CHAPTER III 



THE REALISATION OF SOVEREIGN JUSTICE 



IN the concept of palingenesis the ultimate realisations 

 of sovereign justice is assured with absolute and mathe- 

 matical certainty. 



The individual never being other than he has made 

 himself in the course of his evolution by the immense 

 series of representations he has gone through, it follows 

 that everything that is within his field of consciousness 

 is his own doing, the fruit of his own work, his own 

 efforts, his own sufferings, and his own joys. 



Every act, even every desire and inclination, has 

 an inevitable reaction in one or other of his existences. 



This is the consequential interplay of inherent, 

 fateful, and unavoidable justice. This inherent justice 

 usually begins in the course of a single life taken by 

 itself; but it is then seldom truly equitable. Regarded 

 in this restricted manner justice often seems fallible and 

 disproportioned. 



But by considering a long chain of existences it is 

 seen to be mathematically perfect. The balance is struck 

 between favourable and unfavourable circumstance and 

 only the sure results of his conduct remain as the man's 

 assets. 



This inherent justice is not only individual; it is 

 also collective. It is so by the essential solidarity of the 

 individual monads. By reason of this essential solidarity, 

 the reversions of consciousness to unconsciousness are 

 never entirely personal. Conscious acquisitions and 

 their transmutation into capacities are necessarily collec- 

 tive. The degree to which this is so does not lend itself 

 to analysis, but is none the less certain. Similarly, 



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