In her fight against “telekinesis,” it is with science as with one who
in public discourses eloquently on enlightenment, but whose own house
is haunted by a ghost.
This hobgoblin of exact science is _gravitation_; and it bids fair
to scatter all exactitude to the winds, since the physicist, too, is
unable to represent it to himself otherwise than as acting independent
of time.
In the Buddha-thought this independence of time permits of being
“read” without the least difficulty, since here it is nothing but the
by-product which two systems of energies acting upon one another yield
with every alteration of energy-value on one side or the other. When I
shift the light with reference to the object illumined, the movement
of the shadow takes place as a by-product independent of time. In the
selfsame way, what we call gravitation is nothing but the by-product
independent of time which informs us that a change is taking place in
the energical relation of two world-systems.