; each fresh combination being the
effect of Causes, or groups of Causes which precede it.
The all-governing Law which keeps the universe in motion is the Law of
Evolution, the Law of Cause and Effect.
This Law is absolute in its working, it provides for no exceptions.
Harvest-time follows seed-time; effects follow causes: and as the
harvest provides the seed for all future seed-times and harvests, so,
in every sphere, effects in their turn become causes of all future
causes and effects. There is no possible deviation from this universal,
fundamental law.
There is, nevertheless, infinite variety in the universe. For, Causes
continually combine to produce ever new Effects; and the universe in
its endless progression, is an ever-varying, harmonious, reposeful
Unity. There can be no conflict under the governance of the one glorious
unalterable Law.