MECHANISM OF NATURE 



Nothing has really been learned in that line of 

 thought about inertia. Nothing can be learned 

 about a mere negative. A negative is nothing, in 

 itself, and can lead to nothing, and all that can be 

 said about it amounts to nothing. Motion is not 

 force. Force is not an identity in its manifesta- 

 tions. Time and distance are not identical posi- 

 tives. Physical identities are not positive, un- 

 changing identities. 



Where, then, is that Positive that can make of 

 correlated negatives a positive, identical life ? That 

 can compel and resist and dismember and recon- 

 struct ? 



This Positive, over and beyond motion and Mat 

 ter and manifested Force, beyond reason and com- 

 prehension, that all-embracing, infinite Identity, 

 this is not and cannot be, a mere aggregation of 

 individually occult identities. In all the Universe, 

 there is not anything higher than conscious Iden- 

 tity. And yet we see conscious identities limited 

 by material conditions; their very consciousness a 

 product of changing Material. May, then, any 

 Identity, supreme only in consciousness, be a joint 

 author of that to which he is subject in his limi- 

 tations ? 



The very Supremacy of Consciousness argues its 

 Oneness; the conscious "I" can neither split up 

 nor combine. 



Then this, which is the All Positive, above all 

 changing material, not the product but the infinite 

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