The Law is for All

26 The Law is for All This theory is the only one which explains why the Absolute limited Itself, and why It does not recognize Itself during Its cycle of incarnations. It disposes of “Evil” and the Origin of Evil, with­ out denying Reality to “Evil,” or insulting our daily observation and our common sense. I here quote (with one or two elucidatory insertions) the note originally made by Me on this subject. May 14, 1919, 6:30 p.m. All elements must at one time have been separate—that would be the case with great heat. Now when the atoms get to the Sun, when we get to the Sun, we get that immense, extreme heat, and all the elements are themselves again. Imagine that each atom of each element possesses the mem­ ory of all his adventures in combination. By the way, that atom, fortified with that memory, would not be the same atom; yet it is, because it has gained nothing from anywhere except this memory. Therefore, by the lapse of time, and by virtue of memory, a thing (although originally an Infinite Per­ fection) could become something more than itself; and thus a real development is possible. One can then see a reason for any element deciding to go through this series of incarnations (God, that was a magnificent conception!) because so, and only so, can he go; and he suffers the lapse of memory of His own Reality of Perfection which he has during these incarna­ tions, because he knows he will come through unchanged. Therefore you have an infinite number of gods, individual and equal though diverse, each one supreme and utterly inde­ structible. This is also the only explanation of how a Being could create a world in which War, Evil, etc., exist. Evil is only an appearance because, (like “Good”) it cannot affect the substance itself, but only multiply its combinations. This is something the same as Mystic Monism, but the objection to that theory is that God has to create things which are all parts of Himself, so that their interplay is false. If we presup­ pose many elements, their interplay is natural. It is no objec­ tion to this theory to ask who made the elements—the elements are at least there; and God, when you look for him, is not there. Theism is obscurum per obscurius) A male star is built up from the centre outwards, a female star from the 1 [Lat., “Explaining the obscure by the more obscure.”]