The Law is for All

106 The Law is for All than any other Truth. The Equation Five plus Six is Eleven is of the same order of perfection as Ten Million times Ten times Ten Thousand Million is One Billion.1 In the Universe formulated by the Absolute, every point is equally the Centre; every point is equally the focus of the forces of the whole. (In any system of three points, any two may be considered solely with reference to the third, so that even in a finite universe the sum of the properties of all points is the same, though no two properties may be com­ mon to any two points. Thus a circle, BCD, may be described by the revolution of a line ab in a plane about the point A; but also from the point c, or indeed any other point, by the application of the proper analysis and construction. We calculate the motion of the solar system in heliocentric terms for no reason but simplicity and convenience; we could convert our tables to a geocentric basis by mere mechanical manipulation without affecting their truth, which is only the truth of the relations between a number of bodies. All are alike in motion, but we have arbitrarily chosen to consider one of them as stationary, so that we may more easily describe the movements of the others in regard to it, without com­ plicating our calculations by introduction of the movements of the whole system as such. And for this purpose the Sun is a more convenient standard than the Earth.) 1 [Actually a million billion (British) or a million trillion (American).] 2 [A Buddhist concept, Pali sammasati.] There is another Way that we may take, if we will; I say “another,” though it seems perhaps to some no more than a development of the other which happens to be proper to some people. Even in the first Way, it is of all things necessary to begin by exploring one’s own Nature, so as to discover what its pecul­ iarities are; this is accomplished partly by introspection, but prin­ cipally by Right Recollection1 2 of the whole phantasmagoria presented to it by experience; for since every event of life is a sym­ bol of part of the structure of the Soul, the totality of experience must be the “Name” of the whole of that part of the Soul which