Law of Sequence, Example

The statement of this Aphorism apparently conflicts with the accepted philosophical and scientific conception of the Law of

Causation, but the difference is largely a matter of expression, and the Arcane Teaching is in full harmony with the advanced conceptions of Causation, as interpreted by the highest authorities. The Law of Causation, as advanced by modern

scientific thought, may be stated generally as the conception that every thing is an effect of precedent Causes and, at the same

time, the Cause of the effects which arise from it—thus each thing is a link in an endless chain of Cause and Effect. Another

way of stating this conception is that every event in time, or thing in space, has Causes; and at the same time is the Cause of succeeding effects in the shape of events in time, or things in space. This conception of the Beginningless and Endless Chain

of Cause and Effect is seen to be very similar to the Chain of Sequence of the Arcane Teaching. But here is the difference. The Arcane Teaching does not hold that the Chain of Sequence is Beginningless and Endless. On the contrary, it holds that the

Cosmos emerged from the Infinity of Nothingness at the Dawn of the Cosmic Day—therefore, this particular Cosmos had an actual beginning in time; and likewise, it will have an ending in time, when it again is resolved into the Infinity of Nothingness.

The Law is held to be the only Eternal, using the term in its absolute sense.

The Cosmic Activities proceed according to Law, Order and Sequence. What you are today—what happens this moment—

is the logical result of all that has gone before in the Chain of Sequence. What is, is not because of Chance—but in accordance

with Law, Order and Sequence. What will be tomorrow—a year hence—a million years hence—will be the logical result of all

the things and events that are manifesting this moment. There is no break in the Chain. Everything, and every event, proceeds

from what has gone before. And from every thing, and every event, develop the seeds of future events and things. Every thing, and every event, is a blossom—and contains within itself the seeds of future blossoms. Every event is but a stage in the Whole Event of the Cosmos. Every thing is but a part of the Whole Thing of the Cosmos. The Cosmos is the Whole Thing, striving, moving, thinking, and doing, in myriads of forms and shapes and manifestations—acting in the countless series of events which together constitute the Whole Event.