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The Law is for All
Modern thought, even that of the shallowest, is compelled by 
Aiwaz to confirm His Law, without knowing what it is about. 
For instance: “God’s wind from nowhere which is called the Will; 
and is man’s only excuse upon this earth,” was written by so triv­
ial a Fat Man as Gilbert Keith Chesterton in The Flying Inn.1
1 [G. K. Chesterton, The Flying Inn (1914), ch. 17.]
61. There is an end of the word of the God enthroned in Ra’s 
seat, lightening the girders of the soul.
Commentary: Note that Heru-ra-ha is not merely a particu­
lar form of Ra, but the God enthroned in Ra’s seat. That is, His 
Kingdom on earth is temporary, as explained in verse 34. And he 
is here conceived as the Hierophant, “lightening the girders of the 
soul”, that is, bringing man to initiation.
These “girders” imply the skeletal structure on which the soul 
is supported, the conditions of its incarnation. Man is the heir of 
ages of evolutionary experience, on certain lines, so that he is 
organized on formulae which have determined the type of his 
development. Of some such formulae we are conscious, but not of 
all. Thus it is true for all men—empirically—that a straight line 
is the shortest distance between two points; some savages may 
not know this consciously, but they base their actions on that 
knowledge.
Now we cannot doubt that consciousness has developed else­
where than in man; only a blind megalomaniac or a Christian 
divine could suppose our infinitesimal mote of a planet the sole 
habitat of Mind, especially as our minds are, at best, totally 
incompetent to comprehend Nature. It is also unlikely that our 
Earth’s physical conditions of temperature, atmosphere, density 
and so on, which some still regard as essential to Life, are found 
frequently; we are only one of nine planets ourselves, and it is 
absurd to deny that life exists on the others, or in the Sun himself, 
just because the conditions of our own life are absent elsewhere.