ACCEPTING THE UNIVERSE 



ningless currents of the Creative Energy; no fixity 

 or finality anywhere; rest and motion, great and 

 small, up and down, heat and cold, good and evil, 

 near and far, only relative; cause and effect merging 

 and losing themselves in each other; life and death 

 perpetually playing into each other's hands; interior 

 within interior; depth beneath depth; height above 

 height; the tangible thrilled and vibrating with the 

 intangible; the material in bonds to the non-mate- 

 rial; invisible, impalpable forces streaming around 

 us and through us; perpetual change and trans- 

 formation on every hand; every day a day of crea- 

 tion, every night a revelation of unspeakable gran- 

 deur; suns and systems forming in the cyclones of 

 Stardust; the whole starry host of heaven flowing 

 like a meadow brook, but where, or whence, who can 

 tell? The center everywhere, the circumference no- 

 where; pain and pleasure, good and evil, inextri- 

 cably mixed ; the fall of man a daily and hourly occur- 

 rence; the redemption of man, the same! Heaven or 

 hell waiting by every doorstep, boundless, begin- 

 ningless, unspeakable, immeasurable — what won- 

 der that we seek a short cut through this wilderness 

 and appeal to the supernatural? 



When I look forth upon the world and see how, 

 regardless of man and his well-being, the operations 

 of Nature go on — how the winds and the storms 

 wreck him or destroy him, how the drought or the 

 floods bring to naught his industries, how not the 



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