THE PATH OF EVOLUTION 



something that is not compounded and that is indi- 

 visible. The understanding of Man has striven un- 

 ceasingly to seek out this unity, and will never cease 

 to seek and strive for it until he can find it in the 

 nature of the substance, or can at least present a clear 

 conception thereof to his imagination. This Unity 

 can only be in God ! Let all that have breath rise 

 up to the praise of the Most High and Mighty One, 

 who alone is the Good and the Truth : to the praise 

 of the Infinite Being, who is the Cause and the 

 Principle The One and the All. God is infinite in 

 infinity : everywhere in all. Not above, but every- 

 where present : as existence is not outside of the ex- 

 istent, as the natural is not above or beyond nature, 

 as Goodness is not other than the Good. God is the 

 Single Being, with whom there is no combination ; 

 with whom there can be no difference. Existence, 

 power, action and will are, with Him, one. His will 

 is necessary necessity itself. He is like only unto 

 Himself, and ever the same. Freedom and necessity 

 are with Him one. What God makes he cannot 

 make otherwise than as He makes it. He acts from 

 necessity ; for the Infinite Power, if limited neither 

 by itself nor through anything else, acts through the 

 necessity of its being. Therefore what God creates 

 must be without an end, for he works according to 

 the necessity of His being. 



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